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The Daily Motivation

What To Do When They Tell You You're Not Good Enough | Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8963 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

On The Daily Motivation Show, host Lewis Howes talks with Mexican footballer Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez about carrying the weight of a famous father and grandfather and the rejection that nearly broke him at sixteen. It is a raw look at how mental fitness, family, and the pain of growth turn "you're not good enough" into the thing that builds you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:09.0

When your father, your grandfather is a famous athlete in the same sport,

0:16.0

then you have a leg up or they gave you an advantage.

0:19.0

So how did you overcome that first from, you know, childhood, from a young boy to overcome

0:24.2

the narrative and kind of outbeat your father and your grandparents, you know, how did you

0:28.7

overcome that?

0:29.7

With a lot of mental fitness, man.

0:32.1

And I didn't realize in that time, my family, my parents, the advantage that I have in

0:37.4

that moment, it wasn't that I was playing because of my family parents the advantage that I have in that moment it wasn't that

0:38.8

I was playing because of my family the advantage that I have over there it was

0:43.1

that I learned from so many things that other people can't learn because they

0:50.1

don't have those figures in their in their You know, my dad had a career.

0:54.5

My grandfather had a career.

0:55.9

So they know about the career.

0:57.8

They can teach you the knowledge.

0:58.7

Exactly, the things that you cannot see,

1:00.4

the things that you shouldn't be doing that much,

1:02.7

the things that you should invest more time, et cetera, right?

1:06.0

So one of them, it was my family saying,

1:09.8

they always teach me, like, let's not avoid or let's not

1:14.5

suppress like yeah those things are out of a control we cannot manage them we are

1:19.3

not we're not gonna play to change their minds you need to to keep going in the

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