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Feb. 24, 2024
Practice #66 - Time Flies So Use It Wisely
Focus on the right things. Do not underestimate time, or overestimate your abilities. Draw pictures for yourself when in a period of doubt.
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So yesterday I was actually revisiting some of my old podcast episodes.
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And I believe it was episode seven.
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I was listening to it.
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It was titled, I Will Be a Millionaire, Follow My Journey.
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And I was just listening to myself make some pretty bold claims.
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Some very like crazy claims.
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Like for example, I said that within six months I'll have a hundred K.
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A hundred thousand dollars.
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Now it's been seven months and I barely have a hundred bucks.
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So what's the lesson to learn?
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I completely overestimated or actually underestimated time and I underestimated actually using time
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intentionally.
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Because I was doing a lot of reflecting after I realized that, wow, I really thought that
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I would be in a completely different place right now.
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Yet now when I look back I'm proud of the progress that I've made.
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So I think that it's really just about intentional use of time because I was actually recently
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reminded by a friend how time flies by.
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And if you aren't careful with it, it'll slip away from your fingers.
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Like these past seven months, ever since I started the podcast, ever since I started
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the YouTube channel, completely flew by.
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Like absolutely just, like it just left.
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But I think that it was good use of my time that I spent because I've actually improved
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a lot.
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But I was kind of a little shocked and I was a little nervous because I was thinking about
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kind of like my future and how things may play out if I allow time to slip by way easier.
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So I kind of sat down and I reflected.
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I literally just wrote out all my goals and I was just like, well, what needs to be done
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for this?
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So then I wrote down literally all of the things that needed to be done, like all the
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skills and traits that needed to be built or developed.
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And then I was like, okay, and I remembered the 80-20 principle, Pareto's law.
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And so I was like, okay, because I had a list of probably like 10 or 12 skills or traits.
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And I was like, okay, some of these are kind of linked together.
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And then some of these are way more important than others.
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So I'm just going to pick three.
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So I'm like, okay, I'm sitting there for like five minutes trying to contemplate which three
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are the most important.
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And actually it was pretty easy to decide which three.
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So I decided the three that were most important.
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It was influence, patience, and what's the word for?
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Oh, what's that word?
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It's basically where you're like extremely excited about what you're doing.
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Passion.
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Okay, it's influence, patience, and passion.
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Those were the kind of the three biggest, most important traits to develop for my goals.
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And so I'm thinking like, okay, what's going on here?
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I think that, and then I kind of work best when I draw images out.
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So for example, in order to discover these traits, I actually literally drew three pictures
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of myself.
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One picture was myself when I began the podcast.
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So literally seven months ago.
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And that was like a tiny little stick figure that I just drew.
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And then the next picture was me right now, seven months into the podcast with 92 subscribers,
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seven months into YouTube channel, because I'm focused on the YouTube, but 92 subscribers.
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And so I wrote that down, and I drew a picture of myself just slightly bigger with like biceps.
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Because I'm focusing on the work goals and not like the physique goals, but it's easier
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for me to kind of visualize the work goals through physique, if that makes sense.
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So like I see my, if metaphorically speaking, my body represented how skilled I was at my
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work, then I would literally just be a tiny little stick figure when I started.
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And then right now I kind of see myself as a little bit better.
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Like I'm starting to grow some muscle.
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So I see myself as a slightly bigger stick figure with some like bicep starting to grow.
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And then I drew a third picture, which was a much bigger actual representation of a real
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looking person that is jacked.
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That's like kind of the representation of where I'm like the goal.
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And so I'm thinking like, what needs to be done?
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What skills need to be cultivated in order to get from here to there?
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So I list all of the skills, came up with like 12, and I picked the three.
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Patience, ambition, passion, okay, patience, passion, and influence.
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So patient, passion, and influence were the three that I chose.
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And then I kind of drew another picture because I was like, okay, well, how can I represent
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this?
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Like what do each of these represent?
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So I was like, oh, let's just draw a house.
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Because lately, like over in the past, I've had like some pretty good success describing
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things using a metaphor of a house.
