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They live in suburbs together, they live in the city together, they hang out together,
they all in the same family.
We're the only idiots that fight because we want our voice to only be on one side.
Like, does that even make any sense?
And when the side loses, you lose everything.
They, on the other hand, have a voice no matter what,
because somebody that looks like them is always in control.
Frank, candid, and straight to the point.
Well, it's just a skewed system.
Of course it is.
It's a lot of a judgment.
But, answer my question now.
Should we let people go?
Should we let people go?
Like, let's just forget about bail altogether.
And if your neighbor commits a homicide and kills people up there.
If you kill people, and they next to you,
and you just let them come back and live right next to you,
they can live upstairs from you, they can come in your house.
Frank, candid, and straight to the point.
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Truth in the afternoon with Dr. Ken Harris on 101 7 The Truth and Truth Out.
Now, he's the mayor of the city of Milwaukee.
He's a young man, give him a chance.
I only complain about things that I care about.
What I want you to do is pretend like I'm in St. Louis.
And now, I'm asking the mayor of the Common Council president
and the Common Council.
Show me.
Now, live from the American Family Insurance Studio at the Avenue
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You're listening to Truth in the afternoon.
I'm your host, Dr. Ken Harris, 8321217 is the number.
If you've got anything you want to say on, I almost say Wednesday.
I almost, I almost say Wednesday and it's Tuesday, Tuesday.
The, what is today?
The 19th, the 19th of May.
It's great to be here.
This is my final week on 101 7 The Truth.
And I'm having an absolute wonderful time.
Having a great time being here, transitioning to some,
I think I'm a transition to YouTube at Dr. Ken's Truth.
So you can, you can go there, follow me there, harass me, harass me there.
I'll be on it four o'clock every day just to, you know, cause trouble.
Either that or win friends and influence people.
I haven't decided which one it is yet.
So, you know, I'm just trying to do that.
It's been an interesting day today.
But I have a, I said this week, I'm going to do a one topic per day.
Of course, Thursday, I'm going to be doing my, this is for Kathleen.
I'm doing my book, my black book, Thursday.
And I'm going to be continuing that black book.
Except I'm thinking about doing a book a week that might be too much.
I don't know.
I'm going to give it a try.
Black book, Thursday is the spook who sat by the door.
So make sure if you don't have a copy or if you need a copy or you got two days
to order it or you could be lazy like me and just do the audible.
I read it years ago and I listened to it twice.
Since I said I was going to do the book and it was, yeah, it was as powerful as I thought.
I still don't like the ending of it.
I still don't like it still bugs me to this day.
But I think it's something that black people should read.
I think that it's a, it's a, I think it's a great book.
But there are a lot of things that black people should do.
But let me ask you a serious question about some of the things that black people should do.
What are some basic skills that every black person should possess to survive,
to compete, to, to be successful in America?
Not, not just exist, not just get by, but to actually, actually like prosper.
Somewhere along the line, and this will be strange me being an educator.
We, we allowed influence to become confused with wisdom.
We allowed education to be confused with schooling.
We allowed visibility to be confused with a person's value.
Now, I believe that there's certain things every black man, every black woman,
every young person should know how to do.
Now, because it makes you better than somebody else,
or I can do this when you can't, but because it makes you harder to control.
Dependence is expensive.
Competence is freedom.
I've said that before.
So first, every black person should know how to,
what's my other favorite topic other than leadership, money.
You should know how to manage money.
Not just make it, not just manage it.
There is a total difference.
But some people can earn six figures and live paycheck to paycheck.
Yes, that is true.
Others have modest incomes, and they retire millionaires.
Build wealth for generations.
Some things we have to understand.
I'm going to dive into some of it.
Some of it, I'm just going to skip past and do it throughout each segment.
But the bottom line we need to understand.
Credit, debt, interest rates, insurance, ownership, investing, and taxes.
Sounds like a lot.
But the line through all of those is taxes.
If you don't understand money,
somebody else will use you to make theirs.
Second, every black person should know how to communicate effectively.
No, you shouldn't be able to communicate effectively as me.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I know.
