What is oppressing you? So I want to talk about things that are going on in our
mind and external factors that are affecting our behaviors, thoughts,
attitude, mood, worldview. All of this stuff can be affected by simple things.
Like, I've got something oppressing me right now in my mind mentally and I
don't know what exactly it is but I have a prediction that it might be school.
So I'm reading a book called 10x is easier than 2x and he's pretty much
talking about the part that I'm on right now is he's saying you have to be focusing
on the 20%. So let me explain the 20%. We have 80% of our activities are
comfortable. We've been doing them for a while. We're pretty good at them. We could
be excellent at them and they're kind of just us doing those activities for 80%
of the time is just complacency. We're just okay with where we're at right now.
But then there's the 20% excuse me. It's the 20% that is this 20% is what is
gonna move us forward. So the 80% is what got us here. Like what got you here
won't get you there and the 20% is what will get you there. But unfortunately we
only spent 20% of our time getting us there and so what the 10x process is
all about is dropping all of the 80% or finding the right who finding the
right person finding the right somebody to take on that 80% so that can still be
maintained and excelled and like improved upon but you just have to not do it
yourself because now you have to focus on that 20%. This 20% is what will help you
move forward. And for me I think that my 80% is school. I'm a high school student.
It's October 4th and I graduate probably like December 20th so I've got like two
months left. I'm a senior so I got two months left but I just I just know that
I shouldn't be doing school. Like there's just I can't find a single
benefit to school. Like before my one benefit that I would always fall back on
I'd say school sucks. The only thing that's good about it is the social aspect.
The social piece. But now I'm not even sure if the social piece is even good
either because I'm noticing I'm reading all these books and I'm realizing that
everyone is fake. Like I was watching this movie called I'm pretty sure it's
called The Visit and I was watching it in first period in my humanities class
and it's basically a movie that was made in like the 1900s and it's black and
white. And in the movie it's based off of a film or not a film a play and so it's
basically about how this woman was with a man and then something like the man
like the woman had a baby with him and then she like went up to him and told
him about it and then the man like married someone else. So then the woman
left like the town and then she became the world's richest person because she
married some other guy who owned 5% of the world. Like imagine owning 5% of the
world. I don't know what the world GDP is but you probably be instantly you
might even be a trillionaire if you own 5% of the world. I don't even know. But if
so she pretty much married this husband who owned 5% of the world and then he
died so she inherited 5% of the world. And then turns out that the town that she
grew up in which is the same town that that man still lives in that town was is
struggling and they're like going bankrupt and the town is just dying
pretty much like there's no money coming in anymore they had to shut down all the
factories the mines like all of this stuff they the town is struggling and so
pretty much they expected a visit from the woman and everyone was preparing
everyone was getting their nicest fanciest gear fanciest clothing all of
this stuff they're getting their fanciest dresses on like suits they're all
dressing up perfectly for her visit and then once she guy here she was like
walking around with the guy that she had a baby with now I don't know what
happened to the baby because I never saw the baby or the the kid so I don't
think the baby is a important part of the movie because I didn't see it yet so
pretty much he's walking around with this guy all like looking at the town and
then reminiscing on old times but you can tell that she's being extremely what's
the word she's being like kind of fake but not fake but she's kind of she's
got an ulterior motive so she's kind of leading him on so like for example if she
was saying right when they they met up and by the way when she came it was this
huge thing like the whole town came and gathered around to watch like to see her
and then there was like signs and everything posters all this stuff but
pretty much the when the man and the woman the richest woman and then her
ex I'm just gonna say ex-boyfriend when the ex-boyfriend and the woman were
walking around she was saying yeah I I planned out this I was thinking about
this these moments or I was thinking about this visit for over 20 years I
was thinking about this ever since I left and so she was saying like but then
she was also leading him on to where she was doing good she was thinking
positively and then but then she would also kind of drop hints that she was not
happy so then they walk around they visit like their old places that they
used to go to there was this tree that they went to that they carved a heart
with their initials so like initial plus initial and then it's a heart in the
tree they went there they just went all around and then the the whole thing that
I'm leading up to this is all back so context so then they the whole town or
all the important officials of the town gathered into this extremely nice
dining room and they all had dinner and this the woman was sitting at the end of
the table like she was the centerpiece and then the to the mayor of the town
and then the ex-boyfriend were on both sides of her and this was kind of
symbolic because then the mayor gave a speech pretty much said like how amazing
this woman was how awesome she is and all the good that she's done but it was
