May 3, 2025
May 2025 Monthly Update
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This is why people do not want to do things on
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their own. This is one of the main dominant reasons
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why people either fail or do not want to go their
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own path and why they want to follow the safer
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guaranteed spoon -fed path. And it's because
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you have to create your own direction. In school,
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I grew up in the American education system during
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the 2000s, early 2000s. And basically, I didn't
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realize it at the time, but reflecting on it,
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I realized that a group of people literally get
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together and come up with the entire rubric.
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They decide everything that you learn during
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that class and then they also decide what classes
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are available and they decide in what order basically
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the entire your entire worldview your entire
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knowledge base everything that you learn into
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like everything you learn all throughout school
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has been finally crafted and extreme in meticulously
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selected so that you learn exactly what they
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deem necessary or they deem worthwhile and that's
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like a one -size -fits -all situation everyone
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learns the same thing everyone learns exactly
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what somebody else decided for them there is
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no Individual direction like you don't choose
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your own. Yeah, sure. You can argue that you
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choose your own classes you choose your own school
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well, I mean your parents probably choose that
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but Or actually, I don't even know but basically
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You could argue that you choose your own classes,
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but you don't choose like that The exact subjects
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you don't choose To learn this or that you are
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spoon -fed exactly what you need. And then in
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real life, like once you get a job, then, and
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that's such a weird statement, real life, like,
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oh, wait until you get to the real world. Maybe
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I've never experienced the real world because
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I'm still living in my parents' basement, but
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that is such a weird statement, like, oh, once
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you go out into the real world, you'll... things
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are going to be different. I don't know. It just
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seems weird to me, because it's almost implying
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that the education system is an artificially
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constructed cell. It's not organic. It's deliberately
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crafted in such a way to where it's not. Raw
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or wild But then they say once you get to the
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real world things are different But are they
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really because when you go to a job, I've never
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gotten a job but from like movies and from hearing
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stories and just just general life experience
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I assume that once you get a job your boss basically
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tells you what to do or at least you Learn the
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direction like they tell you the direction they
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tell you your general goal and maybe you have
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to figure out some things on your own but for
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the most part the general direction is laid out
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for you and That's one of the reasons why people
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Don't want to go their own path and sure not
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everyone it's going your own path is not for
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everyone but It's also is it really not for everyone
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because There is no like same human being Maybe
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that statement that going your own path is not
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for everyone is actually just compensating for
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the fact that there is that everyone went through
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a system that Basically tried to create ever
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the same human being like the same exact person
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And so people have been conditioned to not want
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to go their own path because when you go through
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a system like that, you don't practice the skills
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of creating your own direction. And so when the
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time comes, for example, for me, this is the
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one of the biggest struggles that I experience.
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I can do work. I can go down. I can block off
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everything and just focus on the task at hand
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for Months I've proven that I spent two and a
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half months Teaching myself entirely how to play
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the piano how to read and write music how to
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compose how to produce music and then how to
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score Videos like how to score media like how
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to actually write music and produce music for
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videos I did that I spent two months learning
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that the issue is not like the effort or the
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willpower or the work ethic a lot of times every
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once in a while maybe every six months or every
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three months I don't know how often but not infrequently
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I am sit here I'm sat here with no direction
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like I have no idea where I'm headed yeah I have
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like general ideas, general concepts, but basically
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how I operate. And I just wrote a book that talked
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about this. It's called The Dip. And basically
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how I operate is I have a general strategy, my
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general strategy and general way to achieve that,
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which is YouTube. And then I also have my niche
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that I selected, which is my viewer, the specific
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person that I'm making videos for, which is basically
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my younger self, in a nutshell. And that doesn't
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change. That doesn't change, usually. However,
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what does change is the tactic that I'm experimenting
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with to try and achieve that goal. to achieve
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the overarching goal. And the tactic changes
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because if it doesn't change, then you're never
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going to achieve the goal. You have to keep experimenting
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until something actually works. And usually,
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you experiment for a certain amount of time until
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you realize that it's a dead end, and then you
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switch. And I spent the last three months experimenting
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with this new tactic like I changed my tactic
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from self -improvement videos to like entertainment
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based but still like transformative they're story
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based videos so just me doing like crazy challenges
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like doing a push -up every single minute for
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the entire day or learning how to solve the Rubik's
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Cube in under 60 seconds those types of videos
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That was me changing the tactic. I was still
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making videos for the same person I was still
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on YouTube that was like the general strategy
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did not change but the tactic changed and every
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once in a while That I realized that it's a dead
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end like or I realized that I don't want to be
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doing this like a very Reflective question a
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very telling question that tells me if this is
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the right path to continue down towards is Is
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this the type of video that I want my channel
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to blow up with? So very frequently like usually
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what I've what I've observed in YouTube is It's
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usually not a gradual build -up like you usually
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don't For example in a career like you would
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gradually Make more and more money like you would
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start you'd make $15 an hour and then after a
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couple weeks you get a raise and then after a
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couple weeks get a raise you're at $15 and 25
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cents and then $15 50 cents and then after like
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it's kind of more linear, but what I've seen
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pretty much every single case study every single
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person's YouTube channel that I've Like studied
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it's not linear it is breakthrough like it's
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usually just like one video blows up and then
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in like another year another video blows up and
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like it's it's like one video blows up and the
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channel gets a huge lift and then kind of like
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incrementally improves but then in another year
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another video blows up and then the channel gets
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another huge lift and it's like it's like staircase
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it's like a staircase where you make massive
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progress but then you don't really make as much
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progress it's like you like plateau basically
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it's like a stagnant period and this is Okay,
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and in order to achieve like that one video to
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blow up it's usually an experiment like you're
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usually experimenting with something new and
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It may not happen like the first time you experiment
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with that new concept might happen after like
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four or five tries But essentially what I do
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is what I noticed in my like the past six months
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at least I noticed that I do like I have 90 days,
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like I have three months of trying out a new
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style. So my most recent style, I posted I think
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five videos of the more entertainment, but story
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transformation videos like challenge based videos.
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That was the past three months. And then before
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that I did like 60 second videos, which were
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self improvement and 60 second self -improvement
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very scripted. So the words were scripted, but
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also every single shot was scripted. It was almost
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produced like a movie. In movies, they have the
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actual script and then they create the shot list.
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I think, I don't even know how they do movies,
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but what I assume they do is they start with
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a script and then they go through each scene
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and create a shot list, which is the actual shots
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like the video that's going to show on screen
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while the dialogue is happening and that's basically
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how I Produced those and I also scored them myself
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like I made the music and then before that I
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don't even know what I was doing but Like I have
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periods of 90 days on average. Maybe it's two
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months one time maybe it's three months and Where
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I basically just experiment or I go through a
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deep learning and that is like how you you experiment
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enough times and you that's how you get better
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in the first place but and that's how you create
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your own style but that's also how you get those
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breakthroughs where you have your channel blow
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up and so the reflective question that I found
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is super powerful to tell if I am continuing
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if this is the path that I should continue down
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Is this the type of video I want my channel to
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blow up on? So, I'm at the point where I actually
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do believe that my videos have potential. Like,
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I think that they could blow up. In theory, they
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could blow up. But, is this what I want people
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to get their first impression on me by? And if
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the answer is no, then I should stop making those
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videos. And it was very telling because I just
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spent the past, or I spent like 10 days locked
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in my basement learning how to code. Like my
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next video, I really think that it was gonna
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blow up. And the reason why is because, There
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is a very popular concept of viral video idea
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concept of the three panels Where the thumbnail
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shows a series of progression? Where on the left
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it's like Worst in the middle. It's like middle
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and on the right It's like the best and it could
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be time quality Whatever it is and my idea was
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30 the title was gonna be 30 days ago. I didn't
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know how to code And the picture, the thumbnail
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was going to be a picture just like photoshopped
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on the left panel. The farthest left was going
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to say day zero. And it was going to have just
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like one line of code. And I was going to have
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two variations. One variation was binary code,
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just ones and zeros. And then the other variation
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was going to be just like code, like some coding
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language like Python or something. And then in
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the middle panel of the thumbnail was gonna be
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day seven, and it was gonna have three lines
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of code, or binary, or Python, whatever, in the
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two different styles, like the AB test, where
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you can test different thumbnail options, it's
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gonna have that. And then the last, the farthest
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right was gonna be day 30, and it was just gonna
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be like matrix code, like. the entire screen
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zoomed out with just so much code, like ones
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and zeros, just like matrix, green code. And
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the other option was just like zoomed out, lots
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of code. And I really think that that video checks
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all the boxes on a viral video idea. You spend
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30 days doing it, so it's high value, like you
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put a lot of time into it. And the thumbnail
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is just great. You can see progression visually.
