It's going to be a bit of a rambly video. I don't typically make these types of videos, but hopefully you'll like it. My goal is to just pack it with as much value as possible.

這將是一個有點囉嗦的視頻。我一般不做這種類型的視頻，但希望你會喜歡。我的目標是讓它儘可能地有價值。

Any advice on overcoming the fear of starting? This is definitely the most reoccurring question that I get, and I definitely understand why. When I started out myself, I had so many fears.

對於克服創業恐懼有什麼建議嗎？這絕對是我收到的最多的問題，我也非常理解為什麼。我自己剛開始創業時，也有很多恐懼。

I was scared that I was going to invest time in something that wasn't going to work out.

我害怕把時間投入到不可能成功的事情上。

I was scared that my videos were going to be just not good and I wasn't going to get any subscribers or no one was really going to care about what I had to say or what I put out there.

我害怕我的視頻不好看，我無法獲得任何訂閱者，或者沒有人會真正關心我要說的話或我發佈的內容。

It's really interesting to look at where your fears might stem from. Personally, having this fear of being made fun of or laughed at comes from my childhood. It comes from being laughed at in school and being the outsider sometimes. I knew that I had a lot of mind ghosts and figuring out where they came from, identifying that, was quite helpful in making peace with the fact that it was going to be scary, but at least I knew kind of why.

看看你的恐懼可能源於何處，這真的很有趣。就我個人而言，對被取笑或嘲笑的恐懼來自於我的童年。它來自於在學校裡被人嘲笑，以及有時成為局外人。我知道自己有很多心理陰影，弄清它們的來源，確定它們的身份，這對平和麵對現實很有幫助，雖然這會很可怕，但至少我知道為什麼。

Another fear is, obviously, if the sacrifice is going to be worth it. There's a fine line between being scared because something is actually not good for you and being scared because you're having mind ghosts about something, and figuring out which one it is for you is a good idea. As an example, you probably should feel scared if you're about to quit your job to pursue becoming a YouTuber if you don't have a solid backup plan. I had a solid backup plan when

另一種恐懼顯然是，這種犧牲是否值得。害怕是因為某件事實際上對你沒有好處，害怕是因為你對某件事產生了幻覺，這兩者之間存在著細微的差別，搞清楚哪種情況對你來說是個好主意。舉個例子，如果你準備辭職去做優酷主播，而你又沒有一個可靠的備份計劃，那麼你可能應該感到害怕。我在

I quit my job, I knew that in case YouTube was to not work out, I had somewhere to go,

我辭掉了工作，因為我知道，萬一 YouTube 不給力，我還有地方可去、

I had still a roof over my head and I was going to be okay. It's really important to figure out the worst-case scenario and how you would handle that worst-case scenario and then decide for yourself what the chances of that worst-case scenario is for happening and if it were to happen, what are your chances of actually figuring it out? Every chance that I get,

我的頭上還有一個屋頂，我會沒事的。弄清楚最壞的情況以及如何應對最壞的情況，然後自己決定最壞情況發生的機率有多大，以及如果真的發生了，你真正弄清楚的機率有多大，這一點真的很重要。一切機會

I practice making peace with the fact that fear is not out to get me. Fear is there for a reason, it's hardwired in me as a human being, it's there to protect me. I like to think of it as my dog, actually, or any dog. If you have a dog, you know that many dogs tend to bark if someone is passing by your door, and in 99.9% of the time, the people passing aren't out to get you or rob you, but your dog is still warning you about them, in case there were to be something that you should be aware of.

我練習與事實和平相處，恐懼並不是要對付我。恐懼的存在是有原因的，它是我作為一個人的固有屬性，它是用來保護我的。其實，我喜歡把它想象成我的狗，或者任何一隻狗。如果你養狗，你就會知道，如果有人從你家門口經過，很多狗都會吠叫，在 99.9% 的情況下，路過的人並不是要抓你或搶劫你，但你的狗還是會提醒你注意他們，以防有什麼你應該注意的事情發生。

And I like to view my fear alarms the same way. They're there to tell me that, hey, this may be a potential danger, but it's up to you to decide if it is or not. I'm just saying.

