The Secret to Turning Failure Into Success | Dhar Mann

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Dhar Mann** (0:30)
How am I ever going to become a millionaire when I don't even have a thousand bucks? I would say it's harder to make that first thousand than it is that million. As you start to become more successful, you start to identify the patterns that help make you more successful, and that's because success begets success.

**Codie Sanchez** (0:46)
My guest is Dhar Mann, one of the most watched creators on the internet. Now we're going to break down how he makes more than $65 million a year. How to actually conquer your fear of failure and how to turn probably the worst chapters of your story into the reason you win?

**Dhar Mann** (1:00)
It took me 100 videos to go viral. What if I quit on number 99? I put all my money together that I possibly could through all my friends and family, bury myself deep in debt, put it in one video, that one video would have failed. Consistency matters more than anything.

**Codie Sanchez** (1:14)
What advice do you have for somebody today who wants to be successful and win?

**Dhar Mann** (1:18)
You have to do these three things. Number one is stock.

**Codie Sanchez** (1:25)
Dhar, you're the number two creator in the world, according to Forbes, $65 million last year on YouTube and online and earnings.
But that doesn't tell your full story. I think the most interesting part is that you also, not that many years ago in 2013, you had lost almost everything. I guess my question for you is, for people listening, what is the number one piece of advice you have if you're struggling so that they can reach the summit that you have?

**Dhar Mann** (1:56)
If I can go back and tell myself one thing when I was lost and struggling and thought that my life was honestly over, it would be that failure is a chapter of your story. It doesn't mean that it's the entire book.
In order to get to that learning, I found myself at 30 years old entering a new decade, and that's a milestone birthday. You wanna think of your 30s as a time that your life is coming together. Maybe you're in that steady relationship. Maybe you bought your first home. Maybe you're in a career that's thriving. For me, it was a total opposite. Everything in my life was falling apart. I was going through a really bad breakup. I was six, I was four weeks away from getting, I'm sorry, I was two weeks away from getting evicted from my apartment, and I was broke, depressed. I thought that, honestly, my life was over. And at that time, what I started to do was read inspirational stories. I realized that external success starts with internal success. And so I wanted to sharpen my brain, and I started listening to stories about successful people out there that had encountered tremendous failure on their way to success. So I read stories about how, like, Michael Jordan got cut from his high school basketball team, became one of the greatest athletes of all time. JK. Rowling was denied by dozens of publishers before, you know, riding Harry Potter. And then even Walt Disney, he went bankrupt about 100 different times on his way to starting Disneyland. And what I realized was that failure was not the opposite of success for them. It was actually just a part of their success. It's realizing one more way that didn't work in order to get you to the actual way that worked. And so I would say, start thinking about your relationship with failure in a completely different way. If your life has not worked out yet, maybe that's life just redirecting you to a way that is actually working. And the hard part is, it's a psychological aspects of failure.
For me, as a 30-year-old Indian man, I was looking at it as like my family is ashamed of me, my culture, I'm letting down, I should have my life figured out according to all these standards and expectations of where society is. But if you strip all those things away, right? I'm alive, I'm breathing, I get to wake up again and try again, right?
So I would say just that mindset is everything.