Metalhead YouTube Star’s TED Talk Advice: Be Yourself and Success Will Follow

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Last year, comedian, YouTube influencer and all-around lovable metalhead Nat of Nat’s What I Reckon fame gave a pretty inspiring TED Talk about his journey to success and not giving a damn about what other people think about you.

A common theme that we can likely all relate to as metalheads.

If for some reason you’re not already familiar with Nat’s work, he first gained notoriety as a result of a pretty damn hilarious (yet incredibly useful) cooking show on YouTube- 2 of his bigger viral videos pasted below.

As transcribed by Loudwire, here are some of our favorite moments from Nat’s inspirational talk:

“I ended up repeating a year at school. Eventually left school at the end of Year 10, went to music uni. I gave that a crack, I went and studied music and guess what? Buggered that up as well…

I worked all these shitty jobs. I worked jobs, jobs that tell you, like, ‘Dye your hair back from green to brown, take your piercings out and try and sell that person over there as much popcorn as humanly possible and we won’t fire you. Well, I still managed to get fired from the cinema… and a lot of jobs…

I just filmed videos and it seemed to be the only success I could find. We had a show offering here, I was able to host a show that was gonna tour around Australia. I met an agent, they’re like, ‘You should book a tour.’ We sold them out really quickly and I was fuckin’ stoked … and then COVID hit and I fuckin’ lost it, I lost all of it like that, like a lot of us lost their jobs. So I sat in my car with my girlfriend and I just fuckin’ cried. That’s it, I’ve lost it. Dead shit again. I’m just gonna have to go and bust my ass and get fired somewhere else.”

And commenting on the inspiration for perhaps his most popular video:

“I seen on the news that all these people had been buying all the toilet roll and all the jar sauce and I’m like, ‘The fuck’s going on here? Why are you buying all this pasta sauce in jars? You’ve got heaps of time, just make it yourself. Maybe I’ll make a video about that … Well, holy shit, the first video got millions of views within a couple of weeks.”

“I suppose what I’m here to say is, this success rhythm and this normalcy that’s presented to you … maybe that’s not your success. Maybe you having green hair and piercings and swearing a little too much isn’t really the problem. Maybe they’re the problem. Maybe you’re seeming under-qualified makes you qualified for your success.”

You can watch it all below. Get pumped, we definitely were after watching. Well fucking said, Nat.

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Words by: The Pit staff.