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This has been a long time coming.
I'm here with Roberto Blake.
I know I didn't even have to make the introduction.
But we're gonna be talking about creativity today.
Roberto, how you doin' man?
- I'm doing awesome, Nick!
You know the answer to that question.
- Yeah, I know.
I shouldn't even have asked that question, right?
- Of course I'm doing awesome.
I'm hanging out with you, buddy.
- Right. Yeah This has been a blast!
So, we're hanging out at VidSummit right now,
and we're having a great time.
So, Roberto, on creativity, what tips do you have?
For somebody that says, hey, I'm starting a Youtube channel.
I don't really know what it is that I'm gonna talk about,
or hey, I'm making videos and I don't really know what it is
that I should be doing.
All the figuring-out stuff.
The creativity part of being a Youtuber,
being a content creator.
What kind of tips do you have for that?
- What I did was I did what was fun and interesting
and exciting to me, the things that I made my family
and friends their ears bleed to death
that was like so boring to them,
because again, I dig photoshop.
You know that. I dig video editing and Adobe Premiere Pro.
When I was a kid, I was making anime music videos.
I wanted to edit. I edited for six years before Youtube
ever existed, right? That was fun for me.
I like storytelling.
I thought that I was gonna be a filmmaker and an animator,
and I thought that that was the path
for me to express my creativity,
but I realized that I like to tell stories,
and I like to make things,
and I like to share them.
And so for me I knew that about myself,
and YouTube let me do that.
I didn't intend to be a YouTuber, Nick.
I didn't intend to be anything but somebody that was
giving some advice and educating people.
I think that if the education system which we talked about,
just wasn't a place that would have fit me and like,
I'm too much of a misfit for them,
and I'm too maverick for them.
I think that I probably would've been a teacher.
I mean, people have told me that they wish they had a
college professor or teacher like me.
I've done like stuff where I've stepped in as an art
teacher, as a substitute sometimes.
- Oh, nice.
- And like the kids are like "Wow we just don't want
you to go" and I'm like "Guys, it won't work"
- Yeah not gonna happen.
- Not gonna happen, so the rewarding thing for me,
is seeing people do their own thing,
create their own thing, and me also creating mine.
I was even as a kid, I just wanted to,
I'd figure something out, I'd share it with my friends,
I'd teach them how to do it, I've always been that.
So, knowing who I was, was what I think worked for me
on YouTube, and I think as I got comfortable on camera,
I was able to express more of who I was confidently.
And I think I ended up actually from doing that on
YouTube and on camera interacting with you guys,
I think I got better at it in real life,
and I think that's what made me evolve,
even as a public speaker.
If you watch my old, my first speaking engagement
and you watch who I am today it's night and day Nick.
- Oh I'm sure, I'm sure.
- So, my answer to it, long story short is
know what you like, know what you love.
Know what like, if you could do anything for the rest
of your life, this is who I figured out who I am,
I played this game myself, so like okay Roberto,
like some mythical creature, some genie comes and says
"Okay Roberto you gotta do the same thing for a thousand
years, I'm going to lock you into that world,
what is it, find a way to make it not torture for yourself."
Cause you know I'm a malevolent deity type of thing, right.
So, I played that little what if game with myself,
and was like what do I want to do, I want to create
awesome things, share them out in the world,
oh oh and I want to teach other people how to do that.
I could do that every day, alright,
yeah, I could live with that.
So, I decided to actually do that, every day, bro.
And so that's what happened, I ultimately figured out
that I like making things, I like learning about technology
and software, and how to create, and how to do video,
and how to do camera stuff, and so I would just talk about
the things that were getting me excited about that,
or things where I think "You know I wish that someone
had taught me how to solve this problem back when I was
a graphic designer so my boss wouldn't have yelled at me
and blah blah blah."
So I made a video like that, I was like you know,
yeah there's a bunch of people doing that:
Terry White, Howard Pinsky, Nathanial Dodson.
All of these tutorial people that I look up to.
