WEBVTT 1 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:23.679 As you can hear, we're now recording. So thank you, ladies and 2 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:28.559 gentlemen for coming to another episode of the Everyday black Man Podcast plodcasts for authentic 3 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:33.479 blackmail thoughts. My name is Riker and I'm joined by our Red Armstead Sham, 4 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:38.119 the libertarian formula known as black Please follow us on Twitter, evyd black 5 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.320 Men, Instagram, Everyday black Men, and Everyday black Man Facebook page. 6 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.880 But we also have a Patreon as EBNP, and on our patreon you can 7 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:49.840 find exclusive episodes. We have three and five dollars years and last, but 8 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.840 not least, our website is www dot Everyday black Men dot com. But 9 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.679 today we have a special guests, Doctor Herbert. He's gonna be here with 10 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:02.439 us, so you may hear us referred to him as doctor Harris. He 11 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:07.840 is coming to discuss the Twelve Laws of Success and some other things that we're 12 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.400 going to talk about today. So doctor Herbert, please introduce yourself to our 13 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.120 audience. Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's doctor Herbert 14 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:21.560 Harris coming to you from North Carolina. I am a tyed to turn in 15 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:26.000 the twelve the Universal Laws of Success and other books and just honored to be 16 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:30.519 here. It's great to know what everyday black men are talking about. Wonderful, 17 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.120 wonderful, wonderful. But thank you so much for taking time out of 18 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:38.319 your day for us. We refinitely appreciate that here with everydy black man, 19 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:45.079 Doctor Herbert, I wanted to know more about your law degreen kind of some 20 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:46.959 of the things that you saw. I know, in the legal field, 21 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.719 sometimes black men don't have as nice relationship with law as they'd like to. 22 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:56.519 But what did you see during the time that you practice? You know, 23 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.560 money is always the key, you know, justice and America is about how 24 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:08.520 much money can do you have finance your own your own vindication. That's pretty 25 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:15.280 like that. So what is definitely true and I'm sure it's true for most 26 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:20.680 poor people, but if you don't have the money to hire a competent lawyer, 27 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.840 and justice may not come to you in proper fashion. From a Black 28 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:30.639 perspective, very often many of our folks don't have the money and have to 29 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:38.479 rely on legal aid and you know other paid for representation. And the challenge 30 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:44.319 that that is the legal aid folks are paid for paid by the same folks 31 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.879 that you know pay the district attorneys. Pretty much that's coming out of public 32 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:53.479 funds. So I won't say that they're not independent, but I'm just saying 33 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.680 that many of the legal aid lawyers are overworked, and it's just a when 34 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.520 you look at the case load, it's like I just can't of a client 35 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:06.639 that type of attention that their case may warrant. And then you know, 36 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:12.520 the court system embraces all the prejudices that exist in America. You know, 37 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:16.840 so a white, young white kid would come before a judge and a white 38 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:20.960 judge and there's a good possibility, you know, judge look at him and 39 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:27.599 you'll see a certain similarity, and the judge may take an attitude of let's 40 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:34.000 give him another chance. And a black kid will come before the same judge, 41 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:38.280 and based on that whole paradigm of America, the judge may say, 42 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:43.560 hey, let's teach this kid a lesson. So all of those things are 43 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:47.479 together in judicial In the judicial system, one of the key things is money. 44 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:53.599 Have the money to represent high competent counsel. That is probably the most 45 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:58.439 important thing of all. Excellent, thank you, I really appreciate. Oh 46 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:02.039 New York New r Wow. Wow. Yeah, I'm sure you saw a 47 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.800 lot up there. You know, the New York law can be one of 48 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:10.879 our most tricky just because you've got so many people living in one state, 49 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.680 You've got a lot of different Oh yeah, oh yeah, a lot going 50 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.480 on in the economy. So he also mentioned that you write. You wrote 51 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.480 a books. He said, what made you want to go into that field. 52 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:26.439 I've always been a writer. I a writer and a teacher, and 53 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.319 I wrote the book my most I've written a number of books. My first 54 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.879 book was actually written some time ago as a book called how to Make Money 55 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.879 in Music, because I was in the music industry for a good number of 56 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.879 years. And I've written a couple of other books in between. But my 57 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:47.519 most popular book is a book of the twelve Universal Laws of Success, and 58 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:53.720 that one has been through over three hundred printings and about nine languages, and 59 00:04:53.800 --> 00:05:00.480 it's been a transformative book many of the young people and older people, people 60 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:04.959 who are interested in creating a new life for themselves and want to avoid the 61 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:11.040 pitfalls. Twelve the Universal Laws of Success is the book for you, people 62 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.839 who've been through life and maybe even at that retirement age, and who are 63 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:17.879 wondering what to do with the rest of their lives. Tweld universal laws and 64 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:23.319 successes for them also. So the premise of the book is it living is 65 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.639 a skill. Success is a skill. You have to learn, practice and 66 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.560 master that skill to give yourself the rest opportunity to create the life you want. 67 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:38.319 That was an interesting workle You didn't I didn't have any idea that you 68 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:43.000 did music. A lot of those who are former artists are current artists with 69 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.439 music, and that's interesting. What in music did you participate in, like 70 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.000 what I spect of it? Was it the legal side or or you're an 71 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:54.720 actual musician. Oh, I actually played. I play now play guitar and 72 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:00.480 play piano. I played the apollo and I worked in the old days. 73 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.199 My office was in the same building with the eys Lip Brothers Buddha Records, 74 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:10.759 Little Richard, sixteen fifty Broadway in New York. That was that was the 75 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:15.399 spot for music and then the air when people were running into a record company 76 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.519 and play a song on the piano and the producer would say, hey, 77 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:24.240 man, let's go ahead the studio and work. I have a couple of 78 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.079 records that were decent hits, a group called the Finishing Touch and the Top 79 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:35.279 Shelf. We also had group we co produced out of the Groove. You 80 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:40.959 know when they hold Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and that whole group. This 81 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:45.959 is the air like the seventies of music before before hip hop. I was 82 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.120 a matter of fact, I knew the Furious Five, one of the early 83 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:55.759 rap groups, and the actual DJ Hollywood and he started out on Wednesday nights 84 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.959 damning at the Apollo Theater. So I've been around in music from the old 85 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:04.959 days added up to the present. That's cool. I was watching a documentary 86 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:09.680 recently with a lot of documentary. It was just a couple of interviews with 87 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:14.839 Lionel Richie what's the other guy's name, I can't think of his name. 88 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:23.040 That to the fruity guy, Hastle, Richard, Richard Fruity or Rudy. 89 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:27.920 Yeah. Yeah, we're talking about like light standing people in and like music 90 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.959 back then and like the different things that. It was a weird documentary offshoot. 91 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.800 But that's interesting. Uh before hip hop? Wow? So you mentioned 92 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:39.600 your recent book, What are something to take away? As you would like? 93 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:44.160 People don't know one of the key things. The first chapter of the 94 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.519 book he deal with the topic of how to study, and most people never 95 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:54.199 really learned how to study. How to really approach your book or an article 96 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:58.720 or anything you want to learn. And so we actually give a systematic approach. 