F*CK IT. ALL IN OR NOTHING TO FINISH 2026 - Powerful Motivational Speech | MrBeast

Jimmy Donaldson (0:00)

I'm just stubborn, man. I just never give up. There's no world where I ever would have quit. When I was 11, I just said, I'm going to be a YouTuber, I'm going to die trying, and I meant it. And so people hate it, but I'm just the most competitive, stubborn person you'll ever meet, and I just never give up. I just really love solving consistent complex hard problems. I think that's like what gets me out of bed, and like the harder the problems, the more exciting it is.

I'm like really good at just obsessing over one thing more than anyone else on the planet. If I were to say, what's my superpower, it's that I can just obsess endlessly about something, and it's just like kind of who I am.

SPEAKER_2 (0:43)

When you think back over the last 10 years of your life and the success you've had solving some of these hard problems, if you were to like break it down into some core components that you've learned, one of them is obsession that you've said.

Jimmy Donaldson (0:54)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 (0:55)

What are the others?

Jimmy Donaldson (0:56)

You are obviously who you surround yourself with, and luckily, I just got around the right people. I feed off the energy of the people around me. The core crux of it is like extreme ownership and don't make excuses, and take extreme ownership, take accountability.

Sure, I guess it was out of your control, but it could have been in your control if you just thought through it more, if you just really cared, and that's what I was just trying to convey in it.

SPEAKER_2 (1:22)

And the other thing that comes through in this, but also all of your work, is just this idea that nothing is impossible.

Jimmy Donaldson (1:30)

I don't know why, but when people tell me I can't do something, I don't know where this came from, it makes me just want to do it more, to be honest. If you tell me I shouldn't do something, that's fine. But if you tell me I can't, then everything in my body just wants to go, you, I obviously can. I mean, does physics allow it? Then yes, it's possible. Just do we want to put the time in? I feel like people overcomplicate a lot of things. It's not that you can't do it, you just don't want to. You just got to really love what you do, I mean, and push through it. Something I always tell myself is, how you feel right now is why no one else does what you do, and if you push through this, that's just more of a reason why no one will ever be who you are. And so, it's like, I think being able to push through unhappiness and do things you don't want to do consistently, year after year over the course of a decade, is like the ultimate advantage.

Being consistently uncomfortable and like being able to consistently suffer over long periods is like arguably one of the deepest modes. Like, there's a reason no one makes videos like me, like not even close because no one wants to live the life I live.

SPEAKER_2 (2:36)

What five characteristics would I need to demonstrate to be successful?

Jimmy Donaldson (2:39)

You gotta be very coachable because whatever I teach you today is going to change, you know, a year or two from now. Always learning, always improving.

A big thing for me is you gotta see the value in working here. This isn't like a job, this is a career. Like, if you don't realistically see a world where you're working for me in 10 years, then it's pretty hard for me to invest into you at the level I want. Like, I'm not, I don't like training someone for six months. They work here for a year and then I lose them. What I like is I train someone for a year and then I get nine years of dividends on the back end where they crush at their job and I'm constantly paying them more because they're becoming more valuable with time. Like, that is like the eighth wonder of the world, is investing heavily in an employee and then they stick around for a decade. So, coachable, sees the value, obviously obsessed, I just don't like working with mediocre people. I mean, I really just can't stand it. It's the fastest way to make me depressed, is if I have to work with someone who's just not all in and just loves what they do.

Like I said, I think one of my greatest superpowers is my obsession and I think some people would view that as a weakness, but I just like, if you just think about solving problems three times more than everyone else, like you're bound to come up with different solutions. It's just a lot of stuff like that, that I'm sure if you listen to like a Steve Jobs interview or something that he talks about, it's just the typical traits, obsessed, coachable, all in, sees the value.