i feel like it's about time that i address the fact that i don't make study motivation videos
on this channel anymore because every single video that i upload i get asked in the comments
again and again when will i upload another study motivation video like i used to and i've replied
to many of those comments and i've made a few instagram posts and stories about it but i know
a lot of people on here aren't following me on instagram and if you're new to this channel or
have no idea what i'm talking about for four years i've been creating and posting study motivation
videos but my new uploads are more study advice videos so i've been taking a step back from my
normal study motivation uploads so i wanted to make an official video to address the elephant
in the room and basically to answer the question that i get asked so often when will i post another
study motivation video so i created this channel back in 2016 when i was in my second year at
university because i had so much motivation i just come back from a six month trip to southeast asia
and i met some phenomenally successful people and i was so motivated and inspired and then i wanted
to inspire as many people as i could and youtube was the best way of doing that so i made my first
motivation video it took me about four weeks to make a three minute motivation video because i'd
never done video editing before i'd never edited videos before i had to teach myself by watching
youtube and searching on google and that's why it took me so long and actually the first few months
of the channel i just made generic motivation videos it wasn't until early 2017 that i turned
my channel into a study motivation channel and also the first few months of the channel i was
getting pretty much no views it wasn't until around february 2017 that i actually started
to get people watching my videos and so from 2016 to 2021 i was uploading motivation videos
every single week i went through periods of posting twice a week and even daily for a few
months but a year or so ago i started to lose that creativity imagine making the same kind of video
on the same topic every single week for four weeks it got to a point where i was just forcing myself
to make the videos and upload them and i just wasn't enjoying it anymore i started to focus
on other business adventures and i'd delegate out as much of the video creation process as
i could to the point where i was only working on the project on channel a few hours a week and for
the most part it was running itself so to get that creative spark back i started experimenting with
other types of videos mainly actually getting up front of the camera and essentially making
talking head videos just like this one and that had two main advantages firstly address the
problem that many motivational videos have they tell you to study hard and study smart but they
don't tell you how to do it it's one thing telling someone to study harder or study smarter in fact
my most viewed video on this channel is titled study hard and study smart with 4.6 million
views but how exactly do you study hard how exactly do you study smarter and so i'm able
to now make videos on guiding people on how to get better at studying how to study more efficiently
and use their time more wisely and i have made a video on how to study smarter you can click
on the pop-up banner above to watch it and the second advantage from switching from motivational
videos to talking head videos was that i got my creative spark back these types of videos require
a completely different skill set i needed a camera i needed a microphone i needed lighting i needed
to learn about shutter speed and aperture and iso and i can talk about different topics rather than
just focusing on motivation i started learning so much more and it was far more challenging
having to learn a completely new skill set and so on the 11th of january 2021 i posted my first
talking head video on product elon and for a lot of you it was the first time you'd actually seen
my face and i was quite apprehensive on how it would perform at the end of the day i still
wanted to keep creating and providing content for my audience and creating as much value as
possible and i thought that creating these kinds of videos would create more value than my study
motivation videos because really it's not up to me it's you guys that decide what kind of videos you
want to watch so i uploaded my first talking head video a couple of months ago seven daily habits
of high performance students and it actually performed really well and you can click on the
pop-up banner to watch it because you guys seem to really love it the comments were overwhelmingly
positive and from that video alone more than six thousand of you who subscribe to the channel
however there's still 83 percent of you that haven't yet subscribed so do consider subscribing
and hitting the bell notification if you haven't already and you're getting value for my videos it
really does help me out by sending signals to the youtube algorithm that my videos are worth
watching so i made a poll on the channel's community post basically asking what type of
videos you prefer the normal motivational videos are the newest study advice and study tips videos
like this one for example and twice as many of you voted for the newer videos as opposed to the older
study motivation videos and i'm always trying to gauge what kind of videos you want me to make
because at the end of the day i'm making videos for you i want to provide as much value to you
so let me know in the comments what kind of videos you like whether it's the oldest study motivation
videos or the newer study style videos because i'll be coming back regularly once this video is
uploaded to read over what you guys have written so now i'm uploading new videos twice a week
sometimes three times a week i'm also a lot more active on my instagram and facebook so if you're
not following me on there consider doing so and so i'd like to think that making this transition
from study motivation videos to talking head videos is a win-win for both me and you guys
i'm happier and more creative making these kind of videos so i can make two or three videos a
week rather than just one study motivation video a week and also i'm providing value on my other
social medias like instagram and facebook when before i wasn't really and from the polls i've
made in the comments in the videos and the general feedback you guys seem to prefer these kind of
uploads more however i also know that a lot of you prefer my study motivation videos and i do
want to keep making that kind of content to serve my entire audience not just the group that prefer
talking head videos so that raises the question will i be making study motivation uploads in
the future or have i completely stopped well from the position that i'm in now i haven't completely
stopped making study motivation videos you could consider this a break from study motivation videos
but i would like to start making them again in the future maybe one study motivation upload a
week and two newer style uploads a week something like that so like i said earlier let me know in
the comments which type of upload you prefer me to make and if you prefer my older study motivation
uploads you can click on the video on the left for one of the last study motivation videos i've made
and if you prefer my newest study advice videos you can click on the right side of me
and make sure you subscribe and hit the bell notification so when i do start making
study motivation videos again you'll be the first to know about it thank you so much for watching