As long as you know who you are and believe you're a good person, other people's comments and criticism ultimately can't hurt you.
Jake Paul says most people already know who they are but still let critics get under their skin; true immunity to hate comes from being able to look in the mirror and affirm your own goodness regardless of what others say. ✦ AI generated
Jake Paul · a16z Podcast · 2026-06-22 · original ↗
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“On that note Jake, what can people learn from you about resilience and pain tolerance? Is it just something you've had since you were a kid? Is it something you've learned over time?”
A lot of people know who they are, but they let the comments and critics get to them very easily. And so if you could just look yourself in the mirror and be like, I'm doing good, I'm a good person, I'm doing good things in the world, I have a good heart, I mean well. And if you can mean those things, then it doesn't matter what anyone says.
verbatim transcript · starts at 14:14
14:14are, but they let the comments and critics like get to them very easily. And so if you could just look yourself in the mirror and be like, I'm doing good. I'm a good person. I'm doing good good things in the world. I have a good heart. I mean well. And if you can mean those things, then it doesn't matter what anyone says. >> Yeah. When when people ask you is like,
14:35"Hey, are tools like uh therapy helpful or other sort of self-care tools whether physical or emotional or mental to help deal with like what what do you tell them?" >> Yeah, definitely. I I fully believe that. I think um you just have to be careful, you know, you don't want the therapy to like turn into victimizing yourself and then always being in constant sad loops. So, I think you have
15:04to be careful and at some points um if it feels needed, yes. But I don't think you should get like trapped into the cycle of therapy and always kind of having a call with someone or an in-person meeting with someone that is generally probably going to be negative. Um, and so I think it's very important like who that therapist is as well. But I do think it's important to learn about
15:30yourself and unpack things. And I think the childhood like trauma and going back and realizing like oh you know um you know you had this that happened to you and this is maybe why you have anxiety in this moment and these things and so I I really like childhood trauma work that you can connect to why you behave certain ways as an adult. >> Yeah. >> Um and I think it's important to unpack
16:00those things and learn about it. Totally. Jeeoff, why don't you also make sense of some of like when you're reflecting your career, looking back, you've taken some big swings and some different spaces. Um, when you look back at the the threads that have tied your career together, h how do you make sense of it? What are some of the big insights you've had that have led you to go deep