Last week I released three videos on my TH-cam channel. I worked hard on them for atleast two months, improving my video editing skills, audio recording, learnt graphic design fro the thumbnails. They bombed horribly, I felt like crap for the next day lamenting my failure, feeling angry that others with less effort and skill got more success, I felt like quitting naming videos. But eventually I learnt the right way to deal with failure, learn and move on. I learnt to value the skills I learnt along the way, value the courage I had to put myself out there and make something instead of safely consuming all day. I know why those videos bombed and next time I can take the new skills and make something better that gets more material success. I want to experience failure now, its the best way to learn and get better, it's a healthy normal part of life you should embrace.
This happens at every level. I did a video on the homeless problem in New York state that was a deep dive into it, it got 200,000 views. Tech rax kills cockroaches and gets 9 million views. If you get depressed while doing something because somebody else appears to be doing better, you'll jump off a bridge. My boss is worth over a billion dollars and knows several people worth many times more than him who are complete idiots and useless. It never ends.
@@rossmanngroup Very true. I was reading an article that says you should not focus too much on material measures of success like views or money. It seems like good advice to stay sane when creating something.
4 years ago I was 300lbs, working a shitty gig as a security guard watching your videos just to keep my sanity. A year after that I got 2 certs from IPC for motherboard rework and repair. I'm currently 200lbs, in a food manufacturing job after my electronic repair store was shut down due to mismanagement, and I fix not only my devices, but I still offer friends and family my skills to help fix their stuff. A good number of phones and tablets that never would've been put back together if you never uploaded. Thanks for sharing your skills, and your journey. Hopefully in the near future I can get back into it as a career somehow, but I felt like helping with the algorithm and giving you a positive story to read.
There's a BIG difference between Louis's good message (try with whatever cheap stuff you have) vs the message of self-help scam artists (buy my product, otherwise you aren't really trying). The knowledge that 90% of people fail, is a genuine reason to say no to the 2nd message. But not the 1st.
@@rossmanngroup i actually contributed something to repair.wiki . I added an article on how to fix samsung tablet S with colourful flickering lines across the screen (i think) by disconnecting and reconnecting the screen cable inside. Do you btw know how to fix samsung s3 which is otherwise functional but there is no video output? (Reacts to touch input on the same screen but no video output.) I am an aspiring 18-year-old repair fanatic. I have a hot air gun here at home which I can use. Any tips?
This is why, nearly age 40, I still don't know what to do with my life. When he was alive, my father was always telling me what I can't do (Which was everything except what he wanted me to do). This has left me at a sort-of life stalemate now, as my brain is still full of all that negativity, and my body is rejecting the years of hard labor that has taken its toll. I do repairs on computers and phones for family and friends. Even tried to make a business of it once (Competition had me shut down, long story). Now I just don't know what to do next. My knees are shot, I have 3 back injuries and a heart condition that is slowly killing me. My next job HAS to be at a desk, or I'm gonna die before I'm 50. TL;DR: Moral: Encourage your kids to try anything and everything. Anything less stunts their growth and will hurt them later in life.
Hey, James: When I was 48 I never made more than $50k a year. Last job during that time was so unnerving, I developed an ulcer as big as a "plum" (said my Greek gastro MD). I took advantage of the few months of unemployment I had while healing and learned a bit of marketing tech, some cloud, rolled the dice and started a new career when just a year before I thought I was done. Like, fucked. A year after that, I got a 3mo gig on a software platform (still can't code, but I can admin) that opened doors everywhere. That was 4 years ago. I'm makiing 3x what I was when I got the ulcer. With an exciting successful young company. Where I'm respected and where I want to make a difference and make them even more successful. Life is good. You can do this. Gotta take that first step. Smother the self doubt. Ignore the haters. And what motivated me the most? Spite. Pure unadulterated spite -- for all the people who wanted me to fail. (Burned many bridges, got a big mouth -- but a good heart) Those who lurked on my LinkedIn page. Who asked me about me with others. Not to hear good news. But to hear that I was struggling. Failing. Every time I didn't want to write another cover letter, or fill out another app or go through with an interview I wasn't qualified for. I did it anyway. Out of spite. Maybe not the healthiest motivation. But it worked for me. And I smile a lot easier these days.
Wise words, Louis. In my case, I was big into metal back in the 80s and I wanted to play guitar. I started with a $10 POS from a garage sale and spent another $30 getting it in working order. I found out I sucked at it, but my brother was good. I got fascinated with how the simple instrument was producing these layers of sound, so I got into understanding how the audio works, effects, etc. You know you can use a SINGLE diode and make your cheap ass guitar distort like hell. Anyway, this led me into Elec Engineering in college and I've been doing that as a career (mostly in research) which I still love to do after all these years.
reminds me of how i got into ukulele, my sister bought a bright pink one but got frustrated within a werk cause her hands were too small i ended up picking it out of boredom one day and before i knew it i was playing no problem one of my favorite instruments since, and that was back in 2014
Research! Respect, man! I do programming, and sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be doing research in programming languages or computer science techniques
So, I do gaming livestreams, I get bugger all viewers. One guy joined a few days ago, he said "lol, you only have 3 viewers, why even bother streaming" My reply: I'm streaming because I can, I don't care if nobody watches, I'm having fun, blow me" And I keep on doing it.
In highschool when I started going to the gym someone said: "you're so weak, why are you even going to the gym?". Some people just don't think about it, they only have the stereotypes in their heads: "gym goers are big and strong" or "it's only worth streaming if you have lots of viewers". It's not even trolling I think, they just don't know better.
It can be boiled down to these two mindsets: -You can't fail if you don't try vs. -You can't succeed if you don't try You should want to be the latter. You'll have more to show at the end of the day. More fulfillment, and more to be proud of.
This, but it kind of depends on the way their brain is wired. If they get really hurt from failure then the risk of failing exceeds the potential gains from succeeding. People shouldn't assume every human feels things in the exact way they do. "Keep trying, if you don't try you 100% fail anyway" only works if there is no COST to trying. In the real world there often is a cost.
@@mikecane Some costs are more costly than others. If you disregard the degree of costs for your different options then you're just walking through life blindly without making good decisions. There are uncountably different things you could try. So which of those options are you going to actually try with the limited amount of time and energy you have?
@@lekhakaananta5864 I think you missed the point of Louis' video. It's start cheaply. Do you know how many huge TH-camrs started with just a cellphone? TikTok is cellphone-based. All it take it the will and some time. People who wont even try are more afraid of it not being "perfect" than anything else. Get the book Streampunks. Written by a TH-cam exec. The stories in there will astonish you.
My dad always told me that failure is not just an important part of the learning process, but a necessary one. Failure is how you learn both what to do and what not to do. He also said that it's not the act of failing that makes you a failure, but how you respond to failure that determines it. And he always emphasized being willing to try new things and learn something new. The day you stop learning is the day you die. He's completely right, as are you. I've fallen into the mindset of wanting to be perfect before trying something and it's always blown up iny face. The lesson? Running from failure doesn't make it go away, it just makes it worse when it inevitably catches up. Get comfortable with it to the point where you can shrug or even laugh it off. You'll be much better off for it.
Been watching you for almost ten years now. Thanks for all the free knowledge Louis. You helped me to be confident in my abilities and I'm so thankful to take that forward and teach others
Fantastic video. Its sad how many people have this mindset nowadays. When I went to college for art everyone told me I would fail and theres no jobs for it. My brain told me to atleast take the path that had the most jobs (3D). But I kept working on drawing/ painting because its what I enjoy. Consistent hard work earned me a job doing background paintings for an animation studio, and 6 years later I couldnt be happier I kept trying and didnt give into all the negative feedback around me
My sister just began home schooling he children. That takes balls because i know people around her passively inject doubt and attack her hope but she is still doing it.
Many subscribed for the board repair, many for the cat videos, who knows how many for the retail drama, many more for right to repair. But this kind of video, full of UN-purchasable advice that is what I subscribed for.
I want to admit that my response to this will seem arrogant, but I can assure you it comes from a caring heart for people who are "lost" in the mentality you mentioned here. When I was 16 I decided I wanted to be a software engineer, so I decided to start early and learn as much as I could before going to college/getting a career. Since then, I have caught shit from people for being "too into" computers/ spending too much time on them. My dad always hated the fact that I had more screen time per day than sun time lol. The entire time my goal was to, while most people my age were out partying (and some getting pregnant lol), learn as much as I can while I'm young so I can be financially stable enough to have fun throughout the entirety of my 20's. Now, at 20 years old, I make more as a software developer than most of the adults I have in my life. ALL of my friends who are between 24-30 are struggling because they never found a work ethic that allowed them to put TONS of hours into getting good at one thing. They are all lost both financially and professionally, and have no drive/passion to push them to do greater things with their lives. It's largely because of the issue you've mentioned here. They have told me many times that they "couldn't" do something...whether it was because they weren't smart enough, not enough time, etc. On one hand I feel like they're just lazy, but at the same time I feel awful for them because they suffer from what I like to call "chronic failure disease"...where they convince themselves that, no matter what, they will fail. It seems to be truly saddening lifestyle and I know someone close to me who struggles with that pretty hard (although recently I convinced him to just shoot for the fucking moon and his mental health seems to be doing much better!). What these people don't understand is that, once you go all-in on something once, it gets easier to do it the next time...and the next time...and so forth. My point is: I know from personal experience that TRYING is the biggest step to becoming successful in what you want to do. I have "failed" many times throughout the course of learning Comp Sci/Sof Dev material (I mean shit I still fail like every day lol), but every time it teaches me how to be a better developer, and the simple act of putting in time to learn has gotten me so much further than if I would've just given up in the beginning when shit got hard. Thanks for making this video man. I feel like this is something a lot of people from my generation struggle with and should hear.
