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i understand ur point but no matter how bigger that bully is it only takes one punch in the right place- chances are creating a scene ( punching the fucker) will only show everyone he's dominance is in question, so to stay looking like a hardman he'll back off.
Growing up I was told the same thing. Well After two years of my clothing being stolen from my 'locked' locker, hit and kicked, I fought back. 1. I got my ass handed to me on a stone platter. I ended up needing stitches. 2. I got my ass beat at home by the same person who told me that advice. 3. I got suspended and ticketed, he did too, but his parents bailed him out for the 90th time. That advice is bull crap.
Personally, flipped my first bully over my back down a small hill, he was stunned but didnt fuck with me for 4 years My second, I made him turn blue in the face choking him when his friends couldn't pull me off, when I told him the only reason I stopped is I don't want to go to jail, there was number 2 gone for good number 1 came back later, but we are in shop class when he decided to start a fight. some of my friends confront him and he gets on my ass a day later and I just flatly asked him did he never notice the icepick in my hand? to scribe in the metal instead of a special tool, we had ice picks. telling him that I let him live after what would have been justifiable self defense considering what he did and where he did it, the way is face went white made it all worthwhile. as for highschool being the best time of your life... for most people it likely is. they can do nearly anything without lasting consequences, are around their friends all day, and never have to worry about how they will pay their bills at the end of the month because their car broke down and that cost FAR more than they had saved up. I consider myself lucky to say high school was a mixed bag for me, and I'm happier now than I was back then, but most of my friends cant say the same thing, life dicked them hard.
Judo has been my savior when I was a younger high-school boy (a _defensive_ martial art). What's "nice" wih judo, is that the more an aggressor is big and strong, the more it becomes effective against him lol (using the opponent's own inertia force is what Judo is almost all about; more complete than jujitsu, it can be a really effective defensive technique even against karate kids)... There's a way to grab an offender's fist and arm while he's throwing a punch, rotate and throw him on the ground with a hip movement, then use a locking judo flip to immobilize him on the ground until he tires out in trying to free himself, and make him promise whatever your heart's out (in my case it was for him to stop bullying other people and my friends at school, which he did). Apart from my aggressor's over-sized and machiavellian bullying ego, nobody got hurt not even a scratch, but from then on it was a real game changer, and that was really satisfying! To any parent out there, if you feel that your kid is being bullied around, make him/her a favor and give him Judo (it's also fun).
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Nowadays nobody really bullies, at least in the school I go to. The weird kids get cancelled out and the scrawny white and small kids get respect from the popular kids. The weird kids being bullies, people that get mad easily, people who bring their ds to school, and Elmo’s/goths.
Great job misquoting him. The actual quote is: "Life doesn't start fair, but if you put work in, if you put effort in in the right places, you really notice that it does end fair." Learn how to quote people properly. As for this generalization, it is false. It sounds hopeful, but one only needs to look at any tragedy from history to see that there are graveyards filled with good, hard-working people who were obliterated in horrible ways (World War II, 9/11, etc.). Besides, Louis's own life hasn't ended so he cannot speak about how life ends, or whether his own end will be "fair." Fair doesn't exist. There is no judge at the end of it with a scale. There is no objective measure of one's existence, only what's in your own brain. You might be a great person who is murdered or a piece of shit of dies while having sex. Work hard and do your best, but don't be under any illusions.
Louis, I have to say, this was probably one of the best monologues I've come across on CZcams. Powerful insight and great wisdom in this one. Greatly appreciative of you, your videos, and your points of view.
+Louis Rossmann Yup it's great advise, and I know the feeling as well... I wasn't the weekest kid, but I was slow, and I had a class mate in elementary school, as well as in high school(the same person), that wasn't strong enough to really hurt me, but he would pay my other class mate, to annoy me, or other times he would just hide my stuff, or damage it cause I was even more sensitive to that, than actually getting hit, or verbally abused... University was(and is) a bit different, I was a bit more silent, and wouldn't hang out with others much, I guess hiding in background, and not letting everyone close sometimes also work, but it has the disadvantage of not being present when some important stuff being announced(but I just don't really mind it)... And I also had multiple teachers, that just didn't care, or would punish me for not being silent... Some people just don't really tolerate weirdos who make stuff, spend their time in the school's IT lab, playing on "broken" PC's using some ubuntu live disk, when every other PC is occupied... :) My solution was learning karate for a while, and carrying my stuff always with me, even in breaks...
I couldn't have said it better ! Louis- I hope you are around For Ever ! Lol... I remember that moment also. But mine had a twist - a bully blamed a bigger one. And he was totally innocent.
schools literally do nothing until the victim defends themselves. Even after the victim gets beat up more for defending themselves they just glorify the bully. At least anyone that went to public school can relate to this
I destroyed everyone who tried to physically bully me and I was always the one who got in trouble. There is no winning but definitely better to take some ISS time instead of letting yourself get beaten. I moved around a lot growing up so I actually welcomed physical attackers because people wouldn't insult me to my face if they knew I had been in a fight. My worst school experiences were when no one attacked me so lots of people the whole year would call me names cause I looked kinda crazy when I was younger.
Oh yeah, it happened to me a couple of times. I thought back but their "No tolerance policy" was to suspend me as well, for defending my self. I will never forget that I told them "So you expect me to sit there like a sack of potatoes and take his hits? Dumbasses" Fortunately, my parents more than backed me up with the small difference of "Next time user a chair"
Or prison - though the penalties are worse in prison - 25 days taken off your good time for fighting and you're written up on a 200 - 100 series offense. As well as revocation of parole/probation.
Louis, you are one of my favorite people on this whole planet and I hope like hell you see this. I'm not a religious person, but I believe you exist for a reason. And while you're good at board repair and almost eerily good at remembering serial numbers, I think your purpose is higher than that. Keep doing your board repairs and posting those videos. And keep posting videos like these. Keep teaching. You're changing lives. You might not know it, Louis, but you are.
Full of wisdom! One of the BEST videos I watched in the last 20 years. Even though it's 8 years old by now, I just wanted to say: Thank you for making it!
@@NMG.11 It's a little too narrow expression about broad context.. sure behavior in general shouldn't be let to change, but, and in order to keep the general behavior and sanity, the behavior towards the individual bullies *must* be changed. There's no need to feel bad about giving deserved payback.
@@TheSimoc I'd say the 'loss' is when you let someone change you for their sake and not for yours. When you let yourself act against yourself because you're afraid of what someone else might think/do, you lost.
You are right, fighting does not work even if you are big and strong. I let the bully and his mate attack me in front of a teacher, that did nothing. Reported the incident to school authorities, that did nothing, called the headmaster a coward, that did nothing. Later I beat up said bully and his mate, did it solve anything? No, because one week later the bully now had two mates with him... In the end, I had to change school, because it was becoming stupid. He even tried to come and bother me in the new school. By then I had wizened up, and let him harass for a week or so, got some nice bruises, but carefully documented every event in my school agenda, took pictures etc. Went to the cops with said agenda, had a long chat with a nice man, bully vanished from my life. In electronics as in life, good documentation goes a long way.
i'm sorry that was your experience. in my eyes, it's a question of bluff and/or mental sanity on the side of the bully. after i beat up one bully. his other bully mate got a bit scared. he actually only wanted to bully the easy targets. but interesting to hear how you solved the problem in a smart and responsible way!
As someone who was bullied as a kid in physical ways, and in mental ways, both by students and teachers, I can honestly say that all bullying advice is situational. "Hit them back" worked for me with other students if they were physical, but that's because I was freakishly strong for my age and size. When you can shove a 200 pound wall of muscle back 7 feet and leave a dent in the lockers despite being under 90 pounds, generally physical bullies back off. But not everyone is the same, bullies and victims alike. Some victims are weaker, some bullies are bigger, some victims -me- have mental issues and can't control their emotions, some bullies are the same, some victims -me- aren't as effected by physical bullying, but are more affected by the mental aspect, the name calling, the insults, the manipulation, the lies, and some bullies use those less visible methods because they can get away with them more, some victims react more to physical bullying but are mentally solid, so the manipulators don't have as much an effect. It all depends on the situation. And that's why most anti-bullying advice is nonsense. Even what Louis here said about not letting others effect your emotions. Sometimes, that's not possible. Sometimes, you can't just not do that. It's easy to say so, not so easy to get it done, as it is with anything. It's never as simple as "Just do this" or "don't do that", it's always, *always* more complicated than that, and anyone that doesn't realize that shouldn't be giving advice. And bullying has more results than just causing school shootings. Suicide, drug use, alcoholism, mental illness, lasting physical trauma, PTSD, and all kinds of other things. A lot of the people that get bullied are bullied specifically because they're the people that can't, or at least seem like they can't, fight back, defend themselves, or withstand the mental and physical assaults delivered to them. A huge misunderstanding is that if you ignore bullies and don't let them see any reaction, they'll go away. Some might. In my experience, that only made it worse. I *still* deal with the mental aspect of bullying to this day, and I'm almost 20, starting college soon after a few years of a break after getting my GED, and I'm still bullied. It's given me depression, it's made my anger issues and anxiety issues worse, it's made my mental state degrade to the point of having hallucinations, hearing voices, quite literally losing control of my body and feeling like someone or something else is controlling it. And none of the effects, nor the problems, are going away any time soon, not entirely. But I know some things I could've done to prevent this, and some things I can do now to mitigate the effects. All I can really say that's universal, however, is to use your brain if you can. Think about the issues you face, try to read the personality and actions of the bullies, and try to gauge what their reactions to things will be. Because that's what they're doing to you. Do the same to them, and whatever their weaknesses are- and believe me, they have weaknesses... Target those, mentally and/or physically, and make them realize what they're doing to you. Show them how they make you feel, by making them feel the same. Then stop once they realize. They'll leave you, and everyone else that they've bullied, alone. Or at least, they should. Changing schools doesn't always work. I went to three different schools, one of which was a *private Christian academy*. Every time, there were bullies, and the only other options I had were homeschooling or online schooling. I went with the latter until I dropped out and got my GED to graduate early. Long story short, no advice works for all cases. Use your brain and think up intelligent solutions to your problems, and remember to prepare for every eventually. Occam's Razor, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. So all you can do is prevent what you can, and prepare for everything else if you can. Good luck, my prayers go out to all of you. And yes, I know this is old. I still have to say it.
I actually beat a bully in two ways. I've always been naturally strong, but the bully was stronger. He had an entourage, one of which was kinda scrawny ... the scrawny kid once made the mistake of assaulting me with none of his buddies around. I got called into the Principals office to explain why I nearly choked him out in the middle of the gym. I didn't plan it, but it was the last straw. It also turned out that because it was mostly a Native American school that I was good friends with one of the big bullies cousins. One day when I went to my friend's house to hang out the bully came over as well. In that more private setting, he was actually quite a bit more reasonable. Even though we only played video games for a little while and never hung out again I think he gained a little respect for me. I'm not sure which incident made the most impact, but after those two things happened I never had another problem from him or his possee.
