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1. 0:00hey what's up you guys today we have
2. 0:03an important video probably the most
3. 0:05important one i'm ever gonna make
4. 0:08uh my most asked question how did you
5. 0:11do it what was your mindset how did you
6. 0:13study for
7. 0:1412 hours a day for over a year so yeah
8. 0:17let's just go ahead and talk motivation
9. 0:20discipline
10. 0:21drive mindset what
11. 0:25causes a person to do what i did
12. 0:28so yeah this is just what uh worked for
13. 0:29me um how i did it
14. 0:32and kind of where i came from and yeah
15. 0:35let's just go ahead and get right into
16. 0:36it
17. 0:37so what finally caused that 180 to the
18. 0:40point where you're here now
19. 0:42and the definitely the first step that i
20. 0:44took was
21. 0:45in physics um our professor assigned us
22. 0:49a ted talk to watch
23. 0:50and it's about this thing called the
24. 0:52growth mindset
25. 0:53and in the video they introduced two
26. 0:55mindsets the first one is the fixed
27. 0:57mindset
28. 0:58and the second one is the growth mindset
29. 1:00and in the fixed mindset
30. 1:02it's kind of like all right
31. 1:05here is my ceiling and anything outside
32. 1:07of that ceiling
33. 1:09i'm just not gonna do i'm born with the
34. 1:12limit
35. 1:12and i don't want to push myself
36. 1:15i'm not smart enough to do this
37. 1:16assignment and
38. 1:18my boy greg has got me and
39. 1:22that's definitely the mindset that i had
40. 1:24up until that point in my life
41. 1:26was the fixed mindset you know in high
42. 1:29school
43. 1:30i did really well without studying why
44. 1:32would i
45. 1:34study when i can get a's just fine
46. 1:37but you see when college finally rolled
47. 1:39around and it was actually difficult
48. 1:42i didn't think that it was my studying
49. 1:44that was a problem right i just thought
50. 1:46i wasn't smart enough
51. 1:47and that was just kind of how i was
52. 1:48raised you know that kid's a priority
53. 1:51over there
54. 1:52so he's probably not very hard working
55. 1:54and he just is born with all that talent
56. 1:56you can just do it out of the bat i
57. 1:58really
58. 1:59thought that my mindset was the issue
59. 2:03and i knew that i had like wanted to do
60. 2:05well in university
61. 2:06and in life in general so
62. 2:09the other mindset they introduce is the
63. 2:12growth mindset
64. 2:13it's all about taking on your challenges
65. 2:16and pushing yourself and breaking
66. 2:18yourself down so that you can come back
67. 2:20stronger
68. 2:21it's about resilience it's about not
69. 2:25waning in the face of aversion you know
70. 2:29and it's not it's definitely a paradigm
71. 2:31shift
72. 2:32to what i had before and it's the very
73. 2:35first step that i took
74. 2:36was adopting and understanding the
75. 2:38mindset in its entirety
76. 2:41so if you're not familiar with the
77. 2:42growth mindset
78. 2:44i highly recommend you check it out and
79. 2:46yep that was the first step that i took
80. 2:48all right second topic that i want to
81. 2:50talk about which is
82. 2:52drive motivation and
83. 2:55the desire to succeed all right
84. 2:58so it's a pretty heavy topic uh i don't
85. 3:01know how quickly i could summarize
86. 3:03my entire life's experience in these
87. 3:06short
88. 3:06two minutes or so but motivation
89. 3:11and drive the key part that i want you
90. 3:13to take out of this following
91. 3:15segment is that i don't rely on
92. 3:18motivation to do the things that i do
93. 3:21i think that if you just rely on
94. 3:22motivation
95. 3:24um you're just setting yourself up for
96. 3:25failure right because motivation is
97. 3:27volatile
98. 3:28it's bound to change you know what it's
99. 3:31raining outside
100. 3:32i don't feel like running i'm just not
101. 3:33gonna go train for the marathon today
102. 3:35that's what motivation will get you uh
103. 3:37nowhere
104. 3:38no it might get you there for like two
105. 3:40weeks
106. 3:41but in the long run no motivation does
107. 3:44not work at all
108. 3:45so i think when people ask me all the
109. 3:48time
110. 3:49how are you so motivated why can you do
111. 3:51this every day
112. 3:52like what motivates you the thing is i'm
113. 3:55not
114. 3:55motivated to do any of this i'm driven
115. 3:59to do this and that's a very big
116. 4:00difference right
117. 4:01drive versus motivation the fundamental
