– I’ve always believed in following my dreams.
– I like to go instinctively.
If I love something, I want to do it.
(loud rock music)
– Hello, Believe Nation.
My name is Evan Carmichael.
My one word is believe,
and I believe that entrepreneurs will solve
all of the world’s major problems.
So, to help you on your journey today,
we’re going to learn from Indian actor, director,
and producer Aamir Khan and my take
on his top 10 rules for success.
Rule number two is my personal favorite,
and I’d love to know which one
you guys like the best.
And as always, as you’re watching,
if you hear something that really resonates with you,
please leave it in the comments below.
Put quotes around it so other people
can be inspired.
Might win a prize, as well.
And, also, when you write it down,
it’s much more likely to stick for yourself, as well.
Enjoy!
(motivational music)
– And I think each one of us, you know,
finds their own path.
So, what is the important to me,
which I would like to share with you
is that I’ve always believed
in following my dreams.
And I don’t know how that happened.
I’m not quite sure how that happened.
But I think it also happened because
I’m very passionate
about whatever I do.
Whether it’s my work, which is films.
Whether it’s playing a sport.
Whether it’s you know, hanging out
with my friends.
Whether it’s having an argument.
Whether it’s you know,
laughing about something.
I’m very passionate about everything.
And I give my entire attention and full…
Everything about me is in
that one thing that I’m doing
at that time.
So, I think that what is being very important
for me is that I don’t want to compromise
with what I want to do.
What is my dream?
I don’t mind compromising to achieve my dream,
but I don’t want to compromise the dream itself.
So that is something that I’ve always believed in.
– I think that,
what Gandhi said is so true.
That, be the change that you want to see.
And I think that
each one of us can at least change yourself.
And that, itself, is such a big force
in changing the world.
– You know, you wake up in the morning,
you read the papers, the news.
You read about injustice.
You read about poverty.
You read about people who are
less privileged than you.
And you want to really do something about it.
I think most of us feel that way,
and we don’t know what to do.
And I felt that for a number of years.
And then I realized that I should do
what I know best, which is storytelling.
And I should use the strength of storytelling
to try and change minds and try and, you know,
enrich, perhaps, the discussion on certain issues
that we face as a society.
And I saw the ones really doing it
on that kind of a scale,
on a public platform.
And I thought if I combine the strength of TV
with the good will that I’ve earned,
And you know, we try and…
Actually, combine journalism, investigative journalism
and storytelling.
So we really research each topic,
and then bring it to the country of India
and share what we have learned with the people.
And hope that we can transform
minds, hearts.
You know, I’ve always felt that there’s two ways
of bringing about change.
One is top-down.
When you make laws
and you tell people to follow them.
Or you make policies and you expect people to follow them.
And sometimes it works, but a lot of time it doesn’t.
I think the other way is a longer route,
but I think that is what we have chosen to do.
And that is to reach out to people’s hearts.
Not with anger, but with love.
And, you know, try and transform minds
at a young age.
– [Interviewer] What is the founder of your success?
– Uh, I don’t know, actually.
I’m not quite aware
of why I’ve been successful so far.
You know I don’t think so much about that.
What I like to do is enjoy my work.
So I do work which excites me.
And often it’s work which, on the face of it
is not considered very,
you know, doesn’t have the potential
to be a big blockbuster.
You know, I’ve picked very unusual kind of stories.
So, even I didn’t expect them to be successful.
– [Interviewer] Do you feel pressure?
Because you had this really long run,
apart from anyone else,
of success- – Well, not really,
because I feel that, you know,
I’m not even thinking about that.
I’m not even thinking about that.
I just want to enjoy my work,
and I want to surprise myself.
Challenge myself and surprise my audience.
And give them something new each time.
So, I like doing that.
I like doing different stuff.
– When I look back today, after 25 years
of being a professional,
I think that that’s one thing that I feel happy about.
That I lived on my terms.
You see, today I’m successful.
I may not have been successful.
I may not have been successful.
I didn’t know I was going to be successful.
But I’m happy that I lived on my terms.
