Practice #38 - Daily Story Telling Practice

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,320 Like I said a couple episodes ago, I'm gonna be changing up this daily practice. 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,160 I still want to be doing daily practice. 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,040 Or let me, actually let me restart. 4 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:20,240 I said before, what I was doing before was I would just batch record seven to nine episodes 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:23,240 on Saturday or Sunday. 6 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:27,060 And at that point it wasn't really necessary for the practice, yes I was getting good practice 7 00:00:27,060 --> 00:00:28,060 out of it. 8 00:00:28,060 --> 00:00:31,840 But at that point it was just for the podcast. 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:38,640 And then after doing that I have to sit down for maybe two hours, like uploading the audio 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,120 to the software to make the audio sound better. 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,600 And then I have to like do all this stuff. 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:46,920 I don't want to do that anymore. 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,600 It's a waste of time because the podcast is not my purpose. 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,320 The YouTube channel is my purpose. 15 00:00:54,320 --> 00:01:00,600 And so I want to cut out all of the things that are not helping me on the YouTube channel. 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:07,360 So the changes, I took the past couple days since I recorded the last practice episode. 17 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,960 I took maybe a week. 18 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:18,560 And the changes that I decided to make are I'm gonna start doing daily practice again. 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,640 And this is because I saw a YouTube video. 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,680 Okay, actually this takes a whole story. 21 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,400 Let me tell you the whole story first. 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:34,040 My friend and mentor, my YouTube mentor, sent me a YouTube video. 23 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,400 And it was like an hour and a half long Hamza YouTube video. 24 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,080 And he said watch this video at this time stamp. 25 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,560 It was like 50 minutes in. 26 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:45,560 So I watched it. 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:52,600 And Hamza was talking about learning and how you must be constantly learning and constantly 28 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:58,600 consuming content in order to grow and progress as fast as possible. 29 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:04,240 Because when he started his YouTube channel, he was, he just, he cut out all content. 30 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,160 He thought that content was terrible and it was bad. 31 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:13,040 And he cut it all out, which is exactly what I'd been doing over the past month or two. 32 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,000 And so he cut out all content. 33 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,800 Now him, I think he wasn't reading, but I am reading. 34 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,040 So it's a little different. 35 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:21,520 So I didn't cut out all content. 36 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,520 I just cut out all online content. 37 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,840 But then he said that he wasn't really making much progress. 38 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:33,200 And then the moment he decided to start watching YouTube videos, listening to podcasts and just 39 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:39,080 learning about all the things that he needs to know for his channel, he started getting 40 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,440 so much ideas. 41 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,160 And so I sat on that for a little bit and I started thinking about that. 42 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,880 I was like, oh, maybe I am doing a little bit wrong. 43 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:54,480 I'm not really making that much grand progress in the, like in the grand scheme of things. 44 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:59,160 Yes, I 10X to my views, which actually, yeah, that is a lot of progress. 45 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:06,200 But I think I've reached a point where I need, I, I should be consuming a lot of content 46 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:07,200 now. 47 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,720 And so I, right after that video, I started consuming content. 48 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:16,880 I just, I made a conscious decision to start consuming YouTube content now. 49 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,640 But instead of what I was doing before, which was just half-hatter, literally watching random 50 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:26,400 videos, now I'm being purposeful about it and I'm searching what type of videos I want. 51 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:32,440 And then once I search it and get it into my algorithm, then I look on my YouTube homepage 52 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:38,760 and then watch the videos that I need, like that I want to learn about for this topic. 53 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,520 So that's what, that's what I'm doing for the YouTube videos. 54 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,040 So that's just context for why I'm watching YouTube videos now. 55 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:53,520 And then in one of the, the videos that I watched, it was a Hamza video and he said 56 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,800 that, because one of the things I want to learn about, which I'm reading about right 57 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,680 now is storytelling. 58 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,200 I bought two books on storytelling and I started one of them. 59 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,120 It's, one of them is called the power of personal storytelling. 60 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,280 And then the other one is unleash the power of storytelling. 61 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:17,640 I'm pretty sure that's what they're called, but I, I'm starting to read this one and I'm 62 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:18,920 getting some good ideas. 63 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,640 And so I started as a result, I started practicing my storytelling. 64 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:28,120 And then I was like, oh, now that I'm watching YouTube, I'm going to look up how to be a 65 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,120 better storyteller. 66 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,040 And like, I'm going to look up things about storytelling. 