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- Sometimes in life taking the first step is always the hardest, and most times you don't know how but maybe thats a good thing.
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There is always a reason ❤
This comment gave me goosebumps
Uff finally back to life there is a reason you are seeing this comment
yes, I need this one
“I was comparing my day one to someone’s day 1000.” Powerful!
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as powerful as grammy award winning artist, Derra...wtf is dat?
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Whenever I want to start something new, I get scared of wasting my time and not achieving my goals.
At least you have clear goals.
same here, i can’t tell if i should be putting more time toward something else
but the risk is why you’re doing it,
and the risk usually tends to be worth it
you won’t waste time, you still learn skills along the way anyway
I don't have that fear, but when I start that new thing, I realize how out of my depths I am and will quit because of monetary issues, time, or how unrealistic my goals are. This may not be the same for you, so my advice would be to start small and work up from there, but keep in mind successful people are extreme outliers.
time will pass anyway
I entirely understand that, and I’ve been stuck that way for years. I’ve come to terms that it’s an unfortunate way to live.
I realised that we don’t really know when our end will come. Today, tomorrow, it’s lucky that we are alive each day.
With that, if you want to start something new, you should go for it. It may lead to new, even better goals. If not, at-least you tried, and get a skill out of it. Life is full of surprises and all about the experience, not about having everything planned and figured out. It’s far less stressful that way. I think on the internet there’s this “productivity” culture that exists of always being goal orientated, know what you want, don’t waste time and avoid making mistakes. We think so much about being productive that ironically it’s not a productive use of time. On top of that, you’re exposed to people e.g far younger than you who seem to be doing what you can’t. It all can all honestly feel very impending and scary.
But, think the best advice in life is finding what and doing what you enjoy, not what you feel you have to do to seem productive. That will lead you to being more productive than you can imagine.
“You can do hard things. Uncertainty is the nature of life, self-trust is the antidote.”
"Instead of hoping you're doing the right thing, make it the right thing."
Uufff im gonna be living by this now!
The worst is that we forget so many valuable lessons. I hope this one sticks with me (this time)
Unless you’re a serial killer…
@@AyanelDv that's what my life has been, taught many lesson but I often forget them :'))
Imagine you like mtb, video games, and 3D art. How can you choose? Do you understand the quote "Instead of hoping you're doing the right thing, make it the right thing" like: chose one of them and invest you near 100% so anyway, you'll be the person who succeed in this field. Or did I've understand the sentence as it should?
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"Don't be scared of moving slowly, be scared of standing still." This quote really helps me out. I fear a lot that im not progressing fast enough or becoming sucessful at my passions fast enough. But if you just do an hour or two everyday of work, your still progressing. Your work ethic should be authentic, not perfect. We have been brainwashed to believe we need to work 8 hours a day when its not true. do a few hours a day, go outside, smile, live life and the rest will amazingly manifest itself
I just screenshotted this to add to my vision board :')
Facts
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@@EmmaFowlerthat is a great idea!!!
@@theiescope it was exactly what I needed to hear!
Am part of the 20% here! One of the reasons, I guess, why people procrastinate so much is not because of laziness but because of perfectionism. We are so much scared about how other people might possibly perceive us from the outcome of our work, hence, we can't simply move forward coz we keep on going back to the details that we think might give other people long lasting impression of us.
Yea definitely we expect perfection from the beginning and we need to realize it's okay to suck in the beginning. I think we want to be at the destination without taking the journey however the journey is the most important part.
I struggle with the same thing. I am lucky enough to have a mentor in my life (which is a new experience) who tells me constantly to “fail fast” this is something I have to repeat to myself every time I get in a headspace of perfectionism. It helps me accept that I WILL fail and that is ok, in fact, it’s part of the plan. It is still difficult but it changes my expectation.
the fear of starting something, working hard for it , and not being what you thought you wanted in the beginning. Plus, that leading to a loss of time and money
Twenty Percent Here. I think what we fear is not failure, it’s success that we fear.
We all want success. But we don’t want the pain, frustrations, anger and disappointment and hard work.
Self reminder to myself to keep going and that all of this is what’s making it fun.
Or scared of success, scared of your power
this happens to me a lot, I'm starting to think too ahead of myself, and I feel the frustration
Same. I say this all the time-we can’t control what will come with success.
you mean we fear the difficult path to success not the success
Some quote just popped into my head that seems fitting: "What if I fall?" - "Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?"
Got this as my lock screen 😂
Need that much of positive optimism In life
There’s that Greek myth about it too - it’s called Daedalus and Icarus
Every single time I think I'm going to start my UA-cam channel or that course that I purchased 6 months ago, I start making a sandwich of all the reasons why it's not going to work. "You're not intelligent" "You're not funny or witty" "People are gonna hate the way you talk" "You got 0 editing skills" And then I eat my 1000-reasons-why-I'm-a-failure sandwich before bedtime and repeat the ritual the next day.
And me being in my 30s, it's just...