我喜歡用同樣的方式來看待我的恐懼警報。它們是為了告訴我，嘿，這可能是一個潛在的危險，但是否是由你來決定。我只是說

So, that's, I think, a learning curve where you get to know if something is actually a danger, or if it's not. And honestly, it's just not worth not pursuing the things you want to pursue because you're scared. What are you scared of, if you really think about it? And how detrimental is it if that fear was to actually come true? Let's say that you very much fear someone leaving a hate comment, or someone at school or in your family laughing at you.

是以，我認為這是一個學習的過程，在這個過程中，你會知道某些事情是否真的有危險，或者是否沒有危險。老實說，因為害怕而不去追求自己想追求的東西是不值得的。仔細想想，你到底在害怕什麼？如果這種恐懼真的成真，會有多大的危害？比方說，你非常害怕別人留下仇恨的評論，害怕學校或家裡有人嘲笑你。

So what? You're the one who's going to live your life, and do you really want to look back thinking that you did not do something that you really wanted to do because you were scared of something that, in the grand scheme of things, isn't really that bad and doesn't really actually matter? I'm telling you, getting over those fears and starting this channel and being consistent at it for three, four-ish years now is one of the best things I've ever done. So,

那又怎樣？你才是要過自己生活的人，難道你真的想在回首往事的時候，覺得自己因為害怕一些事情而沒有去做自己真正想做的事情嗎？我告訴你，克服這些恐懼，創辦這個頻道，並堅持了三、四年左右，是我做過的最好的事情之一。所以說

I don't want anyone to waste their potential and to be held back by these mind ghosts.

我不想讓任何人浪費自己的潛能，不想讓任何人被這些心靈幽靈所束縛。

So, you got it. I also find that the more that the unknown becomes known, the more fear decreases.

所以，你明白了。我還發現，對未知的瞭解越多，恐懼就越少。

Let's take a couple weeks ago when I went skiing, and I hadn't skied in 15 years. So, the first time I stood up on those skis, going down the slope, I was terrified. I texted my sister and told her, I don't want to do this, it's super scary. And then, by the last day, it was so much fun, because I had practiced and the unknown had become known. I'd already fallen a few times, I'd went up and down that slope so many times that I knew what to expect, and I knew that this is not that bad and I can manage it. And we can manage and handle so much more than we give ourselves credit for. So, you just need to allow yourself to prove that to yourself.

就拿幾周前我去滑雪來說吧，我已經有 15 年沒有滑過雪了。所以，當我第一次站在滑雪板上滑下斜坡時，我嚇壞了。我給我姐姐發短信，告訴她我不想去，太可怕了。但到了最後一天，我覺得非常有趣，因為我已經練習過了，未知的東西也變得已知了。我已經摔過幾次了，我在那個斜坡上上上下下過很多次，我知道該怎麼做，我知道這並沒有那麼糟糕，我可以應付自如。我們能夠處理和應對的事情遠遠超出我們自己的想象。所以，你只需要讓自己向自己證明這一點。

How do you make your videos recognizable?

如何讓你的視頻具有辨識度？

This is something that you also find as you go. Eventually, people are going to recognize the type of light, the angles, and the music. Let's talk a bit more about that.

這也是在拍攝過程中會發現的問題。最終，人們會認識到光線的類型、角度和音樂。我們再來談談這個問題。

This video is brought to you by Artlist, which is super exciting.

本視頻由 Artlist 為您帶來，非常激動人心。

At this point, I've definitely spent hundreds of hours playing around with music and sound effects for my videos, and I don't think I used to truly understand just what a pivotal role sounds play in evoking a specific emotion, creating tension, providing a certain atmosphere, and just the overall influence it can have on a viewer's interpretation of a scene.

在這一點上，我肯定已經花了數百個小時來為我的視頻製作音樂和音效，我想我以前並沒有真正理解聲音在喚起特定情緒、營造緊張氣氛、提供特定氛圍方面所起的關鍵作用，以及它對觀眾解讀場景的整體影響。

When I pick the sounds for my videos, I ask myself, do I feel like this pick is helping in delivering the emotion that I'm trying to deliver? It's such a fun and exciting process, and by far one of my favorite parts of editing. I have been using Artlist to get access to hundreds of thousands of premium songs, sound effects, footage, templates, editing apps, and plugins all in one subscription. Besides music, overlays are also one of those things that can be a key in the look and feel of a scene. If I want a scene to look dreamy and nostalgic, I may use something like this.