But they're not doing it the way that I would've done it.
Or, they're not doing it the way that would've
connected with me personally, or how can I bring up
my personality, and my humor in educating people,
because I want to keep it fun, and informative,
and light, I want to make it less intimidating.
I don't want to sound like an expert,
I want to sound like somebody whose done it,
and somebody who wants to help you do the same thing I am.
And that's all I did Nick is I just figured out
what it is I want.
If I was going to be an entertainer instead
of an educator, then I would've just talked
about Star Wars, and Game of Thrones, and anime.
And I would've done if from my perspective,
and I just would've told you, what I like about
the characters, or what they meant to me,
or what I learned, or how it influenced me.
I would've figured some angle out of what my
unique experience of a thing is,
and I would've done that, and if I wanted to be
an inspirational figure, cause again I'm hitting
help, hub, and hero here in this topic.
I talked about how I would educate people,
how I do educate people, I talked about how I would
entertain them, how would I inspire them?
I talk about my anxiety, and my depression,
and how I coped with suicide,
and what got me through it, what made me hold on,
what let me find something that I could love about myself,
from that perspective of being bullied,
and feeling those things, and I'm tearing up now.
And so like, so if I wanted to entertain,
I told you how to do it, if I wanted to educate,
that's how I did it, and if I wanted to inspire people,
and when I do inspire people, this is why and how I do it.
So I think.
- Through that thought flow
- Yeah.
- You know finding that creativity, is it seems like
that journey has been more about finding out who you are.
- It is.
- Right, it's about finding out who you are,
getting comfortable who you are,
you know finding out defining all of these
different aspects of your life.
- Self awareness.
- Self.
- Self awareness.
- One word, two words, yeah two words.
- Or is it a conjoined word?
- Yeah, right.
- Like, right.
But like, it's one thing.
- Yeah.
- Self awareness I think is the secret of success,
I think it's the secret of creativity.
I think it's about knowing who you are,
but I also think it's about exploring,
and getting excited about other things in the world.
I think it's about curiosity.
Curiosity is ultimately what led me
to click on your channel, it's like,
"Oh wow, who is this Nick Nimmin guy?"
And everything like that, oh wow he delivers
really great information about YouTube,
respect, alright cool, hadn't seen him and his face before.
It was just Daryl, and Tim, and David, and Gideon,
and you know Jeremy, and like Amy, and Sunny, and Owen.
Like, you know the people I actually knew,
the dozen or so people I actually knew.
So then, when I saw you come on the scene,
I saw Brian come on the scene,
I was excited because oh that's new,
I've got a new flavor now, like what's this about?
I'm curious, lets try it, oh wow it's fantastic.
So, you know.
- I appreciate that.
- Yeah.
- With all of that, let's say somebody is,
they're having trouble with the
self awareness side of things.
Right, like if somebody wants to start walking that journey
of discovering you know, this is who I am, right.
So that they can make all of those connections,
because that's where it starts,
and then from there you make all of the connections.
So from that what do you recommend somebody starts with
to actually start defining to themselves who they are?
- So if you want to get more self awareness,
you want to know who you are,
you want to figure out what you might want to do,
look at what you're already doing on a regular basis.
Look at your habits, audit yourself.
Think about, what is it that I spend the most time on?
Am I spending time reading?
Am I an avid reader?
Am I spending time playing video games?
Am I always talking about this business
that I'm going to start?
Like, what is, am I always talking about this TV show?
Think about what it is that you do all the time already.
Think about what excites you.
And again if you're not, if you don't know that you're
super passionate about something,
then look at at least what you're
spending time on if nothing else.
And then if all else fails find three to five people
you trust and ask them who they think you are,
or who you are to them.
Like, who I am to you, might be
different than who I am to Nick.
It's definitely different than who I am to
my best friends Tiffany and Malcolm.
It's different than who I am to my friend Jason.
- And your parents.
- And to my parents, and to the audience,
they're own individual relationship to them.