118. 4:05change between the two is that drive
119. 4:08continues
120. 4:10drive can get you from point a to point
121. 4:12b without stopping
122. 4:14and it doesn't care about the rain
123. 4:17outside
124. 4:18when you're trying to go running it
125. 4:19doesn't care about how cold the water is
126. 4:22when you go shower you know
127. 4:24and that sounds pretty intense but you
128. 4:26ought to understand that
129. 4:27motivation is volatile you know it's
130. 4:29easy to be motivated
131. 4:30to do hard things when you're
132. 4:32comfortable in life when
133. 4:33everything is going just a-okay but
134. 4:37when you finally face challenges that
135. 4:39actually push your buttons
136. 4:41motivation is not going to work and
137. 4:44that's why i rely on my drive so
138. 4:48what is drive i have a difficult time
139. 4:50defining it in words but
140. 4:53my desire to succeed it kind of does
141. 4:57and fans of flame inside my heart to get
142. 4:59me driven to do the things that i want
143. 5:01to achieve
144. 5:02my goals my aspirations those are your
145. 5:05drive
146. 5:06and if you rely on motivation to get
147. 5:09them
148. 5:10it won't work so how did you finally
149. 5:12find your drive
150. 5:13i think like i hadn't met truly driven
151. 5:16people in my life
152. 5:17before you know i've met people who are
153. 5:21brilliant but also driven they wanted to
154. 5:25get life's full experience that's
155. 5:28actually why i started this channel was
156. 5:30to share my drive
157. 5:31online so how did you get it
158. 5:34um i don't want to say i read a book but
159. 5:38the book can't hurt me by david goggins
160. 5:40was really important in understanding
161. 5:42why i wanted to do the things that i did
162. 5:46i had this really massive chip on my
163. 5:48shoulders all in high school because i
164. 5:51was always like the weird kid
165. 5:54who wasn't socially successful
166. 5:57wasn't particularly liked
167. 6:01by other people and i just really
168. 6:03remember like
169. 6:04hating that feeling people just looking
170. 6:07down on me you know
171. 6:08like i'm just another person that
172. 6:10they're gonna meet but i just
173. 6:12remember being like i'm just gonna be so
174. 6:15driven that you won't forget me yeah i
175. 6:18just always had that chip on my shoulder
176. 6:19because
177. 6:20i was always just like the weird kid and
178. 6:22i just always wanted to
179. 6:24do better i also will say about the
180. 6:26whole
181. 6:27um drive thing that it's not about
182. 6:30showing off how driven you are or
183. 6:33anything
184. 6:34it's not about doing it for other people
185. 6:38i would say that it was definitely for
186. 6:39me like if you watch videos from when i
187. 6:42was a little kid
188. 6:43or in high school middle school you
189. 6:45could see how unconfident i was you know
190. 6:47i couldn't stand up straight anything
191. 6:49that knocked me down i'll just kind of
192. 6:51roll over and lay there and
193. 6:55understanding why i wanted to
194. 6:58do better really took me a long time to
195. 7:01figure out
196. 7:03and i think the book can't hurt me
197. 7:05explains
198. 7:06the reason for his drive and i could see
199. 7:08a lot of myself in that person
200. 7:10and i also wanted to share that with you
201. 7:13guys
202. 7:13so that's why i started this channel i
203. 7:15wouldn't say that i did it for other
204. 7:16people you know
205. 7:17i did it for me because i wanted to
206. 7:19become the best person that i could be
207. 7:22i got things i want my life i want to
208. 7:24buy
209. 7:25my mom a big house i want to be a great
210. 7:28father
211. 7:30i want to help people
212. 7:33and things like sitting there on
213. 7:35instagram all day
214. 7:37watching pointless youtube videos all
215. 7:38day running away don't get me there
216. 7:41it took me 19 years to figure that out
217. 7:45i want to be present with my friends and
218. 7:48i really want to connect with people
219. 7:50and i just wasn't putting the two and
220. 7:51two together i didn't know what i really
221. 7:53wanted
222. 7:55until i just been pushed so hard
223. 7:59because in school my family
224. 8:03no family not having a family and
225. 8:06i knew what i finally wanted
226. 8:10and i realized that i couldn't stop
227. 8:13and care about small things together
228. 8:17i didn't really wait
229. 8:21i didn't want to wane no matter what and
