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Everybody's got plans . . . until they get hit.
-- Mike Tyson (boxer)
What I did in the past is history. What I do in the future is a mystery.
-- Mike Tyson (singer)
It was an incongruous and unsettling sight to see former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson singing "The Girl From Impanema" in Brazil a few days ago.
Naturally, it doesn't quite wash away the memory of Tyson destroying people in the boxing ring, biting the ears of Evander Hollyfield, and threatening to eat the children of Lennox Lewis (who actually had no children at the time).
Still, personal failures aside, it was awe inspiring to see such a powerful fighter in the ring. He was a unstoppable force of nature.
But singing? With a funny white hat? Are we in some parallel universe?
Not exactly.
What we are witnessing is a tremendous demonstration of the power that each of us has to change who we our, to set a new course for our lives, and to not be chained to whatever we were in the past.
It would have been easy for Tyson to wallow in the past, and maintain his angry "I never got the respect I deserved" persona for the rest of his life. Perhaps he could have made a comfortable living off his bad-boy image.
Instead Tyson chose to inhabit new, and completely alien worlds , something his previous life could never had prepared him for. Yet he was obviously not afraid to try something different.
What Lesson Do We Learn?
Mike Tyson's transformation from boxing brute to golden-throated songbird, makes our relatively paltry efforts to carve out our niche by writing & self-publishing a book, appearing on radio shows, and making speeches, pale in comparison.
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