When everybody

is against you or don't believe in you no more.
 

It's a lonely feeling.
 

Oh, it hurts very badly.
I know what that's like.
 

They look at you with that look and say
why don't you try something else?
 

Why don't you give up?
Get away from these people
 

that's in your life that ain't doing nothing.
Get away from people in your life that's hating.
 

Get away from them.
Get away from them.
 

If you take an oak tree seed
and you put it in a 2-foot pot
 

that seed
will never become the oak tree
 

that oak trees are capable of becoming
because it's gonna get stifled
 

by the 2-foot pot.
Now check this out
 

ain't nothing wrong with the seed.
The seed just fell prey to the environment.
 

Don't you allow your environment
to dictate

the oak tree that you become.
Anytime you move from being normal
 

to trying to be exceptional
people aren't gonna like that sh*t.
 

Those normal people
it makes them feel like sh*t
 

so they're gonna judge you.
And that's why every true leader
 

they're called weird.
They're called eccentric.
 

When you do the things of real leadership
you're going to be called strange.
 

Get strong enough in your own skin
that when people laugh at you
 

or when they throw stones at you
you keep on going.
 

I respect any motherf*cker
that wakes up every day
 

and work their ass off
to live their life and lifestyle.
 

F*ck clubbing
partying, hanging out
 

that ain't for me.
I'mma be out here running
 

in the hot sun
practicing.
 

While everybody else is clubbing and hanging out
you got your focus right.
 

Don't expect people to understand you.
Don't expect it to make sense to anybody
 

why you've got to do this
why you have got to go.
 

"Why you leaving?"
"This is a good job."
 

I'm going.
"They pay you well."
 

I'm going.
"Why? I don't understand."
 

You don't have to.
I'm going for me
This is something I have got to do.
"How are you going to make it?"
 

I don't know, but I will.
The universe responds to the man or woman
 

that refuses to be denied.
Because that is your commitment.
 

That business that you want
that book you want to write
 

that dream that you have
of controlling your destiny
 

that is yours.
That's available to you.
 

But you've got to be willing to stand there
and face disappointment
 

not have support
be lonely
 

doubt yourself sometimes
be rejected again and again and again
 

become bankrupt, if necessary
again and again and again
 

and refuse to turn around
until life gives it up.
 

Life will always be to a large extent
what you make it.
 

Not what circumstances will make of it.
Not what other people will make of it.
 

Not what other people say it will be.
Not what the environment will  

try and dictate to you.
But what you make of your life.
 

So when you're uncommon
get ready for the criticism.
 

When you're uncommon, get 
ready for the opposition.
 

When you're uncommon, get 
ready for the common people
 

not to understand you.
If I decided
 

to experience the fear
of rejection
 

the fear of no
the fear of failure
 

the fear of standing by myself
the fear of people not liking me

what else is available
of taking a chance
 

the fear
of losing it all
 

what else is available to me?
People are gonna think you're crazy.
 

You don't have nothing but linen 
in the corner of your pockets
 

you're out here talking about living your dream.
And people are laughing at you.
 

And they're doubting you.
It takes guts, ladies and gentlemen.
 

But let me tell you, I believe in revenge
like Frank Sinatra, he said
 

the best revenge
is massive success.