Dan Martell - January 10, 2026


To be successful, you have to be delusional

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Length

31 seconds

Words per minute

202.88

Word count

108

Sentence count

9

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

1

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It's only delusional until it works, and once it does, everybody will be like, "oh yeah, oh, you saw that he had the potential to be a great person." If you don't believe in something you've never done before with a level of commitment and certainty that is unreasonable, fucking delusional until you do it, it's not going to make sense to anybody else.

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00:00:00.000 If there's one piece of advice I can give to anybody watching this video is stay fucking 0.99
00:00:04.800 delusional. It's not going to make sense to anybody. And that's the point. You have no 0.98
00:00:09.100 proof. The whole point is for you to believe in something you've never done before with a level
00:00:13.520 of commitment and certainty that is unreasonable, fucking delusional until you do it. And once you 0.73
00:00:19.100 do it, everybody's going to be like, oh yeah, oh, you saw that he had the potential. Understand
00:00:22.760 being delusional, being misunderstood, being somebody that other people don't understand.
00:00:27.980 That is actually the point. It's only delusional until it works.