--- title: 'How People''s Opinions Can Affect Your Life | #Step' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=XbMD1YRn8g4' video_id: 'XbMD1YRn8g4' date: 2026-08-04 duration_sec: 108 --- # How People's Opinions Can Affect Your Life | #Step > Source: [How People's Opinions Can Affect Your Life | #Step](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XbMD1YRn8g4) ## Summary This motivational video addresses the impact of other people's opinions on one's life and success. It encourages viewers, especially young people, to disregard negative external judgments and focus on their own paths, drawing on religious and inspirational references. ### Key Points - **Difficult beginnings are common** [00:02] — Every success story involves difficult beginnings where no one believed in the person, not even family. Successful people share a trait: they focus on their work and ignore what others say. - **The trap of valuing others' opinions** [00:14] — Young people often base their self-worth on others' opinions, which can elevate or destroy them. Sharing your plans with others may lead to discouraging comments. - **The real test: ignore or listen** [00:27] — The real test is whether you shut your ears to negative talk and focus on your path, or continue listening and let it deter you. Fear of starting due to lack of resources or youth is unfounded. - **Successful people started small** [00:41] — All successful people started small, often in circumstances far more difficult than ours. People will always talk, and they may laugh at you initially, but if you believe in yourself, they will talk about you when you succeed. - **People will always talk** [01:05] — People have nothing better to do than talk and can't agree on anything. Even prophets were blasphemed, so you shouldn't fear people's talk. Instead, believe in yourself and chase your dream. - **Prophetic advice on reliance on God** [01:18] — The Prophet's advice: 'Be mindful of God, and He will protect you... If you ask, ask of God, and if you seek help, seek help from God.' No one can benefit or harm you except by God's decree. - **Take the first step** [01:33] — Believe in yourself, take the first step, and throw people's opinions behind you. Those who doubted you will applaud your success. Use your head and trust in God. ### Conclusion The video concludes that success requires ignoring negative opinions, believing in yourself, and trusting in God. It emphasizes that people will eventually applaud your success if you persist. ## Transcript beginning, then know that you have entered the wrong path. If you think about any success story of someone you admire or who inspires you, you'll always find that their beginnings were difficult. You'll always find that at first, no one believed in them, maybe not even their family. But you'll always find that they, and all successful people like them, share one characteristic: they focus on what they're doing and don't pay attention to what people around them say. Often, we as young people fall into this trap, where we base our worth on other people's opinions of us. People's opinions can elevate us to the highest heavens or bring us crashing down to the lowest depths. And if you really want to crash down to the lowest depths, go tell people about anything you want to start. Then you'll hear the sweetest words, but what are these sweet words for? Herein lies the real test: either you shut your ears to what people say and stop listening to them and focus on your path, or you continue listening to what they tell you. But believe me, if you continue listening, you'll never afraid of the thing you want to start because you don't have the resources and you're still young. So what? All the successful people who inspire us now started small, and in fact, they might have started in circumstances a million times more difficult than ours. Look, people have nothing better to do than talk. Nothing pleases them, and they can't agree on anything. People have even blasphemed against God and associated partners with Him. They've even blasphemed against the prophets, the prophets who never err. And you're afraid people will talk about you? No, people will talk, and they'll keep talking. On the contrary, they might laugh at you at the beginning, but believe me, if you believe in yourself and chase your dream, they'll still talk about you, but this time when you've taken the first step and are succeeding. And always remember the Prophet's (peace be upon him) advice: "Be mindful of God, and He will protect you. Be mindful of God, and you will find Him before you. If you ask, ask of God, and if you seek help, seek help from God." And know that if the entire nation were to agree on something... They cannot benefit you in any way except what God has decreed for you, and even if they all gathered to harm you, they could not harm you in any way except what God has decreed against you. The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried. So believe in yourself, take the first step, and throw people's opinions behind you. And believe me, they are the ones who will applaud you when you succeed. So use your head and trust in God.