Why you shouldn't trust successful people's advice 

Fucking hilarious.

Kermit TheFrog Gold

For only $29.80 I can tell how gullible you are to scams.

Where do I pay lol

Kermit TheFrog give this guy a cookie.

Lol

Correction: 5 of 5 scientists say that Russian Roulette is safe. Think about that for a second, and then you will truely get the idea of this video (only in reverse).

LOL

Wheatley This will ruin the joke.

Abstract Russian .... that.... I just made a joke _within_ the joke Cause... the whole, the 6th scientist being dead and all........ so he can't say anything... (And on top of that, it ALSO proves the point of the video)

Ethan Darrah to let them see the way to the cave so they can give you more money

So you can overvalue the cave and sell the rights and information to various buyers and investors for more than it's worth

Milk Bowl the more there is of something the lower the price becomes.

"Yeah that makes sen- HEY WAIT A MINUTE!"

so you could scam people into thinking they could also get gold

Lamborghini in the Hollywood Hills?

Bryan Robinson d) KNOWLEDGE

Bryan Robinson I N M Y G A R A G E

+ilker yoldas Maybe if they were giving advice on how to create a successful youtube channel, but this is just elucidating a common bias.

+George Rosebush It was tongue-in-cheek :p

and you learned that by taking their advice. paradox detected

+ilker yoldas The guy has 20k subs, lol

+Kaleb Bruwer nailed it.. anyway there's this word called "CHOICE". meaning option, alternative, possible course of action. The rule is simple: take the advice or leave it, your choice

Oh... you're right. What the heck?

Kevin Yeoh good observation there sir!

all i know is that in original olympic games 1st place got gold and 2nd got bronze, 3rd didnt get anything

It's a metaphor for life The amount of work you put in doesn't always equate to your level of success In the case of a race for example the second guy put in the more work than the third by running faster but the third was rewarded better

It's not silver - it's tin ;-)

You forgot the second step.

*Step 2: Kill anyone who knows the secrets I fixed it :V

Netbase2000 just read the 1st step! 😆😁😂

i stopped reveal my things and now... (should i reveal more words?)

@@Netbase2000 r/whooosh

+Untitled "Black Mirror" Fifteen Million Merits

286 hits, man this comment is sure successfu

OH GOD IT'S A FUCKING LOOP!

3M now

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well most successful people were once failures too. if you ever listen to motivational videos you would know that.

Hmmm. Somebody needs to do a podcast interviewing unsuccessful people so we can learn from them.

that doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. being serious btw.

The Problem To Unsuccessful Ppl is how Many Refuse To Learn From Their Stubbornness Or Mistakes. Old Ppl Are A Great Example. They're Supposed To Be Wise, But How Many Actually Saved For Retirement? They're On Eggshells If Soc. Sec. Gets Yanked Because They Screwed Up Planning. As Far As Advice Is Concerned, I Ignore It And Focus Only On Results. It's Better To Ask Forgiveness Than Permission.

michael jordan even listened to bad coaches, tom brady still takes high school coach advice on how to throw a ball, The founder of wall mart went to brazil and crawled under grocery stores to see what he could learn from them. dont just listen to one person, successful people can give solid advice but also unsuccessful people can give negative advice

ItsCdubs i get the paradox. Since this channel is successful, this might be a lie and unthrustworthy as a result. Oh my gifhjehejjndjebskndekjfksjjdkenfnrugbtuvndicmsoxmsodjjdnvjr

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I got 99 problems but bleach ain't one.

