WEBVTT 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.019 Our inner resolution of our inner experience 00:00:04.019 --> 00:00:09.039 is really dim. It's really low. And just to preface, 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:14.320 I just spent the past hour recording this episode 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.379 and then it deleted. So I'm rerecording it. So 00:00:18.379 --> 00:00:24.800 let's do it. Our inner experience is really dim. 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.480 So what I mean by that is, you know how you can 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:35.399 scan? your inner body for like feelings and just 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:39.060 just general awareness like you can like direct 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:41.280 your attention to your fingertips and you can 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:44.299 feel your fingertips for example with your eyes 00:00:44.299 --> 00:00:48.259 closed or with them open whatever that's what 00:00:48.259 --> 00:00:51.960 i mean by inner experience and i'm going to create 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:55.539 an analogy where this is the well first of all 00:00:55.539 --> 00:00:59.020 this model that i'm about to explain is something 00:00:59.020 --> 00:01:02.219 that I've been trying to explain for a very long 00:01:02.219 --> 00:01:05.780 time with no success. I've been trying to explain 00:01:05.780 --> 00:01:08.439 it with lots of different models that wasn't 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:10.719 really hitting the thing that I was trying to 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:12.739 explain. Or they were hitting different things, 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:20.260 which are still relevant, but not totally. Or 00:01:20.260 --> 00:01:24.790 I mean, still relevant, but not this. So this 00:01:24.790 --> 00:01:27.390 model is an analogy where our inner experience 00:01:27.390 --> 00:01:30.230 is like a cave system, a vast cave system. So 00:01:30.230 --> 00:01:32.969 like you can travel through the cave system to 00:01:32.969 --> 00:01:36.530 the finger section and then you can light up 00:01:36.530 --> 00:01:39.769 a flashlight and receive the information from 00:01:39.769 --> 00:01:45.170 that section of the cave. Or perceive it actually, 00:01:45.230 --> 00:01:47.810 not just receive it, but perceive it with a flashlight. 00:01:49.230 --> 00:01:51.590 And you can travel to any part of the cave system. 00:01:54.459 --> 00:02:00.480 This, but my inner resolution is very dim. For 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.400 example, I can, like the other day I was laying, 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.459 I was going to bed, laying in bed, and I was 00:02:07.459 --> 00:02:14.199 trying to decipher where my stomach began and 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:20.000 where it stopped, basically. And I was a little 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.340 hungry, so I had this whole signal. telling me 00:02:24.340 --> 00:02:30.159 where to focus my attention. And I couldn't do 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:33.080 it. I couldn't find where my stomach was. I could 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.819 find the vague general vicinity because I know 00:02:36.819 --> 00:02:41.259 from life experience and from that experience 00:02:41.259 --> 00:02:46.000 of feeling the hunger pain. But I couldn't find 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.560 the exact structural spot. And so... I was able 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:52.919 to travel to that part of the cave system, but 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.939 my flashlight was so dim that I couldn't find 00:02:55.939 --> 00:02:59.099 where it started or where it didn't. Or at least 00:02:59.099 --> 00:03:01.860 it was dim in that particular spot. And so I 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:05.680 think there are two major factors involved in 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:11.300 this. Now, another model that I created or had 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:14.379 another idea that I had over the past month is 00:03:14.379 --> 00:03:17.639 that there are actually an infinite amount of 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:21.669 factors in everything. But models isolate and 00:03:21.669 --> 00:03:24.509 focus our attention on just a few specific ones 00:03:24.509 --> 00:03:27.789 or even just one. And that can lead to issues 00:03:27.789 --> 00:03:31.349 if you only focus your attention on those. But 00:03:31.349 --> 00:03:35.110 a model is best when it directs your attention 00:03:35.110 --> 00:03:37.750 to something that you didn't take into consideration 00:03:37.750 --> 00:03:42.469 before while retaining your awareness that there 00:03:42.469 --> 00:03:46.620 are still infinite. possibilities and reality 00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:49.039 itself is infinite with infinite factors in play 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.659 but in this model keep that in mind there are 00:03:52.659 --> 00:03:59.060 two major factors at play affecting your inner 00:03:59.060 --> 00:04:03.020 resolution how bright your flashlight is in your 00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:10.000 cave system the first one is movement so there 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.520 It just has to do with just straight up movement. 00:04:13.659 --> 00:04:16.399 Let's say you move around your legs a lot. Then 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.339 you're going to be able to have a higher resolution 00:04:19.339 --> 00:04:25.699 of awareness in that region of your body. But 00:04:25.699 --> 00:04:27.519 that doesn't necessarily mean that you'll have 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:31.639 a more refined awareness. For example, you might 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:33.879 move around your legs a lot, but that doesn't 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.199 necessarily mean you'll be able to decipher between 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:40.579 the different strands of your quad. Or different 00:04:40.579 --> 00:04:45.079 parts of your quad. And that's an important factor. 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.740 Because movement. Depending on the movement you 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:54.560 do. Affects your. Resolution. So if you do a 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.160 general movement. Just like basic walking. Then 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.779 that will affect your general. Awareness. Of 00:05:00.779 --> 00:05:07.459 your leg. But if you do specific. exercises or 00:05:07.459 --> 00:05:11.160 specific stretches for example that isolate one 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.579 part of your quad and you basically activate 00:05:14.579 --> 00:05:17.339 that one part and then over time you basically 00:05:17.339 --> 00:05:21.160 learn to perceive that one part and then that 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:24.439 will increase your resolution of that specific 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.680 section of your body that part of your quad and 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:30.579 there i'm pretty sure there are people who can 00:05:30.579 --> 00:05:34.439 perceive like they can close their eyes and feel 00:05:35.310 --> 00:05:39.569 The differences. Between. Like the different 00:05:39.569 --> 00:05:41.910 parts of their quad. You might be one of them. 00:05:45.889 --> 00:05:52.990 But. And this relates to me. Where. I have been. 00:05:55.670 --> 00:05:58.110 Injured for the last couple months. In the foot. 00:05:58.310 --> 00:06:00.670 And then recently. I actually re -injured it. 00:06:00.689 --> 00:06:06.790 Even worse than it's ever been. And. I injured 00:06:06.790 --> 00:06:10.250 both of the feet. So in this past, like a couple 00:06:10.250 --> 00:06:12.889 weeks ago, I injured, re -injured my right foot 00:06:12.889 --> 00:06:14.990 even worse. And then I ended up compensating 00:06:14.990 --> 00:06:17.050 way too much on my left foot and injuring that 00:06:17.050 --> 00:06:19.689 really bad. So I couldn't walk at all. And I, 00:06:19.810 --> 00:06:22.569 they were, they felt so unstable that I had to 00:06:22.569 --> 00:06:26.529 keep them in boots all day long and all night. 00:06:26.829 --> 00:06:30.089 because any pressure, like even something as 00:06:30.089 --> 00:06:33.410 simple as a cotton blanket resting on my foot 00:06:33.410 --> 00:06:36.829 would feel uncomfortable because my feet were 00:06:36.829 --> 00:06:40.209 unstable. And so I kept them locked up in boots, 00:06:40.230 --> 00:06:43.790 very tight all day long, all night long too. 00:06:44.029 --> 00:06:48.069 The only time I took them out was to shower. 00:06:48.569 --> 00:06:51.209 And so basically for like two or three weeks 00:06:51.209 --> 00:06:55.069 straight, I cut out all movement. And before 00:06:55.069 --> 00:06:57.500 this period, I actually had a good connection 00:06:57.500 --> 00:07:01.839 with my feet. Like, I would walk around barefoot 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:05.980 all the time. Not before this recent injury, 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.920 but before the injury in general, which I've 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:10.579 been injured for the past couple months since 00:07:10.579 --> 00:07:14.019 summer, and it's December right now. So I've 00:07:14.019 --> 00:07:16.300 been injured for the past, like, four or five 00:07:16.300 --> 00:07:23.100 months. And before I would have, like... I would 00:07:23.100 --> 00:07:25.259 walk around barefoot. I would be able to spread 00:07:25.259 --> 00:07:27.519 out my toes and I'll do toe exercise every day. 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:30.139 Basically all around had good connection with 00:07:30.139 --> 00:07:35.360 my feet. More so than most people in our society. 