230. 8:23that's drive
231. 8:25and that's why my my youtube channel you
232. 8:28know starting off it took me
233. 8:30like five months to reach 1000
234. 8:32subscribers
235. 8:33when i started making these videos i
236. 8:35lost subscribers because i had like 100
237. 8:37when i started
238. 8:39but i didn't care about that motivation
239. 8:41would have stopped me right there
240. 8:44five months no growth why would i
241. 8:47continue
242. 8:47but no drive drive got me through that
243. 8:51plateau
244. 8:52because you know what after that five
245. 8:54months i got 1 000 subs
246. 8:56and then another month i got 10 000 subs
247. 8:59and then three months after that i got
248. 9:0150 000 subs
249. 9:02and that's what drive will get you
250. 9:05you've got to figure out
251. 9:06what you truly want and you have to
252. 9:09figure out
253. 9:10why you want it and those things have to
254. 9:12be really clear
255. 9:13all right because when you're out there
256. 9:16and you're fighting
257. 9:18you're gonna forget a lot about why
258. 9:20you're there you know you're gonna ask
259. 9:22why am i even doing this you have to
260. 9:25remember
261. 9:26why you're doing it so figure out
262. 9:29what drives you why you want to be a
263. 9:32better person
264. 9:33and you have to remember all right drive
265. 9:37after you figure out drive the first
266. 9:40thing
267. 9:40i did after that was build strong habits
268. 9:44there's a lot of systems that i use to
269. 9:46do that the first thing that comes to
270. 9:48mind
271. 9:49was definitely streaking like creating
272. 9:52journals
273. 9:53where you track how much you do
274. 9:55something and
275. 9:56every time you do it you just cross it
276. 9:58off and i built a streak
277. 10:00that's how i did it in the book atomic
278. 10:03habits
279. 10:04by james clare he talks a lot about
280. 10:07how to build habits and i highly
281. 10:09recommend the book
282. 10:10if you haven't read it basically the
283. 10:13habits
284. 10:14are what keep you consistent it's what
285. 10:17stops procrastination
286. 10:19because when you're doing something
287. 10:21persistently you don't think about twice
288. 10:23about doing it right
289. 10:25you don't think about man should i brush
290. 10:27my teeth this morning
291. 10:29no you just do it and i've managed to
292. 10:32turn a lot of things in my life into
293. 10:34habits
294. 10:35including studying i would say before i
295. 10:38study for
296. 10:39so and so every day i don't think about
297. 10:42whether or not i'm going to do it you
298. 10:44know
299. 10:45it's more like my body knows that it's
300. 10:47that time of day again
301. 10:48it's time to study it's time to go work
302. 10:50out it's time to go
303. 10:52do the dishes or something i can't
304. 10:55summarize the entire book
305. 10:57about how to build habits into this
306. 10:59short video
307. 11:00but i highly recommend you check out the
308. 11:02book atomic habits
309. 11:04by james clare if you want to learn how
310. 11:06to do it
311. 11:07but after drive figure out
312. 11:10your habits so that's the next step all
313. 11:12right and then another thing that i had
314. 11:14wanted to talk about
315. 11:15in this video was measuring your
316. 11:18studying
317. 11:19and how you're progressing in your
318. 11:20studying and
319. 11:22i think on youtube especially it's
320. 11:25definitely too easy to
321. 11:28get obsessed with how long you study
322. 11:32but that's the wrong way to do it you
323. 11:34need to become
324. 11:36concerned about how deep you can get
325. 11:39there's another book
326. 11:40about this that i also recommend so in
327. 11:42this video i'll recommend three books
328. 11:44the third one is deep work by count
329. 11:47newport and it's about
330. 11:49studying deeply how focused can you get
331. 11:54in this noisy world and that's how you
332. 11:57should be measuring your studying
333. 11:58because
334. 11:59we do things to make us study longer
335. 12:02when we know we're going to study for a
336. 12:03long time
337. 12:04you know if you're going to go on an
338. 12:0718-hour plane trip versus a two hour
339. 12:09plane trip
340. 12:10there's different things that you're
341. 12:11gonna do i think that when you don't
342. 12:14care about how deep you get you're not
343. 12:15gonna make good use of your time you
344. 12:18know
345. 12:19there's better things to be doing than