Like others said, it always depends on the situations. I myself got bullied by a gang of bullies that felt strong when they were together. Individually tho, they are weak as shit. So i took advantage of it, followed each of them to where they lived and then for a week straight, every night i sent a solid "message" to each of them. After i was done with the last one, i was never bullied again by any of them. I won't go into details much but let's just say i had a few screw loose when i was younger and would cross lines that shouldn't be crossed. Thankfully i got help for that later and am all better for it today but i am still satisfied in a way to what i did to them to leave me alone. It wasnt my only bully experience but usually if you left me alone i didn't bother anyone. Provoke me and it's at your own risks, well when i was younger that is. Today you'd have to do something pretty horrible to me to make me angry in any way.
@@tifsa Trust me, Anger makes many people do stupid, horrible things, myself included. I used to act purely on impulse in a stressful situation, and I nearly got into deep deep shit on several occasions. Thankfully, I have worked through that now, and am much more stable. But I still remember what it was like, and it was horrible.
You're spot on here. Hollywood loves the story of the little kid fighting back and then the big bully respecting him. It's dumb. Some bullies are pathological (which it seems like he was). If you fight back, their anger grows. Their determination to make your life hell increases 10-fold. Chances are, they are being abused...or heaven forbid, they're just born with a faulty, pathological brain. Fighting back as a strategy is a horrible idea. Honestly, I don't think Public Schools should be mandatory. We should be able to opt out of having those types of experiences.
I agreed with you til I read the last 2 sentences. You're clearly being one-dimensional on the issue. There are many negative implications with what you've written. Public schools SHOULD be mandatory. You know, you can't make the world around you all nice and easy, you can't escape the harsh reality. It doesn't work that way. I get it though, the vast majority of people want to make their lives easier, to alleviate whatever they're struggling with, it's natural. But there should be a right balance between good and bad, between enjoyment and suffering, otherwise there will be no meaning in life. The world is cruel but you have to learn, you have to grow, you have to overcome challenges on your way like, for instance, bullying. And the harder your lesson is, the farther you get in life. And if that lesson breaks you, I'm sorry, maybe you weren't born to win.
@@snowytrees1 lol the public education system is a joke and everyone knows it. If the argument is that kids need to learn how to interact with other kids there are countless alternatives than sticking them in a classroom. Sports for instance being a great example. I learned more about myself and other kids growing up from playing soccer twice per week for two years than I ever did in the entirety of my academic career.
@@joeking6972 Well, I agree but I didn't say the education system didn't need improvements. Either way, you can't avoid bullies which again proves my point
In 2009-2010 I was bullied buy one of the most awful people I've ever had the misfortune of meeting. Strangely enough, karma got the better of him and he ended up in an accident where he fell 30 feet from a hillside and was permanently brain damaged. Now he's confined to a wheelchair and can't talk or speak properly. I never got back at him, but it didn't matter. I wasn't even glad it happened. I was just glad it meant that he'd never bother me or anyone else ever again.
Hey man. You just described PTSD. Now you know, on a smaller scale of course, how we soldiers feel everyday after we come home from war. It never ends, it never gets better, the only thing you do is learn to cope with it better. Welcome to the club friend. But, I will say, good for you for learning how to deal with it. And, great for you for explaining this to people. This is a good public service you just did.
@@oneheckofabanana2016 It's not a horrible job. It's not even a 'job' so to speak. It is a calling. People join for their own specific causes. Mine was to do something good for the whole of the nation. It wasn't just to get a 'job'. I'm a Geophysicist by trade. I also do electrical work on the side as I have my Master Electrician license in Texas. But, yeah. It's not a horrible job. It's something that has to be done. Think about if you had no military, no soldiers. Who would stop an invasion? Who would help out when things go horribly wrong? Nobody. That's who. Also. If we didn't take up arms for you. Then, you would be forced under draft to do so or go to jail. So, it's a win-win. A win for those who don't want to and a win for the soldier. Because being a soldier also has it's benefits. I got a GI BILL to use for college tuition to get that Geophysicist career I always wanted. I could have paid for it via student loan and my electrician license. But, since I did go to the Army willingly (volunteer); I was given the opportunity to pay into the Montgomery GI BILL (yes, you have to pay for it with money from your check) and I paid for the kicker as well. No. I didn't know about the GI BILL until I signed my contract either. So, it isn't like I tried to join for 'free tuition' as some try to say. I joined to do good. But, a lot of people now have a bad view of the military. No. It isn't all roses. But, it isn't all bad either. Soldiers are just people like everyone else. And we do our best even though we see some really bad stuff. But, there you go. That's why I joined and I hope that sums up an explanation for your idea that it is a horrible job. And don't take this wrongly. I'm not chewing you. Nor am I angry with what you said. I get it. But, I just wanted to clarify it for you. We're good people just like you. Just some of the higher ups are bad apples. When you have them, and they give you a lawful order. You must follow it. If you don't, you risk jail, loss of pay, and possible shame that will render you near unemployable in the United States. Having a Dishonorable Discharge from the military is about the same as committing a serious felony offense in the eyes of employers. So, when you are told to do something. Well, YOU DO IT!
Man, you need to be doing TED talks... the world needs more people who (at a young age) have a serious grasp of what life is about. Most people take a lifetime to work this stuff out!
It takes a pair of tungsten nuts to tell a story like that and i am 100% sure it will help someone and motivate if the person sees it. Respect for this!
i remember i once got bullied by my entire class i told my parents and family and they said "ignore it" not hey lets tell the teacher or lets tell the school, no they just told me to ignore it, but how...how does a 7th grader ignore an entire class full of students just ignore a bunch of people in my face shouting at me. i couldnt, and i was so mad at them because i tried to get help but help was denied by those i thought would protect me. i mean now im older and no longer bullied but man that 7th grade year caused so much pain and mental shit for me in the future that could've been prevented. (srry for the rant but this video topic reminds me of this) experience)
@@myes344 hes a liberal they just say sht like ill feed a bum than stepover a begging man look at bernie dumps waste on mexicans collects millions for it and his book than cries about air and kids in cages but silent when obama did it
This guy has wisdom far beyond his years. I'm not interested in Mac repair, but I have listened for many hours of his advice and recently enjoyed the NY real estate stuff and economy analysis.
"The most merciful person is the one who forgives when he is able to take revenge." - Imam Hussain "The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those whom have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer." - Laura Hillenbrand These are quotes you should live by.
Again - you become very dependent to the revenge at this point, which means you can still be easily manipulated emotionally. Though I can't argue that there are monkey-like people, that only understand the language of violence and fear. So you have to be very careful on all the possible outcomes of your "methods"...
Or because our (genuine) talents align too closely with employment-jargon as used by pseudo-intellectuals (precisely because they aspire to be like us). Employment in general is *quite* overdue for a change to hands-on skill demonstrations.
It was not until my 30's that I confirmed in my mind that plenty of adults and people older than me has no faking clue about what they are talking about in life. You sir are not one of them.
Would like for him to review the 1980 movie My Bodyguard - it is the classic movie on the subject if you skip the first 20 minutes. G.Gordon Liddy pushed for hiring two older, bigger tough kids to push around your bully, not a bad idea. The movie (might hire Louis to toss me down the stairs !)
I was born in February '95, I remember 4th of July in '96, I remember my brother being born in October of 1997. It is absolutely possible to have memories of being a toddler, though it is a bit uncommon. I remember my diaper being changed and I remember being potty trained. Yay.
My experience with beating up a bully was quite different. I still relish it to this day. No emotional pendulum of regret, just a nice memory and it led to many good things.
I can't begin to explain how cathartic this video has been for me, it healed a lot of wounds and gave me considerable closure, from the bottom of my heart I thank you so much.
Your advice sounds a lot like the philosophy of stoicism which is very different from the stereotype of what it is. I figured out as a child that while I could be aware of my feelings, I never would let emotions affect my actions. I would always try to act in my own best interest regardless of how I felt. You gave great examples here.
'I would always try to act in my own best interest' is a beautiful sentence regarding bad life situations or people, it doesn't cut out emotions, you just don't act on it, you don't leave breadcrumbs for people who are out to dislike you, it's important
waiting till 12:00 for you to say that. congrats. hate bullying. my 8yr. old son is being bullied and principle didn't do sh!t either multi times even though there was a witness.
Tell your kid to go to police station and tell police, that they are bullied, the teacher ignores it and they feel urge to take a knife to school and kill the bullies, that they don't want it, but the teacher ignored him, ignored his parents and if police doesn't help, they have no other option. Accompany your kid to the station and speak with the police yourself. The police will involve a psychologist and will go investigate in the school. The teachers will be forced to do something and might even get fired, because in this case, unions will sacrifice him. Unions protect their members, unless they are creating school killers, endangering other union members.
Johnny Mack it isn’t as simple as that sometimes you don’t have the ability to stand up for yourself and when that happens you need to ask for help instead of hurting yourself mentally and physically trying to fix it yourself
If ur being bulled, you need to understand why the bully chose you then change so that the bully no longer sees you as a viable target. Sometimes that means fighting back. Sometimes that means telling a teacher or authority figure. Sometimes that means telling a teacher the bully confided in you that his mother's boyfriend is molesting him. You be the judge. You choose which outcome you can live with.
Yeah I remember getting bullied in high school from grade 10 through 11 then the summer before my senior year I started weight lifting and boxing. I came back to school and literally no one tried anything from that time on. The thing is even though I had gained a noticeable amount of muscle I really wasn't that strong but that just goes to show that most bullies only prey upon people who are the absolute weakest in their eyes.
“They all live in a world of lollipops and.... bullshit...” Jokes aside, this has been such an incredible insight into the kind of mental torture bullying will end up having. I at least hope your main bully decided to never have anything to do with you again
I was a teenager in the early 80s. I was a die-hard geek/nerd. These days, it's far more "socially acceptable" to be a geek or a nerd. In fact, it's become almost fashionable. I like nerds. You're a cool guy and I get a heck of a lot of enjoyment watching your videos. I don't give a shit about what people think of me. It doesn't change my life in any way. As for the "hit the kid back" bit... I did... I broke his nose... Not because he was bullying me but because he was getting rough whilst I was trying to put away our school's RML-380z and my concern was for the computer. From that day on, whenever he saw me, he crossed the road. Sometimes it works but it's not always a good idea. I rarely fought back because I could run way too fast and no-one in the school could catch me. The Xanax comment might just have been a "lucky guess"... He was probably just being insulting... Someone online recently told me that I need to get out more (without knowing me) and I agreed and pointed out that I'd love to but due to a spinal injury, my mobility is limited... It was an "egg on face" moment for the guy. However, Louis... I bet the bully doesn't own a business that grossed a million and takes his employees to Disneyland for a holiday... We can see who has the last laugh here, eh?
+Beith Air Ltd Because nerdy knowledge become important to modern life style, nerdy behavior become respected and gain an aura of "might", and there are alot more nerds today, as nerds themselves become powerful bullies in a different form. Today's kids getting picked for completely different reason, mostly due to being "gay". Things in general got a lot more political than personal.
+Beith Air Ltd I did it once and got the guy on the ground. Later that day, he and other 2 held my head under snow. I couldnt breath and thought im going to die. It was last half year so, whatever, but i think i would go on spree if it lasted longer because they got more aggressive after that.