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.000 But then for this couple of weeks, I basically 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.379 cut out all movement from my feet and I could 00:07:43.379 --> 00:07:47.259 feel the difference in my inner resolution after 00:07:47.259 --> 00:07:53.589 a couple of weeks of it. Even now. I've been 00:07:53.589 --> 00:07:55.709 out of my boots for a couple weeks, maybe like 00:07:55.709 --> 00:07:58.730 one or two weeks, and I've been slowly regaining 00:07:58.730 --> 00:08:01.089 my inner resolution, but I can still feel that 00:08:01.089 --> 00:08:03.430 I lost a lot of inner resolution. What I mean 00:08:03.430 --> 00:08:07.290 by that is I remember laying in my bed one night 00:08:07.290 --> 00:08:13.569 after I took out my boots after that couple weeks 00:08:13.569 --> 00:08:16.509 of not moving them. I had my feet out laying 00:08:16.509 --> 00:08:22.790 on my bed trying to perceive. and obtain information, 00:08:23.069 --> 00:08:25.370 trying to direct my mind's attention to that 00:08:25.370 --> 00:08:28.970 region of my body, my feet, and even just my 00:08:28.970 --> 00:08:36.549 general legs. And I wasn't perceiving that much. 00:08:36.769 --> 00:08:40.450 Like I couldn't experience that much like I would 00:08:40.450 --> 00:08:43.289 before. And so that's why I think that movement 00:08:43.289 --> 00:08:46.320 has a big play. big deal like if you move and 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:49.179 you use that part of your body in general but 00:08:49.179 --> 00:08:53.299 also specific movements for specific parts unlock 00:08:53.299 --> 00:08:57.840 specific parts of resolution that's the first 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.700 factor the second factor involved in inner resolution 00:09:00.700 --> 00:09:10.440 in my opinion is attention so how precise and 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:14.500 how sharp your attention is affects how much 00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:17.580 you're able to perceive in your inner being, 00:09:17.779 --> 00:09:23.860 I guess. So for example, the first time I injured 00:09:23.860 --> 00:09:27.139 myself, I injured my feet a couple months ago. 00:09:27.179 --> 00:09:29.960 I really wanted to heal really quick. So I was 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.399 doing physical therapy all day. On my own physical 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.620 therapy, I was stretching, all that stuff. And 00:09:36.620 --> 00:09:39.000 then I was also spending like three hours every 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.200 day meditating. to heal. And what I would do 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.679 is I would just lay down in my bed, put all of 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.120 my body parts, like my entire body to sleep, 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:51.759 and then just direct my attention on my feet, 00:09:51.820 --> 00:09:54.240 on my foot. At the time, I only had one foot 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.580 injured, but I would direct my entire attention 00:09:56.580 --> 00:10:03.500 on my foot and do that for, hold it there for 00:10:03.500 --> 00:10:06.220 like an hour and try to focus deeper and deeper 00:10:06.220 --> 00:10:08.259 and deeper and refine my attention deeper and 00:10:08.259 --> 00:10:10.639 deeper and deeper. And there was one day where 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:15.000 it actually, I mean, every day I would discover 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.779 new pains that I wasn't perceiving before. But 00:10:18.779 --> 00:10:20.399 on this particular day, it struck out because 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:23.899 it actually affected how the events, the future 00:10:23.899 --> 00:10:28.799 events played out. So I don't really experience, 00:10:28.899 --> 00:10:32.620 I'm not, this type of foot injury is not giving 00:10:32.620 --> 00:10:36.529 me pain. uh, generally it gives me like discomfort 00:10:36.529 --> 00:10:39.629 and instability. And yes, there are moments of 00:10:39.629 --> 00:10:41.450 pain, but like, for example, right now I don't 00:10:41.450 --> 00:10:44.350 feel pain. I feel some symptoms, but that's just 00:10:44.350 --> 00:10:46.250 because I've been sitting for a couple hours 00:10:46.250 --> 00:10:51.830 or one hour, but in general, I don't have pain, 00:10:51.909 --> 00:10:57.649 but this particular time, I mean, at this time 00:10:57.649 --> 00:11:00.909 it was even less like I I my foot was less injured 00:11:00.909 --> 00:11:02.929 than it is now and I definitely did not have 00:11:02.929 --> 00:11:05.549 as much pain then which was a couple months ago 00:11:05.549 --> 00:11:07.750 when this story took place and I was meditating 00:11:07.750 --> 00:11:12.210 I was sitting there meditating and I just spent 00:11:12.210 --> 00:11:14.389 like 30 minutes putting my body to sleep and 00:11:14.389 --> 00:11:21.629 then focusing my attention on my foot and I remember 00:11:21.629 --> 00:11:25.720 after like 30 minutes of like refining my focus 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:27.419 deeper and deeper and deeper, more resolution, 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:33.159 a really sharp pain. I started to perceive a 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.200 really sharp pain that was there the whole time. 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:38.480 And it was this sharp pain in this one particular 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:49.059 part of my toe, my big toe. And that made me 00:11:49.059 --> 00:11:52.470 realize that The reason why that particular event 00:11:52.470 --> 00:11:57.429 struck out to me was because I received information 00:11:57.429 --> 00:12:01.929 from my meditation. And then I went on to go 00:12:01.929 --> 00:12:05.110 to physical therapy with an actual physical therapist 00:12:05.110 --> 00:12:08.809 later that day. And I told her about that particular 00:12:08.809 --> 00:12:14.070 part of pain. And she changed the workflow or 00:12:14.070 --> 00:12:16.850 changed the exercise a little bit to optimize 00:12:16.850 --> 00:12:20.899 for that too. And it helped. And so I remember 00:12:20.899 --> 00:12:23.100 being really excited because I obtained data 00:12:23.100 --> 00:12:27.600 from meditation that actually changed the way 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:34.779 that I lived. And then I, but I didn't really 00:12:34.779 --> 00:12:38.679 connect the dots until recently where I realized 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.899 that your attention actually affects your resolution. 00:12:45.059 --> 00:12:49.679 And the way this is practical is How many things 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:54.379 are there? How much data, how much information 00:12:54.379 --> 00:12:57.399 is being sent to us from our bodies, from our 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.799 brains that we're just not picking up on? And 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.139 the metaphor I like is if you go, and I think 00:13:04.139 --> 00:13:07.659 it's a muscle, both the attention piece, but 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:11.600 also just the general ability to perceive your, 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:18.500 like the... the things, the signals that are 00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:20.580 being sent from your body. I think it's a muscle. 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.519 So, and I say that because you go to a gym and 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.399 let's say someone can only pick up 30 pounds 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.620 because their muscle is not developed enough. 00:13:30.860 --> 00:13:33.840 They literally, because they have that, their 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.379 muscle is at that level, they literally cannot 00:13:36.379 --> 00:13:43.000 pick up 300 pounds. It is not possible. You have 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:45.759 to grow and you have to train and practice and 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:49.500 on build your muscle to build a big up 300 pounds 00:13:49.500 --> 00:13:54.200 and so it's i use the word muscle for this too 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:56.860 because i don't think that we can actually perceive 00:13:56.860 --> 00:14:00.019 all of the stuff right away you have to grow 00:14:00.019 --> 00:14:06.759 um expand and improve your muscle of being able 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:08.960 to perceive all of the things that are going 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:17.330 on and so right now like The practical implications 00:14:17.330 --> 00:14:22.009 of this are when I was injured, and I'm still 00:14:22.009 --> 00:14:26.230 injured, I wasn't experiencing pain in that particular 00:14:26.230 --> 00:14:31.629 part of my toe until I focused my attention on 00:14:31.629 --> 00:14:34.389 it. And let's say at that particular part, I 00:14:34.389 --> 00:14:40.529 was exerting a level 30 skill. But my normal 00:14:40.529 --> 00:14:43.450 skill just existing is like level 10. Let's just 00:14:43.450 --> 00:14:45.950 say, for example. But at that particular part, 00:14:46.049 --> 00:14:48.649 I was straining, meditating, and really focusing. 00:14:49.529 --> 00:14:52.370 And I basically turned off all of my other body 00:14:52.370 --> 00:14:54.309 parts so that I could focus all my attention 00:14:54.309 --> 00:14:57.049 on this one part. And so on this particular toe 00:14:57.049 --> 00:15:02.409 section, I was experiencing level 30 skill on 00:15:02.409 --> 00:15:06.330 being able to perceive things. And because I 00:15:06.330 --> 00:15:09.649 had that higher level of awareness, I was able 00:15:09.649 --> 00:15:12.389 to receive more data. And that data was really 00:15:12.389 --> 00:15:15.070 important. It was pain. That was experiencing 00:15:15.070 --> 00:15:25.850 sharp pain in my toe. And so I think that let's 00:15:25.850 --> 00:15:33.450 say your basic level of skill is like 20. But 00:15:33.450 --> 00:15:35.929 there are things that are being sent that would 00:15:35.929 --> 00:15:39.070 require a level skill of 50 to be able to receive. 00:15:39.389 --> 00:15:42.129 And those things could be important signals from 00:15:42.129 --> 00:15:46.519 your body. I'm so sorry. This episode has turned 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:49.039 out really bad, I think, because I basically 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.639 explained this whole, like all of this already. 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:54.620 I've been talking for like the past hour because 00:15:54.620 --> 00:16:00.259 I recorded an entire hour session. And my mind 00:16:00.259 --> 00:16:04.360 is like distracted because I've already explained 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.379 all this, but I hope you understand. Basically. 00:16:10.830 --> 00:16:13.350 our level of skill in our society is low because 00:16:13.350 --> 00:16:16.750 one no one has movement like our we live a very 00:16:16.750 --> 00:16:19.549 sedentary lifestyle in our society but also we 00:16:19.549 --> 00:16:24.590 don't do very um isolated or specialized movements 00:16:24.590 --> 00:16:29.909 either to unlock like the the specialized regions 00:16:29.909 --> 00:16:32.190 like being able to decipher between different 00:16:32.190 --> 00:16:35.009 quads different parts of your quad for example 00:16:35.009 --> 00:16:39.409 and also uh we live in a very materialistic culture 00:16:39.409 --> 00:16:45.460 where we don't put very much importance on controlling 00:16:45.460 --> 00:16:48.139 our attention and so that's the other factor 00:16:48.139 --> 00:16:54.039 that's important for being able to perceive all 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.980 of this stuff in our experience and now I'm not 00:16:57.980 --> 00:17:00.679 here saying that I have anything figured out 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.440 or anything mastered I am basically level one 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.019 but I'm just pointing out stuff that I've observed 00:17:07.019 --> 00:17:11.279 recently And this is also practical because I 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:16.980 think this is also applicable in the mental part 00:17:16.980 --> 00:17:21.079 of things. So I think that we should be able 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.380 to go into our mind. I think that we have the 00:17:23.380 --> 00:17:27.519 ability to go into our mind, that part of the 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:29.599 cave system instead of the body part, the mind 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:35.779 part, and observe and be able to see all of the... 00:17:36.869 --> 00:17:39.410 things going on see all of our complexes see 00:17:39.410 --> 00:17:42.670 all of our dichotomies see all that stuff and 00:17:42.670 --> 00:17:44.930 observe all of the information like let's say 00:17:44.930 --> 00:17:47.890 observe the observe and receive the information 00:17:47.890 --> 00:17:50.609 that oh this is not what we're supposed to like 00:17:50.609 --> 00:17:52.529 we don't actually want to do this thing i don't 00:17:52.529 --> 00:17:54.750 want to hang out with this person this this this 00:17:54.750 --> 00:17:58.809 you know i think we have that ability i think 00:17:58.809 --> 00:18:00.849 we are receiving all that information but we're 00:18:00.849 --> 00:18:03.490 not actually perceiving it because we have low 00:18:03.490 --> 00:18:06.470 skill. And now there are