How Can People Overcome the Social and Economic Barriers They Face?

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Speaker 1: (00:00)
How can people overcome the social and economic barriers they face to success?

Speaker 2: (00:08)
Perhaps controversially, my answer would be to stop looking at them as social and economic barriers and ask themselves, are they doing things that they need to do? Are they doing anything but looking at these so-called social and economic barriers that they believe are holding them back? If you're not doing the thing you need to do, and you're not doing things consistently on a daily basis, then it's not the social and economic issues that are the problem. You need to get over your own issues first. Then fair enough, maybe then you might find this some social and economic issues that we can overcome, but until you're doing some of the stuff that you need to do every day, you can't use those excuses. And that's what they are. They're excuses.