The Think Forward Foundation - KEVIN HART: 11 Brilliant Lessons from a Breakout Comic

Kevin Hart:

11 Brilliant Lessonsfrom a Breakout Comic

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Here we offer youa series of role models and mentors that you can draw inspirationfrom, learn from and mold yourself into, no matter what your lifelooks like right now.

Whether youre atyour peak and just need some extra momentum, or whether youre atrock bottom and find yourself reaching for a lifeline, were hereto help you. Sometimes all it takes is a simple reminder thatsomeone in the spotlight went through similar struggles and thatthey overcame them one step at a time, just like you need to. Bytuning into their lessons, principles and strategies you can getcloser to closing the gap between where you are today and where youwant to be, and you get to set the timeline!

The key is to getyourself to think the same thoughts, take the same actions and pushyourself through the pain to get similar results. The results mightnot look exactly the same, but theyll feel the same becausesuccess is something that we all want, no matter how we happen todefine it.

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Kevin Hart is an American comedian, actor, producer, andwriter. He is best known for his stand-up comedy hits Im a GrownLittle Man, Seriously Funny and Laugh at My Pain, and movieslike The Five Year Engagement, Ride Along and Think Like aMan.

Since his breakoutin 2009, Hart has won the BET Best Actor Award, 3 NAACP ImageAwards, 2 Teen Choice Awards, 1 MTV Movie Award, the Artist of theYear Award at the Acapulco Black Film Festival and the NickelodeonKids Choice Favorite Funny Star Award.

He was born KevinDarnell Hart on the 6th of July, 1979 in North Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He was raised by single mother, Nancy Hart, and hasone older brother, Robert. His father, Henry Robert Witherspoon,was a cocaine addict who was in and out of prison throughout Hartschildhood, which caused him to rely on his natural ability to makeothers laugh as a coping mechanism.

Hart attendedGeorge Washington High School and then attended Temple Universityfor 2 years, after which he transferred to NYC Community College,where he graduated two years later. He then moved to Brockton,Massachusetts, where he found work as a shoe salesman while workingon launching himself as a stand-up comedian.

His first gig wasat Laff House in Philadelphia under the stage name Lil Kev theBastard, but it did not go well. He was booed off stage severaltimes, but he persisted, entering comedy competitions throughoutMassachusetts. He won several amateur comedy competitionsthroughout New England, and in 2000, he was discovered by producer,Judd Apatow.

Apatow cast him inthe Fox series, Undeclared, which lasted only one season, butlaunched Harts career. Thereafter, Hart was cast in The 40-YearOld Virgin, Paper Soldiers, Scary Movie 3, Soul Plane andLittle Fockers.

Harts comedicreputation exploded after the release of his three stand-up albums,and he was then cast in The Five Year Engagement, Think Like aMan, This is the End, Ride Along, Ride Along 2 and GetHard, alongside actors like Ice Cube and Will Ferrell. He grossedover $15 million from "Laugh at My Pain", making it one of theyear's top-selling comedy tours, and also released a game throughiTunes called Little Jumpman.

In 2013, Hartco-created The Real Husbands of Hollywood series with ChrisSpencer, an American reality television parody which is alreadyrunning its 4th successful season.

He also hosted the2011 BET Awards, the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, 2 episodes ofSaturday Night Live, the 2015 Comedy Central Roast of JustinBieber, and hopes to host the Oscars and Emmys in the future.

Kevin marriedTorrei Hart in 2003, and the marriage produced two children, adaughter named Heaven, and a son named Hendrix. The couple filedfor divorce in 2011. Since then, he has been dating model EnikoParrish, who he proposed to on August 18, 2014. The couple plans toget married on 8 August 2016.

Harts mother diedof cancer in 2007, and his father has since recovered from hiscocaine addiction, restoring his relationship with his son.

Kevin Hart hasovercome many obstacles in his life and has always persisted withan incredible attitude. Here are 11 Brilliant Lessons from aBreakout Comedian:

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to dothe work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. Atthe end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually itllpay off. It could be a year or it could be in 30 years. Eventuallyyour hard work will pay off.

Many people failto work hard consistently because they start to wonder if theirhard work will ever pay off?

Its normal tohave a sense of expectation that after a few days, weeks or monthsof hard work, results automatically have to show up, butunfortunately, achieving extraordinary results takes anything but anormal amount of time to achieve.

It took Kevin Hartmore than five years to even get discovered, and through thoseyears he was consistently finding his own comedic style, workinglow-paying jobs, and enduring rejection from almost all of theaudiences along the way. Many aspiring comedians have probablynever been discovered because they gave up after the first fewweeks, months or in the first year or two of hardship.

It takes hardwork, consistency, determination and patience to truly succeed atanything, so whatever it is that you want to achieve, hang in therebecause the hard work will eventually pay off! You might not knowwhen or exactly how yet, but when the time is right, youll meetyour opportunity prepared!

All of the mostsuccessful people in the world worked extremely hard to get there,even though it might look as though success just fell into theirlap. Bill Gates, Dwayne Johnson, Oprah Winfrey, ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Tony Robbins and Ellen DeGeneres are all examplesof people who worked extremely hard to achieve their incredibleresults, something that you can do for yourself too!

If youve beenworking on something for five years already, keep going! Keepadjusting, learning, growing and believing in your own success: youcan do it! If youre only just starting out, just do it one day ata time: youll be able to look back someday and see the string ofdays that led to your ultimate outcome!