How to LEAD With COMPASSION | Javier "Chicharito" Hernández

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Mexican soccer legend Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez credits his family for instilling humility and teaching him that success requires continuous improvement. Despite scoring impressive goals early on, his parents reviewed matches and focused critiques on areas needing work. Later pressures mounted playing for club Manchester United and country, but Chicharito stayed grounded remembering soccer greatness doesn't preclude being human too. He details manager Alex Ferguson making them feel like family and apologizing for not giving Chicharito more playing time. Overall, Chicharito shares how mentors kept him focused on getting better, not threatened by others' success or public criticism. His family and Ferguson modeled compassion and fostered inner security to handle scrutiny while achieving World Cup and Premier League victories.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:10.2	People don't believe that my family was amazing of never ever make me feel that I've achieved
0:20.2	whatever I achieved or whatever I have achieved,
0:21.6	or if I play an amazing game and score three goals,
0:23.6	they always humble me.
0:25.6	It's not about pressure, but they always humble me.
0:28.6	And I always create this process of like,
0:31.6	I know every time that I play a match, regardless,
0:35.6	we are going to talk about the things that you can improve, no matter what.
0:40.6	What you could do better.
0:41.7	So imagine I'm going out, I celebrate with my friends.
0:43.9	But I know as soon as I step in the car, or in my house, or my parents are there, we're going to, like, review their match, talk about it.
0:52.1	And I learned how battle my ego.
1:29.5	Well, you're 17, 18 World Cubs, you can score goals. Of course, you don't have those experiences you feel like you are on top of the world and you feel like already made everything and stuff. And my family helped me that sense of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Always like, which is the goal. And they teach me something without the words, but I think with actions about, like, nothing is going to be enough. If you win a match, always want to win another one. If you score one, you always want to score one. Right, right, right. If you play one, walk up, you want to play more. If you scored 100 goals, you know, you want to score 200 goals. So, unconsciously, they teach me that, like, always like, hey, man, there's always better things to me to achieve or to work for.
1:33.0	That's how I handle pressure.
1:34.9	And then we can keep going on my story because, yeah, then imagine that was a pressure in my family,
1:39.9	in my niche.
1:40.8	But then, of course, when I was 21 years old, my life changed completely.
1:45.3	And then the entire country knew about me. And then I was representing the country.
1:50.7	Right. And it was like you explained in the beginning, right? Sometimes if I don't score goals,
1:54.6	it's like I let down my country, literally. So then I played the World Cup. The World Cup was
1:59.7	fine for me. And then I go to Manchester.
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