So lately I've been reminiscing on my childhood.
I originally started doing this because I saw in a book that I'm reading, The Power
of Personal Storytelling, this was one of the actual steps and so I took it and it's
basically just to try and remember your childhood.
And if you're like most people you don't really remember it that well because our society
conditions us to kind of forget about it and not really remember it that often.
And it's really been like that ever since the Industrial Revolution when we started
this new term, got created, it's called productivity.
It's a combination of product and activity and it combined to form productivity.
And so now we tend to, now we've kind of stopped lounging around.
Like before the Industrial Revolution it was very common for people to just sit and just
do nothing and just sit in their own thoughts and just think.
But ever since the Industrial Revolution that's been like phased out of life.
And now we want to feel productive and so we don't really like just sitting but so now
we like sit still but we always tie it to something like playing video games, watching
TV, eating food, like just whatever the action may be.
But it's, this exercise has proved very valuable for me because in one of my previous episodes
I talked about how I learned three huge lessons from, like I basically reinstated three different
attributes or traits into my life.
They were courage, leadership and being good with girls, just from memories from my past.
But yesterday I actually learned another thing.
I learned that I was on self improvement while I was playing video games.
So if you don't know my story, pretty much I was a normal kid, well I am a normal kid
but in fifth grade I got an Xbox and I started playing video games a lot.
And I also was, actually before that I even had like an iPad and I would watch YouTube
a lot, like YouTube kids because I wasn't allowed to watch YouTube.
And I would watch like Netflix and then I would like, I would watch a lot of content.
That's just what kids do nowadays.
So I would just do that and I'm going to be honest, it kind of destroyed my life.
But not really because I learned a huge lesson back when I was playing video games.
So there was multiple games that I played but two games that I want to talk about right
now, Fortnite and Minecraft.
And the lesson that I learned while playing Fortnite was in middle school when I would
play all the time, I would get eventually towards the end of middle school and like
later on into high school.
I got serious about getting better at the game.
I didn't, I stopped playing it just for fun and just for the sake of playing it and instead
my goals changed to getting better, getting better, getting better.
And so I developed a daily routine.
I would literally create a routine instinctively like just to get better.
Somehow I understood that routine creates, routine creates results.
And so I am reminded myself of how I literally knew that trait.
Like I relied on my routine and as a result, like a year later, I became, well over the
time I became better but like one year later I became really good at Fortnite.
And so that's something that I kind of need to remember right now because I've been trying
to, actually I needed to remember it a couple weeks ago and thankfully I got through it
but a couple weeks ago I was thinking like am I really going to be doing this like this
routine for over and over and over again?
And then I just reminded myself that yes I am doing this.
But now I remember that routine creates results.
So that's one story of how I had a daily routine.
It would literally just be, I would go on the Xbox and I would literally just do a map.
There was like this game mode on Fortnite where you can like practice your skills and
it's basically where you get like countless repetitions in.
So you're like refining your skills, you're like getting reps after reps after reps, like
very high density and that's a very good practice.
And I did that.
That was my daily routine.
That was my warmup.
And I actually made a YouTube video on my Fortnite warmup but I deleted that channel so I don't
think that anyone could find that YouTube video.
But if you can find it, send it to me because I'd be curious to see it.
So that's the lesson I learned on Fortnite.
And then I basically learned the same lesson from remembering how I played Minecraft but
a different version.
So Fortnite routine created results and Minecraft routine created results as well.
But for Fortnite, the routine was to get way better.
And Minecraft, the routine was to avoid burnout and it was to like make sure that I was able
to endure through long periods of gaming.
And this was back during the pandemic when I would just, me and my friend created this
Minecraft world and we spent hundreds of hours on it.
And it was probably the best world that I've ever made.
And I can almost guarantee it's better than any world that you've ever made too.
I don't care.
I mean, that's like the only thing that I'm like kind of proud of from my video game journey
just because it was so like creative and it also taught me a lot of lessons about like
now that I'm in hindsight, it taught me a lot of lessons about like endurance because
we spent hundreds of hours, many, many months on that world.
And I had a daily routine.
I would wake up during the pandemic and I would like go on a run.
So I didn't like go on a run right away in the morning.
I don't think I think I was watching YouTube and like wasting a lot of the day.
But before I would get on the game, I would go on a run and I would just be, I would just
try and like work out a little bit.
And then at nighttime, right before I went to bed, I would do like this little workout,
which is a whole different story because I was embarrassed at the time, but whatever.
That routine that I had allowed me to endure through literally like, I don't know how long,
but I would literally just sit there for five hours straight, clicking my computer mouse
for literally five hours straight, doing the same exact activity over and over again because
we were like building a lot of things.
Like, I would basically be doing the same exact monotonous task on that world countless
times.
Like we drained in, I don't, if you've ever played Minecraft and you try to drain like
an ocean monument of all the water, we did that, but we also destroyed the entire ocean
monument.
We also drained an entire 100 diameter circle around it and then eight different circles
around that too.
So like that took hundreds of hours to do.
And that taught me a huge lesson.
Endurance creates results.
And I endured through that mind numbing task of constantly doing all those things, like
getting rid of all the water, collecting the water, and then it was in survival mode.
So it's a lot more difficult than that because you have to get all the materials and then
you have to get the sponges and then you have to dry out the sponges and then use them and
dry them.
And then the whole process, which I don't care anymore about it because I don't play
video games, but I'm just saying it so you can understand that it was extremely tedious
and boring.
But that, like I was actually building discipline doing that.
It's crazy because I was building discipline enduring through that.
And then I was also having a routine to avoid burnout.
So all of that routine avoided burnout.
And then I was building my discipline enduring through all the tedious tasks.
All of that combined created results.
So to combine everything I just talked about routine helps you refine your skills.
It builds your skills.
That's what I learned from Fortnite.
And then routine helps you avoid burnout.
That's what I learned from Minecraft.
And then discipline through the tedious tasks helps, or okay, discipline through the tedious
tasks creates results.
So all of these things combined can be applied to literally anything you're working on, anything
you're working towards.
And these different lessons that I learned are I am applying every single day to this
YouTube channel.
And it's paying off already.
I'm literally, I have like 80 subscribers, which doesn't sound like that much, but if
you listen to a couple videos back, I was literally talking about how try and visualize
80 people, like a crowd of 80 people following you in real life.
So imagine you are the leader, and there's 80 people behind you just walking and following
you.
That's incredible.
That is incredible.
80 subscribers, most people would laugh at, they would scoff at, but no, that is an insane
amount of people following you.