97 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:03.319 We call it SQ three R study method survey the material. You may 98 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:09.279 be reading an article, a book, even taking a class. A survey 99 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:15.759 is s Q is set up certain questions. So if you survey an article, 100 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.800 you know that you're reading an article about let's just say cars, and 101 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:26.000 so ask what questions you think that article is going to answer about cars? 102 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:31.439 And then our one is to read it, our two is to review it, 103 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.759 and our three is to recite it. The part of that technique is 104 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:41.039 to develop competence. You know, in this age, people can google stuff. 105 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:43.519 So you ask a personal question, they'll google it and give you the 106 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:48.240 answer and going about their weight, but they may or may not retain it 107 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:50.919 in their minds. They'll just google it again and they want to know again. 108 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.840 So that's one of the key points of how to study. And then 109 00:08:54.879 --> 00:09:00.399 we deal with the laws of success, how to how to use the laws 110 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.519 to work for you. For example, the law the first law of success 111 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:11.799 is the law of thought, and it's a scriptural basis says, as a 112 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.440 man thinketh in his heart, so as he So we teach people that you 113 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.720 need to have positive thoughts. Whatever you think and you feel about that thought, 114 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.480 that has a vibration to manifest in your life. So if you think 115 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.279 bad things, if you think lack and limitation, you think, oh how 116 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:33.080 bad it is, and you say it with such feeling that yeah, man, 117 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.759 it's really bad. I'm busted, disgusted and can't be trusted. Then 118 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.840 that becomes your reality. But then if you change your thinking and say, 119 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:46.879 hey, man, I'm prosperous, I'm good looking, I have a lot 120 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.080 of energy, i have great potential, I'm going to do good things in 121 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.120 the world, that gives you a whole nother vibration. So the law thought, 122 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:58.799 and we go through the law the man three laws, the law thought, 123 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:03.080 how you think, the law of change that you can change your life 124 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:07.200 by changing your thinking. If you think a new thought, you can create 125 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:11.799 a new reality. And then the third law is the law of vision, 126 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.039 that if you can see it, you can be it. And you know, 127 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:18.159 one of the things about the early music industry, so many of those 128 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.279 guys just wanted to sing. You go back to the days of Frankie Lyman, 129 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.480 the Rhinetts, the the I mean, these are groups I'm sure be 130 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:31.960 before your time. But these are folks that sold millions of records, and 131 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:35.279 their thoughts that was they just wanted to sing. They just wanted to sing. 132 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.600 And they never made the money that the rappers make today because the rappers 133 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:45.679 came through a new mindset when the when the music industry did not embrace them, 134 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:48.120 they said, well, let's create our own. I know, if 135 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:54.879 you remember back in the really back in the late nineties early eighties had street 136 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.799 music. The record companies wouldn't buy the lay records and the radio stations wouldn't 137 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.399 play I Am. So that you had a whole bunch of DJ's developing around 138 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:09.440 the country and they could literally break a record right in the different clubs, 139 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.919 and that gave the music industry a whole other cut on the music. And 140 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:18.720 so when the rappers came through from the earlier guys like Flash and the Furious 141 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.279 Five and the actual real DJ Hollywood, when those guys came through, they 142 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.279 had a different paradigm the record with working with the record companies. The older 143 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.759 artists thought that they could the record company was everything. If you don't have 144 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.679 a record, you're never gonna make any money. The new artists, the 145 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.519 rappers say hey, we got the goods, and so it's just a different 146 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.919 mindset. And then that law vision, if you can see it, you 147 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:48.720 can be it. So many times we see ourselves based on our present condition. 148 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:52.799 We see ourselves we may be broke, and so you don't have to 149 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.480 see yourself broke. If you broke, that's your condition, but that's not 150 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:01.600 your potential. So you can see yourself rich. You can see yourself prosperous. 151 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.480 And once you see the vision, you can set goals to take you 152 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.360 there. Once you set goals, you can make a plan to execute those 153 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.759 goals. And if you follow through and don't quit, you can be a 154 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:18.320 Tyler Perry, you can be a Beyonce, you can be anybody who wants 155 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:24.360 to create success in their lives. Back, no problem. Hey, I 156 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:28.200 do have a question. You said something about the idea of positive thinking. 157 00:12:28.799 --> 00:12:31.360 Let me ask you a question. So that's like a common trope amongst like 158 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.279 anyone who says, you know, positive thinking can change your world. But 159 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.120 you know, let's say you're a kid growing up in the inner cities of 160 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.840 Houston and you have to go to a terrible school every day, and like, 161 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.679 when does that positive thinking end? Where you're just like man this life 162 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.360 sucks. I feel like they tell you often now that you can change your 163 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:54.320 life whenever you want, just positive thinking, and you're just like, dude, 164 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:58.840 I'm hungry. I can't positively think anything while I'm hungry. So how 165 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.639 would you recommend it in that situation, you know, change their life? 166 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:05.919 Well, I guess we're talking about adults right now. Right, So let's 167 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:11.480 say you are nine to five and you are working what they call it paycheck 168 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:15.679 to paycheck. You got more a month at the end of the money, 169 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:30.919 correct, the end of the money. You know, you got more a 170 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.279 month at the end of the money. So you got twenty five days worth 171 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:39.360 of life. Twenty five days worth the money and thirty days worth of life. 172 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.840 Oh, okay, you're gonna have You don't have this down or no 173 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.799 one. I know. He said it perfectly. He said it perfectly. 174 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.200 He's saying, I have this amount of resources, and you got this amount 175 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.679 of time, and your resources that match the time you have. Okay, 176 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.559 you run out of money, I mean many of us have. You know, 177 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:03.279 you may be making that thousand dollars a week, that's like four thousand 178 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:09.679 dollars a month, but if your expenses are five thousand dollars a month or 179 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:13.080 five. Yeah, at the end of the month, you run out of 180 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.080 money. You run out of money in the third week of the month, 181 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:20.679 and so from that point on you have to finance your life on credit cards, 182 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:26.200 borrow money, and do some outside side hustling. So effectively do you 183 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.480 think do you think people are poor because they run out of money or are 184 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.960 they poor because they make poor decisions? Well, you know, money is 185 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.679 just like a way to keep score. Poverty. Poor can be a mindset. 186 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:46.559 Poor can be assing over opportunities repeatedly. Bad. Yeah, assing over 187 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:52.919 opportunities repeatedly. I can keep you poor. You can be the working poort. 188 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.480 Like I said, poor, It's just it was a mindset. The 189 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.279 amount of money you have is just as this, like a state of funds. 190 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:05.600 It's like your your bank account. Maybe a great person that's one thing 191 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:11.120 that's your mindset, which you have in your bank is something different. Question 192 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:15.559 you asked about the positive thinking. I want to just get back to that 193 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:24.320 because that's a profound tool. How do you think flex where you're going? 