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And people like progression. People like comparison
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and like contrasting in thumbnails. Those are
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very, very powerful concepts to incorporate into
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a thumbnail. I really think that that video has
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virality potential. And now obviously I'm a rookie.
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I have barely any experience in this. I've never
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gotten a viral video, so. My judgment is not
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very credible. But I still think that of all
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my videos, that's the one that could blow up.
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And so I started working on it. I was locking
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myself in my basement for 30 days. And 10 days
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in, I actually made extreme progress. Even though
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I didn't spend the entire day like when I was
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Learning how to make music like when I was learning
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how to make learn the play the piano for the
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first time I Spend the entire day like I focus
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the entire day just on that But for the first
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like four or five days of learning the code I
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was I just spent like three hours in the morning
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and then the rest of the day I was working on
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like the video that I was making which was I
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became a musician for ten dollars I was editing
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that video and making the music for that video,
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just finishing it up. And I still made tremendous
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progress on Python. I was learning how to code
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Python. And I started having ideas because while
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I was learning, I also had an idea on the next
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phase for my channel. And it was to make this
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AI software that would actually help my videos
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tremendously. And it's not just video software.
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It's not create a music, create a song. It's
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not like that. I don't want to say it because
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I actually might pursue that idea still in the
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future if I decide to. was getting ideas on that
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and so I started learning like how to make AI
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and how to program an AI artificial intelligence
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generative AI and One day I sit on day 10. I
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was sitting there and I was like, yeah, I do
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not want to be doing this there's a Like you
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cannot be doing everything you really time is
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so Precious that you really should be spending
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all your time on your unique value, which is
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the thing that you are uniquely built to do.
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And we'll get into what I believe mine is in
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a moment. But on day 10, I decided not to continue
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working on that video because I didn't want to
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spend 30 days doing something that I was not
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really inspired to do. Seven or eight days. I
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was inspired to do it and Then I decided not
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and I was gonna change the video To ten days
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ago. I did not know how to code But then I realized
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that I just don't want to make this type of video
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anymore like I literally have The thumbnail concept
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I have the title all I have to do to produce
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this video is just edit the I did the footage.
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I already have all the footage. It's like 400
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gigabytes of footage, by the way. It's crazy,
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because I recorded the entire thing, not in time
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lapse, in like actual 1x speed. And so I have
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like 400 gigabytes of footage of me just sitting
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in the chair in my basement, just coding. And
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I decided to scrap the entire thing. Like, I
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didn't delete the footage. I might use it in
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the future, but. decided not to work on this
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video because I asked myself that reflective
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question is this the type of video I want to
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blow up on and Like I wouldn't mind blowing up
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on that But I want it to feel more Powerful like
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these types of videos are like they're fine.
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I think they still Expand people's worldviews,
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but I think that I can do better I For my unique
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value. I don't know like entirely what it is,
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but what I've noticed is that When I go through
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these periods where I feel like I have no direction
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like I lost all my direction and I'm like in
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a transition I usually sit down at my journal
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and list like I do like reflective exercises.
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And one of the exercises I came up with was I
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listed all of the tasks that I do. So idea generation,
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thumbnails, editing, filming, making the music,
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Photoshop, like all of those tasks I listed.
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And then I asked myself, which ones do I enjoy
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the most? Like which ones, when I look back,
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and watch my old videos, which ones are most
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appealing to me? And it was pretty obvious. Scripted
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words, scripted shots, and music, like making
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my own music. Like those, I did that concept
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in the 60 second. videos for self -improvement,
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but I do not Like the idea of giving advice and
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here's why I sat there with my journal is like
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But why don't why don't I make those like why
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don't I want to make those? those types of videos
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I Want to make those types of videos? simply
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because I like that concept of the scripted and
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also the produce your music, but I don't like
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the idea of people asking me for advice whenever
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I would read like comments of people commenting
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on my videos and They would ask me for advice
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or in real life people would text me and like
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they would ask me for advice I Would always get
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this really weird feeling in my gut like like
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this was not right like I don't want people asking
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me for advice And I was reflecting last night
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like why is that? And I'm pretty sure it's because
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my old philosophy on advice, the reason why I
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stopped making the self -improvement videos was
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that people don't need advice. They will create
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their own advice. But last night while I was
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reflecting, I actually expanded on that philosophy
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and I updated it. People don't need advice. But
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they need perspective. And when you give them
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perspective, they can create their own advice.
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And that holds true for my experience, at least,
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where whenever I need advice, I usually go online
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and hear a bunch of stories or read books and
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hear a bunch of stories. And that gives me a
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wider perspective or a different perspective.
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And then I'm able to create my own advice. And
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I think the reason why I don't want people asking
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me for advice, like direct advice, is because
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then it creates dependencies. I don't know much
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about it, but my current belief is that when
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people ask for direct advice and not necessarily
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perspective, because you can Advice can give
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perspective, but it doesn't have to. You can
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give advice. For example, dogma may not give
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perspective, but it's advice. And when people
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are dependent on advice, that's what I imagine
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like a cult. Following like how cults and like
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religions become people become dependent on their
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particular leader, and they're not like self
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-sufficient and That may not necessarily be bad,
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but in my experience. It's it leads like to Just
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negative things not not good and leadership is
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good like you Following someone is not a bad
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thing, but it's like the blind following that's
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how that's how like all the bad like mass genocides
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like all the mass negative religious movements
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like that's how a lot of the bad things happen
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that stem from like dogma and doctrine and all
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that stuff it's because people are dependent
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on advice and they they receive advice without
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the perspective But when you get perspective,
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you can create your own advice. And so that's
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kind of my new philosophy on advice at this current
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moment. I'm only 19 years old, so everything
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is subject to change. But currently, I actually
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think that that's pretty valid. And how this
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applies to my current situation is with my old
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self -improvement YouTube videos, it would be
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advice. And then I started to realize, oh. Maybe
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I should get more perspective based. And so I
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started focusing on like story. And that's where
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my 60 second YouTube videos were. Where it was
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more like perspective based and impact. Trying
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to like create an impact. And then I cut out
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advice altogether with my challenge based videos.
