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[English]

Most people don't reach their dream not because of failure

most people don't live their dream because they give up

you see it's not the failure that stops us

but that most stopped at their first failure.

Those who succeed don't stop at one failure

they don't stop at ten failures

they don't stop at a hundred or a thousand or a million

they say "this is my goal, and I will do whatever it takes to achieve it.

I will learn the lessons from any failures

I will learn faster, I will work harder, I will work smarter

and I will not quit until my dream is a reality"

That's the difference between success and failure.

Failure is a massive part of being able to be successful

You have to get comfortable with failure, you have to actually seek failure

failure is where all of the lessons are

you know, when you go to the gym and you work out

you're actually seeking failure, you want to take your muscles to the point where you get to failure

because that's where the adaptation is, that's where growth is.

Successful people fail a lot, they fail a whole lot more than they succeed.

They extract the lessons from the failure, and they use that- the energy

and they use the wisdom to come around to the next phase of success.

Gotta take a shot, you have to live at the edge of your capabilities

you gotta live where you're almost certain you're gonna fail

the reason for practice, practice is controlled failure

you're getting to your limit, getting to your limit, getting to your limit

you can't lift that, you can't do that

until you get to the point that all of a sudden your body makes the adjustment

and then you can do it.

failure actually helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve

so fail early, fail often, fail forward.

Failure makes winners stronger, failure makes winners hungrier

but it makes most give up

it makes most feel worthless.

Winners don't enjoy failure

but they would never let failure stop them.

next time you encounter failure

you got to remember every great thing on this planet is here

because the creator learned what did work but learned more from what did not work.

When we are kids, we don't stop at failure

when we first learned to ride a bike, it's failure after failure

we get knocked down time after time

but we get up and push forward, It's so we'll achieve our goal of riding the bike

but then, we get old and most of us get weak

we are too soft to get back on the bike.

We come up with excuses

it must not be for me!

No, you just soft

no, you just lazy.

Tell yourself the truth

get back on the bike

learn why you failed

and make sure you don't fall again

make sure you are stronger for having the lesson.

You know it's always a little bit frustrating to me

when people have a negative relationship with failure.

Fail early, fail often, fail forward.

You're here right now at this moment

because tomorrow you want to be somebody greater than the person you are today.

You see yourself succeeding

you have a vision

you have a dream

Congratulations, you're already ten steps ahead of 95% of the world.

Imagine if Michael Jordan was scared of missing

he would have never taken a shot.

Imagine if Steve Jobs was afraid of people not liking his product

there would be no iPhone.

So, ask yourself this, do you want to be a person who fears failure?

or do you want to be a person who loves success?

which one?

you gonna have to pick today

and I'll tell you one thing

one is a failure, and one is a success

and If you love success, there is nothing that can stop you

all those negative things people say will mean nothing.

They're gonna talk about how only 1% make it to the top

big deal, wanna know something else?

Only 1% stick with that fitness program long enough to see results

only 1% of nerds stick with that video game long enough to get good at it

only 1% of relationships stick it out to the end.

That doesn't mean you have a 1% chance

it just means you can't behave like the 99%

you'll have to do something better than giving up a month from now

those are just numbers.

You want to talk about numbers

take a look around you and take a good look around you

are you like 99% of the people around you?

If you are, then you're in the wrong video my friend

You have to love success just as much

because that's gonna allow you to get up and go for it.

Being scared to fail won't do anything

in fact, when you love success and you start going for it

guess what happens?

You're gonna fail, you're gonna fail ten times, a hundred times

maybe even a thousand times, but that's okay

failure isn't permanent

falling isn't permanent.

You get right back up and keep going

and this time you're gonna be stronger, wiser and you'll be more driven than ever

and for every ten failures, you'll land one success.

You have to love success so much

that you're willing to fail ten times before you can succeed once

that's how a winner does it

I wanna explain the biggest myth that most people think leads them to success

and here's the myth

You might believe if you're scared to fail you won't fail.

