Name: Failing is the Key to Success (with Scott Galloway)
Uploaded: 2024-12-12T15:30:17.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Failing is the Key to Success (with Scott Galloway)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Failing is the Key to Success (with Scott Galloway)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-12. Transcript available.

But you said something really important, and that is I was asked,
so I'm an entrepreneur.
I've registered some success, and I go, what's the secret to your success?
I'm like, one, it was being smart enough to be born in America.
There's just more opportunity.
You'd rather be good in America than great in almost any other country.
Wow.
There really is.
You have more agency here if you work hard and you're a good person
to be successful than any place in the world.
And none of that was my fault.
It was my parents' fault.
They'd gone on a ship, a steamship, in the 60s from Europe,
take a huge risk, which paid a huge benefit for me.
I came to a professional age in California where I got free education
that was accessible, came to an age in the Internet.
And when I was your age, I was like, all my success in my mind
was because of my character and my grit.
And then as you get older, you realize a lot of your success isn't your fault.
But if I've done one thing well, it's what I call failure.
And that is I ran for sophomore, junior, and senior class presidents.
I lost three times.
And based on my track record, I decided to run for student body president
where I went on to, wait for it, lose.
I've started nine businesses.
Seven have failed.
I can't tell you how many women in Whole Foods and other places
and other retail establishments I've been rejected by.
Yeah.
But the reason I get to live the life I lead,
the reason I'm with a very high character, attractive person,
is because I have always been able to endure rejection.
And that is the key.
That is the skill.
Because one of the great things about America is we don't embrace failure.
That's bullshit.
But we tolerate it.
If your business fails, but you're a good person,
usually your investors will back you again.
And if you approach a woman and express interest
and she's not interested, you're both going to be fine.
Yeah.
And show me a guy.
Show me a guy.
You know, we all know that guy.
You think, okay, he's a nice guy.
He's modestly successful.
He's not that attractive.
And he's with just such a high quality woman.
That guy is not afraid of rejection.
That guy cycled through nine women who said,
get the fuck away from me.
Yeah.
Before he found that one woman who gave him a chance to be funny, kind.
She was drawn to a smell.
She liked the way he treated his parents.
The key to success in America is what Winston Churchill said.
And that is the willingness to fail or your ability to fail
and not lose your sense of enthusiasm.
And the one thing about jiu-jitsu and about sports is quite frankly,
it teaches you how to lose and show up the next day.
Yeah.
Right.
So I think you got to put your kids and mothers got to put their sons
in an environment where they-
This is off and it's ringing.
So that's the government.
I'm not even joking.
It happens a lot.
Go on.
Anyways, your willingness or your ability, resilience,
your ability, your ability to move through rejection
without losing your sense of enthusiasm.
Yeah.
It's funny.
A lot of times when I would, if I felt rejection,
it attached to some old feelings inside of myself that were of rejection.
And that would be, it felt demoralizing at times.
But I agree with you.
Yeah.
We've seen those guys who are like, how did that guy do it?
You know, how did he figure it out?
You know, how was he able to just continue, you know,
show up for himself in the face of rejection?
But I bet rejection does get easier the more you start to swim in it.
Do you know?
Do you know?