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Which was just trying to be perspective. Just
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trying to give someone a wider perspective. But
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I actually think that there is a better way to
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do it because in or maybe not a better way but
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a better way for me to do it because I have my
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own unique like value that I can bring to the
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table and it's I Believe currently the unique
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gift that I have with YouTube creation like the
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unique skills that I have are Creating those
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scripted videos with music And I really like
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those types of videos. And also, if you look
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at like the trends, maybe this is just like me
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confirmation bias, looking for something to prove
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my suspicion. But if you look at those 60 second
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videos, those were the videos that got like the
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best comments. Those were the videos that got
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the most support. Those were the videos that
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got the most views. Now, not all of them. only
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like two or three of them got that and here's
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why it's because the ones that didn't get that
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had just terrible thumbnails just not good thumbnails
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and if you don't have a good thumbnail if you're
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someone who knows how to come up with a good
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thumbnail idea and the thumbnail does not have
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a good thumbnail idea simply because it Okay,
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I'm I can come up with a good thumbnail or I
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can come up with a decent looking thumbnail idea
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Now if the idea the actual idea is bad Then the
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thumbnail is gonna be bad and you're not gonna
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come up with a good visual way to show it which
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also means that it should not be a video like
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Video is a visual visual platform and so you
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have to try and figure out yeah You should only
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create videos that are visual that makes sense
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or else they should just be like Articles and
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so if you can't come up with a good thumbnail
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concept like a visual way to Describe the video
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in one picture, then it just shouldn't be a video
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because their Video is supposed to be a visual
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Thing and if you can't visually describe it,
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then you have no video. I hope that makes sense
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and That's that was the issue that I had with
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the 60 second self improvement videos I I got
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a lot of views early on with those when I first
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started making them there was 60 seconds getting
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out of a rut in 60 seconds and then there was
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like watch this 60 seconds before bed and then
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there was like I don't know, but those two had
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the best thumbnails. They just looked the best.
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Like if you scroll back down and you compare
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all the thumbnails of the 60 second videos, it's
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obvious that those two are the best. And then
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all the rest had not as good thumbnails and they
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didn't do as good simply because they should
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not have been videos. If you can't come up with
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a visual Package like if you can't come up with
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a package or a visual description Then it just
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shouldn't be a video like people say that YouTube
00:29:50.380 --> 00:29:54.859
is a video sharing platform, and it shouldn't
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emphasize thumbnail and packaging so much, but
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that just kind of defeats like that that just
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represents a misunderstanding in my opinion of
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what a thumbnail is a thumbnail is a visual representation
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of the video and so if you are unable to visually
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describe a video and video is a visual medium
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also like Anyways, if you can't visually describe
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something that is visual then it should not be
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something that's visual it should just be text
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I Hope that makes sense And so that's why I'm
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grateful that I like all of these periods where
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I go through 90 days of like testing a new philosophy
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I'm grateful that I've gone through every single
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one because for each and every one I internalize
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a very valuable lesson for example the when I
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started making music The lesson that I internalized
00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:11.980
was there's no point in working on an idea if
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I think it's bad because there's no way I'm going
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to spend 100 hours on something and it not get
00:31:20.259 --> 00:31:23.140
that much results. So that was kind of the lesson
00:31:23.140 --> 00:31:26.400
that I internalized there. Like just get better
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ideas. Like make sure my ideas are way better.
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And like the titles. Spent a lot of time on the
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titles. That's what I internalized and then for
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my most recent Era or like season which was the
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story based challenge videos like my most recent
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one I became a musician for ten dollars the lesson
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I internalized there was Don't make a video unless
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I can come up with a excellent thumbnail Title
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like excellent packaging, which was a mistake.
00:32:02.779 --> 00:32:05.940
I made with the most recent one. I became a musician
00:32:05.940 --> 00:32:10.900
for $10 I spent so long like I that I actually
00:32:10.900 --> 00:32:15.119
came up with that idea that title Probably two
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.019
months ago or maybe like a month ago And I loved
00:32:19.019 --> 00:32:22.819
that title so much like it just hits in my opinion
00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:25.940
like it just seems like such a good title but
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then I sat down like a month ago and tried to
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come up with thumbnails, and I just couldn't
00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:37.059
come up with anything visually appealing or very
00:32:37.059 --> 00:32:41.059
good. And so I decided not to make that video.
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:45.779
But then I was in a drought for ideas, and I
00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:52.460
decided to make... Long story short, I basically
00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:58.019
decided to... Make the $10 video the $10 musician
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video and with a not so great thumbnail It's
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just it was the original thumbnail or not the
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original but the thumbnail that I decided to
00:33:07.660 --> 00:33:11.920
make the the final one was just a picture of
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an Ocarina, which is just a blue plastic Musical
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instrument. It's like imagine like a toy Just
00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:24.880
that in a yellow background, like very bright.
00:33:26.099 --> 00:33:30.740
And it was good color contrasting, but it just
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was just a trash thumbnail. I got way too obsessed
00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:36.440
with the colors. That was another lesson that
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I internalized in this season, which was pay
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a lot of attention to the colors for the thumbnail.
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The concept. Yes is important, but also the colors
00:33:48.700 --> 00:33:51.099
make it pop and that's something that I was very
00:33:51.099 --> 00:33:54.920
intentional about practicing and learning was
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.880
Being able to come up with a thumbnail concept.
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Yes, but also Create like to turn that concept
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:09.960
into vibrant colors that pop Like know what?
00:34:10.349 --> 00:34:13.250
be able to figure out what the background should
00:34:13.250 --> 00:34:16.670
be, what color, like intentionally decide where
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I should take the picture. Like should it be
00:34:19.590 --> 00:34:22.409
in the grass so I can have a green background
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or should it be like in the basement in front
00:34:25.710 --> 00:34:29.750
of my blue carpet so I can have a blue background
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or like basically just be very intentional about
00:34:33.210 --> 00:34:34.969
the colors and that's something that I really
00:34:34.969 --> 00:34:37.889
focused on recently too. So I'm very grateful
00:34:37.889 --> 00:34:40.630
for that because this most recent season I just
00:34:40.630 --> 00:34:43.869
focus on making my thumbnails pop like making
00:34:43.869 --> 00:34:49.090
them so good just the picture But now I'm ready
00:34:49.090 --> 00:34:56.250
to Go to the next era and the next era I Don't
00:34:56.250 --> 00:35:00.550
I don't have fully mapped out yet Because I don't
00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:04.889
actually know how to execute it. I want to make
00:35:04.889 --> 00:35:10.190
scripted Videos scripted text scripted image
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like strict scripted video. Every single shot
00:35:12.590 --> 00:35:17.030
is taken like a movie. I Want that and I also
00:35:17.030 --> 00:35:20.190
want to create the music at the end after everything
00:35:20.190 --> 00:35:25.949
is put together However, I don't know what to
00:35:25.949 --> 00:35:29.289
talk about because the thing that worked so well
00:35:29.289 --> 00:35:31.969
with the 60 second self -improvement videos was
00:35:31.969 --> 00:35:36.829
I had a foundation I had something to build everything
00:35:36.829 --> 00:35:39.010
on top of, which was the actual script, like
00:35:39.010 --> 00:35:44.510
giving advice. However, I don't want to like
00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:47.449
do self -improvement advice anymore. I'm fine
00:35:47.449 --> 00:35:48.889
with self -improvement, I just don't want to
00:35:48.889 --> 00:35:53.369
give advice. At least right now, I don't want
00:35:53.369 --> 00:35:54.849
to give advice. Maybe that will change in the
00:35:54.849 --> 00:36:02.829
future, but with my, I attempted to do the scripted
00:36:02.829 --> 00:36:07.320
videos. but with no script. And that was me.