examples of people in 00:18:06.470 --> 00:18:09.329 our culture that have higher skills and we actually 00:18:09.329 --> 00:18:12.750 have labels for them. They might be like introspective 00:18:12.750 --> 00:18:16.670 or reflective or self -aware. Those people have 00:18:16.670 --> 00:18:20.150 a higher level of skill at this particular thing 00:18:20.150 --> 00:18:21.890 because they do it more and so they've developed 00:18:21.890 --> 00:18:25.569 it more. But I still think there's so much more. 00:18:25.650 --> 00:18:29.289 I think there's a whole fundamental, I think 00:18:29.289 --> 00:18:31.670 there's a whole other world available to us. 00:18:33.619 --> 00:18:39.740 Um, and we're stuck on level one. And now that, 00:18:39.859 --> 00:18:42.299 and I think it's a very structural thing too, 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:46.400 because I don't think the answer is to, um, start 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:49.859 meditating every day because I've done that. 00:18:49.900 --> 00:18:52.940 And the amount of progress I made out of like 00:18:52.940 --> 00:18:55.500 months of doing that, um, every day, and even 00:18:55.500 --> 00:18:58.339 like months doing that for hours every day is 00:18:58.339 --> 00:19:01.809 minuscule compared to the results that i want 00:19:01.809 --> 00:19:04.589 to gain um and so like if i did that over the 00:19:04.589 --> 00:19:06.990 course of my entire life i wouldn't get to where 00:19:06.990 --> 00:19:11.509 i would want to get i think it's a very structural 00:19:11.509 --> 00:19:15.910 thing um not just a practical um start meditating 00:19:15.910 --> 00:19:25.000 thing but that is uh and that's also not to dissuade 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:27.339 someone from starting to meditate or turn someone 00:19:27.339 --> 00:19:29.460 off from meditation either. I think meditation 00:19:29.460 --> 00:19:31.539 is great, but I don't think that's the whole 00:19:31.539 --> 00:19:36.119 answer. So that's my model on inner resolution. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:42.940 And now let's get into AI. Oh my goodness. I'm 00:19:42.940 --> 00:19:45.700 sorry if I'm not sounding very passionate or 00:19:45.700 --> 00:19:48.000 excited right now because I've already explained 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.779 all of this stuff in the episode that got deleted. 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:58.500 today but basically i've been sleeping on ai 00:19:58.500 --> 00:20:05.680 so ai my perception of my perceptions of ai is 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:10.680 has has been formed by the information that i 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:14.200 have been exposed to so for example ai started 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:18.559 to become mainstream and very good or like very 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:21.819 practical when i was still in school a couple 00:20:21.819 --> 00:20:25.109 years ago And that was like all of the information, 00:20:25.289 --> 00:20:27.769 all the context surrounding that was like, oh, 00:20:27.910 --> 00:20:30.029 you can use this to cheat or, oh, don't use this 00:20:30.029 --> 00:20:32.849 to cheat because we're going to have AI writing 00:20:32.849 --> 00:20:36.990 detectors. And then it was like, oh, I'm going 00:20:36.990 --> 00:20:39.049 to ask it to write, do this homework for me. 00:20:39.089 --> 00:20:41.730 And it sucks. The answers are terrible and all 00:20:41.730 --> 00:20:45.109 that stuff. So basically, that was all the context 00:20:45.109 --> 00:20:47.089 that I had surrounding it. I was just this kind 00:20:47.089 --> 00:20:50.769 of stupid, like cheating device. That's kind 00:20:50.769 --> 00:20:55.519 of trash. that can be caught easily and you get 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:02.500 in trouble for using it and then i started making 00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:05.900 videos on youtube and then after a while i started 00:21:05.900 --> 00:21:08.440 using ai to generate the images for the b -roll 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:13.880 and also for the thumbnails and after like a 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:16.339 month or two of doing that the like i realized 00:21:16.339 --> 00:21:18.740 the videos were terrible low quality and i didn't 00:21:18.740 --> 00:21:21.619 want to use ai ever again on my videos because 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.420 The quality was terrible and it was just obvious 00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:27.660 that it was AI and it was dumb and it was low 00:21:27.660 --> 00:21:32.359 quality, low effort, all that stuff. And then 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:36.819 recently I started watching videos from experts, 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:39.940 like leading experts who are designing and creating 00:21:39.940 --> 00:21:45.200 AI or who have created AI or have researched 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:49.799 AI in the past. giving warnings about what's 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:51.960 how ai is going to change the world and how it's 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:55.799 going to affect us and so that basically changed 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:58.839 my perceptions of ai my worldview and my context 00:21:58.839 --> 00:22:01.940 to oh ai is something that's happening to me 00:22:01.940 --> 00:22:07.119 so basically my whole context up to this point 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.940 is ai is this tool or this like thing to cheat 00:22:10.940 --> 00:22:13.339 on homework assignments with that's kind of trash 00:22:13.339 --> 00:22:17.920 and it's also this thing to make trash images 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:20.720 with that is obvious that it's AI and it's low 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:23.359 effort and it's also that's this thing that is 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:25.599 happening to me that's going to change the world 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:33.299 that has crazy powers but then over the past 00:22:33.299 --> 00:22:40.220 month on accident like I started completely changing 00:22:40.220 --> 00:22:42.880 my perspective and my mindset surrounding it 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.420 and I'll tell you the story So basically, right 00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:48.039 now I'm in a season of my life learning how to 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:50.599 speak fluent Spanish. And I'll actually show, 00:22:51.859 --> 00:22:55.440 I'll actually play three audio clips taken from 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:59.940 like three to four weeks apart of me speaking 00:22:59.940 --> 00:23:03.160 in Spanish so that you can see my progress. Because 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:06.660 I want to put all that in my episode, but I'm 00:23:06.660 --> 00:23:11.240 going to do that at the end. Now, right now I'm 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:14.220 learning Spanish and I'm creating material. I 00:23:14.220 --> 00:23:18.000 learned this method from this polyglot on YouTube 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:20.359 where you basically just memorize a bunch of 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:24.059 sentences and practice pronouncing them to learn 00:23:24.059 --> 00:23:26.579 the language. And this is the first method that 00:23:26.579 --> 00:23:30.839 I have used that actually works in Spanish, in 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:33.000 learning a language. And it's actually helping 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:36.619 me make so much progress in being able to speak 00:23:36.619 --> 00:23:42.990 and just general fluency. And so... But he also 00:23:42.990 --> 00:23:46.069 recommends making your own sentences because 00:23:46.069 --> 00:23:48.650 then you can say exactly what you can like type 00:23:48.650 --> 00:23:50.210 down everything that you want to say in language 00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:54.809 and then memorize them and then just say them 00:23:54.809 --> 00:23:58.269 in the language. But up to this point, I was 00:23:58.269 --> 00:24:00.730 just memorizing the sentence, the generic sentences 00:24:00.730 --> 00:24:06.029 that he recommend or that he gave just generic 00:24:06.029 --> 00:24:08.430 sentences like to learn vocab and grammar like. 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:12.440 I see a bird in the garden, or he is always nice 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.259 to his friends, or just generic sentences that 00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:17.839 are not useful in conversation, but they're useful 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:27.049 for sentence structure, grammar, and vocab. And 00:24:27.049 --> 00:24:29.450 so I got to the point where I just memorized 00:24:29.450 --> 00:24:31.089 so much of those and I realized that I need to 00:24:31.089 --> 00:24:32.990 start memorizing my own sentences because I know 00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:35.190 all this vocab, but I still don't know how to 00:24:35.190 --> 00:24:37.390 speak about the things that I want to speak about 00:24:37.390 --> 00:24:39.630 because I don't have any sentences memorized. 00:24:39.910 --> 00:24:41.569 And so if I memorize a bunch of sentences, then 00:24:41.569 --> 00:24:43.769 I'll be fluent at saying the things that I want 00:24:43.769 --> 00:24:48.950 to say. And what I did was I sat down on a Google 00:24:48.950 --> 00:24:52.450 Sheets document and started to write these sentences. 00:24:52.609 --> 00:24:56.019 Now, for context. You need thousands of sentences 00:24:56.019 --> 00:25:00.099 like he recommends, like memorizing thousands 00:25:00.099 --> 00:25:03.220 of your own sentences, because then you'll be 00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:05.740 able to say thousands of things and then you'll 00:25:05.740 --> 00:25:08.099 be able to have whole conversations where you 00:25:08.099 --> 00:25:10.660 just are fluent because you've memorized the 00:25:10.660 --> 00:25:14.279 entire script. And so I sit down, I'm sitting 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:17.339 there for like an hour typing, putting in effort 00:25:17.339 --> 00:25:23.079 and I write. 