194 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:28.840 But a positive thought, a thought is like a seed. Okay, it's 195 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.559 not enough just to have the thought at seed. You know when they had 196 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:37.399 a chance to go to Egypt, and I went in King tuts tomb. 197 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:43.919 When they opened King tuts Tomb after three thousand years, found seeds, those 198 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.000 same seeds, and they took them and put them in good soil and put 199 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.240 water on them. They would grow. A positive thinking is like a seed. 200 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:54.840 For you to really benefit from it, it has to put be put 201 00:15:54.879 --> 00:16:00.120 in the proper soil, example, the soil of somebody who cares about you. 202 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.159 You know, when I talked to a lot of young people, I've 203 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:08.000 taught in some of the middle schools and we brought our program, our book 204 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.879 and whatnot into the middle schools and the high schools. And one of the 205 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:17.039 things we find is that I can give you a positive thought of potential what 206 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.399 you can be. But if you sun, if you don't have a guideless 207 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.440 counselor if you don't have somebody who believes in you, who is in a 208 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:29.000 position to help you move to the next level, it can be it can 209 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:33.480 be challenging. You remember in the movie Malcolm X. I don't know if 210 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.200 y'all did you all see that movie? Yeah, Denzel, yeah, yeah, 211 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.720 when he was in school and he told the teach he wanted to be 212 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:44.840 a lawyer. She said, oh no, no, your kind can't be 213 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.039 like you need to be a mechanic. You need to learn how to do 214 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:52.120 something with your hands. So he had a positive thought, it was in 215 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:59.159 negative environment. You imagine how his life would have been different if you know 216 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:02.159 he had a teacher that said, man, that's a good idea. Your 217 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.720 vertality. You were ell spoken here, Let me help you. Let me 218 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.680 let me you need to be taken this class, this class, and that 219 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.279 class, and maybe your family is poor. Let me see what kind of 220 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.960 recesses I can get to help you all out, because I think you have 221 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:21.079 true potential. So it's not just the thought, but it's also the seed, 222 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:25.119 the fertility of the environment in which the thoughts had. That can then 223 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:30.359 either bring the fraud the thought into fruition or it can put the thought to 224 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:36.799 bed. Okay, all right, So you also mentioned, um, what 225 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:38.640 was the other thing? And in the three cs, what was the last 226 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:45.400 one? And yeah, sqr SQR the three R sq three R is a 227 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:52.799 review, read it, review it and recited excited. So when you say 228 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.759 that, it made me think of this term. I don't know if you 229 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.799 ever heard of like google brain, or a generation of people aren't able to 230 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.680 tame things that they don't believe or deem it important that they feel like they 231 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.079 can google it. Do you think there's a way for people to just like 232 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:10.359 is that just like how it is? Or is there a way to train 233 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.319 yourself out of it? If you are familiar with the term google brain or 234 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:18.720 yeah, I'm the term because that's basically brother. When I was saying that 235 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.640 when people can google alway, they don't feel the need to retain it, 236 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:27.839 and so that the r said, when you recite it, you got it 237 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.240 in your own brain. You don't have to go ask no body if you 238 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:36.839 gotta go. You got the Google brain it you never have any internal knowledge. 239 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:41.319 And the long term danger that I see is it the brain is just 240 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:47.640 like any other muscle. Muhammad Ali didn't train, he wouldn't be able to 241 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:51.279 do a good fight. If you don't use your muscles. Many of you 242 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:55.240 sound like very braberant young men. You may go to the gym and build 243 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.559 your bodies up, but if you stop going, that flab is gonna come. 244 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:04.079 Simony. If you lose your ability to retain information and memories of skill, 245 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:08.400 you learn how to remember, but you practice memory. If you don't, 246 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:14.240 if you lose that ability to retain information, eventually you won't be able 247 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:21.559 to remember. Dudele and I fear that's what's going to happen with Google Brain. 248 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:25.440 I agree with it. I just I see too many people who are 249 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:29.599 I guess, for lack a better term, satisfied with Google Brain because to 250 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:33.440 them they see no real merit and learning something that they can just look up. 251 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:37.920 But as you already you know recited, looking up is not retaining. 252 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:42.160 Looking up is not knowledge. That's just saying what you see. Um, 253 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:49.000 if you were dealing with someone, sorry, I apologize, you just gonna 254 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:56.160 just decap that off. One day somebody might turn to computer off. It's 255 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.960 like you go into a macdowns. I was in a club in New York 256 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.880 once and my daughter is a singer. She was performing and uh, I 257 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.240 was ready to go. She finished her show. I'm ready. I'd like 258 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:11.079 bring me a check, but it can bring me a check. So finally 259 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:12.359 a lady comes up and she said, oh, sir, he said. 260 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:18.680 She said, the computer's not working, Like, so what I want to 261 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.599 leave? I said, just figure it up. She said, we don't 262 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:25.839 know how to figure it up. I said, bring me the menu. 263 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:29.599 Okay, I got the menu. I added it up. I said, 264 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.680 what's the tax rain, She's seven percent? At seven percent, I said, 265 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.640 that's when I owe you. Let me pay you. She said, 266 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:38.519 sir, we have a bunch of bells over here. Could you could you 267 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.640 do that here? So I helped them out. But the point was when 268 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:47.759 the machine went down, they had lost the skills of adding, you know, 269 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:52.599 the basic arithmetic skills. And so with this Google brain, when when 270 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.920 the machines go down, then you out of luck. And then with the 271 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:02.200 Google brain, the answers you get when you ask a queery Google where those 272 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:07.119 answers coming from? In this age today of out official intelligence and people doing 273 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.759 be everything, pretty soon somebody can give you an answer that might not make 274 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.240 sense. It might even be bad for you. And if you have not 275 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:19.359 if you don't have the ability to think and critically, say, hey, 276 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:26.960 this guy said drink Arsenic, I don't think that's a good idea. It 277 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.640 can be, it can be real problematic in the future. I agree. 278 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:37.279 I definitely agree there they should have gone down to house. I have a 279 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.559 question for you. You said you were a lawyer, right, you talked 280 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.039 about the biases and law, and you brought up the point of AI. 281 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:48.039 Do you think that AI would serve us better as a judge than an actual 282 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:56.200 person with biases? That is a that's a powerful question, because biases were 283 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:03.279 positive like biases were negative. A computer will look at case and say, 284 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.279 you stole the money, okay, you found the money in your shoe, 285 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:15.279 and you're guilty, and there's no bias, that's just the COHRD facts. 286 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:21.279 And a judge as compassion may say, you stole the money to find the 287 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:25.559 money in your shoe. Why did you steal the money because my mother was 288 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:32.640 sick and needed medicine, because my three baby brothers had no food. I 289 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:38.200 judge with compassion might say, I'll tell you what okay. I'm I'm gonna 290 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:45.319 give you probation okay. Or maybe even just a judge of real compassion to 291 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:49.079 those just being in the in the judicial system, I've seen judges said, 292 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:56.200 look a man, let me introduce you to a work program, send you 293 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:00.920 over the manpower. Okay. Let me make a referral to so to services. 