With due respect, and only partially in response to what you've written, let me provide another perspective. I've never cared about money. At the same time, I've never cared about partying, either, nor getting pregnant, nor getting others pregnant. Instead, with my free time, I've always done what I thought would give me some sort of personal satisfaction. Career-wise, this meant I decided to pursue my lifelong passion, which was mathematics. I'm 26 years old and into my sixth and final year of my PhD, and I've come to realize that math is not my lifelong passion. You say you were 16 when you decided you wanted to be a software engineer, and now you're 20 and giving out life advice? I decided in middle school that math was my purpose, and I self-studied religiously through high school. I breezed through undergraduate, and my master's was a fair challenge. It was only after a decade of applying myself that I realized it's ultimately going to mean nothing more than a piece of paper testifying to my supposed mastery of a subject that's now dead to me and that never gave me any recognition or satisfaction. _That's_ what failure feels like. I cheated on my lifelong passion with hobbies along the way, but they all left me, too. I've run over 1000 miles according to my logbook, and yet I struggle to run a 5k. I'm always drenched in sweat when I finish, and I've run myself into shin splints multiple times. I've written multiple novels, but no one will read them. And why would they? Try as might, there are simply better books out there. I've spent years playing Go, and chess before that, but it would be an understatement to say I never went pro. Thousands of hours spent reading tactics books, opening books, puzzles of life-and-death and mate-in-four, and of course, playing, playing, playing. What did it all amount to? And then the bigger failures of my life, like the months I spent not learning how to draw, or not learning how to play the piano. Czerny could not help me, nor could Prokopenko. What was the point of it all, if I just wound up a failure anyway? If nothing else, I feel like it renders me immune to the criticism of being called a _lazy_ failure, or one who never tried. And with more and more confidence, I can disregard the advice of people addicted to their own success that they see everyone else as chronic quitters.
@@xFlow150 I've pursued it at multiple junctures, but it's no silver bullet. I would even go so far as to say that it's just useless for a large swath of people who are advised to pursue it (especially the economically disadvantaged), and that it's a misconception that the medical world has anywhere near as much competence treating mental health as it does treating physical health.
I think that "survivorship bias" is mainly meant for avoiding ruinous risk. Things like gambling or making high-risk investments based on success stories. If you tell people "invest your spare time trying to develop skills" that's low risk, high reward. It's just spare time. Survivorship bias arguments are pointless if you lose practically nothing by trying. But if a crypto billionaire is trying to get you to invest your life savings into RiskCoin, saying "it worked for me bro" **then** survivorship bias is important to remember.
You can lose a lot even without money invested. You can lose a lot of time, years maybe. And you can lose all your reputation, be humiliated and locked out of opportunities.
@@Journey_to_who_knows Anyone with time in their life to read comments on TH-cam has spare time. Using that spare time on learning a skill instead of chatting in comments sections, is not going to be a significant loss. Also, you're not going to be locked out of opportunities by trying to learn a marketable skill. It's not like we're saying you should get a face tattoo. Worst case scenario, you just don't need or use the knowledge and skills you gained.
@@pismodude2 You can learn all you want but to put 99% of knowledge to any purpose that’s not trivial like making warhammer dolls or some shit like that, you will have to put yourself at risk
"Anything worth doing well is also worth doing poorly." --Jordan Peterson. If there is a single quote from him I wish I heard twenty years ago . . . that would be the one. Thanks for all your hard work Louis!
I'm in that mindset right now with my bachelors degree in STEM. Due to Covid it was hard for me to study without the structure that the University would normally give me. And the human mind is great at coming up with excuses. My brain always goes back to: "well due to covid its too hard to...anyways" And it is pretty hard to just say "lets try" regardless of these different problems we are faced with. I would be more successful and maybe already finished with my bachelors if that would be easy.
I think that isn't as unreasonable of a reason, comfort is important when it comes to education and tons of people have the hardest time paying attention if they're not in a proper classroom (which is the most essential thing when learning, as I'm sure you're more knowledgeable about than me) That being said however it's admirable that you're still thinking that you WANT to make a change, a lot of people can't even admit that in the first place
This is great. For the part in the middle, I feel like your essentially saying: "Your responsibility for your success and situation is between 0% and 100%, but is neither 0% or 100%. So act as if its 100%, and understand its probably not. Then at least, youll own as much of your life as you feasibly could."
Exactly. No one decided the exact circumstance they are in. But everyone can at least change their own behavior. Giving it your all and genuinely trying at least makes the best of your situation, no matter what it is.
I am reminded of a comic strip I read once, and it is of the same ilk as this video: Not everyone who works very hard will be successful. But everyone who is successful, has worked very hard.
There are very few people willing to humble themselves to help others. I have watched you for years and I do ZERO board repair. I do work with electronics for fun, but I am encouraged by your videos and your outreach efforts. I always try to inspire those coming up behing me and I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you. Best of luck in your new diggs!
You counting all the random stuff you failed at is 100% what I needed right now in my life. I'm caught up worried that my ideas aren't good enough so I just keep coming up with new ones and writing them off before I even get momentum because "it won't be big enough"
The thing with trying and failing that most people forget is that experience from failing is valuable. Even if you don't succeed in the thing you set out to do at first you just might pick up some skills that will help you later. So even failing isn't 100% waste of time. I learned a lot from the few shitty TH-cam videos I made (and deleted most because they are really bad). And for me that's a good value for the time I invested
@@existinginaspace8347 that's why the advice is "start with whatever you got", don't waste money you don't have on something you don't know if you even like to do.
People do that all the time when it comes to exercise. For example, a person wanting to start biking goes to the bike shop and gets the perfect Lance Armstrong outfit, without just getting on the bike.
People do it with it nutrition a lot too. They try to reinvent all their eating habits then wonder why they give up on it. They should have been evaluating and optimizing the stuff they already normally eat. Foraging for berries on 5-mile mountain hikes isn't gonna help you get abs when you can't control portions at home.
Agreed. As someone who is good at his job and makes over 200k/yr, I still fear trying things I haven't done before. I do usually end up forcing myself, but some projects take me forever because of that fear. The dumbest part is I have few actual failures and they weren't that bad anyway. So I don't know why that fear still exists. Drives me nuts sometimes.
Something that helps me try new things is the knowledge that doing new things causes more neurons and dendrites to grow. Doing something new helps the old as well. Fascinating science behind neurogenesis.
Louis, thank you for this video. I have wasted the last 2-4 years of my life due to not trying. I really have to change my mindset and not try to be perfect, but just do *something*. A mediocre result is still better than no result…
I suggest you try to do the best you can every time. Don't get me wrong. Something is better than nothing but the time will come when you want more and more. Self-improvement is a life long commitment. Wish you the best!
Louis, I’ve been hating on myself for my failures for so long now and it’s taken me to very dark places. You have no idea how much the hope this video gave me means to me, hearing even you failed too. Thank you.
We are always told and made a big deal of our failures. I'm just as guilty at times. You are on point with what you said in this video...some of the greatest geniuses failed at a lot of their projects before they hit their mark. Thank you.
Goddamnit, I'll echo what someone else said on another video - never did I expect so much true words of wisdom from an electronics repair guy and his channel.
Can I just thank you Mr Rossmann, I really needed to hear the advice you said about being terrified of public humiliation. I've been terrified of the exact situation you used, getting laughed at for saying Hi. Even taking months to say 'Hi' to a new hire at work. Someday, I'll be able to work up the nerve. Thank you for all you do for us all
Good advice for almost anything in life. I recently had to make a switch from the church I was attending for various reasons that finally pushed me to leave, but if I kept having the attitude that there isn't something better for me, then I would never attend a different church. Same would be true for any type of group fellowship like a club or sports team.