But, I am slowly doing things to change my perspective. And watching this video feels like a good start to my day today. ✨I'm always taking notes and learning a lot from channels like yours and many others on UA-cam. Thank you for making this video! :)
This helped me am 22 still a student and I'm questioning what am doing I can't even get myself to start my school project coz ifk how and its getting me stuck
Go girl! I feel you with the 30s issue haha But, so what? This is your life, live however you want to :) We will some day leave this world, so... Enjoy, live and love. This time here is a blessing
Before seeing this video , and just by the title, I can tell u guys by experience, yes start without knowing how , just start , I started doing things while I didn’t even have any idea about it , and now I’m good at crochet , painting, and reading books , and I’m still discovering new things
Hi 20%-er here! What I have come to enjoy in other creators is their candid EMOTIONAL honesty about the journey. Their journey. Their process. The imposter syndrome. I think it is so important to have other creators be your mirror and remind you of the nuance you bring to the table! That is the support we all need as creatives. So, I appreciate videos like this where it creates conversation and a safe space to just brain dump individual perspectives. Keep it up!
This🫶
Yep, 20% is here
I needed to read this! 😮 this is the statement!!
Avery, you said it best! I've started and re-started a couple of times on UA-cam...I consistently come face-to-face (seemingly) with those gremlins who only feed us negativity about what we're endeavoring to accomplish...especially if we're changing directions or reengineering ourselves for something different in life. "safe place for a brain dump"... To all, be well; self-encourage; & create. Peace.
I like how you used the word "nuanced ". It's so vulnerable sharing your perspective on UA-cam and so easy to think "no one cares what I think". When it comes down to it each take is nuanced, and sharing those unique to you thoughts can be interesting. So I'm going to try and remember that when the self doubt creeps in.
"Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation.
An improversation."
-Michael Scott
Life has a lot of uncertainties, but just remember that that's what makes it exciting and scary at the same time. You got this bro.
“Are you even choosing to do this? Are you doing this for yourself, or for other people?” That’s what holds me back
Personally, I always find myself questioning if what Im working on is worth the effort, I start it, find something "better", and then start something new, and the cycle repeats itself...
I get like that all the time too! Especially when I find a new game to record for my yt channel, I get so hyped and make some gameplay videos, and before I even finish that specific game, I see another game and I get so excited about that one and completely lose interest in the first game that I never finished... I've been trying to be more focused and disciplined on one specific game at a time.
I have this cycle. I get to know a subject just enough to know the basics. basically complete the "beginner Phase". I lose that initial spark and something new catches my attention. The latest was UA-cam. I tried doing it for 2 years (the longest ive ever stuck with something) and very recently I've decided to pivot again and want to break into becoming an editor.
I think you need to see each pivot, not as wasted time or failure. but instead as new information to push you into your new thing. If i didn't do 2 years of UA-cam i wouldn't have known i do not like the constant grind and would have always wondered. It also highlighted how much i enjoy editing / motion graphics compared to every other step - and now i actually have a small portfolio of work as jumping off point.
You are growing with each new thing your pursue. (sorry for the off load)
it's label as ADHD, take one and run with it, don't get distracted, use meditation and visualization to stay FOCUS ( Focus on One Course Until you Succeed)
This though.
Ugh same! I get shiny new toy syndrome too and if the new interest gets unbearably boring I bail so fast 💨😭
The fact this is the video that made you popular makes PROVES THAT THIS VIDEO IS FACTS
That wall of regret right before you finish a product is so true. You just gotta push through and actually finish things even if it isn’t perfect. Finishing and publishing is more important than perfection.
hey, 20% here. I think my fear is the by product of comparison. I'm not certain that what I have to offer is good enough, but I don't know who's standards I'm judging this on. I hope that 6 months from now, I've moved past the fear and am immersed in creation.
I had to teach myself that finishing something 80% of the way is the closest it'll ever be to perfection. The extra 20% is wasted time that would be better spent on starting something new. Just make it and move on - it's not the last time you'll create.
Love that thought 🙌💖
Not if it's for a client haha you'll get fired
@@tubax926 his words aren't for tasks or job its about something else, read again
@@memezarqueen1415 i was joking bro I completely understand what he means
20% | This is the first time I've heard someone else say what i've been feeling, "i already knew how to make videos but every time i clicked record it felt like i didn't know what i was doing." I have felt like that for so long. I can edit a video for clients, friends, family but when I want to do it for myself I never know where to start. I've been wanting to pursue youtube as well. I want be an Adventure Filmmaker but sometimes it feels so silly and unattainable. It's like you know what you want to say and share but then you feel like you know nothing. This video is so important. Thank you for putting it out there.
I completely feel the same way! I have all these aspirations and dreams of being a videographer/filmmaker watching and going through all these tutorials and getting so hyped and when I want to start that journey, I find it so intimidating and impossible, and I end up I distracting myself playing video games or watching yt videos... I've yet to take that plunge...