當我為我的視頻挑選音效時，我會問自己，我是否覺得這個音效有助於傳遞我想要傳遞的情感？這是一個有趣而令人興奮的過程，也是迄今為止我最喜歡的剪輯部分之一。我一直在使用 Artlist，通過一次訂閱就能獲得數十萬首優質歌曲、音效、素材、模板、編輯應用程序和插件。除了音樂，疊加效果也是影響場景外觀和感覺的關鍵因素之一。如果我想讓一個場景看起來夢幻而懷舊，我可能會使用這樣的東西。

With Artlit Max, you get everything you need to create amazing content all in one plan.

使用 Artlit Max，您可以在一個計劃中獲得創建精彩內容所需的一切。

You can tailor your plan however you'd like to maximize your creative toolkit.

您可以根據自己的需要定製計劃，最大限度地利用您的創意工具包。

I highly recommend it for all creators, of any size and of any kind, and I definitely view it as an essential in any creative process. It's a great way to get the most out of your and I definitely view it as an essential in your toolkit.

我強烈推薦所有創作者使用它，無論規模大小，無論類型如何，我絕對將它視為任何創作過程中的必備工具。這是讓你的作品發揮最大功效的好方法，我絕對將其視為你工具包中的必備品。

You can use the link in the description box to check it out, and thank you so much to Artlist for being our sponsor today.

您可以使用描述框中的鏈接查看，非常感謝 Artlist 成為我們今天的贊助商。

What is the secret to growing your channel, and if consistency, how do I endure it?

發展頻道的祕訣是什麼？如果始終如一，我該如何堅持？

I think it's very hard answering the question, why is someone's channel actually successful?

我認為要回答 "為什麼某人的頻道會成功 "這個問題非常困難。

Because there's such a variety of channels that have reached tremendous success, and sure, you can point at things like, they have amazing storytelling skills, or they're an amazing filmmaker, or they're very relatable, they're funny, it's just very hard.

因為有各種各樣的管道獲得了巨大的成功，當然，你可以指出他們有驚人的講故事的能力，或者他們是一個了不起的電影製作人，或者他們很有親和力，他們很有趣，但這很難。

Consistency is just not negotiable, I think. And I notice even for myself that when I post more videos, I get more views and I get more subscribers. And then I think, just analyzing your own videos and looking back at them every time, and think to yourself, what did I like about this video, what did I not like, and what part of this could've been cut out, what part of this could've changed. You know, when I look back on videos from two months ago, six months ago, there are always things that I can see in hindsight that I didn't see then.

我認為，持續性是沒得商量的。我注意到，即使是我自己，當我發佈更多視頻時，我也會獲得更多的瀏覽量和更多的訂閱者。然後我想，只要分析一下自己的視頻，每次回過頭來看，想一想，我喜歡這個視頻的哪些地方，不喜歡哪些地方，哪些地方可以刪掉，哪些地方可以改變。要知道，當我回顧兩個月或六個月前的視頻時，我總能在事後看到一些當時沒有看到的東西。

And that, I think, is a sign of growth, because the more you do something, the better you become at it, and the more confident you become. So, being consistent, making sure that you are improving something each time, it can be something tiny, like the lighting, or the angle, or the way that you built your story, obviously depending on what types of videos you're making.

我認為，這是成長的標誌，因為你做得越多，你就會做得越好，你就會變得越自信。所以，堅持不懈，確保每次都有進步，這可能是很小的進步，比如燈光、角度，或者你構建故事的方式，這顯然取決於你在製作什麼類型的視頻。

And not being sensitive to criticism. I appreciate it so much when some of you leave comments saying things like, I didn't like the audio in this video, or I think the music was a bit too loud, or I think it was quite boring when this scene was too long, and also being your own critic. And if you can't sit through a video that you've made, it's probably not a great video. I know this, if I'm sitting down editing a video and I'm getting bored, that's not a very good sign. There's also a bit of luck, and a bit of skill, and a bit of research, and improving. How do you start? And oh boy, is this a reoccurring question.