Wow the gym example really hit home. Was planning on going to the gym only when all my sweatbands and workout clothes came in. Only to realise that im just going to continue delaying it even when those clothes arrive. Gonna go to the gym tonight in whatever i have now. Thanks Louis
There is a saying in cybersecurity that is as follows: "Good security now is better than perfect security never". It does not take much rephrasing for this to be applicable to many other areas of life
People aren't afraid of failure, in my experience. They're afraid of unpacking the bag of shit that is the consequences of that failure. Failing when asking a girl out might come with becoming a pariah in their social circle. Failing to start a business might come with crippling debt they can never recover from. Breaking up with a toxic partner might come with losing your job because you're homeless and can't clean yourself enough to be presentable at work. The trick isn't telling people to just do it and get started, it's dealing with the over-inflated anxiety that doesn't represent reality. You have to break it down into small, low risk chunks. Just say hi to her. Start that job as a side hustle. Talk to your friends about having somewhere to crash. Start simple
I like to think of it as a game of poker: You don't win every hand of poker. You sure as fuck shouldn't bet everything that you have on one hand. You're not going to know everything you need to know about tells and everyone else before you start playing. But if you bet a little bit every hand and never go big or go home, eventually you'll have the skills to be decent at the game. You'll wake up one day and realize, "Holy shit I'm actually pretty good at this now.."
300% behind this message. While I... might *not* have such an extensive list of failed enterprises behind me, there were a few tentative careers and goals in life that did not pan out. And now? Yeah, let's just say I failed WAY up! *ALWAYS* be on the lookout for what you enjoy doing, what you have a talent for! (I ended up with bachelor's degrees in two topics I'm fascinated by, learned one language to passable conversational level that I otherwise wouldn't have learned, and made my nerdiness work very well for me at my current workplace. Bring ALL your skills to the board, particularly the apparently irrelevant ones!)
Thank you for this speech. I was encouraged by people to start TH-cam channel. But I never did it (since 2012). They did burned out eventually, but they did enjoyed the journey, while I'm feeding myself with "I want to try new things, but I'm afraid of trying, so I won't do it".
Good advice. When I was young I was totally naive but wanted to make music, make games, etc. So many people said you know everyone wants to make music or be in a band and only 1 in a million makes it. You should do something else. They frustrated me. No one encouraged me at all, but I rejected them and did my own thing. 10ish years later I was at the top of my game and had an amazing career. All the other artists I knew that were successful related this experience. Back yourself, and yes just start, you will be hopeless to begin with, there's no way to bypass that. I had no ability whatsoever when I started out.
for me the thing that made me try fixing my gadgets was the mindset of "it's already not working and I'm pretty sure I will buy a new one anyways. what's the worst that could happen? it'll stop working twice as hard" a lot of it was learning experience and over-time the success came more often than the failures.
Love your way of looking at life. Ignoring the whingers is a skill of its own, but perhaps giving them the middle finger for trying to drag others down is the even better thing.
This is such a powerful and totally true message, and it's of the sort that you just need to hear over and over again. I have been moonlighting my creative career for over 10 years. I refuse to give up and keep on trying all sorts of things, because I just have this belief that I will win the battle even though it's an uphill fight. Thank you for all your videos, and keep on doing what you are doing.
"Quick and dirty wins the race" Daring Greatly - Brene Brown I keep saying this to people all the time. They have to get the perfect software, b roll clips, good camera, good system to render videos even when they have not made one video. I always say, make it quick, make it dirty but do it. Whatever it is. Also, people laughing at you if you fail is so so true and it hits my heart. I have stayed back in my life just because of random people laughing at me that I never really tried in the past decade. It's only now that I have started doing the same.
I feel such elation when I achieve a goal that forced me outside my comfort zone into strange, new fields of science/technology and relied on my willingness to fail, rejection of failure until I've exhausted all realistic options and the ability to self-motivate even when I'm being discouraged by others or my own questionable self-confidence. Despite my constant battle with depression and anxiety, the shitty emotional and psychological effects of failure can't overcome my need to experience success. I've been in such dark places that I would have literally done anything to not be in anymore. Even those extreme methods some may think up weren't feasible options for me. I would do anything to avoid ever returning to such places. What I'm saying is that I know we're all experiencing life differently and that there's an enormous difference between the opposite ends of the spectrum that define the worst and best quality of life that people are experiencing. I'm not one to get others to believe things that I don't genuinely believe are true myself. I won't tell you that you can achieve impossible things by just (not) doing stuff. I won't be the one to discourage you from reaching for the stars when I believe it might be done, no matter how difficult it would be. I'll share my true thoughts on the matter which will go something like "i don't believe this is feasible" or "it's not going to be easy but I believe it can be done". I'll gladly hype up each achievement someone makes during their journey. And I'll be empathetic, won't join a self-pity party, but will encourage them to get back up when they're down. I'll be the guy who's proud of you but not shocked when you achieve your goal. And I won't be the guy who gets joy if you fail, no matter what my feelings were on the likelihood of your success. What I believe to be true is just a matter of opinion based on my personal history. I know many things that are generally believed to be true and consider them to be true as well in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary or a lack of evidence supporting that conclusion. It doesn't matter how many people believe in ghosts, gods or a flat Earth. As far as I'm concerned, they're all bullshit since no tangible evidence supporting their existence exists but science and logic suggests that they're unlikely, especially the flat Earth since evidence of a mostly spherical Earth has been found over and over but never has there been real evidence of flat Earth. So I may or may not outright tell you you're wrong if you try telling me that any of those things are true. I'll hold my tongue if doing so will skip drama and allow us to move on. If you continue to spout fairytales as truth, I'm going to shut you down for the simple reason that I find misinformation repugnant and I believe it's our duty to prevent the spread of mis-/disinformation when we come across it. You might not be able to change what the source considers true but you might be able to stop the spread, at least in that instance. It may seem harmless or even proper to let others evangelize as an example of freedom of expression. I wouldn't dream of taking away that freedom from anyone. But there's no right to freedom from opposition and unless someone is willing to voice such opposition, mis-/disinformation is able to spread freely, even to people who you might expect to recognize and reject such things. How many of you have been shocked to realize that someone you know well believes something thoroughly disproven or refuses to believe something tangible evidence exists in support? We're being gamed and if we don't take info poisoning very seriously and find a way to combat it, we are truly fucked. Truth and falsehood are becoming fluid rather than absolute states which are mutually exclusive. And I'm not talking about how something can be true in Newtonian physics but false in quantum. I'm talking about QAnon, antivaxxers, Fox News and such. harmful falsehoods spread as truth which interfere with the spread of truthful information that may be extremely important for people to have. Young adults these days who are intelligent and aware of how much bullshit is being spread as truth are rejecting knowledge that seems suspect despite being entirely true but not fitting with the world as they think they know it. Info fatigue is hitting everyone and burning many out to the point that they have to disconnect completely, retreat into echo chambers or just tune out/reject difficult information in favor of entertainment and things that can just be experienced and not analyzed or scrutinized for deception. Some dive into science/tech/making which tends to be more accurate than not and if not it's usually the result of a mistake rather than intent to disinform. I hope people can find a balance between spending their time on leisure activities and spending it on more serious matters. Everyone needs time to decompress and most need to spend time doing things just for pleasure. That's just fine and healthy. I think it's also important to spend time doing things just to expand their knowledge and acquire new skills. It doesn't need to be something they aren't interested in. It doesn't even have to be applicable to their lives. Just as long as they're continuing to grow intellectually, exercise their minds and apply logic. Fuck me, I've just rambled all over your comments. If anyone actually reads all this, please click something to let me know. I don't care what just so long as I'm aware that the void wasn't my sole audience and the lifetime I just spent wasn't a complete waste. If you find yourself regretting having spent lifetime reading this, I apologize. I hate being a waste of resources.
I used to be stuck in an abusive family situation w a mother who would constantly poison the well and tell me I'm nothing but a failure and that I shouldn't try, and that I'll only wind up penniless and on the streets if I follow my dreams. Escaped that last year, and in less than one year I am making more money than I ever thought possible, living in a city I love, have had multiple professional voice acting gigs, and have done so much. But I never would have knocked it out of the park like this if I never swung the damn bat. Could I do better? Yeah. Have a laundry list of failures and entered 2022 homeless. But I am better than I was yesterday and if I keep on doing new things I'll be better tomorrow than I am today.
You know, Louis that even though most of what you are saying is common sense, sometimes it's just good to hear it from another person as a reminder. It's easy to focus on negative things if you procrastinate, which is a self perpetuating cycle. I have to make lists of even the most minute things to keep me on track, medium/short/long term goals. I take a goal, then subdivide it into multiple bite size tasks, then start doing the small stuff first. The trick is to START DOING! It really snowballs when you can keep checking off goals as you attain them and find yourself attaining "long term" goals sooner than you thought. Watching one of your videos this morning on odysee gave me the kick in the ass I needed to get back to work on some stuff I've been putting off. I'm half way done with my project and taking a break right now. I can't figure out how to comment on the videos there, so I just came here to say thanks!
I've been watching for a while and I never subscribed, but this video rings true for me and alot of people, I've been working on it, thank you for speaking on this Louis.
Thank you for posting this Louis. I've been loosing my motivation for life ATM. Currently just working for the sake of working trying to find out what I want to do. I'll probably have this video saved for a while.
Yep! I remember that the BEST part about starting a new business was using the 'investor's money' to go SHOPPING for new Top of the Line COMPUTERS & OFFICE HARDWARE, BUYING FURNITURE & Getting COOL new BUSINESS CARDS printed! Actually MAKING SALES and becoming PROFITABLE were secondary to feeling like BIG SHOTS buying Leather Couches for our OWN OFFICES!