Just do it
@@babtherex it's not that easy lol
I'm not the only one in this, I bought video camera I recorded only one video and posted it then I gave my video camera out. Now I am trying to get new one but still feeling silly about it
@@Maiatalo Sure, but when you force yourself to do it over and over again things will start to clear up
When people learn that "process is everything", then they will get to experience "everything's going to be all right."
One of the 20% I have a long history of not finishing things due to perfectionism and lack of confidence. Thank you for this video ❤
As someone that’s halfway through several projects and constantly second guessing every decision, I really needed to hear this.
Glad you enjoyed it man, remember just start it!
I think the fear that keeps coming up is a sort of task paralysis. I get these spurts of motivation but when I start writing out a list of tasks that I want to get done to get to where I want to be I get overwhelmed and end up doing nothing at all. Its hard but I try my best to remind myself to start out with little steps and just try to enjoy the journey rather than focus on the outcome.
Me too!
"Instead of hoping you're doing the right thing, make it the right thing."
I desperately needed to hear that while filming a project today. Thank you.
I'm an artist in every sense of the word. I love music, I paint, I write stories, yet sometimes I feel like it will never be good enough.
Sometimes I forget I do this because of me, because this is what I've always wanted and looked up to, and I'm trying to get better.
I'm trying to overcome my social anxiety and my eating disorder, along with being a lot healthier and trying to *try* new things out.
As of today, I had a really bad day and all I thought about was giving up about everything I'm dreaming and sticking to what I have. That wouldn't be me after all.
I'm still young, barely in my seventeens and I'm turning eighteen this year.
For everyone reading this, don't wait for someone else to do it for you, search for the gratitude and pride to do things yourself and have your name on them.
Make yourself a person that people will remember.
First off, you were not rambling. I've never seen your videos before. First time watcher/viewer. I am part of that 20%. Everything you said really resonated with me. I'm a writer. I've always been a writer. Even before I could actually write, I'd make up stories, songs and poetry and share them with my 3 dolls and stuffed animal. Then, I finally took a smidge of belief in myself and had 3 different essays published in various magazines. They paid me!!! That was part of my start in earning money from writing. I've had little online jobs writing for others, but mostly, I've distracted myself with jobs I detested because I needed the money and the voices of my family and the loop that played (and still plays) in my mind saying that writing is a hobby and will never amount to anything. I will never amount to anything... There go the voices again... Anyway, I've been working on the first book in a series since roughly 2013? I worked on it some in 2013 and 2014, put it on a shelf because I didn't believe in me. Worked on it again in 2017. Put it on a shelf. You get the idea. I took it off the shelf again in 2023 and worked on it till maybe sometime in late March, then realized I gave away too much info in chapter 8 and 9 and it's been sitting on a shelf again... til yesterday or maybe the day before. I'm reading it from the beginning, revising as I see fit and will fix any issues with chapters 8 and 9 as I get to them and it'll be fine, but I have to do my paid work first, which I'm getting distracted on as well, because I'm hungry again to work on my book, but I keep telling myself "PAYING THE BILLS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE DREAM RIGHT NOW! Get the paid work done. THEN work on the book. Stay up late. Get up early. Make time. And get it done." Hopefully, I can actually finish this book by the beginning of May this year. I'm tired of waiting on myself. It's my biggest dream, unrealized. Everything else I've wanted for myself as far as taking risks and trying new things and putting myself out there have all manifested really fabulous results, so I don't understand myself in my constant stalling and purposely getting distracted. So freaking hard to believe in myself, or believe that God/Universe would ever help me reach success with this thing. I'm terrified. Terrified of failure. Terrified of success. Geez. I just want to live my best life but I get in my own way and trip over myself every step of the way AND IT DRIVES ME TO INSANITY!!! Anyway, maybe I'll come back one day and report that "Hey, I got a fine agent, a fab publisher, a fat advance, and all my dreams have come true and it was better than I ever imagined it could be, because God is so good and the Universe really does have my back!!!" That's part of the dream anyway. Till then, I'll keep on keeping on, try to finish this baby, and show up for myself. I hope the same for all of you with all you want in your life.
Thank you for sharing that! .It can be hard juggling with work to pay your bills and your ultimate goal in finishing that book. You deserve to be appreciate yourself . Do take little steps to work on that book and It would feel much better saying "hey I was able to work on it little by little and I didn't let go of that dream" rather than the huge paycheck/ the end result. Not that I have been able to do that fully or even reached anywhere close but since all our stories are different , only we can only take control of our own life. A close friend once told to me to stop sitting in the passenger seat just observing and allowing everything to happen and start controlling the wheel to what we see and do in the present. It's much easier said and even difficult to do but that struggle to every creative pursuit gives more happiness in the essence of life. It would be great to hear back from you regarding the journey/process of writing your book.. All the best in your journey!