all lies he was basically being fake and then the woman exposed him for that
like absolutely exposed him she was like yes this guy spoke so highly of me yet
everything was false it was all a lie he was just lying because she knew that
everyone was being fake everyone was being fake they were just trying to look
out for themselves and they were just being fake and honestly when I was
watching it I was I was just thinking about my current situation like everyone
is just fake to each other and you can tell because I'm just like walking around
the hallway and I mean I've seen many different things like this group of just
one example that just popped in my head was this group of girls they were all
they looked like friends and then they all like went to sit down but there
wasn't enough seats for there was enough seats for everyone except for one and so
the one had to sit down back back a row and kind of had to third wheel with the
group and it was just pretty saddening to see because the group definitely knew
that she was she didn't have enough seats and they still chose to sit there
anyways that's just one example and I see this all the time every single day
which is sad and then I also see in my current current relationships as well
like people don't really care they just kind of say courtesy and they don't
really care much about you like for example today I was just sitting there
and not a single person talked to me the entire class period now that was
probably my fault because I was I was in the mood not necessarily in the mood but
I was just kind of like chilling and I was just kind of just trying to get through
the gym class but no one really like said a word and just I don't know it's
they're not really genuine relationships that you form in high school and
that's that's like pretty much the moral of the story that I just told is
everyone is fake in high school and that's that's another reason why I just
don't see any benefit to high school like going to school because I'm not
learning anything you know I've always like last week I went I was out of town
all week and so I missed an entire week of school that's 20 hours of class like I
lost I missed 20 hours of being in school and I had to make it all up and
you know how long it took one hour to make up all of the work like that's
just that just goes to show how like it's not even efficient for time it's not
even time efficient and it's not it's like the people are fake so all my life
I I knew I'm not sure about elementary school but definitely in middle school I
knew that school was a waste and I knew that I didn't like it I knew all these
things but the thing is that I was the only thing that I was holding on to was
the fact that it was that I had that social piece but now I don't even think
that that's good enough anymore so I have like two months left of school I'm not
sure if I can even bear it because I've I don't know I just feel oppressed 24
seven now I think that it will help once I like get back to normal sleep because
I was talking about this yesterday how my sleep was messed up all week last week
and then I went back to kind of normal sleep for the past few days but I I'm
still missing like 30 minutes of sleep I think because when I'm meditating I'm
basically sleeping the whole time and I can't even get down as deep of of a
meditation as I used to be able to so I think that I got to get my sleep
improved upon and just I think that it'll get better once I improve my sleep
but I don't know and that's another thing like I okay let me explain let me I
want to completely shift the topic I I have okay so I leave all my books I
store all my books that I read in my closet and I have like maybe a hundred
books in there I don't know how many but I have a lot of books I have four piles
and they're they're like they're like pretty tall they're a few maybe a few
feet or maybe one or two feet tall and I have four piles of books and before my
old kind of organization system was this last pile was like trash books that
I'm not gonna read or I read and they suck the second to the right pile is
books that I there are right and I am not gonna read I've read them but I am
not gonna read them again the middle left pile is like books that were decent
or books that were good like ATR that I definitely plan on reading again and
then the left pile is books that I am currently reading that I'm studying so
that would be like expert secrets reality trans surfing and the like those
two books but pretty much I realized I need like a lot more room because I
bought like five more books so I have to kind of reorganize my books so I got
rid of a bunch of the trash books and then put them in my attic and then I
reorganized my entire shelf so right now I just have the right side the entire
right side is all books the two right rows or the two right what is the word
stacks the two right stacks are both books that I'm not planning on reading
and then or at least books that I may read in the far future like books that
I'm not gonna read anytime soon at least for maybe a year or a few months
depending on how things turn out because there is one book that I definitely
plan on reading before I move out and it's ultra learning but I'm not gonna
read that until I move out so that that may be a month that may be a year I don't
know how long it'll take and then the so those right side I'm not even touching
I'm not even looking at and then there's the left two stacks are the books that
I'm like focusing on so the right okay so the middle left stack is business
books that I am studying so that's the secrets trilogy and what else was there
in there I think that's it the secrets trilogy and then there might be one oh
create don't capture which I'm not even sure if it's released yet I got the
