![]() ![]() I felt like I had to prove things and spend money and show off and it created a financial issue in my life. The fact that I felt this way towards women also affected the way I dealt with my money. It was like, boom, boom, boom, and you start to see that one thing affects another and another. But I actually had just hit the edge and I had to keep falling. The reference I used to make is that I felt like I was falling off a cliff and I hit the ground. Now, Tough deals with all the other things that kind of changed from that. And because I had that erroneous belief, it had really just developed into so many problems in my life that actually I didn't see as a problem until everything came crashing down. ![]() And like I said, those are the things you have to be discovering.įor fans who read Manhood, what sets the two books apart?įirst of all, Manhood is really a retrospective on the first wake-up call I ever had, which was literally the fact that I believed simply because I was a man, I was more valuable than every woman in my life. Once I started to exercise my own will and everything, my parents didn't like what I had to say. And there was a big kind of a breakup that had to happen. I was leading a life that I thought that they would like as opposed to a life that I always wanted. And it allowed me to be manipulated.Īnother example is I found I was doing things for my parents. And it's one of those things where I wanted things easy, I wanted someone else to tell me what to do, you know? And I was susceptible to that because I wasn't willing to be tough enough to find out my own answers. But I was literally manipulated by different things that I allowed into my life that I shouldn't have. I’ll be brutally honest here: In regards to religion, there was one time in my life that I was in a Christian cult, which was wild.Īnd this is something a lot of people don't know about me. The whole book, in various ways, is all story-driven through different anecdotes, different stories that I have had experienced during my life. I’m very hopeful that this book - it may not help everybody - but there will be something in there that you could say, “Oh my God, this was revolutionary for me.” I've always been about self-reflection and that's the real thing that's helped me.Ĭan Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans, or even fans of your NFL days, look forward to any untold or unexpected behind the scenes moments in this book? And I’ve had several different wake-up calls in my life and several near disasters that I have avoided. ![]()
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