This is a YouTube video titled "Everyone is way better than they think" containing a motivational monologue recorded in April 2025. The speaker reflects on human potential, personal growth, and the journey from starting a small business to building a major platform, emphasizing the limitless capacity for learning and success.
I really, really, really think that there is not a single person on this planet who is even close to being at their maximum potential. I just think everyone is way, way, way, way, way better than they think. The reason why we are not performing at this level is a series of ideas, maybe certain approaches for cultivating our skills and our crafts that have not yet been discovered, and therefore we could not take advantage of them. And frankly, this is a through line for all of my career because my product is that I want my product to cause people to be more successful than they thought they could. And in fact, become more ambitious about what they are building with their online stores than they are actually initially set out to do. Because something like this happened to me, right? Like I started a snowboard store at some point, but I didn't set out to build Shopify. I built Shopify because if you are committed to following your curiosity as to the next step and optimize for maximum amount of learning when you choose these steps, it takes you from one place to another and you actually realize The world is full of lies about human potential and progress. You just find that there is no speed limit for personal growth. Reminding people of their own potential constantly is actually a wonderful thing to do.