You can tell when I'm tired because I seldom are words,
because it's, I'm up at 4.45 like I was today.
You should know how to speak in a boardroom,
a classroom, a church, a community meeting on the radio,
and still sound like yourself.
Because believe it or not,
the way you communicate can open the door
when talent by itself can't.
Oh, I heard you can do it.
You ever met somebody and you heard,
oh my gosh, they're great.
They can do this.
They can do that.
And then you meet them.
It's like a blind date, right?
You meet them and go, hmm, I'm very under and overwhelmed.
Under, under, underwhelmed.
I think that's the word.
So much for education.
A person who can clearly articulate ideas,
usually will outperform people with raw intelligence,
who think fast on their feet.
Third, every black person should know how,
basic, survival, any emergency skill works.
Hey, Zach, you know how to change a tire?
Oh my gosh, you said no.
I'm done.
I'm going home now.
Goodbye.
Are you serious?
I'm dead serious.
You do not know how to change a tire?
I don't know how to change a tire.
I don't know how to change an oil.
Anything about a car?
Don't know how to do it.
You got triple A.
You said what?
Triple A.
What's that?
Like if your car breaks down,
they come and give you what you need.
Yeah, isn't that what my insurance is for?
It must be with your insurance then.
Yeah, I just call like the number
from my insurance company
and figure it out that way.
Wow.
Unless you're in the middle of God knows where
and it'll take two and a half hours to get there
and so you need to change a tire.
Okay.
Road assistance near me.
Wow.
I'm going to talk about that a little later.
Perform CPR.
Can you perform basic life support?
CPR.
Like now it's all compression.
So you don't have to breathe anymore.
You have to do all that stuff, right?
Red Cross Heart Association.
Pick one, learn it.
Do you remain calm during a crisis?
Do you defend yourself legally?
Can you defend yourself physically?
Can you navigate difficult encounters with cops?
I'm just saying.
Which goes to my last one,
how do you respond under pressure?
When life goes south,
because panic destroys people long before danger does,
you worry about how bad something will be
and then you experience it and you find out it's not that bad.
Your mind can take you to places that real life can't.
Number four, every black person should,
I guess I'm going to add Zach again.
You know how to cook?
Nope.
Oh wow.
If all your meals come from drive-thru and delivery apps,
eventually your health and your wallet will pay the price.
And we're going to dive into that too.
And then fifth, every black person should know
black history beyond slavery and beyond the civil rights era.
I've listened.
I love my friend brother.
We're in multiple organizations together.
The good late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,
but if I hit his name one more time during black history month,
or W.E.B. Du Bois,
or Mary McClaude Bethune,
and on and on and on, I'm going to get sick.
All the things black people have accomplished in the 20th and 21st century.
And we keep going to the same five or 10 people.
We need to know our inventors in recent years.
We need to know our business builders in recent years, military leaders,
other than Colin Powell,
at great educators,
landowners,
architects, economists, philosophers, you name it.
But if the only story you know is about black people and depression,
you'll subconsciously limit what you believe is possible.
I went about a house, but my friend couldn't buy a house because they did such a such.
Or you're listening to Kyle on his,
you need about $65,000 on a house in the median.
And I said, that's half median is just the middle.
What's the average income?
It might be a little lower, but you can still get a house.
You just don't have to pay $200,000 for a house.
That's the difference.
But if you subconsciously limit yourself
in what you believe is possible,
it'll never be possible.
Because history shapes identity and identity shapes behavior.
Now, lastly,
every black person needs to know how to adapt.
That's why I asked Zach about whether or not he could change a tire or cook.
You need to learn old-school skills with modern tools.
The same thing we do when we look up a source and a story
using an encyclopedia,
a dictionary,
or the library we cannot do online.
It's just a different tool to do the same thing.
But if you don't have the old-school skill,
the tool means nothing.
It makes no sense to you know how my child goes to a school
and they get a wonderful brand new Chrome book.
Don't have Wi-Fi at home.
Don't know how to use the internet.
They're going to porn sites and gambling sites
and all kind of stuff that they shouldn't be on,
watching movies that they shouldn't.