Lies, biggest myth ever

and I believed it.

You see, I always thought that being scared to fail in life

would literally keep me from failing

I would look at the losers around me and I would say

" sheesh, I never want to turn out like him"

I really believed this train of thought would help me succeed

until one day

I was walking down the street and I saw an old man

had a hat, suspenders and a cane

was about 80 years old.

This old man was barely walking, he could walk but the cane helped a lot, he was struggling.

So anyway, he was walking across the street and he ended up falling

so I went over to go help him

and he gets up says “thank you” and we introduce ourselves

had a little conversation, told me his name and I told him mine

his name was Robert by the way

and right as he walked away I told him, this is what I said

“Robert, you should stay inside where it's safe my friend”

and Robert turns around and says to me

“I love walking, and I love walking way more than I'm afraid of falling”

So, I asked him well

"what about your safety? don't you want to live?"

and he told me this, these are the exact words he said, he said this

“Solo, living means doing what you love to do

and if I have to fall here and there to do what I want to do in life, then so be it”

and he just walked away, never saw him again, that was it.

But that statement really had me thinking and it had me thinking hard

because I learned something that day.

That's when I realized the true key to success

you see, I always thought if I could just fear the act of failing and if I fear it like crazy

I will succeed

because I thought the fear would magically motivate me to get out there and start taking action

but after that day uh-uh

I realized something

I realize it's the love for success that will lead me to succeeding.

So, just imagine if Robert feared falling

would he even start walking?

of course not

he wouldn't even do what he loved to do

he would sit at home and take no type of action

but he loved walking

wasn't even scared to fall

it gave him life

that's what allowed him to get up and do it.

He loved walking so much, he was willing to fall 10 times a day just to do it

and you have to be the same

So the next time someone tells you “you're gonna fail”

you know what you tell them

Tell them they're right

but you're not afraid to fail, you're not afraid to take action

you're not afraid to jump

you're gonna fail 10 times but you know what

It's cool because on the 11th time you'll succeed

oh, you'll succeed alright

and it will feel good

and while you're over here living the life of your dreams in complete happiness

guess where they're gonna be?

That's right, they'll be failures, the real failures

over there where it's safe, scared to fail

ironic, isn't it?

You know

a lot of people come up to me and they ask me "Marco

what is it that motivates you most?”

and to answer their question, I reply back with a question

I say “what if I told you that you had one week left to live?”

would you regret not pursuing your dreams, passions and desires?

would you regret not living your life to the fullest?

would you regret not spending as much time with your family, friends, or loved ones?

You know Steve Jobs said in a speech one time that

he used to wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask himself questions like this

and he said that if the answer was yes for too many days in a row

then he knew that he had to change something

and that should go for all of us.

If you're living a life that you would not be okay with losing

because you weren’t able to do things you wanted to do

then now you know that you need to change something.

Life is simply too short and unpredictable

to not live exactly the way that you please.

It is ridiculously unpredictable

it is possible that on any given day to die at any point throughout that day

without ever being able to see it coming.

you know when I was 13, I had this teacher who was an absolutely amazing person

I’d known him for several years then

and he had two kids, a loving wife, he was a man of God

contributed to the community, he gave us everything that he had

and he would bike to school every single day

I always remember him coming to school on his bike

and one morning on his way to school, It was early in the morning

he was crossing an intersection, a reckless driver comes out of nowhere

hits him, he dies on the spot on the moment of impact.

His death taught me so many valuable things in life

and one of them being that it went on to show

that no matter how much you don't deserve to die

and no matter how good of a person you are

and no matter what your situation is, no matter anything

it goes to show that death is inevitable and random

and it will eventually consume each and every single one of us

whether it's in 50 years, in 10 years, next year, or even tomorrow.

You cannot control it

the people around you cannot control it.

As long as you're at the wrong place at the wrong time

your whole life could disappear in the blink of an eye

along with everything you wished you could have done

whether you're walking down the street

whether you're stepping into the elevator

whether you're walking down the stairs

whether you're, whether you're just existing.