And I’m happy that I never compromised.
Whenever I was offered something I was not happy with,
I didn’t do it.
– Do you think you’re the kind of person
or individuality, that follows his heart?
– I do follow my heart.
I don’t think too much.
I like to go instinctively.
If I love something,
I want to do it.
I don’t think after that.
So, in this film I had to play
an older man, who’s fat.
Who’s got gray hair, and who’s aging.
And he’s got four daughters.
If I think,
logically, then I should not do a role like this
for some time.
But I love this film,
so I’m an actor.
I play different roles.
So I like to go with my heart,
but I have to say that a lot
of people are also successful when,
those who go with their mind.
There are no rules, I think.
Each one makes their own path.
But I like to follow my heart.
It’s not just the emotion of wanting
to do something for somebody else,
which is in itself a good emotion.
– Yeah.
– That you want to do something for someone.
But if you feel that your life is incomplete if you don’t.
– [Interviewer] Right.
– So you’re doing it for yourself, really.
– [Interviewer] Right.
– Of course, you’re doing it for someone else.
But I think that that’s what is important,
and it’s something that happens to you
if you feel like.
It doesn’t have to happen to you.
But I think in me what grew was this feeling
that I needed to, for myself, do something.
That I felt better about myself
when I felt I was..
You know, I feel I’m so privileged in so many ways.
And I feel that, I really feel that
when I see around me people who are not as privileged,
I can’t just sit by and be comfortable with that.
There’s a need in me to,
you know, reach out and perhaps help if I can.
– And in a way, you’re lucky to have a position
where people will listen.
You’ll be able to…
– And I’d like to use it to the best of my abilities.
So I guess that’s why I’ve moved into the space that I have.
It’s for my own emotional or mental
piece of mind and satisfaction.
– I don’t do too much to look after myself.
But what I do, for sure,
is I follow a very strict diet.
And I think that has made a huge difference
to the way I feel and to the way I look.
It has made me realize that we are what we eat.
– Absolutely.
– So, I follow a very healthy, balanced diet.
I drink a lot of water.
– Yeah, we’ve seen that.
– So, I think I drink about, at least three liters a day.
Sometimes four.
So I think what has happened is that
because of my healthy diet,
I sleep eight hours.
– And I think success, like Phunsukh Wangdu says,
“Don’t chase success.
Chase excellence, and success will come with it.”
So, I hope that I’m trying to do that.
It is I’m trying to do that.
I don’t know that I achieve that,
But I’m trying to do that, yeah.
This is a fascinating thing.
Right through my life.
Every important decision of mine.
All the people who are important to me,
and who are close to me, have always told me,
“You’re making a mistake.
Don’t do this.”
I’m always being told that.
– [Interviewer] So that’s a good benchmark.
– No.
I appreciate the fact that people
who are close to me are concerned about me.
I appreciate the fact that they care for me
and are worried for me.
But what I’ve always been happy about myself
is that I’ve always done what I believed in.
So I’ll give you three examples.
When I was in the 12th,
that’s when I decided that I wanted
to learn about filmmaking and cinema.
So I told my family, my friends.
Everyone around me that, you know
I’m going to start working as an assistant director
and start learning about filmmaking.
Everybody I knew at that time,
my parents, of course, freaked out.
You don’t want to be a graduate?
You want to leave your studies?
It was (foreign language).
And my uncles and aunts,
they were all like, “You know you can’t do this.”
My cousins.
People my age, who I thought would understand me.
My friends said,
(foreign language)
“Do what you want.
You want to be an actor, you want to be a filmmaker.
Do what you want.
But at least be a graduate.
It didn’t make sense to me.
I was like, why?
If I want to be a doctor,
do I study commerce?
No, I study medicine.
If I want to be an engineer,
I study engineering.
If I want to be a filmmaker,
I want to study filmmaking.
Why on earth should I waste time
studying something else
when I’m really clear that this is my goal?
So, no no.
Because you need a paper
which says you’re a graduate.
That was told to me.
I said, “No, I don’t need a paper.”
I don’t need someone to tell me
what I know.
