Big facts. People don't realize how deep "the system" goes and how its constructed to avoid people believing in themselves. It's beyond studying a field you're conditioned to think is right for you. People will look down upon you for not using your FREE time in a way that they see as productive or useful. And it's not just employers who judge your resume or whatever - students and peers will question everything you do that doesn't linearly contribute to a career they find reasonable. Sometimes believing in yourself means *not* living up to your potential. You can be confident in your abilities and qualifications without spending every waking hour seeking validation for it in the form of nice schools or prestigious jobs. You can be great at something and just not do it. And every time someone (including yourself) tells you that makes you lazy, stupid, or indecisive, it's really just them repeating what they've been told. Ignore it and spend your time how you want.
this is huge, thank you for writing this out and letting the people know!!! i massively agree that hustle culture has broken people's brains and made them think that if they're not bEiNg PrOdUcTiVe every second of the day, then they're "falling behind" or "wasting their lives." which is just a stupid way to think about life - i think we have this whole "work-life balance" thing totally backwards. in fact, i kinda hate the whole "work-life balance" idea. it should just be "LIFE" and "work" is one of like a million things that's sprinkled into life. the idea that work is on an equal playing field as LIFE is crazy. and if you say stuff like that, like you said, people will call you lazy, unmotivated, blah blah, which is just them parroting whatever the ruling class has made them think so we're all a bunch of busy worker ants for them. love what you said about "you can just be great at something and just not do it" bro. more people need to hear that (just cause you're good at cs or finance doesn't mean you have to do that if you don't want to!) thanks for taking the time to comment dude, appreciate it and hope u have a sensational night :)
But Work is on an equal playing field as Life, life is work. Work sustains life, every living creature out there is on the grind everyday to find food, shelter, and reproduce, what we humans do is not different. That being said, one should mainly strive to work smarter, and more efficiently, I.e, waste less effort/energy. If you are working to the point of burning out, you are probably doing something wrong, and should look into other avenues. I know y’all might come towards me with some animosity, but I am just trying to offer my two cents on the idea.
ye this makes sense, i guess it depends on your definition of "work." i agree that many of us in countries where we have internet are extremely fortunate that we don't have to spend every waking second of our lives looking for food, as probably 99% of life on earth and 99% of humans even have to do on a daily basis, and "work" for them is extremely important and meaningful i guess what i was trying to say is: stuff like "this bug report needs to be tagged on jira" is not life or death, and should not take precedence over living a happy, enjoyable life. even if it means that bug is not fixed for an extra day and some people have to suffer with that bug!!! life is more important than all that random office space crap thanks for taking the time to write ur comment and share ur thoughts :) hope u have an awesome night
Am college dropout and almost failed HS. But after achieving career goals as an artist in which no one believed in me for, I WILL now believe in myself if no one else will. Follow no one. Trust only yourself.
Rock on! Having study abroad in the U.S. and living in Viet Nam, spending some time in Europe, I do feel like Americans are stuck in this loop of conformity solely to sustain themselves. One wrong move (often beyond your control, like natural disaster or sickness) and you'll end up in the street real fast.
The algorithm blessed me with one your videos last week. So happy it did. Thanks for putting out content on things you care about and for being yourself dude - you've got this
hey, big appreciate the kind words and massive support dude! it honestly means more than you know and i am touched and all warm n fuzzy inside. thank you for enjoying and appreciating the vids, literally could not be making dis video without you watching em (also big shoutout to Big Algorithm, thank u youtube gods). lol for real though, stay true to yourself as well man. it's tough out here but we are tougher. thank you again for watchin and being here, i hope u have a legendarily magical night :)
I am a 16 year old and I relate so much with your words. About doing what you like and not being in constant fear and judging every moment while doing the things you like and being worried because of the social programming done to behave that way
I really needed this today, thank you! It's so interesting to hear this from someone in STEM/tech -- I've experienced so many of the same things as a theatre student. If I had a nickel for every time someone commented tha theatre isn't a "real career" or told me I was wasting my time/money/academic potential, I'd have enough money to pay for my degree lol
heck yeah, f the haters!!! i think it's funny when people tell people with dreams stuff like "hey you know that's gonna be really hard right?" or "you know you might fail right?"like YES BRENDA i think about that every day!!! that was the FIRST thing i thought about!!!! did u expect to be the person to break this previously unknown news to me???" but screw that, you have to believe in yourself to even start playing the game. im glad you are on yo own theatre journey, that is extremely dope to hear, if i had been less tryhard in high school i woulda done theater :') anyway, thanks for watchin and taking the time to write yo comment, i appreciate it, hope u have a wundervall night :)
Yea.. ive been into music since i was 9 and been told it was just a hobby. I’m going to college for it now but it just makes me want to withdraw from conversing with people like that.
I’m in STEM. And I’m trying to branch away from it. If you’re not passionate or don’t even have a morsel of love towards it, you won’t have a good life. You will survive but I don’t think I came here to survive. I see my colleagues becoming even better doctors than they were, going on to do even more prestigious and sacred degrees and I, honestly, don’t feel jealous because this is something I never wanted to do but they did. So, yay, good for them. Albeit, I was born a lost human being, doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to die one. If your heart lies and sleeps and swims in theatre, then fuck everyone else. yOu always do you
Well, this was deep. I agree though, you do have to believe in yourself, even when everything doesn’t workout. So, if you ever make a social media company, I would gladly sit there and do nothing for you, for money.
alright im launching Startupr we're gonna sit around, do nothing, call our tech "proprietary" and rake in the VC money for real though, i agree you gotta believe in yourself even if things don't work out or stuff seems crazy. for example, me wanting to do youtube as a job is very risky, and i kinda had to be a little crazy to really believe in myself to do it, because it's really f'in hard! but i think if we were all just a little crazy when we believed in ourselves, we'd see we were much more capable of achieving those crazy things than we would think. i mean, from my youtube experience and me taking a crazy af chance in believing in myself, it worked out, so i have some bias there lol but also let me be the proof that it's possible!!!! appreciate you for watchin the vid bro and taking the time to comment. ill let u know when the social media company is good to go lmao. hope u have an excellent night :)
@@introvertedmadness hell yeah man all the power to you, fr. there's so much i wish i could say bc my entire backstory (last couple years) is basically me coming to the realization i gotta accept myself in order to chase what i really want/need and being able to take a leap of faith into uni great vids dude, thanks
howdy, i just wanna say that your channel has really helped me mold my own outlook on life. you being able to articulate how you really feel as you get older is so inspiring. ive recently gone through this rough transition from optimism to pessimism, but now im finding that middle ground. the "it is what it is" mindset is pretty sustainable yet realistic. life can be shit sometimes but it is seriously such a wonder to be alive when i think about. i can literally pursue or try anything i want until i hit the grave! but my desire to conform to society is holding me back... im such a chronic people pleaser and want to change that. who cares what another person thinks? their judgemental opinion on me is only distracting them from their own life/potential. im fighting the urge to apologize for this long comment, but honestly all i wanna say is: tldr; thank you for putting a humorous twist on existentialism. your journey to exploring what you truly want in life is encouraging me to start my own.
thank you for watching and i am very glad to hear you could relate!!! i definitely was on that optimism/pessimism rollercoaster, but i think i've landed at: who cares what the outside world is like, imma just do me and believe that the world is good. cuz even if the world IS bad, i think it'd be better if i just like...gave everyone the benefit of the doubt lol. but it's definitely tough seeing all the messed up stuff in the world every day and yeah, i've also definitely been there with being a people pleaser my whole life lol. i have to keep reminding myself it's not selfish if i don't do every single last possible thing to make a person happy. cuz at the end of the day, i literally cannot be responsible for anyone's happiness but my own lmao. anywho, again, thanks for watchin and taking the time to comment, i really appreciate it and im glad i could help with your journey even a little :) good luck and i hope u have a magical night
I was having a horrible day finding out that the people that backstabbed me are getting ahead of me in life. I was always good at art and wanted to make a living out of it but couldn’t afford art school. I did the same thing and majored in something that has nothing to do with my interests. I started picking myself back up and working towards a life that I wanted. It took me years to take that first step towards achieving that goal. It feels like fate has brought me here and I’m already feeling better after watching this video.