Hi Carol, thank you for sharing your story. Your story is one I can highly resonate with because I am on that same path right now of believing in myself.. constant back and forth between what's important (believing in myself and chase my dream or work that job that "pays the bills") and still having confidence issues. I started listening to a audiobook of the ATOMIC HABITS about a month ago and I feel things changing already. Working towards something is not as hard as it seems because we always have the end goal in mind. Whilst this end goal isn't what is important. What is important is the person you become while striving towards that goal. In essence showing up everyday without fail for that 20-45 minutes working on your goal after working that job that pays the bills. Small efforts day in day out compound into something bigger than we could imagine. And with all the compounding work you put in you will be the writer you always wanted to be and publish more books than the one (the first big hurdle) you working towards right now. Do not forget we only have one life to live. Make the most of it now while you can. Each day we wake up we getting closer and closer to the time we will no longer be... I know that is a bit much to swallow but its the truth.. Don't you waste your potential girl!!!
Part of the 20% lol. This was great, I definitely understand I’m there now trying to determine what I want my shorts films to feel like and look like. For now consistency is the key!
Here here !!!
Don't lose hope , you'll definitely make it.....❤
It definitely made me think about the 80/20 rule.
20% Gang: One thing that comes up when thinking about things I want to pursue is the question "Will I even be fufilled once i've achieved it?"
That's usually where I'm reminded to have fun on the journey as well like the classic saying.
"You don't need to choose the right way, make it the right way" That was great!
I purchased my first camera in 2022 with plans of filming more and getting back on UA-cam…with many rabbit holes and LOADS of expensive additions to my camera setup…I have yet to put something out due to overthinking and doubting if what I am making is even good. This video, along with the 20% that commented made me realize that I’m not alone & I am motivated to put something out! Thank you!!
Feel you bro, a ton of equipment and you tell yourself once you got a new thing like a monitor, instead of starting, you keep searching to buy a lens or something to keep you waiting, been there done that
...just start with a 3-min short video. Maybe something you're interested in or something you know well. Then it will flow & be natural. Press record on your camera; edit the little stuff; press export to UA-cam; then pat yourself on the back, go out w/ some friends or yourself to celebrate and say, " I did it"! Even if you don't make another video, you still did it! Cheering for you!
Last time I managed to break out of that cycle, it started by posting a video on my phone. I didn’t edit it or do anything to it other than state my intention. It helped break that barrier for me and then I posted a video soon thereafter that I’m very proud of. Hope this helps!
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I’m part of the 20%! I really feel like comparing my day one to someone else’s day 2000 is my biggest weakness. Like logically I know that I will have to suck at making art and videos to get good at making art and videos but then I try something and I’m like “oh you’re not already good at this? You’re not picking it up fast?” And then it’s “well it’s not worth it then because you’ll never be good and you will never support yourself and succeed if you’re not good”. Or the good old “it’s too late for you to pursue this” and trying to make out like I’m too old to succeed at things at THE RIPE OLD AGE OF 26 which is absolutely ridiculous
Felt like I had to leave a comment to this! I'm 19 and just started writing lyrics about a year ago, and even though I literally haven't even finished high school, I too worry about whether I started out too late to actually do something with it, which just seems so damn ironic. If you feel like taking advice from someone seven years younger than yourself, I think it'll just always be that way man
I'm 36 and I feel like I've missed my opportunity to go to film school or pursue my dreams of being a filmmaker/videographer because I am stuck in a 9-5 full time job, with hardly anytime at home to pursue these passions/hobbies and I can't afford to go back to school because of responsibilities and finances. I wonder if it's just something we all think about... I suppose we're our worst critic. To that end, I wish you the best Mickey and keep at it! One day you'll be that day 2000 for someone else. (It's always so much easier to help someone else than to help yourself XD) Take care friend!
I will be turning the ripe old age of 26 soon and these thoughts also pop in my mind! But in reality we are still very young. We just gotta keep showing up every day 🫶 and one day look back and see all the growth💛 you got this!
@@felixkunz1916 Im glad to see someone else my age also feeling this way. I really want to get into acting, entertaining and filmmaking but it all seems so insurmountable. I tell myself I wish I started earlier, as if it would change anything. I honestly just try to remember that time is only going to keep moving forward, so I have to choose whether or not to move with it. Good luck with your writing, all the best to you!!
This is a big fear of mine as well. I'm 19 and already feel this way, I suppose it's a feeling we're always going to have until we've already started what it is we want to start. Even once we're in the flow of things, I reckon we'll be grateful we started.
I’m a 20%er apparently! I did some science and my results indicate that 69.420% of viewers are fed up with perfect polished videos by creators who used to be like us but now, perched atop their ivory towers constructed with all their UA-cam participation plaques, pontificate about hydrogen water and red light therapy being the only path to enlightenment while we’re down here at Walmart looking for red light bulbs and off brand soda streams because that’s how much self improvement we can afford. You keep making real human mistakes with real human outcomes and real people will keep watching. Good video sir.
The biggest challenge I face is figuring out when it's actually better to give up than pushing through..
Don't know if this will help but... What does your heart tell you to do? And do you enjoy it? The simple act of doing whatever it is
As someone who started a UA-cam channel & then stopped creating - I needed to see this! Perfectionism definitely stops me from creating but lately I’ve been embracing the fact that perfection doesn’t exist and I need to put out my art regardless! - part of the 20 percent
Never stop creating you just might be in the brink of a turn around without knowing
Awesome !
lol that’s what I said ✨
" There's too many options and if I choose the wrong one,well my life might just fall apart".