Jason blahas favorite bodybuilder not on a cosmic bullshit spiritual level maybe, but if you are kind to people, they are more likely to treat you the same way.
@@alexxxender1258 I don't think you know many wealthy people then. Who do you think keeps inflation from skyrocketing to the moon? Who do you think establishes the charities and funds the non-profits that provide assistance to the populace? The average person influences only a portion of the economy, but the average person of wealth keeps a significantly higher portion of the economy stable. America would be in third world status and would have never become a superpower, if it weren't for capitalism.
I wish they shot the teachers instead. Half of them enable bullying by doing absolutely nothing until the victim puts up their arms to defend themselves.
Just found Louis via Linus's channel and I already am impressed with this content. He seems like a very bright man with some good things to say. Good video!
Just found this video. Wish I had been given this advice back in 1975, it would have made the following decades much better for me. I hope that someone actually sees this, and it helps them cope. This video is really good advice. Source: 53 years of life.
Telling someone can work. It's important to tell the correct person. Telling an authority didn't work for me. Telling someone who beat the shit out of the bully did.
Louis you surprise me. I searched for thinkpad on youtube and your thinkpad videos showed up, i watched n enjoyed those. Then this video shows up on my youtube feed. Never expected you to make such "off topic" videos (i always thought your channel is strictly tech only) but this video is awesome packed full of good advice and reasoning. You are a good n interesting chap. Giving in to anger, fear n hate is walking into the dark side for sure.
The law tends to mostly be enforced when you commit a crime against a powerful institution or individual otherwise it is more common to see it go un-enforced. We will never have the capacity to ensure total justice so individuals need to look for solutions that fit their situation.
I can honestly say with all of my heart, that this is the very first CZcams video I have ever cried while watching. The hurt, you felt about the crap that kid said about your Mom, is so tangible Louis. It seeps out of your pores at a certain point during your story and it broke my heart. It's also entirely relatable. I'll try and keep this short, as I have a habit of not doing. I was a small girl, my max height now is 5'1", so you can imagine how small I was at 8. I'm adopted, I knew nothing about my birth mom until I was 30 (knew of her and that I was adopted but that's it) and I grew up as an only child. Got bullied alot in elementary. I was small, enjoyed playing football with the boys, was a tomboy. I was harassed on a continuous basis by a couple of boys. I was going through other shit at the time that I won't get into. But, I still to this day remember how much I hated 4th and 5th grade. I'm sorry that happened to you, Louis. Now I need a kleenex, lol.
+Oleg Lego I find it gratifying that your comment has no likes. Life isn't a twitter feed and the important stuff takes more than 4 minutes to deal with.
Oleg Lego Nothing in my reply states that I was impressed by Louis or the video. It's called empathy. It's part of being human. You should try it sometime.
tossing a bully down the stairs, that's one way of doing things. My time in highschool was similar, I was smart and fat, got bullied from grades 2-10 (a charming blend of racism and the usual remarks) ended up with busted ribs once from one of the routine beatings. I definitely agree you shouldn't go to extremes and toss people down stairs or into traffic but, in my experience if you are in a position to undermine a bully whether it be socially, mentally or physically, once you've done it they'll generally leave you alone and move on to the next weakest link. ignoring bullies, being nice, telling on them etc doesn't work, finding a way (preferably intelligent) to confront them and as you say, fighting hard to deter them is basically the only way as long as you don't become the bully. good video
I used to be bullied so much for thinking different (which got me to go to college 2 years early on a scholarship) and beaten up, I had to go to the ER multiple times and went on suicide watch, I hated it, until I got an invitation to a special school for kids who aren't into the normal things, and I loved it
There's an interesting positive movement in Croatia & world called street workout, and at least half of those teens & young adults were victims of some kind of bullying (as a former bullying victim myself I can see it in their eyes, why they're doing it). It's really nice that young people have that, the ones who were in the same situation , and wing tsun kung fu for example. The streetworkout teams here form strong brotherly friendships, even if their minds become a bit overly body-centric, but from what I saw in Zagreb & Croatia they literally go to every school and give free training classes, advice and build their base. You would think when you see them in the park they are like "alpha males", but they are really open and friendly, help and give free events, advice and trainings, and ''force'' officials to build them workout parks. I'm very happy for kids/bullying victims to have that kind of a positive no bullshit force and visible support groups: tinyurl.com/otlddmn ...Bullies are like a hand of some evil force, it's never just one person doing it, and that evil smells your weakness/fear, so to see that there are some who resist it and create a cool power workout circle is awesome. Also it reminds me of that quote from Silmarillion of Melkor's evil disonant tone. There are new young people today more understaning and helpful than ever it seems. Those kids today literally transfigured an evil and made a workout/friendship support group and world movement. Croatian streetworkout: scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/11539030_927788487283560_157137894500146449_o.jpg
i almost never watch half hour long videos even when i do i dont pay attention. but damn you had me watching the entire video with my full atention! i was blown away at how well you said all that ! Sharing the crap out of this man. good work
"You feel like an empty sack of crap when you let others affect your emotional state". All of these words are so true but really hard to accept :(. Hopefully I'll be able to absorb this
I love all your videos and i'm glad you shared your story with us. Truly touching I got bullied from age 7 to about 15. Unfortunately my bully had his friends that would defend him when we'd get physical. I always fought back and most of the times didn't win because he was a fat fuck (and to this day he still is). Now i'm 6ft and athletic. I will never forget the mental damage he did to me, it was far worse than physical. Because of him i've spent my teenage years in solitude, with very few friends and with no will to socially interact with strangers and acquaintances. Now when im 20, i'd love to beat him up so bad he'd need a good plastic surgeon to fix his gorilla smug face. But i'm not gonna get down to his level. Karma is a bitch, i'll let her deal with him.
smellysam The only thing stopping me from hospitalizing him is that he'd press charges for physical assault and the last thing I need is a Police File & Court expenses. I just hope him the worst in his life instead.
Dude, would you be interested in combined consultation with each other on this issues? So we can share each other experiences and make some conclusions.
Same here, I was skinny and tall, bullied, all that. After a few years in the military I put on a lot of muscle and a few inches of height. The only take away of my bullying experience is now I stick up for those that can't. I am a nicer person & have found peace in my life. I don't even remember the names of most of my bullies anymore, I saw one of them few years ago. He approached my car asking for a few dollars, he was homeless & drug addicted. He didn't recognize me until I recalled his name...Lee Meyer former bully, present day homeless addict. KARMA or not, I found no reason to gloat or smile...it was a lesson to me...stay true to your principles & be kind to others.
I've never been so focused on something this much ever in my life. It was just like you looking into my soul. And I'm so glad that I've found you, this video that you've made also. I'm 15 and I'm the 1st grade of high school and I have the problems with bullying and this helped me so much and I'll really give my best to do everything and stay strong just like you've talked trough the whole video. And I'm from Serbia, and I can tell you that the stuff you said in video is so true, that I'm just so amazed that I'm shaking. By the way sorry if I made any mistakes while writing this comment because English is not my native language, and I've learnt a lot of it just from watching CZcams and doing stuff on a computer. Thank you so much again! ❤ I really appreciate the time and patience that you put in making all of this. Amazing!
Thanks for this video man. I have been through similar shit when I was around 11 and I brought a knife to school in my little blue book bag. Luckily I was walking and turned around and saw my Mum and little sister down the path behind me and thought about the void I would leave in their life if I went to prison over something so violent with them constantly blaming themselves, I decided to not go through with it. He carried on bullying of course and I snapped a few weeks later and hit him in the face with a cinder block until he stopped moving(He is ok years later so I don't think I gave him any permanent brain damage but he certainly gave me some mental damage).
This is so right. I did the same thing - gained about sixty pounds of muscle and have never had a problem with a bully again. From my experience bullies are always cowards that choose targets they think or know are weak. It sucks and it's hard but the best solution is to make yourself not weak so you don't have to deal with this bullshit. Great advice Louis!
"Bullied through their youth"? Bullies don't stop when you leave school, they get worse, they to f**k with your life, career, your health and your family. I'm not even talking about bullying at management level (that's something we all know about), i'm talking about co-workers that are so incompetent that they need to make someone look bad in order to advance their own career, and who do they pick on? That's right the quiet geeky guy in the corner, because "if I can make him look bad, then I won't have to work so hard to impress the boss". It's not hard to make the "nerd" look bad, just accuse him of hacking or of creating software to do his job while he sits doing nothing, because even if he can explain himself, nobody will understand and nobody will believe him. Well, I've learnt the hard way and I don't take sh*t lying down, i'm alert and aware of what's going on, I understand peoples motives and I always make sure my back is covered, I use what I know to protect myself and when my boss tried to set me up to commit a gross misconduct I voice recorded the f**ker. The advice to strike back is correct, but the key is to think first, know your limits and use what you know to your advantage.
anthony chaney if they can put a high res touchscreen on that than they can put a high res touchscreen on the p50 and p70. fuck lenovo for making no sense. I'm done with their machines.
That dude you threw down the stairs sounds an awful like a sociopath. Don't feel bad about cutting a sociopath. Your emotion is their milk, so sour it a bit. Your an alright guy, Louis.
He's not mad because he threw the guy down the stairs he was mad because he allowed this piece of shit to affect him so much he would throw a man down the stairs
What makes Louis a remarkable person is that even though he was severely bullied for years by this kid, he felt nearly ill from bringing back that favor. True mark of a genuinely good person.
This video should have at least a milion views, not because it's good, but because it has potential to save more lives than any gun control act. You're better than any bullshit life coach. When you get bored with electronics repairs you could improve many peoples' lives with lectures. You're not too proud nor too humble, just honest and straight to the point. I'm about two years younger than you and if half of the shit you went through happened to me I'd probably hang myself. BTW I'm not against gun control as long as law abiding mentally healthy people can buy a gun to defend their home or business in case the police isn't there on time.
I'm not going to write about my whole life, because you probably get enough of that. I just wanted to show my honest appreciation since you don't accept money and my success is yet to come.
I remember growing up with my brother, he had incredible pent up rage and aggression from his own insecurities and thoughts. He was so frustrated with himself and what he thought everyone thought of him that, when he saw my abilities and talents, he saw me as a threat to his world and place in the family. He’d take any opportunity to be superior to me, and if he had it, he’d abuse it. I was lucky to have a mother who knew just how to raise and handle both of us, and a father who could scare him from hurting me further. but when they were away, I was always in fear of him. He was stronger than me, as well he hated what I was, so it was strange to see him sympathetic when after he was done beating or belittling me he would see me attacking myself and beating and scratching myself. He would sit there thinking of himself as horrid, thinking that this is his fault, when his little bipolar brother was screaming how much he hates himself and continues to do more damage to his own body. I never understood it as a kid why he was like the way he was, why he would be attacking me one moment but stop when he saw how awful I’d react, why he would be sympathetic afterwards. It was because he was human, and he was the same victim of other’s manipulation. He never understood himself until he was an adult, and he never knew how to manage his own issues without displacing his anger onto whatever he thought was ruining him. Bullies are people who need as much guidance as those who are bullied, because they all come from a certain background that shaped them into who they are in that moment. Some may have come from being bullied and take it as a way to help themselves, others have been abused by parents and think the only way they can show themselves powerful is in enacting that same behavior onto someone else deemed “weak”. And some are simply mentally ill children with no concept of remorse, because they had no guidance-even proper guidance-to save themself. Perspective should always be taken into account when managing these sorts of people, and if you can find a way to see into the “bully’s” ideas, you can manage with them properly. I only really understood how to talk to my brother when I grew up and handled my own illnesses; I put myself into his level to understand why he “hated” me. And from that, I grew a better understanding of him and have found a way to love him like the brother he was supposed to be. Granted, not every person is like this, and not every person deserves your respect or will even want it, but finding that way to relate with this person is the only way to manage a conflict like this.
