How to Actually Start Making Cool Stuff

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POYKu0MmtnI

Zusammenfassung

TLDRThe video encourages viewers to stop wasting time on their phones and start working on personal projects that can enhance their lives. It outlines a five-step guide to help individuals overcome excuses and fears about starting new projects. The steps include identifying your motivation ('why'), selecting a suitable project, developing necessary skills, planning initial steps, and finding intrinsic motivation to keep going. The speaker emphasizes that failure is part of the learning process and that sharing your project can help maintain motivation.

Mitbringsel

  • 📱 Stop wasting time on your phone!
  • 💡 Working on projects boosts self-esteem.
  • 🚀 Find your 'why' to stay motivated.
  • 🎯 Choose a project that excites you.
  • 🛠️ Everyone starts without skills—practice makes perfect.
  • 📚 Use online resources to learn new skills.
  • 📝 Plan your first step to avoid analysis paralysis.
  • 💪 Motivation comes from the pleasure of completing tasks.
  • 👥 Share your project to create positive pressure.
  • 🌟 Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Zeitleiste

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    The speaker discusses the importance of using time wisely, suggesting that working on personal projects can enhance self-esteem, discipline, and happiness. They acknowledge the initial challenges and fears associated with starting a project but emphasize that failure is a part of the learning process. The speaker introduces a five-step guide to help individuals begin their projects, starting with identifying a personal motivation ('why') that drives them. They stress the significance of choosing a stimulating and achievable project, developing necessary skills through practice and study, planning actionable steps without succumbing to perfectionism, and finding intrinsic motivation to sustain progress. The speaker concludes by highlighting the value of sharing projects publicly to create accountability and motivation.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

  • What is the first step to starting a project?

    The first step is to find your 'why'—the motivation behind why you want to start the project.

  • How can I choose the right project?

    Choose a project that is stimulating, achievable, personal, and growth-oriented.

  • What if I don't have the skills to start?

    Everyone starts somewhere; focus on developing skills through practice and learning.

  • What is analysis paralysis?

    Analysis paralysis is when you overthink and delay starting a project because you want everything to be perfect.

  • How can I stay motivated?

    Find pleasure in completing tasks and consider sharing your project publicly to create positive pressure.

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    how often do you catch yourself
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    scrolling through your phone feeling
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    like you're wasting time what if I told
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    you that time could be used to build
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    something really cool here's the truth
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    working on your own project doesn't just
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    make you better at what you do it
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    changes your life it grows your s-
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    esteem your discipline it helps you with
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    stress and most of all it makes you
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    like climbing Mount Everest with
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    blowing against you but I created this
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    guide specif specifically to help you
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    I'm not here to tell you that all you
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    need is to want it to or if you want you
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    can but I will show you how to actually
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    start making cool stuff we all have an
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    endless list of excuses at the beginning
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    which we tell ourselves to avoid
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    stepping out of our comfort zone for
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    it's not a matter of time but of
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    priorities so all you need to do is plan
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    your project as if it were an important
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    one who has created something cool has
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    teaches you that your approach was wrong
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    or that you need to improve in some
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    skill but what will others think if
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    someone criticizes you that's okay it
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    means you did something interesting
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    enough to catch their attention I'm not
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    good enough this is perhaps the most
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    dangerous lie of all no one is born good
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    five-step path that will guide you to to
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    actually do something cool but first
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    leave a like or my dog will take over
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    the channel the first step is find your
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    meaning that pushes you forward ask
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    yourself why do I want to do this what
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    really motivates me maybe you want to
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    prove to yourself that you're not just
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    someone who sits on the sidelines
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    watching others but someone who actually
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    that's your own the point is without a
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    quit when you encounter the first
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    difficulty the second step is to find
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    the right project the project must be
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    stimulating achievable personal and
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    growth oriented there are many different
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    areas in which you can focus and each
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    has its own potential and opportunities
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    there is no one right path and there is
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    no perfect project the important thing
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    is to start with something you like the
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    third step is develop skills this is
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    where a lot of people stop because they
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    don't feel like they have the skills to
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    move forward but like I said before
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    everyone has to start somewhere take
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    quite what you expected but as you keep
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    practicing you pick up new skills and
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    eventually create something amazing if
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    indicating the moment when you are
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    when you unlock that skill Beyond
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    Hands-On learning studying is essential
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    you can actually learn a lot on YouTube
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    step when you think about a project your
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    Imagining the finished perfect result
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    that everyone admires
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    but before you get there you have to
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    start with what you've got right now if
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    you're thinking okay but I have to learn
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    to do everything right first I need to
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    have the perfect setup I have to be sure
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    that's called analysis paralysis and
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    it's exactly what keeps you stuck the
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    solution realize that at the start it's
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    not about perfection it's about actually
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    taking that first step the fifth step is
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    finding motivation I won't lie there
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    will be times when you feel unmotivated
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    and think about giving up when you
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    decide to do something if you need an
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    external stimulus to give you motivation
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    you will most likely fail to do it
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    because once you run out of that
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    stimulus you will not have the same
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    mindset what really matters is the
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    pleasure you derive from completing your
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    project if you do not derive pleasure
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    from that action you will never do it
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    that's why I put finding your why as the
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    first step because I believe it is the
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    most important when you finish a small
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    task you get a sense of accomplishment
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    and your brain releases dop dopamine
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    which makes you feel motivated to do
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    more if that is not enough there is a
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    very powerful trick which is to share
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    your project with other people if you do
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    it publicly you force yourself to pursue
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    it because this mechanism creates
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    positive pressure you don't want to
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    disappoint yourself or even disappoint
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    the people following you it's like when
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    you don't feel like working out but your
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    gim bro is waiting for you you can't
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    back out
Tags
  • personal projects
  • motivation
  • self-esteem
  • discipline
  • skills development
  • planning
  • overcoming fear
  • creativity
  • goal setting
  • happiness