Maybe it’s just me but it seems like most people who make Stanford channels make Stanford their entire identity. And while I agree that if you go to one of the best university in the world, who wouldn’t. But it’s refreshing to see your content being more focused on what you want to talk about instead of being trapped into just talking about Stanford related topics.
aye i appreciate the support and glad you enjoy the non-stanford content!! i've def had that moment where i looked at the analytics and was like, huh, the stanford videos do better than average. but then i was like: if im gonna force myself to make stanford videos all the time even when i don't want to, i might as well just full sell out and go earn six figures at beeg tech lmao, cuz i'd still be selling out making just stanford content, just in a different way (not to rag on anyone who's whole channel is stanford). (ALSO not too much stanford content since im a big stanford hater LMAO) but ye, im happy you wrote this comment and are enjoyin the channel direction :) thank u for watchin and i hope u have a spectacular day
this is really helpful, as someone who's going to university with a lot of anxieties about my career, passion, finances and things like that - hearing this helps. You're super underrated man
aye thank you for the kind words and glad you could relate bro! i feel you on the anxiety front, i haven't conquered any of those demons at all post-grad lmao, but im learning to handle them for sure. something that helps me is consciously being aware of when my worries actually become a bigger problem than the thing im worried about - for example, i've definitely found myself in a situation where the stress i put on myself to churn out content becomes a bigger problem than churning out content itself lol. and then im like, this is ridiculous, why are my worries about the thing outweighing the actual thing. not sure if that's helpful to your exact situation dude, but def hang in there, you got this :) it all works out. thanks for watchin and being here dude, and good luck on your journey :)
Man I also just graduated with a STEM degree, a lot of this hits home dude. You're not the only one going through it man, but I'm just hopeful that sticking with it will make it all worth it.
Im just now starting to get my GED this winter after not graduating/finishing highschool due to being chronically ill, having a severe anxiety/panic disorder, having chronic pain, and unfortunately was also addicted to opiates because I was so desperate to escape not just the physical pain, but the emotional distress/pain too. I was previously doing ok until junior year, doing an AP class each year, at least one honors course each year. The workload on top of all the other things resulted in me having multiple mental breakdowns lmao. *Im glad to say though, that I’ll be 4 years sober this November, and although I still have a long way to go in regards to my mental/physical health, Im doing better than I ever have* Im very scared lol Im also no longer in a toxic and codependent relationship (6 years with that guy lol F), have healed from it, and am now seeing someone that is the polar opposite of almost everything I was used to. Im really finally starting to believe in myself.
Just a few mins ago I was just staring at a blank screen, terrified to start writing the script to my next video and as a subconscious procrastination attempt I open UA-cam and watch this vid. Words can’t explain how much this helped me. Thank you man, keep doing what u do 😌✊
I’m not one to comment on videos often but this one really struck a chord with me. As a college alum I continue to question my values and career choices every day. Being children of immigrant parents, even without external pressure, we place expectations on ourselves in terms of the types of jobs and careers we’re supposed to have. I continue to have interest in pursuing my career but I can’t help but feel like I’m neglecting some of my more niche interests because I have no concrete reference points and feel like I wouldn’t fit into those fields of interest. This is a subconscious mindset and we fear that if we break out of the mold, our best efforts will not be on par with the status quo or produce great outcome. But, as you implied, if we assign heavy weight on criticisms and immediate outcomes then we cannot live up to our most authentic self. Thank you for sharing your wisdom in such an engaging way! It was refreshing and comforting to hear your thoughts on this topic.
It sucks because after a long time trying to believe in myself I feel like I’m constantly being pressured to prove my worth or prove myself. It’s really close to breaking me at this point. But as long I’m around I guess I won’t break. Just sucks for now.
I’m only 5 minutes in but I had to pause and type this. This is already the most relatable and personal thing I’ve watched this year. I want to do something creative but the society I’m in has told me there’s only select jobs I should actually pursue, and that believing in myself will lead to ruin. I’ve just realised that I’ve never actually believed in myself since I was a kid. This is already so helpful for my mindset going forward lol.
aye that is awesome to hear dude, im really glad you could relate and figure that out for yourself. i know exactly what you mean, people try to use "that job is risky" as an excuse to crush any dream anyone has that isn't selling their life to a corporation lmao. but yeah, just gotta believe in yo self to do it as that first step (and u definitely can do it!!!!) good luck on your journey bro, i am rooting for u. thank u for watchin and commenting, hope u have a legendary night :)
6:32 technically speaking our sun is actually one of the colder suns in comparison to other stars we observed, and water is clear… not blue. it reflects off the blue wavelengths from the sky. yes i had to be that guy
aye can't forget where i started from :) and had to get these thoughts off my mind. appreciate you for being here from the beginning stages, means a lot that you've stuck around. thanks for bein here and hope u have a congenial night :)
@@introvertedmadness I just wanna appreciate your replies, man, they're really what make each video of yours so special. Keep making good shit like this -- I needed it so badly tonight. I'm going to uni for a non-econ social science and I'd be lying if I said that I didn't worry about being unemployed or being "less" than the stem/econ/finance kids. I feel like I don't deserve to be at the uni I'm at, because my subject supposedly isn't as competitive. I don't know man, it's tough to believe in myself when all I can see are the glaring inadequacies and flaws in myself. But this video genuinely, *genuinely* helped. I can't make things worse for myself and not believe in myself when there's no one else really looking out for me. I stumbled across your channel a few hours back and just binged so many of your videos. And I adore the content-- it's so new and fresh, and I LOVE how genuine your replies are. You're goated, man, keep up the fantastic work, thank you for reading this if you did, and have an excellent day :)
Just wanted to let you know that your channel is truly helping me so much. It’s so nice to know that someone who’s gone through like a “traditional Asian” education/career path has seen what it’s like on the other side. I feel so much pressure to do something “practical” but what will happen when I’m like 50 wondering what the hell I did with my life . There’s many more people like us than I thought and it’s very comforting thank you :)
Man, everything u said made me think of my life. Thank you, Thank you for being here for us and making those sick videos. Keep up the vibe and I'll get my shit right, thanks to you.
I just wanted to say thank you. I'm going to community college in California (sorry I'm majoring in computer science but I know that it's not for everyone lol) and I've been worried if falling into the system that has held my ancestors captive in working or holding certain beliefs. I do feel sad because I know that while I sometimes might be incorrect about thinking a certain way, I'm so frightened of getting judged for having opinions that I feel so lonely with other people. And when I try to build myself up I just get made fun of for being different and weird. I feel like deep down I'm going to change this world but it's hard when everyone is telling me that what I want isn't reality or that "I should be real with myself." Thank you so much for this video idk what I'm going to do with my life but you got a new sub :)
Confidence is probably the most important trait you can have. You need confidence in the job interview, you need confidence when trying to pick up chicks, you need confidence on fourth and 6 with a minute left in a tight game, you need confidence when your roommates leave dirty dishes out and that shit get on your nerves, you need confidence when taking your driving test. Confidence is required for success and if you're like me and don't have much confidence, fake it. Fake the fuck outta that shit until you fool your brain into being confident. Listen to the first verse of runitup by Tyler the creator. That's what you gotta be because, just like introverted said, if you ain't confident in yourself, ain't nobody else ever will. Now go do some shit, confidently.
yes every word of this is the absolute truth!!!!! confidence is the whole game, and nothing can even get started if you're not confident enough to believe you can do the thing. only then can you move with the intentions powerful enough to actual get that shit done!!! (sorry if that was a lil hippie dippy lmao but it's the truth) i struggled a long time with confidence because i always thought it was arrogance, but they're honestly just two separate things. confidence is just believing you are ENOUGH to do whatever you want in life, which YOU 100000% ARE. GO GET EMMMMMM (also thank u for taking the time to comment this :) means a lot, thank u for watching and hope you have an awesome night)
@@introvertedmadness sorry for my late response, I had a good night lol. Anyway thank you for making the video, then reading and responding to my comment. Feels pretty cool, ngl.
