A short transcript excerpt from a T. Harv Eker YouTube video about staying confident after failure. Eker recounts having multiple failed businesses and periods of being "broke," emphasizes trusting that you can handle whatever happens, advises recovering, restarting, and continuing to try, and contrasts past hardship with later material success.
Now, this is one thing people ask me all the time because I have over 3 million students.
They go, but, Harb, what if I really don't know?
And what if it does go sideways? This is what you have to trust. Trust you can handle whatever happens at the time. Trust, you can handle whatever happens at the time. So let's say, like, I had 10 businesses that didn't work. And. And what happened? I was broke. Broke, broke, broke. As many of you know my story. And.
But you know what? I didn't die. I didn't die, okay? I was upset. I was frustrated. I was unhappy. I couldn't get the things I wanted. I had to choose between having dinner.
That night and putting $5 of gas in my car. Was it comfortable?
No.
Was it embarrassing? Yes.
Was it something that I wanted myself?
No.
But what happened? I didn't d. All right, so you mope and you groan and whatever. Then you get yourself in a better place. And you do what? You start again.
What else are you gonna do? So you trust yourself that whatever happens, even if you go broke, bankrupt, finished.
Do your.
Thing, chill out for a while, get your strength back and move again, go again. And you just keep on doing that. And that's what happened to me. And that's why you're watching me in this, you know, $150,000 toy that my wife got me for a little gift for my birthday.
You know, it's all because I. I.
Believe that when push comes to shove, I can handle what happens. You know, it. If it happens.
And you will be able to handle it. You know that. You're.
You're a survivor. You're not going to die.
Okay?
May not be uncomfortable, but you can handle it.