early release edition for from fun and locking live and then 10x is easier than
2x those all those business books even though 10x easier than 2x isn't
necessarily a business book but that's like my entrepreneur book even though I
have a lot more entrepreneur books like for our work week the lean startup the
emeth revisited I have a bunch of like when I first decided to go all in on
entrepreneurship and business I bought like probably 10 entrepreneur books and
business books and I only read like two of them so all of those books are not in
that pile because I I like I'm not focused on those books right now I don't
want to read them anytime soon so the middle left is business books that I'm
actually using at the moment so all of Russell's books and then the create don't
capture and then 10x is easier than 2x which I guess is a mindset book more
than entrepreneur book but I want that in that pile because that just makes sense
to me but I am creating 10x is easier than 2x right now I'm like almost halfway
done so I'm it's not in that pile yet but once I'm done with the output in that
pile and then on the left side is very important all of my spiritual books or
worldview books like all I don't really know what the genre is but I have an
idea of what the genre is so pretty much all of the books that are in the
reading list the ultimate reading list for human beings the reading list that
I've been talking about forever for the past like month it's if you just look
up the most beautiful world and then go to like books and then go on the top
right says reading list you'll be able to see it and I've talked about it
plenty of times on this podcast but pretty much I'm going all in on that
reading list because I definitely think that it's extremely valuable for me and
I definitely still want to be reading like I really want I want to reread
reality trans surfing and expert secrets and then I want to reread 10x is
easier than 2x in the future so I'll be interspersing those books with my
ultimate reading list books and the reason why I'm doing this is because in
the blog post that he posted for this reading list he basically said a bunch
of different things so many different things for example he said learn about
what the world was like before this certain era or before it was like destroyed
or I don't even know but he just there's so many things that he said like
actual projection and remote viewing when I first read those I had never even
heard of them and I got into it a little bit and I haven't been able to succeed
in doing it yet but I'm like working on it and so all these things he's talked
about so many different things in this just the intro just the blog post and
that's why I really want to get into it because he has like this amazing worldview
that I'm I really want to have I want to have like the worldview that he has
because he wrote a book called Dancing After Music stops and on the back cover
of it he literally said the type of books or the type of book that will make you
want to drop out of school and I want to drop out of school and so I like he's
just got a he just speaks on my wavelengths he speaks my frequency and
that's why I'm getting all into this reading list especially because it's
this he he he kind of what's the word he gave me a new strategy to read books he
basically said to read seven books at a time and like kind of read one until you
lose focus switch to the next reading that until it was focused and then just
keep on cycling through them and then interspersed with push-ups every once
while and he just said that that is a reading method that you can use to
basically read a book every day every single day one book a day which is
insane because I struggle reading a book a week like even though I read a lot
like over summer I was pretty much reading all day that was like my only
thing that I did all day that in the gym I would go to the gym and then read all
day like that's pretty much it and I would still struggle reading a book a
week I would be able to I remember I read dot-com secrets extra secrets and
traffic secrets probably in three and a half to four weeks so that's three books
in not a week each so I know that it's impressive to read a book a week and
there's like challenges to do that but he said that this method allows you to
read a book a day and then he went on to say that the reading method that the
that school system taught you is terrible like they expect you to read from A to Z
and then pick up like and then pick up a new book but no one has the attention
span he basically said no one has the attention span to do that and so that's
why you kind of have to switch books multiple times so you can keep that
focus level because I do notice that in times when I'm kind of in the zone or
when I'm interested in what I'm reading like especially when I find a part of
the book when I'm really interested in that then I read it really quick and
I'm kind of like in the zone or like I'm extremely interested so I'm reading it
way quicker so I guess this reading method kind of allows you to read read
in at that speed all the time or at least way longer than you would have
other ones but there is one downside I don't know if I'll be able to retain
that much information which is why I'm doing in this test trial on all brand
new books that are not necessarily immediately impactful like I
Transurfing is definitely immediately impactful but I can get away with not
necessarily retaining that much let me explain when I was reading business
books like expert secrets and 10x is easier than 2x like all these things I
have to pretty much I have to retain all that information maybe not 10x is
easier than 2x but definitely expert secrets and dot com secrets I basically
have to retain those information I can't I can't really have a general feeling
because it's not like spirituality but all these other books are like