the secret to success and the cause of failure: Convince people you are a success, if you cant you will fail. Whatever you do like entertainment, selling, investing, production, etc. you must get every buyer, partner, beneficiary, investor, worker, so on and to forth to believe they would be right to give you their attention, money, and support. It doesn't matter if you have the single most brilliant idea ever conceived, if you cant get people to agree then you will never become successful. On the other hand a scam artist or ambitious idiocy can become successful with bad ideas like SOLAR POWERED ROADWAYS! Advertisements have so much money put into them for this reason, it doesn't matter if a persons idea is total crap they just need to make you think its good through marketing ex. [insert movie let down that turned a profit because of its epic trailer]... like suicide squad It doesn't matter if you liked Hillary, Trump, or Sanders... each of them and all who make it big in politics are masters of convincing people they are successful before they have even succeeded at anything. Almost always is failure and repercussions present in any politicians career despite how well they have convinced many people of otherwise and all are shocked every time like its some jack in the box. I truly believe libertarians cant get good traction because their central belief is to not make anyone's life better but instead uninhibited everyone from making their own lives better. Basically saying "I wont succeed at anything cause you'll be the makers of your own success" I'm not libertarian I'm just saying that though their ideas are sound they receive too little attention cause they cant convince people to support them do to the lack of an active solution they would enforce. Where on the other hand we have Hitler, the undisputed worst case world wide that managed and some how still manages to convince people his ideas are good which brought him immense success to conquer Europe though temporarily. If you can convince the world that you will do something to improve their lives then the world will make sure you succeed.

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Well explained!

Well written. Too succeed, one most fail to understand and learn how to strengthen their weaknesses to overcome obstacles and achieve success. Luck is the other half, that's the one that I suck at.

Thank you. Very wise words.

Profound!

that's survivorship bias in a nutshell - now let's replace "touched the mains" with "obeyed god's commands" for fun lol

Sean Seaphan now that is true and a little scary.. why is there no one that's ever said, I disobeyed God and I am still alive lol :)

Same

NAAAAAAAAALEEDGE

Same lmao

Ahmed Benali pretty ironic amirite

same here man, he was giving a tour of "his" house. ohh the irony

to be fair tai lopez is a con artist h3h3 exposed him.

hahahaha

So funny indeed!

Tai Lopez commercial popped up before this vodeo for me

looool ikrr

JD Everafter i saw that ad too.. but they never say what they actually do and try and sell you a seminar... best to find a mentor and expand your definition of success to include being excellant and what you do.

It’s target advertising ... somehow seems you visited at least a couple of videos about financial advice

JD Everafter To help in achieving success, learn when to use "a" or "an".

+goblin123 Was it the Lamborghini guy?

+Mahmoud Elsharawy I have learnt to absolutely hate that bloke

+goblin123 Tai Lopez?

OH come on guyz!! Go get some NOleech. I'll give you 4 step for free, then sell you the rest.

+goblin123 KNAWLEDGE

TDubsKid so true

TDubsKid you sound gay... learn from yourself

Bigsauc3 you sound stupid... learn

learn from people mistake who take your advice, so you don't do the mistake yourself.

Agree 100% - They refer to this sometimes as anecdotal evidence, but it's too often discounted as wrong for some reason. But I think it's vital that we learn from the mistakes of people we know/see. Otherwise we'd be reading scientific studies all the time, and who has time for that?

my friend was legit fooled by tai lopez

+nathan martinez gotta get those fuel units

lol if he's still married because he lied, it is good advice

No it isn't. If you always have to lie in a relationship to keep it, you are not in a true relationship. And if you think the other person can't accept who you really are, there is no match. And if you are cheating on them you are saying essentially that they are not your equal...and you should end it.

Hate to shoe horn bs, but it's the same thing with the whole "Donald Trump's gone bankrupt x times" -o shit boi waddup-

The truth is it varies a lot depending on several factors such as the type of people and specially the time frame. Lying works pretty good on dumb submissive people, specially if they have low self esteem and reality-avoidant (heavily religious, too much into literature, too much into fiction, etc.). If the person is "in love" lying is very effective and easily accomplishable. The problem is if you have to lie too much for too long it tends to add up, and the inconsistencies become more relevant. Although if you're dealing with people with poor memory, it will work forever.

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dont take it that far, he is a legend for something

Sure, but at some point a person must ask "why do I keep failing and still have enthusiasm??"

Wasabi Spicey *than. read more books you dumbass

KNAWLIDGE

KNAAAWLEDGE

lol. Tis the stewpid doge.

Than*

Damn TEDX now I have that annoying man on my videos xd

not everyone is using a PC....

