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Today, what I'm gonna talk about,
it's very relevant to my life at this very second.
Perhaps, you might say, it's even salient.
(laughs) What it is, I make myself laugh sometimes.
What it is, this morning I got up,
and you know my life has got,
my schedule is jampacked right now,
so this morning I got up, and I was like,
I'm going to be like a legitimate YouTuber today,
and act like, you know, like I'm supposed to,
and record a video in the morning before I go to my day job.
What do you know?
I'm gonna be like, working on stuff in the morning.
So I recorded a video,
and all day long I'm like,
that video was not very good,
and then I came back and I started to edit it,
and I'm like, this is garbage.
This is garbage trash.
What am I doing?
So here it is, almost 1:00 a.m., and I'm like,
I have to put out, I have to do something else. (laughs)
I can't do that one, and you know what,
you know what it's made me realize?
And I've been fighting it my whole life,
and now I'm just gonna embrace it.
My whole life, I've been waiting
to the last minute to do things.
You can check out videos I've done,
which I'll link in the description
about being a perfectionist and being a procrastinator.
And my whole life, I was like,
I hate waiting to the last minute, but I always do it.
And now I realize why.
I realized that waiting to the last minute
is actually smart.
Waiting to the last minute is actually a valid strategy
when making creative works, especially,
I was gonna say, especially creative works.
Yes, it is 1:00 a.m.
It is, anything that you have to, where you have to produce,
where you have to put out your best work,
you just wait to the last second.
Don't do it in advance, because when you do it in advance,
in the back of your mind is this very quiet thought
that it's okay if I don't do it very well now
I can redo it later, and it let's you off the hook,
and you don't do it very well when you do it in advance.
And if you had just waited to the last second,
you would do your best and you wouldn't have
to take the extra time to do it twice.
You know what I'm saying?
Now, Frank, you might be saying,
I don't think that's really the case.
I think when you wait to the last second
what really just happens is you have to put it out,
you have to give whatever you produced in that moment.
You don't have the luxury of going over it
and seeing if there was something better you could do.
That's just it.
It's not your best.
I disagree.
I think it is your best.
I think in, for my particular circumstance,
the last second, the last second is a time of day
when the best comes out of me.
I can't really perform unless it's the last second.
You know what I mean?
I can't make great YouTube content
at seven, eight in the morning.
I've got all day in front of me.
I have to make it now, when I am like,
up hard against a deadline.
In fact, it might be better
if I push it later in the future,
and start doing videos for a six o'clock upload time,
if I start filming them at like, 4:30 a.m.
That would be amazing.
I think that would be when my channel would really take off.
You would see me start to have the best,
really, Jerry, the best ideas, the best creative flow.
(inhales and exhales deeply)
So you see.
You see how it is when you have too much time on your hands,
it's the, I don't know what it is, what it's called,
there is an actual name for this,
but if you have a certain amount of time
to work on a project,
you'll find a way to make the project
take up that amount of time,
and so it's just better to wait 'til later.
The other good thing about waiting 'til later
is it gives you more time to plan out
what you're gonna do later,
because it seems like sometimes,
I just feel like it's half-baked
if I do it too early, not even too early,
if I just do it early at all,
if I do it earlier than the last second,
it feels like it's rushed.
Ironically, 'cause you would think
the last second is rushed, isn't it?
Yeah, there is some pressure, there's some urgency,
but it's not rushed in the sense of
I am doing this prematurely,
I'm trying to create something
before it's fully marinated in my brain.
It's not fully percolated, if you will,
or percolated, however you're supposed to pronounce it.
I think you know what I meant, though.
That's my argument.
My airtight, watertight,
I was trying to think of another tight, gastight?
No, that's stupid.
What are you talking about, Frank?
The solid would be the third one.
Airtight, watertight, solid tight argument
for why it is best to wait to the last second.
More planning time, you're forced to do your best
'cause you don't have any other time to do it,
and so your brain just like, turns off.
The critical part of your brain is like, eff this.
I'm just gonna do it.
I don't have the luxury of being critical anymore.
It's just like, pfft, gotta do something,
gotta get it out there, gotta perform on a deadline.
That's number two or three, I forget.
And then the third or fourth reason why it's good
is you end up not doing things twice,
because you don't, do it once early,
and then mull over it and say that's bad,
I need to redo it, I can do better.
That's the thing that always gets me.
I do it once and then I come back to it later,
and I'm like, I can really do this better,
so I'm gonna do it again, 'cause I have the time,
'cause oh, now it's the last second.
Which is when I should have done it in the first place.
Do you get what I'm saying?
I hope you do.
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You know what I mean. (laughs)
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