spirituality books and then worldview and stuff like that so that's why I want
to practice or at least test it out on on brand new books that are kind of
spiritual based and the books I'm really excited for because three are already
here I already ordered the first two a while ago but the third one came today
or yesterday actually and the three that I've already come is die wise come of age
dancing after the music stops and then the four that are supposed to come
within like the next 10 days maybe I don't remember when it's supposed to the
one the last one is supposed to come is Toofty by Vadim's own Journey out of
Bodies by Robert Monroe the Egypt code and then a scent on humanity I think
it's going so those are all those those are the seven books that I'm gonna be
reading for the first set and a few of them are pretty long like I'm pretty sure
die wise and come of age are both like fairly long like 350 pages maybe but
I'm really excited to get into this stuff because I've been looking forward to it
for a month and but right now I'm just focusing on finishing 10x's easier than
2x and then I'm gonna do create don't capture those those two books create
don't captures fairly quick it's like 150 pages and it's a fairly small book
but that's pretty much my plan right now and I want to I want to be honest with
you guys I think that my sleep is dead well a hundred percent my sleep is
definitely affecting me but I'm not sure how much information I'm retaining from
10x's easier than the 2x or if it's simply because it's a brand new book and
that's just how it goes because for example when I'm reading reality
trans surfing for the second time like when I was just podcasting and talking
about it I was able to talk about the principles for hours and I have a
suspicion that it's because I have had already built a background knowledge on
it because I read it already but I also am kind of like strengthening it by
reading it a second time through so I'm able to have a lot more knowledge or a
lot more understanding on it and I don't I'm not getting this with the 10x's
easier than 2x it's pretty it's fairly difficult for me to talk about it because
I I don't I'm not retaining much and maybe it's because when I was reading
trans surfing for the second time through I was taking a lot of notes on a
separate journal I pretty much filled up an entire journal just from my notes
from the second time through so I wrote a lot I was writing way more than like I
was I was being extremely excessive like I was going for a quantity over
quality with that and so I think I was able to retain a lot more but with 10x's
easier than 2x one it's my first time reading it and two I'm not writing stuff
down so I'm not getting that like extra strengthening and solidifying because if
you guys remember when I was telling you about the my reading strategy it's
pretty much I okay so a normal passively reading which is what I'm doing
right now for 10x's easier than 2x passive reading I pretty much I okay so
passive reading I pretty much just it passes through my mind once so it goes
straight through my mind like just once because I'm reading the words I go down
the page read the words and it's all going down through once but my my reading
method the study method that I was doing for trans surfing it was passing
through my mind so many more times so I was reading it once that's one time and
then I would write it down that's another time and then I would what did I do
next I talked about it on the podcast so that's another time and then I but it's
multiple different versions so just reading it is just a mind piece it's
just kind of like thinking it but then writing it is like using your hand and
it uses a different like component of the mind and then speaking it and teaching
it is a brand new part it's the speaking part and it's also like you have to
understand a lot more to be able to explain it so you have to think about it
more in depth to be able to explain it simply or easily and then after that I
would basically write a summary at nighttime I would write a summary of
what I learned that day so that's another piece it's like a writing piece but
it's also kind of recall it's recall so it's it's another part which I guess
recall is also in teaching on the podcast but then in the morning I would
reread that summary so that's five and then after a while of building up okay
so oh wait wait so let me just say this and then the next day I would talk to my
friend about it so that's six so I teach him again and then after a while I
would combine all of my notes so I would read all my notes and then
that's seven reread them all and then I would star all of the important ones and
then once I reread them all and start all the important ones I would rewrite
them on a brand new page so I would go through and rewrite like ten pages
sometimes maybe 12 pages other times I think one time I was at like 16 pages I
rewrite like pretty much 16 pages of work so that's eight I think or nine I
don't know I lost count already so let's just say eight and then I would record
another episode on based on those notes like the consolidated precise notes and
that is ten ten ten the ten state I'm sorry it's I was listening to the gateway
I've been using the gateway process and he always says once you reach like focus
ten he's like ten ten ten so I just wanted to make that connection but
pretty much the study method it was strengthening solidifying ten times like
I was it was passing through my mind at least ten times like even especially the
most important part like the most important notes were passing through my
mind ten times versus one time so it makes sense that like everything is
stacking up that I'm not able to talk about the 10x is using the 2x because
one I'm not like it's my first time I don't have any background knowledge on