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For example, one of my best podcast episodes that I recorded at the time was when I was
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at Florida at Funnel Hacking Live, which I was actually listening to like a couple minutes
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of that yesterday.
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I didn't listen to this part exactly, but I remember talking about this how I described
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like worldview tactics and strategies as a house.
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Like your worldview is the foundation.
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The strategies are like the pillars, like the actual house support beams, all that.
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And then the decoration, like the windows, the grassy, like the moss, the vines, all
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the decoration is the tactics.
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So that's kind of what I described a long time ago.
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And so last night I was sitting there, I was thinking, oh, I kind of like the house metaphor.
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And I decided to draw a house.
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So I was like, okay, how can I draw a house describing these three skills, these three
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traits?
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And so I was like, okay, well, patience is obviously the foundation.
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Like everything crumbles if you don't have patience.
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And then I was like, okay, what is the walls?
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The walls are either passion or influence.
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And I'm like, okay, I don't really know.
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So then I asked myself, I remember back to learning in science class, independent relationships,
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like independent variables, I never understood that.
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And I never really understood how to figure those out.
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But I kind of like was like, oh, I can use that kind of strategy to figure this out.
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So I was like, okay, which one is the independent variable?
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Passion or influence?
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And then I didn't really know, and I was like, okay, which one is kind of more important
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or which one is, which one helps grow the other?
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And so I was like, oh, well, influence is kind of like the base.
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And then passion helps grow the influence.
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You can have a lot of passion, but if you don't have any influence, it's not going to
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really do anything.
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So I saw influence as the main skill, and then the passion is kind of like the multiplier.
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So like in video games, sometimes you get like multiplier scores.
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That's kind of like that.
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You have to get a score first, and then you multiply it.
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So I'm like, okay, I finished showing my house.
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Patience is the foundation.
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And then I have influence as like the actual walls, and then passion as the roof.
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So that's kind of like the three skills represented an image that I got to focus on.
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So then I'm like, okay, what does this mean?
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And then I'm kind of like getting a little nervous.
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I'm like, okay, well, I've definitely displayed patience because most people don't even make
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it past episode 21.
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Like I'm back.
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It was a huge milestone for me when I made it to episode 21 on my podcast like six months
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ago or seven months ago, because 99% of podcasters drop out of the race before they reach their
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21st episode.
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So it was a huge deal for me to make it to episode 21.
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Huge deal.
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And now I'm on like episode 100 something.
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So well, not like actually episode 100 something, but I've posted like over 100 videos.
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So that kind of proves to myself that I have patience.
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Like I'm willing to endear through this with I was looking at my YouTube analytics.
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This morning and I saw I was looking at like the subscriber count over time, the lifetime.
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I endured through like it wasn't until October.
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I started the podcast in July or the YouTube channel in July, July, August, September, October,
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four months.
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I had zero subscribers.
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Zero subscribers in four months.
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And then even then I only got like one or two subscribers every other week or something
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like that.
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So I proved that I can do this without any results.
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So I'm like, okay, patience is kind of like on locks.
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And I am still like, I still know that I'm going to be doing this even though I'm still
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not really getting like huge results.
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I'm getting more results than I have been, but I know that I'm going to be doing this
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no matter what, no matter the results just because I got patience.
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So I'm like, okay, the foundation is set.
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I've laid out the foundation.
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So then kind of what, what do I need now?
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Like what's what's like the next obvious step is influence, right?
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Building up the walls of the house.
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Yeah, I agree because I've been studying storytelling, trying to like cultivate better stories,
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build like, learn how to tell stories better, all this stuff.
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I've been practicing my storytelling, all this stuff.
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And I'm planning on learning more about influence in the future.
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But then I was kind of still a little nervous about like my future because I was left a
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little uneasy about how it's been eight months or seven months and I haven't really had any,
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I haven't made any money in seven months.
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And then I needed something to kind of calm my mind.
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I needed something to cling on to and remind me of what I'm actually doing.
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So I was like, okay, I can do this.
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So I wrote, took out an, I went to the next sheet of paper on my journal and I was like,
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okay.
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Let's draw the path of a YouTuber.
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And I am like a mathematical type mind.
