Study The Greats And Become Great: Will Smith

Willard Christopher Smith better known as Will Smith was born on September 25, 1968 in Philadelphia. He had a mediocre childhood and a great upbringing.  His desire to be great was always there ever since one life changing scenario that he went through due to his father.  When Will Smith was eleven years old his father came to him and his younger brother who was nine at the time and told them to build a wall. Their father showed them the destructed wall and demanded them to re build it. At first, Will and his younger brother thought that this task was nearly impossible; however they began with laying one brick down at a time and in a year’s time they were done, the wall was built. Their father came home that night and looked at the wall and told them “Don’t you ever tell me something is impossible again” and walked through the door and went inside.

 Will Smith’s motivation in order to be somebody in life came ultimately from that one moment as he realized that the sky was the limit and he could do anything that he set his mind to.  At the age of twelve years old he began rapping which led to the famous T.V. show known as Fresh Prince of Bel Air which transpired to numerous amounts of block buster movies that he starred in. He was a millionaire by the age of 18. He achieved all this due to his motivation and his tremendous work ethic. He was motivated to become an influential person that people look up to and gain a sense of hope from , as well as he wanted to leave his mark on the world. 

In recent interviews he states that he was motivated from fear alone, he did not want to be living an average life which resulted in him working extremely hard in order to make sure he not only met his goals, but surpassed them as well.  He has an extreme desire to constantly be working and becoming a better human being as he states in an interview “I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill, I will not be outworked you may be more talented than me, you might be smarter than me, and you may be better looking than me, but if we get on a treadmill together, there’s two things that are going to happen, you’re getting off first, or I’m going to die.  It’s really that simple. I will not be outworked.” Due to his motivation and his desire to never give up he is now looked up to as one of the if not the greatest actors in the world! “In my mind I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Ya’ll just didn't know yet."