Wow this is such a good video. I am lucky to have a grandpa that taught me the message “Don’t believe in anything but yourself” and it has always stuck with me.
Dude I've had all of this stuff on my mind lately but I've been having trouble really getting it through my head. I recently had the same realization that if I didn't believe in myself, nobody would, and as stressful as that notion is, I think it's motivating me to start thinking from a new perspective. This was a great watch, and I'll definitely keep it in mind throughout the week. We're all gonna make it brahs!
I'm really happy that I found your channel cuz eventhough what you say is a little close to "just do it lol" you say it in a way that's resonates with my thoughts. In a way that isn't too grind-y like what other channels say like "IF YOU DONT DO IT ITS UR FAULT/YOU SHOULD REALLY DO THIS TO BE AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE" I was struggling with studying for my course and I guess, the conclusion i got in the end was patting myself on the back, accept my failures and believing in myself that I can indeed do thing. It may be challenging but it's worth trying. And now you explained the reasons why we should do it, it's not too hard to believe in myself.
Dude, I just want to say that I loved watching every single video you uploaded and will probably rewatch many of them. Your humour, honesty and sincerity are so nice and I appreciate you for being authentic in such a way.
that was me going premed, and then working in biopharma because I didn't care that much about my degree or major in biology. It was all to satisfy my parents. I totally get you bro
Sick video, thank you for speaking about stuff like this. I’m entering high school senior year and everything about life, my job and my future is hitting hard. This is what I needed amidst the chaos. I also wanna make videos just like u lol. I really like your style!
1:07 - 1:36 This section of the video really resonated because funnily enough I am in my last semester of CS degree and I have no desire to work in the tech field at all. My dream job from the beginning for University has been stand-up comedy or a UA-camr. I have always loved making content and making people laugh so the entertainment career path always attracted me. Since I had to take electives outside of my major, I took some courses that involved a lot of essays which is when I found out that I like writing too. My friend recommended your channel and specifically this video to me because he felt that it would be comforting for me to know that there is someone else like me as well. Thank you for making this video and honestly would love to have a conversation with you someday if possible. Would be nice to how 2 people with similar goals think. I wish you all the best with your journey :)
I'm 35, I just moved countries alone, with no family or a spouse (although that's in the works), no prior career except for fumbling about in music and keeping my self afloat with working class jobs. And you know what? I feel hopeful and inspired. I got plenty of life experience, I figured myself out for the most part, I'm learning and meeting new people, making friends. I feel that my life is full, even though previously it was all safe and set in stone but boring, stale and going nowhere. It's your perspective. Love your channel, man. I feel that's going to be the two polarizing sides of the gen Z coin: either fully embracing the grind and feeling the futility of it, or rejecting it to find Zen and inner peace. All the best! The pressure is mainly inside our own minds.
didn't go to stanford (went to another "prestigious?" university) but there was tons of commonality when comparing our experiences. i shared your stanford cs video with my friends who suffered through our school's CS education (if you can call it that) with me and there was universal agreement that essentially, the system is broken af and doesn't make sense. fk bootlickers lmao
You know thank urself the creativity bug wasn't choked and killed by standford and life after that. You are a story-teller with deep insights. Thanks you for entertaining. Keep going! 💕
hey there, not sure if you’ll see this-computer science student with a lifelong passion for animation & illustration here! this video explained everything in my head and everything i felt that i couldn’t explain (why i feel so much more “comfortable” doing CS and terrified/imposter syndrome-y doing art). thank you so so much for sharing your thoughts. sending love from my corner of the world!
in apush back in highschool was the first time i learned people legit wrote essays of how they felt. Things like this are what people did back then. We haven't read every think piece but someone did, an that helped shaped today. Think and say your thoughts unapologetically and the bs will naturally filter out over time. Don't worry about being wrong or right. Preach brother.
Love you dude, just discovered your channel on my feed, and I can't thank you enough for making a video out of what I am going through right now. I am 22 and was trying to make a living out of starting my business that I has planning for 6 months. This video is the exact thing I need to keep me motivated. Please keep believing in yourself, and I wish you could find a way to go big by being yourself as well :)
I just found your channel a few days ago and man, this is all of the things I’ve been thinking about in my own head that I haven’t heard anyone talk about, until now. Out of the thousands of channels and probably tens of thousands of UA-cam videos I’ve watched, I’ve never found a video, let alone an entire channel talking about the things I personally deeply think about until now, it feels like I just found my life story in the Library of Babel. Keep it up, my dude👌🏼
Binging all your videos today, will add something here too. I wrote essays for university students while in high school, all while being a bottom-of-the-class student in highschool and uni. Luckily I gathered up the courage to drop out of university (after discovering lucid dreaming) with 1 semester left. A small startup in Montreal noticed me, hired me as a developer without me knowing how to code, flew me out to Montreal and gave me an apartment. All they did was took a small risk of believing in me, and it paid off for the company (I still work there), and paid off for me as I found my passion and calling. Ironically the startup grew and once our Series B investors came in, they kicked out the founder who gave me the shot, and turned the company into a soul-less jira-ticket making machine. I'm kind of back to square 1 now, as I'm stuck in this situation where I have a great salary and my job is easy, but just like in Uni, I feel my soul being chipped away. I always point out to people that the only thing I am actually proud of myself for is dropping out. The rest just kinda fell into place once I started believing in myself :) Sounds like I have to 'dropout' one more time !
leap and a net will appear!!! i'm happy to hear you had that positive first experience (well, positive til the company got weird). obviously you're talented enough to have that first opportunity come your way (what's the saying? luck is where opportunity meets preparedness?), you got this. bill burr has this clip where he hypes up some guy who has resigned himself to being average, you should check it out (just google bill burr being average). it will all work out dude!!! thank you for watching and the comment and hope you have a gorgeous rest of your day
Agree with most of what u said and thats how i kinda feel as being an undergraduate stem student ,But it's kinda easier saying im Doing what i feel and what ireally wanna do while having the financial support by my parents and my background in contrast of being trapped by the continuous financial uncertainty. One answer could be work some part time jobs while u chase ur dream but how u gon have the energy and willingness to give the 100%.After a From one hand u have to deeply understand that u dont live in a fairytale but at the other hand u have to never stop beeing an optimistic and a crazy dreamer
You are completely right about big tech hiring/pay. I worked with so many people at FAANG, who built a service that could be a company, but they didn't see that, and would rather appease their boss.
Love this video and your channel as a high school senior going through the college admissions stress. Connecting something as abstract as believing in yourself to the tech company over-hiring/lay-off thing was really interesting
@3:00 wow that's true. I noticed at a lot of tech companies the employees aren't doing that much overall. Lots of busy works and projects to justify promotions.
I just found your channel and !!! Love. I’ve been wanting to start my own channel for years - but my biggest problem has been EXACTLY this. A lack of self efficacy! Which sucks to say (type) out loud (on screen)! Seeing this video felt like such a big hug - thank u!
such an important message - thanks for making us all feel not alone in our thoughts of feeling this way, it's so easy to follow the herd / crowd and think the same things and blindly assume the truth
q63vthanks for relating and makin me feel less crazy for having these thoughts!!! lol, it's cool to see im not the only one out here thinking these things are we haven't all bought in to the beeg system's ways yet. thanks for watchin (and takin the time to discuss these these things with me as well!) hope u have a legendary night :)
I fully agree with your big brain conspiracy theory! the Pareto principle.... we know if a business has 10,000 employee's the square root(100people) DO HALF THE WORK!!!!!!!!!! we know this!!!!!!!!!!!