294 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.519 You shouldn't be in here. This is not a criminal. This is 295 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.279 a man trying to feed his family. And I don't know that the computer 296 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.440 can do that, So the biases work. Broth plays like one judge might 297 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:15.839 say, he said, issue, send him away forever. Well, I 298 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.039 mean, okay, I start to cut you on phone that note. Then 299 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:22.279 do you think that the okay, let's weigh the options of those biases, 300 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:25.920 right? How often do the judge do that right? And do that for 301 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:33.119 a person of color versus yeah, if you're rich, right? So is 302 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.720 it really benefiting us to have that option to have like that? Are we 303 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:41.039 just scared of the next level of saying, hey, I'm or take myself 304 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:44.759 out of this because I know that I can't do this properly. And in 305 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.680 my opinion watching different judge shows looking at different cases. I'm no lawyer, 306 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.599 right, but I do think that there is something broken in our legal structure 307 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:57.279 and what's broken in it. I think what's broken is the laws. And 308 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:02.079 I think if you bring in an AIDS right, then you can see, 309 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:04.039 hey, these laws are broken, this isn't fair, this isn't right, 310 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.880 and then we can start fixing the laws. Because as long as we leave 311 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:11.200 the system with these biases, I don't think anything's gonna get fixed. Which 312 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:15.440 is gonna be shuffling judges around like a shuffle board with no end in sight 313 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.359 right to no avail. Well, we really need to be fixing a broken 314 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:25.160 system, right, and I think that AI judges would help push that a 315 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:30.240 little bit further. I just say this, it's no better the person who 316 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:36.519 programs how deficient intelligence does not come from God. It comes from man programs 317 00:24:36.519 --> 00:24:42.680 with the different algorithms and the same prejudices that people have in real life getting 318 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:48.799 part right into the program. Yes, sure, it's something. It's something 319 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.519 to think about that always. You know, intelligence is created by people, 320 00:24:53.279 --> 00:25:00.079 that those programs can incorporate the same biases that people just like you want to 321 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:04.200 get a good judge, John a good program or when it's somebody dealing with 322 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:11.039 with people's lives and people's futures, I feel like that's a candle stick burner 323 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:14.599 on both ends situation. I don't mean that your argument is bad by any 324 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:18.319 means. It's it's it's accurate. Um. What I do question is, 325 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.160 as you said, if we can't question, or if we don't take into 326 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:26.240 accountable account that the person who's making the or working on the AI, even 327 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:32.799 if it's a group, may have nefarious intent, then that could be taken 328 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:36.480 as oh, it's a computer. They only work within the confines they were 329 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:40.720 given. They were given fair confines. So what you feel is unfair, 330 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:42.440 it's not really unfair. That's just you not being able to do with reality. 331 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:47.599 But as you said, everything made by man was in fact made by 332 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:52.759 man. So if you if you provide the people with this, uh, 333 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:59.920 this artificial feeling of absolution, that at least the computer will be correct then 334 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.680 and it'll just give the people in power who are behind the money that's behind 335 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:08.799 the people that program set AI away to control the system, and it may 336 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:15.559 end up just creating the exact same system with more technological steps, but less. 337 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:19.400 You see, I don't know how to program compassion. All judges are 338 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:26.319 not racist. Have been many judges I can write. I've seen them look 339 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.279 at a young man and his potential, a look at a young woman her 340 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.680 potential, and say, hey, let me give you another chance, let 341 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:37.559 me give you another shot. I've seen that work both ways and until and 342 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:45.039 compassion is the thing that makes judges in the human beings. When judges lose 343 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:49.880 their compassion, than they act just like computers. I don't know how to 344 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:56.000 program compassion into the computer, and I don't know how you can program compassion 345 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:03.279 into AI and just this and deal with the court system. It must have 346 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:08.119 compassion. And if you don't have compassion, then all that looks is the 347 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:12.200 facts. You stole it, you broke it, we caught you, and 348 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:18.039 the sentence thing says twenty five delighte goodbye. That's another question. It sounds 349 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.279 like you just said that compassion or a court system without compassion it's not a 350 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:26.599 good court system. Would that be me taking that out of context? You're 351 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:32.559 absolutely right, a court system that's without compassion is not a good court system. 352 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.640 Well, I mean that was actually I just want a confirmation that what 353 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:41.000 was in fact what you meant, But you said it plainly there if we 354 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.839 look at the court system and this is just you know, obviously um not 355 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:51.200 can talk if you will. But if there was a way to measure or 356 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:55.319 at least see without a shadow of doubt in a certain time period that the 357 00:27:55.400 --> 00:28:00.759 judge was completely without compassion, do you think that there is or should be 358 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:04.680 a way to deal with that judge or is that just kind of part of 359 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.960 the game. Isn't know what I mean? I always believe in review process 360 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:15.200 nobody's person, nobody's perfect, and nobody stays the same. You know, 361 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:21.200 there a lot of people start out right and when their conditions change in their 362 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:23.519 life, they go wrong. They start out on the right, they go 363 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:30.240 left. So I think there should be a review system judges, anybody in 364 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:36.759 a position to deal with people's lives, people's freedom, It should always be 365 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:40.720 some kind of oversight, you know, in the appellate courts. That's what 366 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:45.440 the courts of appeals are all about, that that a judge can make a 367 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:49.880 wrong decision. Hopefully you have a lawyer who files a notice of appeal, 368 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:55.640 the appeal to a case to a bigger group. And if you notice, 369 00:28:55.680 --> 00:29:00.279 when you appeal cases, you go to like a group of judges, which 370 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:04.119 is designed to sort of take it out of me, the one judge format. 371 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:07.559 Like I said, maybe that judge is wrong, maybe that judge is 372 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:11.799 prejudice. Now you go to an appellate court, which is a court to 373 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:15.759 reviews the judges. And so that already exists right now, and the appellate 374 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:22.119 court can review that judge's decision. And you hear this decision was reversed. 375 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:26.359 They sent it back for a new trial. So that process is in place, 376 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:30.599 but you know, I think it can definitely be improved. Okay, 377 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:34.880 So let's say that person got that confession and I'm out and I get your 378 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.480 book, you know, and it's time to change my life because I was 379 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:41.799 given a choice. What will be the first steps you recommend for a person 380 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.880 like that? That would just before any person, and the first steps to 381 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.799 change a lot. I'll tell you a lot of my books. I did 382 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:56.119 a workshop yesterday using the twelve. My book is called the twelve Universal Laws 383 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:02.160 of Success. Is on all the platforms, so on my website Herbert Harris 384 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:10.039 dot com. This book has been very popular in prisons incarcerated persons, and 385 00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:14.559 so I've got a few letters on my desk right now. When I wasn't 386 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:18.920 a right, I sent him a book. Many times they buy the books. 