843 Everything is Perfect

TURN ADVERSITY INTO ADVANTAGE. Do you spend a lot of time wishing things were different? Do you feel sorry for yourself for the struggles you face? Maybe it’s time to reframe those obstacles as gifts. After all, the things that hurt us the most can help us show others more love. Pain can lead us to pleasure. And your negative experiences will lead you to greatness. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Prince Ea where he shared his message that everything is perfect. Richard Williams, better known by his stage name Prince EA, is an American rapper, spoken word artist, music video director and rights activist from St Louis, Missouri. He has over four million subscribers on YouTube and inspires people daily with his viral videos. Learn how to accept your present while changing your future on Episode 843. In This Episode You Will Learn: How the artist Immortal Technique influenced Prince Ea (2:00) The importance of accepting what is (3:00) About the philosophy that everything is perfect (3:30) How pain can be ultimately good (4:00) If you enjoyed this episode, check out the video, show notes and more at http://www.lewishowes.com/843 and follow at instagram.com/lewishowes Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday.

• 0:11Lewis Howes?

  Welcome everyone to today's episode. We've got a very special guest. I'm super excited to introduce you to the one and only Prince E, better known as Richard Williams and his stage name is Prince E. He is an American rapper and activist known for discussing topics like politics, sociality, environmentalism, and life issues. His YouTube videos have garnered over 40 million views and the guy is crushing it. Over 350,000 subscribers there.

• 0:42Speaker 01

  It was probably into high school, listening to the conscious hip hop artists, you know, because, because you know, if anybody that's listening, listens to Immortal Technique, you know, he goes in on government and tells you what's wrong with it. And, you know, he goes in on politicians and the world affairs. And so from that is probably the first time where I'd lived outside say, hey, things are, things might not be going the way they should be, or the way they could be. So, but, but I've developed from there too, to, you know, after, after hip

• 1:22Speaker 01

  hop, I got into spirituality. And I don't, when I say, I always got to, to kind of specify when I say spirituality, because I don't mean like, you know, climbing the Himalayan mountains and meditating with the Dalai Lama. I just mean looking inside to figuring out who I am. And so to answer your question, now I think the world is fine. You know, I think, I think things are as they, they should be. And I think-

• 1:49Lewis Howes?

  Why is that?

• 1:50Speaker 01

  Because when we argue with reality, we lose everything that happened should have happened by the very nature that it happened. And that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be here to change it either. You know, so we have to live in the now and create out of that acceptance of what is.

• 2:07Lewis Howes?

  Hmm. So you believe that the world is perfect where it is right now?

• 2:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 2:11Lewis Howes?

  Then why create videos to open people's minds about change?

• 2:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, because that's perfect, too.

• 2:16Lewis Howes?

  Interesting. Alright, I like that.

• 2:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:19Lewis Howes?

  Okay, so it's perfect where it is now, but it doesn't mean it can't improve and be perfect then as well.

• 2:26Speaker 01

  Exactly. You know, the caterpillar and the butterfly, perfect. You know, you gotta go through these steps to get to that place. It's perfect without, you know, there's been so many illnesses and negative things that have happened to people that have gotten them to the point of greatness.

• 2:44Lewis Howes?

  That's true.

• 2:44Speaker 01

  And without these things, they wouldn't have got there.

• 2:48Lewis Howes?

  That's true.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  So these things, it's all perfect. It's all, yeah.

• 2:51Lewis Howes?

  That's true. I believe that, you know, one of the principles that I live by is that we should always turn our adversity into our advantage. And that is actually one of our biggest gifts and one of our biggest callings is the things that hurt us the most can actually show others how to feel that much more love.

• 3:09Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 3:09Lewis Howes?

  And open them up.

• 3:10Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 3:11Lewis Howes?

  And our pain is really what can create the most pleasure in the world and all those different things. And without those moments, then we may not be as impactful without those.

• 3:20Speaker 01

  That's it.

• 3:20Lewis Howes?

  And without the world probably going through where it is right now, maybe it won't be as impactful to people in the future. So I never looked at it that way with your message that's perfect right now.

• 3:28Speaker 01

  Man, there are no smooth mountains out there, man. There's ridges. You gotta climb that thing.

• 3:33Lewis Howes?

  If they were smooth, they wouldn't look beautiful either, probably, you know?

• 3:37Speaker 01

  That's it.

• 3:37Lewis Howes?

  If it was a smooth mountain, I wouldn't want to look at it, you know?

• 3:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:40Lewis Howes?

  It's like the ridges and the points that make it look picturesque.

• 3:50Lewis Howes?

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