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So I can visualize graphs pretty easily.
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So I was like, okay, let's draw a graph of the path of a YouTuber.
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So I drew the like the axis, x and y axis.
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And I was like, okay, on the x axis, let's say time.
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And then the y axis is just like results.
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And then results could be like subscribers, views, money, whatever, any results that comes
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from your input in a YouTube channel.
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And so I'm like, okay, let's draw the graph.
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And I have a good idea of what it looks like because I've seen it.
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I've, I've studied a lot of like stories from other people and just learned a lot about
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how to grow a YouTube channel and how to become a YouTuber.
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And I have this like mindset right now, or I've been having this mindset where pretty
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much if you take a YouTuber, already successful YouTuber and strip them of your brand, of
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their brand.
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So let's say you take Mr. Beast and you completely strip him of his brand, his money.
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You basically take Mr. Beast and put him in my situation.
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No brand, no name, nothing, but he has his knowledge.
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He has his skills.
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And no one knows that he's Mr. Beast.
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He changes his name.
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He changes his like face.
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So if you, if Mr. Beast, basically if Mr. Beast's mind was implanted into me, then there
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would be no issue.
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Like Mr. Beast in my shoes would literally succeed fairly easily because he's already
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got the skills.
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He's already got the skills.
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He wouldn't need very long to actually figure out how the YouTube system works because
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he already knows, he knows how to succeed.
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So Mr. Beast would succeed because he's got the skills.
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So I'm like, okay, well, that makes sense.
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I won't, I'm obviously having succeeded in seven months because I don't have the skills.
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So that's why I'm cult fading the skills.
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And so I kind of visualized the graph as an exponential graph.
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So it's pretty much like literally just a line like this.
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And then it tiny, tiny, and then all of a sudden it just explodes.
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So it's like literally straight line horizontally.
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And then all of a sudden it just goes vertical.
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That's kind of how I visualize YouTube success.
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And then I was like, okay, so what does that mean?
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Like, what does that mean for my three skills?
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Influence, influence, and passion?
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Well, I circled the actual like the horizontal line part, the one where you're going through
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a bunch of time, but you're not getting much results.
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So I circled that and I was like, okay, well, that's obviously patience.
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Like you got to actually have patience to build up your influence.
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So you're actually, so that's like you using patience while building your influence.
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That's like the first stage.
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And then the second stage I circled was like the turning point where it actually began
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to curve.
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So I circled that and I was like, okay, well, that's kind of where like your skills have
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kind of finally caught up.
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And it's kind of like how your skills become presentable.
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So if you go back to like, maybe even this episode, like this episode may not even be
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presentable to the public, which like that definitely is probably the case because I'm
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still getting not that much views.
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So like this episode is a good example, but also go back to my first episode, like that
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was terrible.
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Like that's not presentable to the public.
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So this entire period of time that you're spending not getting any results, but you're
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putting a lot into it, building your skills.
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That is a like that period is just you trying to catch up your skills to make it make your
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content presentable to the public.
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And then during the turning point, like when the shift starts happening, you actually start
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to get results.
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That's when your skills have finally started to caught up and then now your content is
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presentable to the public.
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And so people start to notice you.
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That's when you start to really grow.
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And then the next phase was where your like growth absolutely skyrockets is when you start
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to like and passion was already like throughout the entire process.
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begins to make an impact to make a result.
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If you're like, if you multiply zero with anything, it becomes zero.
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that means you have 100.
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growth becomes because the difference between one times 100 is small.
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is equal.
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That is absolutely immense.
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So that's where like the exponential growth, that's kind of like how I visualize it.
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I don't actually know if this is actually how it is.
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process.
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my passion and then make my content presentable.
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People actually start to be like, Oh, this guy is actually like producing pretty good
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content.
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I'm going to start watching him.
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literally sending your channel to the moon.
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That's like once your skills have caught up to your passion and now your passion is actually
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amplifying your skills a lot.
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That's kind of how I've like subconsciously been moving forward over the past seven months.
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this is kind of like what I'm doing right now.
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up to my passion.
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So that like going back to like the beginning of when I talked about your like the time
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literally slips away from you.
