Name: How To Live Life Without Getting Lucky
Uploaded: 2025-01-28T10:56:04.000Z
Duration: 6 min 3 s
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I'm going to be honest, I have a really good life.

I have friends, money, fame, and success, but I wasn't born with this life.

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I was just a Muslim village boy, and 9-11 had just happened.

The odds of success are stacked against me, and against you.

This video took 15 years to make, and today I want to tell you how I built my life, and how I think you should build your life without relying on just luck.

First, you have to accept that life is not fair.

As a kid, I accepted life was not going to hand me opportunities, so I needed to find my own.

The same day, I bought an English dictionary.

I knew English is key to global opportunities, and in my village, very few people spoke it.

Day after day, I would talk to myself in English, just to practice.

I joined online gaming communities, and chatted with Americans for months.

They made fun of my accent, but I didn't care.

Secretly, I was stealing their accent, and finally, I learned how to say the letter R.

My English became so good, I could speak to anyone in the world, including you, right now.

The next thing I did was change my friends.

Everyone around me had two best friends, but that did not make sense.

I needed a large social network, not a best friend, so I made 200 good friends online.

The third decision was to gain skills that no one else had.

I learned everything about the stars, and became top six in my country.

I learned to solve the Rubik's Cube, and I could solve it in less than 30 seconds.

I took up the piano, and I could play really complicated songs.

Slowly, but surely, I was able to escape the limitations of my village, strategically.

And the last strategic decision was to leave my village, even though I liked it.

From 5,000 miles away in the Middle East, I sent an application to Harvard in the United States, and surprisingly, Harvard said, yes, come over.

Because of my English, I made new friends.

Because of new friends, I learned new skills.

Because of new skills, I applied to Harvard.

Because I had money, I started Nas Daily.

Because of Nas Daily, I met the love of my life.

But life is not just about getting lucky.

Sometimes, you have to force your own luck and strategize for 15 years.

Because if you don't drink water, you don't survive.

Because if you don't strategize, you literally will not survive.

When life happens to you, that is a bad thing, because life will just make you normal.

And you have to fight against that and find a way to do something different, be something different.

For every kid watching this in Nebraska, Bangalore, Namibia, Nairobi, wherever in the world, remember, the odds are stacked against me and against you.

We do whatever it takes to make life work for us.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

You can build your own things that other people can use.

And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know, if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.