對責備不敏感。我非常感謝你們有人留言說，我不喜歡這個視頻的音頻，或者我覺得音樂太吵了，或者我覺得這個場景太長了挺無聊的。如果你連自己製作的視頻都看不下去，那它可能就不是一部好視頻。我很清楚這一點，如果我坐下來剪輯一段視頻時感到無聊，那就不是一個好兆頭。還有一點運氣、技巧、研究和改進。如何開始？哦，天哪，這是一個反覆出現的問題。

I remember wondering this as well when I was starting out, and if I try to recall what exactly

我記得在我剛起步的時候也曾有過這樣的疑問，如果我努力回想究竟是什麼

I meant when I thought, how do I start, I think personally, I just thought about the fear of starting. It wasn't so much about what camera I need, as much as it was about how do I get myself to actually go from this point to this point. And if I try to remember it quite roughly,

我的意思是，當我想 "我該如何開始 "時，我個人認為，我只是在想 "開始的恐懼"。與其說我需要什麼相機，不如說我如何讓自己真正從這一點走到這一點。如果我試著粗略地回憶一下、

I know that the first thing was simply deciding that, okay, I'm at this job that I don't like,

我知道，第一件事只是決定，好吧，我現在的工作我不喜歡、

I'm not feeling fulfilled, my entire body is itching, I want to create, I want to do something else, I just wasn't happy, I wasn't feeling like I was supposed to be there. And so, I decided, okay, I want to become a YouTuber, I'm gonna start uploading on my channel, and I'm gonna give this a shot. So, that was the first thing. The first thing was mainly just deciding that this is what I want to do. And the second thing that I did was, I did a ton of research about everything YouTube related. Like, how do I know what setup is the best? Mics, cameras, and all of that. How do I write a script? How do I formulate a script? How do I speak to the camera?

我沒有成就感，整個身體都在發癢，我想創作，我想做別的事情，我就是不開心，我感覺不到我應該在那裡。於是，我決定，好吧，我想成為一名 YouTuber，我要開始上傳我的頻道，我要試一試。所以，這是第一件事。第一件事主要是決定這就是我想做的事。第二件事是，我做了大量與 YouTube 相關的研究。比如，我怎麼知道什麼樣的設置是最好的？麥克風、攝影機等等。如何寫劇本？如何擬定劇本？如何對著鏡頭說話？

That was one thing, because I remember pretty much every article that I read or YouTube video that I watched on how to speak to the camera said that you should speak louder, and you should be more outgoing, and you really need to engage the audience. And I did that in the beginning,

這是一件事，因為我記得我讀過的幾乎所有文章或看過的 YouTube 視頻都在介紹如何對著鏡頭說話，說你應該說得更大聲，你應該更外向，你真的需要吸引觀眾。我一開始就是這麼做的、

I was speaking a lot louder than I typically do, I'm not a very loud person, naturally.

我說話的聲音比平時大很多，我自然不是一個很大聲的人。

And looking back on those videos, I don't typically cringe at my past self, and I try to be forgiving of her, but I look back and I know that it's not me, it's a way to try to engage, and that's fine. That's what we do, we figure ourselves out along the way.

回顧這些視頻，我通常不會對過去的自己感到恐懼，我也會試著原諒她，但我回過頭來看，我知道那不是我，那是一種嘗試參與的方式，這很好。這就是我們要做的，我們會在路上發現自己。

You need to also realize that what you're learning about YouTube and what other people are telling you through articles and videos is good to use as a piece of information, but it's not necessarily a guide. So, even something like what camera equipment is the best camera equipment to get for YouTube video. There are people who film with their iPhones and blow up all the time, who have pretty crappy audio, they don't edit, they barely make any cuts, things are cutting off in random places, the music is way too loud, and yet their channels are tremendously successful. So, there aren't any tools that are bulletproof, there are no guarantees that just because you follow the steps of this creator, you will also succeed. That's not how it works. So, take everything you read and everything I say and other people say with a grain of salt, and trust that you're going to figure things out as you go. That's how you learn.

你還需要認識到，你所學到的關於 YouTube 的知識以及其他人通過文章和視頻告訴你的東西都是很好的資訊，但不一定是指南。是以，即使像什麼攝像設備才是拍攝 YouTube 視頻的最佳攝像設備。有些人用 iPhone 拍視頻，視頻總是炸裂，音頻非常糟糕，他們不進行剪輯，幾乎不做任何剪切，有些地方隨意斷掉，音樂太吵，但他們的頻道卻非常成功。是以，沒有任何工具是刀槍不入的，也不能保證你按照這位創作者的步驟做就一定能成功。事情不是這樣的。所以，你讀到的一切，我說的一切，還有其他人說的一切，都要慎重對待，相信你會在

That's the only formula that I've come to realize, is that the best way of becoming good at something is to simply do that thing over and over and over and over again. It's not to read about it, it's not to listen to a podcast about it, although those things can be very valuable as well. But, how you actually get from point A to B is by start walking from point A to B.

