Watch This If You Don't Wan't To Be Average...
The speaker delivers a blunt motivational message warning against taking advice from average people. He argues that ordinary people will try to hold you back from success because your failure validates their own inaction. The core message is to seek guidance from those closest to your goals, not those closest to you personally.
Summary
In this short but direct motivational segment, the speaker opens with a provocative and unfiltered characterization of the average person, framing them as physically, financially, and mentally weak. He uses this as a foundation to argue that such people should not be consulted or heeded when pursuing success.
The speaker then draws a linguistic distinction between 'extraordinary' and 'ordinary,' suggesting that by definition, extraordinary actions will appear excessive or unreasonable to ordinary people. This is presented as an unavoidable social reality rather than a flaw in one's approach.
Perhaps the most psychologically substantive point the speaker makes is his personal admission that he had to come to terms with a difficult truth: many people around you actively want you to fail. His reasoning is that your failure serves as retroactive justification for the risks they themselves chose not to take. Your success, conversely, exposes their own inaction.
The segment closes with a practical heuristic for filtering advice: prioritize input from people who are closest to your goals — those who have achieved or are pursuing what you want — rather than from people who are simply emotionally close to you, such as friends and family.
Key Insights
- The speaker argues that average people will actively try to keep you average, framing this as an expected and predictable social dynamic rather than malicious intent.
- The speaker makes a linguistic argument that 'extraordinary' inherently means doing things an ordinary person would view as excessive, reframing social criticism as a sign of being on the right track.
- The speaker admits this was personally difficult to accept: many people want to see you fail because your failure justifies the risks they themselves chose not to take.
- The speaker distinguishes between people who are 'closest to your goals' versus people who are 'closest to you,' arguing that advice should be weighted by the former, not the latter.
- The speaker frames success-seeking as inherently isolating from one's immediate social circle, implying that conventional relationships and unconventional ambition are often in tension.
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Transcript
[0:00] Friendly reminder that most people are fat, poor, pansies, and don't listen to them when they try to deter you from doing whatever it takes to succeed. The average person will always try to keep you average. It makes sense that if you want to be extraordinary, you will do things that an ordinary person would see as extra. This is the really hard part that I had to come to terms with is that a lot of people want to see you fail because it justifies the risk that they chose not to take. We always have to think about listening to people who are closest to our goals, not closest to us.
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