Hey, this is the Daily Overpass.
My name is Eric and I make apps.
Now today, I'm coming to you from the Philippines and want to talk about my biggest fear.
Okay, so today, I'm coming to you one more time from the beach in the Philippines or
from the La Luz Beach Resort in the Philippines.
I'm about to check out and make the long drive down to Manila, well, I'm not driving myself,
I'm being driven, but it's like 3 hours away and stay in the Holiday Inn near the airport.
And I was gonna do it from there but I thought, nah, I would gonna take advantage of this
backdrop one more time.
We might night have another scenery like this, so, let's do the video from here.
And tomorrow, I'll be traveling all day and back to the UK.
So, I don't want to submit you, guys, to another airport video, where I'm all tired and constipated
(laughs) and all exhausted from traveling all hours.
So, we'll pre-record this one today from here.
So today I want to talk a little bit about my biggest fear when it comes to Overpass.
Now, sometimes you, guys, will talk about how there's not a lot of views on this channel,
today that's gonna work to my advantage because I probably want to admit this kind of stuff
if there were a lot of views.
Years ago, my dad has said something to me, he said that - I was talking about my insecurities
on a project years ago or it was in like a business situation, if they knew how little
I knew about this, they would be concerned.
And he said he told me that we all have these fears that if other people knew what's going
on in our heads, they would have less respect for us.
But we have all these insecurities.
So, I thought today, I will talk about some of the - one of the biggest insecurities that
I have and it usually around self-confidence.
Now when it comes to Overpass, I've always believed that we can make this work.
I've always believed that if I just keep battering up these walls, either - if I keep battering
at these walls they would get through every failure, through every disappointment, just
keep at it.
This - it's not over till I say it's over.
But my big fear with it is that not that the idea won't work, not that the concepts won't
work, is that I'm not the person t do it.
And maybe I lacked the confidence to do it.
And a lot of what I do each day is trying to build confidence.
If you've ever worked in a corporate environment, for me, you see the Senior Managers a lot
of the times are the tallest, most handsome people and I don't know why.
It is just is.
You think that these kinds of things shouldn't matter.
So the tallest, most confident and they speak in their deep voices and they use business
speak, like you know, "First of all, we must ascertain the objectives of the projects..."
and all these kinds of stuff.
Sometimes I feel like when I go meet some clients and stuff, I should be that way.
I should talk that way.
So, when I go into business situations, especially when I first started working with clients,
my big fear was not that I didn't know the code, I was a hundred percent confident in
the code, my ability with the code was just fine.
But my fear was that they would find out that I was not the businessman that I should be.
They would see that I didn't know how to do such and such, maybe I didn't wear the tie
correctly, maybe I'll just speak in a deep enough voice.
(laughs) So, that stuff does.Sometimes in the office, when I'm filming in the office
- you'll see in the background there's a poster on the wall, a Jim Rohn quote that says, "In
order to have more, you have to be more."
And it's something that resonated with me because I thought, a lot of times we focus
on the idea, we focus on the concept, but we -it's the -a lot of times, it's the person
behind it who's driving it who makes it work.
Over the years, I'm always trying to improve myself.
I always try to improve myself in terms of what I can do with the confidence I have,
with the training.
I've read so many self-help books.
I've read so many, not just code, I mean, you know what, I think I considered coding
books to be self-help books because they've helped me.
But I mean just the normal self-help books, all the things.
I still read about one a week.
I may not implement as well as I should, but a lot of things, come out of that.
It is one of the fears.
We've had a lot of clients so far.
We're getting better all the time.
Like I said we'll keep on battering up the walls until either we can't batter anymore
or till they give in.
And I'm gonna become the person that I need to become.
But in order for me to do it, I have to realize where I'm lacking.
Yesterday, I talked about the fact that I'm a bad manager.
There's other ways - there's other things that I need to prove about myself and I'm
always working on them.
So anyway, that's my big fear.
And I'm hoping I'm not alone in that, with a lot of things.
people come to me with app ideas.
They say like these ideas would be huge, "We're gonna be billionaires, we'll go half and half
on it."
A lot of times it;s not the app idea that I'm looking at.
It's the person.
And this is one of the reason I don't partner with people is because the right person has
to be able to get behind that and push it and make it work.
The idea itself is nothing.
You give the perfect idea to someone who doesn't have the - doesn't have the means to execute
on it, then it's worthless.
I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, I hope you, guys, have enjoyed watching a lot of the videos or at least a lot of the
backdrops of the last week, a week and a half, whatever it's been.
And tomorrow - so, the next time I come to you, tomorrow's video, should be from the
UK.
And then, the works starts.
So, that's it for today.
I'll talk to you tomorrow!