how to disappear and ACTUALLY come back UNRECOGNIZABLE in 2026 (ft. Brilliant) — Transcript

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1. 0:00So 2025 is about to end and 2026 is
2. 0:04literally a couple of weeks away. But
3. 0:06I'm going to make a hunch that you
4. 0:07haven't changed much since last year or
5. 0:11last last year. You probably set a bunch
6. 0:13of goals, but then you realize that you
7. 0:16haven't really pushed through with them
8. 0:18and now it's another year. And just like
9. 0:20every end of the year, everyone is going
10. 0:23to be on their winter arc. You're going
11. 0:25to change.
12. 0:25>> This is going to be the year. But
13. 0:27>> how do you actually make it the year?
14. 0:29How do you actually change and not make
15. 0:32it like every other year? Well, in this
16. 0:34video, I will go through an actual
17. 0:36actionable plan that you can follow. Not
18. 0:39just having some random fantasy plan,
19. 0:42but can actually take you from a regular
20. 0:44new year to an actual transformative
21. 0:48year for you. And I'm not just talking
22. 0:50about getting your grades to the next
23. 0:51level, but even your fitness, your
24. 0:53social skills, your everything. You're
25. 0:55literally going to be a new person. even
26. 0:57learning stuff like computer science,
27. 0:59math in your free time because that's
28. 1:02right, this video is in partnership with
29. 1:04Brilliant because I genuinely think that
30. 1:06they are a company that I would fully
31. 1:08endorse when it comes to becoming an
32. 1:10actual polymath. Basically, becoming
33. 1:13that student that knows everything, has
34. 1:16your life together, fitness, whatever
35. 1:17that. So, with that being said, let's
36. 1:20start your 2026 glow up plan starting
37. 1:24with the plan. Now, I want to specify
38. 1:27and I want this to be clear. You need to
39. 1:29spend the least amount of time with the
40. 1:31plan. And this is why I'm starting this
41. 1:33video with the plan immediately because
42. 1:35nothing will change if you put most of
43. 1:37your energy into the planning into the
44. 1:39planning of I will do this and that.
45. 1:41Okay, every day I'm going to do this and
46. 1:42that. I'm going to make a system blah
47. 1:44blah blah. like you're just you're just
48. 1:45going to waste your time instead of
49. 1:46taking action. Because you can watch as
50. 1:49many self-help videos about changing
51. 1:51your life or you can read as many books
52. 1:53as you want, but if you don't get up and
53. 1:55actually do the work, you are not going
54. 1:58to go anywhere. You're not doing
55. 1:59anything. Granted, reading those books
56. 2:01and watching those videos can change
57. 2:03your mindset in a way, but it's so
58. 2:05pointless. Like, I swear it's so
59. 2:07pointless if you're going to do
60. 2:08everything and you're just not going to
61. 2:10do the thing. So, forget about setting
62. 2:12an intricate plan or a system or
63. 2:14routine. Because what I want you to do
64. 2:16if you want to change and glow up for
65. 2:18this 2026 is to literally just start
66. 2:21doing. Focus 80% of your energy on the
67. 2:25doing and 20% on the planning. Stop
68. 2:27thinking about optimizing everything.
69. 2:30Just do it. You should only worry about
70. 2:33optimization when you're already at the
71. 2:35peak of your performance. But I'm going
72. 2:36to go on a limb and say you're not even
73. 2:38consistent with the habits you want to
74. 2:41start with. So why are you already
75. 2:43thinking about doing the optimal thing
76. 2:45doing this and that. You just have to
77. 2:46get out and do it. If you want to start
78. 2:48working out, just start working out.
79. 2:50Don't think about optimizing the best
80. 2:53time to work out, thinking about how to
81. 2:55fit it to your schedule. You don't have
82. 2:57to worry about that right now. The
83. 2:58moment you have free time, just tell
84. 3:00yourself, "Okay, I'm going to work out."
85. 3:02This is the exact mindset that I've been
86. 3:04having for the past couple months. And I
87. 3:07don't even stick to a very strict
88. 3:08schedule anymore because every time I do
89. 3:10have a free time in my day, I just tell
90. 3:12myself, "Okay, I'll get up and I'll just
91. 3:14go to the gym." I don't schedule things
92. 3:16anymore because I just try to do as much
93. 3:19as I can. Probably a lot of people get
94. 3:21stuck spending all their time planning,
95. 3:23organizing, but they just never do the
96. 3:25thing that they have to do. So, the plan
97. 3:28I'm telling you is to not have a plan.