Never thought I would hear the words in my mind out loud.
Probably the most relatable video I’ve ever watched as a creative trying to pursue a passion. Thank you for making this and making people like me not feel alone.
It’s just fear of failure that results in lack of confidence and you ultimately end up in a vicious cycle
the entire self development community wouldn't exist without coffee
Completely
My biggest fear is other judgement
@erinenk, just as others are scared of your judgment. A majority of people are focused on themselves and how others see them, to the point where they don't really have the "time" to judge others.
I read a quote that says something along the lines of: if you think others are judging you, it's really just you judging yourself.
he literally just explained my whole life in a 9minutes 46 secs...thank you
Yes.
Frl
truthfully I think I’m just scared of embarrassment like many are too, but the only way to get better is feedback.
“i don’t even know if this is good” and this video became the most popular in your channel.
sometimes the hardest thing to push through for me is “someone else can do it better than you already, why even try?” , but then i try to just ignore that and still do the thing for the joy of the process (for example just playing guitar for the joy of simple sounds and harmonies and not aiming to be faster than others)
So true and what im feeling everytime i make art and think why even spend time doing it when so much people are 100% better att it than me
the day 03 to 11 cut was so real and honestly its a process i go through everytime i make anything. for me the hardest part is tuning out or pushing through the 'what am i doing is thise even good' voices successfully enough through time to come to something whether its 'good' or 'bad'.
"people will think that sucks, you're so lame and you can't achieve it"
No we’re the 1% *side note* DO EVERYTHING LIKE ANYTHING
So glad the algorithm hit me with this. Self-doubt is one of the biggest struggles for me. I've been studying other professional creatives and their personalities and it really does seem like you nailed it. You really just have to keep pushing forward and when those "is this even good?" or "I don't even know if I like this"-type voices come out, you just say "Well, I don't know but let's keep going!" You really have to be okay with not being perfect at whatever it is you're pursuing. Keep calm, don't compare yourself unfairly, improve a little every day, and never quit.
I loved the message behind this video! Thank you for sharing Andrew!
"Instead of hoping you’re doing the right thing, make it the right thing." and not holding yourself to expectations you cant control are so huge. "If 100 people or 100,000 people see my art it doesn't change the quality or the importance of thing you did" or the message you're delivering. Those two things for me were a healthy smack in the face reminder. Thanks for the wise words.
We often "know" these things or hear them often but tend to forget it. Glad you stuck with it, part of the 20%, what you're saying is very relatable. I struggled with perfectionism and wanting anything I started to be perfect. I'd constantly feel like I need to know everything before I started or moved onto the next part of that topic, which ends up leading you to a different topic because of the shiny object syndrome and thinking that the next topic is easier than the one you're trying to perfect. We get good at learning the details, but the details come in by putting in the reps, and the reps come by simply just starting.
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
20% gang, a question that comes up to me these days, is if what I'm doing has purpose, especially the side things like hobbies. I think I've subconsciously have this bad mindset that if I'm not working on my engineering studies, then there is no reason to do the thing I'm doing that isn't my studies.
I've wanted to draw characters for years and every time I sit down to do it, I get scared cuz I don't have the skill to draw the ideas in my head. Why do I even want to draw them in the first place? I do enjoy drawing still life's that I do at my drawing class I take at the community center but I can't seem to just draw unless I'm drawing exactly what I see. I want to be able to draw from imagination but when I do draw that way everything I make is awful and so I stop trying. I know I need to just keep showing up everyday and eventually I will get there. This video really resonated with me. I'm going to keep going and drawing even if my drawings suck. It's better than sitting around wishing I could draw amazing things now. I'll never get to the good stuff if I don't put in the work to get there. You can't wish for something to happen, you have to do the work even if it sucks.
I actually teared up at the end bc you are showing yourself … and all of us … so much compassion . Beautiful truth is in you and following you. Thank you for the tears man.. I needed them today to feel a little more human , a little less stuck, get a little more in action with compassion for the things I want to create. Little by little UA-cam is acting as an oracle giving me the messages I need to step forward. Yay UA-cam .. what a platform of spirit!!! Keep breathing keep loving keep being -all things are coming! Rejoice
20 percent.
1. How to finish something that we've started? They're a lot
2. How to determine what's really important to do and focus between multiple options?
1. Do you need to finish it? If you do, you'll have finished it. As long as you are making progress in something, you're doing well.
2. Take walks. Just go and walk for 1-2 hours and have a conversation with yourself and your thoughts. That's where all this "what's really important" stuff gets sorted out. It's a mess that you must sort out
20% gang. Boredom, laziness, not motivated.
I never ever commented a video before this one. I’m Brazilian and just graduated at medical school. And I discovered so many dreams through the way. Dreams that goes beyond medicine and I feel so afraid to persue does dreams. I have been literally comparing my day one with the day 1000 of someone else. I just commented this because this video really inspired me To stop distracting myself and go for it. Day by day make every day decision worth it. Thank you for the video! I’m in the 20%.