Why is this channel doesn't get millions subscribers yet? You, dude, are now the kind of man I aspire to become from now on. Now 39yo, I can't say I have a half of your wisdom.
This video is a transformer. I am currently bullied at school, and this video just gave me hopes. Hopes that someday I can be as strong as you. Like a mountain that cannot be moved.
16:52 don’t let others affect how you feel. Thank you, maybe this is a viable mindset. My original thought was that no remorse should be felt by you at all. Maybe that’s wrong. You shouldn’t have been satisfied by breaking his legs, because you shouldn’t have been hurt by all the shit he threw at you years prior. As I look within, this is the difference between a wise man and a puppet. The wise man cuts the strings or ignores it. The puppet futilely trys to pull against it but is reminded everyday of those strings and holes in his hands.
only if he's verbal and just talking shit. maybe some people can ignore that. i agree that u should use intelligence instead of feelings to judge things but if u getting beat up constantly it's impossible to avoid. its not a situation of a puppet/master
This guy is right. People used to make fun of me but after I started working out no one dared to pick on me anymore. I didn't even have to "hurt them". They just assumed that because I'm buff they should keep a low profile. And yes, I'm a mega nerd (have a university degree in physics and chemistry).
I have an advice of my own to add. I was raised in a different culture, more "soviet" if you know what I mean. I was basically raised with the ideology where you have to punch back and I was blessed with anxiety so my fight or flight was always on fight if I was bullied. Yes it worked in my life and I did have to get in fights even in the army so nobody would try to bully with me. But this is a grey area in which you don't want to be. But there's a better way, I was(and still am) your typical skinny computer nerd and I used this to avoid bullying. People always knew me as that one guy who will always fix your stuff or that one guy that sells ciggs(bought for cheap and sold for a higher price, still was lower that retail tho). Because of that I always had "connections" with all sorts of people, especially the cool or the strong kids, the teachers and everything in between. Basically everybody were friendly with me no matter with which group I was. Even if there was a person in that group that hated me or wanted to bully me they couldn't because of all the other people in the same group that were friendly with me. I was never a hero and I never could stand up for others but I always found my safe spot in every episode of my life where I would be safe from bullying. Well yeah I also always hacked everyone and everything and blackmailed any bully that tried to pick on me but that's not the point. Use your weakness and intelligence to avoid bullying, no one else is going to do it instead of you. Now I'm 26 and in the adult life everything is different. You won't have as much friends as you had back in school/uni. You will rarely meet a bully because, in the future when you become an adult these things don't matter anymore. Everyone will just try to pay rent and focus on their job/profession. Also Louis is right, every time you hit someone back and win - you will hate yourself for that
I'm so glad I watched the whole video. Couldn't stop watching after a few minutes. I had no idea of or intention to watch a 30 minutes video on bullying. This man is awesome.
bro, what the heck. I came from your video about the "F" word and now I'm here. You are speaking such wisdom its awesome haha. So many things in these two videos have hit me hard and will stick with me for the rest of my life. I really appreciate you sharing!
This was the best thing I've ever watched on CZcams. It deserves so many more views. I wish I had heard this advice when I was younger. Thanks for this, Louis.
The gym I go to has a boxing class and a few months ago this overweight, huched over, feet dragging, mouth-breathing teen started to attend class. You could tell he was a bully victim from a mile away. Absolutely zero confidence about him. He looked like he would roll over if you told him to. But boy did he work hard. Every lesson, pushing himself to the limit and slowly he started losing weight and every time, his posture straightened out just a little more than before. Confidence was budding until one day there simply was no more trace of his old self. It was a beautiful transformation to watch. I have no idea if he had fought back successfully or what, but something changed for the better in him so I will just say this: gaining the ability to be able to fight back is the best strategy. You have to cease being, and thinking like prey, but this impulse has to come from you, if you are not burning with a desire to change you may aswell just keep handing over your lunch money, just be warned you´ll be doing that the rest of your life until you decide to do something about it.
Every time I'd hit a bully, it was the same anxiety after. I always asked if I hit hard enough or if I should've hit harder. The moment of victory fades so damn quickly that I always was confused after. This video finally makes me see why. I did hit as hard as I wanted to. It's the victory that turns to sadness being so quick that your mind is surprised and tries to find a reason for the victory being so quick and then leaving. Thank you for letting me realise this!
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i understand ur point but no matter how bigger that bully is it only takes one punch in the right place- chances are creating a scene ( punching the fucker) will only show everyone he's dominance is in question, so to stay looking like a hardman he'll back off.
Louis Rossmann Respect
Growing up I was told the same thing.
Well After two years of my clothing being stolen from my 'locked' locker, hit and kicked, I fought back.
1. I got my ass handed to me on a stone platter. I ended up needing stitches.
2. I got my ass beat at home by the same person who told me that advice.
3. I got suspended and ticketed, he did too, but his parents bailed him out for the 90th time.
That advice is bull crap.
Personally, flipped my first bully over my back down a small hill, he was stunned but didnt fuck with me for 4 years
My second, I made him turn blue in the face choking him when his friends couldn't pull me off, when I told him the only reason I stopped is I don't want to go to jail, there was number 2 gone for good
number 1 came back later, but we are in shop class when he decided to start a fight. some of my friends confront him and he gets on my ass a day later and I just flatly asked him did he never notice the icepick in my hand? to scribe in the metal instead of a special tool, we had ice picks. telling him that I let him live after what would have been justifiable self defense considering what he did and where he did it, the way is face went white made it all worthwhile.
as for highschool being the best time of your life... for most people it likely is. they can do nearly anything without lasting consequences, are around their friends all day, and never have to worry about how they will pay their bills at the end of the month because their car broke down and that cost FAR more than they had saved up. I consider myself lucky to say high school was a mixed bag for me, and I'm happier now than I was back then, but most of my friends cant say the same thing, life dicked them hard.
Judo has been my savior when I was a younger high-school boy (a _defensive_ martial art). What's "nice" wih judo, is that the more an aggressor is big and strong, the more it becomes effective against him lol (using the opponent's own inertia force is what Judo is almost all about; more complete than jujitsu, it can be a really effective defensive technique even against karate kids)... There's a way to grab an offender's fist and arm while he's throwing a punch, rotate and throw him on the ground with a hip movement, then use a locking judo flip to immobilize him on the ground until he tires out in trying to free himself, and make him promise whatever your heart's out (in my case it was for him to stop bullying other people and my friends at school, which he did). Apart from my aggressor's over-sized and machiavellian bullying ego, nobody got hurt not even a scratch, but from then on it was a real game changer, and that was really satisfying! To any parent out there, if you feel that your kid is being bullied around, make him/her a favor and give him Judo (it's also fun).
This guy is fixing the motherboard in your brain.
Nice Planetside 2 pic, Strength in Unity ✊
@@themartianmantis2694 Vanu smiles upon you. and thank you ^^ love the game to death
@@Smarackto PC or PS4?
@@themartianmantis2694 pc
Smarackto whats a motherboard?
I learned more about bullying in 30 minutes than I ever did in 12 years of school
the fighter of justice same
love it
Same, im in middle school so it's not too late for me
Hardly anyone learns anything constructive on bullying in school.
@@TheREALSimagination I learned that it happens daily, and officials don't do anything except wear a pink t shirt on "Bullying awareness" day.
I thought you only fix apple products. Didn't know you also fix people.. thanks man.
We’re all apple products
@@topec1263 ...sent by CyberLife.
So you ain't gonna shoot nun up no more?
@@CavinLee unrepairable by a noob?
Apple overrated ngl
This blows any Ted talk out of the water, keep on keeping on Louis.
NintendosixD4 except polynesian chief’s one
i agree but keep on keeping on?
But then again the vsauce ones exist so...
Seriously
Every TED talk:
[synthesized water drops]
[sound of frying bacon]
Pretentious introduction
[pause, walk to other side of stage]
1st point
[pause, walk back to initial side of stage]
2nd point
[pause, walk to other side of stage]
3rd point
[pause, walk to center of stage]
Conclusion that connects to introduction, cf. brick joke
[sound of frying bacon]
[pretentious synthesizer tones, cf. Honda's pretentious piano notes]
I just realized I've forgotten the names of the many people that bullied me as a kid..............that just made me feel amazing
I got bullied really bad by a kid when I was in grade 10. I too have just realised I don't know his name.. this insight made me smile. Cheers friend.
@@brumby92 i got bullied much popem indaNOSE full force if he spazes out twitching run and deny all
Nowadays nobody really bullies, at least in the school I go to. The weird kids get cancelled out and the scrawny white and small kids get respect from the popular kids. The weird kids being bullies, people that get mad easily, people who bring their ds to school, and Elmo’s/goths.
13+yrs later i remember the name of every kid who bullied me and every reason they had for it
sad human being
most adults on bullying: "tell someone. ask for help."
Louis on bullying: git gud
Yeah it's because like he pointed out the unfortunate reality is there won't always be help.
Its usually a dead end tough and kids knows it.
"Life doesn't start fair, but with hard work and effort it ends fair" -Louis Rossman
Sadly i know enough examples where it didn't start fair and got even worse.....
if it requires hard work to get things end up being fair, how is it fair when you need to work harder
Life most definitely can start fair. A billionaire friend of mine can attest to that.
Great job misquoting him. The actual quote is: "Life doesn't start fair, but if you put work in, if you put effort in in the right places, you really notice that it does end fair." Learn how to quote people properly. As for this generalization, it is false. It sounds hopeful, but one only needs to look at any tragedy from history to see that there are graveyards filled with good, hard-working people who were obliterated in horrible ways (World War II, 9/11, etc.). Besides, Louis's own life hasn't ended so he cannot speak about how life ends, or whether his own end will be "fair." Fair doesn't exist. There is no judge at the end of it with a scale. There is no objective measure of one's existence, only what's in your own brain. You might be a great person who is murdered or a piece of shit of dies while having sex. Work hard and do your best, but don't be under any illusions.
@@user-tl4fi6oy8d nice essay there, also: no fucking shit
Louis, I have to say, this was probably one of the best monologues I've come across on CZcams. Powerful insight and great wisdom in this one. Greatly appreciative of you, your videos, and your points of view.
+Science Studio Thanks for watching!
+Louis Rossmann Yup it's great advise, and I know the feeling as well... I wasn't the weekest kid, but I was slow, and I had a class mate in elementary school, as well as in high school(the same person), that wasn't strong enough to really hurt me, but he would pay my other class mate, to annoy me, or other times he would just hide my stuff, or damage it cause I was even more sensitive to that, than actually getting hit, or verbally abused... University was(and is) a bit different, I was a bit more silent, and wouldn't hang out with others much, I guess hiding in background, and not letting everyone close sometimes also work, but it has the disadvantage of not being present when some important stuff being announced(but I just don't really mind it)... And I also had multiple teachers, that just didn't care, or would punish me for not being silent...
