How to Handle Criticism | Don’t Listen to Little Man

How to handle criticism from Little Man. I'm working on a new online project, something that I'm really excited about, something I think will help a lot of people build way better businesses and believe in themselves more. That's what I'm all about. I'm really excited about this project. Now, Little Man gets a hold of it. He sees it and he says, "This will never work." And he writes in to me. I want to read this word for word. This is what he writes in. Please tell me you actually understand how the internet works. Let me breathe for a second here, okay? Criticism is important, okay? Criticism could help make you better, can help make you stronger, but you have to pay attention to who is criticizing you and the kind of feedback that you're getting. I see entrepreneurs as gladiators, okay? We wake up every day and we go to fight for our business. We go to fight for our dreams, and we risk risk, humiliation, failure, ridicule, embarrassment from all the people watching us. We're in the ring and they're all in the stands. And that's where Little Man sits. Little Man sits there eating his popcorn, laughing at you, joking at you, ridiculing you, throwing stuff at you, but he's too afraid to come down from in the stands and get in the ring. You're the gladiator, and you can't let little man's opinions and doubt hold you back. Why don't I compare? Okay, we're talking about the internet. Me versus little man. I've had 20 million people visit my website. Little man's website, maybe 1,000. It's an old-looking site. I've got 200,000 Twitter followers. Little man, couple thousand. I've got a million views on YouTube. Little Man, a couple thousand. Little Man doesn't know what he's talking about, and this is the danger that entrepreneurs run into because people are going to criticize you, and it's hard accepting criticism. It's hard when people tell you that you're not good enough, but you have to look at who's telling you this because if it's Little Man who's done nothing important himself, then pay him no mind. Now, if the founders of Google or the founders of Twitter or people I look up to like Gary Vee, they write to me and say, "Tell me you know how the internet works," and they tell me, "Here's what you need to do to get better," then I'm going to pay attention to them because they're gladiators with me. They know what they're talking about. And often those guys are going to give you constructive criticism and direct feedback instead of just hating on your idea and telling you all the reasons why it's not going to work out. Don't pay attention to little man. Don't pay attention to his ideas, his feedback, because it's only going to tear you down. Believe in yourself and what you're doing because it's important. Believe. For those of you watching the video, you like it, give it a thumbs up. It always makes me want to do more. Leave a comment below, let me know what you think. You have a question, put it below, I'll make a video response. And if you want to see more videos like this, you can subscribe to the channel by clicking on my face. Thank you so much, and I'll see you soon.