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You gotta make sure that you're filling your time with the right skills.
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only chose three was because of the 80 20 principle.
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Like if you focus, okay, so three of those, excuse me, three of those skills were gonna
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produce 80% of my results.
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And then all the rest of the skills would take the same amount of time to cultivate,
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but they're only gonna like give me 20% of the results.
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skills so you can get the most results so you can kind of get to that turning point
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quicker.
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And then in the future, you can go back and start doing those other skills or outsource
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them like that.
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It's kind of like my thought process right now.
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as possible by literally just focusing on your your own skills, which I'm very grateful
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for because I haven't really been looking at my analytics that much.
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showing me anything.
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It's just it's all gonna be like garbage until I finally catch up my skills.
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that matters.
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So yesterday I was actually revisiting some of my old podcast episodes.
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I was listening to it.
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It was titled, I Will Be a Millionaire, Follow My Journey.
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Some very like crazy claims.
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Like for example, I said that within six months I'll have a hundred K.
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A hundred thousand dollars.
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Now it's been seven months and I barely have a hundred bucks.
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So what's the lesson to learn?
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I completely overestimated or actually underestimated time and I underestimated actually using time
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intentionally.
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Because I was doing a lot of reflecting after I realized that, wow, I really thought that
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I would be in a completely different place right now.
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Yet now when I look back I'm proud of the progress that I've made.
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So I think that it's really just about intentional use of time because I was actually recently
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reminded by a friend how time flies by.
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And if you aren't careful with it, it'll slip away from your fingers.
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Like these past seven months, ever since I started the podcast, ever since I started
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the YouTube channel, completely flew by.
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Like absolutely just, like it just left.
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But I think that it was good use of my time that I spent because I've actually improved
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a lot.
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kind of like my future and how things may play out if I allow time to slip by way easier.
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So I kind of sat down and I reflected.
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I literally just wrote out all my goals and I was just like, well, what needs to be done
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for this?
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skills and traits that needed to be built or developed.
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And then I was like, okay, and I remembered the 80-20 principle, Pareto's law.
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So I'm just going to pick three.
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are the most important.
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So I decided the three that were most important.
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It was influence, patience, and what's the word for?
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Oh, what's that word?
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It's basically where you're like extremely excited about what you're doing.
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Passion.
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Okay, it's influence, patience, and passion.
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Those were the kind of the three biggest, most important traits to develop for my goals.
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And so I'm thinking like, okay, what's going on here?
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I think that, and then I kind of work best when I draw images out.
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So for example, in order to discover these traits, I actually literally drew three pictures
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of myself.
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One picture was myself when I began the podcast.
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And that was like a tiny little stick figure that I just drew.
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And then the next picture was me right now, seven months into the podcast with 92 subscribers,
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seven months into YouTube channel, because I'm focused on the YouTube, but 92 subscribers.
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And so I wrote that down, and I drew a picture of myself just slightly bigger with like biceps.
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for me to kind of visualize the work goals through physique, if that makes sense.
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work, then I would literally just be a tiny little stick figure when I started.
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Like I'm starting to grow some muscle.
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looking person that is jacked.
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That's like kind of the representation of where I'm like the goal.
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So I list all of the skills, came up with like 12, and I picked the three.
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Patience, ambition, passion, okay, patience, passion, and influence.
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So patient, passion, and influence were the three that I chose.
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this?
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So I was like, oh, let's just draw a house.
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things using a metaphor of a house.
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For example, one of my best podcast episodes that I recorded at the time was when I was
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at Florida at Funnel Hacking Live, which I was actually listening to like a couple minutes
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of that yesterday.
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I didn't listen to this part exactly, but I remember talking about this how I described
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like worldview tactics and strategies as a house.
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Like your worldview is the foundation.
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The strategies are like the pillars, like the actual house support beams, all that.
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the decoration is the tactics.
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So that's kind of what I described a long time ago.
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traits?
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Like everything crumbles if you don't have patience.
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The walls are either passion or influence.
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like independent variables, I never understood that.
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So I was like, okay, which one is the independent variable?