346. 12:21shallow work
347. 12:22that you could be doing that actually
348. 12:23makes you a better person
349. 12:25in the book he introduces a formula high
350. 12:28quality work
351. 12:29is equal to the time spent times the
352. 12:31quality of focus
353. 12:32all right and if that second variable
354. 12:35is low you're not going to get a lot of
355. 12:37work done regardless of how much
356. 12:39studying you do
357. 12:40quantifying how well you can or how deep
358. 12:43you can go
359. 12:44isn't easy but i do recommend the book
360. 12:46because he does give ways to measure
361. 12:48that
362. 12:48factor and how to get into the zone but
363. 12:51that's my ultimate
364. 12:52goal honestly is to get extremely deep
365. 12:55for the entire
366. 12:56study duration what i recommend you do
367. 12:59is figure out
368. 13:01where you're comfortable studying right
369. 13:03now
370. 13:04whether that's two or three hours you
371. 13:06know or even longer than that
372. 13:09and then during that span don't change
373. 13:12it for a while
374. 13:13but try to get as deep as possible
375. 13:15during your study
376. 13:17because that formula like i mentioned
377. 13:19earlier there's an upper bar on how long
378. 13:21you should be studying every day
379. 13:23it doesn't really make sense to me to be
380. 13:24studying you know the moment you wake up
381. 13:27to when you go to bed
382. 13:28because there's just no balance in that
383. 13:30you know you have to have
384. 13:31a life and you have to have friends
385. 13:34and perhaps a bit hypocritical when i
386. 13:36say this but i've
387. 13:38managed to get good enough that i can
388. 13:40study for
389. 13:41you know a certain amount of time every
390. 13:42day regardless of where you are
391. 13:45you should always be prioritizing how
392. 13:46deep you can get
393. 13:48it took me a long time to be able to get
394. 13:50where i am now
395. 13:52a few years ago i could barely study for
396. 13:53like two hours without
397. 13:55getting a headache but it took a lot of
398. 13:58deliberate effort to
399. 14:00be able to push myself both in terms of
400. 14:02depth and in terms of length
401. 14:04that formula before high quality work is
402. 14:07equal to work done times by the depth
403. 14:09you need to make sure that you're aware
404. 14:11that the depth
405. 14:12is the more important one because that
406. 14:14one has a lot more room for growth
407. 14:16you know the other one is fixed it
408. 14:18doesn't make sense to study
409. 14:20more than 12 hours a day at least for me
410. 14:23because
411. 14:25i need to be getting like eight hours of
412. 14:26sleep in order to get focused enough
413. 14:29that i can study it for that long and
414. 14:30certain amount of focus you know
415. 14:32i'm just rambling but the point of this
416. 14:35section of this video
417. 14:36is that you need to understand that the
418. 14:38depth to which you study is far more
419. 14:40important than how long you study
420. 14:42and i want you to remember that whenever
421. 14:44you study so i also wanted to talk about
422. 14:46burnout and staying committed to this
423. 14:50lifestyle
424. 14:51i wish i knew all the answers but i'm
425. 14:53not sure what to tell people when
426. 14:54they're burned out
427. 14:56other than i think you just need to be
428. 14:58patient with yourself
429. 15:00and that you have to accept that it's
430. 15:02always up there's also downs
431. 15:05staying committed to this lifestyle it's
432. 15:07not easy
433. 15:08you know if it was easy everyone would
434. 15:10do it but it's hard work
435. 15:12there's a bounce between pushing
436. 15:16yourself to the extreme
437. 15:17and pushing yourself too hard and for a
438. 15:20lot of people that balance is different
439. 15:22and for me i can push myself pretty dang
440. 15:24hard
441. 15:25i think if i went even harder i would
442. 15:27get burned out
443. 15:28to be honest with you and i'm not sure
444. 15:30what i'd do with myself then
445. 15:32but at the start i did get burned out
446. 15:34and really
447. 15:35all that i was able to do during that
448. 15:37time was just wait until things got
449. 15:39better
450. 15:39and i know that's not like a great thing
451. 15:41to say but we have to accept that
452. 15:43things do come with both positives and
453. 15:46negatives
454. 15:47and that pushing yourself so hard ain't