Success feels great, especially when you've failed several times. The important thing is that you keep moving forward. I got a BA In psychology in 2018. It took me almost a year to find a job in my field (late 2019). Four months later, in March 2020, I got laid off due to the pandemic. While I got some temporary positions after that point, I have not had a "real job" since 2020. Only seasonal or fill-in positions. I am still searching every day on several job websites for something to do, all while facing the reality that I could be broke next month. Does this stop me from trying? No. To me, this is a challenge. I know I have to make ends meet, but that's not the be all and end all when you're looking for a job, or a career, or anything. Find something you enjoy doing, and pursue it. As a side note, this DOES cause me anxiety and stress. But I refuse to let that paralyze me into inaction. I am on the autism spectrum, have generalized anxiety, and ADHD. I still wake up every day ready to try again. You can, too :)
Hi Louis been watching you for a while now ang because of you I've been buying "broken" cheap stuff and try and fix them and I must say it actually relaxes me when I'm fixing stuff and the rush that I get when I succeed is amazing. I'm not on the board level kind of stuff yet but I'm really interested to learn that skill. If I'm in Texas I would definitely come by and say hi. Keep doing what you're doing brother!
You may think you’re not good at a lot of things, but you’re good at what counts. Speaking off the cuff. That was truly great. (And I’m already successful and old enough to not need the help)
“Nothing In The World Can Take The Place Of Persistence. Talent Will Not; Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful Men With Talent. Genius Will Not; Unrewarded Genius Is Almost A Proverb. Education Will Not; The World Is Full Of Educated Derelicts. Persistence And Determination Alone Are Omnipotent. The Slogan “Press On” Has Solved And Always Will Solve The Problems Of The Human Race.” - Calvin Coolidge
What they seem to forget is that everyone starts somewhere. In the myriad hobbies I've gotten into, I seldom get mocked for doing something stupid because those in the field realize that they made the same exact mistakes. When you try something new, you should go into it with the mindset that you will mess up and more likely than not everyone else has made the same mistakes
I've been working on this type of positive mindset for about the past 6 months and damn is it liberating! You will ALWAYS be your greatest critic and sometimes you just have to tell yourself you're full of shit and get the job done.
It is a good mindset to learn from failures. It is just unfortunate that some failures may be the last failures that some may ever make in their lives…
What many do not understand about failure is that it is nothing more than a chance to learn and improve. Instead, so many quit because they are afraid of failure.
This video helped me a lot Louis. You don't know how much you changed not only myself, to all your fellow subscribers, who have supported you the moment they discovered you. Hope to meet you in person. You're an awesome guy.
A quote I have read “Believing that you can and your halfway there”. Theses days I play solo gigs at retirement homes and it took a lot of putting myself out there. Having a ball every time I play a gig.
This is great advice. I am one of those that wish I could do what you suggested. Honestly. The only excuse is I have none of the essentials. No, I am not talking about "what should I get to do..." I have a potato PC, and no phone. Ha. After getting, hurt, I've failed a lot. I use it as a stepping stone. Things I have learned stack up, perhaps I can combine them later, but we will see. Just keep moving forward is all I (or anyone else) can do. Have a good day all.
When I first watched your videos, you made me realize how modern technology companies are stifling education and creativity in the name of profit. 4 years later I've opened my own technology company that does just that in spite of all the citricism, shaming, and skepticism. Thank you louis rossmann.
Gotta admit, I finally picked up a soldering iron because of this channel. Started doing minor repairs on my gaming consoles. CMOS battery, broken power port, etc. I still suck at it, but it is actually fun to do. Being frustrated and cussing is a form of catharsis when things finally work. When people want to give a gift to me, I usually say no, but if they insist, I give them a parts and tool list.
Comments like that guy left aren’t helpful at all since that’s the type of self-doubt people have to overcome to start. To think they’re being original and a source of helpful information when they just parrot what a lot of people have already thought about when they start a new venture. I got this too. I am trying to start a business and some people around me have brought up issues with my plans (not helpful critique just criticism). I simply said, “you don’t think this is the first thing I thought of and had to work through?” Thanks for these types of videos, you’re 100% correct
Love it. My dad always told me to run my own race. Do what you can with what you have. In my creative prospects its so hard to ignore others within my own space even the people I interact with online. There will always be someone better than me and I would be LYING if I said it didn't bother me, but I keep doing what I want to do because I like to do it.
I really appreciate the new Thumbnails in your videos. They are clean and very readable. the thumbnails from the last 3 weeks for the most part (not all of them follow the same language understandably) look great! Cheers! Stay Healthy and Stay Sane!
This is so true. If you're able, do. If you aren't sure if you're able... do it anyway - its the only way you'll find out. And you learn from failure. But .. and this is key, just don't shame people who have tried and can't. I dont feel like Louis is doing that but a lot of people do. I've got a little brain damage but its not obvious. Makes me slow. I can't count the number of times people have told me i'm not trying hard enough, and should just do this or that, and blames me for failing at stuff. F those people, lack of success is NOT evidence of lack of effort.
Hey, I was of that blackpilled mentality since I was 15. I had given up on all hopes of getting a good life. Diagnosed with depression at 12, dropped out of high school at 16, unemployed, addicted, virgin with no real friends. I had a profound experience at 21 after that all, of my completely changed: Took some time to break all of my addictions (codeine smoking, weed). I have been clean ever since. Finally had the balls to do a job interview and I specifically chose things that are hard to see how much I can push myself. Turned out to be quite a bit more than what I expected. Expected to only find boring uninteresting losers but was shocked by how interesting most people were. Met 2 persons I can truly call friends, people I can rely on who are interesting and positive to my life. Found out I can still fall in love. I got the balls to ask for their number and actually got it which shocked me. It did not work out, but she was so nice about it which I did not expect. I'm so glad it happened, even if it failed because of how much I learned. Quit my job to go back in school to become an electrician which will open a door to higher education. (My lack of education is a big insecurity). Got my driving license, started working out, taking care of myself and gave attention to my hobbies (guitar, hiking, knifemaking soldering). I also cut ties with the toxic friends and family which helped a lot. Before, I was trying to pass time as fast as possible by wasting it because of the pain that was living and now I wish I had more time in the day to do everything I want to do. A great problem to have. I still suck in all of the things I'm trying to do, but I'm getting better every day. Sorry about the life story, I'm finally happy and I want to share it.
tomorrow i'm going to attempt my first ever circuit board work, by replacing a micro USB port. i'll either fix it - or burn it up, but both will be a learning experience - and the device already doesn't work as is. i have generally felt that any human can learn to do anything any other human can learn to do - given enough time and interest. i've been watching youtube vids on soldering and hot air replacement for the past week, and i think i'm ready to dive in. thanks for being super duper.
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Last week I released three videos on my TH-cam channel. I worked hard on them for atleast two months, improving my video editing skills, audio recording, learnt graphic design fro the thumbnails. They bombed horribly, I felt like crap for the next day lamenting my failure, feeling angry that others with less effort and skill got more success, I felt like quitting naming videos.
But eventually I learnt the right way to deal with failure, learn and move on. I learnt to value the skills I learnt along the way, value the courage I had to put myself out there and make something instead of safely consuming all day. I know why those videos bombed and next time I can take the new skills and make something better that gets more material success.
I want to experience failure now, its the best way to learn and get better, it's a healthy normal part of life you should embrace.
This happens at every level. I did a video on the homeless problem in New York state that was a deep dive into it, it got 200,000 views. Tech rax kills cockroaches and gets 9 million views.
If you get depressed while doing something because somebody else appears to be doing better, you'll jump off a bridge. My boss is worth over a billion dollars and knows several people worth many times more than him who are complete idiots and useless. It never ends.
@@rossmanngroup Very true. I was reading an article that says you should not focus too much on material measures of success like views or money. It seems like good advice to stay sane when creating something.
What were these three videos, and what were the original amount of views?
4 years ago I was 300lbs, working a shitty gig as a security guard watching your videos just to keep my sanity. A year after that I got 2 certs from IPC for motherboard rework and repair. I'm currently 200lbs, in a food manufacturing job after my electronic repair store was shut down due to mismanagement, and I fix not only my devices, but I still offer friends and family my skills to help fix their stuff. A good number of phones and tablets that never would've been put back together if you never uploaded. Thanks for sharing your skills, and your journey. Hopefully in the near future I can get back into it as a career somehow, but I felt like helping with the algorithm and giving you a positive story to read.
dude mad props to ya, 👏👏
The fight is just as important as the victory. Sometimes maybe moreso.
You rock man
You dropped this, my man: 👑👑
Badass, good work Lad.
hey louis, your repair videos got my interested in circuit boards, 4 years later i now earn my money with pcb design thank you
@@Tie509 depends on the client, i work freelance. Started learning with KiCAD, now I prefer working in EAGLE, but mostly Altium
@@gillsejusbates6938 >kicad is free
Genuinely appreciate the rec of free software
There's a BIG difference between Louis's good message (try with whatever cheap stuff you have) vs the message of self-help scam artists (buy my product, otherwise you aren't really trying).
