i feel like um the youth the millennials kids my age heck even adults could possibly
take some of the stuff i say and implement it into their lives because um although i'm young
i have experienced a lot of crazy uh wacky fun interesting things in my life and i've
learned a lot and i've failed a lot and i've been fortunate enough to succeed a lot
i used to when i was still figuring out the ropes of social media and what i was trying to do i i
used to work hard i actually when i talked to like 18 to 22 year olds and i'm i'm telling them like
yo this game is a marathon not a sprint you got to be smart about it i don't allow them the privilege
of taking a break or worrying about toxic hustle because i believe 18 to 22 is your time to grind
like really grind put your head down work as hard as you can you're young you're healthy you have
so much energy and then when you start to get a little older and you figure it out because of
the hours that you've put in you figured out your business and you figured out your pursuit finally
then you can start to work a bit smarter and pull off the reins a little bit we're in that phase now
we're working pretty smart where we don't have to be toxic hustling we can sleep when we want
to if you're healthy you know this the work that you put out is going to be exponentially better
and you know i was i was doing the same thing and i realized that type of mentality just
becomes you it becomes who you are it's all you know i talk to a lot of successful people i meet
a lot of talented and successful people and one thing that they tend to have in common they win
more than they lose to me that is about um quality consistency it's not just you when you get lucky
one time and that happens through thousands of hours tens of thousands of hours of hard work
man so many people say they want it and they don't when i was a kid um i've always been the funny guy
the goofy guy the ambitious one the one who stood out the maverick hence the brand and everything
literally everything that i stand for in my vlog people would look at me funny they laughed me oh
why is he doing that why is he wearing orange camo jeans to school as a fifth grader i did
that i don't lie i was just like yo i'm different everyone else is wearing like denim that your boy
wanted to be different so i did and i was never afraid or ashamed of that but at the same time
i would always push myself and work extremely hard so that i could be the best i have this
this competitive instinct in me that and that's what drives me that's why when i get into drama
with my brother or like we're closing subscribers like you guys are seeing like the mild version of
my competitiveness finally i feel at a good spot in my life where i can speak up and and
speak with my chest out my chin up america is racist for the longest time i was afraid
to speak up because i thought i'd piss people off because i'm i'm politically ignorant and
even because of my polarizing nature i have made reprehensible mistakes in the past
so who the [ __ ] am i to suggest a way to better and progress humanity that was what i thought this
past weekend i found the answer to that question who the [ __ ] am i to better progress humanity
i am a human and i'm just like you i am a human who's made mistakes i've learned
for them and i've worked hard to educate myself and create a bet create a better future for me
my friends my future children and the world around me and i'm sure i'll make more mistakes in my life
but one mistake that i refuse to be a part of is the mistake of silence i will not be
a part of a generation that is written on the wrong side of history and i will not stand by
as my fellow humans are brutally and unjustifiably murdered at the hand of the state or any oppressor
listen closely one of my biggest learnings from all of this
and i'm embarrassed that it's taken me 25 years to realize this it is not enough to be not racist
you have to be anti-racist condemn those who feign superiority because of the color of their skin
friends hold friends accountable hold your family accountable hold yourself accountable
and most importantly we must hold our authorities accountable police officers politicians policy
makers as killer mike said bully the politicians at the voting booth make your voice heard attend
a protest speak up against injustice if you're white if you look like me use your privilege
and for those who do not think white privilege exists you are [ __ ] blind you are delusional
and you are part of the problem we must now reverse engineer the system as a collective
we must open our eyes and realize that there is only one race and that is the human race on
behalf of brianna taylor we must change on behalf of ahmed aubry we must advance and on behalf of
george floyd and the hundreds of others who have been unjustly murdered in this country
we must evolve i will always run faster if there's someone running next to me that's just how i am
that's how i function and i know that's what makes me tick so i like to make myself uncomfortable i
like to surround myself with yourself with people that are going to challenge me and push me and
compete with me that's how you grow you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable and if you
lose if you fail fine in fact please let me fail let me let me lose if you can take a hit in the
face and get back up and learn from that is a win consider that a win because you are now better and
stronger than you were in the past it's just like working out you work out you work out you work out
you deplete your muscles you take your protein shake and then your muscles heal and you're
stronger than you were before it's the same exact um when i was young i didn't know what i wanted
to do i knew what i liked i knew i loved creating video but in ohio like oh you want to be an actor
go [ __ ] yourself that's not going to happen that was a mindset that was the bubble i lived in
and everyone thought the same exact way they were what i like to call
drones do not become a drone i truly believe that in today's day and age anyone
listen to me can become anything they want there's nothing holding you back you don't have to go
audition for a movie or a tv show if you don't want why don't or why don't you just create the
world yourself and that is what i did i refused to let people tell me what i couldn't do i decided
at 15 i was going to become the master of my own destiny i had surgery
on my head i have a titanium plate in my head i had surgery on both of my knees i cut open my calf
this is the scar you see here bang bang i sprained both my hip flexors and this was all
in a period of two years at one point you can imagine i pretty much gave up like i was like dang
like the world hates me life hates me why why me why why does all this negative stuff have to
happen to me i was the fastest kid on the football team and i get hurt and i'm out for the entire
season i thought my life was over i couldn't do leg lifts with the rest of the football team
so i would always stretch instead well guess what little gang i stretched for eight months
eight months straight and then before you know it your boy was able to do the splits one of the many
videos that made me who i am that made me logan paul on the internet today everything happens for
a reason you might not know what it is at the time but trust in yourself and work hard and believe
that you can get through whatever struggle you're going through because when i got hurt i said
[ __ ] it [ __ ] everybody i said i'm i'm going to be a winner i'm a champion i am not going to let
what's happening outside of me what's happening to my body affect my brain affect my mental oh i was
i was doing something around the house the other day that had no like real payoff and i was working
really hard and i always ask myself now like uh input output how much energy am i putting into
this project and what's the output going to look like that's where working smarter comes in handy
like like before you do the thing go how how much energy will this require for me and is it worth it
and just assessing the project and um i found myself doing something whereas high input low
output and i was like why the [ __ ] am i doing this and i had a realization where i'm like oh
this is just me this is all i know all i know is how to work hard because i've been doing this my
whole entire life a lot of uh people who are in your shoes don't work hard and they're not seeing
the success that you're seeing and you've had on all these platforms like i've i've lost before
like really lost on a on a global scale you know i asked the universe i asked the creator why did
this happen um like i said it just didn't make any sense to me and now a year later a year plus later
that everything is coming around i'm like they say everything happens for a reason and maybe i
had to lose that fight maybe i had to have the greatest fall in the history of social media
to have the greatest victory if i had won that fight would i have gotten this opportunity that
dwarfs any opportunity or event that any social media star has done ever the only thing i can
do is work my [ __ ] ass off and do the best i possibly can and i believe good things will happen
you