In this motivational YouTube short, Mel Robbins (Speaker A) urges viewers to view failure as essential to success, emphasizing that every admired hero has failed repeatedly. She stresses personal responsibility, noting that only the individual keeps a scorecard of their life, and dismisses external judgment as irrelevant. Robbins challenges the audience by asking why people find it so hard to start, framing excuses as the main obstacle to progress.
You write on the back of this book, I wrote this book to show you why it's the key to success. Failure.
Yeah.
Every hero you've ever had has failed more times than you can imagine. Nobody is keeping a scorecard on your life except you. And if they are, they're an a-hole. Embrace failure and never look back. Why do you think it's so hard for people to start?
Everyone always gives 9 million excuses why they're not gonna do something, why they can't. So they'll say, oh, I'm gonna write this book, but first I gotta get a typewriter. Oh no, I'm not gonna do a typewriter. I'll do it on my phone. No, no, I gotta be old school and I gotta do it. I gotta write it by hand. And there's— by then there's— it's been 3 weeks and you're still figuring out what apparatus you're gonna use to write your book. And It's just about starting now. Start today. I don't care whatever idea you have. If you have one idea, and it's usually the idea you're too scared to tell anyone because you're embarrassed, you're shy, all of the above, start doing something to move that from here to here. I'm asking you to move it 3.5 inches forward. So just 3.5 inches forward today. If you can do that, just start to do it. And you know what? The thing you start off doing might not be the thing you do in the end, but you'll probably land somewhere pretty fucking cool. Like, I thought I was going to be the biggest singer-rapper in the world when I was 11 years old. That didn't happen for me, but I did get to do some pretty cool shit along the way. So just start somewhere.
