My First Million Producer Ben Wilson Explains Parallels Between MrBeast and Walt Disney

Name: My First Million Producer Ben Wilson Explains Parallels Between MrBeast and Walt Disney
Uploaded: 2022-09-25T19:30:02+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this excerpt, producer Ben Wilson draws a clear parallel between Walt Disney’s career trajectory and that of modern YouTube creator MrBeast. He…

25 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, producer Ben Wilson draws a clear parallel between Walt Disney’s career trajectory and that of modern YouTube creator MrBeast. He recounts how Disney experienced a decade-long slowdown after his animation studio became hugely successful, only to break out of that funk when he pursued an obsessive, seemingly frivolous passion for model trains, which eventually grew into Disneyland and reignited his innovative drive. Wilson uses this story to advise creators like MrBeast (and the audience) to resist external pressure to stick to safe, incremental work and instead follow their own "unreasonable" passions, which can lead to breakthrough innovation.

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For MrBeast, I think the parallels are super easy with Walt Disney. The only time that Walt Disney slowed down in his career was for like a decade, and it was because Walt loved to be working on a new thing. But a certain point, everyone convinced him like, oh, actually you have this enormous multimillion-dollar animation studio now. You just need to be working on pumping out more full-length animations. Like, when he did that, the whole thing kind of went downhill. And then he goes crazy and he starts obsessing over little toy trains and like really going off the rails. But those model trains then get bigger and bigger and becomes Disneyland. And that is when he comes out of his funk and starts innovating again. And so for MrBeast, it's just like the don't let anyone convince you that you need to be working on the reasonable thing. Like you need to follow your unreasonable passions.