The knowledge that 90% of people fail, is a genuine reason to say no to the 2nd message. But not the 1st.
The product I have been trying to sell for the last year are paying people to contribute to repair.wiki and I have been a failing salesman at that :-(
@@rossmanngroup i actually contributed something to repair.wiki . I added an article on how to fix samsung tablet S with colourful flickering lines across the screen (i think) by disconnecting and reconnecting the screen cable inside. Do you btw know how to fix samsung s3 which is otherwise functional but there is no video output? (Reacts to touch input on the same screen but no video output.) I am an aspiring 18-year-old repair fanatic. I have a hot air gun here at home which I can use. Any tips?
Louis already gets his cash from his repair business and TH-cam channel so he doesn't have to resort to peddling self-help books and bootycheekscoin
This is why, nearly age 40, I still don't know what to do with my life. When he was alive, my father was always telling me what I can't do (Which was everything except what he wanted me to do). This has left me at a sort-of life stalemate now, as my brain is still full of all that negativity, and my body is rejecting the years of hard labor that has taken its toll. I do repairs on computers and phones for family and friends. Even tried to make a business of it once (Competition had me shut down, long story). Now I just don't know what to do next. My knees are shot, I have 3 back injuries and a heart condition that is slowly killing me. My next job HAS to be at a desk, or I'm gonna die before I'm 50.
TL;DR: Moral: Encourage your kids to try anything and everything. Anything less stunts their growth and will hurt them later in life.
Hey, James: When I was 48 I never made more than $50k a year. Last job during that time was so unnerving, I developed an ulcer as big as a "plum" (said my Greek gastro MD). I took advantage of the few months of unemployment I had while healing and learned a bit of marketing tech, some cloud, rolled the dice and started a new career when just a year before I thought I was done. Like, fucked. A year after that, I got a 3mo gig on a software platform (still can't code, but I can admin) that opened doors everywhere. That was 4 years ago. I'm makiing 3x what I was when I got the ulcer. With an exciting successful young company. Where I'm respected and where I want to make a difference and make them even more successful. Life is good. You can do this. Gotta take that first step. Smother the self doubt. Ignore the haters. And what motivated me the most? Spite. Pure unadulterated spite -- for all the people who wanted me to fail. (Burned many bridges, got a big mouth -- but a good heart) Those who lurked on my LinkedIn page. Who asked me about me with others. Not to hear good news. But to hear that I was struggling. Failing. Every time I didn't want to write another cover letter, or fill out another app or go through with an interview I wasn't qualified for. I did it anyway. Out of spite. Maybe not the healthiest motivation. But it worked for me. And I smile a lot easier these days.
Wise words, Louis. In my case, I was big into metal back in the 80s and I wanted to play guitar. I started with a $10 POS from a garage sale and spent another $30 getting it in working order. I found out I sucked at it, but my brother was good. I got fascinated with how the simple instrument was producing these layers of sound, so I got into understanding how the audio works, effects, etc. You know you can use a SINGLE diode and make your cheap ass guitar distort like hell. Anyway, this led me into Elec Engineering in college and I've been doing that as a career (mostly in research) which I still love to do after all these years.
reminds me of how i got into ukulele,
my sister bought a bright pink one but got frustrated within a werk cause her hands were too small
i ended up picking it out of boredom one day and before i knew it i was playing no problem
one of my favorite instruments since, and that was back in 2014
Making music isn't always about being perfect, it's about exploring soundscapes, never be afraid to try new things
Failures are the stepping stones to success.
Research! Respect, man! I do programming, and sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be doing research in programming languages or computer science techniques
Sometimes we search for one thing but discover another.
So, I do gaming livestreams, I get bugger all viewers. One guy joined a few days ago, he said "lol, you only have 3 viewers, why even bother streaming"
My reply: I'm streaming because I can, I don't care if nobody watches, I'm having fun, blow me"
And I keep on doing it.
The only proper answer to someone like that is to gargle your balls
That's too much of a response for the low-effort troll
Two words would be enough for them
Have fun and that is all that really matters.
In highschool when I started going to the gym someone said: "you're so weak, why are you even going to the gym?".
Some people just don't think about it, they only have the stereotypes in their heads: "gym goers are big and strong" or "it's only worth streaming if you have lots of viewers". It's not even trolling I think, they just don't know better.
@@Marqan Those types of people don't think. They haven't even tried thinking or being self-aware in their whole lives. Just, mindless herd.
It can be boiled down to these two mindsets:
-You can't fail if you don't try
vs.
-You can't succeed if you don't try
You should want to be the latter. You'll have more to show at the end of the day. More fulfillment, and more to be proud of.
This, but it kind of depends on the way their brain is wired. If they get really hurt from failure then the risk of failing exceeds the potential gains from succeeding. People shouldn't assume every human feels things in the exact way they do. "Keep trying, if you don't try you 100% fail anyway" only works if there is no COST to trying. In the real world there often is a cost.
@@lekhakaananta5864 So what if there's a cost? Everything costs. But not everything has a reward for its cost. Success -- small or large -- does.
@@mikecane Some costs are more costly than others. If you disregard the degree of costs for your different options then you're just walking through life blindly without making good decisions. There are uncountably different things you could try. So which of those options are you going to actually try with the limited amount of time and energy you have?
@@lekhakaananta5864 I think you missed the point of Louis' video. It's start cheaply. Do you know how many huge TH-camrs started with just a cellphone? TikTok is cellphone-based. All it take it the will and some time. People who wont even try are more afraid of it not being "perfect" than anything else. Get the book Streampunks. Written by a TH-cam exec. The stories in there will astonish you.
And less money, as well as a broken down van the city's going to repo cause you can't move it, fix it, or pay anyone else to fix it.
My dad always told me that failure is not just an important part of the learning process, but a necessary one. Failure is how you learn both what to do and what not to do. He also said that it's not the act of failing that makes you a failure, but how you respond to failure that determines it. And he always emphasized being willing to try new things and learn something new. The day you stop learning is the day you die. He's completely right, as are you. I've fallen into the mindset of wanting to be perfect before trying something and it's always blown up iny face. The lesson? Running from failure doesn't make it go away, it just makes it worse when it inevitably catches up. Get comfortable with it to the point where you can shrug or even laugh it off. You'll be much better off for it.
You learn more from a drop of defeat than an ocean of victory.
@@gorak9000 There's a first time for everything. I'll have some idea once I've done it that once.
Been watching you for almost ten years now. Thanks for all the free knowledge Louis. You helped me to be confident in my abilities and I'm so thankful to take that forward and teach others
Fantastic video. Its sad how many people have this mindset nowadays. When I went to college for art everyone told me I would fail and theres no jobs for it. My brain told me to atleast take the path that had the most jobs (3D). But I kept working on drawing/ painting because its what I enjoy. Consistent hard work earned me a job doing background paintings for an animation studio, and 6 years later I couldnt be happier I kept trying and didnt give into all the negative feedback around me
Congratulations, man. You did good and for what it's worth, this complete nobody is very proud of you.
My sister just began home schooling he children. That takes balls because i know people around her passively inject doubt and attack her hope but she is still doing it.
Louis always dropping the hard truths. Unfortunately there will be people that will find this hard to swallow. Like the original commenter.
Many subscribed for the board repair, many for the cat videos, who knows how many for the retail drama, many more for right to repair. But this kind of video, full of UN-purchasable advice that is what I subscribed for.
I want to admit that my response to this will seem arrogant, but I can assure you it comes from a caring heart for people who are "lost" in the mentality you mentioned here.
When I was 16 I decided I wanted to be a software engineer, so I decided to start early and learn as much as I could before going to college/getting a career. Since then, I have caught shit from people for being "too into" computers/ spending too much time on them. My dad always hated the fact that I had more screen time per day than sun time lol. The entire time my goal was to, while most people my age were out partying (and some getting pregnant lol), learn as much as I can while I'm young so I can be financially stable enough to have fun throughout the entirety of my 20's. Now, at 20 years old, I make more as a software developer than most of the adults I have in my life.
ALL of my friends who are between 24-30 are struggling because they never found a work ethic that allowed them to put TONS of hours into getting good at one thing. They are all lost both financially and professionally, and have no drive/passion to push them to do greater things with their lives. It's largely because of the issue you've mentioned here. They have told me many times that they "couldn't" do something...whether it was because they weren't smart enough, not enough time, etc. On one hand I feel like they're just lazy, but at the same time I feel awful for them because they suffer from what I like to call "chronic failure disease"...where they convince themselves that, no matter what, they will fail. It seems to be truly saddening lifestyle and I know someone close to me who struggles with that pretty hard (although recently I convinced him to just shoot for the fucking moon and his mental health seems to be doing much better!). What these people don't understand is that, once you go all-in on something once, it gets easier to do it the next time...and the next time...and so forth.
My point is: I know from personal experience that TRYING is the biggest step to becoming successful in what you want to do. I have "failed" many times throughout the course of learning Comp Sci/Sof Dev material (I mean shit I still fail like every day lol), but every time it teaches me how to be a better developer, and the simple act of putting in time to learn has gotten me so much further than if I would've just given up in the beginning when shit got hard.