How?
All school skills.
Drive a stick shift.
You know how to drive a stick shift or you just drive automatic.
Nope.
You know how to drive a stick shift.
Read a contract.
Write professionally.
That's why me and 100 black men are here.
That's why me and Alpha Phi Alpha are here.
That's why me and Prince Hall Mason are here.
For all the young men who are under the age of 50
who don't know,
call us.
That's what we do.
Use artificial intelligence intelligently.
Understand technology instead of becoming addicted to it.
Oops.
The future belongs to people who are adaptable.
Notice I didn't say surviving or going through trauma.
I said adaptable.
Skills create options and options create freedom.
When you have multiple things, you have multiple options.
The world respects prepared people.
People that show up on time.
People that complete their work in the right time.
Not loud people.
Not flashy people.
Not prepared people.
Not the person that wears a Gucci belt
at a Louis Vuitton purse and slippers
and Brooks Brothers pants
and when you read them, they have 12 different,
not one designer in everything is one designer.
It's like five different designers because they got to show you.
Because they're flashy.
They're like prepared people.
That's why I tell people all the time,
stop focusing only on being entertained.
Focus on becoming valuable that people need you.
Because when difficult times arrive and they always do, believe me.
You just haven't lived long enough and it has been as bad as you think it could be.
The people who survive are usually the people who know how to do things.
And I think maybe that might be a deeper issue in the black community.
Too many people want shortcuts instead of skills.
Too many people want visibility.
They want to be seeing, but they don't have any real substance.
Too many people want success, but they don't want to prepare for it.
They just want to get the grade.
Too many people want success, but they don't have preparation.
Real power has already and always belong to certain types of people.
People who know how to work systems, people who know how to build,
people who know how to communicate, people who know how to think critically.
That will pay a dividend for generations to come.
So, if you didn't get anything out of this, I should remember one thing.
The most powerful thing in life other than living is knowledge.
You're listening me truth in the afternoon. I'm your host, Dr. Ken Harris,
833-212-1017 is the number. We're going to be talking about knowledge today.
We're going to see what you got. We're going to see what you can give.
I got some questions for you and I want to see how tough you are.
If you've got any questions, you can give me a call here at 833-212-1017 is the number.
Let me pick up my talk and text line, Todd said, Dr. Ken, if we can say anything,
great luck on your future endeavors. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Let's see what you're talking about in YouTube. Let me see who all up here in YouTube.
Hey, what's up, SC? What's going on? Willie?
Sincere? What's going on? Sincere's still ain't said.
Sincere's still ain't said, hey, what's up, Dr. Ken, so I ain't talking to Sincere today at all.
Never. Look, Alicia. Hey, what's going on? Study hall. John.
Mal was going on.
Aaron, good to see you. Good to see you, Aaron. And young money, I heard you this morning.
On that other thing from Man to Teen, you know what you was.
Young money said artificial intelligence built on algorithms from the 70s.
I would say no. I would say no.
And if it is, guess what? It must have worked because boomers made it. Okay, I'm done.
Eight, three, three, two, one, two, one, zero, one, seven is the actual number.
So I updated my phone and because of my phone, I got, wait a minute. Oh, Zach, I need you to remember,
I talked about my car crash. Did I ever show you on my phone? This is my phone. If you can do it,
if you can do it close up, I want to show everybody the phone that when it fell off my car, how it
ended up, it finally died last weekend. And I had to go to the AT&T store and get a new one.
You got it? Wait a minute. Look at this. Is that wild or what? Is that wild or what?
Yep. And it still worked. And then my screen went out and I couldn't use it. And then I couldn't
charge it. And so I just let it die. I carry it around for those of you who drive and don't
watch where you're going and you're playing with your phone. This is what can happen to you.
Okay. All right. All right. I just, I just want to show that because it wasn't pretty.
It was not pretty. So what should every black person know how to do?
You have to have a skill set. And if you have any skills you want to suggest,
83321217 is the number because I want to know what skill do you think too many people
will never learn growing up? Like you learned it and then you thought to yourself, had I learned this
when I was growing up, life would have been different. It would have been different.
