The Most Dangerous Thing in Life

check out this guy's scooter I like your scooter so awesome [Music] somebody said something mean to me yesterday and Twitter here's the thing about being me it's a lot easier to be mean than it is to be nuts so mean people on top of being jerks they're also lazy and they're uninventive being nice takes work that's why I really like people that are really nice [Music] we've been up since 440 this morning but one of us is in a great mood today was the second day that the baby woke up at 4:00 a.m. and I just decided to stay up a really great way to get a jump on the day it's 9:00 a.m. now I've been waiting for five hours and I usually start to crumble that like noon which is a problem I don't do this enough I should do this more often but I'm gonna take super quick nap it's 1:35 right now I don't have a meeting until 2:15 so they're out a little bit time to do the nap I'm gonna take a nap all right I'm not gonna get up and turn the camera off just let it roll out oh it's Tuesday it's cuter day day roll the intro while I take it out [Music] nap is over time to do the QA and kids let this be a lesson the only way you can have a job where you can sleep at work whenever you want is if you own the company entrepreneurialship has its benefits Evan wants to know why don't I put ads on my videos I don't know I guess I could I guess I just I will I will monetize my youtube channel I haven't yet because I hate watching ads most of the advertising on YouTube sucks so I would hate to subject people that are generous enough for their time to watch my movies with having to watch terrible adverts in front of my content that I worked so hard on does Candice get in order if you're vlogging yes she does what do you eat for breakfast you know I don't recommend this but I don't eat breakfast I've never had eaten bread who is your role model probably Malcolm X he's I mean there's a bunch of historical figures that I really look up to but Malcolm X is probably at the top of that list Cameron wants to know how would you spend the money if you won the lottery okay don't take this the wrong way but I hope I never win the lottery I never want money that I didn't earn were you scared when you quit your job to become a full-time filmmaker okay that's it this will be the only question I answer for the rest of this Q&A I want to talk about risk as a guiding principle life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk yeah I like I've made some really stupid decisions in my career for my entire career on a broad plane they've all worked out every time I've quit my jobs which I've done every time had a job people that I trust most to treat people that I loved all advised against it my dad told me not to move to New York City because it was such a risk and every time I every time I took these bigger risks the opportunity for a larger payout was always there life is like this super temporary mega fragile thing you only get like a nugget of time to really pursue the things you care about and like I'm thirty thirty and my rule is that the right time is always right now to put a little meat on these bones this new company that I don't really talk about this new company is the biggest risk I've ever taken I took five years of my life to build my advertising career and I made like a lot of money I've been doing really great look at my youtube channel go all the way back the last branded content thing you'll see was in February of 2014 I ditched it all to pursue something I knew nothing about this huge risk and I did it at a time when my wife was pregnant and there was all of this vulnerability and all the scariness in my life and even now at 33 my dad's at 34 my dad said Casey that's crazy you've got a good thing don't let it go but I know that like someday I won't be able to do this I know that the time is now the time the right time is always now so I had to do it that's how I feel about risk in general and that's what the struggle has always been for me is like identifying risk identifying fear and then just smashing through it because a fear is looking back and wishing that I had done these things the most dangerous thing you can do in your career the most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe almost there just a couple blocks up ahead riding a bike in Midtown is suicide it's hard to pinpoint what's so gross about Midtown what is a mailroom spell mal he knows that I'm talking about so Candice and I had some legal issues with our previous apartment it's part of the reason why we moved out this is me dealing with that now okay awful medians that I'm trying to get out of here now get a little bit more of this sunlight where it goes away I have to run home for a minute and then back to the office for a minute okay we're headed back now 9:00 p.m. now leaving the office proud of her that is I'm pretty be excited to go home and edit this vlog for the next six hours ambulance I thought a healthy snack before sleep every night [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 8min 31sec (511 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 22 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Sackie-B]

I really liked his talk on risk

[u/dakry]

"Life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk."

I have heard him say that before - it takes balls but I have found it to be true as well.

[u/Bukkyo]

"Its a lot easier to be mean then it is to be nice. So mean people on top of being jerks are lazy and un-inventive, being nice takes work. That's why I really like people who are really nice."
-Casey Neistat