Practice #43 - Videogames Taught Me HUGE Lessons And I Never Knew It Till NOW!

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,840 So lately I've been reminiscing on my childhood. 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:17,640 I originally started doing this because I saw in a book that I'm reading, The Power 3 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:23,520 of Personal Storytelling, this was one of the actual steps and so I took it and it's 4 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,560 basically just to try and remember your childhood. 5 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:33,240 And if you're like most people you don't really remember it that well because our society 6 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:40,560 conditions us to kind of forget about it and not really remember it that often. 7 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:46,600 And it's really been like that ever since the Industrial Revolution when we started 8 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,920 this new term, got created, it's called productivity. 9 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:58,200 It's a combination of product and activity and it combined to form productivity. 10 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:06,120 And so now we tend to, now we've kind of stopped lounging around. 11 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,680 Like before the Industrial Revolution it was very common for people to just sit and just 12 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,000 do nothing and just sit in their own thoughts and just think. 13 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:23,520 But ever since the Industrial Revolution that's been like phased out of life. 14 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,520 And now we want to feel productive and so we don't really like just sitting but so now 15 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:35,720 we like sit still but we always tie it to something like playing video games, watching 16 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,640 TV, eating food, like just whatever the action may be. 17 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:47,920 But it's, this exercise has proved very valuable for me because in one of my previous episodes 18 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:58,480 I talked about how I learned three huge lessons from, like I basically reinstated three different 19 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,680 attributes or traits into my life. 20 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:07,680 They were courage, leadership and being good with girls, just from memories from my past. 21 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,800 But yesterday I actually learned another thing. 22 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:18,440 I learned that I was on self improvement while I was playing video games. 23 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:27,080 So if you don't know my story, pretty much I was a normal kid, well I am a normal kid 24 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:33,880 but in fifth grade I got an Xbox and I started playing video games a lot. 25 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:40,920 And I also was, actually before that I even had like an iPad and I would watch YouTube 26 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:44,160 a lot, like YouTube kids because I wasn't allowed to watch YouTube. 27 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,880 And I would watch like Netflix and then I would like, I would watch a lot of content. 28 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,920 That's just what kids do nowadays. 29 00:02:53,920 --> 00:03:01,520 So I would just do that and I'm going to be honest, it kind of destroyed my life. 30 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:10,320 But not really because I learned a huge lesson back when I was playing video games. 31 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:16,280 So there was multiple games that I played but two games that I want to talk about right 32 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,560 now, Fortnite and Minecraft. 33 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:25,440 And the lesson that I learned while playing Fortnite was in middle school when I would 34 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:32,760 play all the time, I would get eventually towards the end of middle school and like 35 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:37,200 later on into high school. 36 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,080 I got serious about getting better at the game. 37 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:45,600 I didn't, I stopped playing it just for fun and just for the sake of playing it and instead 38 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,480 my goals changed to getting better, getting better, getting better. 39 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,040 And so I developed a daily routine. 40 00:03:53,040 --> 00:04:00,400 I would literally create a routine instinctively like just to get better. 41 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:08,320 Somehow I understood that routine creates, routine creates results. 42 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:22,240 And so I am reminded myself of how I literally knew that trait. 43 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:32,000 Like I relied on my routine and as a result, like a year later, I became, well over the 44 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,880 time I became better but like one year later I became really good at Fortnite. 45 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:44,200 And so that's something that I kind of need to remember right now because I've been trying 46 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:51,400 to, actually I needed to remember it a couple weeks ago and thankfully I got through it 47 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,640 but a couple weeks ago I was thinking like am I really going to be doing this like this 48 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,400 routine for over and over and over again? 49 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,080 And then I just reminded myself that yes I am doing this. 50 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:08,200 But now I remember that routine creates results. 51 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,200 So that's one story of how I had a daily routine. 52 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:19,840 It would literally just be, I would go on the Xbox and I would literally just do a map. 53 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:26,880 There was like this game mode on Fortnite where you can like practice your skills and 54 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,960 it's basically where you get like countless repetitions in. 55 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:37,360 So you're like refining your skills, you're like getting reps after reps after reps, like 56 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,800 very high density and that's a very good practice. 57 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:42,800 And I did that. 58 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:43,800 That was my daily routine. 59 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,680 That was my warmup. 60 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:53,240 And I actually made a YouTube video on my Fortnite warmup but I deleted that channel so I don't 61 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,600 think that anyone could find that YouTube video. 62 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:04,960 But if you can find it, send it to me because I'd be curious to see it. 63 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,600 So that's the lesson I learned on Fortnite. 64 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,040 And then I basically learned the same lesson from remembering how I played Minecraft but 65 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,560 a different version. 