it two I'm just passively learning it because there's a reason why school is
not that good at teaching because passive like schools all about passive
learning like the teacher just says things to you and that most of the time
you don't really even hear it and if you do hear it it's hard to keep it in
unless you write it down repeat it so that's like it's kind of what I'm
thinking right now but I want to talk about this one thing that kind of came
up so my friend is getting into learning a language right now and it's because
we're both planning on moving out soon and so he's learning the language of
the country that he's moving out to and pretty much right now he's he bought he
was on DuLingo DuLingo yesterday learning the language and then I like told
him because in ultra learning pretty much duly according to the book ultra
learning and I agree DuLingo is very bad for learning a language and it's
because it's kind of like gives you the answers and it's not really too realistic
it's not too realistic and because think about it when you're trying to learn okay
so right now all the all the things I'm saying to you right now are from I'm
pulling kind of phrases from like a bank or a database in my mind and I'm using
commonly used phrases so that's pretty much how you learn a language or at
least get to speaking level like you're able to fluently get have a normal
conversation that's how you get it you basically rep out all the common phrases
like hello nice to meet you hello nice to meet you and you constantly rep that
out but the thing with DuLingo is it kind of just it gives you a lot of it
gives you it's basically a multiple choice and like kind of the John or the
what's the word the way it's structured is it's not really structured very well
for what it's not really structured optimally for learning language because
it's not necessarily realistic because it's kind of multiple choice or you're
kind of like hearing a phrase and you write it down I don't know I don't remember
exactly what ultra learning said about DuLingo all I remember is that don't do
it's a waste of time and I actually have an experience of this in middle school
so for context I've been in I've been in Spanish I've been taking Spanish classes
since first grade I believe so from first grade and until junior year so junior I
didn't take a Spanish in junior year so I took from first grade all the way
through sophomore year sophomore year was my last year of Spanish so that's five
eight that's ten years of learning in Spanish ten years okay so do you think
that if you spent ten years learning a language you think you'd be able to learn
it no if you did it through the American education system you would not be able
to learn a language in ten years not even even if I stayed and still did a
language in junior year and senior year I like that would be like 12 years I still
would not be able to learn a language now let me explain it's all passive
learning like I said before passive learning but it's also like you have to
be fully immersed in the language so pretty much the best way and Timothy
Ferris talked about this in the four-hour work week as well but pretty much
the best way to learn a language is by fully immersing yourself in that language
and only speak that language which is why after I read ultra learning I realized
oh I have to get rich first or oh I have to move out to this country first and
then I'll be able to actually I'll be able to actually get enough like I'll be
able to actually immerse myself that's what I'm trying to say and so pretty much
out my plan was to build my business and then move out to those countries and
then move there for like six months at a time or three months at a time and then
learn the language and learn like another skill because that's what Timothy
Tim Ferriss does he basically learns two skills at once so he learns like a
mental skill and then a physical skill so for example I don't remember what
country he learned how to dance in but he became like a world-class dancer because
he was learning how to dance and then he was also learning that native language
so let's just say I want to go to Spain and or I want to go to where's a good
place I don't even I can't really think of anything right now but I want to go
alright so right now my goal is to go to Hawaii so let's imagine I think that
most people in Hawaii speak English but I think that I think that there's a lot
of native languages there so let's just say for example I moved to Hawaii learn
how to surf that's the physical skill and then I learned the native language or
I learned one of the native languages so that's that's kind of like what he does
and that's what I'm planning on doing as well because it's a lot more efficient
you can learn you can learn an entire language or at least get fluent in an
entire language in three months if you like fully immerse yourself and don't
speak English at all like go to that country go to Spain for three months
don't speak English at all and just go out every day and practice wrap it out
wrap it out and then that's pretty much and that's why earlier in this part
earlier in this episode I said that I'm gonna be read one of the books I'm
gonna be rereading that's in my like already read books or books that I'm
not gonna read for quite some time one of the books I'm gonna be rereading
before I leave is ultra learning just so I can like fresh get a refresher of
how to do it and then I'll be actually applying it this time but that's that's
like why I'm thinking I told my friend don't do Duolingo or I warned him about
it and then he came back to me the next day and like today he said yeah you're
right about Duolingo but then he went on and bought a different he actually bought
a year's membership of this one I don't remember what this software was called