Some people just don't really tolerate weirdos who make stuff, spend their time in the school's IT lab, playing on "broken" PC's using some ubuntu live disk, when every other PC is occupied... :) My solution was learning karate for a while, and carrying my stuff always with me, even in breaks...
I couldn't have said it better ! Louis- I hope you are around For Ever ! Lol... I remember that moment also. But mine had a twist - a bully blamed a bigger one. And he was totally innocent.
oh hey didn't expect you to be here
@@ryzenfromashes Same lol awesome.
schools literally do nothing until the victim defends themselves. Even after the victim gets beat up more for defending themselves they just glorify the bully. At least anyone that went to public school can relate to this
True. Always defend yourself
I destroyed everyone who tried to physically bully me and I was always the one who got in trouble. There is no winning but definitely better to take some ISS time instead of letting yourself get beaten. I moved around a lot growing up so I actually welcomed physical attackers because people wouldn't insult me to my face if they knew I had been in a fight. My worst school experiences were when no one attacked me so lots of people the whole year would call me names cause I looked kinda crazy when I was younger.
Oh yeah, it happened to me a couple of times.
I thought back but their "No tolerance policy" was to suspend me as well, for defending my self.
I will never forget that I told them "So you expect me to sit there like a sack of potatoes and take his hits? Dumbasses"
Fortunately, my parents more than backed me up with the small difference of "Next time user a chair"
Or prison - though the penalties are worse in prison - 25 days taken off your good time for fighting and you're written up on a 200 - 100 series offense. As well as revocation of parole/probation.
It reminds me of the scene in Spider-Man in where Peter defends himself and they are all against him and side with bully.
Louis, you are one of my favorite people on this whole planet and I hope like hell you see this. I'm not a religious person, but I believe you exist for a reason. And while you're good at board repair and almost eerily good at remembering serial numbers, I think your purpose is higher than that. Keep doing your board repairs and posting those videos. And keep posting videos like these.
Keep teaching. You're changing lives. You might not know it, Louis, but you are.
Thank you!
@@rossmanngroup no thank you, for being insightful, intelligent, and caring and respectful
awh man this comment makes it seem like im kissing his ass
くら_おさ.める_かく.れる蔵 nah man, not ass kissing if it’s true
Louis Rossmann It‘s also great that you look at/reply to comments on videos that are 5 years old
Full of wisdom!
One of the BEST videos I watched in the last 20 years. Even though it's 8 years old by now, I just wanted to say: Thank you for making it!
"If someone changed how you behave you lost." welp... He's right.
Unless to a better
No he's not
If someone changes your behaviour to being worse, then you've lost.
@@NMG.11 It's a little too narrow expression about broad context.. sure behavior in general shouldn't be let to change, but, and in order to keep the general behavior and sanity, the behavior towards the individual bullies *must* be changed. There's no need to feel bad about giving deserved payback.
@@TheSimoc I'd say the 'loss' is when you let someone change you for their sake and not for yours. When you let yourself act against yourself because you're afraid of what someone else might think/do, you lost.
You are right, fighting does not work even if you are big and strong.
I let the bully and his mate attack me in front of a teacher, that did nothing.
Reported the incident to school authorities, that did nothing, called the headmaster a coward, that did nothing.
Later I beat up said bully and his mate, did it solve anything? No, because one week later the bully now had two mates with him...
In the end, I had to change school, because it was becoming stupid.
He even tried to come and bother me in the new school.
By then I had wizened up, and let him harass for a week or so, got some nice bruises, but carefully documented every event in my school agenda, took pictures etc.
Went to the cops with said agenda, had a long chat with a nice man, bully vanished from my life.
In electronics as in life, good documentation goes a long way.
i'm sorry that was your experience. in my eyes, it's a question of bluff and/or mental sanity on the side of the bully. after i beat up one bully. his other bully mate got a bit scared. he actually only wanted to bully the easy targets. but interesting to hear how you solved the problem in a smart and responsible way!
As someone who was bullied as a kid in physical ways, and in mental ways, both by students and teachers, I can honestly say that all bullying advice is situational. "Hit them back" worked for me with other students if they were physical, but that's because I was freakishly strong for my age and size. When you can shove a 200 pound wall of muscle back 7 feet and leave a dent in the lockers despite being under 90 pounds, generally physical bullies back off. But not everyone is the same, bullies and victims alike. Some victims are weaker, some bullies are bigger, some victims -me- have mental issues and can't control their emotions, some bullies are the same, some victims -me- aren't as effected by physical bullying, but are more affected by the mental aspect, the name calling, the insults, the manipulation, the lies, and some bullies use those less visible methods because they can get away with them more, some victims react more to physical bullying but are mentally solid, so the manipulators don't have as much an effect. It all depends on the situation.
And that's why most anti-bullying advice is nonsense. Even what Louis here said about not letting others effect your emotions. Sometimes, that's not possible. Sometimes, you can't just not do that. It's easy to say so, not so easy to get it done, as it is with anything. It's never as simple as "Just do this" or "don't do that", it's always, *always* more complicated than that, and anyone that doesn't realize that shouldn't be giving advice.
And bullying has more results than just causing school shootings. Suicide, drug use, alcoholism, mental illness, lasting physical trauma, PTSD, and all kinds of other things. A lot of the people that get bullied are bullied specifically because they're the people that can't, or at least seem like they can't, fight back, defend themselves, or withstand the mental and physical assaults delivered to them. A huge misunderstanding is that if you ignore bullies and don't let them see any reaction, they'll go away. Some might. In my experience, that only made it worse. I *still* deal with the mental aspect of bullying to this day, and I'm almost 20, starting college soon after a few years of a break after getting my GED, and I'm still bullied. It's given me depression, it's made my anger issues and anxiety issues worse, it's made my mental state degrade to the point of having hallucinations, hearing voices, quite literally losing control of my body and feeling like someone or something else is controlling it. And none of the effects, nor the problems, are going away any time soon, not entirely. But I know some things I could've done to prevent this, and some things I can do now to mitigate the effects.
All I can really say that's universal, however, is to use your brain if you can. Think about the issues you face, try to read the personality and actions of the bullies, and try to gauge what their reactions to things will be. Because that's what they're doing to you. Do the same to them, and whatever their weaknesses are- and believe me, they have weaknesses... Target those, mentally and/or physically, and make them realize what they're doing to you. Show them how they make you feel, by making them feel the same. Then stop once they realize. They'll leave you, and everyone else that they've bullied, alone. Or at least, they should.
Changing schools doesn't always work. I went to three different schools, one of which was a *private Christian academy*. Every time, there were bullies, and the only other options I had were homeschooling or online schooling. I went with the latter until I dropped out and got my GED to graduate early.
Long story short, no advice works for all cases. Use your brain and think up intelligent solutions to your problems, and remember to prepare for every eventually. Occam's Razor, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. So all you can do is prevent what you can, and prepare for everything else if you can. Good luck, my prayers go out to all of you.
And yes, I know this is old. I still have to say it.
I actually beat a bully in two ways. I've always been naturally strong, but the bully was stronger. He had an entourage, one of which was kinda scrawny ... the scrawny kid once made the mistake of assaulting me with none of his buddies around. I got called into the Principals office to explain why I nearly choked him out in the middle of the gym. I didn't plan it, but it was the last straw.
It also turned out that because it was mostly a Native American school that I was good friends with one of the big bullies cousins. One day when I went to my friend's house to hang out the bully came over as well. In that more private setting, he was actually quite a bit more reasonable. Even though we only played video games for a little while and never hung out again I think he gained a little respect for me.
I'm not sure which incident made the most impact, but after those two things happened I never had another problem from him or his possee.
Like others said, it always depends on the situations. I myself got bullied by a gang of bullies that felt strong when they were together. Individually tho, they are weak as shit. So i took advantage of it, followed each of them to where they lived and then for a week straight, every night i sent a solid "message" to each of them. After i was done with the last one, i was never bullied again by any of them. I won't go into details much but let's just say i had a few screw loose when i was younger and would cross lines that shouldn't be crossed. Thankfully i got help for that later and am all better for it today but i am still satisfied in a way to what i did to them to leave me alone.
It wasnt my only bully experience but usually if you left me alone i didn't bother anyone. Provoke me and it's at your own risks, well when i was younger that is. Today you'd have to do something pretty horrible to me to make me angry in any way.
@@tifsa Trust me, Anger makes many people do stupid, horrible things, myself included. I used to act purely on impulse in a stressful situation, and I nearly got into deep deep shit on several occasions. Thankfully, I have worked through that now, and am much more stable. But I still remember what it was like, and it was horrible.
You're spot on here. Hollywood loves the story of the little kid fighting back and then the big bully respecting him.
It's dumb. Some bullies are pathological (which it seems like he was). If you fight back, their anger grows. Their determination to make your life hell increases 10-fold. Chances are, they are being abused...or heaven forbid, they're just born with a faulty, pathological brain. Fighting back as a strategy is a horrible idea.
Honestly, I don't think Public Schools should be mandatory. We should be able to opt out of having those types of experiences.
I agreed with you til I read the last 2 sentences. You're clearly being one-dimensional on the issue. There are many negative implications with what you've written. Public schools SHOULD be mandatory.
You know, you can't make the world around you all nice and easy, you can't escape the harsh reality. It doesn't work that way. I get it though, the vast majority of people want to make their lives easier, to alleviate whatever they're struggling with, it's natural. But there should be a right balance between good and bad, between enjoyment and suffering, otherwise there will be no meaning in life. The world is cruel but you have to learn, you have to grow, you have to overcome challenges on your way like, for instance, bullying. And the harder your lesson is, the farther you get in life. And if that lesson breaks you, I'm sorry, maybe you weren't born to win.
@@snowytrees1 "Born to win"? If everybody won there would be no winners.
@@resurgam2243 "If everybody won"? How that's related, exactly? Some people win, some people lose, that's it, not everybody wins
@@snowytrees1 lol the public education system is a joke and everyone knows it. If the argument is that kids need to learn how to interact with other kids there are countless alternatives than sticking them in a classroom. Sports for instance being a great example. I learned more about myself and other kids growing up from playing soccer twice per week for two years than I ever did in the entirety of my academic career.
@@joeking6972 Well, I agree but I didn't say the education system didn't need improvements. Either way, you can't avoid bullies which again proves my point
teachers like the one you encountered are a dime a dozen, these people are a disgrace to the profession, THEY are the reason for bullies
Nimal De Silva they probably were and still are bullies
there are a lot of dimes and a lot of dozens around mate.
In short, they never grow up.
Schools are reason for bullies
This Guy is fixing motherboards and handing out free life advice. Fr Sir u are influencing me and countless others. Thank you
This guy is a true man for sharing all this advice
nice Lil Ugly Mane pic dude
NeoGunHero thank you yung roadrunner
Eww, snob appeal.