That Jim Carrey speech got me to go back to school because I was done with my IT work and wanted to do research. I got put on my lab's website yesterday at the school I've been going to. It meant a lot to see me up there when I only saw myself there in my imagination.
bro you're doing so well I found you from the so you got rejected video and I can saw that all the videos since have all been bangers. keep up the good work i know more people are going to find and relate to you channel and we really appreciate all the videos and vulnerable insight.
You just inspired me to keep pushing. I left my job with no plan because I was tired of pharma industry. I'm gonna pursue my interests using the skills I have.
9:23 Such an important point. People will tell you so much that is unhelpful. I'm convinced now that you can't really survive without cutting out these comments Like, it's so important to listen to all the helpful advice you can get. You can make better decisions then, but so much of what we hear is just unhelpful and harmful
I don’t know how much I needed this channel. You’re explaining all these ideas I’ve heard from other smart people in a digestible way that I can understand. You don’t overcomplicate shit for the purpose of having a god complex. Thank you ❤️
Thanks for this video. I totally relate to the pressure to go into CS, I go to Penn where CS and business-wharton-y things are pushed so hard by the culture. I’ve had people say to my face that the world would be a better place if there were no humanities majors, and everyone just did STEM or engineering or business. But hearing from the other side is reassuring. I don’t know what I want to do yet… but I definitely know it won’t be something I choose just because I’m scared of failure otherwise.
That's a very strange point about tech companies hiring people and paying them a lot of money. There is a very simple and clear answer as to why they do this - they want to expand and create new technologies to make even more money. It's called diversification. Alphabet (Google) is not just the search engine, but UA-cam, Play Store, Google Drive, Google Cloud and many, many other divisions that do something completely different, like self-driving car technology, machine learning and hardware for machine learning, smartphones. Same for Meta, Microsoft, Apple and other huge companies. They pay a lot because they can, and it's not just about hiring the best - why would they hire interns and juniors then? They want people who are willing to grow and learn with the company and are willing to invest into juniors they think have what it takes. About these companies hiring people so they have less competiton - that's just absurd. No company is big enough to hire every guy with the billion dollar idea. What they do instead is just buy out the billion dollar idea after it is shown to work in the real world.. or use their giant piles of money to create their own version. Also, it's laughable to think that all these juniors chosen by the tech companies are some geniuses, who just happen to be born in the USA and not other countries. The reason tech companies pay so much and why there are so many start-ups in the US is not because people there are smarter, not at all, it's all about the enormous amount of money that's available there. This video is very entitled. So you worked a job that wasn't you weren't passionate about. Welcome to the real world, not everyone is so lucky to be able to work their dream job, especially as their first one. A job is what it is, a way to make money, so you can live. If you want to chase a dream, go right ahead, but be realistic. How many failed UA-camrs, Twitch streamers, musicians, enterpreneurs etc. are there? I'd say plenty, they just don't talk about it. If it doesn't work out, then what? Without a safety net, you are fucked. Those that are most risk tolerant are those who can afford the risk. This is the truth of capitalism - if you have money, then you can try ANYTHING and fail, again and again until you stop trying or you make it. Without money you get one try if even that. Confidence and grit can only get you so far when you need to pay the rent to not end up on the street. Unless you decide to turn that confidence around and become a con-man, sell bullshit books about working hard and give seminars to gullible people. What I mean to say is, dreams are called dreams for a reason, nobody is guaranteed to make it just because they think they can. Especially making a living on UA-cam - this is reserved only for some of the biggest creators, whose success is often in large part due to sheer luck and having the algorithm on their side..
killer vid, just dropped out of college as an engineering major (still hoping to finish my degree :/ ). it feels too frequently that the only person believing in myself is myself. sometimes other people believe in my goals, but at the end of the day they take part in the benefits and don't take the time to support me along the way. your videos are putting all the feelings into words and awesome visuals, please keep going (so i can selfishly consume more of your wonderful content).
You got a good point in this video, believe in yourself, and in your ability to create change (not just talk about it, actually be an engine of change). Change can be good, and I think that is what scares people and keeps things the same in the grand scheme. Cause people fear what "change" means.
damn this hard. i literally am going into computer science right now bc i feel like itll be the "best" field for me and its financially stable lmao. but i know my real passion is with art, writing, expression, a little bit of tech and social work. #no idea what im gonna do in college lmao
I had to comment because I’m a few months away from a MA in psychology. I want to do research and I’ve felt like an idiot because I chose to do something that I enjoyed. I enjoy reading, writing, the different philosophical underpinnings. I’ve been able to work in nonprofits and will get my PhD in an unrelated field because it’s what I want to do and when I say I’m met with scrutiny??? Whew. Thanks for this video. Many people tell me I should have gotten into tech because that’s “where the money is” and while that may be true, I know so many people who are miserable in that field for the exact reasons you mentioned. Not saying my field is better or worse than anything else. I just think we have been duped into believing any of these fields will fulfill us because capitalism is so pervasive and insidious that you can wind up burnt out doing just about anything. Great video!
damn, thanks bro .....really appreciate you putting such great content out here and thx for saying u believe in us. good luck for your further videos too bye
Dude, water isn’t blue, how could you even say that? It’s transparent! Seriously though, this video really got me thinking, I think I needed to hear this due to my current circumstances so thank you for making the video.
Sometimes society does say it explicitly, do you have any idea how hard it is to open a small business in the modern day? They claim it's for safety or whatever they want to claim it is, but the simple truth is that the ability to do what you want to do with your life has been steadily decreasing and it's depressing
Your vids are so relatable my guy. I've felt a lot of this after graduating recently. Honestly have felt like a bum all of 2022 but then I realized that I just felt that way b/c my parents were putting me down. Over the last month I have learned to not give a fuck anymore. Im moving out and living in an LA homeless camp for a month to sell pamphlets for my mixtape
I really loved your video about speed run life. But this one, you transcended ✨ I really relate to your way of think, but I'd never be able to say the way you do. Please, keep with the great work bro 🥰 One more subscriber, from Brazil 🇧🇷
aye glad you can relate brotha, really cool to see :) yeah man, cs degrees are tough nowadays, lotta questions to ask after college lol. but i am certain u will figure out your path and what works for u. thank u again for the support dude, means a lot, hope u have an incredible night :)
I kinda really loved ( and needed) this video, so thank you for making it. I can’t say I have some big dream job I’ve always wanted, but I’ve realized the career I think I want to pursue this year and this video made me more confident about my choice. Keep making the shit you wanna make, shitpost, Stanford rant, random philosophy, or watching paint dry I’ll still watch it
Big facts. People don't realize how deep "the system" goes and how its constructed to avoid people believing in themselves. It's beyond studying a field you're conditioned to think is right for you. People will look down upon you for not using your FREE time in a way that they see as productive or useful. And it's not just employers who judge your resume or whatever - students and peers will question everything you do that doesn't linearly contribute to a career they find reasonable.
Sometimes believing in yourself means *not* living up to your potential. You can be confident in your abilities and qualifications without spending every waking hour seeking validation for it in the form of nice schools or prestigious jobs. You can be great at something and just not do it. And every time someone (including yourself) tells you that makes you lazy, stupid, or indecisive, it's really just them repeating what they've been told. Ignore it and spend your time how you want.
thanks I needed this!
Great point, I totally agree
this is huge, thank you for writing this out and letting the people know!!! i massively agree that hustle culture has broken people's brains and made them think that if they're not bEiNg PrOdUcTiVe every second of the day, then they're "falling behind" or "wasting their lives." which is just a stupid way to think about life - i think we have this whole "work-life balance" thing totally backwards. in fact, i kinda hate the whole "work-life balance" idea. it should just be "LIFE" and "work" is one of like a million things that's sprinkled into life. the idea that work is on an equal playing field as LIFE is crazy. and if you say stuff like that, like you said, people will call you lazy, unmotivated, blah blah, which is just them parroting whatever the ruling class has made them think so we're all a bunch of busy worker ants for them.
love what you said about "you can just be great at something and just not do it" bro. more people need to hear that (just cause you're good at cs or finance doesn't mean you have to do that if you don't want to!) thanks for taking the time to comment dude, appreciate it and hope u have a sensational night :)
But Work is on an equal playing field as Life, life is work. Work sustains life, every living creature out there is on the grind everyday to find food, shelter, and reproduce, what we humans do is not different.
