Stories, that's what I ended it on last month.
And I made two videos this past month.
Things are going a lot slower.
I'm going to be honest.
I feel like I've been like falling apart.
I got sick on around the time I finished making a video where I recorded myself doing 1,000
dips in 24 hours.
And that sickness lasted like a week and a half.
And then I started like working on the next video.
And then right after I finished recording that, I got injured from that video.
And those are two excuses.
In reality, I've just kind of been changing my routine.
Before I was just like focused solely on work and now I'm eating more often throughout
the day.
I'm also watching a lot more YouTube.
And it's kind of tough because it's a tough balance.
Because I'm going to be honest.
I am definitely watching.
Like I'm having a lot more leeway with YouTube lately.
And that's for good reason because you actually need to watch videos so that you know how
to make good videos.
But there becomes a point where it's a little bit too much.
And I'm not like spending 10 hours a day watching.
I'm probably watching for, I don't even know.
But right now I'm in another kind of, not transition, but I'm in a kind of like a stagnant
period where I know exactly what I want to do.
I already have my next video planned out.
But I need a couple hundred dollars to do it.
Or I need like 200 more dollars than I have.
And so right now I'm figuring out how to make that 200 dollars.
And I actually came up with a pretty good plan.
And I'm executing on the plan already.
And I'm not going to say what the plan is.
Because you know, you know how I do it.
You know my style.
But basically I'm trying to figure out how to make this next video work.
And I'm spending a lot more time on my videos.
Because I came to this realization.
Every single video on my channel sucks.
And it's not just because I need to get better at my craft.
I need to get better at all that.
Yeah, I still need to do that.
That's a lifetime process of I'm forever going to need to get better at that.
But it's also because I'm not making videos that people actually want to watch.
You have to make a video about something that somebody would actually want to watch.
Something that would genuinely evoke curiosity and genuinely, I don't know.
I feel like I've been playing like the Cheapskates YouTube.
Where I'm just trying to like, just in it for a buck.
I'm just trying to take like the easy way.
When in reality you go on YouTube and you see like people do crazy things.
Even normal people that are like my age, you can, you see people do crazy things like this
guy Jack Pembroke, I think is his name.
He, his most recent video is, or actually one of his recent videos.
He opened a better McDonald's.
He literally like rented out a restaurant and opened up a McDonald's.
And you could say, oh, he had a lot more money to do that.
Sure.
But his first video that he had like no money for, he literally flew to a random country
and spent seven days with no money.
Basically like homeless.
Like that's something that people would actually want to watch.
And I've been playing like the Cheapskates version of YouTube.
And my next video is not the Cheapskates.
So that's why, but I can't make it until I get like $200 more, which I have a pretty
clear path to get $200 like a plan, not a path, but a plan, whether that plan will work
out is a different story.
But basically that's my update for this month.
The stories that I'm working on are, I'm basically like just making videos of me doing stuff.
Like my most recent two videos was I did 1000 dips in the past 24 hours.
And then my most recent video was I tried doing pushups for 24 hours straight.
That's it.
I'm still working on making transformational videos, but it's just a different way of doing
it.
In my opinion, I think it's a more effective way because people change through story.
And videos, the medium of video has visual storytelling and also audio storytelling.
So you can put stuff on a screen and that's also a story.
And with like self improvement videos where it's just a person sitting in front of a camera
talking, that's just using like audio, even if they're sharing their life story.
It's still just audio and it's not as potent of a transformative agent versus if you watch
a like documentary or something.
There's a documentary I watched recently, it's called Iceman or Project Iceman or something
like that.
This dude went to Antarctica and completed an Ironman, which is like a very long endurance
based race of biking, swimming and running, swimming, biking and then running, swimming
in like 30 degree temperature water, which is below freezing, which is incredible.
That's an incredible feat.
And that documentary is a very transformative documentary.
That's the type of stuff that not like change your life, changes your life because in reality,
there's no one thing that will change your life like a drastic change.
The only way like the there's a common saying like it completely changed my life.
No, it didn't really completely change your life.
The only things that completely change your life are things where you're put in a completely
brand new environment with brand new people, brand new set of social rules.
That's what when you're putting that that completely changes your life like like drug
rehab stuff and criminal rehab or whatever, all that, all those things completely change
your life.
But like a YouTube video is not going to completely change your life no matter if it's like a
documentary.
But what it does do is it like expands your worldview and it humans remember story.
And so I noticed this in my life after I watched that video.
I was like out on a walk and I was thinking about it.
I like the thought popped up in my head of just little scenes in that in that movie of
him pushing through a bunch of problems and hurdles.
And that is what helps you change your life over time.
But basically I'm taking it a lot more seriously.
Like I've been taking YouTube seriously.
And I noticed this over time there's always like leaps that I take where I go even deeper
and I take it even more seriously.
Every couple months I just go even more serious.
That's basically it.
I'll reveal what I am working on next month.
Peace.