387 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:25.359 And I just got a notice to come and do some on digital ready 388 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:29.720 called online training. But to just show you how a young man who got 389 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:33.519 the book in prison up and I don't know what prison he was in, 390 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.039 but the book turned his life around. Now he's very successful. He told 391 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:42.000 a lady here in North Carolina about the book. She saw an event right 392 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:48.039 that I was speaking, so yesterday she showed up at the workshop. And 393 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.039 so with a person coming out a prison, a person, let's just say, 394 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.839 a person who needs to make a big overhaul on their lives, a 395 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:02.160 drastic change, then our book is perfect for that because it's written on a 396 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:07.720 very simple format. In other words, the book was written so that anybody 397 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:10.599 can read it. You don't need degreeds, you don't need a whole lot 398 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:14.799 of education, And it's written in a like a recipe book. You know, 399 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:21.119 if somebody tell you go and make a cake, start from scratch, 400 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.839 most of us couldn't do it. But if somebody say, here's a recipe, 401 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:27.359 just follow the recipe, you can make a cake. And so the 402 00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:32.759 book the twelve Universal Laws of Successes. They often call it the recipe Book 403 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:34.960 for success. So when people come out, they can take that book, 404 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:40.319 and that book tells Hayden, look at your thoughts. There's a chapter on 405 00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:45.279 relationships. It says in relationships, if you're coming out, you know, 406 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:52.359 a returning citizen, and you need to look at a new playground. You 407 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:56.880 don't want to go back to the same playground you will end where you got 408 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.000 in trouble. You may want to look at the new play mates that maybe 409 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:05.720 some people that you need to cut ties with because otherwise you're going back to 410 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:08.480 prison. You need to look at some new play things. You leave that 411 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.799 coke alone, need these whatever. And so when you come out with that 412 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.720 mindset, then now you look at the chapter on vision and says, hey, 413 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:21.039 let's create a new vision for yourself. How do you want to see 414 00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.920 yourself you're coming out of You've been in jail fifteen years. Where do you 415 00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:27.359 want to see yourself? Say, man, I'd like to see myself in 416 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.039 a job. I'd like to see myself with a family. I'd sit and 417 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:35.039 see make it. Whatever that vision is, the book helps you formulate that 418 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:38.960 vision so that now you can break that vision down into goals. What's the 419 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:43.039 first thing I gotta do, the second thing I gotta do? And so 420 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:46.759 that's why the book is so powerful anybody who's looking to make a change in 421 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:52.160 their lives, whether it's when you might see a small change, I said, 422 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.079 look, my life's going pretty good. I just need to make a 423 00:32:55.160 --> 00:33:00.640 few mid course corrections and I'll be fine. A big change. I need 424 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.200 to stop everything I'm doing, man, and do something different. This book 425 00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:07.160 can help be help you there. I think everybody wants to make a change 426 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.599 in their life. But oftentimes, especially when you're young, do you think 427 00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:15.960 you have so much time and then that time become less time and that time 428 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:20.559 becomes less time? Doesn't work for That's called procrastination. Do you think there's 429 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:24.200 a time that's too late to change your life or tomorrow's there's another opportunity. 430 00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:32.119 It's never too late. And Mary Pickford was a silent movie before movies. 431 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:36.799 I know this look way before your your time, but there was an actors 432 00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:42.039 named Mary Pickford and she said this said, you can never create a new 433 00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:46.880 beginning, but you can always create a new ending anywhere you are right now, 434 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.839 you can always make a change. Crastination. Now you just hit on 435 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:57.079 something. Procrastination. It's one of the things we deal with in the book 436 00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:04.359 because procrastination, how to overcome procrastination. Procrastination can steer your dreams. Procrastination 437 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.920 can take you out so that you don't get anything done. So we have 438 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:13.079 a whole section on overcoming procrastination. And I'm just going to touch a point 439 00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:17.079 with you from page one eighty eight to see what I'm talking about. How 440 00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:22.199 a person can take this book and says, how do you overcome procrastination. 441 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.440 Number one. Realize that it's a main cause of failure. Number two. 442 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:32.199 Recognize that when you let procrastination take over in your life, you waste time, 443 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:37.199 you lose money, or do this going performs your misengagement, your life 444 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:40.280 slips away. If you want to get around procrastination. Number three half a 445 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.039 definite schedule. Stick to it. You know, there's a reason why they 446 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:49.199 tell you to come to work nine to five because it works. So if 447 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:52.679 you want to change your life, you need to have a definite schedule. 448 00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:55.440 You need to stick to it. Number four. It says, make a 449 00:34:55.480 --> 00:35:00.519 list of the things you have to do or the things you want to do, 450 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:04.360 and set the time limit on when these things should be done, how 451 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:08.440 long they take. Number five. Make a definite commitment to all always be 452 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:13.800 on time. Number six. Planned to handle one activity at a time. 453 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:19.400 Number seven. If you're confronted with complex activities, break them down into simple 454 00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.679 forms. Okay, I need I need four thousand, eight hundred dollars by 455 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:27.400 the end of next year because otherwise I got a problem. Well break it 456 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.440 down into twelve months. That means you gotta make four hundred, you gotta 457 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.679 save four hundred dollars a year. Break it down into the first month. 458 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:37.559 There's four weeks. That meets you gotta now save one hundred dollars a week. 459 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.960 Breaking down in the days, there's five days. That means you gotta 460 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.960 save twenty dollars a day. Now you've taken a four thousand, eight hundred 461 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.920 dollars goal and broken it down. So now the question is how do I 462 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:55.039 make twenty dollars a day extra and on top of what I'm making sick and 463 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:58.920 set it aside. So that made mean, hey, let me take a 464 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:02.320 little job here at wrong lines. Let me let me do a little waitressing 465 00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:07.440 job. I did a training for some waitress and waitresses, and many of 466 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:12.760 them had other jobs. They said, they're doing that job because on the 467 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.559 weekend and a good restaurant they can make two or three hundred thousand two days 468 00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:22.000 and tips. Okay, And girl said, I'm saving half of my tips 469 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.840 to take myself and get myself a new place. So these are the kind 470 00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:28.840 of things that we have in the book. Back, That's what I said 471 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:31.239 as I read that to you. This is exactly how the book is written. 472 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:36.960 Step by step. Do a do b doc. Another one that says 473 00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:42.800 under overcoming procrastination. Do not let the fear of criticism or the fear of 474 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:49.360 failure cause you to be slow in making decisions. Dog decide and then take 475 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.599 action. Do it now. And so you know, when you start making 476 00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:55.239 a change in your life, your friends are gonn the man you know, 477 00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:00.400 hang out with us anymore. You know you used to be dying. Now 478 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.480 you're not cool. You don't want to chill number okay, guys said, 479 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.400 well, hey, fine, I don't want to chill anymore because I want 480 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.239 to move from point to eight to point B. So don't let that bother 481 00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:15.159 you. Even the fact you may fail. Don't let that bother you. 482 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:21.480 Failure to address rehearsal for success. Anybody who's not failing anything probably not doing 483 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:27.159 anything important. Back to you, Yeah, so you mentioned you're on your 484 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.800 plan. You're doing it, You're in it. So okay, so you're 485 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:34.599 doing it. But you say you have a goal. But like you go 486 00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.119 back to money where you started it when it came to your profession as a 487 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:43.079 lawyer, Like, what do you consider there's being rich and then there's wealthy. 