That would have been the difference between survival and success.
What was that skill? What skill do you think too many people never learned growing up?
83321217 is the number. I have a few. I have a few I'm thinking of.
Like talking too much. Okay. I'm sorry. Telling your business. Okay. I'm sorry.
But I mean, what are those things?
When you're good at a skill, you're going to always have a job. You're going to always be able.
My mother told me and I've said it when you grow up, make sure you can do something with your hands.
No matter what you do with your brain, have something you can do with your hands.
Fortunately, the world changed and those that can use their hands still have to use their
brain because now everything is technology driven. But you still have to have the skill set.
If you're a plumber, you still have to know how to plumb.
You still have to know what's broken, why it's broken, and how to fix it. Now, you might use
technology to fix it. Technology might tell you, here's a solution to suggest. But in the end,
you have to actually fix it. That's the difference between survival and success. When I was growing
up, we were surviving. But at the end of that, I found out we were actually successful
when you come out of it, when you come out of welfare, when you come out of being poor. And I
mean, for me, being poor is like having a job. The difference in not having any money and being
broke versus being poor. I grew up poor. Then I became broke because I had a low paying job
that I became successful. Well, no, technically, then I survived that I became successful.
Some people didn't have that. Some people grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth and they
went to HBCUs and families had money and they had a generation. So now they've got third,
fourth generation of kids that are doing great. And I think that's great. I have a generation of
kids that are doing great. Hopefully, one or both of them will have kids and that generation will do
great. But you have to survive first. And everybody goes to that survival spot, especially when you
have to become an adult. That's the hard part. Becoming an adult when I grew up,
your parents looked at you and said, so what are you moving? You're like, wait, what? Where are you moving?
You're 18, 21. Graduates from college. Oh, you're staying here? Oh, you got to pay rent.
I had to pay my mother rent to stay while I worked in radio in Chicago after I got out of school.
Why? Because I had to learn how it was to be an adult. And I thought, well, I was staying here
for free all this time for 27 years. Why can't I? Didn't happen. But then I became competent in
taking care of myself. When I became competent, that's what gave me my freedom and the ability to go,
yep, I'm moving out. Go get an apartment. And I rolled out. And it got me thinking, what skill do
you think too many people never learned growing up? I'm going to talk about, I'm going to talk about
one of those throughout these next hour and some change hour and a half. And I'm going to share
with you the one skill I didn't know how to do. And it cost me. And I had to learn how to do it. And
today, I'll tell you exactly how it turned out. It's truth in the afternoon with Dr. Ken Harris
on 1017 the truth, the truth app and 1017 the truth dot com.
You're listening me truth in afternoon. I'm your host, Dr. Ken Harris, 832121017 is the number.
So my question was, what skill do you think too many people never learn growing up? Henry said math.
Well, I mean, what do you mean by math? Do you mean like algebra type math or do you mean like like
one plus one is two math, like addition and subtraction. I don't know.
Kathleen said, thank you for mentioning my name in regards to the book review. You are a sweetheart.
Can't wait till Thursday. Okay. Uh, young Monday said, I don't understand what that means.
Backpropagation algorithm. Yeah.
So it, it really is. They didn't have the computing power and data back in the day. That's true.
That's true. That's true. Young Monday said, you got shot at. No, that was my phone. Follow
up. You talk about my phone. That was my phone. Followed off the car. Uh,
quanta said, almost a year later, that's what you get for procrastinating.
Ha, ha, ha, funny. Uh, young Monday said, Mark Zuckerberg and I are the same age.
I was interested in computer programming, but I didn't have the resources he had growing up.
Did he have any resources growing up? Or he just went to, went to Harvard or Yale or wherever to
heck you went to. I don't know. I don't know. Um, young Monday said watching the social network,
he didn't drop out of college because it was useless. He did it because he already knew everything.
He didn't know everything. He didn't know he was going to end up in court getting sued.
He didn't know he was going to end up in court with people suing him because he created something
that he knew was addictive. So anyway.
