This is a YouTube video titled "If you are someone who's ambitious, you have to learn to be alone" containing a monologue by Melissa Dlugolecki recorded in 2025. In this authoritative content, Melissa discusses the nature of ambition and the experience of being exceptional, emphasizing the importance of being comfortable with solitude as part of pursuing extraordinary goals.
If you are someone who's ambitious and this is me just talking specifically to you, you have to get used to being alone. I'm saying this because I used to think that there was something wrong with me when in reality, I just didn't understand what the nature of being exceptional meant. To be exceptional means that you are the exception. It means that you are not normal. And so it's normal for normal people to find you abnormal if you do things that are not normal. I had plenty of friends who were like, I want to be a. An NFL player. I want to be a really rich tech entrepreneur. I want to be a touring musician, right? And they have these goals, but I'm like, dude, I see you just playing Fortnite four hours a day and you practice guitar once a week. Like, what? Do you really want that? Or do you just like saying it because it makes you feel good?