but he bought a year's membership to this one language learning website which I
still don't think is good because it's basically Duolingo but a different name
is what I saw but I'm just gonna let him go his pack and that's what I said
don't let me steer you off course if this is what you want to do this is what
you got to do and that's that's why I I just let him do his thing and I'll just
focus on my own thing because right now would be a huge waste of time for me to
learn like Spanish because I have I do have a desire to learn Spanish but I'm
not focusing on it right now it would be a huge waste of time for me if I just
spent a lot of time and effort and energy trying to learn Spanish right now
because right now I'm trying to learn spirituality and business or at least
just spirituality because the business side I already have a plan on how to move
forward on my business I just have to kind of wait I really hate saying that
because I guess me saying it out loud I'm not really doing enough I guess
because I keep on saying I got to wait for something to happen or I got to wait
until I reach 100 episodes I don't know I don't like saying that because it's
makes me feel like I'm not doing enough but I know that I'm on the right track
just keep on doing what I'm doing and I'm guaranteed success but that's why
right now I'm trying to learn spirituality so I can so I can teach
and like understand it for myself because I want to I want to learn all
this stuff and then I also want I don't even know if it's all spirituality I
think there's a lot of books on there about like how we're all gonna die soon
there's a like the ultimate reading list is huge genre like though there's so many
different genres and I'm pretty sure unscripted is on there as well so but
it's further down the line like 170 or something like that that's why it would
be a huge waste of time for me to spend a lot of time and energy learning a
language especially if I am doing an inefficient method it's kind of just
like dopamine it's just it's just giving me gratification making me feel like I'm
doing something like it's just making me feel productive I guess is what I'm
trying to say and so that's why my plan is once I'm actually planning on moving
out like once I'm actually planning on going to this country that I'm gonna
learn language which I don't even know if I'll do that right away but once I'm
planning on going to learn language the week prior I will I I actually told my
friend this like this is the method that I would do but I didn't tell my friend
like what my plan is completely so my my plan is to once I'm ready to move out
and one week before I leave I'm literally just gonna every single day
study I'm gonna just study language and I'm literally just gonna compile all of
the common phrases so oh la como estás bueno start this like good morning
hello how are you all of the common phrases and then all the common phrases
for all the common words and phrases and then I'm just gonna wrap them out
literally just get a basic understanding for conversation and I'm gonna
wrap them out through many different means so first I'm gonna first of all
write all of the things down on a single piece of paper and I'm gonna just write
down all the common but I'm not gonna do like all of them I'm just gonna do the
main common conversation sentences like phrases and then I'm gonna what the way
I do it is I would just get all of those papers and then I'd write them all in
Spanish and then write them all in English on another piece in the same
order and then I would look at the English and then rewrite it in Spanish
and then I would after that I would do that a few times like wrap that out get
all those and then get that in memory but then I'm gonna also practice my
pronunciation and actual conversation so I literally just look in the mirror and
or look at the camera like record and literally just have a conversation with
myself be like oh la como estás ah bien y2 and then like oh I am sorry bien like
all like I'd say hello how are you I'm good and you like and then just go just
have a conversation with yourself and then practice those common phrases and
literally just do that for hours like practice but and then I would also learn
how to read it too I'd read it in Spanish so that's why I had two separate
things one in English and one in Spanish so then I would have it in Spanish
another another thing that I would do is look at the Spanish list the list of all
the Spanish ones and then rewrite it in English and then I wouldn't just do those
I would also read it in I would read it in English and then say it in Spanish or
read it in Spanish in the same in English and like all of these many
different forms just for the one week I would just get in a deep dive of learning
all of the basic phrases just so I can have like a baseline even though the
baseline is realistic it's like realistically it's probably not gonna be
that high just a baseline it will allow me to go to the country and by the way
before I move out the country I'm going to be getting a Spanish to English
dictionary or English to whatever language I choose dictionary it's most
likely gonna be Spanish because I already have a baseline of Spanish and so I
want to learn Spanish because I spent 10 years of my life trying to learn Spanish
and I was unsuccessful and I want to talk about how I try to use Duolingo for a
long time to learn Spanish as well but I would get a Spanish to English dictionary
of all of the words or I would get all of the words in a dictionary and then I
would also get a common phrases dictionary of Spanish English and then I
would bring around the common phrases and I would also bring around I'm pretty
sure they sell translator I don't know if that would be a good idea because I
would be cheating but yeah so I would bring around the dictionary and then I
