FAILURE TEACHES YOU – Best Motivational Video for Students & Success in Life
there’s a quote by Goethe and it says if
you look at a person as they are they
will always remain that way or maybe be
worse but if you look at a person this
is good if you look at a person as they
could be they will grow into what they
should be right we have to know what we
stand for I’m not talking about what
your company stands for I’m not talking
about your family values I’m talking you
as an individual when you walk into a
room what do you represent as you as an
individual when people around you see
you what feeling do they get how do you
leave your energy impression on the
people around you as individuals we have
to do that that’s the first step that we
have to do when we’re talking about make
your mark everybody repeat after me make
my mark repeat after me in order to make
my mark I have to define my mission
statement in order to make your mark
some of you are going through you’re on
the journey of becoming and you have to
look at adversity with a new perspective
right by show of hands how many you guys
have experienced fear I need to elbow it
a lot
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so here’s what fear does fear is
restrictive fear stops us from taking
the steps that we need to take to become
the best version of ourselves fear is
the thing that’s literally holding you
back from doing the thing that you’re
supposed to do fear is stopping you from
becoming the leader that you’re supposed
to be now one of the things that I’ve
learned in my past is that leadership is
not a title leadership is an action
leadership is not the title that you
have you can clap for that because let’s
go leadership is not a title leadership
is an action leadership is not a noun
leadership is a verb leadership is not
what you look like or where you are
leadership is the way in which you
interact and how you treat the people
around you I’m trying to tell you
something people leadership is each and
every one of you right now are a leader
young professionals unemployed if you
don’t know what’s going on you’re a
leader just by the way in which you
operate I’m being honest many of us are
stuck in stagnating situations because
we believe that we need someone to give
us the car to initiate what we’re
supposed to do someone here is literally
supposed to absolutely put their time in
their effort in something new like
someone here right now is supposed to
focus on their dream and their goals and
their aspirations the question that I
ask myself every time that I speak I
don’t look at this as a keynote I look
at this as an assignment the thing that
I asked myself the thing that I asked
myself is that I don’t operate in my
faith and instead operate in my fear but
don’t chase my dreams and become the
person that I’m supposed to be who loses
out
I realized that I wasn’t doing this for
me like every time I do something it’s
not just for me there are people who are
watching you right now in your journey
and you’re inspiring them just by the
way in which you move
I remember something very vividly I’m
going back to my college days
anybody ever took this this this this
devil of a course called organic
chemistry who you can’t see it but I’m
like crying in the inside thinking about
organic chemistry so I go I’m in school
right I’m at Princeton on the East Coast
so I was on line to being a doctor and I
ran into this course called organic
chemistry long story short we took one
test at the end of the semester and I
get to score back and it looks like I
fell asleep in the middle of the test
right like to the point where like the
professor came to me was like I just
wanted to make sure did you know there
was a second half – the entire time I
was like yeah it was really in there so
organic chemistry did that to me right
and I failed organic chemistry what
happened for me is I literally had to
relook at what I was studying long story
short I switched my major to this thing
called so CRS a sociology right but look
look most people would think sociology
like oh you took the easy way out right
but the honest truth was I enjoyed
studying relationships of people now I’m
doing sociology and as I’m pouring into
this idea of networking I start to
realize that there are young people who
don’t understand this concept as good as
they should
next thing happens fast forward I end up
going and working in administration at
Princeton University on my on my off
time so 9 to 5 so 5 to 9 I develop a
program called profound Ivy where we
talk about networking helping young
people make their transition to the real
world
and I’m following my passion I’m in it
I’m not thinking about anything else
three years passed by and I’m doing it
with one of my best friends and we’re
rocking right we’re like this
information is great cats are coming up
to me and saying yo I landed the dream
job in my life because of the networking
training the principles that you’ve
taught I’m like oh my god we have some
we have something here if I didn’t
absolutely bomb that organic chemistry
test like I hear me because some of you
right now are in the situations where
you’re bombing something something is
hitting you in the head right now
you’re absolutely failing you’re trying
to figure out what’s going on but you’re
being redirected but you’re being
repositioned for your passion and you
have no idea understand that when
adversity hits you oftentimes it’s
trying to teach you but your perspective
has to be great on it if I were to say
oh my god I got killed by organic
chemistry I’m an absolute failure I
wouldn’t be standing before you today
hear me hear me like you’re in something
right now and something is hitting you
in the head and you’re like man life is
hard like I can’t get everything
together like I don’t know what’s going
on in my life I’m trying to put two
pieces together I just want to look like
everyone else I want to look like
everyone else everyone else is going
like this zoo zoo zoo I got friends who
are passing me by but for whatever
reason I’m sitting here and I’m sitting
in failure and I’m talking to you not
all your you often times life puts us in
a position so that we can absolutely be
hit in the head so that we can redirect
ourselves and know which way we’re
supposed to go
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