if I fail more than you, I'm winning. But see, what you have to remember is, is it's not failing just to fail. It's failing at scale. Because if I. Fail and keep showing up. Then every time I come back to it, I'm a little bit better. I'm a little bit stronger, and I wrote in the margins of Kevin Hart's book, keep Playing. No matter race, creed, color, resources, background looks, no matter what, life as cruel and harsh as it can be, we'll deal all of us, everybody a bad hand.
And what do you do after you've been dealt a bad hand? You have a choice to. You can fail and walk away from it and say, oh, well, if only I had these advantages. Or you can keep playing. What a wonderful advantage to know. That I have the same advantages even in the midst of my disadvantages. The only distinguishing characteristic is one man's gonna turn back and one man's gonna keep playing. And I do know this, that if I keep playing, I'll tip the odds. Kevin Hart he's living proof of that.
You gotta read his. I mean, this dude was borrowing cars to get to, to drive where people were saying, dude, you could be a manager of a Footlocker. And he said, no, I gotta follow this dream. I gotta do this thing. Even when people were telling him he was stupid, it was crazy. Sleepless nights, long drives, drives like, hour and a half, two hours to get to a venue. Small clubs now. Dumps of clubs. It wasn't Kevin Hart then. He was Kevin the bastard. That was his stage.
He would get there, he would drive all that way, wait for hours to get on stage and they'd say, oh, you're not getting on tonight. Drive all the way back home. Come back and do the same thing over and over again. But see what he did. And what you need to do is you gotta keep playing because if I do , I did the scales significantly. That's an important word, bro. I will tip the scales significantly in my.