***** you have too though if 100% of people stopped youtube would not live in its current form would it?

+Evi1M4chine What is wrong with you? RU-vidr's have been getting revenue from ads, and without them, they wouldn't be more inclined to make more videos. You are what's wrong with RU-vid. I, not a video maker, watch ads so I can support my favorite channels, so they can get paid, so they can make more videos, which in turns, allows me to watch more videos and support them further. It's feedback loop. You are killing the feedback loop. Don't try to make the argument, "it's okay if I do it, because not everyone's doing it," because if everyone thought that way, no one would vote, everyone would be dick heads (including you btw), and no one would get ad revenue. Sit the fuck down, kid.

+pandaman What you just said.

hahaha lol. what an irony!

"What an irony" doesn't make any sense. You mean to say "The irony"

Ads are fine-tuned to the content or description of videos.

well i got whisper sanitary pad add, and im a male. Genius eh?

Don't waste time watching pointless ads, get ad block for free!!

maybe because this channel might not stay at 100 000 subs for too long

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it's not that difficult to get 200 000+ subscribers, listen to these 10 advices to learn how! :D No, I'm kidding... it's pretty much as the video says, it's good to have a skill and vision, but sometimes you just get lucky :D

bet you feel dumb now, eh?

you still don't get it uh ?

LPS KitKat explain your reasoning behind asking this question. If you've watched the vid, wouldn't u know that it doesn't matter if he's successful or not?

That's not even the lesson of the video. The point of the video is that only looking at successful scenarios and situations can hide dangers and risks to avoid, or special conditions that made a certain approach uniquely, rather thsn generally successful. "There are two sure-fire ways to fail in life: one is to listen to everyone; the other is to listen to no one." -Claude Hamilton

Sean Ngui "uhhh wouldn't you know that this man who isn't successful doesn't have to be to give us advice on how to be successful because it's all about luck." Yeah I'm sure those CEO with bankrupt companies are really living in squalor compared to this kid on RU-vid. The information he portrays is shown off in a highly negative light because the first person he talks about is a literal scammer. And his grand advice is "be a little skeptical." Okay why not just make educated decisions on who you take your advice from? "Because what if they're just lucky" oh well here's a football coach who's managed several successful teams, that seems pretty unlikely to be blind luck right? Like I could learn about running a successful team/crew from him. This man always has the best gardens maybe I could grow my garden out successfully if I listen to his 30 years of experience. Oh and this one has done sales since highschool, maybe he'll know a thing or two more about sales than the people who've failed. No that's apparently illogical ... But I imagine you wouldn't have as eye catching of a title as "don't do the thing you were taught to do"

I don’t care life is fun whether you’re “successful” or not

LPS KitKat I might be wrong but yesterday I was living in a mansion 100 feet from big beach in maui, you can tell me.

LoL LOL Gold is for winners. Silver and Bronze are for losers. So, dont matter if you came second or third. You are a loser after all.

Maybe it went Gold Copper Tin

Why do we care exactly?

+Bite Size Psych this is a really good video. There is also a lot of "I want to be successful" cult out there. If you try to explain to them and say they just "lucky" or disproof them, they will just say you're being negative or jealous

+Evi1M4chine That's what the video said,if you listen closely. For example, they conceded that the happily married couple might give good advice (just that if you listen to them alone, you'd get a skewed picture).

+Bite Size Psych I saw some of your videos and i really like your channel, i like your different approach and perspective on things,i can learn a lot from you....sir you just got a new subscriber.Thank you for your content.

"Don't ever play yourself"

+Bite Size Psych really digging these videos!

Yeah and in the cover photo, what the hell :P

Good eye!

Good representation of life

@VivaValdez - Yes, sometimes when you're the most deserving you get passed over anyways for the next in line. Life isn't fair.

probably the third place got zinc

Rob Gravelle well that's like a certain percentage of successful people. You gotta find one who's not totally greedy

can you tell me your experiences with big risks rob?

+Thomas clueso Huebner I took a risk by investing with my brother in law. Disaster. Bought an investment duplex. Bigger disaster.

Rob Gravelle dont put all ur eggs in one basket

A "big risk" for a layperson can be a "tiny risk" or no risk at all to a pro in that arena. The key is to find the things that are "big risks" for most people but that you know how to manage well and turn into small or no risk situations.

