Evan CarmichaelSpeaker / Author / Introvert

BELIEVE by Alfredo Aguilar - Motivational Video

4 Feb 2015 · 3 min

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The video is a montage of motivational speeches and energetic sports commentary designed to inspire belief, perseverance, and personal agency. Speaker A urges listeners to believe in themselves before anyone else does, and defines greatness as an accessible quality within everyone. Speaker B confronts fear, emphasizing that life is inherently scary and that success requires hard work and rejecting easy shortcuts. Speaker C shares personal struggles with depression and doubt, framing hardship as essential for character development. Speaker D expresses profound gratitude, declaring himself the luckiest man on Earth. Speaker E delivers a rapid-fire sports play-by-play, highlighting moments of triumph from basketball (Dwyane Wade) to track (Usain Bolt), using these victories as vivid examples of achievement. Finally, Speaker F uses a poetic metaphor, describing the universe as a blank canvas and the future as a page, urging listeners to become the painters and writers of their own destiny. Together, the clips reinforce a narrative that belief, confronting fear, embracing adversity, gratitude, and creative agency are keys to personal greatness.

Chapters

Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. The first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.
You want to take the easy way out because you're scared, and you're scared because if you try and fail, there's only you blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. It's all up to you. Get up off your keister, get out of here, and go start doing the work. Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy.
Everybody has a hard road. I wanted to jump out a window several times during my young life. We all go through hard times. We all go through depression. We all do go through doubt and then moments in your life where it's really difficult and you're trying to figure out what your path is gonna be. But that is what makes you a person, and those difficult moments are what build your character.
Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know, it's something that truly exists in all of us. It's very simple. This is what I believe, and I'm willing to die for it. Period.
Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Wade with a steal, with 2, Wade puts it up for the win! Yeah! He did it! He did it! Dwyane Wade with the steal! Along the boards, Dechenin settles it down, one-timer, solid break! Oh, he's still on his feet! Rodrick Reed! Oh my! Across the 50, still on his feet! This'll be 99 yards! It's a record here in Spain! Oh, they're away, and Gatling got away brilliantly, and de is ahead of the field at the moment. And Bolt going very— and here comes Usain Bolt! Usain Bolt storming through, he takes it again! Blake gets the silver, 9.64! Oh, he's retained his title in the most emphatic way.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. The universe is a plain canvas. You are the painters. The universe, the future is a blank page. You are the writers.
My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.