455. 15:49easy you know
456. 15:50and it's not desirable always i wish i
457. 15:53could tell you
458. 15:54how to get out of a burnout but i can't
459. 15:56all i can tell you is that you have to
460. 15:57be really careful about
461. 15:58not getting into a burnout and if you do
462. 16:00get into a burnout
463. 16:02understand what happens and don't do it
464. 16:04again i also want to talk about like
465. 16:06your physical health
466. 16:07and how i remains healthy you know even
467. 16:10while
468. 16:11sitting for 12 hours a day and the
469. 16:14answer was i was always
470. 16:15active outside of the studying outside
471. 16:18of my live stream
472. 16:20mainly running um
473. 16:23i was training for a marathon before it
474. 16:25was cancelled by running
475. 16:27a 10k every few days around it three
476. 16:30days a week
477. 16:31there was like a two to three week
478. 16:34period there where
479. 16:35i lost track of things and i wasn't
480. 16:37exercising
481. 16:38and man that was physically horrible
482. 16:42i like muffin tops almost immediately
483. 16:45i think my mental health is just down in
484. 16:47the drains then
485. 16:48yeah going outside and routinely
486. 16:52getting an exercise definitely was
487. 16:55crucial
488. 16:56in me being able to sit down all day
489. 16:59and another thing that was really
490. 17:01important was my posture
491. 17:04if you like look at those earlier videos
492. 17:06you can see that i have just horrible
493. 17:08posture
494. 17:09and that took a toll on my back after
495. 17:11you know a few months of that
496. 17:13and i wish i had taken it more seriously
497. 17:15at the start
498. 17:16but now i do take it very seriously
499. 17:20um you can see me i use like a little
500. 17:22angled writing stand
501. 17:24i have an ergonomic chair in this
502. 17:26position in a way that's
503. 17:27very supportive of my back my lower back
504. 17:31my legs i wish i had
505. 17:34made an investment in those things
506. 17:36earlier on
507. 17:38because while i never had to go to like
508. 17:40the chiropractor or anything
509. 17:41i think that i wasn't pushing people to
510. 17:44be more posturally correct
511. 17:47as i should have been if you're going to
512. 17:49do something like this
513. 17:50you need to make sure that you're
514. 17:52physically sound you know you're eating
515. 17:54the correct
516. 17:55foods and the types of foods that you're
517. 17:57eating are all healthy for you
518. 17:59and that you're sitting correctly you're
519. 18:00getting enough physical exercise
520. 18:03because that also impacts your mental
521. 18:05health as well
522. 18:07so yeah that was my physical health
523. 18:08which also plays a big role in your
524. 18:10mental health
525. 18:11the last thing that i wanted to talk
526. 18:12about in this video was
527. 18:14whether or not this is for you um
528. 18:18and i wish i could tell you whether or
529. 18:19not it was for you but
530. 18:21i know it's for me mainly because
531. 18:24i really have strong aspirations i'm
532. 18:27ambitious
533. 18:28i want to become a better person i'm
534. 18:31interested
535. 18:32in helping other people i'm interested
536. 18:34in becoming the best version of me
537. 18:37so those are the reasons that i think i
538. 18:40really
539. 18:41wanted to study a lot but maybe
540. 18:44those things aren't priorities for you
541. 18:47so
542. 18:48this isn't easy by any means in fact
543. 18:51it's very difficult
544. 18:53and if it was easy i'm sure that plenty
545. 18:55of people would do it right because
546. 18:57there's
547. 18:58a lot of benefits to pushing yourself
548. 19:00hard i mean i've learned
549. 19:02so much just in the span of this
550. 19:04pandemic
551. 19:05i think as i grow older i'll also have
552. 19:08to learn
553. 19:08much more just by living in this
554. 19:10lifestyle that i do
555. 19:12i'm very happy and i'm present and i'm
556. 19:15focused
557. 19:16so i can tell you whether or not this is
558. 19:19for you that's for you to answer
559. 19:21but if you do decide to embark
560. 19:24on this lifestyle i hope
561. 19:28you do well you know i wish you the best
562. 19:30of luck
563. 19:31i really do hope that um you become a
564. 19:33greater person
565. 19:34so yeah thank you so much for watching i
566. 19:37hope
567. 19:38this video was a beneficial to you but
568. 19:41have a nice rest of your day