Naysayers: Ignore Them, This Is Rule Number Two is a powerful reminder to stay focused on your goals. Don’t let negativity hold you back. Believe in yourself, push forward, and prove them wrong. Success comes to those who refuse to listen to doubt.
Naysayers
The second rule is to ignore the doubters. Ignore the doubters. What they heard others say about anything I ever did was that it was impossible. That is exactly what I heard—that it can not be done or no—and I showed the others that it is possible. Every time someone told me something could not be done, I heard that it could be done. I heard “yes” when they said “no.” I also heard that it is feasible when they stated it was impossible.
I firmly believe in it. According to Nelson Mandela, nothing is ever feasible until someone takes action. That is what I am going to say to myself. I will accomplish it and demonstrate it to them. Perhaps no one has ever done it before. I am cool with that. However, I am going to do it, and I ignored the doubters.
It all comes down to how hard you work. I must have been bodybuilding, I said. I spent five to six hours each day working out. Naturally, I went to college to study English, and I am going to do the same thing now for acting. I spent the entire day studying the accent, taking acting workshops, and doing other things. In the works, I worked and worked. And in a short time, I produced a film in New York called Hercules, which naturally went straight to the bottom. However, that did not deter me. I was still seeing the same thing when I suddenly started doing Streets of San Francisco.
After I continued to be hungry and to pump on the antagonist, Dino De Laurentiis of Universal Studios suddenly invited me to play the lead in Conan the Barbarian. The director, John Milius, told the media at the press conference after I finished Conan the Barbarian that we would have had to construct one if we had not had Arnold. Consider that the same body they claimed could never be sold because the timing was incorrect. Conan the Barbarian, which I am doing a few years later, was the top-grossing film when it debuted in the summer of 1982.
The director claims that we would have had to construct a body if we had not got his. My physique suddenly became an asset rather than a liability, and the Terminator experienced the same change. After we wrapped up filming Terminator, Jim Cameron told the media, “I think the movie would not have succeeded if Arnold had not had that accent and talked like a machine.”
Consider that the accent and body they targeted were advantages. However, I paid absolutely no attention to them losers. The fact is that you can not pay attention to those who are pessimistic. For all of you, this is a crucial lesson. If someone tells you, “No, this is a dumb idea,” you do not have to respond.
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