Hey, what's up? Gone to long. I don't know what that means, but
young Monday said, linear algebra powers AI. I know. And so then is that something you would have
learned or should have learned linear algebra or is that something everybody should learn?
Todd said in the talking text line, a skill I think people do not have is to communicate
a face-to-face intelligent. Can I get in the applause, please? I need an applause for that.
The art of communication is dwindle since the public was given the internet. No, I don't know if
was the internet. I think it was phones. No, not even phones, the ability to text.
Most people under the age of 30 have trouble, well, that's a lie. Under the age of 40,
have trouble making a phone call. A simple, basic phone. Hey, you have to call these people
because the only way that you can do such and such is to call.
And they have trouble calling. I don't understand that, but that's an old school
skill that you really need because if the satellites ever go, guess what?
You got to talk to people. Phones may only work line of sight. They might have to bring back
payphones. Miles said, I mean, I'm sorry, young, young Monday said he knew enough. That's my point.
That now that is true. He didn't know everything, but he knew enough. And he had a hunch,
but you know what's important? That black people don't do that Mark Zuckerberg did? He took a risk.
He took a risk. Everybody that won took a risk. I took a risk going to college. I took a risk
getting a master's because I got to finish. You know the worst place to be in a program,
undergraduate graduate school or doctorate halfway through.
When you realize the two and a half, three years, you just went through. I got to go through that again.
What? Yeah. Young Monday said I was lucky enough to take linear algebra UWM in 2018.
Diddy Cassie said also know how to negotiate. Woo. Y'all coming up with some gyms.
Mark said I still have a landline. Why? Do you have a landline at your house?
I finally got rid of mine because my phone can do everything a landline does. And actually,
if I keep my phone with me if something happens, it'll tell people where I am. That's how I got this.
I'm taking a risk now. Going back and get your bachelor of science and nursing. Absolutely.
But it's not really a risk. Think of it as an investment. It's an investment in your future
because you're literally going to make more money with a bachelor of science and nursing
with an associate's. You'll make more money as a BSN instead of an ASN. You'll make more money as
an MSN. And I don't even think people do that anymore. They go straight to doctor of nurse practitioner
or become a physician assistant. It makes significantly more money.
So there are a lot of things that we can do that we take a risk about, but we don't. Now,
my topic I was going to talk about is money management because I'm going to get that out of the way
first because that's one of my favorites. And I know that's also one of the things that we struggle
with. And it's one of the things that we always say to ourselves, we can't. But I learned, I'm going
to tell you what I learned and what I did and how I invested and what I did. I have no problem
sharing that. I am a follower of Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett said in the 1970s when they started
bringing them out index funds. Put your money in the index fund. Don't worry about it. Don't think
about it. Put as much money as you can and index fund. So that's what I did. You put money in
an index fund. Vanguard, fidelity, total market index fund. And it worked out great.
Double digit returns every single year. Some years up, some years down. But over time,
did well. Didn't have to worry about it. But one part of the market went down. The other part
went up. So I still made money when the whole market went down. Nobody made money. So it didn't
matter. And I forgot about it. And I didn't think about it. And then I looked at it and went,
oh, wow. Okay. I could retire because I forgot about it. Didn't go to somebody, hey, I need a
broker and I need you to do this and look at these stocks, but didn't do none of that index.
That's what I did. This is not advice. This is education. That is what I learned. The sooner you
start, the longer time horizon you have, the more money you'll make. Will it fluctuate? Sure.
Will it give you a heart attack? Sure. Sometimes. But it always trends upward. And if the market
completely crashes, every single person in America in the world is broke. So you could start over.
You have to understand the difference between earning money and actually managing what you earn.
Credit. They give it to you, but there's interest on it. Investing pretty simple. Just talk about it.
debt. They talk about good, dead, bad debt. There's no such thing. We talked about owning a house and
all the fees over time that if you literally had that money and lived in an apartment, it took
out of maintenance fee and invested it in a in a in a in a in a in a mutual fund for total market. You
anyway, by the time you were 35, 40 years old, you could just pay cash for a house.
But the real killer when it comes to risk is insurance. You got to have insurance.