HighELOMasterRace if you are questioning trusting him in doing so youve already taken his advice

But it still raises the question, who do you trust? How do we know if anyone is trustworthy?

HighELOMasterRace No one can be fully trusted. Evaluate the gains and losses then choose carefully with logic backing up your decisions.

James Lee yeah you want us to believe that hu?! Im not trusting you either.

You have a solid point there, but sometimes we can be deceived and tricked, outwitted... Which is why trusting someone is very difficult.

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I would say luck, and knowing your risks for the decisions you are making. If you bet all your life savings on a startup, that's the equivalent of betting all your life savings on the lottery. Mitigate the risk and always have a backup for failure.

+mmmajchicu some people die who dont have cancer...

***** so eloquently spoken good sir

+MsSunhappy Also factor in the people who never had cancer, lived or died of natural causes, or car wrecks, falling off a ladder. The goal is to survive, not be cured of cancer and then break their neck from a slip on the bathroom floor the next day.

TheBoldImperator no shit it's still apart of chemo DUMBASS BITCH FUCK YOU

same

Same

NAAAAAAAALEDGE

I did the 67 steps it really worth more than 67$

Tai and his rented house

+Shadow4707 They do, it's why when you listen to their stories, there's always a "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for" and they go on to thank someone who greatly influenced their success, that's the luck part. People don't like to think luck is a big factor because it takes away from our ego, to think that they aren't in complete control, so you wouldn't catch them saying " What's my advice? Well, I don't have any because there's no way you'll be as lucky as I was."

I doubt they feel it at a visceral level even if they'd admit it. I remember reading about a study where they rigged a monopoly game in one person's favor with everyone aware and at the end the player still attributed their victory to their own skill

Stephen Hogsten That's interesting. I have searched for it, but found only secondary sources. Would have been nice to read the original. :( The scientist gave a TED talk though. ("Does money make you mean?" by Paul Piff)

+Shadow4707 I think they market their "luck" as "seizing an opportunity", which is fair. They may get lucky, but they also take advantage of said luck.

+Suph373 Nope, and that's what this video is about. Watch it again.

the 100th fool is very common now days. showing off their sports cars and bragging like they didn't need luck and then some fools actually believe them dogmatically. If the 100th fool is bad think about their followers, dogmatically believing every word of success advice without question.

+xwise I'm conservative and I take responsibility for *every* mistake I make, primarily when it impacts those around me or under my leadership. That's part of what being a real conservative *IS.* Your "typical" stab itself is biased and sounds like it comes from the media.

Problem begins when you think every sucessful person is a 100th fool, that's just wrong, there are people that actually fought for it.

oolon colluphid "That's part of what being a real conservative *IS.* So there are no *real conservative* MPs, then?

Ty CehZ Yes, there are some people who had good ideas, worked hard, got the right connections and succeeded. However, none of them are 20 times more intelligent than average and none of them worked 20 times harder than average (although some might be more than 20 times as talented, but that's hard to quantify) and also remember, there's no such thing as a self made millionaire or billionaire. It takes society's complex matrix, with thousands of others working very hard for often very little reward for these people to make money. Continued.

"I got run over on the pavement the second I walked out the door" "Oh that sucks, I guess I'll never leave my house. Thanks man" *starves to death while man continues with life* ^ That's why you need both sides.

chiffmonkey No, the first man Lost money because he invested in a failing business and the second man got hurt because of luck

OR he got hurt because he wasn't aware of his surroundings, didn't react quickly enough.

@@cristiano5606 Right, and you can predict which businesses are gonna fail? Go short them then

@@thomasyang9517 I can't but some people are more capable than I am and surely can, maybe not with 100% accuracy but with enough to turn a profit, and of course, luck still plays a part but a good investor will make enough to compensate for the inevitable loses that do happen do to bad luck.

+Guilherme C. KNAWWLege

+Guilherme C. lmao i see what you did there

+iLxXxLupo . Read a book a day for Knawwlege.

