"Work hard and you'll be successful" is stupid Boomer nonsense.
Being successful is a combination of:
Working hard.
Working smart.
Who you know.
Plain old fuckin' luck.
There is such a thing as "privilege" when it comes to success. Someone who comes from a wealthy family already has "who you know" covered, and having that financial jumping-off point makes things much easier when you don't have to worry about losing your house or skipping meals to make your business work.
Luck is also a huge component to it. I mean... this video you posted is from a middling channel on Youtube. They've been around 5 years and haven't even cracked 100k subscribers.
There's streamers who will grind their dicks off day and night trying to chase success and they never find it.
There's streamers who got just the right content in the right time and the algorithm finds them and they find meteoric success.
Dudes who got rich on Bitcoin did not work hard. They did not work smart. They didn't know anyone. They found success through 100% luck. People were buying pizzas for 20 BTC.
There is no recipe for success... but for most people, #1 and #2, work hard, but work smart, is how you'll find... maybe not fame and fortune, but at least you'll probably live comfortably.
Okay, so he's not wrong.
"Work hard and you'll be successful" is stupid Boomer nonsense.
Being successful is a combination of:
Working hard.
Working smart.
Who you know.
Plain old fuckin' luck.
There is such a thing as "privilege" when it comes to success. Someone who comes from a wealthy family already has "who you know" covered, and having that financial jumping-off point makes things much easier when you don't have to worry about losing your house or skipping meals to make your business work.
Luck is also a huge component to it. I mean... this video you posted is from a middling channel on Youtube. They've been around 5 years and haven't even cracked 100k subscribers.
There's streamers who will grind their dicks off day and night trying to chase success and they never find it.
There's streamers who got just the right content in the right time and the algorithm finds them and they find meteoric success.
Dudes who got rich on Bitcoin did not work hard. They did not work smart. They didn't know anyone. They found success through 100% luck. People were buying pizzas for 20 BTC.
There is no recipe for success... but for most people, #1 and #2, work hard, but work smart, is how you'll find... maybe not fame and fortune, but at least you'll probably live comfortably.