Listen you'll see people from nowhere die of a heart attack, gone

no family history, no symptoms, no cause, nothing

it happens and that's the cruel life that we live in

and it's something that we cannot control.

So, what I wanna make clear

is that regardless of the path that you take in your life

at one point death will consume you

it doesn't care whether you floss your teeth in the morning

whether you raise a family or not

whether you go on to be rich, poor, a success, a failure

whether whatever, you are still going to die at one point, it is that simple

and knowing that you're going to die soon should be the biggest motivation

to both make the difficult decisions in life

and to get your ass out of bed in the morning.

So, now the question becomes, what is it that you truly have to lose?

If you pursue your dreams and you fail

sure you might be a little bit more financially unstable

you might experience stress or other feelings you wish you never had to experience

but either way, even if you fail you will end up back to where you started

which is where you are now.

So, what do you literally have to lose?

some of you right now, you're thinking about maybe starting a business

you have a great idea that you wanna incorporate into your lifestyle

maybe you're thinking about pursuing your dreams to the fullest

maybe you're thinking about putting in the work

to become a doctor, an engineer, a firefighter, a professional athlete

but some of you won't follow these ambitions because you're afraid

you're afraid to fail, you let the fear of failure dictate your actions

and you're afraid of what mom or papa thinks

you're afraid of what your sister, your brother thinks

or your grandpa, your grandma or your cousins or whoever.

But what truly matters is, is you

you are in possession of a gift

you have a talent and whatever that talent is

you can make yourself and the people around you a stronger and better place with it.

But sometimes the only way to do that is to take a risk

at one point, you have got to take a leap

if you wanna make that gift that you have become a reality

otherwise, society will gladly accept you as a nine-to-five slave

working just to pay off your rent and to stay alive and to live for the weekend

which is the absolute worst way to live.

If you don't jump believe me, if you don't pursue your gift

you will live a life full of regret

and your gift, your dreams, everything that you ever had to offer to the world

will die with you.

From firsthand experience, I am pissed off at myself

I'm pissed off and I regret so much in my life, I can't even fathom explaining it.

Not about, not about what I've done but what I haven't done

all the opportunities that I turned down and all the chances that I never took

just because I was afraid or because I was worried about what other people think

and I officially decided to sit down, I sat down for weeks

I didn't, I didn't just think of what I'm saying right now, I didn't think of it overnight

this is months, this is months of thinking and I just sat down and I just wrote

and after comparing the randomness of death

versus the chance of you failing while relentlessly pursuing your dreams

versus the chance of you living a terrible life because you failed at pursuing your dreams

versus just calling it a day right now and living a traditional western world lifestyle

versus everything you can think of, versus absolutely everything.

And I can gladly say that right now, as of this moment right here

I would rather live each day as if it were my last

and take every risk possible in these sacred moments that I have on earth now

to make myself as successful and happy as possible

than to be sitting in my deathbed when I'm 90 years old regretting not taking a chance

and thinking about what my life could have been if I had just jumped when I was 18

or when I was 15 or when I was 22, because tomorrow is not a promise

I would rather die trying to live my dreams

than to live a longer life filled with regrets.

Life is too short and too unpredictable to live it safe

I've seen it firsthand, It is not worth it to live it safe, basic and traditional

but do you know why most people choose to live that safe life over taking risks in their life?

I mean there's a pretty good argument not to

but why would you- why would you take a risk

that puts you through stress, puts your family through stress

makes you lose sleep, makes you lose time, makes you put in the extra work

makes you take ridiculous chances that are 1 to 1,000

you know, but before I even continue

the fact that I'm even sitting here and talking it is astonishingly ridiculous on its own

the chance of you being born is 1 to 400 Trillion

that number is so big you cannot even wrap your head around it.

But okay, what what I wanted to say was that

the reason why people don't want to take these risks

is because right now they feel like they got a lot to lose

and that their current situation is relatively nice

and most importantly right now, they are comfortable.

