Do This Before It's Too Late. — Transcript

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1. 0:00There's probably going to be a day when
2. 0:01you look back at your life
3. 0:03and you realize you are living through
4. 0:04some of the best years of it, but you
5. 0:06didn't even notice.
6. 0:07>> [music]
7. 0:07>> You were too busy waiting for something
8. 0:08better, waiting until you had more
9. 0:10money, more confidence, more friends,
10. 0:12[music]
11. 0:13more freedom. You kept telling yourself,
12. 0:15"I'll do it later." And eventually,
13. 0:17later becomes never. So, if you're still
14. 0:19[music] young, there's something you
15. 0:20need to understand before it's too late.
16. 0:23You don't get these years back. Think
17. 0:24about how you spend most of your days.
18. 0:26[music]
19. 0:27You wake up, go to school, come home,
20. 0:29get on your phone, watch videos, play
21. 0:31games, scroll for another hour, and then
22. 0:33another, and before you know it, [music]
23. 0:35it's midnight. You tell yourself you'll
24. 0:37be more productive tomorrow, and then
25. 0:39tomorrow looks exactly the same.
26. 0:40>> [music]
27. 0:40>> One day isn't a big deal, but when you
28. 0:42repeat that day hundreds of times, you
29. 0:44suddenly have a year.
30. 0:45>> [music]
31. 0:46>> And that's the scary part. Your life
32. 0:48doesn't disappear all at once. It
33. 0:49disappears one ordinary day at a time. I
34. 0:52think one of the biggest mistakes
35. 0:53[music] young people make is believing
36. 0:54that their life hasn't started yet.
37. 0:56"I'll start working out when I feel
38. 0:58confident. I'll make friends when
39. 0:59[music] I'm more interested. I'll start
40. 1:01that channel when I know what I'm
41. 1:02doing." But there's always going to be
42. 1:03another excuse, and eventually you
43. 1:05realize you spent years preparing to
44. 1:07start living [music]
45. 1:08instead of actually living. You don't
46. 1:10need to have everything figured out.
47. 1:12You're allowed to be bad at things.
48. 1:13[music] You're allowed to embarrass
49. 1:14yourself. You're allowed to make
50. 1:16mistakes.
51. 1:17And actually,
52. 1:17>> [music]
53. 1:18>> that's what you're supposed to be doing.
54. 1:20So, here's the first thing you should
55. 1:21do. Do more things that make you
56. 1:22uncomfortable. Talk to someone you never
57. 1:24spoken to. Try a sport. Start the
58. 1:27projects you've been thinking about.
59. 1:28Post that video. Because confidence
60. 1:30doesn't come before you do these things.
61. 1:32It comes because you do them. You aren't
62. 1:34going to magically wake up one morning
63. 1:35and suddenly become confident. You
64. 1:37become confident after proving to
65. 1:38yourself, "I can actually do this." And
66. 1:41some of the things you're most afraid of
67. 1:42doing right now will probably become
68. 1:44some of your best memories. And while
69. 1:45you're young, make memories of people,
70. 1:47not followers, not likes, not Snapchat
71. 1:49streaks, actual people. Because
72. 1:51eventually everyone gets busy. Your
73. 1:53friends start working. People move away.
74. 1:55Some friendships naturally disappear.
75. 1:57>> [music]
76. 1:57>> And you won't remember the thousands of
77. 1:59hours you spent scrolling. You'll
78. 2:00remember the random night you stayed up
79. 2:02talking, [music] the stupid joke that
80. 2:03made everyone laugh for 10 minutes, the
81. 2:05time you went somewhere without even
82. 2:06having a plan, the moments that seemed
83. 2:08completely meaningless at the time, but
84. 2:10somehow became the memories you miss the
85. 2:12[music] most. So, if someone asks you to
86. 2:14go somewhere, and your first thought is
87. 2:15I'd rather just stay home, maybe [music]
88. 2:17go, because you don't know which
89. 2:19ordinary day is going to become a memory
90. 2:21you wish you could experience again. And
91. 2:23honestly, you [music] should probably
92. 2:24put your phone down more often, because
93. 2:26your phone is designed to make you feel
94. 2:28like you're doing something when you're
95. 2:29actually doing nothing. You can spend 3
96. 2:31hours watching other people's lives,
97. 2:33[music] 3 hours seeing people travel,
98. 2:35get rich, get fit, make friends, live
99. 2:38exciting lives, and then you put down
100. 2:40your phone, and your life hasn't changed
101. 2:41at all. There's nothing wrong with
102. 2:43entertainment. There's nothing wrong
103. 2:44with playing Minecraft. There's nothing
104. 2:46wrong with watching YouTube. But don't
105. 2:48spend so much time watching other people
106. 2:49live that you forget to live your own
107. 2:51life. And while you're enjoying your
108. 2:52life, don't forget to build yourself,
109. 2:54too. Learn something. Get stronger.
110. 2:56Learn how money works. Learn how to
111. 2:58communicate. [music] Learn how to edit.
112. 2:59Find something you're actually
113. 3:01interested in, and get really good at
114. 3:03it, [music] because being young gives
115. 3:04you something incredibly valuable: time.
116. 3:06If you spend the next 3 years getting
117. 3:08just a little bit better every day,
118. 3:10you'll be a completely different person.
119. 3:11[music] You don't need to become
120. 3:13successful tomorrow. You just need to
121. 3:15stop wasting every tomorrow.
122. 3:17And you're probably going to fail a lot.
123. 3:19[music] You're going to make stupid
124. 3:20decisions. You're going to trust the
125. 3:21wrong people. You're going to embarrass
126. 3:23yourself. You're going to start [music]
127. 3:25things and quit them. You're going to
128. 3:26look back at old versions of yourself
129. 3:28and wonder, "What was I even doing?"
130. 3:31That's normal. Don't let the fear of
131. 3:32making mistakes stop [music] you from
132. 3:34making memories, because 10 years from
133. 3:36now, you're probably going to regret the
134. 3:37things [music] that you didn't do more
135. 3:39than the things you did. You probably
136. 3:41won't care that one person [music]
137. 3:42laughed at you. You probably won't care
138. 3:44that your first video was terrible. You
139. 3:46probably won't care that you look stupid
140. 3:48trying something [music] new. But you
141. 3:50might care that you spent years being
142. 3:51too scared to try. One day, [music]
143. 3:54you're going to be older, you're going
144. 3:55to have responsibilities, a job, bills,
145. 3:58people depending on you, and you'll
146. 4:00probably wish you could go back. Not
147. 4:02because your life is going to be bad,
148. 4:04but because you'll finally understand
149. 4:05how valuable these years [music] were.
150. 4:07You'll wish you appreciated the boring
151. 4:09days, the school days, the random
152. 4:11conversations,
153. 4:12>> [music]
154. 4:12>> the friends you had, the freedom you
155. 4:14had, even the problems you thought were
156. 4:16the end of the world. You'll realize you
157. 4:18were living through a period of your
158. 4:19life that you would eventually miss, and
159. 4:21you didn't even know it at the time. So,
160. 4:23stop waiting for your life to begin. It
161. 4:25already has. Go outside, get better at
162. 4:27something, spend time with people you
163. 4:29care about, take pictures, make
164. 4:31memories, and every once in a while, put
165. 4:33your phone down and actually look
166. 4:34around. Because one day, this moment is
167. 4:37going to be a memory, and you don't want
168. 4:38to look back and realize you spent it
169. 4:39watching everyone else live. You only
170. 4:41get these years once. Don't waste them.
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