I know what I know.
And if I need to know something,
I’ll learn about it.
So I was very clear
that this is what I want to do.
So I didn’t listen to anyone.
I didn’t listen to my friends,
I didn’t listen to my family.
I just did what I wanted to do.
Because I feel that,
if I’m clear about what I want to do, and I’m
honest about it,
and I’m sincere about it.
And the reasons why I’m doing it is,
is clear to me,
then I must follow my instinct.
Even if I have to go wrong tomorrow,
I’d rather go wrong on my instincts.
I don’t want to go wrong on
somebody else’s advice.
If I’ve taken a wrong step, I’ll deal with it.
I’ll learn.
It could be a learning experience for me.
(foreign language)
(foreign language)
(foreign language)
(motivational power music)
– One.
Two.
1.14.
– How many times?
– Thank you guys so much for watching!
I hope you enjoyed.
Then cast your vote on who you want to see
in the next top 10.
Check out the link in the description
and go vote for the person that you want
me to profile next.
I also want to give a quick shout out
to Dev Gadhvi.
Dev, thank you so much for picking up
a copy of my book, Your One Word.
Doing a review on your channel.
Interviewing me and Lilly on your channel.
It’s been awesome to have your support,
and I’m so glad that you enjoyed my book.
– We have Evan Carmichael today joining us.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
I believe in you.
I hope you continue to believe in yourself
and whatever your one word is.
Much love.
I’ll see you soon.
– In fact, I have learned the maximum
from my failures.
My failures have taught me the most.
And so I really value my failures.
Whatever I am today is because,
not only because of my successes,
but also because of my failures.
Whatever I’ve learned, you know,
through my failures.
And so, I have always done
what I believed in.
And I continue to do that.
I strongly feel that
creative exchange, creative people,
have no boundaries.
Jackie Chan is so popular all over the world.
It doesn’t matter that he’s belonging to one country.
Over time, he belongs to the whole world.
And he entertains everyone.
So, I think that for creative people
there are no boundaries.
And it is the creative people who try and bring
cultures together, people together.
– I like to go instinctively.
If I love something, I want to do it.
(loud rock music)
– Hello, Believe Nation.
My name is Evan Carmichael.
My one word is believe,
and I believe that entrepreneurs will solve
all of the world’s major problems.
So, to help you on your journey today,
we’re going to learn from Indian actor, director,
and producer Aamir Khan and my take
on his top 10 rules for success.
Rule number two is my personal favorite,
and I’d love to know which one
you guys like the best.
And as always, as you’re watching,
if you hear something that really resonates with you,
please leave it in the comments below.
Put quotes around it so other people
can be inspired.
Might win a prize, as well.
And, also, when you write it down,
it’s much more likely to stick for yourself, as well.
Enjoy!
(motivational music)
– And I think each one of us, you know,
finds their own path.
So, what is the important to me,
which I would like to share with you
is that I’ve always believed
in following my dreams.
And I don’t know how that happened.
I’m not quite sure how that happened.
But I think it also happened because
I’m very passionate
about whatever I do.
Whether it’s my work, which is films.
Whether it’s playing a sport.
Whether it’s you know, hanging out
with my friends.
Whether it’s having an argument.
Whether it’s you know,
laughing about something.
I’m very passionate about everything.
And I give my entire attention and full…
Everything about me is in
that one thing that I’m doing
at that time.
So, I think that what is being very important
for me is that I don’t want to compromise
with what I want to do.
What is my dream?
I don’t mind compromising to achieve my dream,
but I don’t want to compromise the dream itself.
So that is something that I’ve always believed in.
– I think that,
what Gandhi said is so true.
That, be the change that you want to see.
And I think that
each one of us can at least change yourself.
And that, itself, is such a big force
in changing the world.
– You know, you wake up in the morning,
you read the papers, the news.
You read about injustice.
You read about poverty.
You read about people who are
less privileged than you.
And you want to really do something about it.
I think most of us feel that way,
and we don’t know what to do.
And I felt that for a number of years.
And then I realized that I should do
what I know best, which is storytelling.
