Mike Tyson’s Brutal Truth

My friend Mike Tyson famously said, "Everybody got a plan, they get hit in the face." That's right. [laughter] >> And you're going to get hit in the face. [music] You probably don't tell your kids this. When they're like graduating high school or getting married, part of you is like, "Oh man, you have no idea." You know, like everybody, you know, there's always you wake up and it's a great day and then 2 hours later you get the diagnosis or you get fired from your job. You know, there's always something. So the question is not [music] are you getting hit in the face. Well, you're getting hit in the face, but how do you respond when you do? And so the people I respect most [music] top list would be my own father are the people who decide to be happy, [music] productive, honest, and loving toward other people no matter what. And I've had the privilege of seeing a couple people I know well in the [music] midst of, you know, real tragedy and no joke suffering, not like American suffering, maybe like real suffering, cuz we all do actually at some point go through real suffering. And boy, when you [music] see someone decide to be cheerful and optimistic on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, [music] it just woo makes the hair on my arms go up. I mean, that's a man you're looking at right