His backyard ad came on right before this video

+Guilherme C. lambergeenee

Whiterun Guard and you think every successful people are like Bisbee. 😂

Whiterun Guard Oh and like a RU-vid channel many years ago

Whiterun Guard to me being successful depends on your career, heritage, a big one is your ability to network, being successful is mainly who you know.

I heard it was because someone with influence clicked on a video of his by accident, liked it and decided to bring him in for a more formal audition.

Whiterun Guard 100% luck

FAIL

Josh Smith You just broke the system my fellow dude!

Stocks never stay the same. Even if they change by 0.00000001 thats still something if you but 100s of it and its worth 100s

I bet you're fun at parties.

They never stay the same because there are so many variables in how a company does in terms of demographics, politics, competition, supply issues, natural disasters, employees etc. etc. There is so much going on that can change the stock price that it will never be constant.

Roughly 80 percent of millionaires in America are the first generation of their family to be rich. They didn't inherit their wealth; they earned it.

i disagree with that. you dont know what you are talking about.

Research has been done for a while. Sorry, the american dream is still alive and well for those who are willing to stop feeling sorry for themselves and work for it. www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.html

honestly there is some genetics involved because the average person cares about how others feel. To be rich, you need to own a proportionally unreasonable amount of money. This indirectly means you made people poor. Money circulates and there is a very set amount that exists in the world. You have to be a little bit of an asshole, because you need to hire others to do work, convince them to be payed less than they deserve and collect the revenue they generated completely only to give them a percentage of that. The more people you get stuck into the scheme, the richer you get. Just look at Walmart.

Money circulates, and more is created all the time. We aren't on the gold standard anymore. The money supply is constantly increasing. Just because you built something and earned $1000 it doesn't mean someone else is $1000 poorer, instead the multiplier effect of money in circulation can benefit everyone.

şefMașină wow your dumb 😂 😂 you completely missed the point

Those books are worthless. Get to work and maybe you’ll get lucky. Get lucky? Where do we use that phrase... hmmm.... oh yeah. Having sex. So there. That’s lucky too because you aren’t in control of the situation. The other person needs to allow it. Doesn’t stop people from trying. The world needs to grant you your wish ultimately of money or whatever your non sex goal is. That shouldn’t discourage you from trying... like sex. It is luck. But you have to try or you’ll never have a chance. Want your goal bad enough and you’ll find a way.

He said "cull", not "call".

He said cull

Ahhh! That makes more sense. Thanks!

Those 50 people were just shown that the hedge fund can accurately predict the stock market. They are only suckers if they accept, they aren't suckers just because they are part of that group.

it's not just you, that's why I scroll down to the comments to see if anyone else catch it.

You might have missed the point.

***** Of course lucky plays its role, but it is way less than in the old days. We live in a period where our ideas and effort are much valuable than anything. You can be treated as equal as someone who was born in a rich family. Some countries are still really conservative, but this is changing. Have you ever read Einstein's life story of even Neil Degrasse Tyson's? I bet you do know someone who tried hard and failed, but that doesn't mean it was the correct way and in that sense, it is the same thing as not trying at all. What is the example that you have? The person worked packing boxes and then he thought he would succeed if he packed more boxes than his mates? That is not how it works. You have to constantly adapt yourself to the situation, analyzing if your efforts are going to take you to the place where you want to be. I have myself experienced a lot of bad things in my professional and private life. I know that if I compared myself with a few, I would end up saying he/she was lucky and that was life is, but instead I tried harder and ended up succeeding my goals. Now I am in the same position where the "lucky" ones once were. Life sucks, but it is up to us to chose on either crying and giving up or making it less worse.

Having exceptions doesn't mean there is no correlation between what you do and the results you get. Those are just excuses not to even try.

+Sid B Yes, it falls under the category of selection bias

Yeah in particular survivor bias. Veritasium also did a good video about this too. Not exactly this but quite close.

+Sudarson Baskaran I believe the one you're thinking of talks of confirmation bias.

true lol

lol i don't know why this isn't the top comment XD

it was only posted 1 hour ago

Hahaha ur soooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny bro. Get it? That was sarcasm :D

Then will u listen to the one with 27 views?