66 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:22,640 So Fortnite routine created results and Minecraft routine created results as well. 67 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:27,520 But for Fortnite, the routine was to get way better. 68 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:36,280 And Minecraft, the routine was to avoid burnout and it was to like make sure that I was able 69 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:41,360 to endure through long periods of gaming. 70 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:49,800 And this was back during the pandemic when I would just, me and my friend created this 71 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,640 Minecraft world and we spent hundreds of hours on it. 72 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,000 And it was probably the best world that I've ever made. 73 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:04,360 And I can almost guarantee it's better than any world that you've ever made too. 74 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:05,360 I don't care. 75 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:11,880 I mean, that's like the only thing that I'm like kind of proud of from my video game journey 76 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:18,200 just because it was so like creative and it also taught me a lot of lessons about like 77 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:24,120 now that I'm in hindsight, it taught me a lot of lessons about like endurance because 78 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:29,520 we spent hundreds of hours, many, many months on that world. 79 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,880 And I had a daily routine. 80 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:40,000 I would wake up during the pandemic and I would like go on a run. 81 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,720 So I didn't like go on a run right away in the morning. 82 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,680 I don't think I think I was watching YouTube and like wasting a lot of the day. 83 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:55,240 But before I would get on the game, I would go on a run and I would just be, I would just 84 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,360 try and like work out a little bit. 85 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,960 And then at nighttime, right before I went to bed, I would do like this little workout, 86 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:07,440 which is a whole different story because I was embarrassed at the time, but whatever. 87 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:16,880 That routine that I had allowed me to endure through literally like, I don't know how long, 88 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:24,840 but I would literally just sit there for five hours straight, clicking my computer mouse 89 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:30,720 for literally five hours straight, doing the same exact activity over and over again because 90 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,160 we were like building a lot of things. 91 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:40,760 Like, I would basically be doing the same exact monotonous task on that world countless 92 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,040 times. 93 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:50,440 Like we drained in, I don't, if you've ever played Minecraft and you try to drain like 94 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:56,560 an ocean monument of all the water, we did that, but we also destroyed the entire ocean 95 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:57,560 monument. 96 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:03,960 We also drained an entire 100 diameter circle around it and then eight different circles 97 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,480 around that too. 98 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,800 So like that took hundreds of hours to do. 99 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,120 And that taught me a huge lesson. 100 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,600 Endurance creates results. 101 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:28,280 And I endured through that mind numbing task of constantly doing all those things, like 102 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:33,440 getting rid of all the water, collecting the water, and then it was in survival mode. 103 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:38,120 So it's a lot more difficult than that because you have to get all the materials and then 104 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,080 you have to get the sponges and then you have to dry out the sponges and then use them and 105 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,080 dry them. 106 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:48,880 And then the whole process, which I don't care anymore about it because I don't play 107 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:55,040 video games, but I'm just saying it so you can understand that it was extremely tedious 108 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:56,680 and boring. 109 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,280 But that, like I was actually building discipline doing that. 110 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:05,840 It's crazy because I was building discipline enduring through that. 111 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:11,800 And then I was also having a routine to avoid burnout. 112 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,120 So all of that routine avoided burnout. 113 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,160 And then I was building my discipline enduring through all the tedious tasks. 114 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:24,560 All of that combined created results. 115 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:35,480 So to combine everything I just talked about routine helps you refine your skills. 116 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,400 It builds your skills. 117 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,240 That's what I learned from Fortnite. 118 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,240 And then routine helps you avoid burnout. 119 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,800 That's what I learned from Minecraft. 120 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:53,080 And then discipline through the tedious tasks helps, or okay, discipline through the tedious 121 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,400 tasks creates results. 122 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:02,400 So all of these things combined can be applied to literally anything you're working on, anything 123 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,920 you're working towards. 124 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:09,560 And these different lessons that I learned are I am applying every single day to this 125 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:13,520 YouTube channel. 126 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,120 And it's paying off already. 127 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:22,200 I'm literally, I have like 80 subscribers, which doesn't sound like that much, but if 128 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:29,560 you listen to a couple videos back, I was literally talking about how try and visualize 129 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:35,000 80 people, like a crowd of 80 people following you in real life. 130 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,320 So imagine you are the leader, and there's 80 people behind you just walking and following 131 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:42,760 you. 132 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,400 That's incredible. 133 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:46,840 That is incredible. 134 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:53,360 80 subscribers, most people would laugh at, they would scoff at, but no, that is an insane 135 00:11:53,360 --> 00:12:01,800 amount of people following you.