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One thing that I realized that I was doing wrong lately is I misinterpreted the number one thing

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that differentiates a successful YouTuber and me because what I thought before was that they just

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made higher quality videos which was a good interpretation which I think that is still true

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but then I went on further and tried to extrapolate what their what makes their

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videos higher quality and mine or not and the thing that I decided was their editing so I

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decided that their editing was so much better and one type of video that I had in mind in

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particularly was the hams of videos of the Jeffrey and Adonis videos those were highly edited very

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like dopamine high all that stuff and then another type of video that I had in mind was my mentor

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his YouTube channel is super high dopamine high edited videos and they're doing very well so I

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decided that editing was a thing that I should be focusing on the most and now I'm realizing that

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that's probably not the best thing and let me explain because I've been focusing the entire week

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on editing and not really focusing on how to grow and improve as a YouTuber other than just the

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editing except for the weekends because the way my schedule works is I basically work on the

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YouTube video the new champ the new weekly video that I'm gonna post I start working on it maybe

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on Friday or Saturday and I basically spend the whole weekend brainstorming and then I record it

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and I have it edited just the raw footage edited by Monday and then Monday is when I actually start

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to edit the visuals and the the audio and all that stuff and so I realized that that's probably

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not the best because I was only spending maybe an hour per week focusing on my actual recording

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abilities because on the weekends I would record seven to nine videos just for practice so I would

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sit down one day and just crank out seven videos just to practice only on one day a week so I was

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getting one hour per week of practice on my actual recording ability which I was aware that that's

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probably not the best and now I'm even more aware of it because I'm realizing that I was flawed in

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my thinking that you had to have extremely highly edited videos to have them perform well because I

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was looking at some like I was researching different things for example the I recently posted a

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YouTube video called how to get jacked as a high school student which I later changed to how to

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build an aesthetic body as a high schooler and I realized my mentor told me that he basically

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explained why he thinks that that video didn't do as well as my other ones and it was because the

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title and the thumbnail was not very good which I agreed because my analytics definitely showed

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that I was getting a lot of impressions but I was not getting that much clicks so it was definitely

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the title and the thumbnail but so then I had to and then my mentor sent me a video Hamsa's most

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popular video is the how to build an aesthetic body no BS guide and I basically copied that thumbnail

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but when I was looking at that video I wanted to click on it and watch just like the beginning to

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see like what made his video do way better than minded and I realized that his video was terrible

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like the editing was terrible but he was just like the way his recording was good like the editing

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I mean the editing wasn't terrible but it was not nearly as good as what I thought it had to be to

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have a good YouTube video that's what I'm trying to say I thought that you had to have a super

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highly saturated highly edited video to be successful on YouTube but he got five million views and it

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was basically like a slideshow that he recorded and so then I'm thinking I didn't watch the whole

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video so it might be different later on but I watched like the intro like the first 10 seconds

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and I'm thinking like this video did super good even without the good editing and so after seeing

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that video I kind of just like pushed it aside for a little bit because I couldn't extrapolate a

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conclusion right away and then I saw another video did I even see another video oh yeah so and then

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the next video that I was working on recording was deleting social media that was the one that as

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of recording this it posted this morning and after I finished editing that video I wanted to look up

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like other YouTube videos in that same topic and I wanted to see their thumbnails and so I was looking

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at the thumbnails and I basically wanted to kind of model my thumbnail off of what the successful

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videos of that genre or that topic were doing but then I ended up clicking on one of the videos

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and it was literally just him talking there was no there was no editing and when I say no editing I

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just mean no visual edits or audio edits it was just him talking now there were cuts like he cut

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out pauses and like pride dumb stuff that he said but there was no visual editing and so I'm thinking

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to myself after this and then also after the video that I saw like a week before or even like a

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couple days before I'm questioning it might even do in the right thing and then I kind of just go

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on with my day again and as you and there's one thing that I do every day twice a day I always

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sit in silence for 30 minutes two times a day so I always do it in the morning and then I always do

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one at night and during this particular day I was I just finished well actually okay let's let's

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re-re-coup so I just watched this video and then I go on with my day and then I go to bed whatever

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wake up and then yesterday I go on with my day and I'm just doing my normal stuff I didn't watch

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any YouTube videos yesterday I just do my normal thing and then I go throughout my day and then

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at nighttime during my nighttime silence like solitude session I this epiphany pops up in my

