# 159 - Are You In Alive Time or Dead Time? The Malcolm X Story
In todays episode I tell the story of Malcolm X. Or more precisely his time in jail.
Malcolm X was a criminal He wasn’t Malcolm X at the time.
He was called Detroit Red, and he did a little bit of everything – ran numbers, sold drugs, armed robbery, worked as a pimp, ran a burglary gang
Finally he was arrested for trying to sell an expensive watch that he’d stolen, while carrying a gun.
At age 21, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
He faced what Robert Greene calls “Alive Time or Dead Time”
GREENE – there are two types of time in our lives: dead time (when people are passive and waiting) and alive time (when people are learning and acting and utilising every second)
Every moment of failure, every moment or situation that we did not deliberately choose or control, presents this choice: alive time / dead time.
Malcolm X chose Alive Time. He began to learn. He taught himself to read by getting a pencil and a dictionary and copying out the words and definitions by hand, from cover to cover. “From when I went in until I left prison, if i wasn’t reading in the library I was reading in my bunk”. He read history, sociology, religion, classics, philosophy. When people ask what school he went to, he says “books”
I love his story, I hope you do too!
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