20%! this was so relatable. thank you for sharing/reminding us of the inevitable CHAOS of creative work. its so easy for me to believe that this process is linear when its the exact opposite (even tho ive been through it hundreds of times). Nobody talks about the faith and serendipity required to turn your work into something worthwhile-- and tbh most of the time it does, miraculously!
I would love to see a video of your end to end process!! all the ups and downs and the edits and rewrites and the unfinished scripts
With every day that passed, I continued showing up…
i always admired space ever since i was a child, in middle school, physics is my fav subject, it feels so easy to me, theres one moment when no one in my class could answer this one question that our teacher gave us, but i found that question is really simple and i answered it, the teacher praised me and the whole class clapped their hands, it was a nice memory. in high school, my physics teacher is great but he's not as great, he don't explain about the theory as much as my middle school teacher would, he is good but he is not my favorite. ive only realized ive like physics these days, like a week or two weeks before i write this comment, i found a UA-cam video about physics and, boy, i can't stop watching it, i searched for more and more videos, literature, everything, i find it so fascinating. also, i joined the astronomy club at my school but i never thought that I'll be really interested in it, i just picked it because i found it really cool.
now, the thing is, i used to be bad at math, ever since elementary school, im in highschool right now and i can't even remember 1-10 multiplication, i hate myself for this, i feel really dumb. im a reckless, slow, person, im not neat or precise, i hate detail and i always daydream, lost in my own thoughts.
choosing a majors/careers in physics when im really bad at math is like suicide, everyone said that math is like the soul of physics, but i'll not give up. i don't know whats going on in the future but i hope i dont regret my decision in choosing physics, i don't know, i might give up in the future, I don't know. what i know is, right now, i want to be a great physician so i can have a critical thinking and/or problem solving skills, so im not being called dumb again
Part of the 20% here. I thought the video was good, very well thought out and laid out. I especially liked the line about comparing your day one to someone else’s day 1,000. For me, a powerful quote to battle this is “compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”. I also enjoyed watching you walk on the edge of the muddy path, I imagine to keep your shoes clean, and then in the next shot walking through the mud. I don’t know if it was intentional but I think it really gives a visual representation of the process you’re taking about. Sometimes it might be really bad, and you just have to be okay with it in order to grow and push forward. As someone who hasn’t posted in over a year. This was a great video for me, earned a sub, and thank you. - Alex
This resonated so hard. Whenever I try something new I feel huge anxiety that I will fail and I will have wasted my time. I’m 9 months into one of those journeys and FINALLY feel like I am coming out the other side and I’m starting to really believe in myself. Thanks a bunch for the vid and keep fighting the good fight people🤙
Part of the 20%, working with my partner as a wedding photographer/videographer in Denmark, having so many weddings per year, yet the taxes are so abnormal, around 45% of what we make goes in taxes, and being such an expensive country, at the end of the year we make it as a normal one-person salary. Which is crazy. It's just super frustrating and we're joggling with creating different other things but it's just so difficult when the weddings take already so much of your time and more importantly, so much of your creative energy...But we'll make it at some point, sooner or later.
Keep up the amazing work you're doing Andrew, you truly are an inspiration and I think this is the first comment I wrote in the past year, watching creators over creators, something just clicked with you in here and I'm so glad I found you. Much love from Europe.
Sometimes it feels like you have a purpose when creating and when you don’t reach a certain number of viewers etc. the feeling fades away. “How can I make the world better when I’m the only one supporting my craft, who will see it?”
Twenty percent here.
I'm being EATEN by self-doubt and the doubt of the idea. I had something planned to launch in a week, but I just wanted everything to be perfect and now it's been 2 weeks and I still didn't get it done. And now when I'm working on it, I just question myself: "What is all this?" "What am I doing?" "What if it ends up being a failure as well?"
I'm confident that what I'm creating, no-one else can and did. But it feels heavy paving a path than to walk on an already paved one. You question: "What if this leads to the DROWN?"
It's taking me 3-4 hours PER POST because of me being "perfectionist". I don't know man...
I’m part of the 20% and I’m very glad that you made this video. This week I’ve really realized that I’ve started and explored so many projects over the last year and a half and have not finished many of them. Typically when I get to the “this isn’t fun anymore stage” of my art I look for the next thing to “explore” which is typically a new medium (paper, markers, watercolor, fibers). But I want to be able to see something to completion, even if it’s not perfect. I think I need that challenge, actually I know I need that challenge, and this video was good confirmation of that. Thank you for making it!
Andrew mayn u just different that others self improvement gurus
U have really impacted life
Your content is very relatable
I just wanted to thank you
Part of the 20% here, currently I've been dealing with the fear of starting something new, because I fear that what if I just waste my time on that goal/plans I want to achieve and that makes me overthink and really anxious so in result I just don't start doing it, I just watch some videos or distract myself with something in order for me to not think those overthinking and anxiety I thought before for temporarily. I know what I must do but I don't have the strength and encouragement to do it. I just wish that someday I just get out with this state and actually start doing things.