98. 3:31You can have a plan later, but the plan
99. 3:32right now is just go. Do you have free
100. 3:35time? Go study. If you have free time,
101. 3:38go work out.
102. 3:39>> But Kai, I don't have a plan. How am I
103. 3:41supposed to start this glow up if I
104. 3:43don't have a plan or direction?
105. 3:45>> Well, let me introduce you to the next
106. 3:47step, which is the ideal self
107. 3:49philosophy. Basically, as humans, we're
108. 3:51naturally driven towards specific goals.
109. 3:53I mean, I think we can all agree in
110. 3:55that. And especially in the
111. 3:56self-improvement area, we all have an
112. 3:58ideal version of ourselves in our heads.
113. 4:01I think most of us in our lives are just
114. 4:02trying to become that specific person
115. 4:05that we want. So instead of focusing on
116. 4:07a plan of like, okay, I'm going to work
117. 4:09out in this amount of times per week on
118. 4:12a specific schedule. I want you to try
119. 4:14and think about what your ideal self
120. 4:16would be doing every single day. And the
121. 4:18reason why I want you to think about
122. 4:20this is because you need to start having
123. 4:22a sort of direction to why you are doing
124. 4:25all this because I can tell you to
125. 4:27create a system, but then if you don't
126. 4:28feel like it matches your values, then
127. 4:31what's the point? You're just going to
128. 4:32end up not doing it after a couple
129. 4:34months. Consistency comes from
130. 4:37congruency. If whatever you're doing
131. 4:39matches your goals and your values,
132. 4:41you'll find yourself doing them in a
133. 4:43long term rather than a sudden burst of
134. 4:46motivation. For example, my ideal self
135. 4:48would be someone who's active, someone
136. 4:50who work out, someone who works out
137. 4:53every day, engaged in his hobbies, doing
138. 4:56well in school, staying consistent on
139. 4:57YouTube, and balancing his social life.
140. 5:00And I'm kind of happy to say that I'm
141. 5:02almost there, but I do still have plenty
142. 5:04of work to do. And that's the thing,
143. 5:05chasing your ideal self is a neverending
144. 5:09pursuit. The point of an ideal self is
145. 5:12to give you direction. For example, I'm
146. 5:15currently recording this video and that
147. 5:16is literally what my ideal self would
148. 5:18do. He would be recording his YouTube
149. 5:20channel and he'll be consistent with
150. 5:22uploading content so that he doesn't
151. 5:23miss an upload every week. Or another
152. 5:26example of an ideal self of mine is that
153. 5:28he would study four to 5 hours
154. 5:30intensively every day consistently. And
155. 5:33I'm still working towards that even
156. 5:34though at times, you know, it's kind of
157. 5:36hard to really balance everything as
158. 5:38I've been doing so much for the past few
159. 5:40days. Um, but the point is that I'm
160. 5:42trying to get to that goal slowly. The
161. 5:45point is trying to get there. The point
162. 5:47is not being there. The point is trying
163. 5:49to go to that specific ideal self.
164. 5:52Notice that I'm not setting a rigid
165. 5:54standard of having to do XYZ every day
166. 5:56because of my ideal self. It's more of
167. 6:00doing what I can right now and moving to
168. 6:03that direction. Another perfect example
169. 6:04is that I've been using Brilliant
170. 6:06recently to study computer science. I've
171. 6:07been very interested in that topic even
172. 6:09though my whole course career is in
173. 6:12medicine. And that's because I kind of
174. 6:14have a future project that I have
175. 6:15working in my head. And that's the
176. 6:17thing. I'm not expecting myself. Okay,
177. 6:19I'm going to finish this project in a
178. 6:22couple days. No, I'm just trying to show
179. 6:24up every day by studying more computer
180. 6:26science. And this project is something I
181. 6:28hope to launch in the near future. I'm
182. 6:30not ready to talk about this yet because
183. 6:31I want to make this a little secret, but
184. 6:33I just want to tell you that using
185. 6:35Brilliant, I was able to understand the
186. 6:37fundamental concepts of computer science
187. 6:39and coding first. And even though I
188. 6:41didn't learn CS overnight, doing those
189. 6:43practice problems with Brilliant just
190. 6:45helps me show up every day step by step.