And I should use the strength of storytelling
to try and change minds and try and, you know,
enrich, perhaps, the discussion on certain issues
that we face as a society.
And I saw the ones really doing it
on that kind of a scale,
on a public platform.
And I thought if I combine the strength of TV
with the good will that I’ve earned,
And you know, we try and…
Actually, combine journalism, investigative journalism
and storytelling.
So we really research each topic,
and then bring it to the country of India
and share what we have learned with the people.
And hope that we can transform
minds, hearts.
You know, I’ve always felt that there’s two ways
of bringing about change.
One is top-down.
When you make laws
and you tell people to follow them.
Or you make policies and you expect people to follow them.
And sometimes it works, but a lot of time it doesn’t.
I think the other way is a longer route,
but I think that is what we have chosen to do.
And that is to reach out to people’s hearts.
Not with anger, but with love.
And, you know, try and transform minds
at a young age.
– [Interviewer] What is the founder of your success?
– Uh, I don’t know, actually.
I’m not quite aware
of why I’ve been successful so far.
You know I don’t think so much about that.
What I like to do is enjoy my work.
So I do work which excites me.
And often it’s work which, on the face of it
is not considered very,
you know, doesn’t have the potential
to be a big blockbuster.
You know, I’ve picked very unusual kind of stories.
So, even I didn’t expect them to be successful.
– [Interviewer] Do you feel pressure?
Because you had this really long run,
apart from anyone else,
of success- – Well, not really,
because I feel that, you know,
I’m not even thinking about that.
I’m not even thinking about that.
I just want to enjoy my work,
and I want to surprise myself.
Challenge myself and surprise my audience.
And give them something new each time.
So, I like doing that.
I like doing different stuff.
– When I look back today, after 25 years
of being a professional,
I think that that’s one thing that I feel happy about.
That I lived on my terms.
You see, today I’m successful.
I may not have been successful.
I may not have been successful.
I didn’t know I was going to be successful.
But I’m happy that I lived on my terms.
And I’m happy that I never compromised.
Whenever I was offered something I was not happy with,
I didn’t do it.
– Do you think you’re the kind of person
or individuality, that follows his heart?
– I do follow my heart.
I don’t think too much.
I like to go instinctively.
If I love something,
I want to do it.
I don’t think after that.
So, in this film I had to play
an older man, who’s fat.
Who’s got gray hair, and who’s aging.
And he’s got four daughters.
If I think,
logically, then I should not do a role like this
for some time.
But I love this film,
so I’m an actor.
I play different roles.
So I like to go with my heart,
but I have to say that a lot
of people are also successful when,
those who go with their mind.
There are no rules, I think.
Each one makes their own path.
But I like to follow my heart.
It’s not just the emotion of wanting
to do something for somebody else,
which is in itself a good emotion.
– Yeah.
– That you want to do something for someone.
But if you feel that your life is incomplete if you don’t.
– [Interviewer] Right.
– So you’re doing it for yourself, really.
– [Interviewer] Right.
– Of course, you’re doing it for someone else.
But I think that that’s what is important,
and it’s something that happens to you
if you feel like.
It doesn’t have to happen to you.
But I think in me what grew was this feeling
that I needed to, for myself, do something.
That I felt better about myself
when I felt I was..
You know, I feel I’m so privileged in so many ways.
And I feel that, I really feel that
when I see around me people who are not as privileged,
I can’t just sit by and be comfortable with that.
There’s a need in me to,
you know, reach out and perhaps help if I can.
– And in a way, you’re lucky to have a position
where people will listen.
You’ll be able to…
– And I’d like to use it to the best of my abilities.
So I guess that’s why I’ve moved into the space that I have.
It’s for my own emotional or mental
piece of mind and satisfaction.
– I don’t do too much to look after myself.
But what I do, for sure,
is I follow a very strict diet.
And I think that has made a huge difference
to the way I feel and to the way I look.
It has made me realize that we are what we eat.
– Absolutely.
– So, I follow a very healthy, balanced diet.
I drink a lot of water.