would also bring around a translator just so I can know that I wouldn't I would
only bring around the translator for emergencies just in case I'm in real
trouble or something like that but then I would just walk around once I get there
I just walk around and then practice my common phrases and then just keep on
trying to get into deeper and deeper conversations and that would be my day
but pretty much my routine would look like at let's just say Spain is where I
go my routine at Spain is I wake up spend like an hour to two hours studying new
vocabulary and then I would go around or and then I would practice my physical
skill so whatever physical skill I choose to learn whether it be I don't even
know Tim Ferriss did dancing so it can literally be anything physical so
physical skill that I learn and then I go to and then I go just literally just
walk around town and start conversations with people and I would especially
focus on those new vocab words that I learned so let's say I learned 20 or a
hundred new vocab words and then I make it my go day's goal to get into a
conversation with people and use all of those words that would literally be my
routine now I haven't read ultra learning in a while so I don't know like what the
most optimal I definitely think that my plan will change once I reread it but
that's pretty much what I'm thinking but like I was saying I'm not thinking about
any of this stuff right now I just wanted to tell that just because it's on
the top of my head but I want to discard every single thing that I said
about learning a new language because right now I'm just focusing on my
current task focusing on growing my podcast focusing on building a business
focusing on moving out focusing on building my revenue like just providing
value that is literally all that I'm focused on right now do not worry about
language but as I said I wanted to tell you why Duolingo sucks or Duolingo is fun
but it's not good for learning the actual language if you're serious about
learning language do not use Duolingo if you're serious about it fully immerse
yourself by going into that country or going somewhere like that but pretty much
in like I said I spent 10 years of my life learning taking Spanish classes in
the public education system in America and I in middle school I was learning
all about or no in middle school I spent a long a long time every day on Duolingo
maybe 30 minutes a day maybe an hour a day I was serious about Duolingo I
really wanted to learn Spanish and I'll be honest I learned a lot like I got so
far ahead of everyone else but not in my current classes because what I was
studying was like I was studying on Duolingo different phrases or words that
I was studying in my classes so I wasn't ever really able to use it during class
maybe in like eighth grade or freshman year but I spent a long time on Duolingo
like I had a really long streak and I practiced like every day and I definitely
got better but I was not it was not good enough and if I think that if I
invested that same amount of time doing this method that I just told you guys
about I would have had way more success doing the method that I just told you
guys about but that's pretty much how I use Duolingo and it didn't really help
so let me get some water
all right I want to talk about my face cam so yesterday I got my face cam and I
on my podcastle.ai you there's a video recording like feature like where you
can actually record your video on it and then you can edit like the sound
quality and all that stuff from there because that's what I used to edit my
videos or not my videos my my podcast I used to edit it and I would also before
I had my face cam I would just record straight on that and it was fine I would
be able to record one hour every single day for the entire month but the issue
is they offer they do offer a video recording service but I only have like
eight hours like they only give me eight hours on my current membership plan and
even if I upgraded to like the maximum I'm pretty sure it wouldn't like fit my
needs which I need at least like I think I need like however many days in the
month there are so it's probably like 30 to around 30 to 31 hours every month
that's let's just say 31 hours every month because that's the longest and then
I would probably want just in case like backup 30 33 I want at least just to be
safe I want 35 hours of video recording but on my current subscription plan for
podcast so I only have eight hours so I recorded on I recorded yesterday on
podcast so because I have eight hours free so now I'm at seven hours left for
the month and I realized that this is not gonna work for me so I need to find
like a free software that has infinite recording like unlimited recording and
so I was looking around the web today and I found OBS which I have heard of OBS
before when I used to watch YouTube and streamers they talk about OBS and they
use OBS so I downloaded OBS but I'm not sure if it has like the same editing
features so I don't know what it's gonna look like when I actually go through and
like edit the audio I don't know if because here's where I'm at I have my
video and then I also want I post my video onto YouTube so I schedule my video
the video style of the podcast on YouTube but then I post my the audio on to
my podcast like RSS I post it on to like Apple Spotify Amazon like all these
different podcast directories but I use RSS.com to just spread it all over but
the issue is if I'm unable to edit like the audio of my video like I know I'll
be able to convert my video into audio using podcastle but I'm not sure if I'll
be able to actually edit the audio on this video if that makes sense because
right now my the audio like all the noise that I'm producing right now is
unedited but I've been doing like magic dust background noise remover audio
