Last week I finished reading the book "You Are A Champion" by Marcus Rashfordd, which came out on
the 27th of may 2021, and I was really keen to really get this book and read on it, and
everything like that, so I wanted to definitely make a book review because Marcus Rashford is such
an inspirational person, especially in last year when we found out that he was feeding over one
million children and ending child poverty, which has been one thing that has mainly made me drawn
to Marcus Rashford and follow his posts on social media, and follow him in general, and see him as a
role model, and I was really excited when I found out that he was actually writing a book, and I was
going to publish it for children over the age of 11, or teenagers, or something like that,
so I really had to get my hands on this, and here are top five lessons that i actually learned from
the book "You are a champion" by Marcus Rashford, so if you're interested to find out the five
lessons, then please keep watching this video till the end. Before I jump on to the five lessons,
I want to talk about who is actually Marcus Rashford. If you're not really aware of him,
so he's actually a football player for one of the European League, or and also
he also plays for the Manchester United football team, so he is a footballer, but I also consider
him as a philanthropist, or somebody who is very charitable and giving to the society,
because as I said before, Rashford has fed over one million children during the lockdown in 2020,
so he's a very charitable person, and I believe that he has achieved a lot in his age, and is only
23 years old, and to be able to have that kind of fame, and hold that kind of responsibility to
the society is definitely inspiring, so I highly recommend that if you're a teenager watching this
video, please do go and follow him on Instagram and all the social media platforms that he has
so that you get a daily dose of inspiration from him, but without further ado, now let's
jump on to the lessons. So the first lesson that I learned from the book is a really that one that
is considered very cliche, but I believe that if you're a teenager listening to this, it's very
important to grasp the fact that you are powerful when you're being yourself, and not following the
trends, and not following what other people are doing, what your favorite celebrity is doing,
because I believe that, Marcus Rashford actually follows this really through when he actually,
you know, campaigned for ending child poverty, because he was being himself,
because he knew exactly what it felt like to be in child poverty, or not having a meal
in front of you during lunch time, so he was actually using his own experiences, adversities,
and making them into opportunities for all the children who did not have the opportunity
to prevent those kind of opportunities to happen to those children that he faced already, and
I believe that this is a really good way to actually motivate yourself, and he literally
talks about this in the first chapter, and I believe that this is a really good way to
motivate all the teenagers out there right now, who are trying to be others, and other people,
and not trying to be themselves is to be yourself because that's when you're the most powerful,
so I definitely recommend to be your best self, and you only do this by spending quiet time
alone by yourself, and discovering yourself every single day, learning something new about yourself,
because if you don't do that, then you're going to be struggling in the future definitely.
The second lesson that I actually learned from the book is the fact that you have to dare to dream
big, which means that your dreams are limitless, you can dream whatever you want, however, to
achieve those, you need to set smaller goals every day that you actually do on a daily basis, to make
sure that you're completing those little things that are going to add up to the bigger picture
under the bigger success, and achievements, you want to make sure that you're working step
by step, and you're not rushing yourself way too early, and way too quickly to achieve those goals,
because if you do that, the more you're gonna fall back, and you're not gonna be able to achieve all
those dreams, and goals, and ambitions, it's gonna make sure that you are setting smaller goals every
single day, to achieve the bigger thing that you want to achieve in the future, when you're maybe
21, 22, 25 whatever that might be, and that all starts from now, and how are you using your time
right now, and this book really shows that that you can dream whatever you want because 10 years
ago probably Marcus Rashford never thought that he was going to write a book, and campaigning to end
child poverty in the UK, and he was gonna hold a MBE title, which is a very highly prestigious
trophy, or achievement, I would say that the only the people who actually do service to
the people in society, they can actually achieve that, so you want to make sure that you are
actually daring to dream big, but setting smaller goals every single day. The third lesson that I
learned from the book is a really good lesson that I believe that every single teenager out there
should be listening to this, is the fact that, you need to navigate through your adversities,
and make sure that you are not looking at your adversities as the only way solution meaning that,
whenever you face an adversity, you want to make sure that you're looking for different kinds of
approaches, and different solutions, that can make you make sure that you can actually solve that
problem easily, and do not be fixated to just one particular solution, that is actually needed for
one particular problem, and there's always more than one solution to any kind of problem in your
life, and never settle for less in a way, and in trying to find out that there are many different
ways of solving your problems, and of course, you want to make sure that you are learning from your
mistakes, which I'm going to be talking about in the next point deeply, but make sure that whatever
problem you have don't ever think there's only one solution to it, and that only one solution
is the best one because there are many different ways of solving your problems in life, and you can
always ask for help whenever you actually are in a problem, and there's never nothing more courageous
than asking for help when you need it the most, and I believe that this is something that's coming
from a shy person myself who does not really like asking for help necessarily, because I'm so shy
and I don't really interacting too much with people, but I definitely think that thinking
that there's more than one solution to all your problems, this is very satisfying and gives you
that contentment, and peace in your life that I think that every teenager should be able to feel.