60 sentences and they're not even 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:25.119 stuff that I would actually say because they're 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.299 written in my writer voice and not my speaking 00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:31.359 voice because I write different than how I speak 00:25:31.359 --> 00:25:35.759 and also they weren't like necessarily the highest 00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:38.059 frequency stuff that I was going to say because 00:25:38.059 --> 00:25:43.559 it was just what was on my mind at the time and 00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:47.200 so I was like okay I need a new a new plan so 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:50.529 I just and After a lot of iterating and a lot 00:25:50.529 --> 00:25:53.150 of back and forth and a lot of trying and failing, 00:25:53.190 --> 00:25:58.150 trying and failing, I ended up using AI to make 00:25:58.150 --> 00:26:00.970 this list of sentences. And this was a whole 00:26:00.970 --> 00:26:05.769 process of figuring out because I don't know 00:26:05.769 --> 00:26:08.910 how to use AI. And so I didn't know how to get 00:26:08.910 --> 00:26:11.390 the result that I wanted. So I basically had 00:26:11.390 --> 00:26:15.910 this whole, my plan was to get, download this 00:26:15.910 --> 00:26:21.900 whole. File this get download the past 16 months 00:26:21.900 --> 00:26:26.640 of podcast episodes into one text file and put 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.539 that into AI and tell it to make tell it to extract 00:26:30.539 --> 00:26:35.079 the top 1000 sentences from it. And it actually 00:26:35.079 --> 00:26:38.339 did pretty good. But a lot of it was trash and 00:26:38.339 --> 00:26:41.940 only some of it was good. And basically after 00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:45.059 a lot of iterating, I ended up getting like five 00:26:45.059 --> 00:26:48.599 massive files that AI made of like thousands 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:51.559 of sentences. I combined them all into one file 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:54.779 and then sat down for like four hours filtering 00:26:54.779 --> 00:26:58.880 through them all. And I eventually got a final 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:03.619 list of 1 ,700 sentences that was written by 00:27:03.619 --> 00:27:10.599 AI using my podcast. um like sentences from my 00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:14.440 podcast and so it was all my own sentences that 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:17.339 I actually said and that was basically the first 00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:22.660 project where I was like wow that was great um 00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:26.119 but it didn't like totally change my mind or 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:29.859 totally change my perspective to be like oh this 00:27:29.859 --> 00:27:31.779 is what I need to do like I need to learn AI 00:27:31.779 --> 00:27:34.500 right now or like this is the most important 00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:36.339 skill that I need to learn right now it didn't 00:27:36.339 --> 00:27:44.039 do that yet But it did make me realize that you 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:47.880 can actually use AI a little bit better. And 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:49.700 AI is a little bit more powerful than I suspected. 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:55.259 And I've definitely been sleeping on AI. So then 00:27:55.259 --> 00:28:01.380 going forward, I come up with this new project 00:28:01.380 --> 00:28:04.220 that I want to do. Where I want to be able to 00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:07.829 unlock all the vocab. basically memorize all 00:28:07.829 --> 00:28:11.829 the vocab from a book so that I can read it as 00:28:11.829 --> 00:28:13.609 soon as possible from a book that I would actually 00:28:13.609 --> 00:28:16.750 want to read in English, which would take years 00:28:16.750 --> 00:28:22.890 for most people to be able to naturally drift 00:28:22.890 --> 00:28:26.970 into when learning languages. But I wanted to 00:28:26.970 --> 00:28:29.789 do it in like weeks. I wanted to unlock a book 00:28:29.789 --> 00:28:33.849 that I would read in English, in Spanish in weeks, 00:28:33.990 --> 00:28:37.299 not years. And so I came up with this method 00:28:37.299 --> 00:28:39.960 where I wanted AI to extract all the most frequent 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:44.400 words, create a list of sentences using those 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.599 words in the most efficient, dense manner while 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.599 maintaining quality that I could memorize. And 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.980 by the end of it, I'll have unlocked all of the 00:28:55.980 --> 00:28:58.480 words in that book, or at least all the most 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:03.869 common words. And obviously the result was trash 00:29:03.869 --> 00:29:06.250 because I still didn't know how to use it. I 00:29:06.250 --> 00:29:08.170 still don't know how to use it, but I was a lot 00:29:08.170 --> 00:29:13.049 worse than I am now. And so after lots of going 00:29:13.049 --> 00:29:15.230 back and forth and trying to figure out how to 00:29:15.230 --> 00:29:18.509 make this thing, I ended up getting this list 00:29:18.509 --> 00:29:20.789 of 60 sentences that were actually pretty decent. 00:29:21.490 --> 00:29:24.009 Now, looking back on them, I've memorized them 00:29:24.009 --> 00:29:26.049 all. It took like a whole week to memorize them. 00:29:26.170 --> 00:29:30.029 And I'll actually recite the first one from memory. 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.680 and tell you what it means so you can get a context 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:36.599 of how long they are. They're actually decent, 00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:39.140 but I realized that they could have been so much 00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:41.119 better and I could have gotten them so much more 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:43.420 dense and I could have done it way better, which 00:29:43.420 --> 00:29:47.319 is why this project's not over because 60 sentences 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:50.640 is not enough to unlock thousands of words from 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:56.740 a book. But this is where I was at this project 00:29:56.740 --> 00:29:59.730 a couple weeks ago. when I was doing that part. 00:29:59.910 --> 00:30:01.910 And I'm still working on this project, actually. 00:30:03.029 --> 00:30:06.210 We'll get into that in a little bit. But basically, 00:30:06.450 --> 00:30:11.750 I have this list of 60 sentences, and I'll tell 00:30:11.750 --> 00:30:14.869 you how long they are. I'll recite one. Homo 00:30:14.869 --> 00:30:17.789 sapiens fue una especie humana que sobrevivió 00:30:17.789 --> 00:30:20.650 porque su gran cerebro y su capacidad social 00:30:20.650 --> 00:30:23.990 le permitieron adaptarse más rápido que cualquier 00:30:23.990 --> 00:30:28.000 otro animal. That's the entire sentence. And 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:30.599 I memorized 60 sentences that are the same exact 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:33.200 length of that. I mean, like around the same 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.700 length. And it took an entire week to do. It 00:30:37.700 --> 00:30:42.819 means Homo sapiens was a human species that whose 00:30:42.819 --> 00:30:46.039 grant, I memorized the Spanish better than the 00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:48.680 English, but it basically means the Homo sapiens 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:53.359 was a human species whose mental and social capacities 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:58.789 let it adapt faster. than any other animal. And 00:30:58.789 --> 00:31:05.029 that was an example of a sentence that I was 00:31:05.029 --> 00:31:08.869 trying to get AI to create that used, that packed 00:31:08.869 --> 00:31:11.150 in all the vocab that he needed to learn in a 00:31:11.150 --> 00:31:16.150 very dense way. So it put homo sapiens, especie, 00:31:16.670 --> 00:31:35.200 sobrevivió, or gran cerebro, Yeah, and those 00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:38.319 are a bunch of vocab that I got from one sentence. 00:31:39.259 --> 00:31:42.400 So that was the goal of that project. And I ended 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:46.519 up memorizing that first list of sentences that 00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:48.880 I made. I mean, not the first, like the first 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:54.380 final draft of sentences that I made. And then... 00:31:54.650 --> 00:31:56.250 Moving on. And I was like, wow, this is actually 00:31:56.250 --> 00:32:00.650 good. And slowly but surely, basically, I think 00:32:00.650 --> 00:32:03.869 after that, I realized that AI is actually so 00:32:03.869 --> 00:32:08.609 much more powerful than that. I'm usually more 00:32:08.609 --> 00:32:11.230 passionate about this. I'm sorry. It's just right 00:32:11.230 --> 00:32:14.089 now, like all my passion has been zapped because 00:32:14.089 --> 00:32:17.309 I have to re -record this entire episode. I'm 00:32:17.309 --> 00:32:22.390 so sorry. But basically this, after that, I realized 00:32:22.390 --> 00:32:25.660 just how powerful AI was. And then just a couple 00:32:25.660 --> 00:32:28.960 weeks or, I mean, okay, actually. And then the 00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.319 next project I worked on was I want to be able 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:33.680 to play settlers of Catan, which is a board game 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:39.039 in Spanish with Spanish speakers. And so I had 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:41.099 AI, I'd went through this whole project to have 00:32:41.099 --> 00:32:45.680 AI, like analyze all of the. instruction manuals 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.339 in English and Spanish, analyze how people like 00:32:49.339 --> 00:32:52.119 analyze transcripts from people playing it in 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.339 English and Spanish, basically analyze a bunch 00:32:54.339 --> 00:32:56.680 of stuff and then create this list of sentences 00:32:56.680 --> 00:33:02.480 that would have all of the stuff that I needed 00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:11.029 to know in the game. And then one day I realized 00:33:11.029 --> 00:33:13.950 just how powerful AI was and that this was the 00:33:13.950 --> 00:33:17.190 meta skill that I needed to learn. This is the 00:33:17.190 --> 00:33:19.869 most important skill for me to learn in this 00:33:19.869 --> 00:33:27.470 day and age. And so what I did was I had it write 00:33:27.470 --> 00:33:32.210 me a book. But not just any book. A book on how 00:33:32.210 --> 00:33:38.089 to use AI. Now, from... My old perspective, and 00:33:38.089 --> 00:33:39.970 for most people's perspective, that doesn't really 00:33:39.970 --> 00:33:42.390 sound that crazy. Like, ah, you just use AI to 00:33:42.390 --> 00:33:45.549 help you write a book. And then the perception 00:33:45.549 --> 00:33:47.430 is that the book is kind of low quality. It's 00:33:47.430 --> 00:33:49.690 kind of generic. It's kind of trash. It's kind 00:33:49.690 --> 00:33:53.950 of whatever. And it's AI garbage, which is true. 00:33:54.170 --> 00:33:57.009 If I just typed in, write me a book on how to 00:33:57.009 --> 00:34:00.690 write AI, it wouldn't be very valuable. It might 00:34:00.690 --> 00:34:07.960 be, but not as good as it could be. My mindset 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.199 with using AI has totally changed because the 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:19.480 way that I use AI is totally different. I use 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.000 it totally different now. And I'll explain why. 