Thanks for making this video man. I feel like this is something a lot of people from my generation struggle with and should hear.
With due respect, and only partially in response to what you've written, let me provide another perspective.
I've never cared about money. At the same time, I've never cared about partying, either, nor getting pregnant, nor getting others pregnant. Instead, with my free time, I've always done what I thought would give me some sort of personal satisfaction.
Career-wise, this meant I decided to pursue my lifelong passion, which was mathematics. I'm 26 years old and into my sixth and final year of my PhD, and I've come to realize that math is not my lifelong passion. You say you were 16 when you decided you wanted to be a software engineer, and now you're 20 and giving out life advice? I decided in middle school that math was my purpose, and I self-studied religiously through high school. I breezed through undergraduate, and my master's was a fair challenge. It was only after a decade of applying myself that I realized it's ultimately going to mean nothing more than a piece of paper testifying to my supposed mastery of a subject that's now dead to me and that never gave me any recognition or satisfaction. _That's_ what failure feels like.
I cheated on my lifelong passion with hobbies along the way, but they all left me, too.
I've run over 1000 miles according to my logbook, and yet I struggle to run a 5k. I'm always drenched in sweat when I finish, and I've run myself into shin splints multiple times.
I've written multiple novels, but no one will read them. And why would they? Try as might, there are simply better books out there.
I've spent years playing Go, and chess before that, but it would be an understatement to say I never went pro. Thousands of hours spent reading tactics books, opening books, puzzles of life-and-death and mate-in-four, and of course, playing, playing, playing. What did it all amount to?
And then the bigger failures of my life, like the months I spent not learning how to draw, or not learning how to play the piano. Czerny could not help me, nor could Prokopenko.
What was the point of it all, if I just wound up a failure anyway? If nothing else, I feel like it renders me immune to the criticism of being called a _lazy_ failure, or one who never tried. And with more and more confidence, I can disregard the advice of people addicted to their own success that they see everyone else as chronic quitters.
@@Enuchful From what little information you have provided here, you sound burnt out. Maybe therapy will help?
@@xFlow150 I've pursued it at multiple junctures, but it's no silver bullet. I would even go so far as to say that it's just useless for a large swath of people who are advised to pursue it (especially the economically disadvantaged), and that it's a misconception that the medical world has anywhere near as much competence treating mental health as it does treating physical health.
I think that "survivorship bias" is mainly meant for avoiding ruinous risk. Things like gambling or making high-risk investments based on success stories. If you tell people "invest your spare time trying to develop skills" that's low risk, high reward. It's just spare time. Survivorship bias arguments are pointless if you lose practically nothing by trying. But if a crypto billionaire is trying to get you to invest your life savings into RiskCoin, saying "it worked for me bro" **then** survivorship bias is important to remember.
Good food for thinking there 🍻
You can lose a lot even without money invested. You can lose a lot of time, years maybe. And you can lose all your reputation, be humiliated and locked out of opportunities.
@@Journey_to_who_knows Anyone with time in their life to read comments on TH-cam has spare time. Using that spare time on learning a skill instead of chatting in comments sections, is not going to be a significant loss. Also, you're not going to be locked out of opportunities by trying to learn a marketable skill. It's not like we're saying you should get a face tattoo. Worst case scenario, you just don't need or use the knowledge and skills you gained.
@@pismodude2 You can learn all you want but to put 99% of knowledge to any purpose that’s not trivial like making warhammer dolls or some shit like that, you will have to put yourself at risk
@@Journey_to_who_knows It's not a risk if you would have wasted the time commenting on websites anyway.
"Anything worth doing well is also worth doing poorly." --Jordan Peterson. If there is a single quote from him I wish I heard twenty years ago . . . that would be the one. Thanks for all your hard work Louis!
needed this today---badly. thank you, Louis. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky
I'm in that mindset right now with my bachelors degree in STEM. Due to Covid it was hard for me to study without the structure that the University would normally give me. And the human mind is great at coming up with excuses. My brain always goes back to:
"well due to covid its too hard to...anyways"
And it is pretty hard to just say "lets try" regardless of these different problems we are faced with.
I would be more successful and maybe already finished with my bachelors if that would be easy.
I think that isn't as unreasonable of a reason, comfort is important when it comes to education and tons of people have the hardest time paying attention if they're not in a proper classroom (which is the most essential thing when learning, as I'm sure you're more knowledgeable about than me)
That being said however it's admirable that you're still thinking that you WANT to make a change, a lot of people can't even admit that in the first place
"It's not easy." WTF is? So DO it anyway.
This is great. For the part in the middle, I feel like your essentially saying:
"Your responsibility for your success and situation is between 0% and 100%, but is neither 0% or 100%. So act as if its 100%, and understand its probably not. Then at least, youll own as much of your life as you feasibly could."
Exactly. No one decided the exact circumstance they are in. But everyone can at least change their own behavior. Giving it your all and genuinely trying at least makes the best of your situation, no matter what it is.
I am reminded of a comic strip I read once, and it is of the same ilk as this video:
Not everyone who works very hard will be successful.
But everyone who is successful, has worked very hard.
There are very few people willing to humble themselves to help others. I have watched you for years and I do ZERO board repair. I do work with electronics for fun, but I am encouraged by your videos and your outreach efforts. I always try to inspire those coming up behing me and I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate you. Best of luck in your new diggs!
You counting all the random stuff you failed at is 100% what I needed right now in my life. I'm caught up worried that my ideas aren't good enough so I just keep coming up with new ones and writing them off before I even get momentum because "it won't be big enough"
The thing with trying and failing that most people forget is that experience from failing is valuable. Even if you don't succeed in the thing you set out to do at first you just might pick up some skills that will help you later. So even failing isn't 100% waste of time.
I learned a lot from the few shitty TH-cam videos I made (and deleted most because they are really bad). And for me that's a good value for the time I invested
But it can be a waste of money! And if your living paycheck to paycheck then you probably can't afford to risk it
@@existinginaspace8347 that's why the advice is "start with whatever you got", don't waste money you don't have on something you don't know if you even like to do.
The problem is how much somebody will lose when they fail. Not everybody can lose everything they have and just get right back up.
True, acknowledging the stakes is important, as well as not inflating them needlessly.
People do that all the time when it comes to exercise. For example, a person wanting to start biking goes to the bike shop and gets the perfect Lance Armstrong outfit, without just getting on the bike.
People do it with it nutrition a lot too. They try to reinvent all their eating habits then wonder why they give up on it.
They should have been evaluating and optimizing the stuff they already normally eat. Foraging for berries on 5-mile mountain hikes isn't gonna help you get abs when you can't control portions at home.
Agreed. As someone who is good at his job and makes over 200k/yr, I still fear trying things I haven't done before. I do usually end up forcing myself, but some projects take me forever because of that fear. The dumbest part is I have few actual failures and they weren't that bad anyway. So I don't know why that fear still exists. Drives me nuts sometimes.
Something that helps me try new things is the knowledge that doing new things causes more neurons and dendrites to grow. Doing something new helps the old as well. Fascinating science behind neurogenesis.
Louis, thank you for this video. I have wasted the last 2-4 years of my life due to not trying. I really have to change my mindset and not try to be perfect, but just do *something*. A mediocre result is still better than no result…
I suggest you try to do the best you can every time. Don't get me wrong. Something is better than nothing but the time will come when you want more and more. Self-improvement is a life long commitment. Wish you the best!
@@godnyx117 thank you
Same here but struggling.
Louis, I’ve been hating on myself for my failures for so long now and it’s taken me to very dark places. You have no idea how much the hope this video gave me means to me, hearing even you failed too. Thank you.
We are always told and made a big deal of our failures. I'm just as guilty at times. You are on point with what you said in this video...some of the greatest geniuses failed at a lot of their projects before they hit their mark. Thank you.
Goddamnit, I'll echo what someone else said on another video - never did I expect so much true words of wisdom from an electronics repair guy and his channel.
Can I just thank you Mr Rossmann, I really needed to hear the advice you said about being terrified of public humiliation. I've been terrified of the exact situation you used, getting laughed at for saying Hi. Even taking months to say 'Hi' to a new hire at work. Someday, I'll be able to work up the nerve. Thank you for all you do for us all
Thank you for fighting back learned helplessness.
Good advice for almost anything in life. I recently had to make a switch from the church I was attending for various reasons that finally pushed me to leave, but if I kept having the attitude that there isn't something better for me, then I would never attend a different church. Same would be true for any type of group fellowship like a club or sports team.
YES!! This is what I’m trying to teach my kids.
Still searching for my patio door. Thanks for the video Louis
Wow the gym example really hit home. Was planning on going to the gym only when all my sweatbands and workout clothes came in. Only to realise that im just going to continue delaying it even when those clothes arrive. Gonna go to the gym tonight in whatever i have now. Thanks Louis
There is a saying in cybersecurity that is as follows: "Good security now is better than perfect security never". It does not take much rephrasing for this to be applicable to many other areas of life
Thanks Daddy. I needed to hear this.