488 00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:45.400 What is wealthy? Is that to the individual or how does that is 489 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:50.039 that explain? In your book. In chapter eight we talk about the law 490 00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:54.079 of value. He said, there's four things, and you operate in your 491 00:37:54.119 --> 00:38:00.320 life to create Number one it's called the earning principle. The earning principle says 492 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:05.320 that you should make as much money as you can doing what you do eagerly, 493 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:09.480 something with honor, but earn as much as you can. Where you 494 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:14.599 earn more money is to have more value. If you have more skills, 495 00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:17.239 you can make more money. That's one of the things that we'll cut across 496 00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:23.239 racism. You know, the one thing that the big world realizes. If 497 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.639 they can make money on what you do, then they're gonna pay you that 498 00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:30.719 money. And so number one is the earning principle, to put yourself in 499 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:36.800 a position to earn as much money as possible. Number two is the spending 500 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:42.599 principle, to control your spending to operate from a budget. A friend of 501 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:45.199 mine said, man, I ain't making a two hundred dollars a week. 502 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:49.079 I don't need a budget. Yes you do. You really need a budget 503 00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:52.679 if you want to, because now every penny counts. Then you have the 504 00:38:52.880 --> 00:39:00.400 saving strategy that earn as much as you can spend this little that you have 505 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:04.719 to and save as much as possible. And the saving principle says, hey 506 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:08.719 save a hundred dollars, save a ten dollars, say save something. And 507 00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:14.280 then the fourth is the investment principle. Once you learned the savings principle and 508 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:19.400 you stash enough money to cover yourself and maybe three months or six months now 509 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.039 you can take and start in investing. And so we deal with that. 510 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.320 You know, it's really a mindset. You know, a lot of people 511 00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:29.400 think you got to have a lot of money. You can get a lot 512 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.880 of money if you have a plan to get it. You know, there 513 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:37.960 was a black woman down in Mississippi, and if you read her life, 514 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:40.960 you know it seemed like, I mean, if you can take all the 515 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.960 terrible things that can happen to a child, it happened to her or her 516 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:50.159 mother. And she became what you call a washer woman in other ways, 517 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:54.280 she washed white people's clothes, white people's sheets, and ironed them. She 518 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:58.920 did that for forty years. She never made more than two hundred dollars a 519 00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:01.920 week. But at the end of that time, and she hit around seventy 520 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:07.599 five eighty years old, I think she actually did that fifty years. They 521 00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.000 looked at her bank account, and this woman had hundreds of thousands of dollars. 522 00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.440 He had enough money to provide for herself and take a hundred and fifty 523 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:22.360 thousand dollars and set up as a scholarship month fun the black girls who didn't 524 00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:28.639 have the money. So it's money can be gotten if you have a plan 525 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:30.880 to get it, and we teach that in the law VAT. Yeah, 526 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:34.360 I know a lady with a similar story. I don't think she made it 527 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:38.920 over ten dollars her whole life. Forty years come late, she dies unexpectively, 528 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:43.320 and they looked at her bank account. The lady had over seven hundred 529 00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:47.880 thousand dollars and if they owned a home, had three kids, she was 530 00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:51.320 married of course, so I don't know if it all came from one place. 531 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:53.519 But I don't think he made much money either, But still it was 532 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:57.400 a lot of money. The kids were just so surprised that she was able 533 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:01.280 to do such thing just without even any kind of formal training. We're talking 534 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:08.480 about middle school to graduate. Yeah, yeah, you know, like you 535 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:13.760 can create wealth a lot of times. Yet yes, it's I call it 536 00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:17.960 Michael Way wealth. You gotta make money overnight. You're like I'm want to 537 00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:22.519 get rich by next Thursday. I'll give it ninety days. If ninety days 538 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:27.800 it doesn't work, and I'm quitting. If you're gonna when you look at 539 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.840 the people who really make money, you'll find that they hung in there. 540 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:35.599 I mean, Michael Jordan went to the same school I went to, of 541 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:39.440 Carolina buch younger than I am. But he was not a great basketball player 542 00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:45.400 in school, but he worked hard his parents. Now he had great parents 543 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:49.679 who supporting them, and everything he did okay. But he didn't happen overnight. 544 00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:52.880 It took him a few years that he went through the whole process for 545 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:59.480 high school college, so it didn't happen overnight. Anything you do takes time. 546 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.199 But if you do it with deliberation. I mean, if you have 547 00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:08.159 a plan, then you can create anything you want. Without a plan, 548 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:13.800 the Bible said, where there's no vision, the people perish. If you 549 00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:16.400 don't have a vision of what you want to be doing, have the chances 550 00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:20.800 how you're just gonna spend your right chilling until one day you just freeze. 551 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:24.199 Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. Now, are you a fan 552 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.480 of people crazy? Uh? Vision boards? I ain't go let us sound 553 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.280 like witchcraft of me. So I'm not gonna be one behind that. That's 554 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:39.800 all right, okay, okay, um, excellent, but plack libertarian, 555 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:43.960 I think you had a question. Go ahead, are you referring to me 556 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:52.039 your question? Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I didn't want to 557 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:57.039 travel down the rabo hole. So I just so if you've got something to 558 00:42:57.239 --> 00:43:00.119 doctor Herbert here, so go ahead and ask anyway. I just sorted to 559 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:05.320 go back to the book. The book has been very helpful. I don't 560 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.800 know if my assistant sent you copies of the book now, yeah, we'll 561 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:14.039 love to have it. Okay, bro, I'll make sure that have her 562 00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:17.239 reach out and get your addresses and send copies to you. Man, haven't 563 00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:22.440 any whether it's four of us on here, whatever, I want each of 564 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.400 you to have a copy of the book now. If you prefer digital, 565 00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:28.599 Like I said, I'm still old school. I need paper. If you 566 00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.599 prefer digital, I can have her send you a digital right away or whatever 567 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:35.599 works. Man, I can read it away. But I have a reading 568 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:40.760 about her book. Um. So I hate to make this about race, 569 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.679 but we already Everyday black Man podcast coming from whatever Day black Man. All 570 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:49.599 right, so look, let me ask you a question everyday. Black man, 571 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.960 all right, he wants to change his life. There are a lot 572 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.400 of sits out there that just aren't true. They say black men don't make 573 00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:59.760 no money. They do. Black man don't take there to ji they do. 574 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.119 Black men on this, black men of that. You know what, 575 00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:07.199 those narratives that aren't always true? All right? Will your book be able 576 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.440 to help them on? Like? Ignore those details are out there. I 577 00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:14.679 know what I'm saying. Anybody else can found on it. I mean he 578 00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:20.559 said it already, He said to ignore any criticisms or the field or failure. 579 00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:22.960 And that's really all those are alway to try and box black men into 580 00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:28.679 thinking that they are failures before they actually do anything to help become help them 581 00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:32.199 become a self fulfilling prophecy. Sorry, and you know there are two areas. 