***** It doesn't work? You do realize someone had to be the first to succeed?

+Richard Gates false, the first tries are 90% failures, the second or thrid tries are usully the successful ones, look at light bulbs, smartphones, films, operation systems, tanks, fashion designs, u name it, most new ideas failed in the beginning

Lol :-)

TC Yu That is actually what I meant, you learn from your own failures by not repeating them. Many times I have tried what failed for others and found it to work, typically because I tried it a little differently.

Richard Gates absolutely true

came here to say that! up you go lol

+Cavid Nadirov 9gagger?

KNOWLEDGE!!!

Then again, in order for that statement to be true, you'll have to assume that the content creator is in fact, successful, which is debateable to begin with, but, lol.

Michael Chen Dont do that to my brain pls

+David Ramos Mostly read far and wide from books to blogs to articles. If anything peaks my interest, I'll do a basic google search + wikipedia. And from then on, I'll look at all the journal articles/google scholar

Bite Size Psych Ok thank you just wondering. I too enjoy educating myself and learning new things. It must beget to get an income out of it though! haha

+Dave Z It seems you may be pulling out more information from the title than is actually there. By "not trusting" advice they simply mean to be skeptical. As the video suggests, both should really be taken into consideration to get the whole picture. I agree with you that these are not mutually exclusive, and I don't think that the video is suggesting otherwise

+Bite Size Psych It's "piqued" my interest, not peaks. Learn to spell.

EweChewBrrr Please don't be a whiny bitch.

hahaha same here, was about to comment the same thing

Yeah, idc why people are so surprised. Pretty much every ad you've ever seen is based upon your browsing history / current content you're viewing. Damn cookies.

I was about to say that! I watched the whole ad it was hilarious in this context!

Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here

That show is for ideas that have been researched and studied. This video just presents an opinion, and not a very smart one at that.

Is not just an opnion it is based on research just look at the studies linked in the description.

its not an "opinion", he uses logic and reasoning to come to a conclusion

Well, a conclusion is an interpretation of what you found, so it is somehow an opinion. Here, the first example is weird, "we are the 50 people", I agree with the idea, but you can't say that after saying you started with 50000. Also, to show you conclusions are close to opinions, I would conclude that we tend to listen to people who sucess because things sound easy in their mouth, and it is more comfortable than hearing that life is hard, and hardwork is necessary but some times not enough.

Enigma Riv If his thoughts were true then why does multi billion dollar companies like Apple pay for consultants? Why do they pay to have systems and employee training? They do it because they know if "Mr. Doe" was incredibly successful at something. He can teach someone else how to be too

Exactly. Most people think playing it safe or playing well with others really get you ahead. In some cases, yes creating a team that helps you be successful is one way to do it. However, business/work is cuttthroat and it really is a dog-eat-dog world. Most people are not read to accept that toes must be stepped on sometimes in order to get to where you want to be. You can't get emotional in business.

I took a year to read a business book from harvard and to tell the truth I didn't learn jack shit than when I did my own research. I even figured out that there are 16 deadly sins and not 7. At some point there were 8 and a pope removed the eighth one that was called DESPOND. Martyr has now taken the place of despond, but even then its original greek meaning was defined as witness.

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100% correct. This video is pseudo-intellectual garbage and it heartens me not all of the people in it's comment section are bahhhhing "wow" like sheep.

+ThreeFingerG Why would anyone "wow" at this? It sounds logical at such a basic level that, while it's not something many people think about, is a rather tame conclusion. Not sure why business ethics came into this discussion though, this video didn't mention them at all.

Create more opportunities. For example, if you want to get popular on youtube, create as many videos as possible (make sure they're at a certain quality) and hope for the best.

