# How to Change a Crazy Dream Into Reality | Arnold Schwarzenegger's Story

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Podcast: [Evan Carmichael - Believe: Unlocking Your True Potential](https://stenobird.com/podcast/evan-carmichael-believe-unlocking-your-true-potential-7782439)
Published: 2026-09-21T03:00:00+00:00
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✎ Get free access to our vault of PDF summaries for every YouTube video here: https://believe.evancarmichael.com/the-vault ✎ Check out my NEWEST video: https://goo.gl/E0eE6m ✎ To get more details on all the research and studies mentioned in this video check out the articles below: https://www.biography.com/actors/arnold-schwarzenegger https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-poor-famous-925719-20230407 https://biographics.org/arnold-schwarzenegger-brains-brawn-body/ https://people.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-used-accent-removal-coach-in-early-career-should-have-got-my-money-back-8384332 ✎ Arnold Schwarzenegger started as a poor farm boy in Austria with no money and a very strict dad. People laughed at his big dream to be a bodybuilding champion and a famous actor. He did not listen to them. He trained so hard that he broke into a gym on a Sunday just to lift weights. He won Mr. Olympia seven times and moved to America. Hollywood casting directors said his body was too big and his voice was too weird for movies. Arnold worked even harder and became the massive star of The Terminator and Conan the Barbarian. He even became the governor of California. Arnold proves that if you take massive action and stay hungry, you can reach the top of any major goal. ✎ Jim Carrey knows what it means to struggle because he was once homeless and lived in a van. At age 15, he had to quit school to clean toilets and sweep floors just to help his family survive. When he first tried stand-up comedy on stage, he bombed and nobody laughed at his jokes. Hollywood rejected him over and over again. But Jim refused to give up on his acting dream. He wrote himself a fake check for 10 million dollars and kept it in his wallet to stay focused. Exactly ten years later, he made 10 mil…

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