They got used to living basic within society standards

being with their friends every now and then, being more rested

they got comfortable, and when you get comfortable you don't wanna move

and that comfort zone, I like to call it the danger zone

because this comfort zone will persuade you to stay in there for as long as possible

and it is -I know, I know how it is, I know the comfort zone-

It is so convincing, it is so hard to escape comfort, I know

and as it persuades you to stay in there, you will literally unconsciously

-see I'm so serious when I say this-

you will literally see your whole life go right by you

and the main reason that I'm serious about this now

is because I am pissed off for greatness.

I wanna move mountains and like Ray Lewis once said

“if you're not pissed off for greatness then you're okay with being mediocre”

and I am definitely not okay with being average and I don't think anyone should be.

But anyways

to address why I'm even talking about any of this at all in the first place

is because I recently got an offer to move out to Los Angeles, California

to live with two other entrepreneurs as a content creator and media influencer.

And it makes me sad because

it's opened up my eyes to see what I truly have in store for me

what's waiting for me out there in the future.

And it's just a tiny glimpse of what I'm capable of achieving within my short life.

However, I doubt that I could get the right legal paperwork done in order to move to the U.S

to work for a job such as YouTube which is really not in the control of the government

and the last thing that I wanna do is to go to the U.S. to work an illegal job as an illegal immigrant.

So as of this moment, I feel like I have to pass up yet another opportunity

and it makes me feel like I just keep letting my dreams slip from my hands once more

and now that I've seen the reality of what is possible

this house in LA next to the beach in California with the huge city

great weather and working a job that I would absolutely love and live for

with people who share the exact same dream and vision.

It has me thinking like hell yeah, I would gladly die chasing this dream relentlessly

then never chase it at all and play it safe

and being trapped within my own mind of thinking about what my life could have been.

I hope to do more videos like this where I speak

because they're really like a therapy for me

and it helps me get my mind off things

and hopefully some people can be influenced by what I'm actually saying.

I would also like to say that I think education is extremely important

and plays a crucial role into bringing success into your life and that knowledge is power.

The best thing in life is to always have a back-up plan

and take into consideration, what if something goes wrong?

and it's something that every role model that I look up to tries to enforce.

But I feel like education will always be here for me to come back to

whether I'm 20, 25, 40 or whatever

and I think that I have an amazing idea, vision, passion and drive

now in my peak and that I'm able to capitalize on

which makes me feel like I'm throwing it away if I don't pursue it

and the biggest response that I've been getting recently is

Marco, what if it fails?

which I mean yeah like, what if it fails?

but that's the whole point of taking a chance with things like startup companies or entrepreneurship

it's ridiculously high risk

like, what if I get hit by a car? what if I lose my wallet?

or better yet, what if this succeeds?

you know, it's easy to be negative or to be close-minded

but I think it's easier to be optimistic and to be open-minded.

and please do yourself a favor which is a separate topic on its own for another time

but try to surround yourself with people who impose and promote positivity and good vibes

you will notice the tremendous effect that it has on your lifestyle.

Starting your own business or being self-employed although preferable

doesn't exactly require any kind of diploma or degree.

And I think that with a proper business plan

and with the drive that people like you who are watching this video, fuel me with

I feel like I can accomplish anything.

If you're still listening, I love you, mad respect, that's true loyalty right there

nevertheless, this has been Marco.

I hope you all have a great rest of the day

and goodbye

I had a lot of fail, I fail for funny things

that I failed a key primary school test for two times

and I failed like a three times for the middle school

you know for three years I tried to fill into the universities

so I applied for jobs, for thirty times got rejected

I went for police they said “no, you're not good”

I went to even the KFC, when KFC come to China, come to my city

You applied?

24 people went for the job, 23 people accepted, I was the only guy.

And we went for police five people, four of them accepted, I was the only guy didn’t receive it.

