Lessons From The School Of Hard Knocks

By Brother Brooklyn

 

We have the power to change and control the influences on our thought processes.

This book is designed to give advice and instruction that will help us understand how our thoughts are influenced, how our behavior patterns are developed, and provide awareness of our power to change our thoughts and behaviors. This is important because our thoughts lead to our actions that are responsible for the outcomes (positive or negative) that we experience in life.

We can achieve positive outcomes in our lives if we understand the role of our brain and how it functions in developing our thoughts. Once we understand this, we can be intentional about transitioning the influence on our thoughts from the influences of society (third party programming) to the influence of something bigger than ourselves that is guided by an unchanging and consistent concept of love.

I came to realize that we are miseducated when the core curriculum for behavior has been developed by social influences. This miseducation leads to a "hard knock life." Lessons From The School Of Hard Knocks is designed to provide the answers and tools we need to overcome a hard knock life.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rod Coley
• Release date: Nov 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201945176

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Rodney Coley

Lessons from the school of Hard Knocks

Copyright © 2020 by Rodney Coley

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This book is dedicated to my mother

for the loving discipline in raising up a child in the way he should go.

Did you know that third-party programming occurs when someone or something other than you is programming and developing your brain and mental operating system? God is the original operating system developer.

The Revolution Has Begun.

Contents

Foreword

I. LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

1. Who Are You Going To Listen To?

2. Brooklyn Hustle, the Blueprint

3. Donkey Parts On Fire

4. The Peculiar Institution

5. Santa Claus Shut Down

6. Your Executive Secretary

7. Path Of Least Resistance

8. Procrastination

9. LOVE, SEX, and ONENESS

10. Zeroes and Ones

11. The Curriculum

12. Mental Rewiring

Epilogue

About the Author

Foreword

We have the power to change and control the influences on our thought processes.

This book is designed to give advice and instruction that will help us understand how our thoughts are influenced, how our behavior patterns are developed, and provide awareness of our power to change our thoughts and behaviors. This is important because our thoughts lead to our actions that are responsible for the outcomes (positive or negative) that we experience in life.

We can achieve positive outcomes in our lives if we understand the role of our brain and how it functions in developing our thoughts. Once we understand this, we can be intentional about transitioning the influence on our thoughts from the influences of society (third party programming) to the influence of something bigger than ourselves that is guided by an unchanging and consistent concept of love.

I came to realize that we are miseducated when the core curriculum for behavior has been developed by social influences. This miseducation leads to a hard knock life. Lessons From The School Of Hard Knocks is designed to provide the answers and tools we need to overcome a hard knock life.

I

Lessons From The School Of Hard Knocks

1

Who Are You Going To Listen To?

As I reflect on being a part of the first generation born out of the cotton-picking South, there are many components that were significant to my upbringing. My mother instilled in me a Southern respect for our elders and a Northern sense of pride in being free. Mentally speaking, being North free was (and still seems to be) a different type of free than being South free.

Images and stories of the lynching, killing, raping, and indignation that resulted from all of the years that Africans and African Americans were enslaved in the United States have not been positive for the mental make-up of the descendants of those slaves. The only way to get over the horrible effects of that time period in America is to mentally process those images, stories, and the impact on your life, your community, and the nation and then tell yourself the truth: the Source of all energy and creation has given me the ability to control my mind and, with this control, I have the power to change my life.

By learning how your brain works, you can learn how to overcome negativity and challenges and achieve more positive outcomes in your life. Your brain can create new neural pathways that lead to love and positive images. More importantly, we are able to weaken and shut down old neural pathways that lead to memories and visualizations of disgust. These negative memories and visualizations add negative weight to the mental process of manifesting new connections and love in our actions.

Flatbush Brooklyn, NY circa 1965, P.S .269 Elementary School

Kindergarten

As I reflect back on that first day of kindergarten and the freedom I felt, I remember it being exhilarating. It was one of my first memories of feeling free to do what I wanted. Can you relate to that first feeling of autonomy and freedom because your parents were not around to tell you what to do?

I recall that first day of school as one of my first memories of disappointment. I was told to take a nap, and I didn’t do it. Taking a nap was too much like going to bed at night at eight-thirty—I did not want to do it. I was unresponsive to her advances to try and get me to nap with my peers. As a child, I was highly observant, with an intrinsic fear of missing out on things. At that stage in life, it was truly the