Will Smith's views on LIFE

Will Smith:
I have a great time with my life and I wanna share it.

Shares his WISDOM on Life

I love living, and I think that's infectious, it's something that you can't fake.

GREATNESS exists in all of Us

Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, God-liked feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It's something that fully exist in all of us. Very simple, this is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it. I know who I am and I know what I believe, and that's all I need to know, so from there, you do what you need to do. And I think what happens is we make the situation more complex. It can be that easy.

YES it can

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter because we will becoming something greater.

There's no shortcut to SUCCESS

The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who were trying to excel, who have dreams, they want to do things. Talent you have it naturally, skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.


I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented, where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work effort. You know while the other guys sleeping, I'm working, while the other guys eating, I'm working.


There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are, your talent is going to fail you if you are not skilled. You know if you don't study, if you don't work really hard, and dedicate yourself to be better every single day, you will never be able to communicate with people, with your artistry the way that you want.


The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things - You are going to get off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple.

Lay one Brick at a TIME

One summer his dad tore down a brick wall in front of his business, and told twelve year old Will and his nine year old brother to rebuild it, the job they said was impossible. It took them a year and a half... but they did it.   
Will Smith: And he said: "Now don't you ever tell me there's something that you can't do."


You don't try to build a wall, you don't set out to build a wall, you don't say "I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built." You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid." You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.

FOCUS on making a difference

You know there's an idea that my grandmother always said, "If you gonna be here, then there's a necessity to make a Difference." She always instilled the spiritual responsibility that you have to make every group you come contact with better.


I want to do good. I want the world to be better because I was here.


I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something. If you're not making someone else's life better then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Represent an IDEA

I want to represent an Idea. I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent the Idea that you really can make what you want. One of my favorite books is the Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo... and I just believe that. I believe that I can create whatever I want to create.

You have to BELIEVE

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to Believe it. There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. I think that there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history... you have to Believe that something different can happen.

Confucius said, "He who says he can't and he who says he can't are both usually right."

NOTHING is Unrealistic

Being Realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. Why would you be Realistic? What's the point of being Realistic? I'm going to do it! It's done! It's already done. The second I decide it's done it's already done, now we just got to wait for you to see.

It's unrealistic to walk into a room and flip a switch and the lights come on, that's unrealistic! Fortunately Edison didn't think so. It's unrealistic to think you're gonna bend a piece of metal and fly people over an ocean. That's unrealistic! But fortunately the Wright Brothers and others didn't believe that, and it just seems like such a ridiculous idea to me to embrace the idea that it's not going to happen and that's not real for that to happen. As soon as you say it, now you just made that real.

Our THOUGHTS are Physical

Our Thoughts, our Feelings, our Dreams, our Ideas are physical in the Universe, that if we dream something, if we picture something, if we commit ourselves to it ... that is a physical thrust towards realization that we can put into the Universe. That the Universe is not a thing that's going to push us around.  That the world and people and situations are not something that push us around. That we are going to bend the universe and command and demand that the Universe becomes what we want it to be.

I study the patterns of the Universe.

There's a redemptive power that making a Choice has, you know rather than feeling like you're an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a Choice! Just decide, what it's going to be, who you're gonna be, how you're gonna do it. Just Decide! And from that point the Universe is going to get out of your way, it's like water. It wants to move and go around stuff.

You know there's a flow of the Universe that I've grown to know just how to go with it.

You really gotta FOCUS 

I  realised that to have the level of success that I wanna have it's difficult to spread it out and do multiple things. It takes such a desperate, obsessive Focus. You've really gotta Focus with all your fiber, and all of your heart, and all of your creativity.

Attack your Fears

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear! I hate being scared to do something, and I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of. 

Be WILLING to die for the TRUTH

You can't be scared to die for the Truth. The Truth is the only thing that is always going to be constant.
 

Protect your DREAM

Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me, alright? You got a Dream? You've got to protect it! People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. You want something? Go get it! Period.

Source of Video: Thomas Jungblut