In 2009-2010 I was bullied buy one of the most awful people I've ever had the misfortune of meeting. Strangely enough, karma got the better of him and he ended up in an accident where he fell 30 feet from a hillside and was permanently brain damaged. Now he's confined to a wheelchair and can't talk or speak properly. I never got back at him, but it didn't matter. I wasn't even glad it happened. I was just glad it meant that he'd never bother me or anyone else ever again.
"Accident" i see you 👁👃👁
Hey man. You just described PTSD. Now you know, on a smaller scale of course, how we soldiers feel everyday after we come home from war. It never ends, it never gets better, the only thing you do is learn to cope with it better. Welcome to the club friend. But, I will say, good for you for learning how to deal with it. And, great for you for explaining this to people. This is a good public service you just did.
I hope things get better for you man, thank you for your service.
Good for the people who did not get suckered into fighting wars.
@@oneheckofabanana2016 Your meaning behind this statement?
@@amerikanviking Soldier seems like a horrible job. Why did you become one?
@@oneheckofabanana2016 It's not a horrible job. It's not even a 'job' so to speak. It is a calling. People join for their own specific causes. Mine was to do something good for the whole of the nation. It wasn't just to get a 'job'. I'm a Geophysicist by trade. I also do electrical work on the side as I have my Master Electrician license in Texas. But, yeah. It's not a horrible job. It's something that has to be done. Think about if you had no military, no soldiers. Who would stop an invasion? Who would help out when things go horribly wrong? Nobody. That's who. Also. If we didn't take up arms for you. Then, you would be forced under draft to do so or go to jail. So, it's a win-win. A win for those who don't want to and a win for the soldier. Because being a soldier also has it's benefits. I got a GI BILL to use for college tuition to get that Geophysicist career I always wanted. I could have paid for it via student loan and my electrician license. But, since I did go to the Army willingly (volunteer); I was given the opportunity to pay into the Montgomery GI BILL (yes, you have to pay for it with money from your check) and I paid for the kicker as well. No. I didn't know about the GI BILL until I signed my contract either. So, it isn't like I tried to join for 'free tuition' as some try to say. I joined to do good. But, a lot of people now have a bad view of the military. No. It isn't all roses. But, it isn't all bad either. Soldiers are just people like everyone else. And we do our best even though we see some really bad stuff. But, there you go. That's why I joined and I hope that sums up an explanation for your idea that it is a horrible job. And don't take this wrongly. I'm not chewing you. Nor am I angry with what you said. I get it. But, I just wanted to clarify it for you. We're good people just like you. Just some of the higher ups are bad apples. When you have them, and they give you a lawful order. You must follow it. If you don't, you risk jail, loss of pay, and possible shame that will render you near unemployable in the United States. Having a Dishonorable Discharge from the military is about the same as committing a serious felony offense in the eyes of employers. So, when you are told to do something. Well, YOU DO IT!
Man, you need to be doing TED talks... the world needs more people who (at a young age) have a serious grasp of what life is about. Most people take a lifetime to work this stuff out!
Thats what I said. HA.
Young people don't listen to TED talks
@@Captaincodeine That's just straight up not even true.
I hate Ted talks
Tedx let sam hyde do a presentation...
“Life doesn’t start fair, but it often ends fair.” Nice
You should become a motivation speaker, really inspiring video.
thanks for watching!
Perhaps a TED talk? :)
It takes a pair of tungsten nuts to tell a story like that and i am 100% sure it will help someone and motivate if the person sees it. Respect for this!
Thank you for sharing. This was a really impressive and inspiring video. Thanks for the free content. Cheers
Janis Vaskevics tungsten :) Lol ;)
The respect I have for this man!
i remember i once got bullied by my entire class i told my parents and family and they said "ignore it" not hey lets tell the teacher or lets tell the school, no they just told me to ignore it, but how...how does a 7th grader ignore an entire class full of students just ignore a bunch of people in my face shouting at me. i couldnt, and i was so mad at them because i tried to get help but help was denied by those i thought would protect me.
i mean now im older and no longer bullied but man that 7th grade year caused so much pain and mental shit for me in the future that could've been prevented.
(srry for the rant but this video topic reminds me of this) experience)
I hope you're better my friend. Go make yourself more stronger everyday, both mentally and physically.
7th grade was hardest for me too, the aabsolute worst.
there is no money that can pay for such great advice. thank you for being on this planet and sharing your opinion and experiences.
U can pay few bux tip info is in description
@@myes344 hes a liberal they just say sht like ill feed a bum than stepover a begging man look at bernie dumps waste on mexicans collects millions for it and his book than cries about air and kids in cages but silent when obama did it
Raymond Flores what?
Raymond Flores what is the context to your statement?
@@raymondflores5176 Based schizo poster.
The dark side of Louis Rossman. Gotta love it. Everyone loves a little snappage.
This guy has wisdom far beyond his years. I'm not interested in Mac repair, but I have listened for many hours of his advice and recently enjoyed the NY real estate stuff and economy analysis.
"The most merciful person is the one who forgives when he is able to take revenge."
- Imam Hussain
"The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those whom have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer."
- Laura Hillenbrand
These are quotes you should live by.
Again - you become very dependent to the revenge at this point, which means you can still be easily manipulated emotionally. Though I can't argue that there are monkey-like people, that only understand the language of violence and fear. So you have to be very careful on all the possible outcomes of your "methods"...
Revenge is necessary many times ver
Ifiokabasi George no revenge isn’t justice is
The other unfortunate part. A lot of the people like us also don't find jobs. "Too weird to hire."
Æ Œ The fact that you didn’t let the bully affect your emotional state is still a win though.
@@raisin4406 True true.
Or because our (genuine) talents align too closely with employment-jargon as used by pseudo-intellectuals (precisely because they aspire to be like us).
Employment in general is *quite* overdue for a change to hands-on skill demonstrations.
@@longrunner258 Yep yep! I agree!
“You aren’t a culture fit”
It was not until my 30's that I confirmed in my mind that plenty of adults and people older than me has no faking clue about what they are talking about in life. You sir are not one of them.
This. I have met people over 60 still being toddlers.
Wonderful video. A realist who knows their shit.
Would like for him to review the 1980 movie My Bodyguard - it is the classic movie on the subject if you skip the first 20 minutes. G.Gordon Liddy pushed for hiring two older, bigger tough kids to push around your bully, not a bad idea. The movie (might hire Louis to toss me down the stairs !)
u have 0 memories of being 2?
if u say so
@@user-jy6ur8gb1c I do.
I was born in February '95, I remember 4th of July in '96, I remember my brother being born in October of 1997. It is absolutely possible to have memories of being a toddler, though it is a bit uncommon.
I remember my diaper being changed and I remember being potty trained. Yay.
"The Best Revenge is Not to be Like Your Enemy" Marcus Aurelius, some famous old dude, look him up. Louis, stay awesome !
Roman... He was a Roman emperor and he was a stoic philosopher aswell. To Rome and even Europe to this day they call him philosopher King
Ya he's not just some dude? Lol. Nice quote though!
"some famous dude", yeah that's an understatement bro, haha.
Brother passing by :
Ugh, not another one of these CZcams Life Gurus.
Me : He repairs iPhone screens
Lol yeah it's just what it is, I like it
@@zakadams762 Holy shit, I found another Zak in the wild
@@zaksullivan4093 it’s the power of the Mac repair guy.
My experience with beating up a bully was quite different. I still relish it to this day. No emotional pendulum of regret, just a nice memory and it led to many good things.
So it was your choice to beat him up. Nice work :)
I can't begin to explain how cathartic this video has been for me, it healed a lot of wounds and gave me considerable closure, from the bottom of my heart I thank you so much.
Your advice sounds a lot like the philosophy of stoicism which is very different from the stereotype of what it is. I figured out as a child that while I could be aware of my feelings, I never would let emotions affect my actions. I would always try to act in my own best interest regardless of how I felt. You gave great examples here.
'I would always try to act in my own best interest' is a beautiful sentence regarding bad life situations or people, it doesn't cut out emotions, you just don't act on it, you don't leave breadcrumbs for people who are out to dislike you, it's important
Very good advice. Seriously. Don't expect watching this in a tech channel. It asks many questions in my mind.
+spektrumB Thank you!
You're a very interesting human being Louis, keep up the good work and words of wisdom
Thanks for watching!
Seriously, I didn't expect to watch the full 30 minute video but you are very engaging. Subscribed :)
thanks
Louis, you are an admirable, lovable, great human being who commands respect. Thank you for making the world a better place.
waiting till 12:00 for you to say that. congrats. hate bullying. my 8yr. old son is being bullied and principle didn't do sh!t either multi times even though there was a witness.
Tell your kid to go to police station and tell police, that they are bullied, the teacher ignores it and they feel urge to take a knife to school and kill the bullies, that they don't want it, but the teacher ignored him, ignored his parents and if police doesn't help, they have no other option. Accompany your kid to the station and speak with the police yourself. The police will involve a psychologist and will go investigate in the school. The teachers will be forced to do something and might even get fired, because in this case, unions will sacrifice him. Unions protect their members, unless they are creating school killers, endangering other union members.
I watched a principle get tackled to the ground and beat by a kid that he tried to discipline for bullying someone else.
@Johnny Mack What you're saying is complete bullshit.
Johnny Mack it isn’t as simple as that sometimes you don’t have the ability to stand up for yourself and when that happens you need to ask for help instead of hurting yourself mentally and physically trying to fix it yourself
*principal
If ur being bulled, you need to understand why the bully chose you then change so that the bully no longer sees you as a viable target. Sometimes that means fighting back. Sometimes that means telling a teacher or authority figure. Sometimes that means telling a teacher the bully confided in you that his mother's boyfriend is molesting him. You be the judge. You choose which outcome you can live with.
Great advice
Ohh
Yeah I remember getting bullied in high school from grade 10 through 11 then the summer before my senior year I started weight lifting and boxing. I came back to school and literally no one tried anything from that time on. The thing is even though I had gained a noticeable amount of muscle I really wasn't that strong but that just goes to show that most bullies only prey upon people who are the absolute weakest in their eyes.
"If ur being bulled, you need to understand why the bully chose you then change" So you are letting the bully control your change?
@LiL Speng Or is it?
“They all live in a world of lollipops and.... bullshit...”
Jokes aside, this has been such an incredible insight into the kind of mental torture bullying will end up having.
I at least hope your main bully decided to never have anything to do with you again
best lesson in life i learned, is "Diamonds are formed under extreme pressure." u are one of those diamonds Louis
I was a teenager in the early 80s.
I was a die-hard geek/nerd.
These days, it's far more "socially acceptable" to be a geek or a nerd.
In fact, it's become almost fashionable.
I like nerds. You're a cool guy and I get a heck of a lot of enjoyment watching your videos.
I don't give a shit about what people think of me. It doesn't change my life in any way.
As for the "hit the kid back" bit... I did... I broke his nose... Not because he was bullying me but because he was getting rough whilst I was trying to put away our school's RML-380z and my concern was for the computer.
From that day on, whenever he saw me, he crossed the road.
Sometimes it works but it's not always a good idea.
I rarely fought back because I could run way too fast and no-one in the school could catch me.
