Kevin Hart, the world’s best paid comic, says you have to take the rejection if you want to succeed: “It is supposed to be hard”

• Kevin HartThe world’s best paid comic in 2024 says that a key to success is to learn to embrace rejection and failure. In an interview with FortuneThe entertainer and the entrepreneur reflected on the times when he was told “no” in his career and how he used this as a tool to grow.

Kevin Hart knows one thing or two about success. It’s over 177 million followers over Instagram. His entertainment company, Hartbeat, was Valued at $ 650 million Last year. And seconds ForbiddenKevin Hart made $ 81 million In 2024, making it the world’s best paid comic book, as well as the third highest payment entertainer, achieving more than Hollywood icons like Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

In an interview with FortuneHart said that a key motive of his success is his ability to learn from his failures, and to “embrace” rejection.

In spite of the many Hart’s hits at the box office, the files where he is a leading actor obtained more than 1.08 billion dollars All over the world; This number exceeds $ 3.6 billion if they include their support papers: their way to success was marked by several notable rejection.

“I can’t restrict it to one,” Hart said Fortune. “Do not go into comedy clubs soon in my career. Not being chosen for comedy festivals soon in my career. Not getting cinema papers that I thought were perfect roles for me. Not getting SNL when I thought SNL was the biggest and best for me.”

“There are so many things that, if they had passed, my career would not have been shaped in what it is today,” he added.

It’s not alone. David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs was rejected twice by the firm before we have revenue of more than $ 50 billion. The sponge of Scrub Daddy was initially snatched Before you become a massive success. And astronaut Mike Massimino was rejected by NASA Three times before making it in space.

Convert rejection into success

Hart said it can be difficult to see the big image at the time when he was called “no”, but on the line, “then you will discover that these moments were some of the best for you, which made you work harder,” Hart said.

The 45-year-old Philadelphia native said that it is vital to believe that rejection can be an “active”: an tool to motivate you, but also to force you to adapt.

“Without that, you have nothing to learn or anything to adapt,” he said. “If things were easy, it would be stupid. It is supposed to be difficult. You are supposed to understand that the reason for hard work and putting 100% on a boat is because of what you want to go out.”

Hart said not to achieve everything you want will make you even more like these things.

“As a person who has experienced rejection at so many levels, I embrace it,” he said. “To date, everything does not go as I want. But just because a roadmap did not work, it does not mean that another cannot be created. And this is where I find more joy in the business that I am operating today.”

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