Insurance is for things that can happen that are catastrophic. Like if you have a house or an
apartment, you should have insurance. If you drive a car, you should have insurance. Depending
on who depends on you, if you have a family, you need insurance. If you're single, you need
insurance. This is all education. This is all stuff I talk about in my career's class and stuff
like that. But remember the question is, what financial lesson did you learn? Too late.
Too late. I almost was too late in learning how to invest. Almost. They were not about 24 or 25
and got that job that made you go, hey, you got investments and you can do this and do that and
do this and do that. I ran into a woman. I don't know if she's still alive today,
but I ran into a woman and we talked and we talked and she said, you know, my son gave me the
best financial advice I ever had. She said, my son's an actor. I said, really, who's your son?
She said Darrell Bell. He's in a TV show called a different world. And like, wow.
And I was living in Chicago and she gave me some advice and it was the best advice I'd ever had.
Because you have to have the generational wealth discussion with you and your family to sit down
and go, where are we going? Well, I don't want to think about it. You know, what do you think about
a grandma, grandpa, great grandma, great grandpa going past the way? What's going to happen?
Because there are certain urban economic realities, especially here in Milwaukee,
with tax and maintenance and everything costing too much. What are you going to do?
And so my second question, what real financial lesson did you learn too late?
Mine was I should have put more money in instead of just going, you know, a good number is
should have did more. Mr. Lee, you're on the award winning 101 7 the truth. How are you today?
And best, brother, best finish one of my courses into the second one.
And I actually use a lot of your advice when it comes to applying it to the work study,
or let me say the educational study that I've been taking on. Yeah, I want to say, yeah,
that's financial literacy at its finest, sir. I mean, that's something a lot of us at any time
you're giving a lot of very credible information. I love the fact that you mentioned about the
index fund. That's very key. And I believe for those of us who are guardians or parents that you
start something always for that child, that you put something for that child or children
thereof. And like you said, forget about it. That's another key. Forget about it, and over time,
you know, check and apply. But thank you for the advice. I just came in at the, I would say the
tail end of your, I only heard like five minutes of what you've been talking about. And all I could
think of was financial literacy. Keep up the good work, sir. God bless. Thank you for your info.
All right. Thank you much, Mr. Lee. 8 3 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 7 is the number. Young money said,
try to invest 20% of your monthly income. And I say, don't try. I do. And yes,
Kwanda, it was Ryan from a different world. That was Darrell Bell. Yep. Sure was. Sure was.
Those. Miles, say, have you seen gas prices? This is not that easy. I filled up my car yesterday.
I drive my car until you know how you got the, the, the notches, like you got a quarter tank.
And then you got a eighth tank. I drive it to the 16th. And then I go get gas. Because my car
cuts off automatically. They're trying to get rid of those. I think it's stupid. I love it.
It saves me gas when I stop at a light. If you're irritated, just turn the button and it'll,
punch the button. It'll go off. And, um, and I, uh,
$85. No, 88. The first time I did it was 85. When I went back this time, it was $88
to fill up my tank. I drive slow now. And I don't go a lot of places. I am not going.
I'm not going. It just, it just costs too much money. Because you have to control your money.
You really have to manage it. Otherwise, uh, hey, you'll get in real trouble.
8332121017 is the number. You know, tune in to the award winning 101 seven,
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when we come back, communication. I want to talk about communication. Oh, and by the way,
I have a first poll question for the day. My poll question is which skill is most important?
Speaking, driving, reading or writing. I'm just saying. Those are those are things we learn
growing up. Speaking, driving, reading or writing. Which one of those skills is the most important?
When we come back, we're going to talk about communication. You're listening to Truth in the
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hour. Exactly. What skill is most important? Speaking, reading, writing or driving?
Interesting. Currently, 40% say speaking, 60% say reading. Nobody said writing or driving.
Interesting. Interesting. I'm going to tell you which one I would choose before we go to break. But
which skill is most important? That's in the YouTube chat. All you got to do is go to 101 seven, the truth,
101.7, the truth on YouTube and sign in and take the poll. Now, 67% say reading and 33% say speaking.
