5 Things MrBeast Will Teach You About Following Your Passion

The unedited process of growth and success

Deborah Oyegue
8 min readJan 11, 2021
Mrbeast teasing a Lamborghini giveaway. Photo credit: MrBeast’s YouTube channel.

Anyone who knows their way around the YouTube ecosystem has at some point come across the name, MrBeast.

His accomplishments are worthy of the title Beast, but when you come across the face behind the title, the popular idiom, small but mighty, paints a mental image.

For one, MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is only 22 years old.

For another, MrBeast is well on his way to breaking the world record as the first person to become a billionaire from making YouTube videos.

At over 8 billion views, the total number of views on his channel exceeds the world’s population. And he has over 69 million followers spread across his seven channels.

On his main channel, he implements simple and ridiculous ideas at an extravagant scale. Talk about decorating a house with over 1.7 million Christmas lights, filling a pool with ramen noodles or cereal, and sitting in it for 24hours, and eating a $70, 000 dollar golden pizza.

With three of his viral videos crossing the 80M views mark and the rest of his new videos (from the last three years) netting an average of 35M views, Jimmy has mastered the viral content formula. He even…

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