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:28.239 So here's what I did. First, I asked AI to analyze 00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:36.400 or to find a list of the most. Just create me 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.739 a list of people who are teaching how to use 00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:43.179 AI with the context of I want to write a book. 00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.940 I want you to write a book with them as source 00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:51.139 material. But just find the list first. So then 00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:54.599 I got that list and I was like, okay, I want 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:57.800 to write a book that will... completely changed 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:00.079 the way i think about ai because i realized that 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:03.599 i've been thinking about ai totally wrong um 00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:09.480 and in a very close in a very limited way like 00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:12.159 oh just use it to look up answers quick and get 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:16.300 answers quick or oh just um or it kind of sucks 00:35:16.300 --> 00:35:19.119 to make actual things it's really just good for 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:24.949 internet search on steroids But I knew that my 00:35:24.949 --> 00:35:27.710 mindset was holding me back and I needed a completely 00:35:27.710 --> 00:35:33.010 overhaul of my mindset on how I use AI and how 00:35:33.010 --> 00:35:35.269 I think about it, how I approach it, how I think 00:35:35.269 --> 00:35:38.989 while using it, all of that stuff. I needed to 00:35:38.989 --> 00:35:43.210 completely change the way I think. So I told 00:35:43.210 --> 00:35:46.769 all that to AI. I was like, okay, can you help 00:35:46.769 --> 00:35:49.469 me map out a book or multiple books that will 00:35:49.469 --> 00:35:52.730 get me all of that? And so it mapped out a four 00:35:52.730 --> 00:35:55.449 book structure and it was like, okay, book one 00:35:55.449 --> 00:35:58.090 is going to use these five thinkers, these five 00:35:58.090 --> 00:36:02.610 people to teach you the mental change, the mental 00:36:02.610 --> 00:36:07.989 mindset, the whole mindset shift. Book two is 00:36:07.989 --> 00:36:11.670 going to teach you the practical implementations, 00:36:11.670 --> 00:36:14.570 the strategy, that stuff. Book two, like book 00:36:14.570 --> 00:36:16.230 three and four are going to do other things. 00:36:17.530 --> 00:36:20.809 So I was like, okay. This is good. And then I 00:36:20.809 --> 00:36:26.190 discovered this concept of a metaprompt. Because 00:36:26.190 --> 00:36:28.769 this is a multi -day project, by the way. And 00:36:28.769 --> 00:36:36.590 so I watched this video one day. And I discovered 00:36:36.590 --> 00:36:39.630 this concept of a metaprompt. Which the goal 00:36:39.630 --> 00:36:44.530 of the metaprompt is basically to install yourself 00:36:44.530 --> 00:36:48.139 into AI. Like you can have AI help you write 00:36:48.139 --> 00:36:50.940 a prompt that will describe your worldview, your 00:36:50.940 --> 00:36:56.099 tastes, your goals, your objectives, the way 00:36:56.099 --> 00:36:58.300 you want AI to talk to you, the way you want 00:36:58.300 --> 00:37:01.800 AI to respond. Just basically all around download 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:09.300 your entire, condense you into a huge block of 00:37:09.300 --> 00:37:12.920 text and then put that into AI and it basically 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:17.699 downloads you. um in practice and then it uses 00:37:17.699 --> 00:37:20.800 all that context to answer your questions in 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:25.179 a more tailored manner that's that's tailored 00:37:25.179 --> 00:37:28.159 to you and it'll give you way more relevant answers 00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:31.659 way better context so i spend like a i spend 00:37:31.659 --> 00:37:36.400 like many hours um taking a break from my book 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.039 making a book to write this meta prompt and i 00:37:41.039 --> 00:37:44.110 do it all in one chat And by the end of it, I 00:37:44.110 --> 00:37:47.829 have this huge chat history. And I was like, 00:37:47.889 --> 00:37:50.550 oh, wait, I can use this chat history. Because 00:37:50.550 --> 00:37:53.110 I finished and I got the meta prompt. I was like, 00:37:53.150 --> 00:37:55.309 okay, good. I'm going to use this later. But 00:37:55.309 --> 00:37:56.909 for now, I'm going to return back to the book. 00:37:57.030 --> 00:37:59.230 But I can use this chat history because this 00:37:59.230 --> 00:38:01.130 chat history shows something really important. 00:38:01.869 --> 00:38:05.849 How I currently use AI. And I was like, what 00:38:05.849 --> 00:38:10.860 if I get AI to analyze? And assess my current 00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:13.739 skill based on all this context on how I use 00:38:13.739 --> 00:38:21.300 it. To make sure that this book is tailored exactly 00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:24.099 to me, because when you read a book written for 00:38:24.099 --> 00:38:26.900 a general audience, like any book you pick up 00:38:26.900 --> 00:38:30.940 from Amazon or the bookstore. Some like a lot 00:38:30.940 --> 00:38:33.840 of it is like stuff you like learn a bunch, but 00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:36.619 a lot of it's like irrelevant to you. Some of 00:38:36.619 --> 00:38:40.090 it is like. You already knew some of it is like 00:38:40.090 --> 00:38:43.449 a waste of your time, but then some of it is 00:38:43.449 --> 00:38:47.650 like gold. I was like, but it's only like that 00:38:47.650 --> 00:38:50.090 because they're writing for a general audience. 00:38:50.949 --> 00:38:53.170 But if they were writing a book specifically 00:38:53.170 --> 00:38:56.469 for you, all of it would basically be gold. If 00:38:56.469 --> 00:38:58.409 they took time to research where you are, what 00:38:58.409 --> 00:39:00.469 you know, all that stuff, they would only put 00:39:00.469 --> 00:39:02.570 stuff that's gold for you. So I was like, what 00:39:02.570 --> 00:39:06.519 if I get AI to do that for me? And that's where 00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:09.579 things got crazy. That's where things got crazy. 00:39:10.900 --> 00:39:14.019 So I go back to the book builder prompt and I'm 00:39:14.019 --> 00:39:17.900 like, okay, I just spent a long time talking 00:39:17.900 --> 00:39:22.239 to this other AI on creating this meta prompt. 00:39:22.420 --> 00:39:25.179 And it has a lot of context on how I use AI, 00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:28.519 my current skills, how I think about AI, all 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:30.800 of my understanding, all that stuff, just by 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:33.539 the way that I used it. Can you write me a prompt? 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:37.699 to send to that ai that will get it to analyze 00:39:37.699 --> 00:39:42.039 my skill assess my skill based on all the ideas 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:44.019 you already laid out for the book so give it 00:39:44.019 --> 00:39:47.019 all the ideas you laid out for the book and have 00:39:47.019 --> 00:39:49.239 it analyze all of that stuff based on my skill 00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:53.039 and give you feedback on each of them and tell 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:56.539 you how much of each i already know how much 00:39:56.539 --> 00:39:58.659 of each i'm good at what i'm good at what i'm 00:39:58.659 --> 00:40:01.940 bad at my weaknesses and provide suggestions 00:40:01.940 --> 00:40:05.219 and improvements on all that stuff so i send 00:40:05.219 --> 00:40:07.599 that to that i copy and paste that prompt and 00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:11.000 then i i enter copy and paste the response send 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:15.079 it to the to the chat log that i was using to 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:17.659 make the meta prompt and it spends time thinking 00:40:17.659 --> 00:40:20.780 and analyzing my skill and all that stuff and 00:40:20.780 --> 00:40:27.039 it and it writes this huge huge prompt of like 00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:31.110 in detail in depth, breaking down each idea and 00:40:31.110 --> 00:40:35.190 how I've, how good I am on each, what I understand, 00:40:35.349 --> 00:40:37.389 all that stuff. And I was reading it and I was 00:40:37.389 --> 00:40:41.210 like, oh my goodness, this is actually insane. 00:40:41.650 --> 00:40:44.590 Like this is actually so powerful. I've been 00:40:44.590 --> 00:40:48.429 sleeping on this skill for the past couple of 00:40:48.429 --> 00:40:50.940 years. Like this is the most insane thing ever. 00:40:51.219 --> 00:40:54.380 This is like revolutionary. And so I copy and 00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:56.199 paste that back into the book builder. And it's 00:40:56.199 --> 00:40:58.139 like, Oh, this is actually very valuable. And 00:40:58.139 --> 00:40:59.579 first I was like, okay, but I think there's a 00:40:59.579 --> 00:41:02.099 bunch of, um, well, before I even copied and 00:41:02.099 --> 00:41:05.500 paste, I put a preface and I was like, I think 00:41:05.500 --> 00:41:07.119 there's a bunch of context in here. That's going 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:09.280 to make the book worse because it was from the 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:12.019 book builder prompt or I mean from the meta prompt. 00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:14.400 So it was like, it added a bunch of context on 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:20.110 how it should create. all the examples tailored 00:41:20.110 --> 00:41:23.130 to me and my life and all that stuff. And that 00:41:23.130 --> 00:41:24.570 would just make the book worse because it would 00:41:24.570 --> 00:41:28.809 restrict the examples into a very smaller sample 00:41:28.809 --> 00:41:32.349 size of analogies and examples and use cases. 00:41:32.489 --> 00:41:35.550 And usually the best examples and analogies are 00:41:35.550 --> 00:41:41.949 general things because they're like more true, 00:41:42.170 --> 00:41:45.099 I guess. And so I was like, yeah. And then I 00:41:45.099 --> 00:41:47.079 said like, here's the response, but you should 00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:49.760 take a moment to refine and polish and like get 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:51.840 out all of the unnecessary stuff. Cause I suspect 00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:53.519 a lot of stuff is going to make the book worse. 00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:55.699 And I was like, yeah, you're totally right. Let's 00:41:55.699 --> 00:41:57.659 get rid of all this stuff. And it literally listed 00:41:57.659 --> 00:42:00.179 all the stuff that I was thinking that was worse, 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:02.460 but I didn't explicitly say, and it got rid of 00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:04.599 all that stuff. I was like, Oh, this thing is 00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:09.019 amazing. And so then, then I'm like, all right, 00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:12.199 let's write this book. Um, Start planning, do 00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:14.619 the phases, do all that stuff. And it goes through 00:42:14.619 --> 00:42:16.320 all the phases and then writes the book. And 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:20.300 guess what? The book was written in a 12 chapter 00:42:20.300 --> 00:42:27.380 format that was restricted to 2000 words. And 00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:31.780 it was trash. It wasn't like trash. It was only 00:42:31.780 --> 00:42:35.380 trash because it was restricted to so little 00:42:35.380 --> 00:42:38.989 words. It was 12 chapters with a total. The whole 00:42:38.989 --> 00:42:42.050 book was restricted to 2 ,000 words. And so that 00:42:42.050 --> 00:42:43.809 meant that each chapter was only a couple paragraphs. 00:42:44.090 --> 00:42:47.409 So it wasn't really enough to give examples or 00:42:47.409 --> 00:42:50.369 actually really explain what it was saying. So 00:42:50.369 --> 00:42:51.969 I was like, oh, shoot. Like this is actually 00:42:51.969 --> 00:42:54.530 pretty decent, but I don't understand any of 00:42:54.530 --> 00:43:01.949 it. Let's restart. Let's actually make all of 00:43:01.949 --> 00:43:05.650 the chapters this length. Let's make each chapter. 