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So lately I've been reminiscing on my childhood.

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I originally started doing this because I saw in a book that I'm reading, The Power

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of Personal Storytelling, this was one of the actual steps and so I took it and it's

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basically just to try and remember your childhood.

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And if you're like most people you don't really remember it that well because our society

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conditions us to kind of forget about it and not really remember it that often.

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And it's really been like that ever since the Industrial Revolution when we started

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this new term, got created, it's called productivity.

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It's a combination of product and activity and it combined to form productivity.

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And so now we tend to, now we've kind of stopped lounging around.

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Like before the Industrial Revolution it was very common for people to just sit and just

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do nothing and just sit in their own thoughts and just think.

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But ever since the Industrial Revolution that's been like phased out of life.

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And now we want to feel productive and so we don't really like just sitting but so now

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we like sit still but we always tie it to something like playing video games, watching

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TV, eating food, like just whatever the action may be.

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But it's, this exercise has proved very valuable for me because in one of my previous episodes

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I talked about how I learned three huge lessons from, like I basically reinstated three different

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attributes or traits into my life.

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They were courage, leadership and being good with girls, just from memories from my past.

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But yesterday I actually learned another thing.

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I learned that I was on self improvement while I was playing video games.

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So if you don't know my story, pretty much I was a normal kid, well I am a normal kid

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but in fifth grade I got an Xbox and I started playing video games a lot.

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And I also was, actually before that I even had like an iPad and I would watch YouTube

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a lot, like YouTube kids because I wasn't allowed to watch YouTube.

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And I would watch like Netflix and then I would like, I would watch a lot of content.

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That's just what kids do nowadays.

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So I would just do that and I'm going to be honest, it kind of destroyed my life.

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But not really because I learned a huge lesson back when I was playing video games.

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So there was multiple games that I played but two games that I want to talk about right

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now, Fortnite and Minecraft.

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And the lesson that I learned while playing Fortnite was in middle school when I would

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play all the time, I would get eventually towards the end of middle school and like

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later on into high school.

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I got serious about getting better at the game.

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I didn't, I stopped playing it just for fun and just for the sake of playing it and instead

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my goals changed to getting better, getting better, getting better.

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And so I developed a daily routine.

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I would literally create a routine instinctively like just to get better.

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Somehow I understood that routine creates, routine creates results.

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And so I am reminded myself of how I literally knew that trait.

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Like I relied on my routine and as a result, like a year later, I became, well over the

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time I became better but like one year later I became really good at Fortnite.

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And so that's something that I kind of need to remember right now because I've been trying

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to, actually I needed to remember it a couple weeks ago and thankfully I got through it

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but a couple weeks ago I was thinking like am I really going to be doing this like this

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routine for over and over and over again?

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And then I just reminded myself that yes I am doing this.

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But now I remember that routine creates results.

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So that's one story of how I had a daily routine.

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It would literally just be, I would go on the Xbox and I would literally just do a map.

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There was like this game mode on Fortnite where you can like practice your skills and

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it's basically where you get like countless repetitions in.

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So you're like refining your skills, you're like getting reps after reps after reps, like

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very high density and that's a very good practice.

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And I did that.

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That was my daily routine.

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That was my warmup.

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And I actually made a YouTube video on my Fortnite warmup but I deleted that channel so I don't

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think that anyone could find that YouTube video.

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But if you can find it, send it to me because I'd be curious to see it.

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So that's the lesson I learned on Fortnite.

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And then I basically learned the same lesson from remembering how I played Minecraft but

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a different version.

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So Fortnite routine created results and Minecraft routine created results as well.

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But for Fortnite, the routine was to get way better.

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And Minecraft, the routine was to avoid burnout and it was to like make sure that I was able

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to endure through long periods of gaming.

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And this was back during the pandemic when I would just, me and my friend created this

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Minecraft world and we spent hundreds of hours on it.

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And it was probably the best world that I've ever made.

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And I can almost guarantee it's better than any world that you've ever made too.

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I don't care.

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I mean, that's like the only thing that I'm like kind of proud of from my video game journey

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just because it was so like creative and it also taught me a lot of lessons about like

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now that I'm in hindsight, it taught me a lot of lessons about like endurance because

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we spent hundreds of hours, many, many months on that world.

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And I had a daily routine.

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I would wake up during the pandemic and I would like go on a run.

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So I didn't like go on a run right away in the morning.

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I don't think I think I was watching YouTube and like wasting a lot of the day.

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But before I would get on the game, I would go on a run and I would just be, I would just

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try and like work out a little bit.

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And then at nighttime, right before I went to bed, I would do like this little workout,

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which is a whole different story because I was embarrassed at the time, but whatever.

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That routine that I had allowed me to endure through literally like, I don't know how long,

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but I would literally just sit there for five hours straight, clicking my computer mouse

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for literally five hours straight, doing the same exact activity over and over again because

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we were like building a lot of things.

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Like, I would basically be doing the same exact monotonous task on that world countless

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times.

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Like we drained in, I don't, if you've ever played Minecraft and you try to drain like

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an ocean monument of all the water, we did that, but we also destroyed the entire ocean

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monument.

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We also drained an entire 100 diameter circle around it and then eight different circles

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around that too.

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So like that took hundreds of hours to do.

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And that taught me a huge lesson.

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Endurance creates results.

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And I endured through that mind numbing task of constantly doing all those things, like

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getting rid of all the water, collecting the water, and then it was in survival mode.

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So it's a lot more difficult than that because you have to get all the materials and then

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you have to get the sponges and then you have to dry out the sponges and then use them and

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dry them.

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And then the whole process, which I don't care anymore about it because I don't play

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video games, but I'm just saying it so you can understand that it was extremely tedious

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and boring.

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But that, like I was actually building discipline doing that.

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It's crazy because I was building discipline enduring through that.

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And then I was also having a routine to avoid burnout.

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So all of that routine avoided burnout.

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And then I was building my discipline enduring through all the tedious tasks.

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All of that combined created results.

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So to combine everything I just talked about routine helps you refine your skills.

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It builds your skills.

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That's what I learned from Fortnite.

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And then routine helps you avoid burnout.

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That's what I learned from Minecraft.

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And then discipline through the tedious tasks helps, or okay, discipline through the tedious

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tasks creates results.

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So all of these things combined can be applied to literally anything you're working on, anything

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you're working towards.

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And these different lessons that I learned are I am applying every single day to this

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YouTube channel.

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And it's paying off already.

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I'm literally, I have like 80 subscribers, which doesn't sound like that much, but if

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you listen to a couple videos back, I was literally talking about how try and visualize

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80 people, like a crowd of 80 people following you in real life.

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So imagine you are the leader, and there's 80 people behind you just walking and following

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you.

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That's incredible.

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That is incredible.

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80 subscribers, most people would laugh at, they would scoff at, but no, that is an insane

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amount of people following you.