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how to get on self-improvement as a high school student.

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So my self-improvement journey really started freshman year

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after I got cut from the soccer team,

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and I realized I had to train.

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So I started doing cardio,

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and then I did cardio,

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and then I tried out for sophomore year for the soccer team,

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and I got cut again.

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So then I realized I had to do weights.

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So I was doing weights and cardio,

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and then I also realized I had to practice my soccer skills.

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So I was training my weights, cardio, soccer skills.

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I was taking cold showers,

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and I was starting to really dial in on my health.

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And so then I was training,

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got to an all-time peak fitness level,

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and then I got injured right before trouts,

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so then I ended up not trying out that year.

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Best decision I've ever made,

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because then I started reading books.

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And with all this extra time after school,

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now that I'm not playing a sport,

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I started reading books,

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going to the gym,

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and just starting to dial in on my life.

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And then slowly but surely,

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I started making changes from the books that I learned.

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Like, one book I read called How to Break Up Your Phone.

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I started literally breaking up with my phone,

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and now my phone is all the way on the other side of the room

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in the basement all the time on AirPlay Mode,

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do not disturb, power it off.

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I just don't use my phone anymore.

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There's been multiple weeks

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where I have zero minutes of screen time total on my phone.

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And so I started making all these changes.

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And now, because I want to basically do self-improvement full-time,

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I graduated early.

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So now I'm out of school

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before I even was supposed to be done.

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And the thing is that I was originally planning on going to college.

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Like, I never really wanted to go to college,

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but that was my plan.

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That was my path.

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And, or at least that was a path I was going to take,

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just because that was what everyone else did.

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And then I started taking control of my life

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and my actual life got better.

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So I want to basically walk you through

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how if I had all the knowledge I have now,

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and I had to restart as a freshman,

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summer going into freshman year, first day,

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let's just say first day of freshman year.

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If my brain got teleported into myself

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when I was freshman year.

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So I had all this knowledge I have now,

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and I had to restart physically as a freshman.

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The first thing I would do is hit the gym.

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I would start waking up in the morning.

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I would go to the gym before school.

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And I would basically just start lowering my waking up time.

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six o'clock instead of 6.30.

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And then I would wake up at 5.30.

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I would wake up earlier and earlier and earlier

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until I was waking up at a time where I was happy

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with that time for the time being,

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until something else I wanted to do.

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For example, I was, during my freshman year,

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I was waking up at maybe 6.20, 6.30.

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And we were on Zoom.

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So we were online.

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So I was basically going to school at my house.

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And I was able to wake up before school and go on a run.

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That's what I did.

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But if I had to restart, I would basically

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get in the habit of waking up early and then really

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be intentional about it.

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And then also make sure that I'm going to bed early also,

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because that was my mistake I made before.

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I wasn't going to bed early enough.

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Nowadays, I'm waking up at 4 AM and going to bed at 6 PM.

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So basically, slowly but surely, lower your sleep time

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to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier.

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And then make it a habit to go to the gym before school,

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because this allows you to be consistent

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and it's way more convenient.

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So go to the gym before school.

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And then you also get the benefits.

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And then the next thing is, I would

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make sure that I was taking all of my required classes first.

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Like this is something that not many people really

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take into account.

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But one of the essential things that I would want to happen

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is get out of school as soon as possible.

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Because I know that school is not helpful whatsoever at all

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for me.

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So I'd want to get out of school as quick as possible.

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So that means getting all of my credits done,

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getting all of my required classes done,

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and not taking any non-required classes.

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Just get all my graduation requirements done.

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And then I would make it, I would start,

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I would just focus on the gym for a little while.

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So maybe freshman and sophomore year,

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I would just focus on the gym.

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Just try and build my physique.

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because I'm focused on the gym, I

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would want to get more sleep, get better sleep,

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more optimal sleep.

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I know I'd also want to get more hydration and also

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get a healthier diet.

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I would just focus on my health, my physical health.

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And then eventually, I would start meditating.

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Before all that, I would start reading books.

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And this is going to help replace the habit of using

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the phone.

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I was definitely addicted to the phone.

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I was playing video games.

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And I would slowly but surely start

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to read books, self-improvement books, nonfiction,

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and get addicted to that.

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And then start to cut out the video games.

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to cut out all the friends.

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start to leave society, essentially.

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And stop doing all that stuff.

