When most people think back on the child celebrities of their time, they may think of child movie actors....
6-year-old made $11 million in one year reviewing toys on You Tube
When most people think back on the child celebrities of their time, they may think of child movie actors, the well-trained stars of showbiz.
For kids these days, however, some of the biggest stars are not actors at all, but YouTube stars.
And one of the biggest of them all is a 6-year-old named Ryan who plays with toys - mesmerizing millions of children across the globe.
Since he was 3 years old, Ryan’s parents have been capturing videos of him opening toys, playing with them and “reviewing” them for videos posted on their YouTube channel, “Ryan ToysReview.”
Ryan has become a multi-millionaire, according to Forbes magazine’s list of highest paid YouTube entrepreneurs. He was ranked number eight, having brought in $11 million in revenue between June 1, 2016, and June 1, 2017.
Children everywhere have become hooked, watching his videos for hours a day, even mimicking him and starting their own YouTube channels.
What has grown into a viral phenomenon began with a simple, unremarkable 15-minute video about a Lego Duplo train set.
Why self-compassion beats self-confidence
We live in a culture that reveres self-confidence and self-assuredness, but as it turns out, there may be a better approach to success and personal development: self-compassion. While self-confidence makes you feel better about your abilities, it can also lead you to vastly overestimate them.
Self-compassion, on the other hand, encourages you to acknowledge your flaws and limitations, allowing you to look at yourself from a more objective and realistic point of view.
Because confidence feels good, we often don’t notice when it creeps across the line to overconfidence. This is better known as the Dunning-Kruger effect: a cognitive bias in which you overestimate your ability in something.
Admitting we have flaws just like anyone else keeps us connected to others, and also keeps us from exaggerating our flaws or strengths. Unlike overconfidence, which attempts to hide self-doubt and other pessimistic shortcomings, self-compassion accepts them.
