In 1987 Nike had $600 million in revenue. Phil Knight was stuck. The company was losing ground to Reebok, burning cash, and nobody inside could agree on what to do next.
He brought in Les Brown to speak to his executive team.
Brown was found abandoned in Miami at 6 weeks old. Labeled mentally retarded at age 9. Failed fifth grade twice. Had no degree, no connections, no money.
By 1987 he was the highest-paid motivational speaker in America. Marriott paid him. McDonald's paid him. General Electric paid him. Fortune 500 companies flew him in because one session with Les Brown changed how their people think.
Nike's revenue crossed $1 billion two years later.
Brown built all of it on one thing he learned by losing everything.
He made a promise to his adopted mother to buy her a house. Worked years to get the down payment. Found a home on the water in Miami. Signed without a title search.
A registered letter arrived weeks later. A $12,000 lien against the property. The previous owner's debt. 30 days to pay or lose the house.
He lost the house. Lost 23 pounds in the process. Packed his mother back into the old neighborhood while the same neighbors who watched them leave watched them return.
He stood in the driveway unloading furniture with his head down crying.
His mother said hold your head up. You have nothing to be ashamed of.
For weeks he couldn't move. Couldn't think. Couldn't plan.
He said the mind works like a gas pump. You cannot start pumping until the previous bill clears. Anger doesn't clear. Humiliation doesn't clear. They sit on the lever and nothing moves.
He told the story of a man everyone in Columbus called Chicken Man.
Woke up at 3am to a house on fire. Got out the window. Heard his wife and children screaming. Ran back. The flames were too hot. He could not get in.
The screaming stopped.
His brother-in-law arrived and started hitting him. Calling him a coward over and over.
When people pulled him off they asked if he was all right.
Chicken Man looked at them and started making the sounds of a chicken. He never spoke again. Drove around the city for the rest of his life with a toy chicken on his car and a photo of his wife in a baby carriage.
Brown said most people walking around are carrying something exactly like that. An event from years ago still running their entire life.
80% of the people you tell your story to don't care. The other 20% are glad it happened to you and not them.
The question is never what happened. The question is what are you going to do about it.
The lecture is free on YouTube. Just over an hour.
Almost nobody has watched it as a precise diagnosis of why capable people stay exactly where they are.
El presidente Donald Trump dijo que el ejército estadounidense capturó y sacó de Venezuela a Nicolás Maduro después de lanzar un "ataque a gran escala" contra la nación caribeña. Delcy Rodríguez dijo desconocer el paradero de Maduro y de su esposa, Cilia Flores, y exigió una "fe de vida" de ambos. Imágenes de nuestra cadena aliada @NoticiasRCN
NAZI LAS PELOTAS
Elon Musk debe ser uno de los hombres más importantes de la Historia, que esta empujando el progreso humano a ritmos vertiginosos, y siempre ha defendido la libertad en su forma mas pura, para todos.
Compro X en un acto que fue considerado una locura desde el punto de vista empresarial, pero que sin dudas será considerado uno de sus grandes aportes a la humanidad, tomando control de una plataforma que se suponía era un foro de debate público, pero resulta que estaba programada para cancelar cualquier discurso que no fuera el discurso woke hegemónico.
Por eso hoy toda la progresía internacional se monta sobre el inocente gesto de @elonmusk para tildarlo de nazi. Porque su lucha por la libertad atenta contra el control hegemónico del wokismo internacional.
Pero el mundo cambió. Elon no está solo. Los que luchamos por la libertad ya no estamos solos. Somos millones. Y ahora también recuperamos la "tierra de la libertad" que estaba en sus manos, gracias a nuestro querido @realDonaldTrump.
No sólo no les tenemos miedo. Sino que los vamos a ir a buscar hasta el último rincón del planeta en defensa de la LIBERTAD.
Zurdos hijos de putas tiemblen.
La libertad avanza.
VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO
Poverty in South America
2012
🇨🇱 Chile: 2%
🇦🇷 Argentina: 4%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 26%
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 29%
2022
🇨🇱 Chile: 5%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 30%
🇦🇷 Argentina: 36%
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 90%
% of population living with less than $5.50 per day
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