In this motivational YouTube segment, host Evan Carmichael opens with A.R. Rahman's reflections on "rediscovering yourself" through music, technology, and cultural fusion, emphasizing that modernity is about embracing new ideas rather than dismissing unfamiliar sounds. Carmichael then expands the theme, sharing his own daily practice of self‑rediscovery via his Enespresso channel, the importance of surrounding oneself with higher‑mindset entrepreneurs, and the necessity of turning consumed content into action. He argues that many success principles are universal across musicians, athletes, inventors, and politicians, and that a poor mindset—often inherited from one's environment—blocks progress. The segment includes additional voices: a performer‑turned‑entrepreneur who stresses that the journey itself is the destination; a songwriter who constantly experiments with chords, beats, and lyrical syncopation to avoid repetition; and Nicki Minaj, who defends her artistic evolution as a natural response to personal growth. Throughout, the speakers encourage viewers to consistently evaluate their environment, adopt a growth mindset, and take concrete steps toward their goals, ending with a call for audience comments on personal rediscovery habits.
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Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is rediscover yourself. Over to you, AR Rahman.
What is modern is rediscovering yourself, rediscovering the way music is done is modern. I do love to embrace new technology and new ideas, and especially like in a film like Slumdog where Gani suggested MIA. MIA is so modern, you know, interpretation of music and everything. So it was like two cultures meeting in a way. Like some of the people who are very close-minded, they say, oh, what are they doing? It's just noise. Rap is noise, and heavy metal is noise. So when you go into that frame of just try to like for what— like something for what it is, not, you know, go take a lens and disrupt it and try to analyze it. So with this philosophy, I think I kept moving on for like 18 years, rediscovering myself.
So I rediscover myself every day, every single day, even just through this YouTube channel. I rediscover myself. I started this channel— one of the main reasons was I wanted to learn myself. I wanted a better environment for myself. I wanted to surround myself with people who've done more than I've done and learn from them. And every time I make a top 10 video, an espresso video, believe life video, any of the videos that I put out 3 times a day, I put them out because I've learned something from them. When somebody says a message, I take it and I try not to be like them. The goal isn't to be like that person, it's to be a better version of ourselves. And when they give you that message, think about how it's going to impact your life. How it's going to impact your business. How can you apply it some way? If you're just consuming content and you don't apply it anywhere, it's not a good use of time. It's a great mental exercise, I guess, but nothing else is going to change in your life until you take action. What's really interesting is a lot of the lessons are the same from the musicians we've covered and athletes and entrepreneurs and inventors and politicians. A lot of the messages are the same. A lot of the messages for success are the same, but hearing it consistently I find helps. If you are not getting the results that you want, if you have these big goals and you're nowhere close to them and you don't see that happening in the next, you know, few weeks, months, years, if you're not making the progress towards it, if you feel you have that untapped potential, you don't know how to go out and accomplish it, it's likely because you have a poor mindset. From your parents and the people around you, from your neighborhood, from your environment, you have a poor mindset that holds you where you are. And the way to break free of it is to surround yourself with people who have a better mindset, a more empowering mindset, a more impactful mindset. And so I do it by hanging around these successful entrepreneurs every single day. I don't have the people, physical people that I can go and talk to who push me to be better. I get it by watching these videos. And so I challenge you to think if you're not getting your goals, look at your environment and see if you're doing the right things. And yes, a lot of these messages will be the same consistently over and over and over again, but hearing it from somebody else in the words that they use, sometimes that's the trigger. And hearing it consistently helps break free of the poor mindset to go off and accomplish bigger things. And sometimes it's just an issue of timing. You may have heard the message before, but for some reason today you're ready to hear it and to actually take some action on it. If you want to do big things, if you want to accomplish a big goal, then you have to be continually rediscovering yourself. And if you're not doing it, you're gonna stay where you are. So I encourage you to pick up the mantle and take some action. So the question of the day today is, I'm curious, what do you do on a consistent basis to rediscover yourself? Leave it down in the comments below, super curious to find out. I also wanna give a quick shout out to Andre Martin. Andre, thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. Really, really, really means a lot to me, man, and I hope you're enjoying the read. So thank you guys again for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of Enespresso. I wake up every morning, Enespresso keep me going.
Sure, we all have to set goals for ourselves. I mean, our planned destination is to be busy and to, you know, adjust to whatever you— whatever you're introduced to. And what I mean by that is, okay, as an entertainer, I started off as a singer, you know, I grew to become a dancer and a performer. After becoming a performer, then I became an actor. After becoming an actor, I became an entrepreneur. After becoming an entrepreneur, I became an entertainer on a different level of introducing other artists. Then, you know, after that I became a mentor, you know. So I think just to continue to evolve in a way that is beneficial for growth of myself and others, my likeness to continue to be remembered throughout history and associated with something great. Wow. For me, you know, there's a mantra that I've lived by, and it is that the journey of the destination is really what it's all about. The pursuit is more important than the actual destination. So as long as you are moving, as long as you are working, that is the destination. Wow. Yeah, the journey. But really, it is simply that the journey is the destination.
I agree.
As long as you're working, you're good.
As a writer, you start trying different things, and you try different chords or different structures of songs, different beats. That you've never really explored that path before. You know, and I think having always been a writer first, I'm obsessed with the syncopation of the way that words sound when they're said a certain way. And once I've kind of done something once, I always want to go to a different direction and never repeat myself. So as a writer, I think that, I've always hoped that my music would constantly be changing because you never want to make the same album twice, the same song twice. And, you know, my greatest hope has been that as I grow, my fans will grow up with me. And as I change and my life changes, my music will change as well. So—
Extreme Team Minaj says, I love you, but I'm curious, why did you change your rapping style from the come-up days to today?
I love both. I don't think I changed my rap style. I think you guys were just starting to hear me, and you didn't hear all of me yet. That's it. I've always been into being weird a little bit. But I think what people really mean is that they think that I've changed my persona. And life is about growth and change, and I don't want to remain the same. For my whole life. I wanna be able to change and, you know, I respect the people who loved, you know, '07 Nicki, and I'm definitely gonna give you some stuff on Pink Friday. Like, I'm not forgetting anybody, but I just also have to be true to me. And the truth is, I started seeing different things, I started going different places, I started eating different things. I can't— It would be fraudulent to rap the same way and look the same way and act the same way because I am not the same.