00:43:06.409 --> 00:43:12.829 2 ,000 to 2 ,500 words. And so I suggested it 00:43:12.829 --> 00:43:19.349 to create me a couple prompts. I wanted 12 different 00:43:19.349 --> 00:43:24.469 prompts for 12 separate AIs that would write 00:43:24.469 --> 00:43:27.670 each chapter. So 12 writer prompts, one for each 00:43:27.670 --> 00:43:31.969 chapter. I wanted one prompt for an editor and 00:43:31.969 --> 00:43:35.619 kind of like an overseer. An orchestrator, I 00:43:35.619 --> 00:43:39.920 guess. Prompt. Whose editor job was to receive 00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:44.719 the message from the writers and then give feedback. 00:43:45.420 --> 00:43:49.719 And the writer was focused on just that chapter. 00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.800 And it had some context about the other chapters. 00:43:53.059 --> 00:43:55.199 But it was mostly just focused on writing this 00:43:55.199 --> 00:43:58.440 chapter as good as possible. But then the editor 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:03.260 was generalized. It was focused on making... 00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:07.500 edits and improvements, but it also had the full 00:44:07.500 --> 00:44:11.119 grand scope of the entire project. So it was 00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:14.820 able to see which ideas belonged in which chapters 00:44:14.820 --> 00:44:17.440 and it would be able to give feedback on each 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:20.900 writer AI if they were bleeding into the next 00:44:20.900 --> 00:44:23.739 chapter or if they were stealing ideas from a 00:44:23.739 --> 00:44:26.360 later chapter in the book. And so it would give 00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:28.800 them that feedback. And then the last AI that 00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:32.989 I wanted was a fact checker AI. simply just to 00:44:32.989 --> 00:44:37.150 make sure that all of that stuff was true. And 00:44:37.150 --> 00:44:41.050 so I asked the first AI, going back to the first 00:44:41.050 --> 00:44:42.969 AI, let's call him the strategist AI, the one 00:44:42.969 --> 00:44:46.429 that I had make the book first with 12 chapters 00:44:46.429 --> 00:44:48.969 with only 2000 words total. And it wasn't very 00:44:48.969 --> 00:44:51.710 good. It was too short. I went back to that guy 00:44:51.710 --> 00:44:54.550 and I said, okay, here's the plan. I want all 00:44:54.550 --> 00:44:57.650 of these prompts. And then I had it right each 00:44:57.650 --> 00:45:02.500 prompt one by one. And each prompt, I copied 00:45:02.500 --> 00:45:05.780 and pasted into new chats to create. And then 00:45:05.780 --> 00:45:08.699 I put all of those chats into a fresh project. 00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:12.179 And what projects do is they combine all chats 00:45:12.179 --> 00:45:17.440 for that project into one folder. And then they're 00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:22.679 able to share context with each other. And it's 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:25.480 better that way because then they can like share 00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:29.420 findings and discoveries with each other. And 00:45:29.420 --> 00:45:32.000 so. At this point, I get all the prompts and 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:34.119 now I'm done with the strategist. The strategist 00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:37.800 did its job. It gave me all the prompts because 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.179 it had all that context on the book already in 00:45:40.179 --> 00:45:42.840 that history. So now it gave me the prompts to 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:46.380 have a clean, polished project. And so I put 00:45:46.380 --> 00:45:50.039 them all in a folder and I start working on it. 00:45:50.179 --> 00:45:53.239 So I'm like, okay, orchestrator. Okay, so then 00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:58.730 the writers gave me each. Each writer followed 00:45:58.730 --> 00:46:03.889 like five or six phase step process of like first 00:46:03.889 --> 00:46:09.909 identifying the mission, the thesis, the transformation, 00:46:09.969 --> 00:46:14.110 and all that in a short paragraph of what it's 00:46:14.110 --> 00:46:16.550 about to write. And then I would copy and paste 00:46:16.550 --> 00:46:19.530 that into the editor. And then the editor would 00:46:19.530 --> 00:46:21.630 give a response. And then I would copy and paste 00:46:21.630 --> 00:46:24.150 it back to the writer. And then it would take 00:46:24.150 --> 00:46:26.070 that feedback and then move to the next step. 00:46:26.579 --> 00:46:29.559 Or if it needed to keep refining that current 00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:30.960 step, it would stay there. But usually it would 00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:32.599 just move to the next step. It would be like, 00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:34.380 yeah, this was good advice. Let's move to the 00:46:34.380 --> 00:46:39.920 next step. Locking in that advice. And then the 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:44.320 next step, it would give like an idea list, for 00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:47.019 example. Like 30 ideas. And then it would go 00:46:47.019 --> 00:46:50.699 back to the editor. And the editor would give 00:46:50.699 --> 00:46:53.880 feedback like, oh, this idea belongs in that 00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.619 chapter. Or this idea. James is already pretty 00:46:57.619 --> 00:47:02.079 advanced, so you should not have that idea. Or 00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:03.980 like, these ideas are great. Or like, whatever. 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:05.880 And it would give feedback, and I would copy 00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:07.699 and paste that back to the writer. And I would 00:47:07.699 --> 00:47:09.519 basically just go back and forth throughout every 00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:13.199 phase with all of the writers. I would do two 00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:17.000 chapters at a time with multiple tabs open and 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.800 just go back and forth for all of the chapters. 00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.639 And then by the end, I would like go to the fact 00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:25.579 checker AI, fact check, make sure there's nothing 00:47:25.579 --> 00:47:28.659 major, no major issues. And then I would put 00:47:28.659 --> 00:47:32.599 it back to the editor for a final draft. And 00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:35.079 then it would send or for the draft and then 00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:37.780 send feedback to the writer for a final draft. 00:47:38.380 --> 00:47:41.239 And then I would copy that final draft into Google 00:47:41.239 --> 00:47:44.460 Docs. And by the end, I had this whole Google 00:47:44.460 --> 00:47:49.940 Docs with 12 tabs. of all the 12 chapters. And 00:47:49.940 --> 00:47:52.039 I printed them all. And it literally took like 00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:53.719 an hour to print all that stuff. I'm not even 00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:59.099 kidding. I have the document with me right now. 00:47:59.619 --> 00:48:03.880 It literally needs a binder clip. You can't staple 00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:06.539 it because it's so thick. So many papers. It 00:48:06.539 --> 00:48:09.300 needs a binder clip. And you can't even use a 00:48:09.300 --> 00:48:15.239 paper clip either. That's how thick it is. it 00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:21.260 was insane i've i okay so um after i printed 00:48:21.260 --> 00:48:28.280 it the next day i read the first chapter it was 00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:31.300 actually insane just the first chapter only 2 00:48:31.300 --> 00:48:34.460 000 words completely changed the way i think 00:48:34.460 --> 00:48:37.360 about ai literally totally changed the way i 00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:40.179 think about ai it was written exactly with my 00:48:40.179 --> 00:48:42.659 skills in mind, gave me all gold. Every chapter 00:48:42.659 --> 00:48:45.300 was gold. Every chapter I got ideas or every 00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:48.340 sentence, every paragraph I got ideas, every 00:48:48.340 --> 00:48:56.880 example I got ideas. And then a couple of days 00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:58.940 later, I read the second chapter, same thing, 00:48:59.019 --> 00:49:02.739 gold. Literally, I remember brainstorming. Okay, 00:49:02.820 --> 00:49:04.659 let's go back to the first chapter. Like after 00:49:04.659 --> 00:49:08.389 the first chapter, I started like, completely 00:49:08.389 --> 00:49:10.730 changing the way i think about projects and architecture 00:49:10.730 --> 00:49:16.469 so the diagnosis i'm going back to the first 00:49:16.469 --> 00:49:20.610 ai when the first ai assessed my skill level 00:49:20.610 --> 00:49:24.510 and how my level of understanding on certain 00:49:24.510 --> 00:49:28.250 things it said that i'm an intermediate user 00:49:28.250 --> 00:49:32.389 like intermediate prompt writer i guess but low 00:49:32.389 --> 00:49:35.929 level architect builder i did not know what that 00:49:35.929 --> 00:49:38.769 meant I just thought it was just like cool title. 00:49:39.050 --> 00:49:42.090 But turns out it actually has a meaning. Architect 00:49:42.090 --> 00:49:46.889 builder is like you creating systems. And architecture 00:49:46.889 --> 00:49:51.090 is the system that a project goes through, basically. 00:49:51.170 --> 00:49:53.969 Now, this could be the totally wrong definition. 00:49:54.210 --> 00:49:56.210 I still don't know anything about AI, so take 00:49:56.210 --> 00:49:58.170 this with a grain of salt. But basically, the 00:49:58.170 --> 00:50:00.329 way I understand it right now is the architecture 00:50:00.329 --> 00:50:04.909 is instead of asking one AI to write me a... 00:50:05.869 --> 00:50:09.289 a project or to write me a book on how to use 00:50:09.289 --> 00:50:15.710 AI better. It's setting up a 14 AI system architecture 00:50:15.710 --> 00:50:20.969 with 14 different specialized AIs with all different 00:50:20.969 --> 00:50:24.550 prompts with each different jobs. That's the 00:50:24.550 --> 00:50:29.750 architecture. So I had low architecture, low 00:50:29.750 --> 00:50:34.789 architecture skill. And so this book, was taking 00:50:34.789 --> 00:50:38.789 that in mind and giving me lots of ideas on architecture. 00:50:39.710 --> 00:50:42.489 Now it wasn't very direct about it. Like it didn't 00:50:42.489 --> 00:50:44.909 say like you need architecture or like whatever, 00:50:45.030 --> 00:50:50.829 but just like all the ideas either directly or 00:50:50.829 --> 00:50:54.090 indirectly helped me change the way I think and 00:50:54.090 --> 00:50:56.510 actually got me to start thinking about architecture. 00:50:56.769 --> 00:50:59.389 Architecture is something that I think about 00:50:59.389 --> 00:51:03.030 now with AI. Like before I would just. go into 00:51:03.030 --> 00:51:06.050 one chat by default without thinking and be like, 00:51:06.150 --> 00:51:09.750 write me this book or write me 10 ,000 sentences 00:51:09.750 --> 00:51:14.690 in Spanish. Now I think about how can I structure 00:51:14.690 --> 00:51:18.489 this? How can I create a system of multiple AIs? 00:51:18.590 --> 00:51:21.610 What architecture do I need to create to get 00:51:21.610 --> 00:51:23.809 the best result possible? Do I need to have 12 00:51:23.809 --> 00:51:28.989 dedicated writer AIs, one for each chapter, and 00:51:28.989 --> 00:51:32.480 then an editor AI to... um revise all of them 00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:35.179 and then a fact checker ai that's the architecture 00:51:35.179 --> 00:51:38.619 i think about stuff like that now and i've only 00:51:38.619 --> 00:51:41.360 read the first two chapters of this of this 12 00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:45.579 chapter book and i've gotten so much ideas from 00:51:45.579 --> 00:51:51.639 it and so just this concept of how um well first 00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:56.219 of all just a couple more ideas or just like 00:51:56.219 --> 00:52:01.190 a A couple weeks of changing the way I think 00:52:01.190 --> 00:52:03.070 about AI and really treating it as a meta skill 00:52:03.070 --> 00:52:04.670 and something that's really important to learn 00:52:04.670 --> 00:52:08.309 has opened up so many more possibilities to me. 00:52:12.630 --> 00:52:16.550 And also the concept of writing books tailored 00:52:16.550 --> 00:52:21.030 to me is just absolutely crazy. It's so powerful. 