In this short motivational segment, host Evan Carmichael introduces Lilly Singh (Superwoman) to discuss finding happiness. Lilly shares how, during a difficult final year of university, she discovered YouTube, began creating videos spontaneously, and found that making content brought her joy and helped transform sadness into something beautiful. She emphasizes that happiness is the hardest thing to fight for but the only worthwhile battle, urging people to turn dark moments into positive creations. The host then expands on the theme, highlighting the importance of believing in oneself and suggesting viewers write down three things they are grateful for each day to boost happiness. Evan adds his own experience, describing his daily gratitude practice of noting three things each morning, his early struggles launching a free seminar for entrepreneurs that only attracted three attendees, and how he persisted, eventually building a YouTube channel and website. He argues that when something brings joy, one should pursue it despite uncertainty, rather than settling for an unfulfilling job. The segment concludes with a prompt asking viewers what three things come to mind when they think about happiness.
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Good morning, Believe Nation!
Today's message is: Find happiness, and over to you, Lilly Singh.
I was in my last year of university, just going through a really tough time. I wasn't really doing anything for myself, and then I discovered YouTube.
And I remember the first time I saw a video, I was like, I was like, what is this thing?
This magical thing on the internet? And so I uploaded a video spontaneously. I kept doing it simply because it made me happy. It made a sad person happy. I've learned happiness is the hardest thing you will ever fight for in your life, but it's the only thing worth fighting for in your life. Everyone's been sad, everyone's been through things, but I think it's really what you do with those feelings and you do with those dark times and the ability to change them into something beautiful.
So what do you think?
This girl, Lilly Singh, I love the video because She— her word is happiness, and happiness is what the world needs, like to be more fun and creative, just like the little kids around you. I mean, if you have family with little kids or, or kids of your own, so they're always joyful and they're always like playful, and that's the happiness we need to find within us to be like more happy with ourselves, embrace everything we've got, and believe in ourselves more than, like, anyone in the world, something like that. Because if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. So you have to believe enough, like, to make others believe in you. So my advice to whoever is watching: write 3 things for which you are grateful for Just for writing it, it will make you like really come up alive and be happier and be with gratitude with what you already have or what you are trying to achieve in your life.
So I agree. I love gratitude. I have a daily practice that I've put in for the past couple years of 3 things that I'm grateful for every morning. I brought it to my team. We brought it to YouTube as well. And I think it's really important that a lot of times the things that make you happy may not make sense yet. Like, you don't understand, how do I turn this thing that makes me so happy into a business or a career? Because it may not be totally laid out, you know? So for me, I love helping entrepreneurs. And the first thing that I did was having a seminar to help entrepreneurs, and only 3 people showed up to my free seminar. And I thought, if only 3 people show up to a free thing, how am I ever going to make a business out of this? How is that ever going to happen? Right? Logically, it doesn't make sense, but I just love doing it so much. It filled me with so much joy helping entrepreneurs, having new entrepreneurs on the channel. Like, I love doing it. And so I had to find a way to keep going. And I eventually figured it out. I eventually built a website, eventually built a YouTube channel. You know, the execution of it I figured out with time. And I think if you have something that brings you joy, that brings you happiness, you owe it to yourself to continue down that path, to try to figure out how to turn it into something that could be amazing for you, even if it doesn't make total sense yet right now, because that's way better than you thinking, okay, well, I can never make that a success. And so I'm going to just get this job that I hate doing and just stay there for the rest of my life. And never be happy. I think too many people do that. I think too many people wake up and they drive to a job that they hate every day, and they never get to express themselves or be creative or have that joy or freedom. And so when you find that thing that makes you happy, find a way to keep that as a part of your life every day. Build some momentum towards it every single day. And if you do that, some amazing things will happen.
So the question of the day today is When you think about happiness, what 3 things come to your mind?
Leave it in the comments below. We're gonna join in the discussion. So thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed and have an amazing day. We believe in you and hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. I will see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. What did you do? You did 3 like this. Yeah, like this. Wow, I would do— I do this. Canada, Venezuela. Okay, what 3 or 3 things?