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.340
That was actually the first iteration of the,
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:13.079
I became a musician for $10. The video that I
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:16.920
was gonna post was actually, I made a song in
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.300
60 seconds. Spoiler alert, it took me a lot longer
00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:24.239
than 60 seconds to make, but it was just a 60
00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:29.429
second long video. And. Then I realized I didn't
00:36:29.429 --> 00:36:31.929
really like how it turned out But I didn't want
00:36:31.929 --> 00:36:34.550
to like waste all that work because it's decent
00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:38.730
and so I actually turned it into I became a musician
00:36:38.730 --> 00:36:42.570
for $10 and I added in all the other stuff because
00:36:42.570 --> 00:36:45.949
I also Started working on that. I don't it's
00:36:45.949 --> 00:36:50.809
a long story but or not long story just complicated
00:36:50.809 --> 00:36:59.469
but and irrelevant Essentially Want to make scripted
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videos, but I don't know what to talk about and
00:37:02.909 --> 00:37:04.929
I was trying to figure out what to talk about
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and I want to I want to give perspective I want
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to Share stories that give perspective and one
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idea I had was literally just sharing my own
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stories like Coming up Figuring out a problem
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that I had in the past for example right now.
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I my big problem is not having any direction
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and creating a title and thumbnail around that
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and then creating a story like creating a script
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and Recreating it with film. It's like visual
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storytelling but the issue is I can't I I'm having
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a hard time figuring out how to Visually make
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a good thumbnail the guy I immediately got ideas
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like having a bullseye and then a dart on a board
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next to it obviously missing the bullseye or
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like those trail marker path signs where it says
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like this way to Connecticut and that way to
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Virginia or something like that but they don't
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have any text on it like having no direction
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or like a compass that's empty or something like
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that I don't know But I don't want to do those
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because my best thumbnails are ones that have
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me in it And it's like a close -up with me and
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like a an object or something like that, and
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it's like or in a weird obscure position or something
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like that and I wasn't able to come up with that
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which means that it probably should not be a
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video and I really want I'm having another issue
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because I want a mentor. I want someone to give
00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:58.860
me a wider perspective like I've been talking
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about. And I don't know how to find one. I have
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:08.340
some ideas, but a lot of them that I found online
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cost money. And I don't have any money. I have
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like $100. I don't know. Maybe I should just
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email them and see what happens. Or I actually
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:21.199
have emailed people in the past like Like hey,
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:22.900
I want to buy your thing, but I don't have any
00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:26.139
money That's such a dumb way. That's like just
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me taking I'm reading books all about that. Don't
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don't take always give I Don't know but another
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issue is I have no idea what I can give people
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Especially if they have the skill that I want
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I don't know what I could give them It's It's
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a mess. So basically what I do when I have periods
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of no direction. It's I literally just stop everything
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and just read There's no point in continuing
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on even if I'm guaranteed my next video to blow
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up. I don't necessarily want to Blow up on a
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video that I don't want to make in the first
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place Does that make sense? Because then that
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means that I might be stuck making those types
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of videos or it also will mean that the next
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types of videos that I make won't get as good
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traction and so it'll be like negative progress.
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It'll be a mess if I blow up. So that's why there's
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no point in making the next video because I don't
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want to make it. Like I have limited time so
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what I do is I just drop everything and read.
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It's funny because I follow patterns. or I don't
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follow patterns, but if you look back at my journals,
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or like I look back at my journals infrequently
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and I look backwards past many, many months,
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and I notice a pattern where whenever I experience
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a period of like no... of I'm about to enter
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a period of no direction. It's because I realized
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that my current path is kind of like leading
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to a dead end. And so I need to figure something
00:41:14.210 --> 00:41:16.909
out. So I make the last video and then I'm kind
00:41:16.909 --> 00:41:19.269
of like, I spent a lot of time reflecting and
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then I eventually just like drop everything and
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just start reading. That's what I did with my
00:41:24.769 --> 00:41:29.150
last one. Right before I figured out my new direction
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of learning how to make music back in September
00:41:32.469 --> 00:41:37.559
of 2024. I actually just dropped everything for
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like a week or two and just finished reading
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:47.380
this book that I was reading. And then I started
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reading this book called Reality Transurfing
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.519
and I was able to find direction. And like 10
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days later, I was the first day that I started
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working or learning how to play the piano. I'm
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:03.719
pretty sure it's all about just getting a wider
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perspective, especially when you're trying to
00:42:05.780 --> 00:42:07.820
get direction or when you need a device. It's
00:42:07.820 --> 00:42:14.380
all about having a wider perspective. So that's
00:42:14.380 --> 00:42:17.519
basically everything that I wanted to talk about
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this month. So I don't know. The future is unknown.
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And I was actually at the park the other day.
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where I want, or it was yesterday actually, I
00:42:35.289 --> 00:42:38.050
was trying to figure out my next video style.
00:42:38.250 --> 00:42:41.050
Like I wanna make scripted videos, but I don't
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know what to talk about. And so I was just thinking,
00:42:44.469 --> 00:42:46.690
thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, kind
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of borderline stressing too, because this is
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like my future, I don't know like where I'm going,
00:42:52.130 --> 00:42:54.630
I don't know what to do. It's all unknowns, lots
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of unknowns. And then all of a sudden, like I
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got like, wave hit me where I just became like
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aware and awake in my mind and I realized what
00:43:09.860 --> 00:43:14.619
if I'm just okay with it what if I'm just okay
00:43:14.619 --> 00:43:19.579
moving forward without knowing like what if I
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just accept that I don't know and then the idea
00:43:21.780 --> 00:43:24.820
will come to me naturally and I was like oh yeah
00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:28.119
that's good idea and so I accepted it And then
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like five minutes later, I caught I kept thinking
00:43:30.739 --> 00:43:37.039
about it but Maybe I just should Let it happen
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naturally, which is kind of what I'm doing. I'm
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just reading. I'm I'm reading a lot. All right.
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Goodbye
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This is why people do not want to do things on
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their own. This is one of the main dominant reasons
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why people either fail or do not want to go their
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own path and why they want to follow the safer
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guaranteed spoon -fed path. And it's because
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you have to create your own direction. In school,
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I grew up in the American education system during
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the 2000s, early 2000s. And basically, I didn't
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realize it at the time, but reflecting on it,
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I realized that a group of people literally get
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together and come up with the entire rubric.
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They decide everything that you learn during
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that class and then they also decide what classes
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are available and they decide in what order basically
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the entire your entire worldview your entire
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knowledge base everything that you learn into
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like everything you learn all throughout school
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has been finally crafted and extreme in meticulously
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selected so that you learn exactly what they
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deem necessary or they deem worthwhile and that's
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like a one -size -fits -all situation everyone
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learns the same thing everyone learns exactly
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what somebody else decided for them there is
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no Individual direction like you don't choose
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your own. Yeah, sure. You can argue that you
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choose your own classes you choose your own school
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well, I mean your parents probably choose that
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but Or actually, I don't even know but basically
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You could argue that you choose your own classes,
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but you don't choose like that The exact subjects
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you don't choose To learn this or that you are
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spoon -fed exactly what you need. And then in
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real life, like once you get a job, then, and
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that's such a weird statement, real life, like,
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oh, wait until you get to the real world. Maybe
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I've never experienced the real world because
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I'm still living in my parents' basement, but
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that is such a weird statement, like, oh, once
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you go out into the real world, you'll... things
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are going to be different. I don't know. It just
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seems weird to me, because it's almost implying
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that the education system is an artificially
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constructed cell. It's not organic. It's deliberately
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crafted in such a way to where it's not. Raw
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or wild But then they say once you get to the
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real world things are different But are they
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really because when you go to a job, I've never
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gotten a job but from like movies and from hearing
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stories and just just general life experience
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I assume that once you get a job your boss basically
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tells you what to do or at least you Learn the
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direction like they tell you the direction they
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tell you your general goal and maybe you have
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to figure out some things on your own but for
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the most part the general direction is laid out
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for you and That's one of the reasons why people
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Don't want to go their own path and sure not
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everyone it's going your own path is not for
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everyone but It's also is it really not for everyone
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because There is no like same human being Maybe
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that statement that going your own path is not
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for everyone is actually just compensating for
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the fact that there is that everyone went through
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a system that Basically tried to create ever
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the same human being like the same exact person
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And so people have been conditioned to not want
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to go their own path because when you go through
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a system like that, you don't practice the skills
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of creating your own direction. And so when the
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time comes, for example, for me, this is the
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one of the biggest struggles that I experience.