I met a young man today that he told me that six
months ago he didn't have a business,
and today he has a six figure business,
and I was a part of that reason.
That's who I am to him, you know.
And that was very flattering, that really got to me.
Cause what if I didn't do it Nick?
Like what if I didn't show up?
Like what if I didn't make that video that reached him?
Like, that is what gets me going.
That's the thing that I'm working.
If I'm worried about anything,
I'm as much worried about what I do, as what I don't do.
- Right, well Roberto thank you so much
for coming on the channel man.
- Yeah.
- I really appreciate it, I really
appreciate your thought flow.
And, you know like I told Roberto earlier today,
I wanna get this on my channel as well,
you know I've been watching Roberto for a really long time.
You know, what he's doing has also influenced what you
guys see, so a few times a week here on my channel.
The service that he provides is rippling
through me into you as well.
- Dude.
- So Roberto, thank you for the service that you provide.
Not just to the YouTube community, but to the earth.
- Oh wow, alright so that's super flattering, no pressure.
- Right, right, so I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for coming on.
- Dude, thank you so much for having me Nick.
You know I dig you, you know I think you're so awesome dude.
I mean there's just so much that your energy,
like it's so different, and I really am glad
that you have a voice in this space.
- Thanks I appreciate it.
And as most of you probably are already familiar with
Robertos channel, if you are not familiar with Roberto,
and you want more information like this,
cause Roberto really goes deep on his channel.
In addition to the thought flow that he has
which is incredible, he also shares you know how to
grow your YouTube channel,
how to do different aspects of creativity,
and how to create something awesome.
So I'm going to put a link down to Roberto
down in the description below, up here in the card.
And in addition to that Roberto you also
have the awesome creator academy.
- That's right awesome.
- Can you tell us what that's about?
- Absolutely.
Awesome creator academy is something I started because
I wanted to do more mentorship,
and I wanted to figure out a way to
help the most amount of people that I could.
With keeping it a nice tight knit circle of people,
that are hustling just as hard as you.
They're trying to build an online business,
grow their personal brand.
And it's a way that people can get feedback,
help each other out, look at their marketing materials.
But I wanted people who were serious,
and that are committed.
So I made this membership site that people can subscribe to.
You pay every month.
But the real value of it Nick is that
we get together as a group, we do these mastermind calls.
And we're able to bounce each others ideas off each other,
work through each others problems.
We are also able to share in each others
success and journey.
And I've learned so much from having this membership
group about what I can better do to serve people.
And also, we've been able to just like really work together
to grow our success as a team.
So if you guys want to join awesome creator academy,
we're going to leave a link down below.
It's awesomecreatoracademy.com.
But Nick, what I'm going to do is aside from giving
you an affiliate link, I'm going to give your audience
a discount code, so we'll link that
in the description down below.
- Awesome, awesome, thank you, thank you.
And one think that I also want to mention to in regards
to that is one of the things a lot of
creators deal with is being alone.
- Yes.
- Right, being alone and not having a support group,
not having people around you that understand
what it is that you're doing.
- That's why I started it is because when I got started
doing all of this, whether it was learning,
video editing, and graphic design.
I had basic introductory into that,
and then I was on my own.
I didn't have a mentor, and I didn't have a community.
And the internet was a very different place back then.
Pre YouTube, pre social media.
- Sure.
- I didn't have that, I didn't have
people to bounce ideas off of.
My friends were not into this.
I was alone, I was an outsider, an outcast, a misfit.
And all I would've wanted was to have a group of like minded
people like me to encourage me, but also to help inspire me,
and also to keep me focused on track,
and also to tell me when I'm doing something that
isn't working, and why, and I wanted that so badly,
for so long, and ultimately not only like my YouTube
channel and every other venture that I did,
I just made the thing that would've helped me the most.
- Nice, nice.
Alright Roberto, thank you so much for coming on man.
I really appreciate it.
- Dude, love what you're doing.
- Thanks.
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