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ابتعد عن هؤلاء إذا كنت تريد النجاح - فيديو تحفيزي ستيف هارفي

0:50386 summary words · ~2 min readEnglishBy Hustle Motivation - تحفيزيTranscribed Jul 11, 2026
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Summary

Steve Harvey argues that you must distance yourself from negative, unsupportive people — including family — who have never pursued their own dreams, because their doubt will derail your success.

The people closest to you often pose the greatest threat to your ambition by projecting their own limitations onto your potential.

Section summaries

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Core directive: Identify and exit toxic circles

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Harvey opens with a rapid-fire command to remove three types of people from your life: those doing nothing, active haters, and family members who have never started a business, pursued a dream, or traveled beyond family reunions. He emphasizes that this includes blood relatives, framing their lack of ambition as disqualifying them from having a vote on your future.

  • Inaction in others breeds criticism of your action.
  • Family members without entrepreneurial or dream-chasing experience project their limits onto you.
  • Physical and emotional distance is required, not just boundary-setting.

The entire thesis is delivered here — missing it loses the video's central argument.

0:21-0:46

Personal proof: The comedy origin story

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Harvey shares his own experience: when he announced he was going into comedy, people — presumably including family — laughed and said he wasn't funny and couldn't make money telling jokes. He admits that early on, the struggle made it appear they were correct, but he refused to quit. The clip ends at the turning point, leaving the eventual success implied.

  • Critics sound reasonable when you're struggling.
  • The 'they were right' phase is temporary if you persist.
  • Harvey's credibility comes from having endured this exact dynamic.

Concrete personal evidence that grounds the abstract advice in lived reality.

Key points

  • Cut ties with dream-killers — Harvey identifies three categories to avoid: people doing nothing with their lives, active haters, and family members who have never started a business, chased a dream, or left their comfort zone.
  • Early criticism looks like truth — When Harvey began comedy, everyone said he wasn't funny and couldn't make money telling jokes — and at first, the struggle made it seem like they were right.
  • Family reunion mindset is a trap — Relatives whose only travel is to family reunions have a limited worldview and will discourage anything beyond that scope.
get away from your family members they've never been nowhere but to the family reunion Steve Harvey
you ain't even funny how you gonna make money telling jokes Steve Harvey

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get away from these people that's in

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your life that ain't doing nothing

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get away from people in your life that's

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hating get away from your family members

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that ain't never open to business get

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away from your family members they ever

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followed their dream get away from your

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family members they've never been

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nowhere but to the family reunion get

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away from them

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get away from them

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I had to do it

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when I told everybody I was getting in

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the comedy man oh Lord have mercy you

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can't get into comedy you ain't even

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funny how you gonna make money telling

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jokes

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[Music]

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now in the beginning

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it looked like they was right

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but I never gave up

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