That's the content I came for on this channel. The life-important rants, the ones that matter so much
People aren't afraid of failure, in my experience. They're afraid of unpacking the bag of shit that is the consequences of that failure.
Failing when asking a girl out might come with becoming a pariah in their social circle.
Failing to start a business might come with crippling debt they can never recover from.
Breaking up with a toxic partner might come with losing your job because you're homeless and can't clean yourself enough to be presentable at work.
The trick isn't telling people to just do it and get started, it's dealing with the over-inflated anxiety that doesn't represent reality.
You have to break it down into small, low risk chunks. Just say hi to her. Start that job as a side hustle. Talk to your friends about having somewhere to crash. Start simple
I like to think of it as a game of poker: You don't win every hand of poker. You sure as fuck shouldn't bet everything that you have on one hand. You're not going to know everything you need to know about tells and everyone else before you start playing. But if you bet a little bit every hand and never go big or go home, eventually you'll have the skills to be decent at the game. You'll wake up one day and realize, "Holy shit I'm actually pretty good at this now.."
Thanks Thanks Thanks Thanks .....this is what I need to kick start my life again.
Dude I am glad you are getting out of NYC. I have a bad feeling about NYC..God Bless you!
I was a bit in doubt about the field that I’m currently going into and I needed to hear this. What timing! Thanks, Louis!
I needed this. Perfect timing. Thank you
I have failed, I have succeeded, and most importantly kept learning new things and continue trying. Stay strong
Thank you Louis. This came at the right time.
300% behind this message. While I... might *not* have such an extensive list of failed enterprises behind me, there were a few tentative careers and goals in life that did not pan out. And now? Yeah, let's just say I failed WAY up! *ALWAYS* be on the lookout for what you enjoy doing, what you have a talent for!
(I ended up with bachelor's degrees in two topics I'm fascinated by, learned one language to passable conversational level that I otherwise wouldn't have learned, and made my nerdiness work very well for me at my current workplace. Bring ALL your skills to the board, particularly the apparently irrelevant ones!)
Thank you for this speech. I was encouraged by people to start TH-cam channel. But I never did it (since 2012). They did burned out eventually, but they did enjoyed the journey, while I'm feeding myself with "I want to try new things, but I'm afraid of trying, so I won't do it".
Good advice. When I was young I was totally naive but wanted to make music, make games, etc. So many people said you know everyone wants to make music or be in a band and only 1 in a million makes it. You should do something else. They frustrated me. No one encouraged me at all, but I rejected them and did my own thing. 10ish years later I was at the top of my game and had an amazing career. All the other artists I knew that were successful related this experience. Back yourself, and yes just start, you will be hopeless to begin with, there's no way to bypass that. I had no ability whatsoever when I started out.
Thanks man, suffering from some imposter syndrome over my current project (GPS Guided Scarecrow). Good to hear some encouraging words!
that's some real good advice. the guy's real af ... just what i needed right now.
for me the thing that made me try fixing my gadgets was the mindset of "it's already not working and I'm pretty sure I will buy a new one anyways. what's the worst that could happen? it'll stop working twice as hard" a lot of it was learning experience and over-time the success came more often than the failures.
Absolutely! Honest words to live by my friend! It's hard to try and preach this mindset to others, they take it so negative.. Thank you!
Thanks Louis for the words of wisdom.
Been doing youtube since 2018 and had my breakthrough just 1 year ago.. now things are growing fast.
Yep, you have to keep pushing
Love your way of looking at life. Ignoring the whingers is a skill of its own, but perhaps giving them the middle finger for trying to drag others down is the even better thing.
Beautiful message. I think the same. And please do more videos like this 😍
This is such a powerful and totally true message, and it's of the sort that you just need to hear over and over again. I have been moonlighting my creative career for over 10 years. I refuse to give up and keep on trying all sorts of things, because I just have this belief that I will win the battle even though it's an uphill fight. Thank you for all your videos, and keep on doing what you are doing.
"Quick and dirty wins the race"
Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
I keep saying this to people all the time. They have to get the perfect software, b roll clips, good camera, good system to render videos even when they have not made one video. I always say, make it quick, make it dirty but do it. Whatever it is.
Also, people laughing at you if you fail is so so true and it hits my heart. I have stayed back in my life just because of random people laughing at me that I never really tried in the past decade. It's only now that I have started doing the same.
I feel such elation when I achieve a goal that forced me outside my comfort zone into strange, new fields of science/technology and relied on my willingness to fail, rejection of failure until I've exhausted all realistic options and the ability to self-motivate even when I'm being discouraged by others or my own questionable self-confidence. Despite my constant battle with depression and anxiety, the shitty emotional and psychological effects of failure can't overcome my need to experience success. I've been in such dark places that I would have literally done anything to not be in anymore. Even those extreme methods some may think up weren't feasible options for me. I would do anything to avoid ever returning to such places. What I'm saying is that I know we're all experiencing life differently and that there's an enormous difference between the opposite ends of the spectrum that define the worst and best quality of life that people are experiencing. I'm not one to get others to believe things that I don't genuinely believe are true myself. I won't tell you that you can achieve impossible things by just (not) doing stuff. I won't be the one to discourage you from reaching for the stars when I believe it might be done, no matter how difficult it would be. I'll share my true thoughts on the matter which will go something like "i don't believe this is feasible" or "it's not going to be easy but I believe it can be done". I'll gladly hype up each achievement someone makes during their journey. And I'll be empathetic, won't join a self-pity party, but will encourage them to get back up when they're down. I'll be the guy who's proud of you but not shocked when you achieve your goal. And I won't be the guy who gets joy if you fail, no matter what my feelings were on the likelihood of your success. What I believe to be true is just a matter of opinion based on my personal history. I know many things that are generally believed to be true and consider them to be true as well in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary or a lack of evidence supporting that conclusion. It doesn't matter how many people believe in ghosts, gods or a flat Earth. As far as I'm concerned, they're all bullshit since no tangible evidence supporting their existence exists but science and logic suggests that they're unlikely, especially the flat Earth since evidence of a mostly spherical Earth has been found over and over but never has there been real evidence of flat Earth. So I may or may not outright tell you you're wrong if you try telling me that any of those things are true. I'll hold my tongue if doing so will skip drama and allow us to move on. If you continue to spout fairytales as truth, I'm going to shut you down for the simple reason that I find misinformation repugnant and I believe it's our duty to prevent the spread of mis-/disinformation when we come across it. You might not be able to change what the source considers true but you might be able to stop the spread, at least in that instance. It may seem harmless or even proper to let others evangelize as an example of freedom of expression. I wouldn't dream of taking away that freedom from anyone. But there's no right to freedom from opposition and unless someone is willing to voice such opposition, mis-/disinformation is able to spread freely, even to people who you might expect to recognize and reject such things. How many of you have been shocked to realize that someone you know well believes something thoroughly disproven or refuses to believe something tangible evidence exists in support? We're being gamed and if we don't take info poisoning very seriously and find a way to combat it, we are truly fucked. Truth and falsehood are becoming fluid rather than absolute states which are mutually exclusive. And I'm not talking about how something can be true in Newtonian physics but false in quantum. I'm talking about QAnon, antivaxxers, Fox News and such. harmful falsehoods spread as truth which interfere with the spread of truthful information that may be extremely important for people to have. Young adults these days who are intelligent and aware of how much bullshit is being spread as truth are rejecting knowledge that seems suspect despite being entirely true but not fitting with the world as they think they know it. Info fatigue is hitting everyone and burning many out to the point that they have to disconnect completely, retreat into echo chambers or just tune out/reject difficult information in favor of entertainment and things that can just be experienced and not analyzed or scrutinized for deception. Some dive into science/tech/making which tends to be more accurate than not and if not it's usually the result of a mistake rather than intent to disinform. I hope people can find a balance between spending their time on leisure activities and spending it on more serious matters. Everyone needs time to decompress and most need to spend time doing things just for pleasure. That's just fine and healthy. I think it's also important to spend time doing things just to expand their knowledge and acquire new skills. It doesn't need to be something they aren't interested in. It doesn't even have to be applicable to their lives. Just as long as they're continuing to grow intellectually, exercise their minds and apply logic.
Fuck me, I've just rambled all over your comments. If anyone actually reads all this, please click something to let me know. I don't care what just so long as I'm aware that the void wasn't my sole audience and the lifetime I just spent wasn't a complete waste. If you find yourself regretting having spent lifetime reading this, I apologize. I hate being a waste of resources.
I used to be stuck in an abusive family situation w a mother who would constantly poison the well and tell me I'm nothing but a failure and that I shouldn't try, and that I'll only wind up penniless and on the streets if I follow my dreams. Escaped that last year, and in less than one year I am making more money than I ever thought possible, living in a city I love, have had multiple professional voice acting gigs, and have done so much. But I never would have knocked it out of the park like this if I never swung the damn bat. Could I do better? Yeah. Have a laundry list of failures and entered 2022 homeless. But I am better than I was yesterday and if I keep on doing new things I'll be better tomorrow than I am today.