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I can do work. I can go down. I can block off
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everything and just focus on the task at hand
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for Months I've proven that I spent two and a
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half months Teaching myself entirely how to play
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the piano how to read and write music how to
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compose how to produce music and then how to
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score Videos like how to score media like how
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to actually write music and produce music for
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videos I did that I spent two months learning
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that the issue is not like the effort or the
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willpower or the work ethic a lot of times every
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once in a while maybe every six months or every
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three months I don't know how often but not infrequently
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I am sit here I'm sat here with no direction
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like I have no idea where I'm headed yeah I have
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like general ideas, general concepts, but basically
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how I operate. And I just wrote a book that talked
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about this. It's called The Dip. And basically
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how I operate is I have a general strategy, my
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general strategy and general way to achieve that,
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which is YouTube. And then I also have my niche
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that I selected, which is my viewer, the specific
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person that I'm making videos for, which is basically
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my younger self, in a nutshell. And that doesn't
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change. That doesn't change, usually. However,
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what does change is the tactic that I'm experimenting
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with to try and achieve that goal. to achieve
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the overarching goal. And the tactic changes
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because if it doesn't change, then you're never
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going to achieve the goal. You have to keep experimenting
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until something actually works. And usually,
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you experiment for a certain amount of time until
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you realize that it's a dead end, and then you
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switch. And I spent the last three months experimenting
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with this new tactic like I changed my tactic
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from self -improvement videos to like entertainment
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based but still like transformative they're story
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based videos so just me doing like crazy challenges
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like doing a push -up every single minute for
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the entire day or learning how to solve the Rubik's
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Cube in under 60 seconds those types of videos
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That was me changing the tactic. I was still
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making videos for the same person I was still
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on YouTube that was like the general strategy
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did not change but the tactic changed and every
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once in a while That I realized that it's a dead
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end like or I realized that I don't want to be
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doing this like a very Reflective question a
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very telling question that tells me if this is
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the right path to continue down towards is Is
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this the type of video that I want my channel
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to blow up with? So very frequently like usually
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what I've what I've observed in YouTube is It's
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usually not a gradual build -up like you usually
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don't For example in a career like you would
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gradually Make more and more money like you would
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start you'd make $15 an hour and then after a
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couple weeks you get a raise and then after a
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couple weeks get a raise you're at $15 and 25
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cents and then $15 50 cents and then after like
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it's kind of more linear, but what I've seen
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pretty much every single case study every single
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person's YouTube channel that I've Like studied
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it's not linear it is breakthrough like it's
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usually just like one video blows up and then
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in like another year another video blows up and
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like it's it's like one video blows up and the
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channel gets a huge lift and then kind of like
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incrementally improves but then in another year
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another video blows up and then the channel gets
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another huge lift and it's like it's like staircase
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it's like a staircase where you make massive
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progress but then you don't really make as much
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progress it's like you like plateau basically
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it's like a stagnant period and this is Okay,
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and in order to achieve like that one video to
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blow up it's usually an experiment like you're
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usually experimenting with something new and
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It may not happen like the first time you experiment
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with that new concept might happen after like
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four or five tries But essentially what I do
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is what I noticed in my like the past six months
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at least I noticed that I do like I have 90 days,
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like I have three months of trying out a new
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style. So my most recent style, I posted I think
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five videos of the more entertainment, but story
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transformation videos like challenge based videos.
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That was the past three months. And then before
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that I did like 60 second videos, which were
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self improvement and 60 second self -improvement
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very scripted. So the words were scripted, but
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also every single shot was scripted. It was almost
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produced like a movie. In movies, they have the
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actual script and then they create the shot list.
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I think, I don't even know how they do movies,
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but what I assume they do is they start with
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a script and then they go through each scene
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and create a shot list, which is the actual shots
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like the video that's going to show on screen
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while the dialogue is happening and that's basically
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how I Produced those and I also scored them myself
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like I made the music and then before that I
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don't even know what I was doing but Like I have
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periods of 90 days on average. Maybe it's two
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months one time maybe it's three months and Where
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I basically just experiment or I go through a
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deep learning and that is like how you you experiment
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enough times and you that's how you get better
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in the first place but and that's how you create
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your own style but that's also how you get those
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breakthroughs where you have your channel blow
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up and so the reflective question that I found
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is super powerful to tell if I am continuing
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if this is the path that I should continue down
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Is this the type of video I want my channel to
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blow up on? So, I'm at the point where I actually
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do believe that my videos have potential. Like,
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I think that they could blow up. In theory, they
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could blow up. But, is this what I want people
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to get their first impression on me by? And if
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the answer is no, then I should stop making those
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videos. And it was very telling because I just
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spent the past, or I spent like 10 days locked
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in my basement learning how to code. Like my
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next video, I really think that it was gonna
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blow up. And the reason why is because, There
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is a very popular concept of viral video idea
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concept of the three panels Where the thumbnail
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shows a series of progression? Where on the left
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it's like Worst in the middle. It's like middle
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and on the right It's like the best and it could
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be time quality Whatever it is and my idea was
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30 the title was gonna be 30 days ago. I didn't
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know how to code And the picture, the thumbnail
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was going to be a picture just like photoshopped
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on the left panel. The farthest left was going
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to say day zero. And it was going to have just
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like one line of code. And I was going to have
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two variations. One variation was binary code,
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just ones and zeros. And then the other variation
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was going to be just like code, like some coding
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language like Python or something. And then in
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the middle panel of the thumbnail was gonna be
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day seven, and it was gonna have three lines
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of code, or binary, or Python, whatever, in the
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two different styles, like the AB test, where
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you can test different thumbnail options, it's
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gonna have that. And then the last, the farthest
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right was gonna be day 30, and it was just gonna
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be like matrix code, like. the entire screen
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zoomed out with just so much code, like ones
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and zeros, just like matrix, green code. And
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the other option was just like zoomed out, lots
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of code. And I really think that that video checks
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all the boxes on a viral video idea. You spend
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30 days doing it, so it's high value, like you
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put a lot of time into it. And the thumbnail
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is just great. You can see progression visually.
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And people like progression. People like comparison
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and like contrasting in thumbnails. Those are
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very, very powerful concepts to incorporate into
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a thumbnail. I really think that that video has
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virality potential. And now obviously I'm a rookie.
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I have barely any experience in this. I've never
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gotten a viral video, so. My judgment is not
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very credible. But I still think that of all
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my videos, that's the one that could blow up.