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And delete all my Instagram accounts,

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or delete all my social media stuff,

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the accounts in the entirety.

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And then eventually, I would start meditating.

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And then get onto a consistent routine.

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And then get dialed in.

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Make sure I'm meditating every single day.

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Make sure I'm reading every single day.

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And that would just be my focus.

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I'd go to the gym before school, go to school, come home,

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Well, I would eat before school.

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So I'd pack a healthy lunch for lunch.

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Because right now, I have different goals.

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then I would make sure I'm eating literally

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first thing in the morning.

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And that would literally just be my life.

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And then eventually, I would start transforming my room

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and getting really more locked in onto self-improvement.

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For example, getting rid of my bed,

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buying it to Tommy Matt, getting rid of everything

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in my room, clearing it all out, just dialing in on my habits.

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And then eventually, around junior year to senior year,

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I would start posting on YouTube.

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And basically, what I'm doing, what I'm explaining to you guys

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is what.

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This is essentially what my journey has been,

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except I'm making it more optimal and more dialed in

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and start earlier.

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Because I didn't really start lifting until sophomore year.

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And I didn't start reading until junior year.

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But all of these things, at this point,

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it's probably like junior year.

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And I'm not using my phone.

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I'm not watching nothing.

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Not doing no video games.

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Not doing anything like that.

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I'm pretty much dialed in monk mode.

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And then I would want to start posting, just recording

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on the podcast.

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Just start a podcast, because this

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will help if I just do daily episodes,

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like I did in my past journey, or in my actual journey.

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I'll just do daily episodes and practice my speaking ability.

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just focusing on the podcast and just developing

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my speaking ability.

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Because I know that me personally, I started not even,

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like I was not even fluent when I was speaking

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into the microphone.

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But now I'm able to speak fairly well, in my opinion.

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And then we get to eventually, after maybe 100 days,

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let's just say, of speaking into the podcast,

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I would start a YouTube channel, which the podcast was

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posting on to YouTube.

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Let's go back to maybe 50 days or 40 days

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after the podcast positive feedback loop has started.

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after I have gained so much positive feedback

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from the podcast, for example, I've

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seen so much personal growth from it.

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And I actually like to do it.

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And I would not want to quit or not want to stop.

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Once I'm basically on autopilot doing the podcast,

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I'm basically guaranteed to keep it up,

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unless I consciously change something.

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That's the positive feedback loop.

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So basically, once I form a positive feedback loop

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on the podcast, after a little bit of reinforcing that,

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I would focus on maintaining the podcast,

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but then I would also start posting three YouTube shorts

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or TikToks or both every single day.

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like my really focusing on my hook

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and condensing the story down.

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And I would just post those.

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like copy, because basically writing those descriptions,

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I think, is copy.

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I don't really know.

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Doesn't really matter.

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But then after a little bit of that, I would delete,

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or not delete, but I would unlist literally everything

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from my YouTube channel, which is exactly what I did.

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And I'm really glad that I did all this,

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even though it was all kind of like not purposeful.

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I would unlist everything and completely restart fresh

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from the YouTube channel, but put it

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onto a public playlist so people and me can go back

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and look at where I came from.

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And then after that, I would just dial in,

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lock in on the YouTube channel, which

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is what I've been doing over the past maybe five weeks,

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six weeks, maybe a little bit longer.

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I don't know.

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And that is basically where I'm at right now.

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And going back to maybe junior year,

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if I finish all the requirements, and honestly,

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I would probably go to summer school if I was restarting.

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I would probably do summer school

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because I would want to get all the requirements done

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so I could graduate at the end of sophomore year,

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the end of junior year.

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The goal would be to graduate as soon as possible.

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Literally get that diploma and dip.

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And this whole time, you're going

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to want to show your parents that you're serious.

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Don't tell them.

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Just slowly but surely show them that you're serious.

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And then eventually they'll learn more and more books.

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Read the millionaire fast line, read unscripted,

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read the four hour work week, read all these books,

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and learn of your path.

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Learn where you're going to go.

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And realize that school is not really going to help you.

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And then also you're going to want to,

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like your parents are going to need to see

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that you're actually not going to live at their house

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for the rest of your life.

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They're going to want to see that you're actually

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going to become financial independent.

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So because they're not going to let you graduate early

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unless you prove yourself.

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So that's basically the plan.

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You graduate as soon as possible so you

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can focus full time on self improvement.