I always wanted to create content because I wanted my ideas to have an impact on the world
I went down the traditional path. I spoke at conferences. It wasn't very good
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It's my privilege to introduce Derek helper to the stage chatter, what's up?
I then turned my ideas into a real business, and I made a lot of money
But I lost my way
Derek I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but you just
Seem so tired all the time and and just not happy. What's up Derek? It's Noah
Hey quick thing you seem hella mad lately what's going on man chill out
You're gonna give yourself a heart attack man. Just take a deep breath. I've lost my voice
Lost my passion I
Knew something needed to change
But I wasn't sure what it was I knew I wanted to start creating content again
But I didn't know how to get started it seemed like the world of content had changed before my eyes
And I wasn't positive what I needed to do to become relevant again
But then I watched this video by Casey Neistat fold
Filmmaking is a sport and everything started to make sense when I was a kid
I wanted to be a filmmaker to me there was no higher artistic achievement than that more than anything
I just wanted to make great film. What's interesting about this is that it's funny
How our dreams and passions as a child can manifest themselves?
When we get older, I don't actually recall
anything from my childhood that I wanted to do when I got older because
By now you probably know I grew up poor my mom was on welfare
My dad was in jail the only thing. I wanted when I got older was I wanted to be successful
I wanted to have some money, and I wanted to live a comfortable life. You wanted to be a filmmaker neither resources education
Money in order to make movies needed all those things all those things. I didn't have this is interesting, too
It's funny how sometimes
We believe the only way to get what we want
Requires all these things. We don't currently have and most of the time. That's related to a
Traditional path to going after our dreams. I actually think about this conversation
I have a friend she works in theater, and she wants to move up the theater ranking
She wanted she wants to produce her own play
And she's telling me that she wants to go back to school to get a graduate degree in theater production
And I'm just sitting there thinking like what she's like yeah, you know people are not gonna. Take me seriously
They're not gonna hire me as a producer said. What do you mean? You've already?
Directed and produced plays you want to produce a play go find a script that you love go raise some money produce a play
times have changed
and I have a feeling that's what what Casey's about to start talking about I
Said yes to every opportunity that involve picking up a camera
Permits the videos wedding videos birthday be Brian is not glamorous
Right there, but I would not I could not give up
What's interesting about this and I love that he said it I would say yes to every opportunity
I had to pick up a camera. This is something that I feel people don't do nowadays
Some people and it's that sometimes they get to a point in their life
Maybe they went to film school, and then they have an opportunity to film a bar mitzvah, and they're like oh
I went to film school
I'm not gonna do that and they think they're better than the work
But here Casey's going on about how he just said yes to every opportunity. I think that's an important lesson
It wasn't the red carpet
It wasn't the film festival
Wasn't the Awards it wasn't the award shows that shit the more time I spent chasing down the facade of success the less
Creating I was actually doing
That interesting it's almost like sometimes we chase the wrong things to make us happy
I had a conversation with a good friend of mine Pat, Flynn yesterday
And he was like you know for a couple years there Derek every time
I would talk to you you were always so tired. He was right. I was I was tired
That's because I started socialtriggers because I liked sharing interesting ideas and interesting pieces of content, and eventually I kind of lost my way
Because I stopped creating that content
I instead focused on creating courses, and it was a great way to build a business of course, but it's not
Really what I wanted to do
I didn't wake up and decide that I wanted to teach people how to do things. I like to teach people and I still
Have immense value in sharing my thoughts and and my journeys and my struggles with people
But I was teaching people the same things all the time over and over and over again
And I got bored of my own content. I was burned out and when I was talking to my friends
They kept telling me Derek. Why are you so tired? I was tired because I didn't want to do what I was doing
That's why in 2018
I've decided to start daily vlogging as a way to make myself excited again kind of feel more alive
It seems like Casey had that same
Exact thing happened to him he went down that traditional path Goffe words guys named my movie posters, but he was wasn't feeling it
Entirely finally filmmaking is now ours filmmaking is a sport
This is the new party and now
Everyone's invited I
Appreciate that I I appreciate the whole idea that we're breaking down the barriers
to media and
I
Think for years people believe they have to go down the traditional path to success
But when you have the opportunity to upload a video just like I have the opportunity to upload video. It's almost empowering
It's the same as true for starting a business if you ever want to start your own business
You don't need permission from anyone you can just do it you wanna make videos upload a video yeah
They're not gonna be that good if you look at even my first vlog
It's not that good you get better, but the best part about starting something new and not being good at it is
That when you start
Not that many people are gonna. See it anyway, so you have nothing to be ashamed about
You just get started publishing these videos. I mean even if you look at my youtube channel
you know we started with these ugly videos with horrible haircuts, then I got good and I
Updated my clothing got new haircuts, then I got bored and I stopped making videos now
I'm back again. I'm
Reinvigorated to make this content again and Here I am making it just starting from scratch starting okay
Getting good along the way
We all have the power to do that and this is a great video by Casey, so thank you Casey for making it
I appreciate it, and if you're watching me react to this video
I hope you got at least one insight that can help you push forward to either
Starting your own business
Making your own video show or doing whatever it is that you want to do because at the end
there's no one stopping you, but yourself and
I mean that's pretty much it. Thank you for coming. I hope you learned a lot today