rambling about cubing and hobbies and motivation and stuff like that
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- a little ramble about life and motivation and hobbies. definitely feel the urge to get back into cubing though! :)
0:00 where i been
1:30 motivation
2:40 the world
3:53 burnout / the fans
4:15 come back to cubing
5:04 world champs 2025?
5:24 opening my cubes
7:34 outro
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It's perfectly normal to get burned out and lose motivation, and in my opinion it's healthier to take a step back and chill rather than forcing yourself to do something you don't want to. From my perspective, 6 months is nothing to worry about. I've personally struggled with keeping up motivation, to the point where I've usually uploaded consistently for a few months in the winter and spring, and then make nothing until the fall until it's once again time to prepare for the puzzle advent calendar. While it would certainly be better for my channel to upload more consistently, when the motivation isn't there it's really hard to make anything. I'm trying to break the cycle this year and upload consistently-ish throughout 2024, but that's after many years of very inconsistent scheduling. I agree that some fans might be disappointed, but I hope they're mature enough to understand that this is just a hobby. Take care of your own mental health first and foremost, and making videos is secondary. If you get back into it and enjoy it, it will be much easier to make content. The time just has to come, and there's nothing wrong with enjoying life in the meantime. I'd like to add that not uploading for the first 9 months of 2023 allowed me to reflect on my content, and really think about how I wanted to improve it. So even though I didn't publish anything from January 1st to October 24th that year, my content made a significant leap forwards in that time. And I would assume my audience noticed and appreciated that.
The most extreme case of this is astronauts returning. They went from eating and breathing their mission for around 5 years, practicing everything over and over. Then the big day comes. They launch and go through the mission focusing on getting everything right, and barely stopping to think that it's really happening this time because it feels exactly like their training. Then suddenly they're home with no pressure to do anything, and a good deal of them would go into very dark funks. NASA learned that they needed meaningful tasks right away. Things like helping to train the new recruits, speaking to high schools, and stuff. It's very easy and natural to feel useless and unmotivated right after a big project is completed.
Im glad that you are getting back into it. Dont worry how 'random' or 'messy' this video may seem to you, its your first step back in so it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be. You still made me smile and your interest in things is contagious.
Thank god you're not leaving the channel, you are the channel i was searching since i discoverded UA-cam, i love your method developing content, keep going bro!
nooo the heart, i just did edited the comment :,(
Glad to have you back, Rowan! And good on you for taking a break when you needed one. Also, we've been cubing for around the same amount of time (both started in 2016)
ROWAN YOURE AMAZING DO WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY !
(I wouldnt mind some more rowan videos tho 🥲)
This video is a good representation of how motivation can come from something as small as just looking and playing with something you used to be passionate about.
I 100% relate to randomly loosing interest in something you were genuinely passionate about for a while. It usually comes back at some point. You just had to step back for a while and that’s ok.
Motivation can come from anything/anywhere, as long as you keep surrounding yourself with supportive people, good things will come from it. (You’re probably the only reason I started doing what I’m doing again).
All love brother❤, keep thinking of creative shit. You a creative person. Gotta keep that brain creating yknow?
That’s deep bro. 😎 good insight man, thanks for the support ✌️
5:02 I’m becoming like a creature of the dark 😂
You should make a video on things like early cubing history and the competitions that that existed back in the early 80s or other cubing related things that not a lot of people know about
theres already some videos like that, and it's not really the sort of thing im interested in too much
Very happy to see you again! This and Cubing Historian are my favorite cubing channels tbh.
It's funny that I've not been cubing for a long time too, and when I was watching this video I subconciously took the 5x5 on my desk and started cubing too :)
Don't be ashamed with the burn out, it's a normal thing and it's better to not force yourself to do things that you don't really want. Again, very happy to see that you got the motivation back
No matter what you do, we are supporting you!!! Keep going Rowan!!!! I am so glad you are back
"I have no idea what to do"
Pulls out box of cubes
"I know what to do!"
sometimes all you need is to look at something to regain passion and motivation
I really hope you keep making videos just don't try to bat burn out
Yay, you're back
yeah i guess so 👎 thnaks Ryan
Glad your back! Excited for new videos
Glad you're doing well! Looking forward to whatever you want to do going forward
1:36 fr
0:10 the color scheme of that cube tho... 👌
wait what, you're alive?!?!?!?!
6:00 I would like to see you play the game
🎉❤😊
:)
What’s ur 3x3 avg
i think around 15 seconds the last time i tried
777 views 😎
Hi
hii
I almost didn’t recognise you.
DO I look different?? 😭
@@RowanFortier No I just had a low attention span and was doing something else while listening to the vid.