00:52:22.250 --> 00:52:26.199 And so that's just some... Something that's crazy 00:52:26.199 --> 00:52:29.019 with AI lately. And one project that I'm working 00:52:29.019 --> 00:52:32.579 on, the big project I'm working on right now 00:52:32.579 --> 00:52:36.780 is that Sapiens project where I create a whole 00:52:36.780 --> 00:52:39.840 pipeline. I'm going to use AI to help me write 00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:46.059 code to be able to get the list of words that 00:52:46.059 --> 00:52:49.380 I need. And then I'm going to have AI take that 00:52:49.380 --> 00:52:51.619 list of words, have a whole pipeline architecture 00:52:51.619 --> 00:52:56.320 set up to turn. a list of words from each chapter 00:52:56.320 --> 00:53:00.639 into a list of sentences to memorize so that 00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:05.400 I can unlock one chapter at a time and then read 00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:09.039 that chapter. So that's the project I'm working 00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:11.900 on right now. It's pretty complex. And I actually 00:53:11.900 --> 00:53:16.800 attempted it yesterday and I failed. Yesterday 00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:20.099 after reading, I attempted it and then I failed. 00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:22.099 And then I just spent the rest of the day reading 00:53:22.099 --> 00:53:25.039 chapter two in the how to use AI book that I 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:29.820 wrote with AI. And chapter two gave me so many 00:53:29.820 --> 00:53:34.500 ideas on how to actually do this project way 00:53:34.500 --> 00:53:37.219 better and actually get it, have a good result. 00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:43.920 So that's something that I've been changing or 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:47.750 that's my new thoughts. on AI. And it's really 00:53:47.750 --> 00:53:50.369 exciting. Like this is a meta skill that is one 00:53:50.369 --> 00:53:52.869 of the most important skills ever, um, in my 00:53:52.869 --> 00:53:58.010 opinion, and I've been sleeping on it. So, okay, 00:53:58.130 --> 00:54:02.670 let's move on to the next thing. Uh, all right. 00:54:02.710 --> 00:54:08.849 Before I get, uh, at the end, I'm going to put 00:54:08.849 --> 00:54:14.710 files or play like 30 second clips of me speaking 00:54:14.710 --> 00:54:18.789 Spanish. Um, over the past couple of weeks from 00:54:18.789 --> 00:54:22.369 different times, but that's not until the end 00:54:22.369 --> 00:54:23.610 of the episode. I'll do that at the end. But 00:54:23.610 --> 00:54:26.409 right now I want to talk about, so I've been 00:54:26.409 --> 00:54:28.550 injured for the past couple of months and I actually 00:54:28.550 --> 00:54:34.650 re -injured myself even worse. Um, so I think 00:54:34.650 --> 00:54:38.550 I re -injured myself even worse before last month 00:54:38.550 --> 00:54:42.769 episode or after, I don't remember, but then 00:54:42.769 --> 00:54:45.630 I injured my other foot. So like the past week, 00:54:45.710 --> 00:54:47.510 I've literally, or not the past week, the past 00:54:47.510 --> 00:54:49.989 month, or like less than a month, past couple 00:54:49.989 --> 00:54:53.349 of weeks, I've been like crawling around. I haven't 00:54:53.349 --> 00:54:55.489 been able to walk. My mom's had to take me to 00:54:55.489 --> 00:54:59.889 wheelchair places. And now don't get me wrong. 00:54:59.989 --> 00:55:01.750 My quality of life is still pretty good. Like 00:55:01.750 --> 00:55:04.789 I, my mom bought me this, like, do you remember 00:55:04.789 --> 00:55:07.989 those scooters, those square scooters from like 00:55:07.989 --> 00:55:09.650 gym class in elementary school that you would 00:55:09.650 --> 00:55:13.460 like sit on and just scoot around? My mom bought 00:55:13.460 --> 00:55:15.420 me one of those and then knee pads. And so I 00:55:15.420 --> 00:55:20.139 basically just like sit on my, like I have my 00:55:20.139 --> 00:55:24.300 knees on them and then I just like zoom around 00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:27.219 the house with, with my hands and like just do 00:55:27.219 --> 00:55:29.699 drifts and stuff and do jumps. It's pretty fun. 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:33.760 But like for a couple of weeks it was pretty 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:37.159 hard. Like I wasn't able to work out. I wasn't 00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:39.559 able to lift or I mean go outside. I wasn't able 00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:45.000 to do anything. and like I would just like I 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.880 would only feel anything while I was practicing 00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:51.559 Spanish which I would do for hours every day 00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:54.059 but then like inevitably I would have to like 00:55:54.059 --> 00:55:59.900 go outside and like um like not outside but um 00:55:59.900 --> 00:56:03.019 outside of my room and like do my nighttime routine 00:56:03.019 --> 00:56:05.840 for example and then I would just like sit there 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:12.059 like I would be crawling to the um to the bathroom 00:56:12.059 --> 00:56:15.820 and then i would just randomly stop sit crisscross 00:56:15.820 --> 00:56:18.900 applesauce on the floor and then just sit for 00:56:18.900 --> 00:56:25.920 like an hour with no feelings just sit and then 00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:30.059 but it got better when my mom bought me a workout 00:56:30.059 --> 00:56:36.599 thing and then healed a little bit more and i'm 00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:43.780 still not able to walk but i'm not like doing 00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:50.179 that anymore but that was basically context of 00:56:50.179 --> 00:56:52.500 how i got re -injured that's what i wanted to 00:56:52.500 --> 00:56:55.280 say and then another thing i wanted to say is 00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:57.920 i'm definitely returning back to youtube like 00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:01.980 uh for the past couple months i've been realizing 00:57:01.980 --> 00:57:05.000 that i do want to return back to youtube there's 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:08.699 a moment where i i didn't want to ever go back 00:57:08.699 --> 00:57:17.320 to youtube But that desire has been refaning 00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:20.780 even stronger than ever over the past couple 00:57:20.780 --> 00:57:24.920 months. And this is basically the whole point 00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:28.599 of this break from YouTube, where I wanted to 00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:34.760 learn the new worldview and realize what the 00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:36.900 message I wanted to send the world was. And I've 00:57:36.900 --> 00:57:41.980 started to grasp it. I've completely re -overhauled 00:57:41.980 --> 00:57:44.139 my worldview, my message and all that stuff. 00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:48.340 I've started to unlock that. And now with AI, 00:57:48.619 --> 00:57:52.519 I'm starting to unlock the meta skill that I 00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:57.320 intuitively needed. When I decided, if you go 00:57:57.320 --> 00:58:00.519 back a couple episodes, you'll hear me explain 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:03.420 why I want to take a break. This was like five 00:58:03.420 --> 00:58:05.360 or six months ago. Why I want to take a break 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:08.019 from YouTube. And I wanted two skills. One, I 00:58:08.019 --> 00:58:10.300 wanted to unlock the worldview. The message I 00:58:10.300 --> 00:58:13.599 wanted to say. And another was the meta skill 00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:19.760 of like social skills. That's important. 100%. 00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:26.019 But I realized that an even more important meta 00:58:26.019 --> 00:58:30.059 skill would be AI. For reasons that I explained 00:58:30.059 --> 00:58:34.800 today. And there's so many implications that 00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:37.780 I'm not even going to get into in this episode. 00:58:37.820 --> 00:58:40.860 I might get into them later. But they're like, 00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:43.320 for example, yesterday, I read the chapter two 00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.079 of the how to use AI book. And I literally wrote 00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:53.029 down like an entire page of notes of like. Of 00:58:53.029 --> 00:58:55.949 ways that I can use AI in my workflow. And I've 00:58:55.949 --> 00:58:57.590 been thinking of ways that I can add it to my 00:58:57.590 --> 00:59:00.289 workflow. And ways that I could use AI to fundamentally 00:59:00.289 --> 00:59:04.809 change the way that I return to YouTube. I'm 00:59:04.809 --> 00:59:06.489 probably not going to use it to write the content. 00:59:06.610 --> 00:59:10.030 Or create videos or any of that stuff. I'm going 00:59:10.030 --> 00:59:14.030 to use it in a different way. Like crazy ways. 00:59:14.150 --> 00:59:16.710 Like awesome ways that I might get into in the 00:59:16.710 --> 00:59:18.469 future. But not right now. Let's make the episode 00:59:18.469 --> 00:59:21.349 too long. So yeah, I'm definitely going to return 00:59:21.349 --> 00:59:26.940 back to YouTube. Um, uh, yeah, but it's not going 00:59:26.940 --> 00:59:29.579 to be for a couple of months. Like my, like last 00:59:29.579 --> 00:59:32.099 night I was just doing mental calculations and 00:59:32.099 --> 00:59:36.579 it might not be until like March or, or April, 00:59:36.659 --> 00:59:40.699 like realistically, because I want to get C1 00:59:40.699 --> 00:59:45.110 at least I want to get to C1 level. In Spanish, 00:59:45.170 --> 00:59:47.530 right now I'm B1. So the way the grading system, 00:59:47.650 --> 00:59:52.329 like the levels work is A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1, 00:59:52.349 --> 01:00:00.710 C2. I started at A1 a couple months ago. Now 01:00:00.710 --> 01:00:07.409 I'm B1. And I suspect, my goal is to be B2 by 01:00:07.409 --> 01:00:10.960 the new year, which is one month. Um, I don't 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:13.320 know if that's going to happen or not, but that's 01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:16.599 my goal. Um, and then I think it might take like 01:00:16.599 --> 01:00:20.840 one or two months to get to see one. Um, I could 01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:27.179 be completely naive and, um, over confident or, 01:00:27.260 --> 01:00:29.139 I mean, I'm not really confident. This is just 01:00:29.139 --> 01:00:32.880 like my dispassionate, um, measurements that 01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:37.719 I, um, want. Um, but I could be naive in like 01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:39.659 the reality of the situation and how it'll take 01:00:39.659 --> 01:00:41.800 a lot longer. I don't know, but basically I want 01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:45.219 to get to C1 level or at least a level to where 01:00:45.219 --> 01:00:51.559 I know that I'm ready to move on from, not move 01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:57.139 on from Spanish, but move on to start, um, make, 01:00:57.219 --> 01:01:01.239 uh, to start the prep phase to return to YouTube. 