這是我認識到的唯一公式，那就是要想精通某件事情，最好的辦法就是一遍又一遍地做這件事。這不是閱讀，也不是聽關於它的播客，雖然這些東西也很有價值。但是，從 A 點到 B 點的實際方法是開始從 A 點走到 B 點。

What did you want to know before you started? I remember when I was at maybe a thousand subscribers, and I started thinking to myself that this was very hard. I had a vision of growing to ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, but it felt so far away. And then I remember watching Casey Neistat's video titled ten million, and the video was about him reaching ten million subscribers. In that video, he talks about how reaching ten million subscribers was easier than reaching one million. Reaching one million was easier than reaching a hundred thousand. Reaching a hundred thousand was easier than reaching ten thousand. And reaching…

在開始之前，你想知道什麼？我記得當我有一千多個訂閱者時，我就開始想，這太難了。我有過增長到一萬、十萬、一百萬的願景，但感覺太遙遠了。然後，我記得我看了凱西-尼斯塔特（Casey Neistat）的視頻，標題是 "一千萬"，視頻的內容是他的訂閱者達到了一千萬。在視頻中，他談到達到 1000 萬訂閱者比達到 100 萬訂閱者更容易。達到一百萬比達到十萬更容易。達到十萬比達到一萬更容易。而達到...

Oh, I think he stopped there, actually. And I still remember quite vividly how motivating that was for me to hear. And being at over a million at this point, I totally agree with his assessment.

哦，我想他就說到這裡了。我現在還清楚地記得，這句話對我的激勵有多大。我現在的收入已經超過了一百萬，我完全同意他的評價。

So, find something to motivate you. You might need it. It's quite difficult in the beginning.

所以，找點什麼來激勵自己吧。你可能需要它。一開始會很困難。

Do you actually have more free time compared to a 9-5 job?

與朝九晚五的工作相比，您是否真的有更多的空閒時間？

Love that question. My first instinct is to say no, absolutely not. In one way, it's true. It's very hard to not think about YouTube, or what video I'm going to create, and should I do this and that, and how should I respond to this thing, and it's kind of always on my mind.

我喜歡這個問題。我的第一反應是 "不，絕對不行"。從某種意義上說，這是真的。我很難不去想YouTube，或者我要製作什麼視頻，我應該這樣做還是那樣做，我應該如何迴應這件事，我的腦子裡總是想著這些。

I've never really, before starting YouTube, I've never really had something that was so vivid in my mind at pretty much all times. Even when I'm doing something that's not YouTube related, I'll see something and think, hmm, that would make an interesting video. Or, ooh, maybe I should try editing something like that, or listen to a piece of music and think, wow, when I'm listening to this piece of music, I'm imagining how I could film something and talk about this thing. So, it's like, so much of life starts to remind you of how you can create the next video, and what you can do, and how you can become better. So, even when you're free, you're not exactly free. That's one thing. I mean, I don't have weekends off, or I don't clock out at 5 or anything like that. I'll work at 10pm, I'll work on Saturdays and Sundays.

在開始製作 YouTube 之前，我從來沒有真正擁有過如此生動的東西。即使我在做與 YouTube 無關的事情時，我也會看到一些東西，然後想，嗯，那會是一個有趣的視頻。或者，哦，也許我應該試著剪輯這樣的東西，或者聽一首音樂，然後想，哇，當我聽這首音樂的時候，我在想象我可以如何拍攝一些東西並談論這件事。是以，生活中的很多事情都會提醒你如何製作下一個視頻，你可以做什麼，如何變得更好。所以，即使你是自由的，你也不完全是自由的。這是一方面。我的意思是，我週末不休息，也不在 5 點打卡下班或諸如此類的事情。我會在晚

So, in that way, no, there's definitely not more freedom. However, starting this channel and doing it full time, I've been thinking sometimes that, wow, people who work 9-5s, they have no idea what it's like being fully consumed by something like this, where it's your own business and your own boss, and there's so much discipline that's required, and you're never really clocking off, and your brain is constantly thinking about your job, because it becomes a job after a while.