582 00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:37.960 One of the things in the first chapter in the low thought, one 583 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:43.440 of the most profounds that you have is the thought you have about yourself and 584 00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:49.760 those narratives you was sharing, narratives perpetrated by somebody who may not like it, 585 00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:54.000 who may not care about us, and based on their mindset, the 586 00:44:54.079 --> 00:45:00.000 law what says, see yourself intories. No matter what they tell they may 587 00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:05.360 tell your dumb as a box of rocks. See yourselves smart, okay, 588 00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:09.320 know that you have the potential, and so the book would be very helpful 589 00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:15.400 in helping redefine yourself image that if that's what they're telling you, that's not 590 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:19.320 what the truth of you. So now you decide who you want to be 591 00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:22.719 and what you want to be, and then you proceeded on those lines. 592 00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.599 Versus hard working I'm sorry to that you offer. Which one do you think 593 00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:32.320 it matters more? I think they're both equal. A lot of intelligent polks 594 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:37.559 that are broke, intelligent folks that are lazy, and I know another hard 595 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:43.960 working people who don't have any sense who're just working to maintain need them both. 596 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:46.320 You need intelligence and you need hard work. Let me ask you a 597 00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:52.400 question about success. Now, we talk a lot about successes. If it's 598 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:59.559 a good thing. Success has a lot of negative actibes, longer, jealousy, 599 00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:02.079 a lot of things that are hard to deal with the side of getting 600 00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:07.679 for success, most people may not even walk to success. You mentioned Beyonce 601 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:13.719 earlier. I imagine how life is a living hell, right, you know 602 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.440 what I mean? Paparad see people always on your in and out in and 603 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:22.760 out, and we never talk about that part of success. Success feels like 604 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:28.239 an extrange relationship with everybody who own everybody who's ever done business, and becomes 605 00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:37.599 a lonely hole of destitute feelings toward life. And I just wonder do we 606 00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:43.760 really need to push people towards success. Success is a looking a lot more 607 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:50.480 at the material side of it, But success is a continuous realization we're worth 608 00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:53.119 while purpose and I mean, you know a lot of times we have created 609 00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:59.559 with dollars extens There are a lot of people who are successful because they're happy. 610 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:05.079 You know. I think success without happiness is short lived. And that's 611 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.079 why a lot of times people make a lot of money but live very, 612 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:12.519 very miserable lives. And so the main thing is what is it that brings 613 00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.960 you joy? What is it that brings you happy? Success has its down 614 00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:22.320 its downsides in a sense that I got like, you know where Beyonce and 615 00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:29.199 jay Z lived. You know, I know the property is a pain in 616 00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:32.880 the butt, but I know that they have a magnificent, beautiful house overlooking 617 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:37.800 the park with a beautiful view, and and you know they don't have I 618 00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.880 don't know if they I don't think they have any money worth, so that's 619 00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:45.960 not a bad thing. I think the idea is to create a life for 620 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:52.159 yourself that provides the material things you need to take care of you and your 621 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:59.320 family, that provides the amount of satisfaction and what you do to make the 622 00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:05.239 money, and provides a legacy. You know, I believe in legacy, 623 00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:10.039 in other words, the fact that I've lived and we have children. I 624 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.239 would love for my children to have a better shot than I have, so 625 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:19.159 I would like to make sure that they have some money going forward. You 626 00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:23.079 know, I'll take it very interesting. Very often we as black folks looking 627 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:29.679 insurance to pay the burial and pay the bills, wherein white people looking at 628 00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:34.519 insurance is a way to replace the income of the person who died. Just 629 00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.840 say it's the father of the husband. And that's a big difference. That's 630 00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.920 a big difference. And I'm not it's not absolutely they allowed black folks to 631 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:45.760 really plan for that. But the idea, have a happy life for yourself, 632 00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:50.480 to provide for your kids in the future. Well, you know, 633 00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.199 I used the data girl who who made her first few millions off of the 634 00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:58.400 death of a family member from insurance money, and I thought it the way 635 00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:00.400 she described it was the most evil I've ever heard of a life. But 636 00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:06.639 everybody should do that, even though it's very terrible, praying for someone's death 637 00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:10.239 so that you could gain wealth. But I guess overall, I just always 638 00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:15.320 heard more money, more problems, And in my life I've understood that to 639 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:21.239 be true. And I just wonder, like, is that where where are 640 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:25.000 the topics where we discuss what it's like to make money or be successful in 641 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:30.639 the pitfalls and the stress and the helm of that existence. You know what 642 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:32.559 I mean? When I see a crackhead on the street, he's as happy 643 00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:37.199 as he could be, got his crack's running down the street, but naked, 644 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.360 he's just in zest. You know, he's happy, elated, Gabe, 645 00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.920 he's gay as he could be. But when you look at somebody who's 646 00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:50.679 really wealthy and miserable, they got this to do. Their schedule is NonStop 647 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.280 things to take care of them when it get hold. I look at all 648 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:58.719 the successful men who are not happy in the relationships with that. I mean, 649 00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:02.440 successing more like a murden than anything. What would you say to people 650 00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:07.679 who feel like dog success is like a knife. You can use that knife 651 00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:12.000 to carve out a beautiful statue to carve out a beautiful life for yourself. 652 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:15.679 You can use that life that same knife to kill somebody. It's all a 653 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.960 matter of perspective. There are a lot of people with money that are very 654 00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:23.119 happy. Don't generally hear from them because one of the things I find about 655 00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:28.639 having money that the best you do is be quiet. Don't run around showing 656 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:34.199 how much money you have. You know, because money is kind of like 657 00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:38.079 dog poop. It can attract flies. And so there are a lot of 658 00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:45.039 people who have money and very happy, very self contains of content, and 659 00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.360 most of them are very quiet about the money that they have because they know 660 00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:53.760 that other people have different attitudes about their money. Guy I knew hit the 661 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:59.679 lottery man and went to Las Vegas and hit the machine for five million dollars. 