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head I'm just laying there in the darkness just sitting still with my thoughts and then out of

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the blue I'm like rummaging through my thoughts and just randomly this thing like this phrase pops

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up in my mind YouTubers are just excellent storytellers and so I pondered that for a little bit I'm

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thinking wait you like the difference between me and a successful YouTuber is the successful

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YouTuber is a very good storyteller and I'm just not my storytelling ability or skills is not up to

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par yet and so I right away I write it down because I keep my journal I'm basically always near a

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journal or a notebook I have a journal right next like right on my desk at all times and then I have

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a journal in my room at all times and then I also have a tiny little travel size like handheld

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journal that I keep with also like a tiny little pencil that I keep in my gym bag and then I take

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that out of my gym bag and go take it with me on a walk every time I go on a walk so I'm always

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by a notebook because it's extremely important especially when you're doing this like super

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monk mode that I'm doing right now when your life is like there's a there was a word for it I just

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read the book called deep work and earlier in that book like in there's two parts the first part is

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about like explaining why deep work is good and the second part was all about like strategies and

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tactics to follow to cultivate your deep work better and one of the things there was three

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different kind of lifestyles that you can live to cultivate your deep work one of them was basically

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what I'm doing where you cut out all of the nonsense you cut out social media you cut out

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email you cut out everything bad and then you're just left with your thoughts like you're just

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thinking all day long so that's why I keep a journal with me all day long because oftentimes

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I get epiphanies and like the my conscious my subconscious sends me thoughts and things on

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how to move forward and so I'm sitting in the darkness last night and this thought comes to mind

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YouTubers are just good storytellers I write that down really quick and it's pitch black so I don't

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really know like I'm not good at writing in the darkness and also the thing is that I keep my like

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in my journal it I have one of those like string bookmark things that's attached to the journal so

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I open it up to the last page I was on and then I just have to remember like where is that where

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is there a blank space that I can write on just from memory so I figure out where I can write and

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I write down like focus on storytelling YouTubers are great storytellers and then I go to bed and

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this morning I wake up and I'm just like I keep thinking about this and I'm thinking like storytelling

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and there's so many connections that I made because then I watched a YouTube video on I just looked

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up because I wanted to learn how to be a better storyteller and I don't want to watch YouTube

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videos to learn how to be a better storyteller because there's this phrase that I always follow

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or that I follow it's if you hear something you forget it if you see something you remember it and

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if you do something you understand it and when you see or when you hear something that's you

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watching a YouTube video like you're just gonna forget about that and then if you see something

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you remember it so if you actually read it like and you see it in text then you're gonna remember

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it but then if you do something you actually understand it so that's why I don't really like

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to watch YouTube videos because you don't really get too much value out of them because you tend

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to forget like I don't I barely even remember the one YouTube video that I watched I actually I do

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remember it quite well because I was taking notes but it doesn't matter so I watched this YouTube

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video because I wanted to look up the best books to I wanted to look up the best books on storytelling

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and I just watched the YouTube video the five best storytelling books and I see I just watched the

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whole thing through and then in the Google search I like there are two videos by the same person

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one of them was the top five books and then the under another video was like the top three lessons

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he learned from storytelling so I decided to watch the top three lessons one as well so I

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watched the books one and I saw all five books and I quickly wrote them down on my Google docs

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where I keep my reading list like future books that I might want to read I wrote it down in the

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Google docs and then I picked two of the best ones that I thought were best for me right now

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based off of his description and I ordered them they haven't come yet but then I go and watch his

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other video the top five like most or there are the three lessons he learned from storytelling and

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the three things I took notes and last night I told myself I was gonna remember these like I

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watched the video I took notes and the first one was all about basically describing the character

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traits of a person so he gave the description of stormtroopers in Star Wars get killed all the

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time like you just see them getting mowed down by gunfire all the time and how do you feel when

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they die you don't feel anything like they don't make you sad when you die why is that because you

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don't know anything about them like they never they're just a faceless suit of armor to us they're

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just nothing to us and so when you describe the person and you describe the character traits you

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say oh this person Johnny he's very funny he's extremely outgoing and he is the life of the

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party he always comes very well dressed and very he always makes everyone feel very happy every time

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I'm around him he is making me he just makes me feel extremely blessed to have him as a friend

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and then just the other day he was shot in the face and killed so that was just a story but like

