Read This Every Day and Change Your Life

There are lots of videos on YouTube claiming that if you listen to them every day or every morning, they will change your life. All those videos are lies made by the fools for the fools.

Those so-called motivational videos are very successful. Each video can range from one million up to 69 million views.

If you think about those numbers, whose life is actually changing? Imagine the income that those videos make if people watch them every day. Your life does not change. But the one who uploads the video will change financially.

Anyway, I want to argue that even the most viewed videos are stupid.

I just search plainly "listen to this every day" on YouTube, and I get Denzel Washington Motivational Speech with 69 million views and 1.3 million likes and 35,337 comments by the time I am accessing it.

Okay. This can be something.

—Me

It starts with this:

I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing.

Now, if you think about that statement, it is true. But let's understand it on a deeper level. Can you tell me one activity that does not involve taking risks? Breathing means taking the risk of having a virus get into your body. Eating means taking the risk of getting choked. Every activity you have in life involves risk. But is every activity in life worthwhile? Even watching porn requires you to take risks.

This means risks do not equal a worthy activity. Every activity is risky anyway. So there is nothing in those statements. Nothing.

Then, Denzel mentioned "Nelson Mandela."

Nelson Mandela said: There is no passion to be found playing small and settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living.

I do not know a lot about Nelson Mandela. But is it true that he was a member of a communist party? He was probably part of the South African Communist Party (SACP).

Here, a potentially communist Nelson Mandela taught us that passion does not exist by being small and settling for less. But how can a communist live an amazing life when everybody must settle for less in the name of so-called equality? How can you play big, but when you are big, you will be gone?

I don't know a lot about Nelson Mandela. But if he was a communist, he was not a good guy.

By the way, I am not going to discuss the whole video because it will not change me anyway. But I am just proving to you that no motivational videos can change your life even if you watch them every day.

Now I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life, I am sure people have told you to make sure you have something to fall back on and make sure you have something to fall back on, but I never understood that concept. Having something to fall back on. If I am going to fall, I don't want to fall back on anything.

—Denzel Washington, reading his speech

Denzel is basically saying that he does not want to fall back on anything even though he wrote and read his speech on the stage. Why didn't he stop reading the text? Isn't the text his fallback? Why didn't he memorize the whole speech?

I disagree with him. You may think that having no fallback is okay, but I would say having a backup plan or another plan is necessary in most cases. For example, if you want to apply to college, your first choice might not work for you. If that does not work, what are you going to do? The answer to that question is your fallback.

Until now, I didn't get anything that could change my life.

You might say that I should watch it every day for it to take effect. I think that is true because if I do that, I would spend 10 minutes of my life watching nonsense.

You can disagree with me. But people who watch them are not going to change.

Let's see the comments.

Who is here in 2026👋❤

—@AronLukebera

That is a useless comment. The useful question should be, "Who has been watching this for seven years? Have your life changed because of this video?"

Whoever’s reading this I pray you are happy and become extremely successful!

—@jordanf7856

How can such a comment get 37 thousand likes? I don't understand. No comment.

After more scrolling, I said to myself, "Well, a lot of useless comments without anything critical or valuable."

Let's end this article. You watch whatever you want. But what you watch every day can change your life if you take action. I think all motivational videos do not offer you anything useful to improve your actions in your daily life.

If you want to change your life, exercise every day for ten minutes instead of watching Denzel Washington talk.