191. 6:48And because Brilliant offers a
192. 6:50convenient way to learn subjects like
193. 6:51science and math and CS, I don't
194. 6:53pressure myself to complete a set number
195. 6:55of lessons every day. I just tell myself
196. 6:58I'll do what I can every day. And so
197. 7:01far, it's been working really, really
198. 7:03well. I've been completing lessons on my
199. 7:06phone, whether that be on the go or
200. 7:08outside. And I'm always surprised how
201. 7:10straightforward learning computer
202. 7:12science and programming has been with
203. 7:14Brilliant. Again, normally I'm not
204. 7:16someone who likes passive learning, so
205. 7:18that's why I really like how Brilliant
206. 7:20makes you solve problems instead of just
207. 7:22letting you learn the topic itself. They
208. 7:25actually let you interact with these
209. 7:27problems and as well as as well as
210. 7:30motivating you forward and encouraging
211. 7:32as well step by step. Even Brilliant has
212. 7:35your own progression system in real
213. 7:36life. Like literally, it's giving me a
214. 7:38good foundation of CS and programming.
215. 7:40And because of that, I it teaches me how
216. 7:42to do logic, ensuring correctness and
217. 7:43efficiency. And that all came from just
218. 7:46doing problems 10 minutes a day. Like
219. 7:48I'm not even trying to push myself to do
220. 7:51an hour every day. I just want to show
221. 7:53up and do these brilliant problems. And
222. 7:55it even came to a point where I could
223. 7:57imagine vibe coders or basically people
224. 8:00who use AI could confidently use this
225. 8:02course as well to really refresh their
226. 8:05CS knowledge. What I'm trying to say is
227. 8:07that instead of trying to really just
228. 8:09push yourself at one point, what really
229. 8:12matters is showing up every day, you
230. 8:14just have to do little by little every
231. 8:15day and trust me, your progress will
232. 8:18skyrocket. And now this is literally the
233. 8:21final step. And I'm not even joking.
234. 8:23Literally, this video is just three
235. 8:24steps. I promise this is the last one
236. 8:26because I don't want to make this video
237. 8:28way too complicated because glowing up
238. 8:29is actually not that complicated because
239. 8:32people who focus on less actually
240. 8:35achieve more. If you really want to glow
241. 8:37up or if you want to change, then you
242. 8:39need to find a way to track your
243. 8:40progress, which is why you need to also
244. 8:43track. This is to make sure that you're
245. 8:44actually setting in the right direction
246. 8:46and to be productive with your actions.
247. 8:48And this is kind of where optimization
248. 8:50could sort of come in once you have a
249. 8:52good rhythm with your habits and pretty
250. 8:54much try to do what you can every day.
251. 8:56If you're able to do that, we can start
252. 8:58talking about optimization. So, for
253. 9:00example, in my CS course, since
254. 9:02Brilliant is structured as a course in a
255. 9:04fun way, it also pretty much shows me
256. 9:06where I am in terms of progress, which
257. 9:08gives me motivation to push me forward.
258. 9:10And the good thing about Brilliant is
259. 9:12that since they know that I'm an actual
260. 9:14beginner in this field, it essentially
261. 9:16just personalizes my pace. So, it starts
262. 9:19me on the right level based on my
263. 9:21background, which is, you know,
264. 9:22literally zero background. And I just
265. 9:24started real slow as well. And that is
266. 9:26also what I want everyone to take away
267. 9:28from this progress. I know this is a
268. 9:30sponsored video, but I really want you
269. 9:32guys to just take it slow. I'm telling
270. 9:36you, glowing up takes time. Most
271. 9:39influencers will say you could glow up
272. 9:41in 60 days, in 30 days. I'm going to
273. 9:43tell you, you can't. You can't just
274. 9:44expect instant results. Because the
275. 9:46thing about glowing up is that you also
276. 9:48have to change yourself. And by doing
277. 9:50small steps every day and if you stick
278. 9:52it consistently, you know, just showing
279. 9:54up every day, you will create lasting
280. 9:58change because progress just doesn't
281. 10:00happen overnight. It really does not.
