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hello
isaac are you okay oh sorry you're not
ready to go you you you good to go i'm
just making some coffee so bear with me
yeah
oh so you're not ready at all then huh
what exactly
uh did you want to talk about like what
was yeah yeah totally it's gotta be
really professional better ideas having
a conversation with
the nathaniel drew i'm just gonna
squeeze out some coffee really quick
here's the rundown here's what i was
thinking okay so i wrote meaningful
conversation how to get more out of life
how to boost uh income um how to change
your life
because like you know when you put that
in the title it works yeah i mean this
is sort of our bread and butter i feel
like you and i have talked about this
for like three years so i was
wondering if i could slip in something
about
uh
perfectionism it's like if you make more
videos
and not really care about
um like getting it to that 95 good
i feel like
i that's perfect save that for the
interview that's perfect
and that kind of complements this idea
i've had which is that like
uh you know are you okay or yeah sorry
it just takes a little bit
okay no worries um so that kind of
compliments this idea that i have which
is that the first 50 of the video is the
easiest part you don't need to worry
about the second 50 percent you could
just take that time and do another video
i can still hear you
videos at 50 it's like
you're doing twice as much you know what
i mean and what i found is the details
don't
matter
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that doesn't
look
amazing can you
kind of move it a little bit
like
like a different
like a different angle like this way
kind of maybe it's the same thing almost
this way
can you keep going or
this way by the way i was thinking the
green shirt's not going to work at all
dude what do you want it like because i
got an orange couch i'm going to be
sitting on do you have orange to match
the couch it's a little bit more
cinematic you know i want it to look
like i didn't
there's no planning no
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okay what do you think good dude you
know vancouver
and you have like people who make fancy
coffee first of all i think that's like
the height of
masculinity i think it'd be cool like if
you're calling me and i and i'm like
reading um play-doh like play-doh
republic does it blend in too much or no
no i i like the kind of camouflage look
the orange camouflage look yeah so like
we want to balance like the bro energy
with the
um like like quirkiness
with the what quirkiness like we you
know being quirky not bro and quirky but
like bro quirky and but also like
play-doh like we we're kind of like the
modern like play-doh or like seneca i
think what you're describing is like
smart quirky bros yeah exactly i gotta
move this ultra balance actually no i
might use this
this key
it's ultra bounce
do i look um
natural
and like relaxed yeah so what's like the
most did you have your motivation
boosted recently like what how did you
do that
compound effect kind of yeah i'm always
trying to figure out how the algorithm
works better and i think i'm constantly
i'm all i'm always compounding like all
the time just compounding everything
that i do is like compounding on itself
so it's this sort of snowball effect
dude i saw the compound effect on um
at the bookstore
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okay so
that was
a joke of course this would not be a
nathaniel drew video if there wasn't
some sort of deeper message which is
sort of what i'm building towards right
now which is don't take yourself so
seriously that's something that i feel
like i've learned a lot about this year
you know if you look back on some of my
older videos from two three years ago i
was so serious on camera i think a big
part of it was nerves you know it's hard
to speak naturally on camera and i just
did not have that skill yet but i also
just like really wanted people to take
my message seriously like this is really
important to me you know and i had the
idea to do this kind of parody of myself
when i did an interview with joey from
better ideas which is a wonderful
channel by the way you should check it
out if you're interested in
self-improvement and it was a very
serious interview but we spent like a
half hour trying to set up just try to
figure things out and joey tells me
after the fact that he was feeling
intense brain fog no matter what it'll
um be something that is you know
worthwhile and like life-changing for
people there was something really funny
about that and it inspired this idea and
so i went for it joey was awesome he was
super down for the idea i told him play
yourself essentially an exaggerated
version of yourself and i will do the
same now this is going to be very ironic
after
establishing sort of the theme of this
video but i really do think there's
something spiritual almost about
being able to laugh at yourself and
laugh about things in life and this is
something that i really struggled with
for a long time i mean i was a very
sensitive kid
and i would take things very personally
and so it was hard for me to kind of
laugh along it felt like to laugh along
meant to be disingenuous and to sort of
not be true to myself in order to just
laugh along with the group if that makes
sense i don't quite see things exactly
the same way now what i've realized is
that it is a chance to get outside of
yourself and that's been something that
i've been thinking about a lot this year