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And so I started working on it. I was locking
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myself in my basement for 30 days. And 10 days
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in, I actually made extreme progress. Even though
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I didn't spend the entire day like when I was
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Learning how to make music like when I was learning
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how to make learn the play the piano for the
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first time I Spend the entire day like I focus
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the entire day just on that But for the first
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like four or five days of learning the code I
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was I just spent like three hours in the morning
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and then the rest of the day I was working on
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like the video that I was making which was I
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became a musician for ten dollars I was editing
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that video and making the music for that video,
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just finishing it up. And I still made tremendous
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progress on Python. I was learning how to code
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Python. And I started having ideas because while
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I was learning, I also had an idea on the next
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phase for my channel. And it was to make this
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AI software that would actually help my videos
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tremendously. And it's not just video software.
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It's not create a music, create a song. It's
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not like that. I don't want to say it because
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I actually might pursue that idea still in the
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future if I decide to. was getting ideas on that
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and so I started learning like how to make AI
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and how to program an AI artificial intelligence
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generative AI and One day I sit on day 10. I
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was sitting there and I was like, yeah, I do
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not want to be doing this there's a Like you
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cannot be doing everything you really time is
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so Precious that you really should be spending
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all your time on your unique value, which is
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the thing that you are uniquely built to do.
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And we'll get into what I believe mine is in
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a moment. But on day 10, I decided not to continue
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working on that video because I didn't want to
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spend 30 days doing something that I was not
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really inspired to do. Seven or eight days. I
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was inspired to do it and Then I decided not
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and I was gonna change the video To ten days
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ago. I did not know how to code But then I realized
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that I just don't want to make this type of video
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anymore like I literally have The thumbnail concept
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I have the title all I have to do to produce
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this video is just edit the I did the footage.
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I already have all the footage. It's like 400
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gigabytes of footage, by the way. It's crazy,
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because I recorded the entire thing, not in time
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lapse, in like actual 1x speed. And so I have
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like 400 gigabytes of footage of me just sitting
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in the chair in my basement, just coding. And
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I decided to scrap the entire thing. Like, I
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didn't delete the footage. I might use it in
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the future, but. decided not to work on this
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video because I asked myself that reflective
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question is this the type of video I want to
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blow up on and Like I wouldn't mind blowing up
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on that But I want it to feel more Powerful like
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these types of videos are like they're fine.
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I think they still Expand people's worldviews,
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but I think that I can do better I For my unique
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value. I don't know like entirely what it is,
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but what I've noticed is that When I go through
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these periods where I feel like I have no direction
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like I lost all my direction and I'm like in
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a transition I usually sit down at my journal
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and list like I do like reflective exercises.
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And one of the exercises I came up with was I
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listed all of the tasks that I do. So idea generation,
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thumbnails, editing, filming, making the music,
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Photoshop, like all of those tasks I listed.
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And then I asked myself, which ones do I enjoy
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the most? Like which ones, when I look back,
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and watch my old videos, which ones are most
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appealing to me? And it was pretty obvious. Scripted
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words, scripted shots, and music, like making
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my own music. Like those, I did that concept
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in the 60 second. videos for self -improvement,
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but I do not Like the idea of giving advice and
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here's why I sat there with my journal is like
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But why don't why don't I make those like why
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don't I want to make those? those types of videos
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I Want to make those types of videos? simply
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because I like that concept of the scripted and
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also the produce your music, but I don't like
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the idea of people asking me for advice whenever
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I would read like comments of people commenting
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on my videos and They would ask me for advice
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or in real life people would text me and like
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they would ask me for advice I Would always get
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this really weird feeling in my gut like like
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this was not right like I don't want people asking
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me for advice And I was reflecting last night
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like why is that? And I'm pretty sure it's because
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my old philosophy on advice, the reason why I
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stopped making the self -improvement videos was
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that people don't need advice. They will create
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their own advice. But last night while I was
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reflecting, I actually expanded on that philosophy
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and I updated it. People don't need advice. But
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they need perspective. And when you give them
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perspective, they can create their own advice.
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And that holds true for my experience, at least,
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where whenever I need advice, I usually go online
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and hear a bunch of stories or read books and
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hear a bunch of stories. And that gives me a
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wider perspective or a different perspective.
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And then I'm able to create my own advice. And
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I think the reason why I don't want people asking
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me for advice, like direct advice, is because
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then it creates dependencies. I don't know much
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about it, but my current belief is that when
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people ask for direct advice and not necessarily
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perspective, because you can Advice can give
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perspective, but it doesn't have to. You can
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give advice. For example, dogma may not give
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perspective, but it's advice. And when people
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are dependent on advice, that's what I imagine
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like a cult. Following like how cults and like
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religions become people become dependent on their
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particular leader, and they're not like self
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-sufficient and That may not necessarily be bad,
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but in my experience. It's it leads like to Just
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negative things not not good and leadership is
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good like you Following someone is not a bad
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thing, but it's like the blind following that's
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how that's how like all the bad like mass genocides
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like all the mass negative religious movements
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like that's how a lot of the bad things happen
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that stem from like dogma and doctrine and all
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that stuff it's because people are dependent
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on advice and they they receive advice without
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the perspective But when you get perspective,
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you can create your own advice. And so that's
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kind of my new philosophy on advice at this current
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moment. I'm only 19 years old, so everything
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is subject to change. But currently, I actually
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think that that's pretty valid. And how this
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applies to my current situation is with my old
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self -improvement YouTube videos, it would be
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advice. And then I started to realize, oh. Maybe
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I should get more perspective based. And so I
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started focusing on like story. And that's where
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my 60 second YouTube videos were. Where it was
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more like perspective based and impact. Trying
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to like create an impact. And then I cut out
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advice altogether with my challenge based videos.
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Which was just trying to be perspective. Just
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trying to give someone a wider perspective. But
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I actually think that there is a better way to
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do it because in or maybe not a better way but
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a better way for me to do it because I have my
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own unique like value that I can bring to the
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table and it's I Believe currently the unique
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gift that I have with YouTube creation like the
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unique skills that I have are Creating those
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scripted videos with music And I really like
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those types of videos. And also, if you look
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at like the trends, maybe this is just like me
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confirmation bias, looking for something to prove
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my suspicion. But if you look at those 60 second
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videos, those were the videos that got like the
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best comments. Those were the videos that got
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the most support. Those were the videos that
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got the most views. Now, not all of them. only
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like two or three of them got that and here's
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why it's because the ones that didn't get that
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had just terrible thumbnails just not good thumbnails
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and if you don't have a good thumbnail if you're
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someone who knows how to come up with a good
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thumbnail idea and the thumbnail does not have
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a good thumbnail idea simply because it Okay,
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I'm I can come up with a good thumbnail or I
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can come up with a decent looking thumbnail idea
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Now if the idea the actual idea is bad Then the
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thumbnail is gonna be bad and you're not gonna
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come up with a good visual way to show it which
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also means that it should not be a video like
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Video is a visual visual platform and so you
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have to try and figure out yeah You should only
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create videos that are visual that makes sense
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or else they should just be like Articles and
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so if you can't come up with a good thumbnail
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concept like a visual way to Describe the video
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in one picture, then it just shouldn't be a video
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because their Video is supposed to be a visual
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Thing and if you can't visually describe it,
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then you have no video. I hope that makes sense
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and That's that was the issue that I had with
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the 60 second self improvement videos I I got
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a lot of views early on with those when I first
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started making them there was 60 seconds getting
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out of a rut in 60 seconds and then there was
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like watch this 60 seconds before bed and then
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there was like I don't know, but those two had
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the best thumbnails. They just looked the best.