所以，從這個角度來說，不，絕對沒有更多的自由。不過，在創辦這個頻道並全職工作的過程中，我有時會想，那些朝九晚五的人根本不知道全心投入這樣的工作是什麼感覺，因為這是你自己的事業，是你自己的老闆，需要遵守很多紀律，你永遠不會真正打卡下班，你的大腦會一直想著你的工作，因為時間久了，它就變成了一份工作。

But then, I've been thinking, if it's that much work, or if it's that difficult or consuming doing this, wouldn't I just be happy going back to a 9-5? And then I thought, no, absolutely not,

但後來，我一直在想，如果工作這麼繁重，或者做這個工作這麼困難或耗費精力，那我回到朝九晚五的工作不就很開心了嗎？然後我想，不，絕對不會、

I wouldn't trade this for the world. I've really reconsidered my way of viewing this as being more difficult in any way than any other 9-5 job. I've had plenty of 9-5 jobs, I've worked at cafes,

我不會拿它來交換。我真的重新考慮了我的看法，我認為這比任何其他朝九晚五的工作都要困難。我做過很多朝九晚五的工作，我在咖啡館工作過、

I've worked as a nanny, I've been in finance, I've been in marketing, so I've been there.

我當過保姆、做過財務、搞過營銷，所以我經歷過這些。

And even if I'm not free in the same way, because my mind is always on YouTube, I'm free in so many other ways that I never was before, in ways that I can't even compare. Really, I set my own schedule,

即使我不像以前那樣自由了，因為我的心思總是在 YouTube 上，但我在很多其他方面都自由了，這是我以前從未有過的，甚至是我無法比較的。真的，我的日程都是自己安排的、

I can really do whatever I want when I want. I can go and take a gym class now, or I can go and walk my dog, or I can decide that I want to go to Paris for two nights, or I can just decide that

我真的可以在想做什麼的時候做什麼。我現在就可以去上體育課，或者去遛狗，或者決定去巴黎住兩個晚上，或者我可以決定

I'm not going to work this week, I'm going to take a week off. And having that freedom is incomparable to anything else. At my last job, I remember, I wanted to go to LA for a week or something, and it was very much a hassle of going back and forth with my boss, who had to go to her boss, who had to discuss it further. And no matter how much I tried, and I was very flexible with dates and all of that, I couldn't get a week off. And that's the reality of most people, that's how it is, you can't just randomly take a week off. I'm embarrassed for ever thinking that this, in any way, is comparable or more difficult to what I was doing in the past.

這周我不上班，我要休息一週。這種自由是其他任何事情都無法比擬的。我記得在上一份工作中，我想去洛杉磯待一個星期什麼的，這讓我和我的老闆來回奔波，我的老闆不得不去找她的老闆，她的老闆不得不進一步討論。不管我怎麼努力，也不管我在日期和其他方面有多大的靈活性，我都沒能請到一週的假。這就是大多數人的現實，就是這樣，你不能隨意請一週假。我很慚愧，因為我從來沒有想過，這與我過去所做的工作有任何可比性或更難。

Both had their challenges, that's not to discredit people who are in the content creator field either. It requires massive amounts of discipline, and you're putting yourself out there. You're opening up to the world, and you're kind of expecting people to be mean, and you're expecting people to pick you apart, whether that's the way you look, or the way you talk, or your personality. And so, I don't even remember the question. What are we even talking about? What was the question? Oh, do you actually have more free time compared to a 9-5? Yeah. So, yes and no, but honestly, mostly yes. Let's be real. The YouTuber job, in my opinion, isn't hard. If you've had other jobs, you're going to know that it's not hard. It has its challenges, but that's my personal experience and opinion. I'm going through the questions now, and they're great questions, but so many of them relate to this idea of fear. How do I start? How do I get successful? How do I know what to do and what to say? I'm trying to make this as informative and valuable to you all as possible. So, I'm really, really trying to put myself in the position that I was in three or four years ago, when I was sitting there, having all these questions, and I'm thinking, what do I wish someone told me at that point? There are so many things to be terrified of in life. I think Jordan Peterson actually, yes, I remember this now. Jordan Peterson had an interview back then that also motivated me a lot. The interviewer asked him something like, what do you tell someone who wants to quit their job or do something different, completely different with their life, but they're too scared, despite being miserable and unhappy where they are right now? Jordan Peterson said something along the lines of, staying in a place that is making you feel miserable and unfulfilled should terrify you so much more than the fear that you're feeling towards moving on to something new. Something along those lines.