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you that was just me practicing and you care a lot more that Johnny got killed because I just explained

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him I basically said like all these character traits and I basically explained who he is now he

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is actually now you can actually visualize what he's like whereas a stormtrooper you can't like

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stormtroopers are nothing to us so it doesn't matter if they get shot in the face to us so that

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was the first one and then the second one was all about surprise so so I'm walking down the street

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and walking my dog and in my community there's a lot of dog walkers there's dogs pretty much every

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block I see a dog being walked and then I'm just walking just like every other day normal and going

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on this walk and I turn the corner to the next street and then I just see this elephant and I'm

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like what I'm in Chicago in a city and there's an elephant and then upon further investigation

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I see that the elephant actually has a collar and is attached by a leash and then I just see this

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macho shirtless jacked dude walking this elephant and I'm just standing there in awe I'm just like

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what is going on am I dreaming or what now obviously that's just a story it didn't actually happen but

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that is an example of using surprise as a way to be a better storyteller so this

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surprising thing that happened was one the fact that this guy is walking an elephant and upon

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reflection of this story I just came up with that story by the way on the spot but upon further

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reflection of that story I could have made it more surprising by saying it's in the middle of winter

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in Chicago freezing out it's snowing and then that would set the scene and then I could further

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say that there's an elephant which would be surprise number one but then surprise number two

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is that he's being walked by a jacked dude that's shirtless and the surprise that and then surprise

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number three would be like he's shirtless in the middle of winter so that could like the surprise

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element is what keeps people going and in the video he actually explained that they're

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like people are habitual creatures they're they basically know what's gonna like people

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can understand patterns and they can understand what what may happen and when something breaks

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the pattern and a surprise happens we like it or maybe I don't know I don't remember what happened

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or what he explained after that but basically breaking the pattern is what keeps people interested

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into the story like people kind of zone out or click out when you if you if they can understand

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the pattern and know what's gonna happen but if there's a surprise then they're there's they stay

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attuned to the story and so the third one was actually one part of storytelling that I was

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familiar with before and he said change which I learned about this originally in a book called

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expert secrets by Russell Brunson and his word for it was called the journey of transformation

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it's basically in a story in the beginning of the story people like the person is a certain way

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and then by the end of the story this person completely changes and they're on like they

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went on this journey of transformation so and every single movie that's been successful

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has this journey of transformation every single one star wars avengers like superhero movies

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and even just any like any movie any somewhat successful movie has this journey of transformation

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and it makes it it basically creates an attachment it helps to create a bond between the storyteller

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and the the person hearing the story so those are the three different basically the three

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different pieces of storytelling that I learned about and this wasn't my intention when I first

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sat down to record this video I actually was gonna record um a completely different video

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topic for this episode but I just started talking and now I just went on this whole tangent but I

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didn't stop it because I liked where I was going and now what I realized is that this is actually

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a good opportunity I've been posting daily podcast episodes on like just posting daily but the thing

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is like I said earlier I was recording them in batch like in bulk so I was basically recording

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seven or nine episodes on Sunday or Saturday or Friday and then I would just forget about it for

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the rest of the week and I wouldn't get any practice for the rest of the week but what I'm

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realizing now is that well that's a bad first of all because I'm not getting practice but I have an

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opportunity here because now I can completely change the I can actually I still want to have these

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this series be practice and one thing that I was thinking about doing was sitting down actually let

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me explain so the way this works is I sit down and record the video and then I have to put it into

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a software to basically tune the sound and make the sound quality better and then I post it on to the

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podcast and that takes quite a bit like it may take anywhere between five minutes to an hour

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depending on the length of the video and I do that for every single day and that takes a lot of time

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out of my day so I have some options here either stop doing the daily practice or at least stop

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uploading the daily practice because in reality I don't really see much benefit to my growth if I'm

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wasting a lot of time sitting at my computer waiting for it to load onto the software and just go

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through that whole process an hour per video potentially or another thing is I could just

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maintain the daily practice and kind of change it up a little bit and just practice my storytelling

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every single time which is kind of what I've been doing but really focus on the storytelling

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I don't know I'll decide what I want to do I did write down in my journal the other day to

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stop doing the daily like stop posting daily practice onto the podcast but still actually

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do daily practices I don't know I'll figure it out but that was the story of why that was just

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everything that I said I'm gonna end the episode here because I kind of lost track of what I'm trying

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to say