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Like if you scroll back down and you compare
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all the thumbnails of the 60 second videos, it's
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obvious that those two are the best. And then
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all the rest had not as good thumbnails and they
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didn't do as good simply because they should
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not have been videos. If you can't come up with
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a visual Package like if you can't come up with
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a package or a visual description Then it just
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shouldn't be a video like people say that YouTube
00:29:50.380 --> 00:29:54.859
is a video sharing platform, and it shouldn't
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emphasize thumbnail and packaging so much, but
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that just kind of defeats like that that just
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represents a misunderstanding in my opinion of
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what a thumbnail is a thumbnail is a visual representation
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of the video and so if you are unable to visually
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describe a video and video is a visual medium
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also like Anyways, if you can't visually describe
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something that is visual then it should not be
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something that's visual it should just be text
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I Hope that makes sense And so that's why I'm
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grateful that I like all of these periods where
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I go through 90 days of like testing a new philosophy
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I'm grateful that I've gone through every single
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one because for each and every one I internalize
00:31:00.609 --> 00:31:04.670
a very valuable lesson for example the when I
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started making music The lesson that I internalized
00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:11.980
was there's no point in working on an idea if
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I think it's bad because there's no way I'm going
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to spend 100 hours on something and it not get
00:31:20.259 --> 00:31:23.140
that much results. So that was kind of the lesson
00:31:23.140 --> 00:31:26.400
that I internalized there. Like just get better
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.740
ideas. Like make sure my ideas are way better.
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And like the titles. Spent a lot of time on the
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titles. That's what I internalized and then for
00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:41.700
my most recent Era or like season which was the
00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:45.160
story based challenge videos like my most recent
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.940
one I became a musician for ten dollars the lesson
00:31:48.940 --> 00:31:55.079
I internalized there was Don't make a video unless
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I can come up with a excellent thumbnail Title
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.779
like excellent packaging, which was a mistake.
00:32:02.779 --> 00:32:05.940
I made with the most recent one. I became a musician
00:32:05.940 --> 00:32:10.900
for $10 I spent so long like I that I actually
00:32:10.900 --> 00:32:15.119
came up with that idea that title Probably two
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:19.019
months ago or maybe like a month ago And I loved
00:32:19.019 --> 00:32:22.819
that title so much like it just hits in my opinion
00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:25.940
like it just seems like such a good title but
00:32:25.940 --> 00:32:29.559
then I sat down like a month ago and tried to
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.740
come up with thumbnails, and I just couldn't
00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:37.059
come up with anything visually appealing or very
00:32:37.059 --> 00:32:41.059
good. And so I decided not to make that video.
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:45.779
But then I was in a drought for ideas, and I
00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:52.460
decided to make... Long story short, I basically
00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:58.019
decided to... Make the $10 video the $10 musician
00:32:58.019 --> 00:33:01.640
video and with a not so great thumbnail It's
00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:05.619
just it was the original thumbnail or not the
00:33:05.619 --> 00:33:07.660
original but the thumbnail that I decided to
00:33:07.660 --> 00:33:11.920
make the the final one was just a picture of
00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:16.660
an Ocarina, which is just a blue plastic Musical
00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:21.140
instrument. It's like imagine like a toy Just
00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:24.880
that in a yellow background, like very bright.
00:33:26.099 --> 00:33:30.740
And it was good color contrasting, but it just
00:33:30.740 --> 00:33:34.700
was just a trash thumbnail. I got way too obsessed
00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:36.440
with the colors. That was another lesson that
00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:41.740
I internalized in this season, which was pay
00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:44.559
a lot of attention to the colors for the thumbnail.
00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:48.700
The concept. Yes is important, but also the colors
00:33:48.700 --> 00:33:51.099
make it pop and that's something that I was very
00:33:51.099 --> 00:33:54.920
intentional about practicing and learning was
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.880
Being able to come up with a thumbnail concept.
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:04.519
Yes, but also Create like to turn that concept
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:09.960
into vibrant colors that pop Like know what?
00:34:10.349 --> 00:34:13.250
be able to figure out what the background should
00:34:13.250 --> 00:34:16.670
be, what color, like intentionally decide where
00:34:16.670 --> 00:34:19.590
I should take the picture. Like should it be
00:34:19.590 --> 00:34:22.409
in the grass so I can have a green background
00:34:22.409 --> 00:34:25.710
or should it be like in the basement in front
00:34:25.710 --> 00:34:29.750
of my blue carpet so I can have a blue background
00:34:29.750 --> 00:34:33.210
or like basically just be very intentional about
00:34:33.210 --> 00:34:34.969
the colors and that's something that I really
00:34:34.969 --> 00:34:37.889
focused on recently too. So I'm very grateful
00:34:37.889 --> 00:34:40.630
for that because this most recent season I just
00:34:40.630 --> 00:34:43.869
focus on making my thumbnails pop like making
00:34:43.869 --> 00:34:49.090
them so good just the picture But now I'm ready
00:34:49.090 --> 00:34:56.250
to Go to the next era and the next era I Don't
00:34:56.250 --> 00:35:00.550
I don't have fully mapped out yet Because I don't
00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:04.889
actually know how to execute it. I want to make
00:35:04.889 --> 00:35:10.190
scripted Videos scripted text scripted image
00:35:10.190 --> 00:35:12.590
like strict scripted video. Every single shot
00:35:12.590 --> 00:35:17.030
is taken like a movie. I Want that and I also
00:35:17.030 --> 00:35:20.190
want to create the music at the end after everything
00:35:20.190 --> 00:35:25.949
is put together However, I don't know what to
00:35:25.949 --> 00:35:29.289
talk about because the thing that worked so well
00:35:29.289 --> 00:35:31.969
with the 60 second self -improvement videos was
00:35:31.969 --> 00:35:36.829
I had a foundation I had something to build everything
00:35:36.829 --> 00:35:39.010
on top of, which was the actual script, like
00:35:39.010 --> 00:35:44.510
giving advice. However, I don't want to like
00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:47.449
do self -improvement advice anymore. I'm fine
00:35:47.449 --> 00:35:48.889
with self -improvement, I just don't want to
00:35:48.889 --> 00:35:53.369
give advice. At least right now, I don't want
00:35:53.369 --> 00:35:54.849
to give advice. Maybe that will change in the
00:35:54.849 --> 00:36:02.829
future, but with my, I attempted to do the scripted
00:36:02.829 --> 00:36:07.320
videos. but with no script. And that was me.
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.340
That was actually the first iteration of the,
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:13.079
I became a musician for $10. The video that I
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:16.920
was gonna post was actually, I made a song in
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.300
60 seconds. Spoiler alert, it took me a lot longer
00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:24.239
than 60 seconds to make, but it was just a 60
00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:29.429
second long video. And. Then I realized I didn't
00:36:29.429 --> 00:36:31.929
really like how it turned out But I didn't want
00:36:31.929 --> 00:36:34.550
to like waste all that work because it's decent
00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:38.730
and so I actually turned it into I became a musician
00:36:38.730 --> 00:36:42.570
for $10 and I added in all the other stuff because
00:36:42.570 --> 00:36:45.949
I also Started working on that. I don't it's
00:36:45.949 --> 00:36:50.809
a long story but or not long story just complicated
00:36:50.809 --> 00:36:59.469
but and irrelevant Essentially Want to make scripted
00:36:59.469 --> 00:37:02.909
videos, but I don't know what to talk about and
00:37:02.909 --> 00:37:04.929
I was trying to figure out what to talk about
00:37:04.929 --> 00:37:08.829
and I want to I want to give perspective I want
00:37:08.829 --> 00:37:14.489
to Share stories that give perspective and one
00:37:14.489 --> 00:37:18.110
idea I had was literally just sharing my own
00:37:18.110 --> 00:37:22.690
stories like Coming up Figuring out a problem
00:37:22.690 --> 00:37:25.130
that I had in the past for example right now.