兩者都面臨著挑戰，但這並不是要詆譭內容創作領域的從業者。這需要大量的紀律，而且你要把自己擺在那裡。你在向世界敞開心扉，你在期待別人的刻薄，你在期待別人對你的挑剔，無論是你的長相、你的談吐還是你的個性。所以，我都不記得這個問題了。我們到底在說什麼？問題是什麼？哦，和朝九晚五的工作相比 你是不是有更多的空閒時間？有啊所以，有也沒有，但老實說，大部分是有的。實話實說吧。在我看來，YouTuber 的工作並不難。如果你做過其他工作，你就會知道這並不難。它有它的挑戰，但這是我的個人經驗和看法。我現在正在看這些問題，

He definitely phrased it a lot more eloquently than I just did. And I think, in a nutshell, that's what I want to tell you too. Sometimes I wonder what my life would've looked like if I had stayed at my last job. And just to be clear, it wasn't like a dirty, physically demanding, super tiring job at all. It was a nice job at an office. So, it doesn't have to be really bad in order for you to not feel fulfilled. I remember, at the time, I was struggling with that a bit because I felt like I should be grateful that I have this job, and there are so many people who are looking for jobs, and who aren't getting paid well, and who are really struggling, and here

他的措辭肯定比我剛才說的更有說服力。我想，簡而言之，這也是我想告訴你們的。有時候我在想，如果我留在上一份工作，我的生活會是什麼樣子。說白了，那根本不是一份骯髒、體力消耗大、超級累人的工作。那是一份不錯的辦公室工作。所以，不一定非得非常糟糕，你才會覺得沒有成就感。我記得，當時我還在糾結這個問題，因為我覺得我應該慶幸我有這份工作，而現在有那麼多人在找工作，他們的薪水並不高，他們真的在掙扎，而我卻在這裡

I am, at this job, I'm getting paid, I'm doing okay. What am I complaining about? Why am I not feeling fulfilled? And I want to tell you that it doesn't have to be super bad in order for you to want a different situation, just like with anything in your life. You don't have to be in a super terrible relationship in order for you to want to move on and leave that person behind.

我在做這份工作，我拿工資，我過得還不錯。我在抱怨什麼？為什麼我沒有成就感？我想告訴你的是，不一定非要有多糟糕，你才會想要改變現狀，就像你生活中的任何事情一樣。你不一定非得處在一段超級糟糕的關係中，你才會想要繼續前進，離開那個人。

It can simply be that you're not getting your needs met, there's an itch in your body telling you that there's something else, that there's something different for you out there that you want to explore, and life is going by so quickly. And oof, this is where we're getting so cliché, but hey, clichés are cliché for a reason, right? Life is going by very quickly. It could end at any point. If any of you have had an experience with someone close to you passing and you being part of it, you get such a wake-up call of the shortness of life and how so much of what we worry about, we think about, we overthink, we complicate, we catastrophize, are very insignificant in the grand scheme of things. And that's not me telling you to invalidate your own feelings, but sometimes you need to. Sometimes you kind of need to invalidate your own feelings because they're not very rational, they're exaggerated, and they're likely not true. So, give yourself a bit of tough love. These questions about how do I start? You're never going to be fully ready, you're never going to have all the information that you need to guarantee success and guarantee that things are going to go well. No, your first few videos are probably going to be pretty bad, you're going to look back on them and cringe and laugh and feel embarrassed. That's fine, that's part of the process. There's no formula. You could watch a hundred more videos like this about how to become a YouTuber, how to start. And yes, there are definitely bits of very valuable information that you can pick from these places, but at the end of the day, none of that information is going to make you actually sit down, turn your camera on, and start recording. Only you can do that. Only you can press upload. The reason I didn't answer a bunch of questions is that I just honestly don't think that those questions are going to help you out. I think most people who are looking at these videos, especially if you're looking at like a hundred videos like this, you're just procrastinating. You're probably trying to find a reason for why you can't, for why I or someone else has advantages that you don't have. And maybe that's true. I have advantages, advantages that you don't have. You may have some that I don't have. You work with what you have. There is such a variety of creators on this platform, so no argument of well, he has that, she has that, he grew up like this, she looks like that, he has this connection. None of that is valid if you look at the fact that there's a broad range of creators where everyone is so different. So, ask yourself, are you just procrastinating?