That being said, one should mainly strive to work smarter, and more efficiently, I.e, waste less effort/energy. If you are working to the point of burning out, you are probably doing something wrong, and should look into other avenues.
I know y’all might come towards me with some animosity, but I am just trying to offer my two cents on the idea.
ye this makes sense, i guess it depends on your definition of "work." i agree that many of us in countries where we have internet are extremely fortunate that we don't have to spend every waking second of our lives looking for food, as probably 99% of life on earth and 99% of humans even have to do on a daily basis, and "work" for them is extremely important and meaningful
i guess what i was trying to say is: stuff like "this bug report needs to be tagged on jira" is not life or death, and should not take precedence over living a happy, enjoyable life. even if it means that bug is not fixed for an extra day and some people have to suffer with that bug!!! life is more important than all that random office space crap
thanks for taking the time to write ur comment and share ur thoughts :) hope u have an awesome night
Am college dropout and almost failed HS. But after achieving career goals as an artist in which no one believed in me for, I WILL now believe in myself if no one else will.
Follow no one. Trust only yourself.
Rock on! Having study abroad in the U.S. and living in Viet Nam, spending some time in Europe, I do feel like Americans are stuck in this loop of conformity solely to sustain themselves. One wrong move (often beyond your control, like natural disaster or sickness) and you'll end up in the street real fast.
what type of artist are you? just out of curiosity
terrible advice
The algorithm blessed me with one your videos last week. So happy it did. Thanks for putting out content on things you care about and for being yourself dude - you've got this
hey, big appreciate the kind words and massive support dude! it honestly means more than you know and i am touched and all warm n fuzzy inside. thank you for enjoying and appreciating the vids, literally could not be making dis video without you watching em (also big shoutout to Big Algorithm, thank u youtube gods). lol for real though, stay true to yourself as well man. it's tough out here but we are tougher. thank you again for watchin and being here, i hope u have a legendarily magical night :)
I am a 16 year old and I relate so much with your words. About doing what you like and not being in constant fear and judging every moment while doing the things you like and being worried because of the social programming done to behave that way
I really needed this today, thank you! It's so interesting to hear this from someone in STEM/tech -- I've experienced so many of the same things as a theatre student. If I had a nickel for every time someone commented tha theatre isn't a "real career" or told me I was wasting my time/money/academic potential, I'd have enough money to pay for my degree lol
heck yeah, f the haters!!! i think it's funny when people tell people with dreams stuff like "hey you know that's gonna be really hard right?" or "you know you might fail right?"like YES BRENDA i think about that every day!!! that was the FIRST thing i thought about!!!! did u expect to be the person to break this previously unknown news to me???" but screw that, you have to believe in yourself to even start playing the game. im glad you are on yo own theatre journey, that is extremely dope to hear, if i had been less tryhard in high school i woulda done theater :') anyway, thanks for watchin and taking the time to write yo comment, i appreciate it, hope u have a wundervall night :)
Yea.. ive been into music since i was 9 and been told it was just a hobby. I’m going to college for it now but it just makes me want to withdraw from conversing with people like that.
I’m in STEM. And I’m trying to branch away from it. If you’re not passionate or don’t even have a morsel of love towards it, you won’t have a good life. You will survive but I don’t think I came here to survive. I see my colleagues becoming even better doctors than they were, going on to do even more prestigious and sacred degrees and I, honestly, don’t feel jealous because this is something I never wanted to do but they did. So, yay, good for them. Albeit, I was born a lost human being, doesn’t necessarily mean that I have to die one. If your heart lies and sleeps and swims in theatre, then fuck everyone else. yOu always do you
Well, this was deep. I agree though, you do have to believe in yourself, even when everything doesn’t workout. So, if you ever make a social media company, I would gladly sit there and do nothing for you, for money.
alright im launching Startupr we're gonna sit around, do nothing, call our tech "proprietary" and rake in the VC money
for real though, i agree you gotta believe in yourself even if things don't work out or stuff seems crazy. for example, me wanting to do youtube as a job is very risky, and i kinda had to be a little crazy to really believe in myself to do it, because it's really f'in hard! but i think if we were all just a little crazy when we believed in ourselves, we'd see we were much more capable of achieving those crazy things than we would think. i mean, from my youtube experience and me taking a crazy af chance in believing in myself, it worked out, so i have some bias there lol but also let me be the proof that it's possible!!!!
appreciate you for watchin the vid bro and taking the time to comment. ill let u know when the social media company is good to go lmao. hope u have an excellent night :)
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@@introvertedmadness hell yeah man
all the power to you, fr.
there's so much i wish i could say bc my entire backstory (last couple years) is basically me coming to the realization i gotta accept myself in order to chase what i really want/need and being able to take a leap of faith into uni
great vids dude, thanks
howdy, i just wanna say that your channel has really helped me mold my own outlook on life. you being able to articulate how you really feel as you get older is so inspiring. ive recently gone through this rough transition from optimism to pessimism, but now im finding that middle ground. the "it is what it is" mindset is pretty sustainable yet realistic. life can be shit sometimes but it is seriously such a wonder to be alive when i think about. i can literally pursue or try anything i want until i hit the grave! but my desire to conform to society is holding me back... im such a chronic people pleaser and want to change that. who cares what another person thinks? their judgemental opinion on me is only distracting them from their own life/potential. im fighting the urge to apologize for this long comment, but honestly all i wanna say is:
tldr; thank you for putting a humorous twist on existentialism. your journey to exploring what you truly want in life is encouraging me to start my own.
thank you for watching and i am very glad to hear you could relate!!! i definitely was on that optimism/pessimism rollercoaster, but i think i've landed at: who cares what the outside world is like, imma just do me and believe that the world is good. cuz even if the world IS bad, i think it'd be better if i just like...gave everyone the benefit of the doubt lol. but it's definitely tough seeing all the messed up stuff in the world every day
and yeah, i've also definitely been there with being a people pleaser my whole life lol. i have to keep reminding myself it's not selfish if i don't do every single last possible thing to make a person happy. cuz at the end of the day, i literally cannot be responsible for anyone's happiness but my own lmao. anywho, again, thanks for watchin and taking the time to comment, i really appreciate it and im glad i could help with your journey even a little :) good luck and i hope u have a magical night
I was having a horrible day finding out that the people that backstabbed me are getting ahead of me in life. I was always good at art and wanted to make a living out of it but couldn’t afford art school. I did the same thing and majored in something that has nothing to do with my interests. I started picking myself back up and working towards a life that I wanted. It took me years to take that first step towards achieving that goal.
It feels like fate has brought me here and I’m already feeling better after watching this video.
Maybe it’s just me but it seems like most people who make Stanford channels make Stanford their entire identity. And while I agree that if you go to one of the best university in the world, who wouldn’t. But it’s refreshing to see your content being more focused on what you want to talk about instead of being trapped into just talking about Stanford related topics.
aye i appreciate the support and glad you enjoy the non-stanford content!! i've def had that moment where i looked at the analytics and was like, huh, the stanford videos do better than average. but then i was like: if im gonna force myself to make stanford videos all the time even when i don't want to, i might as well just full sell out and go earn six figures at beeg tech lmao, cuz i'd still be selling out making just stanford content, just in a different way (not to rag on anyone who's whole channel is stanford).
