I'm starting over

Hey, how's it going? How's life been for you recently? I just went on vacation with my family to Salita, Mexico, and it was very fun. You got to see all the street vendors, you got to see all the Mexican people, and all the white people on vacation. It was a good time.

But then we made a shocking discovery. There was a pipe burst on the beach of Salita; the entire town's poop and pee, and God knows what else, was just spewing into the ocean front. There's not a single warning sign—don't swim—maybe you know, just nothing. So everybody in the entire town of Salita is getting devastated, ill, including my entire family. We got deleted by norovirus or sapo virus or something, so that was fun.

But then, you know, we came back, and I had to move out of my house. While I was moving, packing everything I owned into a U-Haul—several U-Hauls—I got sick again with a different virus and was exploding out both ends. Then I moved here to a small town in the woods.

All this to say, hey guys, I hope you've been well. It's been a while, and I'm very tired. I'm tired of being sick, I'm tired of moving around, I just want to be here in my new house and get to work on it. But aside from just giving you guys an update, I have been doing a lot of thinking over the past couple of months because the stress of not posting a video has been really getting to me, 'cause that's just the nature of YouTube. If you don't post a video, you will have this constant fear in your mind that you will become irrelevant, everybody will just leave, and get bored and not watch your stuff anymore.

But that hasn't been the main thing on my mind. The main thing on my mind is: what the hell do I even talk about? Right? When you've had a crazy couple of months, and you're moving out of your house, and you're doing all this stuff, it's hard to sit down and think and be like, "Okay, like what do I say to the camera? What's the better idea?"

But now that I've had a couple weeks to just chill and decompress and work on my house for a bit, something started to become very apparent to me, and that is that there is a problem with the world right now. There's a problem with self-improvement, there's a problem with people's minds, and just being on the internet too much is not just becoming, you know, a growing issue—it's the norm.

Like everybody's chronically online; everybody lives on their phones. It's like half their consciousness lives in cyberspace, and the other half is in reality. You know, everybody's attitude towards life and their beliefs and religions and all that, everybody is so wildly different.

But if there's one thing that everybody has in common now, it's that they're spending more and more and more time watching YouTube videos or Instagram videos, looking for answers. They're looking for advice; they're looking for somebody to give them the golden piece of information that will help them feel better day-to-day, that will help them succeed financially or get a girlfriend or be rich. I don't know, you know what people want. You don't need me to tell you that everybody has become a consumer.

And what that means is that people are kind of living life on their heels. People sit rather passively, waiting for information to hit them and hoping that, you know, when the right information hits them, then they can live life on their toes and do stuff with it. But the issue is that 99% of everything that you could possibly do to actually make substantial progress in your life has nothing to do with sitting there passively.

Because when it comes down to it, you have to do things, right? You have to not be reading something or watching something. You actually have to physically propel yourself off of your chair and move things around in space and time, and what that feels like is a completely different feeling than consuming.

Right? On a nervous system level, on a physiological level, watching a self-improvement video has almost nothing to do with doing things that would improve your life. The sensation that you get when you are writing an essay, or when you are building your house, or when you're shaping concrete for a pathway in your front yard—I don't know, whatever you have to do in life—the experience of doing that thing feels nothing like watching a self-improvement video.

It feels nothing like watching some expert tell you the optimal amount of water to drink. It feels nothing like watching me give you a little pep talk. I'm not going to stop making these self-improvement videos because it's my job. But I would hope that when you watch content like this, you say, "Okay, cool, that's a good idea," and then you go in the real world and live your life. You gain experience, you talk to people, you develop relationships, you work hard, you sweat, you help your friend move a sofa up a flight of stairs.

So all of this to say, if you're feeling kind of stuck in life, if you feel like you haven't made progress in a long time and you're genuinely interested in making substantial progress, then consider the idea that it's not more information that you need; it's actually less information.

It's paying attention to the mode you're operating in 99% of the time. Are you picking up a hammer and building a shelf on your wall? Are you moving physically through space and time? Are you constructing things, or are you physically sitting back, waiting for some sort of cyberspace information to tickle your brainstem in such a way that it'll make you somehow get used to being out in the real world physically and doing stuff?

So yeah, no judgment here. Why do you think I just moved to a small house on a big property in the woods in a small town surrounded by trees? It's because I was living in suburbia, in a row home, and that type of lifestyle just breeds a sort of cyberspace internet addiction. So I'm trying to figure out this stuff myself too.

So whenever I come up with a cool idea—something that made me go "aha," something that I want to share with you guys—that's why I make videos, right? That's why I've always made videos. They're practically shower thoughts. I think of something kind of cool, something that changed my perspective, and I try to make a compelling video with cool visuals about it so that maybe you can have an "aha" moment too.

Stop in every once in a while, we'll have a chill time, we'll talk about some ideas. Join me in becoming more of an action taker, less of a consumer. Start living life on your toes; make doing things your default.

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