How 5 Videos in 5 Days Changed My Creator Mindset (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Welcome back fellow descript-description-descriptions. I've literally never said that before. I don't know why I started now But as you guys know, I've been doing a little challenge a little Experiment if you will of making a video in just one day Honestly less than one day a lot of them I did in a few hours So now that I got five of these suckers under my belt I want to talk about the things that I learned and took away from this challenge because even someone like me who's been making videos for years. I feel like there's a lot of things that I learned or at least were really hammered into my head when it comes to making videos that I feel are really gonna benefit my just overall mentality and process in my video creation workflow. And the first thing that I really took away from this experience was it really killed my perfectionism. Because odds are even if you're not making videos, if you're just doing work like every other human, you you probably struggle with perfectionism like I do. And I didn't realize how much that was hindering my video creation process until I started doing this. Because normally, you know, when it comes to making videos, I get really in my head and I always think that every new video I make is like the worst video I put out. A lot of videos I straight up have just canceled, you know, and just have not done because I thought it wasn't good. And you know, it's always good to have those standards for yourself and really wanna push out the best work you can, but there is a negative aspect to it where my expectations were just too high and I was way too critical of the stuff I was making that I just got in my head. It led to me making videos way slower, it led to me making less videos, it led to me feeling burnt out a lot quicker. And I feel like making these videos, it really forced me to ignore that perfectionism voice in my head. And you know, the first couple of videos I made, I absolutely hated, you know, that perfectionism voice was still very loud in my head, especially the first video. But as I started making more of these videos, that voice honestly got a lot quieter, you know? I started to feel a lot more like nonchalant about the results of these videos and how they come out, which obviously too much of that isn't good either, but I feel like it really balanced me out to the point that when I made my vlog, I had a lot of problems with that video and I didn't feel this overwhelming sense of, oh, this is disgusting trash, why would you make this? I saw a lot less of the negatives with it and focused on the positives. Which brings me to the second biggest thing I took away from these videos. I kind of recalibrated in my mind the bar that a video has to cross in order to be deemed successful to me. Just talking about, is this video good or not? That bar to cross, I feel like was a lot higher before I started this challenge. And now it's a lot lower, and you might think that's a bad thing, but it's really not. Because for the type of videos I like to make, YouTube videos, commentary videos, all that kind of stuff, I thought that if this video didn't feel like the best thing I ever made, it wasn't good. And that nobody would wanna watch this, it's gonna be embarrassing to put out. It was just a lot of pressure I was putting on myself. But after making these videos, and one of them getting a decent amount of views, that bar for me now, on what I consider a successful entertaining video, is just, is this something that someone would watch like as they're eating a meal, or just kind of bored, or trying to fall asleep, or they're on their work break? Or is this something that they would have on in the background as they're playing a video game or doing an assignment, like, is this video good enough to meet that? And literally most of the time, yes, the video is good enough to meet that threshold. And if it's good enough to do that, then it's a good enough video to put out. And I'm not necessarily saying that my standards have dropped to that. I'm just like, oh, if it's good enough for someone to watch it in the background, I don't care. But I feel like having that new kind of bar of what makes a video good enough, entertaining enough, I got in my head a lot less, way less. Because at the end of the day, I'm making YouTube videos. You know, like I'm not making movies. And I feel like the pressure I was putting on myself was of someone who got $200 million to make like the next Marvel movie, and if it doesn't do good, his career is over. Why am I putting that amount of pressure on myself? I'm making YouTube videos. So yes, I still had a high standard for what I wanted my video to be, but it wasn't the end of the world. Which brings me to my third and final biggest thing that I kind of took away from this challenge. Just make stuff. Just make stuff, man. I feel like it's a pretty cliche takeaway or like advice, but now that I have had this experiment where I have been forced to no matter what make something, unfortunately, it is good advice. It's advice that you need to follow. And I feel like making these videos, it kind of forced me to find a way to film stuff quickly efficiently while still looking good. I feel like these are all things that I kind of practiced that I wouldn't have otherwise if I weren't on such a hard time constraint. And even like learning things and editing you know so much of getting good at not only making videos but just anything in general is repetition you know getting your reps in just doing it and I feel like a lot of the videos I make I get so wrapped up in like the writing or the edit and it kind of just like slogs down and because I didn't have the luxury to kind of push things off or like overly extend things it was like a really interesting way to just get more reps in on like making videos. All these stages of making a video that I really love some more than others I got to experience all that just more because I was forcing myself to make more stuff. Which I know feels really obvious but that's something that I feel like you don't notice until you kind of force yourself to make stuff even if you're not in love with it you know so for any of you watching I would implore you to take this challenge on for yourself especially if you're someone who you feel like it takes you a ton of time to make a video or you're always unhappy with the way your videos come out or you're always talking down to yourself I think this is a really great challenge to kind of fix all those at once so yeah that's it I made five videos in five days and I feel like it really allowed me to kind of grow as a creator. So if that's something that you've been wanting to do, maybe take on the challenge and show me all the videos you make so I can watch them all and procrastinate. I don't know. I don't know why I said that. Alright, but I'll see you in the next one. Bye.