00:37:25.130 --> 00:37:28.710
I my big problem is not having any direction
00:37:28.710 --> 00:37:32.389
and creating a title and thumbnail around that
00:37:32.389 --> 00:37:36.650
and then creating a story like creating a script
00:37:36.650 --> 00:37:41.530
and Recreating it with film. It's like visual
00:37:41.530 --> 00:37:46.949
storytelling but the issue is I can't I I'm having
00:37:46.949 --> 00:37:50.489
a hard time figuring out how to Visually make
00:37:50.489 --> 00:37:53.230
a good thumbnail the guy I immediately got ideas
00:37:53.230 --> 00:37:58.289
like having a bullseye and then a dart on a board
00:37:58.289 --> 00:38:02.409
next to it obviously missing the bullseye or
00:38:02.409 --> 00:38:06.889
like those trail marker path signs where it says
00:38:06.889 --> 00:38:10.150
like this way to Connecticut and that way to
00:38:10.150 --> 00:38:13.869
Virginia or something like that but they don't
00:38:13.869 --> 00:38:16.570
have any text on it like having no direction
00:38:16.570 --> 00:38:19.750
or like a compass that's empty or something like
00:38:19.750 --> 00:38:22.880
that I don't know But I don't want to do those
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:26.059
because my best thumbnails are ones that have
00:38:26.059 --> 00:38:28.980
me in it And it's like a close -up with me and
00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:31.760
like a an object or something like that, and
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:36.420
it's like or in a weird obscure position or something
00:38:36.420 --> 00:38:40.320
like that and I wasn't able to come up with that
00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:42.340
which means that it probably should not be a
00:38:42.340 --> 00:38:50.159
video and I really want I'm having another issue
00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:55.059
because I want a mentor. I want someone to give
00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:58.860
me a wider perspective like I've been talking
00:38:58.860 --> 00:39:04.639
about. And I don't know how to find one. I have
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:08.340
some ideas, but a lot of them that I found online
00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:10.579
cost money. And I don't have any money. I have
00:39:10.579 --> 00:39:14.400
like $100. I don't know. Maybe I should just
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:18.079
email them and see what happens. Or I actually
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:21.199
have emailed people in the past like Like hey,
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:22.900
I want to buy your thing, but I don't have any
00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:26.139
money That's such a dumb way. That's like just
00:39:26.139 --> 00:39:30.179
me taking I'm reading books all about that. Don't
00:39:30.179 --> 00:39:34.699
don't take always give I Don't know but another
00:39:34.699 --> 00:39:38.219
issue is I have no idea what I can give people
00:39:38.219 --> 00:39:43.900
Especially if they have the skill that I want
00:39:43.900 --> 00:39:51.510
I don't know what I could give them It's It's
00:39:51.510 --> 00:39:54.309
a mess. So basically what I do when I have periods
00:39:54.309 --> 00:39:58.409
of no direction. It's I literally just stop everything
00:39:58.409 --> 00:40:01.349
and just read There's no point in continuing
00:40:01.349 --> 00:40:05.090
on even if I'm guaranteed my next video to blow
00:40:05.090 --> 00:40:10.929
up. I don't necessarily want to Blow up on a
00:40:10.929 --> 00:40:13.510
video that I don't want to make in the first
00:40:13.510 --> 00:40:16.480
place Does that make sense? Because then that
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:19.159
means that I might be stuck making those types
00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:22.460
of videos or it also will mean that the next
00:40:22.460 --> 00:40:25.900
types of videos that I make won't get as good
00:40:25.900 --> 00:40:28.199
traction and so it'll be like negative progress.
00:40:28.659 --> 00:40:31.880
It'll be a mess if I blow up. So that's why there's
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:34.300
no point in making the next video because I don't
00:40:34.300 --> 00:40:36.860
want to make it. Like I have limited time so
00:40:36.860 --> 00:40:40.280
what I do is I just drop everything and read.
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:44.190
It's funny because I follow patterns. or I don't
00:40:44.190 --> 00:40:47.550
follow patterns, but if you look back at my journals,
00:40:48.170 --> 00:40:52.530
or like I look back at my journals infrequently
00:40:52.530 --> 00:40:57.010
and I look backwards past many, many months,
00:40:57.429 --> 00:41:02.510
and I notice a pattern where whenever I experience
00:41:02.510 --> 00:41:07.369
a period of like no... of I'm about to enter
00:41:07.369 --> 00:41:09.750
a period of no direction. It's because I realized
00:41:09.750 --> 00:41:12.010
that my current path is kind of like leading
00:41:12.010 --> 00:41:14.210
to a dead end. And so I need to figure something
00:41:14.210 --> 00:41:16.909
out. So I make the last video and then I'm kind
00:41:16.909 --> 00:41:19.269
of like, I spent a lot of time reflecting and
00:41:19.269 --> 00:41:22.090
then I eventually just like drop everything and
00:41:22.090 --> 00:41:24.769
just start reading. That's what I did with my
00:41:24.769 --> 00:41:29.150
last one. Right before I figured out my new direction
00:41:29.150 --> 00:41:32.469
of learning how to make music back in September
00:41:32.469 --> 00:41:37.559
of 2024. I actually just dropped everything for
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.880
like a week or two and just finished reading
00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:47.380
this book that I was reading. And then I started
00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:49.440
reading this book called Reality Transurfing
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.519
and I was able to find direction. And like 10
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:56.579
days later, I was the first day that I started
00:41:56.579 --> 00:42:01.719
working or learning how to play the piano. I'm
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:03.719
pretty sure it's all about just getting a wider
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:05.780
perspective, especially when you're trying to
00:42:05.780 --> 00:42:07.820
get direction or when you need a device. It's
00:42:07.820 --> 00:42:14.380
all about having a wider perspective. So that's
00:42:14.380 --> 00:42:17.519
basically everything that I wanted to talk about
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:27.820
this month. So I don't know. The future is unknown.
00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:30.539
And I was actually at the park the other day.
00:42:30.829 --> 00:42:35.289
where I want, or it was yesterday actually, I
00:42:35.289 --> 00:42:38.050
was trying to figure out my next video style.
00:42:38.250 --> 00:42:41.050
Like I wanna make scripted videos, but I don't
00:42:41.050 --> 00:42:44.309
know what to talk about. And so I was just thinking,
00:42:44.469 --> 00:42:46.690
thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, kind
00:42:46.690 --> 00:42:50.250
of borderline stressing too, because this is
00:42:50.250 --> 00:42:52.090
like my future, I don't know like where I'm going,
00:42:52.130 --> 00:42:54.630
I don't know what to do. It's all unknowns, lots
00:42:54.630 --> 00:42:57.530
of unknowns. And then all of a sudden, like I
00:42:57.530 --> 00:43:02.800
got like, wave hit me where I just became like
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:09.860
aware and awake in my mind and I realized what
00:43:09.860 --> 00:43:14.619
if I'm just okay with it what if I'm just okay
00:43:14.619 --> 00:43:19.579
moving forward without knowing like what if I
00:43:19.579 --> 00:43:21.780
just accept that I don't know and then the idea
00:43:21.780 --> 00:43:24.820
will come to me naturally and I was like oh yeah
00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:28.119
that's good idea and so I accepted it And then
00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:30.739
like five minutes later, I caught I kept thinking
00:43:30.739 --> 00:43:37.039
about it but Maybe I just should Let it happen
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:39.159
naturally, which is kind of what I'm doing. I'm
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:42.079
just reading. I'm I'm reading a lot. All right.
00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:42.340
Goodbye
