Will Smith Gives You The ‘Keys To Life’: Running And Reading

During an acceptance speech at the 2005 Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards, Will Smith shared what he believes are the “keys to life.“

Running:
“Why running? When your running there’s a little person that talks to you and that little person says, oh I’m tired, my lungs are about to pop off, I’m so hurt, I’m so tired, there’s no way i could possibly continue, and you want to quit, right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person, when you’re running, you will learn how to not quit when times get hard in your life.“

Reading:
“The reason that reading is so important, there have mean millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us, there’s no new problem you can have, with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. Theres no problem you can have that someone hasn’t already solved and wrote about it in a book.“

“So the keys to life are running and reading.“

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