Louis, thank you, this video is helping me pump myself up to working out regularly
You know, Louis that even though most of what you are saying is common sense, sometimes it's just good to hear it from another person as a reminder. It's easy to focus on negative things if you procrastinate, which is a self perpetuating cycle. I have to make lists of even the most minute things to keep me on track, medium/short/long term goals. I take a goal, then subdivide it into multiple bite size tasks, then start doing the small stuff first. The trick is to START DOING! It really snowballs when you can keep checking off goals as you attain them and find yourself attaining "long term" goals sooner than you thought. Watching one of your videos this morning on odysee gave me the kick in the ass I needed to get back to work on some stuff I've been putting off. I'm half way done with my project and taking a break right now. I can't figure out how to comment on the videos there, so I just came here to say thanks!
I've been watching for a while and I never subscribed, but this video rings true for me and alot of people, I've been working on it, thank you for speaking on this Louis.
Thank you for posting this Louis. I've been loosing my motivation for life ATM. Currently just working for the sake of working trying to find out what I want to do. I'll probably have this video saved for a while.
The golden words of Al Bundy: "We may be losers.. but we are not quitters!"
Yep! I remember that the BEST part about starting a new business was using the 'investor's money' to go SHOPPING for new Top of the Line COMPUTERS & OFFICE HARDWARE, BUYING FURNITURE & Getting COOL new BUSINESS CARDS printed!
Actually MAKING SALES and becoming PROFITABLE were secondary to feeling like BIG SHOTS buying Leather Couches for our OWN OFFICES!
Success feels great, especially when you've failed several times. The important thing is that you keep moving forward.
I got a BA In psychology in 2018. It took me almost a year to find a job in my field (late 2019). Four months later, in March 2020, I got laid off due to the pandemic. While I got some temporary positions after that point, I have not had a "real job" since 2020. Only seasonal or fill-in positions. I am still searching every day on several job websites for something to do, all while facing the reality that I could be broke next month.
Does this stop me from trying? No. To me, this is a challenge. I know I have to make ends meet, but that's not the be all and end all when you're looking for a job, or a career, or anything. Find something you enjoy doing, and pursue it.
As a side note, this DOES cause me anxiety and stress. But I refuse to let that paralyze me into inaction. I am on the autism spectrum, have generalized anxiety, and ADHD. I still wake up every day ready to try again. You can, too :)
Wow! I feel like you were talking too me. This really helped me, thank you!
Hi Louis been watching you for a while now ang because of you I've been buying "broken" cheap stuff and try and fix them and I must say it actually relaxes me when I'm fixing stuff and the rush that I get when I succeed is amazing. I'm not on the board level kind of stuff yet but I'm really interested to learn that skill. If I'm in Texas I would definitely come by and say hi. Keep doing what you're doing brother!
Outstanding! And you’re clearly super smart and sensible.
I needed this Louis. Thank you.
You may think you’re not good at a lot of things, but you’re good at what counts. Speaking off the cuff. That was truly great. (And I’m already successful and old enough to not need the help)
I really appreciate what you said in this video. Thank you
Thank you. Really needed this.
“Nothing In The World Can Take The Place Of Persistence. Talent Will Not; Nothing Is More Common Than Unsuccessful Men With Talent. Genius Will Not; Unrewarded Genius Is Almost A Proverb. Education Will Not; The World Is Full Of Educated Derelicts. Persistence And Determination Alone Are Omnipotent. The Slogan “Press On” Has Solved And Always Will Solve The Problems Of The Human Race.” - Calvin Coolidge
Thank you for this Louis.
Great, now I'm going to have to go on Mini-Dalle and make some Yoda Rossmann images. Thanks for the video.
What they seem to forget is that everyone starts somewhere. In the myriad hobbies I've gotten into, I seldom get mocked for doing something stupid because those in the field realize that they made the same exact mistakes.
When you try something new, you should go into it with the mindset that you will mess up and more likely than not everyone else has made the same mistakes
I've been working on this type of positive mindset for about the past 6 months and damn is it liberating! You will ALWAYS be your greatest critic and sometimes you just have to tell yourself you're full of shit and get the job done.
It is a good mindset to learn from failures. It is just unfortunate that some failures may be the last failures that some may ever make in their lives…
What many do not understand about failure is that it is nothing more than a chance to learn and improve. Instead, so many quit because they are afraid of failure.
This video helped me a lot Louis.
You don't know how much you changed not only myself, to all your fellow subscribers, who have supported you the moment they discovered you.
Hope to meet you in person.
You're an awesome guy.
Nuts on Louis. Wise words sir!
Louis youre a really smart person. Thank you for your videos
A quote I have read “Believing that you can and your halfway there”. Theses days I play solo gigs at retirement homes and it took a lot of putting myself out there. Having a ball every time I play a gig.
This is great advice. I am one of those that wish I could do what you suggested. Honestly. The only excuse is I have none of the essentials. No, I am not talking about "what should I get to do..." I have a potato PC, and no phone. Ha.
After getting, hurt, I've failed a lot. I use it as a stepping stone. Things I have learned stack up, perhaps I can combine them later, but we will see. Just keep moving forward is all I (or anyone else) can do.
Have a good day all.
Exactly, always give your best in whatever circumstance you are, that's all we can do
When I first watched your videos, you made me realize how modern technology companies are stifling education and creativity in the name of profit. 4 years later I've opened my own technology company that does just that in spite of all the citricism, shaming, and skepticism. Thank you louis rossmann.
Thanks Louis, this is just what I've needed to hear :)
Gotta admit, I finally picked up a soldering iron because of this channel. Started doing minor repairs on my gaming consoles. CMOS battery, broken power port, etc. I still suck at it, but it is actually fun to do. Being frustrated and cussing is a form of catharsis when things finally work.
When people want to give a gift to me, I usually say no, but if they insist, I give them a parts and tool list.
Comments like that guy left aren’t helpful at all since that’s the type of self-doubt people have to overcome to start. To think they’re being original and a source of helpful information when they just parrot what a lot of people have already thought about when they start a new venture.
I got this too. I am trying to start a business and some people around me have brought up issues with my plans (not helpful critique just criticism).
I simply said, “you don’t think this is the first thing I thought of and had to work through?”
Thanks for these types of videos, you’re 100% correct
Thanks Louis. Gonna get back on it tonight.
Love it. My dad always told me to run my own race.
Do what you can with what you have.
In my creative prospects its so hard to ignore others within my own space even the people I interact with online. There will always be someone better than me and I would be LYING if I said it didn't bother me, but I keep doing what I want to do because I like to do it.
I really appreciate the new Thumbnails in your videos. They are clean and very readable. the thumbnails from the last 3 weeks for the most part (not all of them follow the same language understandably) look great! Cheers! Stay Healthy and Stay Sane!
Gee Louis! You are looking much healthier since leaving ny. Godspeed brother.
This is so true. If you're able, do. If you aren't sure if you're able... do it anyway - its the only way you'll find out. And you learn from failure. But .. and this is key, just don't shame people who have tried and can't. I dont feel like Louis is doing that but a lot of people do. I've got a little brain damage but its not obvious. Makes me slow. I can't count the number of times people have told me i'm not trying hard enough, and should just do this or that, and blames me for failing at stuff. F those people, lack of success is NOT evidence of lack of effort.
Hey, I was of that blackpilled mentality since I was 15. I had given up on all hopes of getting a good life.
Diagnosed with depression at 12, dropped out of high school at 16, unemployed, addicted, virgin with no real friends.
I had a profound experience at 21 after that all, of my completely changed:
Took some time to break all of my addictions (codeine smoking, weed). I have been clean ever since.
Finally had the balls to do a job interview and I specifically chose things that are hard to see how much I can push myself.
Turned out to be quite a bit more than what I expected.
Expected to only find boring uninteresting losers but was shocked by how interesting most people were.
Met 2 persons I can truly call friends, people I can rely on who are interesting and positive to my life.
Found out I can still fall in love. I got the balls to ask for their number and actually got it which shocked me.
It did not work out, but she was so nice about it which I did not expect. I'm so glad it happened, even if it failed because of how much I learned.
Quit my job to go back in school to become an electrician which will open a door to higher education. (My lack of education is a big insecurity).
Got my driving license, started working out, taking care of myself and gave attention to my hobbies (guitar, hiking, knifemaking soldering).
I also cut ties with the toxic friends and family which helped a lot.
Before, I was trying to pass time as fast as possible by wasting it because of the pain that was living and now I wish I had more time in the day to do everything I want to do. A great problem to have. I still suck in all of the things I'm trying to do, but I'm getting better every day.
Sorry about the life story, I'm finally happy and I want to share it.
tomorrow i'm going to attempt my first ever circuit board work, by replacing a micro USB port.
i'll either fix it - or burn it up, but both will be a learning experience - and the device already doesn't work as is.
i have generally felt that any human can learn to do anything any other human can learn to do - given enough time and interest.
i've been watching youtube vids on soldering and hot air replacement for the past week, and i think i'm ready to dive in.
thanks for being super duper.