you know how can i get more outside of
myself because on so many occasions i've
just gotten
really rigid in my thoughts and my
beliefs on who i am in what is possible
what isn't possible how things should be
essentially it's just weird how we can
solidify on our beliefs on how things
should be and humor is one way to
circumvent that similar to this idea i
have on how everything in life is just a
series of experiments and before i go
deeper into this video i wanted to talk
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all right back to the video i like how i
provided zero context on where i am
right now
it's gonna make sense in a future video
part of what makes all this so funny to
me and i think a lot of people find this
really funny is that the truth is i
really am very serious and very earnest
about my search for answers in life you
know and that's not gonna change i mean
i'm gonna i'm gonna really take things
pretty seriously sometimes and having a
sense of humor doesn't necessarily
detract from that i don't think but
what's amazing about humor having a
sense of humor about yourself being able
to make fun of yourself is the space
that creates it shows the ability to
have a level of self-awareness i think i
also think it illustrates the ability to
not
be so worried about what other people
think and the truth is i was more afraid
about what people thought of me on the
internet in the past than i do today
it's sort of been a learning process if
you will anyway i was cracking up doing
this interview this interview with him
putting really like meaningful piano
music
oh god there was absolutely no script in
fact there's no script right now there
was just something so funny to me about
how we were trying to figure out what
the hell we were doing
fidgeting with the camera worrying about
how good things looked and then of
course always with the pretext that oh
this is you know relatable and authentic
and it's supposed to be off the cuff
it's tricky being a youtuber man most
youtubers start off building an audience
by being very relatable and then of
course if they start achieving a level
of like commercial success then their
situation changes a lot of the original
relatability sort of goes away does that
mean that all successful youtubers are
not relatable people i don't think so i
actually don't think that and that's
because i think it's a little bit more
subtle than that the relatability
doesn't really come from the number of
followers a lot of celebrities out there
strike me as very phony very fake but
there are some that i generally feel
some sort of connection to whether that
sounds weird or not very famous people
that still seem to have a level of
humility
and relatability and i think that
maintained relatability despite the
level of success comes from humility
comes from having a sense of humor comes
from
just not taking things too seriously i
feel like i thought that this would be a
great way to end the year
and there's something else too which is
that you know if you follow my work and
you like the things that i'm doing
it's likely that you have a shared
interest in these sorts of like deeper
topics right like what is the meaning of
life what are we doing here what are we
all supposed to be working towards what
is progress
what is productivity really for etc etc
my hope is to show that it's possible to
earnestly ask those questions
but also sort of laugh about things
along the way in fact i really think
that's the only way
you can kind of get through life without
being an absolute cynic because look the
truth is the world is a crazy place that
does not make a lot of sense most of the
time that's kind of the conclusion i've
come to
you know i've gone through my
existential phases certainly with
everything that has happened over the
last couple of years even prior to
pandemic days the world did not make a
ton of sense to me for a long time that
would weigh me down i'd be like oh my
goodness what am i supposed to do about
this how am i supposed to make sense of
things i think a part of maturing a part
of becoming an adult
and a part of the spiritual journey i
suppose
is embracing the complexities of life
is further opening yourself up to the
nuances and subtleties that are inherent
in the human experience you know things
are not black and white there's a
comfort in easy answers but i'm
feeling less drawn to those easy answers
as time goes on because i know that
that's not really how life works the
thing that i keep realizing over and
over and over again over the years and
this by the way would be advice that i
would give any aspiring content creator
out there is that people ultimately end
up really coming back
not for you know the level of production
quality i feel like many of you guys if
i'm not mistaken come back to this
channel over and over again because you
kind of get the sense that you sort of
know me a little bit right because
hopefully i'm doing a decent job of
honestly sharing who i am and i'm 100
the same way you know there's absolutely
people that i follow on the internet
that i've never met in person but that i
just like their personality or i find
them inspiring or
you know it's just fun what they create
and so i just keep coming back for that
so anyway i hope you enjoyed this video
i hope the first portion gave you a
little laugh i really had fun playing
myself as a character
2022
let's see
what happens you know i'm not going in
with any expectations
but i'm
excited regardless adventures away they
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