---
title: 'You Need to Lose to Win'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Knb6-o5g9w'
video_id: '-Knb6-o5g9w'
date: 2026-07-23
duration_sec: 601
channel: 'MYKHAILOV'
---

# You Need to Lose to Win

> Source: [You Need to Lose to Win](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Knb6-o5g9w)

## Summary

The speaker discusses how to handle setbacks and failures, sharing a personal story of losing €5,000 on a Telegram channel investment. He explains that this failure ultimately led to greater success and a better life, emphasizing that failures are essential for growth and should be embraced as part of the journey.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Failure** [00:02] — The speaker was motivated to record this video after multiple failed attempts at filming outdoors due to technical issues. He realized that these small failures no longer caused negative emotions, unlike two years ago.
- **Shift in Mindset** [01:09] — Previously, failures would make him want to quit. Now, he sees them as a normal part of the process, bringing him closer to success.
- **Personal Story: Losing €5,000** [02:14] — In 2024, he invested all his savings (€5,000) into a Telegram channel without experience. After 2-3 months, he lost everything and owed money to others.
- **Turning Failure into Success** [03:33] — Instead of dwelling on the loss, he studied traffic and audience management. Within a month, he found a new income source, and after two months, he recouped all losses and achieved stable income.
- **Moral of the Story** [04:01] — If the investment had succeeded, he might have stayed with a small income and not pursued bigger opportunities. The failure forced him to learn and grow, leading to a much better life.
- **Avoiding Fixation on Failure** [05:09] — If he had fixated on the loss, he would have remained stuck. Instead, he used the failure as motivation to move forward.
- **Learning from Mistakes** [06:05] — Even if you don't learn something new, you gain experience and skills. Each attempt builds towards a significant result.
- **Analyzing Life Situations** [07:12] — He encourages viewers to reflect on past failures that led to positive outcomes, such as moving countries due to war, which opened up travel and development opportunities.
- **Examples of Persistence** [08:32] — Thomas Edison's thousand attempts to invent the light bulb and other technologies show that failure is part of the journey to success.

### Conclusion

Failure is an integral part of success. By embracing failures and learning from them, you can achieve greater results than if you had succeeded immediately.

