In this motivational video, Natalie Fisher argues that perseverance—also called grit or staying power—is the single most important factor for career success, outweighing talent, money, or experience. She defines perseverance as the refusal to give up despite repeated failures. Fisher illustrates her point with well‑known historical figures (Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers, Colonel Sanders) who faced countless rejections before achieving breakthrough success, and then shares smaller, everyday examples from her own career and her clients (over 50 article submissions before a guest post was accepted, a client who endured eight interviews before landing a dream job). She emphasizes that success is not accidental or lucky; it results from relentless effort and learning from each setback. The video concludes with a call‑to‑action inviting viewers to download her free guide, “How to Nail an Interview You’re Not Qualified For,” which promises four interview‑strategy lessons. The overall message is that anyone can achieve success by persisting when they feel like giving up.
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Hey there. In this video, we're going to talk about something that we all need to succeed. It's something that beats out the greatest natural talent and it beats out the most money or the most experience. It's something that is easily accessible to everyone in the world, no matter what their situation, and it can and will lead to huge success. Any guesses? What's the answer? That's what I'm going to tell you in this video. Stay tuned. Okay, the answer, my friend, is perseverance. Some people call it grit, some people call it staying power. It's basically the ability to not give up so easily as everyone else, and most people give up way too soon. The number one reason most people fail is because they give up too freaking easily and way before anybody else. So you gotta get— you gotta be the one who stays at it. So if something's not working on the first or second try, oh, I guess it wasn't meant to happen. Oh well. And then they just give up and don't try it again for a long time or just don't do it. Then we sit and complain about why we can't have what we want. So at first I thought of all these stories of famous people in history that didn't give up, and here are a few of the main ones, and you may have heard of them before, but either way, true inspiration because I love reading these stories when I'm having trouble getting myself to keep going at something. So I thought I'd share them with you today. So number 1, Stephen King. Did you know that his first thriller, Carrie, received 30 rejections? Finally causing him to just give up, throw it in the trash. His wife actually fished it out and encouraged him to resubmit it. Now he's had, he's had hundreds of books published. He has the distinction of being one of the greatest bestselling authors of all time. Imagine if he'd given up. J.K. Rowling. So the author of Harry Potter, she might have a lot of money today, But before she published the series of novels, she was nearly penniless. She was severely depressed. She was divorced. She was trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. Rowling went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the entire world in only 5 years through her hard work and determination. Plus, she was rejected by 12 different publishers. Seriously, who are these people? Number 3, Thomas Edison. In his early years, teachers told Thomas that he was too stupid to learn anything. Work was no better, as he was fired from his first 2 jobs for not being productive enough. And even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all of those unsuccessful attempts finally led to the design that worked. He looked at it from the point of view, I didn't fail, I just learned another way not to make a light bulb. Number 4, Orville and Wilbur Wright. These brothers battled depression, family illness before starting the bicycle shop that would lead them to experimenting with flight. After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, they finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there. Still amazes me when I travel that it's possible. It's pretty freaking cool. Number 5, Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Tried to franchise his restaurant. His recipe was rejected 1,000 times, 1,009 times before anyone accepted it. Then his secret recipe was coined Kentucky Fried Chicken, and he quickly became a hit. He sold the company for $2 million, which would have been around $15.3 million today, but back then it was worth $2 million. So that's pretty crazy. Now these are big stories. And there are lots more of them, but there's also a ton of little stories that go untold. And that's what I want to share with you today, because you could be one of those. So for example, I wanted to guest post for a site like vault.com, and it took me over 50 tries of submitting articles and reaching out to editors before I got accepted to write for any site. So that's a little one. My clients every day reaching out to people they don't know, And not getting responses. Takes about 1 in 10 strangers to get a reply. Takes about 1 in 3 college alumni in order to get response rates. So that's the average, but it takes a lot, right? It takes just continuing through the process, following the process, and doing it. So one of my clients, Jessica, who went on 8 interviews, not settling for the first offer she got, which was tough for her, she went on to land her dream job as a global events manager for a large tech company in the Bay Area. And that's another great example of not giving up. So these big stories above are an amplification of little wins that people get each day for not giving up. So you can't fail if you don't give up, right? Learn the skills that you can see have worked for others and keep going even when it seems hopeless. And right before you give up is probably when you're just That much closer to success. Only those who have done it know it's true. There is no accident when it comes to success. There is no luck, no one born under the right star and woke up with the perfect life one day and the perfect job. That's not what happened. You don't see all the work that went into it. It happened because they stuck with it, and I can tell you this for a fact. Few people do it. Which type of person are you? So thank you for watching. I really appreciate you being here with me. And if you'd like to continue your journey with me, you can click the link below to get immediate access to my free guide. And it's called How to Nail an Interview You're Not Qualified For. In this guide, You will learn: 1, how to identify the questions that hiring managers are really asking you in interviews, and things are not always as they seem. 2, how to tell captivating stories that trigger the interviewer to remember you above all other candidates. 3, how to proactively identify an interviewer's concerns even when they don't voice them out loud. 4, How to steer the interview in the direction that you want it to go. And what to say at the end of the interview to wrap it up and seal the deal. Click the link below to get instant access to it right now. Just let me know where to send it and I'll send it right over. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you soon.