662 00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:02.360 You got about two point eight millions, and his life was hell. 663 00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:08.519 People that didn't know and man relatives showed up. Somebody sued him because one 664 00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:13.239 day he said, Hey, I'm gonna send your child to college. This 665 00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:15.320 is my grand nephew. I'm gonna send him to college. The mama. 666 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:19.000 When he didn't do it, the mama want to sue him because he said 667 00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.320 four years ago he was gonna send him to college. So the money brought 668 00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:24.519 him nothing but grief. He's back working on a job, the money's gone, 669 00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:30.000 and he's probably happy than he was before. So it goes both ways. 670 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:35.960 If you get the money without consciousness, it's all about mindset. If 671 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.400 you get the money without the right mindset, people who hit the lottery very 672 00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:45.360 often within five or six years the money's gone. But then you get people 673 00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:50.199 who generate money hit the lottery and they have the right mindset that those lottery 674 00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:53.519 winners that you never hear from, those are the ones that are pretty happy 675 00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:58.559 with their money. A lot of the people who work can make very successful 676 00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:00.719 you never hear from him. You know, one day you see them in 677 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:04.639 somewhere and you go like, man, I didn't know you had that kind 678 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:09.039 of money. They are the only very happy. So I think it's not 679 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:13.679 money, it's the attitude that people have towards it. It can be a 680 00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:19.239 blessing or it can be cursing, but it depends on your mindset. All 681 00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:23.599 yeah, good. I guess, not necessarily to summarize, but my thoughts 682 00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:27.119 of what you've said so far is that when dealing with money, you should 683 00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:30.840 look at it or treat it as a tool, and then when using properly, 684 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:32.559 you know, you can cut yourself. But I mean, I work 685 00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:37.199 in a kitchen and uh, I can't stand the dull knife. So I 686 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:39.079 think it's a matter of when you have a sharp knife, do you use 687 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:42.079 the knife and then put it away, or do you wave it around and 688 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.960 tell everyone you have a sharp knife and then invoke feelings of jealousy in them. 689 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.679 If you can just be happy and content with what you have and keep 690 00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:51.360 it within that notion, you know, maybe cut things for your friends, 691 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:58.800 right, then everything's fine. But when you start trying, yeah, show 692 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:01.480 it off and whatnot. Look at this. I got this that Japanese still 693 00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:06.719 people get jealous of you, and we know that jealousy breeze contempt and whatnot. 694 00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:10.599 So maybe one of the better things could be that you should not just 695 00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:15.800 chase success, but also chase a successful mindset. Exactly, Yes, perfectly, 696 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:20.800 I definitely agree. I definitely agree. One of the people I know 697 00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:22.920 who got fired from a job. When we next song him, he was 698 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.320 super happy, and it's because he had so much stress and letting go of 699 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.320 the job, he found something better, and I was more in line with 700 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:35.239 him, so he was very happy. I'm complete, man, I just 701 00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:38.199 I thank you guys for sharing and you know, giving us an opportunity to 702 00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:44.480 talking. So what you're doing dread together, a group of brothers together talking 703 00:53:44.599 --> 00:53:50.320 stuff, ideas and meaningful stuff. And so I'm you know, just thankful 704 00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.840 and honored to be on your program. I do have one question before you 705 00:53:53.920 --> 00:54:00.599 go. It's gonna be a little bit off the wall. You didn't mention 706 00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:06.239 it. You kind of like scowed it over it as a lawyer, Um, 707 00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:12.199 how do I say that when it comes to politics, Um, how 708 00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:16.840 do you think that equates to like success on the black bass? B do 709 00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:21.840 black people need to get more involved in politics? Or you don't even mention 710 00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:27.800 it in your book whatsoever? Or and now I don't mention any politics anything 711 00:54:29.559 --> 00:54:34.920 personal growth development? Yeah great. I don't care for politics in general. 712 00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:37.920 I have an opinion, but I don't think they're important because I think it's 713 00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:45.639 more about money than anything. As I get older, who knows money is 714 00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:52.760 important? Ideas are important to you know? Politics represents different ideas. Yeah, 715 00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:59.599 you know, so many different ideas on the landscape, and and some 716 00:54:59.639 --> 00:55:05.840 people believe one idea, some people believe another. So whatever, whatever the 717 00:55:05.880 --> 00:55:08.719 program. If you got money, you're in the battle situation like that. 718 00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:15.679 Okay, money, money, money, any money, all right, So 719 00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:21.800 we thank you for coming to our show. Here. I actually learned a 720 00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:25.079 lot. And well you learned something every day. And let's see what if 721 00:55:25.079 --> 00:55:29.360 we take down knowledge and use it and don't procrastinate to use it tomorrow, 722 00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:30.960 use it today, right, anything else you want to say to the audience. 723 00:55:31.679 --> 00:55:35.519 Absolutely, when I say to the artists, thank you for having me 724 00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:39.119 on. I know there's people of colors, black folks have to do. 725 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.519 I know when I was a child, I was taught you had to you 726 00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:47.559 had to work harder to get less. You gotta always work harder. We'd 727 00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:52.639 love you to go out and get our book. It's on Amazon, twelve 728 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:58.360 Universal Laws and Success by Doctor Herbert Harris. It's on our website Herbert Harris 729 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:01.159 dot com. Of the things that we've been really working to do, we 730 00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:07.719 find it many times when people want to make changes in their lives and sincerely 731 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:15.719 make changes. We put together a program called the Success Toolbox, and the 732 00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:20.280 reason we put that together was to give people an opportunity to have all the 733 00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:23.599 tools. So you have a copy of the twelve Universal Laws of Success e 734 00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:29.039 book. But you also have the audiobook over six hours because a lot of 735 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.119 folks, we have to respect people have different learning styles, so a lot 736 00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:36.639 of people have to hear it rather than read it on a book. So 737 00:56:36.679 --> 00:56:40.400 we have the audiobook and then we have a home study course called new U 738 00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:45.000 the New Uth Course. And what that does is it gives you a chance 739 00:56:45.039 --> 00:56:50.039 to I think he was saying a little earlier. There's four parts in the 740 00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:54.039 course. It's like assess your situation because if you're not happy, if things 741 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:57.480 are not going the way you want to, then you need to look at 742 00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:04.400 what's going on. Assess your situation. Part two is make some necessary changes. 743 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:07.920 Once you know where you're going. Once you know where you're at, 744 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:10.920 it's like a GPS. You can't go anywhere until you know where you're at. 745 00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:16.400 Once you assess your situation, whether you when good, your finances, 746 00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:21.960 your relationships, your emotions, your thoughts, then you can make new thoughts, 747 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:25.320 new emotions, new relationships, new habits. And so we say assess 748 00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:30.599 address. Then the fourth section, the third section is on to set new 749 00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:36.000 goals. Once you see more, you can be more. So once you 750 00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:38.519 get a good vision of your life you want to live, then lay it 751 00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:45.440 out and write out that vision. And then the fourth part is how to 752 00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:47.400 make a plan, how to get it down, how to do a day 753 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:52.599 by day action plan to do stuff and so. And there's a lot other 754 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:58.800 motivational audios in their Law of Command to help you reprogram your mind. You 755 00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:04.159 know, so that of those negative things that the world mind the system has 756 00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:08.800 said about us can be changed. And it's on our website, So thank 757 00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:14.039 you listeners to just check out our website, Herbert Harris dot com. And 758 00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:17.960 there's a nice little tab there success tool box. Click on that and read 759 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:22.639 some of that and may be something very helpful for you. So once again, 760 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:24.559 thank you so much for being on here, and keep up the good 761 00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:29.800 work. Hey, I'm in this with a little scripture Jeremiah twenty nine to 762 00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:32.960 eleven, for I know I have plans for you, declare the Lord. 763 00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.440 Plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans to give you hoping and 764 00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:43.719 a future. Everybody, thank you've gotten the Harris from coming to the podcast. 765 00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:46.480 We appreciate you. I will be looking forward to diving deeper into your 766 00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:51.159 books and if you want to come again, the door is always open. 767 00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:54.960 We thank you on the Everyday black Man podcast. Everybody clap, there we 768 00:58:54.960 --> 00:59:00.880 go. You have one thank you, and you'll learn that each one of 769 00:59:00.880 --> 00:59:07.920 the laws is based on some scripture. So I think you'll app right. 770 00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:10.199 So my my system will get to your descents, your addresses, and we 771 00:59:10.199 --> 00:59:15.400 will send you the copy. Thank you, Stay blessed, thank you, 772 00:59:15.519 --> 00:59:40.000 stay with Hi, chobbing jobbing, tell you ye