## Transcript

setbacks, defeats, how to work with them , how to cope with them, and most motivated me to record this video was that I had just gone outside and wanted to shoot a video on a different topic .  Ah, I had several attempts,
this one for 9 minutes, there for another 10-20 minutes.  In short, I tried many times, but it did firstly, it’s unusual to talk to a camera on the street , then there were problems with the sound, and the picture wasn’t very good due to the lighting.  And, actually, I was just about to
delete these files and what I was thinking about was that this whole process, that I spent some time on it, resources, yes, I, I don’t know, bought this camera, and, for this DJ, this microphone, more precisely.  And what I
thought about was that it didn’t cause me any negative emotions at all.  That is, I approached some kind of failure, I didn’t succeed at something, and it didn’t n’t even feel any emotion from it .  That is, for me this has
now become such a basic topic, yes, even this video I’m twentieth attempt, because I was testing the lighting there, and something else like that.  Well, that is to say, it doesn't matter .  The point is that these small defeats, which are still there, I don’t
know, two years ago would have caused in me some kind of desire to stop doing all this , some kind of realization that this is not right for me, this is definitely not for me, I shouldn’t do this.  And everything else, what would have
now doesn’t cause me any emotions at all .  For me, it’s just part of some process, part of some path.  And, actually, with this video I want to explain, firstly, that losing, that suffering some
failures, yes, when you don’t succeed, is not something normal, it’s something that cannot move at all.  That is, you should, on the contrary, have a more positive attitude towards failures, because each failure brings you closer and closer
to some goal of yours, to some success of yours.  And this very realization actually came to me not so long ago.  But when I realized this, and in fact I realized this quite well, not cheaply, so to speak, I gained this experience
, and all my affairs, so to speak, went uphill, yes, they went uphill. That is, I reached my first adequate income, I started doing activity, I started traveling and that’s basically all the rest.  Let me
tell you about this event so that you understand how it was for me, yes, so that if you are now experiencing some failures, some difficulties, some losses, so that you do not treat this as something negative, but
on the contrary, think about how to turn all this into some kind of plus for yourself.   It turns out that in 1924 I collected all my savings.  I borrowed a little.  I also found some money somewhere, collected a total of almost
5,000 euros, and decided to invest it in a Telegram channel, right? had this idea, so to speak, to create a Telegram channel, sell advertising there, and make money from this advertising.  It's clear that without experience, without any
without experience, without any knowledge, just at random, yes, it didn't work, it didn't work out.  And as a result, after 2-3 months of such work, everything came to the point that I essentially simply lost all my savings,
all my money.  And at that moment, for some reason, I didn’t react to it at all, to something bad, to the fact that I had lost everything, and not even that.  I simply couldn’t accept the fact that everything I have now, I lost simply
on some kind of Telegram investment.  More precisely, not so.  I just couldn’t come to terms with the fact that I had now lost all my money, all my savings.  I now owe people money because I simply couldn't do it.  I
take it all and throw it away, yes.  I started to continue to somehow study all of this, how everything is arranged there, to delve into everything in more detail .  And thanks to this, just a month after this loss, I found some new source of income for myself, began
to understand more about traffic, and how to work with an audience.  And after just 2 months, I had fully recouped all of these funds, all of my expenses, all of my stable income.  And what is the moral of
this whole story?  The fact is that if I had n't invested the money at the beginning, I wouldn't have made this mistake, let's say, everything would have gone well for me, I would have been earning my own, I don't know, 500 dollars, 500 euros every month from this
Telegram channel, as I planned.  So that will be further, right? Well, that's already a question.  Maybe for me, I don’t know, this income would be somehow comfortable or something else, something else, and Maybe I would have continued, I don’t know,
just going to university, because, well, what is that?  The profitability is 500 euros, you can’t really live on that, and without some large investments I wouldn’t be able to build anything bigger in this area.  And, probably, my life scenario would have
turned out, well, much worse than it did at the moment when I allowed this failure.  And, actually, now, after 2 years or so, almost 3 think: “Damn, how cool it was then that it didn’t work out for me, it didn’t work out, I
had to, well, somehow get out of all this, do something, learn something new.”  Thanks to this, actually, I have, well, I can’t show you, but my standard of living is much better than it was at that time.  And here's another
important point: if I were to simply fixate on the fact that I've lost a huge amount of money, that I owe someone, that I'd start to worry, that I'd start to think about how bad everything is, what should I do, that I'd start to, well , go in this direction, yes, in the
direction that's more logical, yes, that is, you've lost a ton of money, what's there to be happy about, yes, then in that case I'd simply be left with the same problems and essentially nothing would have changed in my life.  That is why I am very glad that back then
obstacles, such difficulties, which forced me to move further, higher.  And now, when I again encounter similar problems, yes, which may be smaller in some places, bigger in others, where I also
work out for me, or there, I don’t know, I started recording videos, they don’t work, yes, I recording videos, they don’t work, yes, I lost a ton of time, then I also treat them all with the utmost positivity, because, okay,
thanks to these failures I understand something new for myself.  or even if you didn’t learn anything new from your mistake, you still at least have some experience left.  At least you understand that it’s better not to do this, it’s
better to act a little differently.  Or, while you were making that mistake, you acquired some additional skills, well, I mean a you shot a bad video, it didn't start getting views, you spent
time on it, money on equipment, something else , something else, but you, firstly, improved your diction, secondly, learned how to edit, and you realized that the format in which you recorded it, that script, it's not suitable, so you
need to, well, better refine it, work on it better, and you acquire a lot, a lot of skills, which, and if you, say, repeat these actions there 50 more times, then with all these skills that you have accumulated
over your 50 attempts, on your fifty- first attempt you will already do something that will already bring some significant result.  So in the end I want to to analyze all your life situations.  If you
had some failures somewhere, where you lost something, there, I don’t know, something didn’t work out for you , but later these failures led you to some result, some success, yes, and you understand that oh, it’s good that it turned out this way, and because of
this I have now become better there, something else, well, good things happened in life. even such a, uh, not a funny example, so to speak, yes, but which can really also be taken into account, is, uh, the beginning of some military
actions, yes, in my home country in 1922, because of which I had to move to other countries, start traveling.  And it seems like an event, well, the most terrible, yes, like the worst possible, but if it hadn’t
happened, I would probably be sitting in my city of 100,000 people and not really developing in any way, yes, I wouldn’t travel, well, I would travel, yes, but not like now, yes, not to 10-15 countries, but a year,
and my life would have turned out completely differently, most likely in the worst-case scenario.  But it was precisely because this bad good results.  Try to analyze for yourself what similar
events have happened to you.  And just reinforce this in your head, that bad events can produce some really cool result.  If you haven't had any events that triggered your thoughts, then just, well, try, try.  At
some point you will realize that it really does help.  Well, if we examples, say some banal things, yes, then we all know that, say, Thomas Edison, yes, who invented the light bulb, he invented it on
something like his thousandth or more than a thousandth attempt, but this is simply the most popular story, in fact.  any device, any technology, everything you see around you , yes, especially from some of the more
difficult solutions, but before their creation they turned out to be simply impossible, somehow inadequate, illogical. And after the first few failures, I am sure that, well, most people who tried and looked in this direction,
they gave up, because, well, it was simply logically impossible to create. But those who didn’t actually give up, yes, started making more and more attempts. They invented, I don’t know, iPhones, they invented cameras, they invented some other
new technologies that we all use now.  And they succeeded only thanks to this mindset, that every attempt leads to some kind of result.  And, actually, failure is part of the journey,
right?  So it’s not like there was some kind of response that didn’t work out, right?  That is, we have something that worked out there, something that didn’t , but it’s like one path that go through, and in the end you will definitely succeed if you don’t give up along the
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