Also be skeptical about this, this is advice from someone successful XD

+dommychi That's so true actually

Luck is self created... People who are succesfull do the things that make them succesfull. How did it come allot of companies go bankrupt. And allot of companies are not? He didn't even stated why the companies go bankrupt. He only said that allot of companies do and allot of companies doesn't

in my opinion the greatest book written on the subject of creating luck that is accessible to the average person is "think and grow rich" by napoleon hill, he also wrote a book about why people fail called "outwitting the devil" the advice in these books goes far beyond the acquisition of finances. and he has been on both sides of the coin. the main message of this video has a good point, that we should study both sides, nevertheless there is a formula for creating success. that i know for certain

*tuuun*

He's not successful xD

They are actually pretty successful, you gotta take risks, if you don't take a risk and do something that you hate for the rest of your life, to me that's worse than being bankrupt, because then you have waisted your life, if you take a risk to get your dream job, or to do something you always wanted to do, even if you go bankrupt, it's still worth it, since you at least got a story to tell, where you tried and failed, taking a shot at your dream and failing, is way better than never taking a shot, which is why this video is bullshit, doubt has destroyed many more dreams than failure have ever did

Well I really hope you get that job, whatever it is, if you work hard enough you will get it sooner or later

That is not true at all, lazy people get fired, people who work hard might not always get what they want, but if you keep working as hard as you can, chances are you will get that job

My favorite study conclusion is: "Cat videos make people happy." Just wow.

Because he doesn't know how to be successful because he doesn't study the successful people who already did it.

Best. Answer. Ever.

RU-vid works exponentially, and thrives on tons of content. It seems like a lot of channels tend to "blow up" very quickly too. It's all about exponential growth check back on 3 months.

Hahaha! The IRONY !!!

***** The vid says: be more skeptical of "their" advice. "their" 一> "successful ppl"

He's specifically talking about those who give advice on being successful, as in actually achieving success in a full proof manner. He points out successful people because that's what people normally trust without rationally thinking about it. It's very easy for those focused on a big prize to ignore all those who didn't make it, and focus on those who did. He's not saying that those who are successful cannot give good advice to consider in general, or anybody for that matter. It's when that advice specifically talks about how to achieve success that you should be skeptical. He's not giving you advice on being successful because he's not saying that being skeptical will bring you success. He made it a point at the end to say that no one has a monopoly on success. There are many factors involved, and to truly be logical you need to see multiple sides of the coin. Even if you're skeptical you can still end up being wrong about someone's advice. But rationally, if we have no specific reason to put successful people's stories over non-successful people's, then we should approach all success stories with skepticism. Again, keeping in mind that this is not a success story, but rather advice regarding which is the most logical and unbiased way to approach an attempted grasp at what makes "success." You can still end up ignoring a story that might actually help you, because luck is involved as well. It's irrelevant. Being skeptical is still inherently more logical than blindly trusting without doing much more analysis, and instead simply trusting because one is successful. You can try to go with the linguistic paradox that then, in order to be truly logical and see both sides of the coin, we should then be "skeptical of being skeptical", but then that's inherently illogical, because being skeptical of being skeptical simply reduces to not being skeptical, which is always more biased and illogical by default than being skeptical itself. That's like trying to reject logic from its basic roots, which you can do, but if that's the case no one needs to take you seriously at all, since you've essentially just rejected all coherence as a result. Also yes, if you just look at the way he phrased the title of the video, out of context, it does in fact seem like you have a valid general point, but upon watching the video, you can get a grasp on what he's actually referring to specifically. The advice you shouldn't trust, in this case is specifically being defined as something that purports a solution: a key to always getting it right, and winning. Skepticism is not a key to always getting it right. I mean by default it is inherently more logical when not enough data is present, but in reality, and in society it is by no means a full proof always succeed strategy. And the author of the video knows that. So no irony here! =^p. Just a lack of understanding of how certain paradoxes work, I wager.

DavidSchrodinger Why did you write so much??? It's just a RU-vid comment section, not an essay debate section......

HAHAHA! =)

That's what I think about 'success gurus'. Many of em just appear to be salesmen who are successful only because they are able to sell the idea that they are successful to others. It doesn't matter if their advice is bollocks, if they can appear happy and confident and say things like 'make your dreams come true' and 'every failure is a learning experience' then there is a group of people who will buy that.

maybe its nickel

whitepiano23 i know i couldn't be the only one who saw that

What you did there... I see it.

Lol The irony!

you savage

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@Steven Moore yes you can, insider trading.....

+gertjan van biesen The links are all in the description :)

ow haha sorry, never check that :D ty