If you give up before reach the finish line, you'll never be able to get that beautiful feeling and see how big, how strong you are. All you see when you give up to these small voices in your head is negativity.
Liked how you jumped back and forth in the process of making it to give that insight of “should I keep doing this because I’m not sure if I like it”. If you didn’t show that, we all would’ve gotten to the end of it thinking that you were confident in it the whole time, which is why you pressed Publish. So many of us (everyone?), no matter the scale, feel this.
I'm part of that 20%, Andrew & I'll add that the question I that usually comes up for me is "is it worth it?" "Do people care about the way that I display my art?". As someone that enjoys creating videos as well and wants to get into professional videography, these are the BURNING questions.
This was a beautiful video by the way, keep doing what you're doing. You have such a unique way of storytelling that keeps me coming back again and again.
im that 20% and honestly dawg ur real asf, there will ALWAYS be ups and downs but you need to just push through and experience the downs the same way you would the ups.
I wish someone had told me this before, I'm stuck in my life righ now just because I liked to do many things but I feared making the wrong choice so fucking much that I didn't choose anything at all. Everyone just picked up things for me, and as a people pleaser, I passively just accepted whatever came. Being thrown at the world at the age of eighteen when I was just like this made and still make me feel like a failure or the ultimate garbage of the universe. But there's some comfort in seeing someone say they've gone through something similar and that the first step is something everyone have to do and of course we'll not be our best everytime, let alone in the first try.
Learning to embrace the uncertainty is the best advice young people can get.
Instead of hoping you're doing the right thing, make it the right thing.
You did it again man what a beautiful video with a beautiful message ❤️
Just cried because I feel like I'll fail my chosen course after almost two years of doubting myself if I have chosen the right one. It was not really what I want, I think. It was ingrained in my mind since I was in sixth grade because my parents will question me on the other courses that I am interested in. I ended up taking the hardest course that they deem to be the one that will secure me a future and failed a lot of my major subjects. I am just trying to save my GWA in order to stay in the course (because of my scholarship and fear of not graduating on time) but I am doubting myself if I can. Cried to God, "Why here?" My tears fell down while fantasizing who I could be if I chose the course I'm genuinely interested in and confident to graduate with flying colors. I just want to finish this course and be done with it by passing its board exam to be able to take the course that I really want to pursue in my life.
“I was comparing my day one to someone’s day 1000.” Love this man
1:00 that transition ❤
The Shots, the colors, the audio, the story telling. Everything was so clean. Love your content.
Thank you for your video! I was about to give up my project tonight, cause I've had no results and no motivation to continue, I've spent too many time procrastinating... But now I'm feeling motivated again, cause your video reminded me that everyone make failures when they starit something new. And being okay with that fact and also being ready to work hard are the only keys to success!
There are only two things that make us act: fear or love. Thanks for the video.
Hey man! Resonated so much with this (again). Really cool that you recorded during the process as well, this is sooo familiar to me :) . This is the reason for me why so many projects don’t finish, you get stuck in the middle. What I really try to remember is, any project I ever did I will feel resistance or feel will not be good enough and I want to quit at least at one point. But when it was client work I always had to continue because of the deadline (and them paying for it haha) and it would always turn out as a good video in the end. In the 7 years whenever it was I project I wanted to turn jnto something great, i cannot remember there was one that I didnt want to quit. I tried to use that strategy for my own passion projects, the more I think it might fail when Im in the process, the better it gets when its finished for some reason 😂
Thanks for your great video again and keep on going man!
I'm part of that 20%! Thanks for chatting yesterday. I want to get into youtube but I overthink. I'm the type of person where if I'm overthinking halfway through my idea. I just talk my self out of it cause it stresses me out. I tried to do youtube last year and only did like 2 videos. I want to get back into it and talk from a designers point of view and inspire people but I also want my videos to look like GAWX and I know I'm not even remotely close to how good he is so I appreciate you for saying Don't comapre your day 1 to someones day 1000. Thank you for staying the course!
Bro I can relate to this so much.
I’ve got plenty of videos half way started. Some with just uploading the videos not started, an some just taking up room with my iCloud storage habitually telling me I need to back up my shit 😂😅 . I’ve been learning a lot from this book called the “artists way” by Julia Cameron and I highly recorecommend it. To go in part with what Andrew mentioned in this video, Julia also mentions that with our growth as artists the is “voice” “critic” “perfectionist” also sharpens its blade an grows with us. So the best thing I believe we can do is recognize its presence and begin to learn to acknowledge its presence but remind it that we are not stopping. Best wishes to you bro 🙏🏾✊🏾🫡
@@IAM_MATOS wow thanks so much for sharing man! Thats real! I love that she still acknowledges those voices and their presence but keeps pushing. I’ll take that advice man thank you! And I wish you the best of luck on your journey as well!
20% here...
Inspiration and excitement meet reality of hard work, self-doubt, and that's where I trip, slip and slide off the edge.