(ALSO not too much stanford content since im a big stanford hater LMAO)
but ye, im happy you wrote this comment and are enjoyin the channel direction :) thank u for watchin and i hope u have a spectacular day
this is really helpful, as someone who's going to university with a lot of anxieties about my career, passion, finances and things like that - hearing this helps. You're super underrated man
aye thank you for the kind words and glad you could relate bro! i feel you on the anxiety front, i haven't conquered any of those demons at all post-grad lmao, but im learning to handle them for sure. something that helps me is consciously being aware of when my worries actually become a bigger problem than the thing im worried about - for example, i've definitely found myself in a situation where the stress i put on myself to churn out content becomes a bigger problem than churning out content itself lol. and then im like, this is ridiculous, why are my worries about the thing outweighing the actual thing.
not sure if that's helpful to your exact situation dude, but def hang in there, you got this :) it all works out. thanks for watchin and being here dude, and good luck on your journey :)
Man I also just graduated with a STEM degree, a lot of this hits home dude. You're not the only one going through it man, but I'm just hopeful that sticking with it will make it all worth it.
Im just now starting to get my GED this winter after not graduating/finishing highschool due to being chronically ill, having a severe anxiety/panic disorder, having chronic pain, and unfortunately was also addicted to opiates because I was so desperate to escape not just the physical pain, but the emotional distress/pain too.
I was previously doing ok until junior year, doing an AP class each year, at least one honors course each year. The workload on top of all the other things resulted in me having multiple mental breakdowns lmao.
*Im glad to say though, that I’ll be 4 years sober this November, and although I still have a long way to go in regards to my mental/physical health, Im doing better than I ever have*
Im very scared lol
Im also no longer in a toxic and codependent relationship (6 years with that guy lol F), have healed from it, and am now seeing someone that is the polar opposite of almost everything I was used to.
Im really finally starting to believe in myself.
Just a few mins ago I was just staring at a blank screen, terrified to start writing the script to my next video and as a subconscious procrastination attempt I open UA-cam and watch this vid. Words can’t explain how much this helped me. Thank you man, keep doing what u do 😌✊
I’m not one to comment on videos often but this one really struck a chord with me. As a college alum I continue to question my values and career choices every day. Being children of immigrant parents, even without external pressure, we place expectations on ourselves in terms of the types of jobs and careers we’re supposed to have.
I continue to have interest in pursuing my career but I can’t help but feel like I’m neglecting some of my more niche interests because I have no concrete reference points and feel like I wouldn’t fit into those fields of interest. This is a subconscious mindset and we fear that if we break out of the mold, our best efforts will not be on par with the status quo or produce great outcome. But, as you implied, if we assign heavy weight on criticisms and immediate outcomes then we cannot live up to our most authentic self.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom in such an engaging way! It was refreshing and comforting to hear your thoughts on this topic.
Be ambitious. Take everything in stride. Never give up.
damn you’re good at drawing circles
It sucks because after a long time trying to believe in myself I feel like I’m constantly being pressured to prove my worth or prove myself. It’s really close to breaking me at this point. But as long I’m around I guess I won’t break. Just sucks for now.
I’m only 5 minutes in but I had to pause and type this. This is already the most relatable and personal thing I’ve watched this year. I want to do something creative but the society I’m in has told me there’s only select jobs I should actually pursue, and that believing in myself will lead to ruin. I’ve just realised that I’ve never actually believed in myself since I was a kid. This is already so helpful for my mindset going forward lol.
aye that is awesome to hear dude, im really glad you could relate and figure that out for yourself. i know exactly what you mean, people try to use "that job is risky" as an excuse to crush any dream anyone has that isn't selling their life to a corporation lmao. but yeah, just gotta believe in yo self to do it as that first step (and u definitely can do it!!!!) good luck on your journey bro, i am rooting for u. thank u for watchin and commenting, hope u have a legendary night :)
like a dude with some really cool sunglasses once said, "kick logic out and do the impossible!"
6:32 technically speaking our sun is actually one of the colder suns in comparison to other stars we observed, and water is clear… not blue. it reflects off the blue wavelengths from the sky.
yes i had to be that guy
Happy that even with the other viral videos, you came back to the roots w the classic banger. Always a joy to watch and happy to see the growth
aye can't forget where i started from :) and had to get these thoughts off my mind. appreciate you for being here from the beginning stages, means a lot that you've stuck around. thanks for bein here and hope u have a congenial night :)
@@introvertedmadness I just wanna appreciate your replies, man, they're really what make each video of yours so special. Keep making good shit like this -- I needed it so badly tonight. I'm going to uni for a non-econ social science and I'd be lying if I said that I didn't worry about being unemployed or being "less" than the stem/econ/finance kids. I feel like I don't deserve to be at the uni I'm at, because my subject supposedly isn't as competitive. I don't know man, it's tough to believe in myself when all I can see are the glaring inadequacies and flaws in myself. But this video genuinely, *genuinely* helped. I can't make things worse for myself and not believe in myself when there's no one else really looking out for me. I stumbled across your channel a few hours back and just binged so many of your videos. And I adore the content-- it's so new and fresh, and I LOVE how genuine your replies are. You're goated, man, keep up the fantastic work, thank you for reading this if you did, and have an excellent day :)
Just wanted to let you know that your channel is truly helping me so much. It’s so nice to know that someone who’s gone through like a “traditional Asian” education/career path has seen what it’s like on the other side. I feel so much pressure to do something “practical” but what will happen when I’m like 50 wondering what the hell I did with my life . There’s many more people like us than I thought and it’s very comforting thank you :)
"the water is blue" may actually be very controversial amongst environmentalists who would argue we're turning the water brown with pollution.
Man, everything u said made me think of my life. Thank you, Thank you for being here for us and making those sick videos. Keep up the vibe and I'll get my shit right, thanks to you.
I just wanted to say thank you. I'm going to community college in California (sorry I'm majoring in computer science but I know that it's not for everyone lol) and I've been worried if falling into the system that has held my ancestors captive in working or holding certain beliefs. I do feel sad because I know that while I sometimes might be incorrect about thinking a certain way, I'm so frightened of getting judged for having opinions that I feel so lonely with other people. And when I try to build myself up I just get made fun of for being different and weird. I feel like deep down I'm going to change this world but it's hard when everyone is telling me that what I want isn't reality or that "I should be real with myself." Thank you so much for this video idk what I'm going to do with my life but you got a new sub :)
I’m at a really hard time in my life and my friend recommended this video… this is cool stuff. Thank you.
Confidence is probably the most important trait you can have. You need confidence in the job interview, you need confidence when trying to pick up chicks, you need confidence on fourth and 6 with a minute left in a tight game, you need confidence when your roommates leave dirty dishes out and that shit get on your nerves, you need confidence when taking your driving test. Confidence is required for success and if you're like me and don't have much confidence, fake it. Fake the fuck outta that shit until you fool your brain into being confident.
Listen to the first verse of runitup by Tyler the creator. That's what you gotta be because, just like introverted said, if you ain't confident in yourself, ain't nobody else ever will.
Now go do some shit, confidently.
yes every word of this is the absolute truth!!!!! confidence is the whole game, and nothing can even get started if you're not confident enough to believe you can do the thing. only then can you move with the intentions powerful enough to actual get that shit done!!! (sorry if that was a lil hippie dippy lmao but it's the truth)
i struggled a long time with confidence because i always thought it was arrogance, but they're honestly just two separate things. confidence is just believing you are ENOUGH to do whatever you want in life, which YOU 100000% ARE. GO GET EMMMMMM
(also thank u for taking the time to comment this :) means a lot, thank u for watching and hope you have an awesome night)
@@introvertedmadness sorry for my late response, I had a good night lol. Anyway thank you for making the video, then reading and responding to my comment. Feels pretty cool, ngl.
damn that’s crazy, too bad I don’t have any of it
@@jackdias9263 peeps like you and me gotta become experts at faking it. Unfortunately but true
Wow this is such a good video. I am lucky to have a grandpa that taught me the message “Don’t believe in anything but yourself” and it has always stuck with me.
Dude I've had all of this stuff on my mind lately but I've been having trouble really getting it through my head.
I recently had the same realization that if I didn't believe in myself, nobody would, and as stressful as that notion is, I think it's motivating me to start thinking from a new perspective. This was a great watch, and I'll definitely keep it in mind throughout the week.
