A speaker recounts growing up with a father who said they'd never succeed in school or life. Rather than accept that verdict, they decided to prove him wrong. The talk urges listeners to recognize naysayers holding them back and distance themselves from those discouraging voices.
There's also sometimes people in our lives that are telling us, you know, the naysayers, oh, you can't do that. Oh, you can't. You're not that person. You're not going to be capable of doing that. I grew up with a father who said to me my entire life, you're never going to accomplish it at the rate you're going. You're never going to accomplish that. And it was, you know, hey, at the rate you're going, you're not going to get through high school. At the rate you're going, you're not going to get into college. At the rate you're going to get through college, at the rate you're going, you're never going to amount to anything. You're never going to, uh, you know, to accomplish any of your goals. And I, I, instead of listening to it, got mad and said, screw you, I can do anything I want. And just, you know, we, we do have those naysayers in our world that can sometimes hold us back. And so you do need to distance yourself from them.