leveling like all these different edits that I do automatically on podcastle I
do for my show but I won't I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it for the video so
that's kind of where I'm at right now but I would prefer to have an actual
video and not edited audio because plus I'll be able to schedule so I don't know
if any of that made sense but I'm kind of rambling at this point because I'm
just honestly sleep is a hundred percent important so I'm definitely gonna fix my
sleep and it's actually four o'clock usually when I've done recordings like
around 4 30 4 45 and I like when my sleep was good when it was optimal and I was
able to meditate without falling asleep when it was optimal I was getting a bed
at like I was starting my morning routine around like 4 40 to 5 o'clock but
lately I've been starting out like 5 45 so like an hour late but I like kind of
speed through my night did I say morning routine I mean nighttime routine but
that's like important so I'm gonna be able to do that today I'm gonna set a
new rule I have to leave my basement by 4 45 I have to be done by 4 45 and if I'm
unable to edit then I have to edit the next day which could prove fatal but I
don't know it's kind of whatever there's okay I want to talk about one thing
that's been on my mind about I read in the 10x's easier than 2x he gave the
story about Jimmy Donaldson Mr. Beast so Mr. Beast said that he was focusing
extremely heavily on quality over quantity so he would focus all of his
effort on just making the highest quality videos highest quality YouTube videos
and that's how you gain success that's how you get 10x like he didn't go for
quantity but right now I'm going for quantity but I'm also trying to improve
quality by just sheer practice sheer reps because you'll see that like my first
episode was terrible now this episode is way better than my first episode but the
issue is I don't have time to add quality to my podcast because I'm doing one
hour every day and so I'm also a student and I also go to the gym so with all of
that combined I don't have much time and I have a half day at school so I'm a
part-time student so it's like I'm I don't know if I should drop down and I
like post less which is what my friend actually did he's like posting maybe once
or twice a week because his podcast he does ADHD stuff so he is focusing on
quality which I want to see where his ends up because I set myself the target
of having 365 episodes in one year so posting every single day for a year and
that's kind of and that's my goal I still intend on doing that so I still want
to figure out how to improve the quality of my episodes whether it's outsourcing
some things like the editing process outsourcing I don't know what else I would
outsource but the editing process is a big thing
outsource that and I'll be able to just focus on recording because I remember
watching a Hamza video and he was saying figure out what you want to do so let's
say you want to become a youtuber then you figure out the number one thing that
figure out the one thing that will get you there figure out the number one
skill that you need to focus on to become a great youtuber or to achieve that
goal so for a youtuber obviously it's recording so he said focus on like 80%
of your time on that one thing so focus 80% of your time just recording don't
worry about editing don't worry about anything else and then he said focus 20%
of your time learning how to do that one skill better so like reading books about
it so that's that's kind of what I'm thinking right now I'm focusing not 80%
of my time actually I guess it is 80% of my time because I pretty much have
like one hour to work every day or two hours or an hour and a half every single
day to work because once I get home from the gym I go downstairs record edit and
then I get I go to bed like that's pretty much my day I go to school go to
the gym come home record edit go to bed I study in the morning too but I guess I
am we're spending 80% of the time available but definitely not 80% of my
time and that's gonna be tough to spend 80% of my time because I'm in school so
whether I drop out or whether I just wait two months to graduate then once I
like I'm focusing a lot of my the majority of my time surely on recording
videos so I'm getting better so that's kind of what I'm thinking I think that
with practice it's reps but then they also said in 10x is easier than 2x the
10,000 rule like 10,000 hours and you're an expert that's false like that's not
real because you he said that you can spend 10,000 hours in your 80% in your
comfort zone and still not become an expert but if you spend like a thousand
hours in your 20% in like that 10x process zone the 10x zone then you'll
actually become an expert like maybe not a hundred maybe not a thousand maybe
two thousand maybe five hundred I don't know that number but pretty much the
quality okay here's what I'm thinking the quality of time you spend the quality
of time you invest matters because if you if the quality of your time you're
spending on just simple reps but those reps are in your 80% you'd like you're
trying to maintain what you've been doing which I guess I just became
conscious I think that I'm doing that I'm not trying to I'm not focusing on
improving my current show like I'm not trying like when I first started I was
figuring out many different things to get better and better but I kind of like
put a halt to that and now I'm in my 80% so now I got to figure out what I can do
to get to that 20% and get like keep on getting more reps in the 20% because
that's the quality of time that you spend if you're if the quality of if you
spend your time in that 20% that's gonna be way better you improve so much more
than that 80% but that's kind of it that's what I'm thinking and that's the
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