So, to me being turned down, rejected

Oh, by the way I told you that I applied for Harvard for ten times rejected

I know I’d be rejected, I just wanted to see

they are sorry now

One of the things you got to understand my friend

is that you're supposed to fail

you're supposed to fail, because failure is the stepping stone to success

you need the logical reason why

Because failure is an experience that lends to wisdom

that ultimately makes you a stronger version of yourself.

Maybe you got test anxiety, I don't know

but the worst thing you can do is quit talk to your professor

I'm not a 100% sure but I know that you cannot quit.

Just because you fail doesn't make you a failure.

Another one of these cliches or cliches stories

is about Thomas Edison right

when a reporter asked him

you know “what is it? how did you feel about failing a 1000 times?”

And he said “no, I didn't fail a 1000 times

I just found a 1000 different ways that it wasn't gonna work”

And that's what, that's what's happening with you.

But every time he found a way that didn't work he was adding to his journey

he was growing stronger, he learned something, discovered something

you're discovering something about yourself

and you're exercising your character

every time you get up and try something, move in the direction of something.

Even if you don't get the thing, it's not about the thing

it's not about making the basketball team, it's not about making million dollars

and it's not about the light bulb.

It's about what you learned along the way

who you become along the way

and you're on the journey, guess what the journey is hard

the journey is riddled with failure and that's why most people don't do it

most people aren’t willing to get on that journey because they're afraid to fail.

You my friend have failed congratulations

It's the greatest thing that ever happened to you

because it shows that you're alive, it shows that you did something

and it shows that you're growing stronger

now go and fail again

I hope, I hope you guys who watch these videos, I hope you gonna fail a thousand times

Keep going in out there and failing.

You know what that means, every time you fail it means to me

it tells me that you're doing something.

See a lot of people because they don't want to make any mistakes, that takes us to the next level.

Lot of people don't wanna fail, fear failure, fear of success

and guess what else, fear the unknown.

You know what Winston Churchill said about courage Pat?

he said courage is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm

So you wanna courageously hold on to your dream and not lose enthusiasm.

A guy in Los Angeles all over the front page of the newspaper

he just passed the bar after taking it 48 times

he had more than enough reason and excuses not to take it

his son has a law firm, he could have been a legal assistant, a clerk.

And people all of a sudden used to laugh at this guy

he was a laughingstock, people will do that to you.

You know people talk about John Kennedy Jr, failing the bar.

Did you read in the newspaper that he passed? I didn't see that

but did they make as big of a deal about him passing as they did when he failed?

No, you know why? people like to see you fail

they like to see that, people are like that, I don't know why it's set up like that

I was on the expressway, traffic was jammed up

you know what was happening It was an accident

but people pulled over to the side to get out of their car to go and look

to see somebody else's suffering.

That's why talk shows are so popular, some people like to hear other people's misery

they get caught up in that

then they go and magnify it in their own life because that's all they focus on

who decided it doesn't matter how many times I fail, I'm going to courageously pursue it.

I don't care what people say, I don't care what they think

this is something that I want, that gives my life meaning and value

and you constantly remind yourself after every defeat, after every setback

every time you get knocked down, I've got a saying

“if life knocks you down, try and land on your back because if you can look up you can get up”

See a lot of people because of failure they stop, they stop believing.

Let me share something with you, you will fail your way to success

Yes, eight out of ten millionaires have been financially bankrupt.

You will fail your way to success.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail

it doesn't matter how many times people tell you that you can't do it

it doesn't matter if you don't have a dime in the bank

you will fail your way to success.

There's something about the way we perceive success

that results in one of the greatest tragedies of our time

and that's the belief that successful people

the ones at the top of their game, that talent is what punched their ticket

that destiny brought them to the finish line

and that's wrong

it's wrong because it takes the journey, the struggle, the scratching and clawing

that it took to get to the top of the mountain and throws it out the window

it completely mitigates what's most important.

In the real world, the one we are living in

It doesn't matter who you are, you are never entitled to a result.