– Yeah, we’ve seen that.
– So, I think I drink about, at least three liters a day.
Sometimes four.
So I think what has happened is that
because of my healthy diet,
I sleep eight hours.
– And I think success, like Phunsukh Wangdu says,
“Don’t chase success.
Chase excellence, and success will come with it.”
So, I hope that I’m trying to do that.
It is I’m trying to do that.
I don’t know that I achieve that,
But I’m trying to do that, yeah.
This is a fascinating thing.
Right through my life.
Every important decision of mine.
All the people who are important to me,
and who are close to me, have always told me,
“You’re making a mistake.
Don’t do this.”
I’m always being told that.
– [Interviewer] So that’s a good benchmark.
– No.
I appreciate the fact that people
who are close to me are concerned about me.
I appreciate the fact that they care for me
and are worried for me.
But what I’ve always been happy about myself
is that I’ve always done what I believed in.
So I’ll give you three examples.
When I was in the 12th,
that’s when I decided that I wanted
to learn about filmmaking and cinema.
So I told my family, my friends.
Everyone around me that, you know
I’m going to start working as an assistant director
and start learning about filmmaking.
Everybody I knew at that time,
my parents, of course, freaked out.
You don’t want to be a graduate?
You want to leave your studies?
It was (foreign language).
And my uncles and aunts,
they were all like, “You know you can’t do this.”
My cousins.
People my age, who I thought would understand me.
My friends said,
(foreign language)
“Do what you want.
You want to be an actor, you want to be a filmmaker.
Do what you want.
But at least be a graduate.
It didn’t make sense to me.
I was like, why?
If I want to be a doctor,
do I study commerce?
No, I study medicine.
If I want to be an engineer,
I study engineering.
If I want to be a filmmaker,
I want to study filmmaking.
Why on earth should I waste time
studying something else
when I’m really clear that this is my goal?
So, no no.
Because you need a paper
which says you’re a graduate.
That was told to me.
I said, “No, I don’t need a paper.”
I don’t need someone to tell me
what I know.
I know what I know.
And if I need to know something,
I’ll learn about it.
So I was very clear
that this is what I want to do.
So I didn’t listen to anyone.
I didn’t listen to my friends,
I didn’t listen to my family.
I just did what I wanted to do.
Because I feel that,
if I’m clear about what I want to do, and I’m
honest about it,
and I’m sincere about it.
And the reasons why I’m doing it is,
is clear to me,
then I must follow my instinct.
Even if I have to go wrong tomorrow,
I’d rather go wrong on my instincts.
I don’t want to go wrong on
somebody else’s advice.
If I’ve taken a wrong step, I’ll deal with it.
I’ll learn.
It could be a learning experience for me.
(foreign language)
(foreign language)
(foreign language)
(motivational power music)
– One.
Two.
1.14.
– How many times?
– Thank you guys so much for watching!
I hope you enjoyed.
Then cast your vote on who you want to see
in the next top 10.
Check out the link in the description
and go vote for the person that you want
me to profile next.
I also want to give a quick shout out
to Dev Gadhvi.
Dev, thank you so much for picking up
a copy of my book, Your One Word.
Doing a review on your channel.
Interviewing me and Lilly on your channel.
It’s been awesome to have your support,
and I’m so glad that you enjoyed my book.
– We have Evan Carmichael today joining us.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
I believe in you.
I hope you continue to believe in yourself
and whatever your one word is.
Much love.
I’ll see you soon.
– In fact, I have learned the maximum
from my failures.
My failures have taught me the most.
And so I really value my failures.
Whatever I am today is because,
not only because of my successes,
but also because of my failures.
Whatever I’ve learned, you know,
through my failures.
And so, I have always done
what I believed in.
And I continue to do that.
I strongly feel that
creative exchange, creative people,
have no boundaries.
Jackie Chan is so popular all over the world.
It doesn’t matter that he’s belonging to one country.
Over time, he belongs to the whole world.
And he entertains everyone.
So, I think that for creative people
there are no boundaries.
And it is the creative people who try and bring
cultures together, people together.
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