Unlock Your Creative Genius by Defeating Doubt | Jason Derulo EP 464

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1:07I feel like there's a lot of people, when they get money, fame, success, eventually they crumble. Or they don't know how to manage it, or their ego gets too big, or they start treating people poorly, or just they kind of climb and then they fall. Yep. How have you learned to be like consistently climbing while also maintaining your sanity, your inner peace, your, you know, self-love and self-care, as opposed to letting it all get to you too much where you crash and burn? I think people stop and smell the roses too much. Like, we know the roses are beautiful. We know they smell great. But we're on a path, we're on a journey.

1:46Life is a journey, and it's a life journey. There's no destination because we can always be better. We can always be greater. We can always be a better version of us. And what happens is their first steps are usually the great ones, right? When you're hungry, you don't necessarily know where your next meal is coming from. You're down in the dumps. You don't like how people are treating you. You want to be better in life. You want to have this. You want to have that. You want girls to look at you a different way. You know, you want to drive nice things, boom, boom, boom. But then when you arrive and you get those things, even though it may be temporary, when you get them, it's like, oh, I'm good.

2:22I'm lit. I made it. And then you take a deep breath and you're like, oh, yeah, this life, this is what I've been waiting on. But what you're forgetting is success is never owned. It's rented. There's somebody hungry always. There's always somebody younger, hungrier, more talented, more driven than you are. So they're not going to stop coming. That competition doesn't stop coming at you. Just because you've arrived here doesn't mean there's not millions of people just on your neck and waiting on that slot to open up. Was there a time that you doubted yourself the most? And if so, how did you overcome that doubt?

3:04Right at the tail end of the pandemic, I told myself, I talked really really down to myself and I said, you've done so well in your life. You should probably coast. It's time to coast. Chill. Yeah, you've done so much. You've given so much. Relax, chill. And what that meant to me was like giving up. It was like, this is the end. the end to me is when you're not pushing for the next level you're not pushing to gain something else a couple of weeks passed and a couple of months passed and i was really putting my energy into tiktok it was just like i'm not really messing with music so i wasn't really like writing very many songs and then i was like when i was a kid i dreamed of this place that i'm in right now of getting to this place.

3:56My starting point was here. When my ending point was here, I had to jump from here to here. I have way less of a climb to be the best in the world here than from here to here, right? Why stop right here? That's like stopping at 97 pushups. You got to hit those last three reps, bro. You have to hit those last three reps. You can't stop at 97. And that realization is when I was like, I have to get off of this record label that I'm on. I have to get a new deal and go with a team that really believes in me so that I'm hearing great things from other people as well. I feel like I had too much negativity in my ears.

4:38And when all of this negativity is coming your way and then you're talking down to yourself, it just weighs you down. So I needed new energy. And then when I was able to get off the label, finally, after a battle, I thought the world was going to be my oyster, and it was just going to be, like, open arms, just like everybody's going to want to sign me. It was the craziest thing in the world. Again, I had sold 200 million records at that point, and crickets. No one wanted to sign me. It was like, oh, he's too expensive. I mean, yeah, we don't know if we want to go in that direction. It was like that conversation.

5:13That put the biggest fire in my heart that you could possibly imagine. Wow. I was like, okay, I'm going to do this myself. I'm going to do it myself. So that's when I went on a run, and I put out Savage Love as an independent song. That was huge. Take Your Dancing as an independent song, and I was just dropping things independently. And TikTok was blowing them up, too. It was just like everywhere. Exactly. So I was the biggest independent artist on the planet. And then all those same virtual labels was like, Hey, what's up? Yes. I was like, nah, I'm not messing with you guys. So I went with Atlantic, who I felt, you know, was aligned with my creative.

5:54They were aligned with what I wanted to do business-wise and on my masters and be a partner, not just signing. We're going to be 50-50 partners. Wow. I'm going to be the label as well. You know, sometimes it's your lowest lows that get you to your highest highs.

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