Victory is a product of the fight

The biggest favor you can ever do for yourself

as you progress through life's up and downs

through the good and the bad, when things get rough

is know that you are going through what every successful person

every champion, every innovator has gone through in the history of mankind.

struggle is beautiful

it’s a sign

that you are in the midst of what separates great from average.

It's a necessary step and it's the most important step you will ever take

because 99% of people can't see past it

right the world sees struggle, sees hardship as a time to pack it up

to walk away, to be intimidated.

But the best, I'm telling you they look at struggle differently.

Just like you can't get fit without blood, sweat and tears at the gym

you can't make deals without the hustle

you can't make things happen if you don't move forward in the face of adversity.

When the word no is staring you in the eyes

It's all a part of the process

Winners walk on

If you want something bad enough, you know that being uncomfortable is an ingredient

if you want to be the best, your mindset has to reflect the best

right, let others focus on the tip of the iceberg

you know, excellence lies in everything underneath the surface in what cannot be seen.

So take mediocrity and make it excellence

Take what’s yours and hold it up for the world to see

because what hurts now

in the present is the very same thing that will transform your life down the road

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
failure /ˈfeɪljər/ B1	noun - lack of success
succeed /səkˈsiːd/ A2	verb - to achieve an aim or purpose
achieve /əˈtʃiːv/ B1	verb - to reach a goal through effort
reality /riˈælɪti/ A2	noun - the state of things as they actually exist
comfortable /ˈkʌmftəbl/ A2	adjective - feeling at ease
adaptation /ˌædæpˈteɪʃn/ C1	noun - the process of adjusting to new conditions
growth /ɡroʊθ/ B1	noun - the process of increasing in size or development
wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/ B2	noun - the quality of having experience and good judgment
capabilities /ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlətiz/ B2	noun - the power or ability to do something
recognize /ˈrekəɡnaɪz/ B1	verb - to identify from previous knowledge
worthless /ˈwɜːrθləs/ B2	adjective - having no real value or use
encounter /ɪnˈkaʊntər/ B2	verb - to meet unexpectedly
inevitable /ɪnˈevɪtəbl/ C1	adjective - certain to happen
mediocre /ˌmiːdiˈoʊkər/ C1	adjective - of only moderate quality; not very good
entrepreneurs /ˌɑːntrəprəˈnɜːrz/ C1	noun - people who organize and operate a business

Key Grammar Structures

• Most people don't reach their dream not because of failure, most people don't live their dream because they give up.

  ➔ Subordinating conjunction of cause (because of vs because)

  ➔ "Because of" is followed by a noun phrase (failure), while "because" is followed by a clause (they give up).

• You'll have to do something better than giving up a month from now.

  ➔ Future Simple (will have to) for obligation/necessity

  ➔ "Will have to" combines future prediction with the necessity of an action.

• I would rather live each day as if it were my last.

  ➔ Subjunctive mood (were) in a hypothetical comparison (as if)

  ➔ "Were" is used instead of "was" because it is a hypothetical, unreal situation.

• I doubt that I could get the right legal paperwork done.

  ➔ Causative structure (get + object + past participle)

  ➔ "Get... done" is used when you arrange for someone else to do the action for you.

• Imagine if Michael Jordan was scared of missing.

  ➔ Second Conditional structure (implied)

  ➔ The "if" clause sets up a hypothetical scenario, often followed by "would" (he would have never taken a shot).

• You will fail your way to success.

  ➔ Use of noun as part of a directional phrase (your way to)

  ➔ The structure "[verb] one's way to [destination]" describes making progress toward a goal through a specific activity.

• It's the greatest thing that ever happened to you.

  ➔ Superlative adjective with relative clause and Present Perfect

  ➔ "Greatest" is the superlative; "that ever happened" is a relative clause using the present perfect for life experience.

• If you're not pissed off for greatness, then you're okay with being mediocre.

  ➔ First Conditional (Real condition)

  ➔ The "if" clause uses the present tense to describe a realistic condition and its likely consequence.