The Xanax comment might just have been a "lucky guess"... He was probably just being insulting...
Someone online recently told me that I need to get out more (without knowing me) and I agreed and pointed out that I'd love to but due to a spinal injury, my mobility is limited... It was an "egg on face" moment for the guy.
However, Louis... I bet the bully doesn't own a business that grossed a million and takes his employees to Disneyland for a holiday...
We can see who has the last laugh here, eh?
+Beith Air Ltd Good points!
+Beith Air Ltd Because nerdy knowledge become important to modern life style, nerdy behavior become respected and gain an aura of "might", and there are alot more nerds today, as nerds themselves become powerful bullies in a different form. Today's kids getting picked for completely different reason, mostly due to being "gay". Things in general got a lot more political than personal.
MNanme1z4xs Good points.
The Geek shall inherit the Earth... Isn't that how the saying goes??? ;)
+Beith Air Ltd No its the people with an armory in house
+Beith Air Ltd I did it once and got the guy on the ground. Later that day, he and other 2 held my head under snow. I couldnt breath and thought im going to die. It was last half year so, whatever, but i think i would go on spree if it lasted longer because they got more aggressive after that.
Actions speak louder than words. At the end of the day, you fixed the problem by throwing that bully down the stairs.
hahaha I love how you talked about the principle and described him in exactly 10 words
+hornylink Thanks for watching!
LAYBACK30 karma has way of ensuring that while life may not start fair, it always ends fair.
I do question the notion of Karma when it always seems to be school kids that get shot up and never the IRS.
Karma isn't real. If it was. The smartest richest ppl would make earth a nicer place.
Jason blahas favorite bodybuilder not on a cosmic bullshit spiritual level maybe, but if you are kind to people, they are more likely to treat you the same way.
@@alexxxender1258 I don't think you know many wealthy people then. Who do you think keeps inflation from skyrocketing to the moon? Who do you think establishes the charities and funds the non-profits that provide assistance to the populace? The average person influences only a portion of the economy, but the average person of wealth keeps a significantly higher portion of the economy stable. America would be in third world status and would have never become a superpower, if it weren't for capitalism.
I wish they shot the teachers instead. Half of them enable bullying by doing absolutely nothing until the victim puts up their arms to defend themselves.
@@blakejames9743 Found the Trumper.
Counselors online: *charge insane amounts for the service*
Louis: Talks for half and hour and fixes the cpu of every person who watches this
Just found Louis via Linus's channel and I already am impressed with this content. He seems like a very bright man with some good things to say. Good video!
+Steve Chandler Thanks for watching!
Found this channel from reddit
He's got quite a few good vids
@@rossmanngroup out of interest from a place of respect
Ive seen this comment like 10 times is it a well made bot?
Just found this video. Wish I had been given this advice back in 1975, it would have made the following decades much better for me. I hope that someone actually sees this, and it helps them cope.
This video is really good advice. Source: 53 years of life.
Telling someone can work. It's important to tell the correct person. Telling an authority didn't work for me. Telling someone who beat the shit out of the bully did.
Louis you surprise me.
I searched for thinkpad on youtube and your thinkpad videos showed up, i watched n enjoyed those.
Then this video shows up on my youtube feed. Never expected you to make such "off topic" videos (i always thought your channel is strictly tech only) but this video is awesome packed full of good advice and reasoning. You are a good n interesting chap. Giving in to anger, fear n hate is walking into the dark side for sure.
This is seriously the best video I’ve EVER seen on bullying.
4:50 ok thats just straight-up attempted murder my dude
I mean, so is throwing someone down stairs... so i guess eye for an eye?
@@vaskedagame880I know I was explaining how that's just beyond bullying. Someone should have done something about that.
Ninjaz 1432 Yes it was attempted murder, but who was going to take him seriously? None of the adults seemed to give a shit, why would the cops?
The law tends to mostly be enforced when you commit a crime against a powerful institution or individual otherwise it is more common to see it go un-enforced. We will never have the capacity to ensure total justice so individuals need to look for solutions that fit their situation.
I can honestly say with all of my heart, that this is the very first CZcams video I have ever cried while watching. The hurt, you felt about the crap that kid said about your Mom, is so tangible Louis. It seeps out of your pores at a certain point during your story and it broke my heart. It's also entirely relatable.
I'll try and keep this short, as I have a habit of not doing. I was a small girl, my max height now is 5'1", so you can imagine how small I was at 8. I'm adopted, I knew nothing about my birth mom until I was 30 (knew of her and that I was adopted but that's it) and I grew up as an only child. Got bullied alot in elementary. I was small, enjoyed playing football with the boys, was a tomboy. I was harassed on a continuous basis by a couple of boys. I was going through other shit at the time that I won't get into. But, I still to this day remember how much I hated 4th and 5th grade.
I'm sorry that happened to you, Louis. Now I need a kleenex, lol.
+Elizabeth L. wow, you're easy to impress. His video could be done in 4 minutes.
+Oleg Lego I don't see the point in dumbing down the video or shortening it
+Oleg Lego I find it gratifying that your comment has no likes. Life isn't a twitter feed and the important stuff takes more than 4 minutes to deal with.
Oleg Lego Nothing in my reply states that I was impressed by Louis or the video. It's called empathy. It's part of being human. You should try it sometime.
+Elizabeth L.
especially the way he looked when he said his mum died due to her mental illness- that hit so motherfucking hard....
tossing a bully down the stairs, that's one way of doing things.
My time in highschool was similar, I was smart and fat, got bullied from grades 2-10 (a charming blend of racism and the usual remarks) ended up with busted ribs once from one of the routine beatings. I definitely agree you shouldn't go to extremes and toss people down stairs or into traffic but, in my experience if you are in a position to undermine a bully whether it be socially, mentally or physically, once you've done it they'll generally leave you alone and move on to the next weakest link.
ignoring bullies, being nice, telling on them etc doesn't work, finding a way (preferably intelligent) to confront them and as you say, fighting hard to deter them is basically the only way as long as you don't become the bully.
good video
I used to be bullied so much for thinking different (which got me to go to college 2 years early on a scholarship) and beaten up, I had to go to the ER multiple times and went on suicide watch, I hated it, until I got an invitation to a special school for kids who aren't into the normal things, and I loved it
What school was this that you went to and what were the not normal things? Happy to hear that it worked out for you in the end.
I find your approach refreshing.
There's an interesting positive movement in Croatia & world called street workout, and at least half of those teens & young adults were victims of some kind of bullying (as a former bullying victim myself I can see it in their eyes, why they're doing it). It's really nice that young people have that, the ones who were in the same situation , and wing tsun kung fu for example. The streetworkout teams here form strong brotherly friendships, even if their minds become a bit overly body-centric, but from what I saw in Zagreb & Croatia they literally go to every school and give free training classes, advice and build their base. You would think when you see them in the park they are like "alpha males", but they are really open and friendly, help and give free events, advice and trainings, and ''force'' officials to build them workout parks. I'm very happy for kids/bullying victims to have that kind of a positive no bullshit force and visible support groups: tinyurl.com/otlddmn ...Bullies are like a hand of some evil force, it's never just one person doing it, and that evil smells your weakness/fear, so to see that there are some who resist it and create a cool power workout circle is awesome. Also it reminds me of that quote from Silmarillion of Melkor's evil disonant tone. There are new young people today more understaning and helpful than ever it seems. Those kids today literally transfigured an evil and made a workout/friendship support group and world movement. Croatian streetworkout: scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/11539030_927788487283560_157137894500146449_o.jpg
+Krešimir Jakić.
M uhh
i almost never watch half hour long videos even when i do i dont pay attention. but damn you had me watching the entire video with my full atention! i was blown away at how well you said all that ! Sharing the crap out of this man. good work
"You feel like an empty sack of crap when you let others affect your emotional state".
All of these words are so true but really hard to accept :(. Hopefully I'll be able to absorb this
I love all your videos and i'm glad you shared your story with us. Truly touching
I got bullied from age 7 to about 15. Unfortunately my bully had his friends that would defend him when we'd get physical. I always fought back and most of the times didn't win because he was a fat fuck (and to this day he still is). Now i'm 6ft and athletic. I will never forget the mental damage he did to me, it was far worse than physical. Because of him i've spent my teenage years in solitude, with very few friends and with no will to socially interact with strangers and acquaintances. Now when im 20, i'd love to beat him up so bad he'd need a good plastic surgeon to fix his gorilla smug face. But i'm not gonna get down to his level. Karma is a bitch, i'll let her deal with him.
Beating that slob will probably land you in front of a Judge for his fat face.
Even if it is tempting, some people are really not worth it.
smellysam The only thing stopping me from hospitalizing him is that he'd press charges for physical assault and the last thing I need is a Police File & Court expenses. I just hope him the worst in his life instead.
He's probably enjoying his high levels of cholesterol at the moment.
Dude, would you be interested in combined consultation with each other on this issues? So we can share each other experiences and make some conclusions.
Same here, I was skinny and tall, bullied, all that. After a few years in the military I put on a lot of muscle and a few inches of height. The only take away of my bullying experience is now I stick up for those that can't. I am a nicer person & have found peace in my life. I don't even remember the names of most of my bullies anymore, I saw one of them few years ago. He approached my car asking for a few dollars, he was homeless & drug addicted. He didn't recognize me until I recalled his name...Lee Meyer former bully, present day homeless addict. KARMA or not, I found no reason to gloat or smile...it was a lesson to me...stay true to your principles & be kind to others.
I cannot believe I'm discovering your non-tech videos after so many years. They're great.
Your child will have an amazing parent, well done my friend- You've helped me express some things I try to tell my siblings and friends.
I've never been so focused on something this much ever in my life. It was just like you looking into my soul. And I'm so glad that I've found you, this video that you've made also. I'm 15 and I'm the 1st grade of high school and I have the problems with bullying and this helped me so much and I'll really give my best to do everything and stay strong just like you've talked trough the whole video. And I'm from Serbia, and I can tell you that the stuff you said in video is so true, that I'm just so amazed that I'm shaking. By the way sorry if I made any mistakes while writing this comment because English is not my native language, and I've learnt a lot of it just from watching CZcams and doing stuff on a computer. Thank you so much again! ❤ I really appreciate the time and patience that you put in making all of this. Amazing!
Thanks for this video man. I have been through similar shit when I was around 11 and I brought a knife to school in my little blue book bag. Luckily I was walking and turned around and saw my Mum and little sister down the path behind me and thought about the void I would leave in their life if I went to prison over something so violent with them constantly blaming themselves, I decided to not go through with it. He carried on bullying of course and I snapped a few weeks later and hit him in the face with a cinder block until he stopped moving(He is ok years later so I don't think I gave him any permanent brain damage but he certainly gave me some mental damage).
This is so right. I did the same thing - gained about sixty pounds of muscle and have never had a problem with a bully again. From my experience bullies are always cowards that choose targets they think or know are weak. It sucks and it's hard but the best solution is to make yourself not weak so you don't have to deal with this bullshit. Great advice Louis!
"Bullied through their youth"?