We're all gonna make it brahs!
I'm really happy that I found your channel cuz eventhough what you say is a little close to "just do it lol" you say it in a way that's resonates with my thoughts. In a way that isn't too grind-y like what other channels say like "IF YOU DONT DO IT ITS UR FAULT/YOU SHOULD REALLY DO THIS TO BE AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE"
I was struggling with studying for my course and I guess, the conclusion i got in the end was patting myself on the back, accept my failures and believing in myself that I can indeed do thing. It may be challenging but it's worth trying. And now you explained the reasons why we should do it, it's not too hard to believe in myself.
Dude, I just want to say that I loved watching every single video you uploaded and will probably rewatch many of them. Your humour, honesty and sincerity are so nice and I appreciate you for being authentic in such a way.
that was me going premed, and then working in biopharma because I didn't care that much about my degree or major in biology. It was all to satisfy my parents. I totally get you bro
Sick video, thank you for speaking about stuff like this. I’m entering high school senior year and everything about life, my job and my future is hitting hard. This is what I needed amidst the chaos.
I also wanna make videos just like u lol. I really like your style!
1:07 - 1:36 This section of the video really resonated because funnily enough I am in my last semester of CS degree and I have no desire to work in the tech field at all. My dream job from the beginning for University has been stand-up comedy or a UA-camr. I have always loved making content and making people laugh so the entertainment career path always attracted me. Since I had to take electives outside of my major, I took some courses that involved a lot of essays which is when I found out that I like writing too.
My friend recommended your channel and specifically this video to me because he felt that it would be comforting for me to know that there is someone else like me as well. Thank you for making this video and honestly would love to have a conversation with you someday if possible. Would be nice to how 2 people with similar goals think. I wish you all the best with your journey :)
I'm 35, I just moved countries alone, with no family or a spouse (although that's in the works), no prior career except for fumbling about in music and keeping my self afloat with working class jobs. And you know what? I feel hopeful and inspired. I got plenty of life experience, I figured myself out for the most part, I'm learning and meeting new people, making friends. I feel that my life is full, even though previously it was all safe and set in stone but boring, stale and going nowhere. It's your perspective.
Love your channel, man. I feel that's going to be the two polarizing sides of the gen Z coin: either fully embracing the grind and feeling the futility of it, or rejecting it to find Zen and inner peace. All the best! The pressure is mainly inside our own minds.
I love your style. You're gonna be big one day
didn't go to stanford (went to another "prestigious?" university) but there was tons of commonality when comparing our experiences. i shared your stanford cs video with my friends who suffered through our school's CS education (if you can call it that) with me and there was universal agreement that essentially, the system is broken af and doesn't make sense. fk bootlickers lmao
You know thank urself the creativity bug wasn't choked and killed by standford and life after that. You are a story-teller with deep insights. Thanks you for entertaining. Keep going! 💕
Got frustrated because of my job in a tech startup, went to youtube to relax and bumped into you. Love you dude
hey there, not sure if you’ll see this-computer science student with a lifelong passion for animation & illustration here! this video explained everything in my head and everything i felt that i couldn’t explain (why i feel so much more “comfortable” doing CS and terrified/imposter syndrome-y doing art). thank you so so much for sharing your thoughts. sending love from my corner of the world!
in apush back in highschool was the first time i learned people legit wrote essays of how they felt. Things like this are what people did back then. We haven't read every think piece but someone did, an that helped shaped today. Think and say your thoughts unapologetically and the bs will naturally filter out over time. Don't worry about being wrong or right. Preach brother.
"you don't need to justify your existence".. deep
Love you dude, just discovered your channel on my feed, and I can't thank you enough for making a video out of what I am going through right now.
I am 22 and was trying to make a living out of starting my business that I has planning for 6 months. This video is the exact thing I need to keep me motivated.
Please keep believing in yourself, and I wish you could find a way to go big by being yourself as well :)
I just found your channel a few days ago and man, this is all of the things I’ve been thinking about in my own head that I haven’t heard anyone talk about, until now. Out of the thousands of channels and probably tens of thousands of UA-cam videos I’ve watched, I’ve never found a video, let alone an entire channel talking about the things I personally deeply think about until now, it feels like I just found my life story in the Library of Babel. Keep it up, my dude👌🏼
Same here
believing in yourself challenges capitalism is the best argument ive heard to start doing so
Binging all your videos today, will add something here too. I wrote essays for university students while in high school, all while being a bottom-of-the-class student in highschool and uni. Luckily I gathered up the courage to drop out of university (after discovering lucid dreaming) with 1 semester left. A small startup in Montreal noticed me, hired me as a developer without me knowing how to code, flew me out to Montreal and gave me an apartment. All they did was took a small risk of believing in me, and it paid off for the company (I still work there), and paid off for me as I found my passion and calling.
Ironically the startup grew and once our Series B investors came in, they kicked out the founder who gave me the shot, and turned the company into a soul-less jira-ticket making machine. I'm kind of back to square 1 now, as I'm stuck in this situation where I have a great salary and my job is easy, but just like in Uni, I feel my soul being chipped away.
I always point out to people that the only thing I am actually proud of myself for is dropping out. The rest just kinda fell into place once I started believing in myself :) Sounds like I have to 'dropout' one more time !
leap and a net will appear!!! i'm happy to hear you had that positive first experience (well, positive til the company got weird). obviously you're talented enough to have that first opportunity come your way (what's the saying? luck is where opportunity meets preparedness?), you got this. bill burr has this clip where he hypes up some guy who has resigned himself to being average, you should check it out (just google bill burr being average). it will all work out dude!!! thank you for watching and the comment and hope you have a gorgeous rest of your day
4:22, 7:12 - Societies outside pressure of other people
9:38 - Risk
This is exactly how I feel 😂😭
I am just gonna take a gap year and fuck it. I feel the lack of individualism and figure a bit more about myself!
Agree with most of what u said and thats how i kinda feel as being an undergraduate stem student ,But it's kinda easier saying im Doing what i feel and what ireally wanna do while having the financial support by my parents and my background in contrast of being trapped by the continuous financial uncertainty. One answer could be work some part time jobs while u chase ur dream but how u gon have the energy and willingness to give the 100%.After a From one hand u have to deeply understand that u dont live in a fairytale but at the other hand u have to never stop beeing an optimistic and a crazy dreamer
You are completely right about big tech hiring/pay. I worked with so many people at FAANG, who built a service that could be a company, but they didn't see that, and would rather appease their boss.
Listening to these videos always makes me feel so comfortable 😌 Like talking with a old friend about life
Love this video and your channel as a high school senior going through the college admissions stress. Connecting something as abstract as believing in yourself to the tech company over-hiring/lay-off thing was really interesting
@3:00 wow that's true. I noticed at a lot of tech companies the employees aren't doing that much overall. Lots of busy works and projects to justify promotions.
I just found your channel and !!! Love. I’ve been wanting to start my own channel for years - but my biggest problem has been EXACTLY this. A lack of self efficacy! Which sucks to say (type) out loud (on screen)! Seeing this video felt like such a big hug - thank u!
such an important message - thanks for making us all feel not alone in our thoughts of feeling this way, it's so easy to follow the herd / crowd and think the same things and blindly assume the truth
q63vthanks for relating and makin me feel less crazy for having these thoughts!!! lol, it's cool to see im not the only one out here thinking these things are we haven't all bought in to the beeg system's ways yet. thanks for watchin (and takin the time to discuss these these things with me as well!) hope u have a legendary night :)
I fully agree with your big brain conspiracy theory! the Pareto principle.... we know if a business has 10,000 employee's the square root(100people) DO HALF THE WORK!!!!!!!!!! we know this!!!!!!!!!!!
That Jim Carrey speech got me to go back to school because I was done with my IT work and wanted to do research. I got put on my lab's website yesterday at the school I've been going to. It meant a lot to see me up there when I only saw myself there in my imagination.
bro you're doing so well I found you from the so you got rejected video and I can saw that all the videos since have all been bangers. keep up the good work i know more people are going to find and relate to you channel and we really appreciate all the videos and vulnerable insight.