01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:07.559 and then passively study spanish over the next 01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:09.980 couple months and by passively i mean not like 01:01:09.980 --> 01:01:12.820 passive study like don't be intentional but passive 01:01:12.820 --> 01:01:16.000 instead of like spending my entire day um doing 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:19.420 drills and memorizing sentences maybe spend only 01:01:19.420 --> 01:01:21.940 like an hour a day or 30 minutes a day for a 01:01:21.940 --> 01:01:25.480 little while and that's that's basically my plan 01:01:25.480 --> 01:01:28.000 right now but so i'm probably not gonna actually 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:31.860 start making youtube videos until like My first 01:01:31.860 --> 01:01:34.880 video probably won't be posted until like April, 01:01:35.980 --> 01:01:40.860 maybe, possibly. So like four months. It might 01:01:40.860 --> 01:01:43.619 take four or five months because I want to learn 01:01:43.619 --> 01:01:47.460 Spanish while also completely changing the way 01:01:47.460 --> 01:01:49.860 I use AI and improving my skill because I'm treating 01:01:49.860 --> 01:01:52.579 it as a meta skill, an actual skill to be improved. 01:01:53.780 --> 01:01:56.119 And I want to improve my skill at AI and then 01:01:56.119 --> 01:02:03.699 spend a period. of prep uh creating important 01:02:03.699 --> 01:02:08.840 documents in context for um that will be very 01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:13.539 foundational for my youtube channel and how i 01:02:13.539 --> 01:02:16.719 uh incorporate ai into my workflow and all that 01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:18.860 stuff before i actually start making the videos 01:02:18.860 --> 01:02:23.579 but yeah but i do have a youtube video scheduled 01:02:23.579 --> 01:02:28.960 for january 1st in one month which is my yearly 01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:32.059 update which i'm supposed to make another yearly 01:02:32.059 --> 01:02:37.119 update in january for like in that same time 01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:40.619 period but i'm probably not gonna because um 01:02:40.619 --> 01:02:42.619 one i'm injured but also two i'm in the middle 01:02:42.619 --> 01:02:46.420 of a deep season i might write the script in 01:02:46.420 --> 01:02:53.780 spanish um and then like around that time and 01:02:53.780 --> 01:02:56.949 then not produce it until a couple months later 01:02:56.949 --> 01:03:01.210 when i actually return back to youtube but yep 01:03:01.210 --> 01:03:04.170 that's basically what that's the whole thing 01:03:04.170 --> 01:03:06.489 now let's get into the moment everyone's been 01:03:06.489 --> 01:03:12.730 waiting for uh i want to document my journey 01:03:12.730 --> 01:03:18.489 of spanish so i had two months ago in november 01:03:18.489 --> 01:03:22.550 or actually in october uh november was last month 01:03:23.869 --> 01:03:27.230 In October, I had a daily podcast that I would 01:03:27.230 --> 01:03:30.449 do on my voice memos app to practice my Spanish 01:03:30.449 --> 01:03:32.590 speaking every single day. And I did that for 01:03:32.590 --> 01:03:37.769 like a couple weeks, I think. And then I stopped 01:03:37.769 --> 01:03:41.050 and I returned again. And so basically, I'm going 01:03:41.050 --> 01:03:45.670 to play three clips. The first clip is from October 01:03:45.670 --> 01:03:50.489 14th. And then the second clip is from November 01:03:50.489 --> 01:03:56.650 7th, which is like, three weeks after that, both 01:03:56.650 --> 01:04:00.269 of those clips are taken out of context from 01:04:00.269 --> 01:04:05.269 a grand, from a podcast episode that I was recording 01:04:05.269 --> 01:04:08.190 on my voice memo. I didn't upload the podcast. 01:04:08.269 --> 01:04:12.289 It was just like a practice podcast that I made 01:04:12.289 --> 01:04:18.500 on my voice memo app. So those are taken out 01:04:18.500 --> 01:04:21.199 of context, which means that I didn't have any 01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:23.760 plan to say. I was just speaking freely. So those 01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:27.460 are significantly worse for the reason that it 01:04:27.460 --> 01:04:31.780 was earlier in my language learning journey, 01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:36.739 but also it was out of context. So I didn't have 01:04:36.739 --> 01:04:39.440 any script. And then the third thing that I'm 01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:43.239 going to say is I basically had an idea of what 01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:45.429 I wanted to say. They were all sentences that 01:04:45.429 --> 01:04:48.989 I memorized except for a couple connectors. And 01:04:48.989 --> 01:04:57.289 I recorded the clip specifically for this thing, 01:04:57.809 --> 01:05:04.670 this episode. And the third one is I recorded 01:05:04.670 --> 01:05:08.170 today on December 2nd, which is like almost a 01:05:08.170 --> 01:05:12.489 full month after the second one. For context, 01:05:12.550 --> 01:05:16.070 before I play the first one, this one was, I 01:05:16.070 --> 01:05:20.030 had spent maybe a month learning, memorizing 01:05:20.030 --> 01:05:23.449 individual words on Anki. I've memorized like 01:05:23.449 --> 01:05:26.469 a thousand, over a thousand words, but I couldn't 01:05:26.469 --> 01:05:28.969 speak because I realized that that method is 01:05:28.969 --> 01:05:33.309 really trash. And so you'll hear that. And then 01:05:33.309 --> 01:05:37.570 in the second one, I, it was after memorizing, 01:05:37.610 --> 01:05:40.110 after learning the new method of memorizing sentences. 01:05:41.130 --> 01:05:44.969 And so I had some sentences memorized in that. 01:05:45.090 --> 01:05:47.849 And then the third one was today. And this was 01:05:47.849 --> 01:05:50.650 after like one or two months of memorizing sentences 01:05:50.650 --> 01:05:53.530 and practicing pronunciation and practicing talking 01:05:53.530 --> 01:05:57.610 every once in a while with tutors. So that is 01:05:57.610 --> 01:06:12.130 context. Let's play the first one. I speak English. 01:06:12.409 --> 01:06:21.210 My English is very bad. But I practice all day. 01:06:21.550 --> 01:06:42.190 All day. then what does that say about our school 01:06:42.190 --> 01:06:44.670 system? All right, we don't even have to get 01:06:44.670 --> 01:06:48.610 into that. But basically, I was no beginner at 01:06:48.610 --> 01:06:56.650 Spanish in that clip. I literally went through 01:06:56.650 --> 01:07:02.010 decades of, or not decades, over a decade of 01:07:02.010 --> 01:07:05.739 Spanish classes. I've spent hundreds and hundreds 01:07:05.739 --> 01:07:08.360 of hours inside and outside of class. Like I 01:07:08.360 --> 01:07:10.900 literally there were seasons in my life where 01:07:10.900 --> 01:07:14.480 I would be really inspired and motivated to learn 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:18.760 Spanish. And so I would like put in earbuds every 01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:21.840 day, which I usually would never listen to music, 01:07:21.900 --> 01:07:24.559 for example. But like I really wanted to learn 01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:26.900 Spanish, for example, in like sophomore year, 01:07:26.980 --> 01:07:30.659 I think it was. And so I I put in like earbuds 01:07:30.659 --> 01:07:34.840 and just listen to music. in spanish all day 01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:37.500 um like when i was biking to the gym when i was 01:07:37.500 --> 01:07:40.659 at the gym when i was biking to school um i didn't 01:07:40.659 --> 01:07:42.380 do it at school but like when i was coming home 01:07:42.380 --> 01:07:47.480 and all that and i um so like i and then also 01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:50.460 like in in middle school i also spent a long 01:07:50.460 --> 01:07:52.559 season like doing duolingo and stuff like that 01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:59.320 and so i was no beginner but um and i was not 01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:03.369 inexperienced But you're about to hear the second 01:08:03.369 --> 01:08:08.590 clip, which was literally only less than four 01:08:08.590 --> 01:08:11.730 weeks after that first clip. But it was four 01:08:11.730 --> 01:08:14.849 weeks of me practicing a method that actually 01:08:14.849 --> 01:08:16.930 works. And I'm pretty sure it was only actually 01:08:16.930 --> 01:08:18.630 three weeks of practicing the method because 01:08:18.630 --> 01:08:20.850 I didn't find out the method until like a week 01:08:20.850 --> 01:08:22.529 after making that clip. But it doesn't matter. 01:08:22.590 --> 01:08:26.630 Basically, let's play the clip. This next clip 01:08:26.630 --> 01:08:57.180 is November 7th. So definite improvement, but 01:08:57.180 --> 01:09:01.859 still trash. Let's play. Today's. I've always 01:09:01.859 --> 01:09:04.600 wanted to learn Spanish, but I've never worked 01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:09.880 hard enough. But now it's different because I've 01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:12.939 been studying and practicing all day. Every day. 01:09:14.739 --> 01:09:23.199 I want to be able to make my YouTube videos in 01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:27.949 Spanish in the future. But... Para ello tengo 01:09:27.949 --> 01:09:31.489 que practicar y estudiar mucho. And if that sounded 01:09:31.489 --> 01:09:34.590 scripted, it's because it was. I literally memorized 01:09:34.590 --> 01:09:38.289 all of those sentences over the past couple weeks 01:09:38.289 --> 01:09:41.449 because those are just general sentences that 01:09:41.449 --> 01:09:47.270 I would say. And if you were to listen to me 01:09:47.270 --> 01:09:49.350 speaking unscripted, it would be a different 01:09:49.350 --> 01:09:54.229 story. I would sound a lot less fluent. But basically 01:09:54.229 --> 01:09:58.680 that is... uh, where I'm at right now, uh, in 01:09:58.680 --> 01:10:05.939 my Spanish, uh, journey. So that's it for the 01:10:05.939 --> 01:10:10.779 episode right now. I'm working on learning, memorizing 01:10:10.779 --> 01:10:13.340 the settlers of Catan phrases. I've already memorized 01:10:13.340 --> 01:10:15.399 them all right now. I'm just memorizing strategy 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:18.380 phrases so that I can one learn more strategy 01:10:18.380 --> 01:10:21.479 on how to beat my, my family at Catan, but also 01:10:21.479 --> 01:10:23.100 cause we're playing like basically every night 01:10:23.100 --> 01:10:28.850 now. I want to be able to play Catan with people 01:10:28.850 --> 01:10:31.670 who speak Spanish. In Spanish. And I've already 01:10:31.670 --> 01:10:37.829 memorized all of the phrases. Like. That means. 01:10:38.369 --> 01:10:43.329 Do you have brick? I have sheep. Those are just 01:10:43.329 --> 01:10:46.529 two sentences I memorized. But it only took a 01:10:46.529 --> 01:10:49.770 day to memorize all of them. So that's basically 01:10:49.770 --> 01:10:56.810 it. I have. I'm going to play. Catan with one 01:10:56.810 --> 01:10:59.409 of my tutors on baseline this Saturday actually 01:10:59.409 --> 01:11:04.350 and I'm hoping to set up a game with my friend 01:11:04.350 --> 01:11:06.689 and this other friend that I met at the park 01:11:06.689 --> 01:11:09.710 who only speaks Spanish play Catan with them 01:11:09.710 --> 01:11:13.409 in the future when I'm able to walk but that 01:11:13.409 --> 01:11:17.470 is basically it for the episode peace