Bullies don't stop when you leave school, they get worse, they to f**k with your life, career, your health and your family. I'm not even talking about bullying at management level (that's something we all know about), i'm talking about co-workers that are so incompetent that they need to make someone look bad in order to advance their own career, and who do they pick on? That's right the quiet geeky guy in the corner, because "if I can make him look bad, then I won't have to work so hard to impress the boss".
It's not hard to make the "nerd" look bad, just accuse him of hacking or of creating software to do his job while he sits doing nothing, because even if he can explain himself, nobody will understand and nobody will believe him.
Well, I've learnt the hard way and I don't take sh*t lying down, i'm alert and aware of what's going on, I understand peoples motives and I always make sure my back is covered, I use what I know to protect myself and when my boss tried to set me up to commit a gross misconduct I voice recorded the f**ker.
The advice to strike back is correct, but the key is to think first, know your limits and use what you know to your advantage.
+Strider9655 Good content here.
+Louis Rossmann Keep up the work man! I love your videos.
anthony chaney Thanks for watching!
+Louis Rossmann No problem. BTW whats your opinion on the new think pad yoga's?
anthony chaney if they can put a high res touchscreen on that than they can put a high res touchscreen on the p50 and p70. fuck lenovo for making no sense. I'm done with their machines.
You're an incredible speaker, I never been bullied but I liked your talk
Give me your lunch money
Im on a Louis Rossmann binge. I actually admire this man so much and has teached me a lot of good life lessons.
Goddamn that's a satisfying story, but you're absolutely right on the aftermath of situations like that. IRS bullying part was the real good.
Been keeping up with Louis for a few years, this is gold, a gem of a human, a force for change.
You can sue past teachers and principles who did not prevent bullying (laws varies by countries). I would sue that principle into the stone age...
Alexander Bjerkvik would people believe him? They'd need proof.
He’s probably dead or near dying by now what’s the point.
But then he'd just be the bully he describes the IRS to be.. It's still revenge, whether it's pushing him down a flight of stairs or suing him
Not where I live you can't. My teacher would bully me too so that's nice.
@@blakryptonite1
"ooga booga go back to africa"
Your motivation powers are purely astounding. Thank you.
That dude you threw down the stairs sounds an awful like a sociopath. Don't feel bad about cutting a sociopath. Your emotion is their milk, so sour it a bit.
Your an alright guy, Louis.
centaur6ify me too
That sounds good tbh, it just sweet sweet revenge, not gonna lie.
He's not mad because he threw the guy down the stairs he was mad because he allowed this piece of shit to affect him so much he would throw a man down the stairs
What makes Louis a remarkable person is that even though he was severely bullied for years by this kid, he felt nearly ill from bringing back that favor. True mark of a genuinely good person.
15:27 Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Juan Jose r/unexpected Starwars
Hatred is just as human as love, and serves a just as important purpose.
This video should have at least a milion views, not because it's good, but because it has potential to save more lives than any gun control act. You're better than any bullshit life coach. When you get bored with electronics repairs you could improve many peoples' lives with lectures. You're not too proud nor too humble, just honest and straight to the point. I'm about two years younger than you and if half of the shit you went through happened to me I'd probably hang myself.
BTW I'm not against gun control as long as law abiding mentally healthy people can buy a gun to defend their home or business in case the police isn't there on time.
+t33s Wow, thank you!
I'm not going to write about my whole life, because you probably get enough of that. I just wanted to show my honest appreciation since you don't accept money and my success is yet to come.
t33s you're right, this needs to be shared. This needs to be played at schools across America.
As far as gun control goes, I think if it's overkill when you take it out hunting food then it being in your house is also overkill and uncalled for.
I remember growing up with my brother, he had incredible pent up rage and aggression from his own insecurities and thoughts. He was so frustrated with himself and what he thought everyone thought of him that, when he saw my abilities and talents, he saw me as a threat to his world and place in the family. He’d take any opportunity to be superior to me, and if he had it, he’d abuse it. I was lucky to have a mother who knew just how to raise and handle both of us, and a father who could scare him from hurting me further. but when they were away, I was always in fear of him. He was stronger than me, as well he hated what I was, so it was strange to see him sympathetic when after he was done beating or belittling me he would see me attacking myself and beating and scratching myself. He would sit there thinking of himself as horrid, thinking that this is his fault, when his little bipolar brother was screaming how much he hates himself and continues to do more damage to his own body. I never understood it as a kid why he was like the way he was, why he would be attacking me one moment but stop when he saw how awful I’d react, why he would be sympathetic afterwards. It was because he was human, and he was the same victim of other’s manipulation. He never understood himself until he was an adult, and he never knew how to manage his own issues without displacing his anger onto whatever he thought was ruining him. Bullies are people who need as much guidance as those who are bullied, because they all come from a certain background that shaped them into who they are in that moment. Some may have come from being bullied and take it as a way to help themselves, others have been abused by parents and think the only way they can show themselves powerful is in enacting that same behavior onto someone else deemed “weak”. And some are simply mentally ill children with no concept of remorse, because they had no guidance-even proper guidance-to save themself. Perspective should always be taken into account when managing these sorts of people, and if you can find a way to see into the “bully’s” ideas, you can manage with them properly. I only really understood how to talk to my brother when I grew up and handled my own illnesses; I put myself into his level to understand why he “hated” me. And from that, I grew a better understanding of him and have found a way to love him like the brother he was supposed to be. Granted, not every person is like this, and not every person deserves your respect or will even want it, but finding that way to relate with this person is the only way to manage a conflict like this.
someone should post this in every bullying group in facebook.
Why is this channel doesn't get millions subscribers yet?
You, dude, are now the kind of man I aspire to become from now on.
Now 39yo, I can't say I have a half of your wisdom.
This video is a transformer. I am currently bullied at school, and this video just gave me hopes. Hopes that someday I can be as strong as you. Like a mountain that cannot be moved.
"They did not listen they did not know how. perhaps they will listen now." Don McLean - Starry, Starry Night
In case anyone looks search for 'Vincent'
Art In Motion Studios *keys car 10 years later*❤️
16:52 don’t let others affect how you feel. Thank you, maybe this is a viable mindset.
My original thought was that no remorse should be felt by you at all. Maybe that’s wrong. You shouldn’t have been satisfied by breaking his legs, because you shouldn’t have been hurt by all the shit he threw at you years prior. As I look within, this is the difference between a wise man and a puppet. The wise man cuts the strings or ignores it. The puppet futilely trys to pull against it but is reminded everyday of those strings and holes in his hands.
only if he's verbal and just talking shit. maybe some people can ignore that. i agree that u should use intelligence instead of feelings to judge things but if u getting beat up constantly it's impossible to avoid. its not a situation of a puppet/master
This is the best TED Talk I've ever seen.
This guy is right. People used to make fun of me but after I started working out no one dared to pick on me anymore. I didn't even have to "hurt them". They just assumed that because I'm buff they should keep a low profile.
And yes, I'm a mega nerd (have a university degree in physics and chemistry).
I have an advice of my own to add.
I was raised in a different culture, more "soviet" if you know what I mean.
I was basically raised with the ideology where you have to punch back and I was blessed with anxiety so my fight or flight was always on fight if I was bullied.
Yes it worked in my life and I did have to get in fights even in the army so nobody would try to bully with me.
But this is a grey area in which you don't want to be.
But there's a better way,
I was(and still am) your typical skinny computer nerd and I used this to avoid bullying.
People always knew me as that one guy who will always fix your stuff or that one guy that sells ciggs(bought for cheap and sold for a higher price, still was lower that retail tho).
Because of that I always had "connections" with all sorts of people, especially the cool or the strong kids, the teachers and everything in between.
Basically everybody were friendly with me no matter with which group I was.
Even if there was a person in that group that hated me or wanted to bully me they couldn't because of all the other people in the same group that were friendly with me.
I was never a hero and I never could stand up for others but I always found my safe spot in every episode of my life where I would be safe from bullying.
Well yeah I also always hacked everyone and everything and blackmailed any bully that tried to pick on me but that's not the point.
Use your weakness and intelligence to avoid bullying, no one else is going to do it instead of you.
Now I'm 26 and in the adult life everything is different.
You won't have as much friends as you had back in school/uni.
You will rarely meet a bully because,
in the future when you become an adult these things don't matter anymore.
Everyone will just try to pay rent and focus on their job/profession.
Also Louis is right, every time you hit someone back and win - you will hate yourself for that
Instructions unclear, went to the IRS and picked a fist fight
"Started throwing auditors down stairs..."
me: im not gonna stay for the whole video i have stuff to do
also me: watches the whole video
ImELFY *and part two 😂
ImELFY Literally same I was supposed to study for an exam tomorrow 😭
I'm so glad I watched the whole video. Couldn't stop watching after a few minutes. I had no idea of or intention to watch a 30 minutes video on bullying. This man is awesome.
I don't understand why yt commenters feel the need to put things ineme format
Mood
bro, what the heck. I came from your video about the "F" word and now I'm here. You are speaking such wisdom its awesome haha. So many things in these two videos have hit me hard and will stick with me for the rest of my life. I really appreciate you sharing!
Bullying never ends, it just gets slightly more subtle.
This was the best thing I've ever watched on CZcams. It deserves so many more views. I wish I had heard this advice when I was younger. Thanks for this, Louis.
+JM Taylor Thanks for watching!
"Bring tha Uzi to da IRS" LOL
aFBI OPEN UP
He literally said that as I read this. XD
When the revolution comes I'm all for it.
Dude they’ll text your uzi out your hands
The gym I go to has a boxing class and a few months ago this overweight, huched over, feet dragging, mouth-breathing teen started to attend class. You could tell he was a bully victim from a mile away. Absolutely zero confidence about him. He looked like he would roll over if you told him to.
But boy did he work hard. Every lesson, pushing himself to the limit and slowly he started losing weight and every time, his posture straightened out just a little more than before. Confidence was budding until one day there simply was no more trace of his old self. It was a beautiful transformation to watch.
I have no idea if he had fought back successfully or what, but something changed for the better in him so I will just say this: gaining the ability to be able to fight back is the best strategy. You have to cease being, and thinking like prey, but this impulse has to come from you, if you are not burning with a desire to change you may aswell just keep handing over your lunch money, just be warned you´ll be doing that the rest of your life until you decide to do something about it.
121 thumbs down. probably all from bullies working at mini golf courses.
Daniel Kiesow one is from adult biff from back to the future 2
you sound like you got bullied
@@catchmebby2223 Weird almost like it's a very common thing that happens in every school every day, who would've thought
hecking furre only little bitch punks get bullied
@@catchmebby2223 how was your shift at the golf course fattie?
You have a real gift and use it in a significant way that will effect change. Thank you
Every time I'd hit a bully, it was the same anxiety after. I always asked if I hit hard enough or if I should've hit harder. The moment of victory fades so damn quickly that I always was confused after. This video finally makes me see why. I did hit as hard as I wanted to. It's the victory that turns to sadness being so quick that your mind is surprised and tries to find a reason for the victory being so quick and then leaving. Thank you for letting me realise this!
A lot of people need to hear this. Good job man!
This video is fucking solid.
You showed more humanity than your bully did, because he would not care about hurting you as you did him.
Really good stuff. Honesty about bullying is important, and often hard to come by. Great advice all around for people that have been done poorly by.