You just inspired me to keep pushing. I left my job with no plan because I was tired of pharma industry. I'm gonna pursue my interests using the skills I have.
9:23 Such an important point. People will tell you so much that is unhelpful. I'm convinced now that you can't really survive without cutting out these comments
Like, it's so important to listen to all the helpful advice you can get. You can make better decisions then, but so much of what we hear is just unhelpful and harmful
I don’t know how much I needed this channel. You’re explaining all these ideas I’ve heard from other smart people in a digestible way that I can understand. You don’t overcomplicate shit for the purpose of having a god complex. Thank you ❤️
Thanks for this video. I totally relate to the pressure to go into CS, I go to Penn where CS and business-wharton-y things are pushed so hard by the culture. I’ve had people say to my face that the world would be a better place if there were no humanities majors, and everyone just did STEM or engineering or business. But hearing from the other side is reassuring. I don’t know what I want to do yet… but I definitely know it won’t be something I choose just because I’m scared of failure otherwise.
this is actually really fucking good and some of this information is really important for us younger audiences good stuff i subbed
every video on this channel is gold
6:27 - From what I've learned, this is marketing. Confirmation bias with a twist.
Omg that's where the We Live In A Society reference comes from🎉
So relatable!! I feel you and I think 🤔 along the same levels bro! I love how you ended it with Jim Carey’s speech! So profound 🧐 and perfect 🤩
That's a very strange point about tech companies hiring people and paying them a lot of money. There is a very simple and clear answer as to why they do this - they want to expand and create new technologies to make even more money. It's called diversification. Alphabet (Google) is not just the search engine, but UA-cam, Play Store, Google Drive, Google Cloud and many, many other divisions that do something completely different, like self-driving car technology, machine learning and hardware for machine learning, smartphones. Same for Meta, Microsoft, Apple and other huge companies. They pay a lot because they can, and it's not just about hiring the best - why would they hire interns and juniors then? They want people who are willing to grow and learn with the company and are willing to invest into juniors they think have what it takes.
About these companies hiring people so they have less competiton - that's just absurd. No company is big enough to hire every guy with the billion dollar idea. What they do instead is just buy out the billion dollar idea after it is shown to work in the real world.. or use their giant piles of money to create their own version. Also, it's laughable to think that all these juniors chosen by the tech companies are some geniuses, who just happen to be born in the USA and not other countries. The reason tech companies pay so much and why there are so many start-ups in the US is not because people there are smarter, not at all, it's all about the enormous amount of money that's available there.
This video is very entitled. So you worked a job that wasn't you weren't passionate about. Welcome to the real world, not everyone is so lucky to be able to work their dream job, especially as their first one. A job is what it is, a way to make money, so you can live. If you want to chase a dream, go right ahead, but be realistic. How many failed UA-camrs, Twitch streamers, musicians, enterpreneurs etc. are there? I'd say plenty, they just don't talk about it. If it doesn't work out, then what? Without a safety net, you are fucked. Those that are most risk tolerant are those who can afford the risk. This is the truth of capitalism - if you have money, then you can try ANYTHING and fail, again and again until you stop trying or you make it. Without money you get one try if even that. Confidence and grit can only get you so far when you need to pay the rent to not end up on the street. Unless you decide to turn that confidence around and become a con-man, sell bullshit books about working hard and give seminars to gullible people. What I mean to say is, dreams are called dreams for a reason, nobody is guaranteed to make it just because they think they can. Especially making a living on UA-cam - this is reserved only for some of the biggest creators, whose success is often in large part due to sheer luck and having the algorithm on their side..
Well said
man, I really enjoy the combination of your drawing style and your humor.
Exactly what I needed this sunday❤
Haha I love your perspectives and video bro.
You're speaking mah lingoooo
marathon your vids to make me believe in myself
killer vid, just dropped out of college as an engineering major (still hoping to finish my degree :/ ). it feels too frequently that the only person believing in myself is myself. sometimes other people believe in my goals, but at the end of the day they take part in the benefits and don't take the time to support me along the way. your videos are putting all the feelings into words and awesome visuals, please keep going (so i can selfishly consume more of your wonderful content).
enjoying your videos bro, awesome
You got a good point in this video, believe in yourself, and in your ability to create change (not just talk about it, actually be an engine of change). Change can be good, and I think that is what scares people and keeps things the same in the grand scheme. Cause people fear what "change" means.
damn this hard. i literally am going into computer science right now bc i feel like itll be the "best" field for me and its financially stable lmao. but i know my real passion is with art, writing, expression, a little bit of tech and social work. #no idea what im gonna do in college lmao
I'm so glad you took a risk to do UA-cam, your videos are great man.
I really love your channel, your videos are currently really helping me get through a really tough break up
You’ve been talking that SHIT lately. Good job🙏🏾
What I think is we can do anything as long as we exploit the random circumstances we get .
I had to comment because I’m a few months away from a MA in psychology. I want to do research and I’ve felt like an idiot because I chose to do something that I enjoyed. I enjoy reading, writing, the different philosophical underpinnings. I’ve been able to work in nonprofits and will get my PhD in an unrelated field because it’s what I want to do and when I say I’m met with scrutiny??? Whew. Thanks for this video. Many people tell me I should have gotten into tech because that’s “where the money is” and while that may be true, I know so many people who are miserable in that field for the exact reasons you mentioned. Not saying my field is better or worse than anything else. I just think we have been duped into believing any of these fields will fulfill us because capitalism is so pervasive and insidious that you can wind up burnt out doing just about anything. Great video!
This kinda reminds me of the plot of the lego movie,creative people are creating ideas for those who dont have any
man i needed this video, thank u
damn, thanks bro .....really appreciate you putting such great content out here and thx for saying u believe in us. good luck for your further videos too bye
You got me question of my life decisions. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
why did you do this, now you got me reorganizing my life
Agree. I hope to be a competition of these big tech companies one day. Build something meaningful that helps people.
Dude, water isn’t blue, how could you even say that? It’s transparent! Seriously though, this video really got me thinking, I think I needed to hear this due to my current circumstances so thank you for making the video.
Man is spitting straight facts ‼️💯
Preach!
Holy shit I'm 26 and honestly needed to hear this from someone else
Sometimes society does say it explicitly, do you have any idea how hard it is to open a small business in the modern day? They claim it's for safety or whatever they want to claim it is, but the simple truth is that the ability to do what you want to do with your life has been steadily decreasing and it's depressing
yall gotta read some emerson. The mans helped me believe in myself so much.
This video is such big facts i might as well write my whole common app essay on it fuck it why not
Your vids are so relatable my guy. I've felt a lot of this after graduating recently. Honestly have felt like a bum all of 2022 but then I realized that I just felt that way b/c my parents were putting me down. Over the last month I have learned to not give a fuck anymore. Im moving out and living in an LA homeless camp for a month to sell pamphlets for my mixtape
such a comfortable video❤ thank you
I really loved your video about speed run life. But this one, you transcended ✨ I really relate to your way of think, but I'd never be able to say the way you do. Please, keep with the great work bro 🥰
One more subscriber, from Brazil 🇧🇷
Just graduated from Cornell with a CS degree bro, and i gotta say you're content feels like ur talking to my soul lmao :'']
aye glad you can relate brotha, really cool to see :) yeah man, cs degrees are tough nowadays, lotta questions to ask after college lol. but i am certain u will figure out your path and what works for u. thank u again for the support dude, means a lot, hope u have an incredible night :)
Amen brother. Don't let those NPCs stop you.
I kinda really loved ( and needed) this video, so thank you for making it. I can’t say I have some big dream job I’ve always wanted, but I’ve realized the career I think I want to pursue this year and this video made me more confident about my choice.
Keep making the shit you wanna make, shitpost, Stanford rant, random philosophy, or watching paint dry I’ll still watch it
love the new drawing style