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And then I didn't really know, and I was like, okay, which one is kind of more important
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or which one is, which one helps grow the other?
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really do anything.
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So I saw influence as the main skill, and then the passion is kind of like the multiplier.
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So that's kind of like the three skills represented an image that I got to focus on.
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I'm like, okay, well, I've definitely displayed patience because most people don't even make
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it past episode 21.
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Like I'm back.
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ago or seven months ago, because 99% of podcasters drop out of the race before they reach their
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21st episode.
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So it was a huge deal for me to make it to episode 21.
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Huge deal.
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And now I'm on like episode 100 something.
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So well, not like actually episode 100 something, but I've posted like over 100 videos.
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Like I'm willing to endear through this with I was looking at my YouTube analytics.
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This morning and I saw I was looking at like the subscriber count over time, the lifetime.
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I endured through like it wasn't until October.
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I started the podcast in July or the YouTube channel in July, July, August, September, October,
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four months.
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I had zero subscribers.
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Zero subscribers in four months.
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like that.
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not really getting like huge results.
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I'm getting more results than I have been, but I know that I'm going to be doing this
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no matter what, no matter the results just because I got patience.
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I've laid out the foundation.
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So then kind of what, what do I need now?
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Like what's what's like the next obvious step is influence, right?
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Building up the walls of the house.
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Yeah, I agree because I've been studying storytelling, trying to like cultivate better stories,
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build like, learn how to tell stories better, all this stuff.
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I've been practicing my storytelling, all this stuff.
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But then I was kind of still a little nervous about like my future because I was left a
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little uneasy about how it's been eight months or seven months and I haven't really had any,
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I haven't made any money in seven months.
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I needed something to cling on to and remind me of what I'm actually doing.
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So I was like, okay, I can do this.
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So I wrote, took out an, I went to the next sheet of paper on my journal and I was like,
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Let's draw the path of a YouTuber.
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And I am like a mathematical type mind.
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So I was like, okay, let's draw a graph of the path of a YouTuber.
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So I drew the like the axis, x and y axis.
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And then the y axis is just like results.
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And then results could be like subscribers, views, money, whatever, any results that comes
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from your input in a YouTube channel.
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And so I'm like, okay, let's draw the graph.
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And I have a good idea of what it looks like because I've seen it.
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I've, I've studied a lot of like stories from other people and just learned a lot about
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how to grow a YouTube channel and how to become a YouTuber.
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And I have this like mindset right now, or I've been having this mindset where pretty
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much if you take a YouTuber, already successful YouTuber and strip them of your brand, of
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their brand.
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So let's say you take Mr. Beast and you completely strip him of his brand, his money.
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You basically take Mr. Beast and put him in my situation.
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No brand, no name, nothing, but he has his knowledge.
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He has his skills.
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And no one knows that he's Mr. Beast.
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He changes his name.
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He changes his like face.
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So if you, if Mr. Beast, basically if Mr. Beast's mind was implanted into me, then there
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would be no issue.
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Like Mr. Beast in my shoes would literally succeed fairly easily because he's already
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got the skills.
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He's already got the skills.
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He wouldn't need very long to actually figure out how the YouTube system works because
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he already knows, he knows how to succeed.
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So Mr. Beast would succeed because he's got the skills.
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So I'm like, okay, well, that makes sense.
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I won't, I'm obviously having succeeded in seven months because I don't have the skills.
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So that's why I'm cult fading the skills.
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And so I kind of visualized the graph as an exponential graph.
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So it's pretty much like literally just a line like this.
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And then it tiny, tiny, and then all of a sudden it just explodes.
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So it's like literally straight line horizontally.
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And then all of a sudden it just goes vertical.
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That's kind of how I visualize YouTube success.
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And then I was like, okay, so what does that mean?
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Like, what does that mean for my three skills?
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Influence, influence, and passion?
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Well, I circled the actual like the horizontal line part, the one where you're going through
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a bunch of time, but you're not getting much results.
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So I circled that and I was like, okay, well, that's obviously patience.
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Like you got to actually have patience to build up your influence.
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So you're actually, so that's like you using patience while building your influence.