For me it's the exact same thing.
"Am I pursuing the right thing"?
"How will it all work out"?
"Am I good enough"?
"Is this good enough"?
"Will I make any money doing this"?
And I think all of that is just the brain trying to protect us from our fear of failure. It's us in our own head listening to reasons why we shouldn't instead of the reasons we should?
Specifically for me, I experience that when it comes to music.
Dang, that was a good video. I'm glad you stuck with it. And I mean it. It's honestly so refreshing to hear you talk about your struggles cause when no one talks about it, it makes you feel like you must be the only one (even though we all know no one's perfect). And I've felt those exact same things thousands of times, what you're talking about really resonates because the doubt, the uncertainty, the worrying and second guessing, losing interest and wanting to give up are just so powerful emotions and seem to attack whenever you're on the right track, trying to learn something new or work on yourself. And the thing you said right at the start- about decisions and distraction- just so true. I love how you recognized all these things and managed to put them to words (and nice video) all the while mentioning all the traps that tend to open up. Just so real.
Good job persevering!
The idea of not being able to make a living with what I'm about to start always stops me
Doing what you recommended to do: I always try to prove something when I'm making something, and the fear that it will never deliver kicks in, and I lose the drive, I drift away, or I just push it though it is hanging in my mind all the time.
“Instead of hoping it’s the right thing, make it the right thing.” Woah
part of the 20% baby, thanks for reaching out and making this video, i feel like i can relate to a lot of what you're saying - inspiring :)
Part of the 20%
I feel like I’m torn between multiple options, being a talented person and a polymath at heart, I’m most times drawn into the darkness of not choosing and it swallows me more.
sometimes i even feel kind of trembling as if in my bones when i just want to
leave the house and discover the world
I made it to the end! Also I feel like every time I want to try something new I just feel stupid, and that I’m not smart or creative enough to keep pushing forward. Still though, I want to find a purpose for my life, and I want to be happy, I just always seem to hit that wall whenever I pursue something.
Thank you, Andrew. I think so many of us see each other in these moments. I know I see so much of what you're talking about in my own life. This is real. We all have many things that we tell ourselves in moments of self-doubt and one of mine is "This is water. This is water." from David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon University. Your vulnerability is powerful and we all feel this when we are doing the important and dangerous work of simply choosing to exist. Don't stop choosing to live in creation. Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
20% here. Starting new things and them giving up a few days in when I don't see significant returns has always been a stumbling block for me. For anyone else struggling this way, please remember that progress is a process. It won't happen overnight. It won't happen next week. It may not happen for quite some time. The key is making sure that that time is a GOOD time. You won't be great on the first day, but by God, have FUN with it, even if the voices are telling you it's not working.
Don't let yourself talk you out of having fun.
I mean u’ll never know if what you’re doing is good enough or if it’ll end up successful. But you’ll never have it realized if you don’t pursue it to the very end.
"Dang this video is good, I am glad you stuck with it". This one felt very relatable
I still have in my mind the words that my mom used to describe as useless. I think that’s really holding me up for the past years. 🤷🏻♀️
This is the first time I watched any of your videos, and I'm struck by the authenticity, emotions and aesthetics that you have portrayed here. Honestly, in this realm of UA-cam shorts and Tik toks, your video actually gave me the time to pause, think and reflect. I'm so glad you make these videos!
Hey, im one of the 20%ers here as well. It feels like whenever I start something new or try something I initially really enjoy, I always end up straying away from it after a couple of weeks. I usually would chalk it up to “Oh, maybe I wasn’t interested in this to begin with” yet these are things I deep down really enjoy doing. Art and ironically photography are some of the biggest examples, as back in high school I had begun getting into both a lot more, especially art.
I was never good at it (at least to my standards) but I had a very long period throughout my final semester of high school (Spring 2020) where I was drawing pretty often.
All of a sudden I’m in my final year of University and I’ve maybe sat down to draw like 10 times throughout the entirety of my college career.
Once again, I just chalked it up to it being something I didn’t feel as though I really had a passion for on the surface level of things, yet I looked back at some of my old school notebooks, sketchbooks, and auto desk sketchbook galleries and remembered how often I’d be drawing.
I want to try again soon and this time actually get good at it… but I don’t want this cycle to repeat.
Exactly what I went through since I started UA-cam 2 months ago. I never thought that would it make me think, work, rework, cancel, restart, believe, trust and distrust so much in something other took only for a "cute" hobby like you said.
I started a lot of things as an amateur guitarist, as well as an Android developer, I almost became a climbing gym owner if COVID didn't came by, but everything I really wanted at some point never end up to something real.
So when I got injured like for the 20 times during a climbing session and as I could not climb nor play guitar anymore, I started youtube like "oh nice, don't think to much, it will be fun and maybe people will be interested by that". And it worked a time, and then really fast, doubts came, and for this time, I try to don't listen to this voices that keep you from doing things and try to embrace the process at maximum.
It won't be PERFECT, but it will be.. I guess that's the point?