MrBeast’s 8 Years of Failure
MrBeastYouTuber 240+ Million subscribers Published February 22, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty You know who MrBeast is, right?
Real name Jimmy Donaldson, he’s the biggest individual YouTuber in the world with 240 million subscribers 
He was recently interviewed on a podcast, where he said…
I had so many years of trying and failing, trying and failing that I eventually accepted that I was just going to try and fail forever.
I started uploading videos at 11 and I was 19 when things started to hit.
8 years of trying.
Mike Donovan tweeted in response…
Compare that to most people’s overall lack of persistence and their attitude towards failure.
– Most people have idea, never act
– If they act but fail, they give up very quickly
– Few people maybe on Earth would continue to stick with something after 8 years of failure
It’s important here to be aware of survivorship bias 
There are probably tons of other YouTubers who failed for 8 years straight and didn’t eventually succeed.
But we rarely hear their stories.
Still, it’s safe to say that MrBeast would never have succeeded if not for those 8 years of trying and failing.
Check out his first video on YouTube: Worst Minecraft Saw Trap Ever??? 
Nothing special. You could even say it’s a terrible video.
Here’s his 100th video, posted a couple of years later…
That’s not much better, and he only had 730 subscribers at the time 
I believe his first video to go viral was this one in 2017…
I Counted To 100,000!…That’s literally him sitting in a chair for 40 hours straight, counting to 100,000 
And he’d spent several years before that uploading hundreds of videos, trying out lots of different formats.
With that level of persistence and experimentation, it’s no wonder he became successful 
Whatever it is you’re trying to achieve, persist and experiment for longer than most people think is reasonable.
There’s no guarantee you’ll be successful, but you’ll massively increase your chances 
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