If Criticism Still Hurts You, Here's How To Build Immunity To It | MrBeast

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0:37How does it make you feel to know that you are literally changing the world through resources, time, money, attention to serve humanity and yet people still criticize you? The thing is, my audience is so big. Like we get 150, 200 million views of main channel video, which when you think in terms of humans alive, you know, there's 8 billion humans, 1 % of that's 80 million. Like more than 1 % of people on the earth, you know, are watching every single video we make. And so it's impossible at this scale to make a piece of content that, you know, 100 million people will all conventionally be like, this is perfect because there's different cultures, different languages, people are raised differently.

1:17So it's more what I look at is like, what is the percentage of that 100 million that are happy with what I do versus mad? And like, you know, if 99.5 % are like, this is amazing and they're on board and, you know, it inspires them to go do good. But in only half a percent are like negative. Well, because my audience is so large, that half a percent is larger than most people's online following. So it can seem really loud. But in the grand scheme of things, it's like, oh, when you look at it percentage wise, it's really not that big of a deal. So I think at the start, like one of the big ones is we helped a thousand blind people see again through cataract surgeries.

1:50And we did all around the world. And people are very vocal about that for whatever reason. They didn't like it. Well, they're just like, well, why don't you help them off camera? And I was like, well, we use the videos and the brand deals and ad revenue to do it. Like if I didn't make a video on it, we just wouldn't be able to do it because that's, you know, over the course of our channel, we spent, you know, tens of millions of dollars on helping people. And so and most people after I said that, they're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. and then you have so it's just looking at it from a percentage standpoint that helps but it's still like kind of funny at the same time but i i'm just gonna do it i mean even if 50 of people complained i mean it's just like you'd still do it yeah why not it does it affect you in any way when you see it or are you just like it's part of the game i understand it and i'm gonna keep doing my thing well to be fair not all criticism is invalid like sometimes people would be like you know you make these video on helping people but you don't uh this is what i used to get back in the day but you don't really give the viewers that act like a way to go further on and do more and like that is a valid criticism so now we try to you know direct them towards like here's how you could actually do help like we just recently did a video we gave 2 000 people prosthetic legs that didn't have legs they could walk again and in the middle we did a whole segment about how you if you know someone who grew out of their prosthetic legs which is pretty frequent like if you get one at a young age you know through puberty you're going through multiple different ones and then people just don't know what to do with the old ones and there's a clinic who literally takes recycled prosthetic legs, fixes them up, which is like dirt cheap, and then gives them to the poorest of people who can't afford one.

3:10So something that would have cost someone$5 ,000, they can now get for like 100 bucks, because it was just something that someone was going to throw away. And so like, that was an example of like, here, we're helping people. And then we're also telling the 100 million people watching how they could help. And, you know, I mean, it seems obvious in hindsight, but that was a version of people saying things, and I applied it, and it was a net positive. So, you know, it's, that's really what you have to do is like, when you get a bunch of criticism, if you're at my skill, you just look at it. Majority of it is just going to be people hating because people are miserable in their own life.

3:39They're just going to complain. And so if someone leaves a comment like, you should kill yourself. This sucks. Do you even put effort in? That's not an objective comment. That's like a thing that you should read and just be like, okay, delete. That was worthless. But if someone is like, hey, here's some ways I think you could improve or some way you could have helped people in this situation better, blah, blah, blah. That's like an objective comment, which the bucket of hate comments is going to be a very small percentage. and those are the ones you look at and you're like you know is there truth to this yes okay consider if not throw it out and then you just move on yeah yeah so you you look at some of the criticism or the feedback and you apply it if it's of course yeah i look at all of it with that angle and uh because like at the end of the day i will never say my videos are perfect you know i mean there's none of us are perfect even your podcast probably has ways it could be better so it's uh there's no reason not to you know yeah so you don't take it personally then i will that's the back when i was younger yes because i've been doing this every comment you're like i work exactly yeah when i was yeah i started when i was 11 i'm 27 now so in my teenage years like even if someone said something that wasn't objective like kill yourself your videos suck that would hurt like it would hurt a lot you know i'd be like man i'd be think like i put you know 50 hours into this and no one else is doing things like this and it would hurt my feelings but then you know after you get that millions of times it's like a muscle like your brain kind of gets used to that stuff and you just like, I'm just so numb to it.

4:59You could leave the nastiest comment on my YouTube and it's like, my brain's just like, it's not objective delete. And I just move on.

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