282. 10:02You have to keep going. You have to keep
283. 10:04showing up. When you show up each time,
284. 10:06slowly your values start to change as a
285. 10:09human being. you start glowing up takes
286. 10:12a huge mindset shift as well as a
287. 10:14behavior shift that not everyone can do
288. 10:17overnight. It's something that really
289. 10:19takes a lot of time. I've been doing
290. 10:20YouTube for almost 5 years, 4 years, and
291. 10:23I'm still trying to change slowly. I'm
292. 10:25still not the ideal person that I am.
293. 10:28I'm still until now pursuing an ideal
294. 10:30version of myself. And the thing is, you
295. 10:32really need a good reason to why you're
296. 10:34doing this. If your if your main reason
297. 10:36is just, oh,
298. 10:37>> I want to come back with muscles and
299. 10:39impress the ladies and show my
300. 10:41classmates I'm going to get high grades,
301. 10:43like that's really a it's okay. It's an
302. 10:45okay reason, but they're not great deep
303. 10:49reasons. Like, why do you want to do
304. 10:51these things? What about it do you value
305. 10:52in life that makes you want to push
306. 10:54yourself to change? Now, approaching the
307. 10:57end of the video, you might be thinking,
308. 10:58>> is literally your advice just do the
309. 11:01thing?
310. 11:01>> And yes, that's literally my advice. It
311. 11:04is not that complicated. Changing
312. 11:06yourself, setting goals, and going
313. 11:08through a glow-up isn't as hard as
314. 11:10people make it seem. The problem is, can
315. 11:13you really do this for the next 90 days?
316. 11:15Can you do this for the next year? Like,
317. 11:17be honest with yourself. Are you willing
318. 11:19to change for the next year or so, 365
319. 11:22days? Because the thing is, if you
320. 11:24actually do the things that matter for
321. 11:26the next 60 to 90 days consistently, and
322. 11:28I'm not even talking about just doing
323. 11:29the same things, but actually pushing
324. 11:32yourself, you will start to change as a
325. 11:34person. Trust me, you will. We're
326. 11:36talking about glowing up here. I'm not
327. 11:37talking about staying in the same shell.
328. 11:40You need to have that drive in you. You
329. 11:42have to have that reason why you want to
330. 11:44push outside your shell. For example, if
331. 11:46you want to build muscle, you have to
332. 11:47push harder and lift harder. If you want
333. 11:49to get abs, you got to change your diet
334. 11:52solely every day. If you want to see
335. 11:54better grades, you just got to shut up
336. 11:56and study. If you want to be a polymath,
337. 11:58just stop and do those brilliant
338. 12:00practice problems. The whole point of
339. 12:02this video is rather simple. Planning
340. 12:04alone won't get you anywhere, and you
341. 12:06can download every app that you want.
342. 12:08You can fill every spreadsheet. You can
343. 12:10have a journal or whatever. All those
344. 12:12things are not doing the thing. If
345. 12:14you're not doing the actual work,
346. 12:17nothing will change. Action is the only
347. 12:20thing that will move you forward. So, I
348. 12:22hope that's the main takeaway you get
349. 12:24from this video. Um, if you're curious,
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355. 12:34and honestly, it's been so fun exploring
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358. 12:40just makes learning so fun and I
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360. 12:43even kidding. I know they sponsored this
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375. 13:12literally feel so brilliant whenever I
376. 13:14use brilliant because I don't know, I
377. 13:15just really love their problem solving
378. 13:17structure. So yeah, it definitely helps
379. 13:19expanding my knowledge with computer
380. 13:21science and definitely will help a lot
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382. 13:24note that these materials are actually
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387. 13:36So again, I want you guys to check out
388. 13:38Brilliant in the description. Thank you
389. 13:40again to Brilliant for sponsoring this
390. 13:41video. But with that being said, I'm not
391. 13:43going to waste any more time. It's time
392. 13:45for you to hit your goals. Go crush it.
393. 13:48Drink some water. And I'll see you in
394. 13:50the next one.
395. 13:52I hope you have a good glow up. Bye.