I have a different take, of course, because I'm a contrarian. I have a different take on it as to
which one of those that you would learn that would give you the most. I guess I can say bang for
your buck. Interesting. Before the break, we were, I said I was going to talk about communication
and that's something Todd talked about in the talking text sign. He said, communication is one
of those important things. Instead of trying to code switch all the time and talk like white people
or mix in with the group you're trying to mix in, if you master communication, you should be able
to be yourself and fit in no matter where you are. Professional environment. Talk with your friends.
We do it. If you're going code switch, code switch within your culture. Don't code switch
with other people. I am who I am. And if you don't like the way I speak, if you don't like the way
I talk, if you don't like the way I act, I don't need to be around you anyway. But public speaking is
a power. You can capture a person's mind, their intelligence, their imagination, their heart.
If you're deep enough, they're spirit. Those are some of the things you can do if you are a good
communicator. Most people are not. Most people think standing in front of a microphone and talking
or being on the internet, that's communication. That's really not. Because they don't understand
the depth of what it takes to encode and decode and the filters and all the things in your brain
that cause you to hear something when someone's telling you something and then hear it completely wrong
and then do something in response or say something and it's wrong and then the argument breaks out
when you're both talking about the same word, but you got two different definitions.
And every conversation you have, it's six people there. The person you are,
the person you're trying to show who you are and the person you really are. The problem is the
other person got those same three people. And now you got six different things going back and forth
encoding and decoding and trying to figure out and you get into an argument that you wonder why.
Instead of asking a question, what is it that you're trying to say? Or you say,
repeat yourself and then they repeat it the same way they gave it. Well, clearly because I asked
you to repeat it, that meant that the way you said it, I didn't understand it. Come on with a different
way. Al, which dumb about really doctor can. Al said, I would choose driving as most important
skill. However, they are all important. Reading is very important, but the skills drive and navigate
these days is very important. Kwanda said my order. Reading gives knowledge,
speaking, builds connection and influence, writing, creates record and professionalism,
driving, provides mobility and freedom. I'm going to ask you four is one. You can't pick
our four Kwanda. Goodness. Goodness. Get somebody 27 years in nursing and they just take over the world.
By the way, congratulations on Kwanda. She got an award at work for 27 years of nursing.
So I mean, working at the same place and going from just entry level all the way up to a nurse
and that she's getting her BSN. That's what I'm talking about. Young Monday said, my cousin asked
me a couple years ago why I sound like a white man. No comment. Mal said it is definitely beneficial,
especially with the way the world is expanding and how far as being bilingual. But that wasn't one
of the choices. Young Monday said, it's a five full trade. So the one that I would choose,
the one that I would choose. And by the way, weighing through something on the talk and text line,
something noteworthy from the book, you know, next door, your 401k is not just retirement
account. It's a wealth accumulation machine. Yes, it is. It most certainly is. You are you are
still very true way. Mine is driving. The most important skill you should learn is driving.
Hey, by Noah. Hey, by Noah. Why would I why would I choose driving?
I told driving because if you can't ride, you can't read and you can't speak. Guess what you can't
do? You can't drive. So if I force you to learn how to drive, you have to actually learn how to
read. You have to learn how to write because you got to take a test. And you got to learn how to speak
because you got to talk to the person who was actually giving you your driving test. If you can't do
that. So the one thing kids need to do is learn how to what drive? Oh, you want to drive? Oh, you
got to go to school. You got to get grades. You got to take the test. You got to read. You got
you have to do all those things in order to drive. My choice, the skill that's the most important
is driving. It's the most important thing you can do because it encompasses every single thing you
do. Use your brain, use your eyes, use your ears, use your hands, use your feet. You have to write,
you have to read. And you have to speak because y'all know y'all be in a car cussing at yourself.
That's some of us on so drive it and cut me off. Seriously. So thank you for that. I'll have
another one in the next hour coming up and we'll dive into it. We're also going to look at
survival skills, black adaptability, and my favorite cooking, something
that can't do. You're listening the truth in the afternoon. I'm your host, Dr. King Harris. Top
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