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That's like the first stage.
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And then the second stage I circled was like the turning point where it actually began
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to curve.
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So I circled that and I was like, okay, well, that's kind of where like your skills have
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kind of finally caught up.
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And it's kind of like how your skills become presentable.
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So if you go back to like, maybe even this episode, like this episode may not even be
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presentable to the public, which like that definitely is probably the case because I'm
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still getting not that much views.
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So like this episode is a good example, but also go back to my first episode, like that
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was terrible.
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Like that's not presentable to the public.
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So this entire period of time that you're spending not getting any results, but you're
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putting a lot into it, building your skills.
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That is a like that period is just you trying to catch up your skills to make it make your
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content presentable to the public.
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And then during the turning point, like when the shift starts happening, you actually start
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to get results.
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That's when your skills have finally started to caught up and then now your content is
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presentable to the public.
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And so people start to notice you.
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That's when you start to really grow.
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And then the next phase was where your like growth absolutely skyrockets is when you start
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to like and passion was already like throughout the entire process.
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But once you once your skills actually catch up to your passion, that's when passion actually
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begins to make an impact to make a result.
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Because now instead of because passion, I see passion is kind of like a multiplier.
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If you're like, if you multiply zero with anything, it becomes zero.
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If you multiply one with anything, it becomes that thing.
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So passion could be maxed out from the beginning, it could be 100 times.
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But if your skills are garbage, that's zero, then that means 100 times zero is zero.
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Like you're nothing like you're terrible.
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So then once you actually start to grow your skills, let's say they're at one, well, then
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that means you have 100.
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And then the more you catch up your skills with passion, that's where the actual exponential
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growth becomes because the difference between one times 100 is small.
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But then are the difference between one times 100 and 100 times 100 once passion and skill
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is equal.
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That is absolutely immense.
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So that's where like the exponential growth, that's kind of like how I visualize it.
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And that's this is all my theory.
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I don't actually know if this is actually how it is.
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But it's just kind of like my theory, my working theory on how I'm moving forward with my thought
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process.
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And so just to review the initial period is where I'm at.
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That's where I got to exercise extreme patience and catch up my skills to be like on par with
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my passion and then make my content presentable.
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And then during the turning point is where people actually start to notice.
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People actually start to be like, Oh, this guy is actually like producing pretty good
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content.
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I'm going to start watching him.
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And so that's when people start noticing.
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And then the actual like extreme growth, like literally the vertical line of like you are
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literally sending your channel to the moon.
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That is all about passion.
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That's like once your skills have caught up to your passion and now your passion is actually
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amplifying your skills a lot.
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So that I was sitting there last night, I was like, Oh, well, that is exactly how I'm moving
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forward.
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That's kind of how I've like subconsciously been moving forward over the past seven months.
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But now I've put words to it.
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And I've actually created like a metaphor for myself to refer back to and remind me that
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this is kind of like what I'm doing right now.
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Like I'm not going to get any results for a little while until my skills have caught
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up to my passion.
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So that like going back to like the beginning of when I talked about your like the time
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literally slips away from you.
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You gotta make sure that you're filling your time with the right skills.
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So a huge reason why I listed all of the skills that I like needed for YouTube success and
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only chose three was because of the 80 20 principle.
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Like if you focus, okay, so three of those, excuse me, three of those skills were gonna
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produce 80% of my results.
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And then all the rest of the skills would take the same amount of time to cultivate,
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but they're only gonna like give me 20% of the results.
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So just completely ignore all of those other skills and only dial in on the most important
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skills so you can get the most results so you can kind of get to that turning point
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quicker.
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And then in the future, you can go back and start doing those other skills or outsource
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them like that.
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It's kind of like my thought process right now.
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And you just want to get out of that like that like dead period of no results as quick
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as possible by literally just focusing on your your own skills, which I'm very grateful
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for because I haven't really been looking at my analytics that much.
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Because I know that I'm just in that dead period where analytics aren't going to be
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showing me anything.
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It's just it's all gonna be like garbage until I finally catch up my skills.
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So that's why I focus all in on your skills because that's like the really only thing
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that matters.
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