67 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:39,720 And so I see a Hamza video and he said that one of the practices that he learned about 68 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:47,680 in a storytelling book called story worthy, it was called like everyday homework or something 69 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:48,680 like that. 70 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:58,000 I've renamed it to something that I'm able to remember a lot easier, which is story work. 71 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,080 Excuse me, which is daily story work. 72 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:08,680 And so I, it's basically where you, at the end of the day, you sit down and try and think 73 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:16,720 of a story that happened today, just anything that happened that is a story, which is like 74 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:23,520 pretty difficult to do if you've never really consciously looked for stories in your day. 75 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:29,760 And Hamza gave a very good story about how he, like his, he made his girlfriend smile, 76 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:35,320 which he gave a very compelling story in that video about that. 77 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:41,120 And then he said that that was the story he chose to write down in his story, in his daily 78 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,560 story work. 79 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:51,160 So this habit is you sit at the end of the day and sit and come up or remember a story 80 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,520 that happened today. 81 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,360 And then you write it down and you write it down so you can remember it. 82 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:03,040 And so he wrote down his story and it was how he made his girlfriend smile. 83 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:09,880 And then he ended up telling that story in the video to explain how he came up with that 84 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:17,440 story, which he never would have realized was a story until he actually wrote it down. 85 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:22,760 So the point is he went about his day and it seems like nothing happened. 86 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,360 Like there was no story. 87 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,640 But then once he started to sit down and think, he sat down, he's like, what am I going to 88 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:29,640 write down? 89 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,000 There's no story. 90 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,600 And then he finally remembered of how he made his girlfriend smile. 91 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,040 And then that became a whole story. 92 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:43,600 So even the normal moments in your day can become a story. 93 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:49,720 And so on the first day that I started this habit was yesterday. 94 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,360 And I actually came up with three stories. 95 00:06:54,360 --> 00:07:02,360 One of the stories I came up with before I even sat down and then I ended up writing 96 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:07,120 it before because, okay, so I start writing it at 4.30. 97 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:12,800 That's when I just sit down to start journaling my story because that's my nighttime routine. 98 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:18,360 So one of the stories I wrote down before 4.30 and then the last two I came up with 99 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,720 and wrote down around 4.30. 100 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:27,800 And over the next couple of weeks, that's what I'm going to be doing. 101 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,760 I'm going to be... 102 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:38,640 The new habit that I'm taking up is I sit down every night and I write down or I come 103 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:43,560 up with a story that happened to me today and then I write it down. 104 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:50,400 And then this part, the next part that I'm about to say, was not a part of the daily 105 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:56,160 story practice, the daily story work, but I decided to add it because it's extra practice 106 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,720 speaking my story. 107 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,040 It's extra practice for the YouTube channel. 108 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:06,320 And so after I write that story down, I go to bed and then the next day, after I'm done 109 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:13,520 with work, I'm going to make it a habit to write down...or not write down, but to actually 110 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:21,800 say the story, so to actually say what I am trying to say. 111 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,400 Or let me...how am I supposed to say this? 112 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,440 The next day, I actually say the story and I onto a recording. 113 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,760 So I record myself telling the story. 114 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:38,600 So then every single day I practice coming up with stories, writing them down, as well 115 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:44,120 as telling stories physically through speech. 116 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,480 So that's what I'm going to be doing over the next couple of days. 117 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:52,560 And like I said, I don't want to waste time anymore on the podcast because it's not my 118 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,480 main focus right now. 119 00:08:54,480 --> 00:09:00,840 So what I'm going to be doing, what I have been doing was uploading the YouTube video 120 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:05,640 or the recording onto a software to make the audio sound better. 121 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:09,320 I'm not going to do that anymore because it takes a lot of time. 122 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:17,560 So now I'm just going to be posting the audio straight onto the podcast. 123 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:23,240 So I'm not going to do any work to try and improve the quality of the audio. 124 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:28,640 Instead I'm just going to post the raw audio, which includes all of the pauses. 125 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,040 So you're going to hear me pause a lot. 126 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:37,120 I did cut out the pauses before, but now I'm not. 127 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:44,960 So this is the last video where I'm going to be improving the audio and taking out the 128 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,280 pauses. 129 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:54,000 Over the next videos, all over the next episodes, I will not be doing such things. 130 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,760 I'm just going to be posting the raw footage onto the podcast. 131 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,640 And I'm also going to treat it like I'm telling a YouTube video. 132 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,240 I'm not going to be treating it like a podcast. 133 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:04,240 So that's it. 134 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:10,040 So look out for tomorrow's episode about a wholesome moment, or not even a wholesome 135 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:14,800 moment, but look out for tomorrow's episode, which is going to be the first story from 136 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:31,840 today.