The fourth lesson that I learned from the book is the fact that you are not only the one who is
responsible for changing the world, however, but your voice can also definitely make a difference,
and this goes for anything for example any kind of hot topics that are going on, for example,
the Palestine Protest in the UK that was happening in the past few weeks, a voice can actually make
a whole lot of difference, in the same way how Marcus Rashford would actually use his voice
to end child poverty, and making sure that the children did not go hungry during the lockdown
in 2020, that was a really good way to show that your voice can actually make a difference. Now,
you might be thinking that, but Marcus Rashford was a celebrity, which is why it was easier for
him to do that, but before that, he was nothing, and I believe that even if he wasn't a celebrity
or a very famous footballer, I believe that still, he would have had that held the responsibility,
he still had that mindset that I can make a difference, I can make a change in this world,
and I can help people as well, and I believe that whenever you start using voice to helping others,
or inspiring others to be the best version of themselves, or helping people in general, that
makes you a very high person, and charitable, and philanthropic type of a person, so I believe that,
if you have the voice to do something that, you want to raise awareness for anything any issue,
then definitely do that, because I believe that a voice can definitely make a difference,
so that's Marcus Rashford. The number five lesson that I learned from this book,
or the last one but not the least, is the fact that, you want to take your failures as lessons,
and not just a way to demotivate yourself, or put yourself down,
because I believe this is very important, and as a teenager whenever you face any kind of failure
first hand, we think that that's the end of the world, and we're not going to be the best version
of ourselves, but that is absolutely not true, you can come back from the setbacks, and I think that
for every setback, there's always a way back, and a solution to it, and what can you learn,
and I believe that approaching your failures as a way to learn from those things that you may have
made a mistake on however you're going to be not doing them next time, you're going to prevent all
those things it's a really good mindset to have, it's also known as a growth mindset in my opinion,
or I think that's what it's called in general, but I believe that, if you have the mindset that
all failures are the lessons for you, you're going to embrace all those failures,
and you're never going to let them put you down, and I think that Marcus Rashford really explains
it really well in this book. This brings me to the end of today's video. I hope you really enjoyed
this video and found this really helpful on the lessons that I actually learned from the book
"You are a champion" by Marcus Rashford, which I highly recommend for any teenager who might
be hitting their 11, 12, 13-year-olds kind of ages ranges, I definitely recommend this book, because
this book is full of images, and paintings, and exercises as well, which is really cool
because so far, in all the self-help books that I have read, they don't have that much,
but if you're a teenager, I'd highly recommend this book, and I believe that teenage is a very
timeless period of our life, where we get really confused about ourselves, but this book can really
help you figure yourself out, and discover yourself out in a much quicker and calmer way,
so, I definitely recommend getting this book in any shops, or any kind of online platform,
such as Amazon.com, but I think that WH Smith store is selling it for only £4.99,
but at the original price is £9.99, so I definitely highly recommend you get this book,
and also in this week, the book has hit number one best selling for children's books,
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