The Renaissance Man

Super cool

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@Applegarden8 The trap is often in seeing famous personalities sharing more with YouTube than with their therapists, and thinking: see where it got them? What you often don't see is how they regret it after a couple years. Pretty much all of them. From self-help youtubers to streamers. The fact that those "big channels" know what they're doing is an illusion. Being famous for 95% of them is totally new, and they fuck up in all sorts of ways. So for every "strategic move" in terms of public communication, think for yourself. I'm saying this because I was falling for all of the traps above myself. Leo's advice above is super solid. By the way for sources you can find plenty of podcasts interviews and clips of people talking about the "public life". Look at both the pros and cons in these interviews, don't blackpill yourself. You'll see them talking about haters, comments, the benefits, their mistakes, and everything. Very valuable. Plus if you follow some people carefully for a long time you'll see them making mistakes in real time. They always need to look confident, so the new viewer doesn't know, but over enough time you can see it all.

The selection bias is strong with this one. Make your mom or your sister try, let's see how many subs she gets.

@SQAAD If the situation is bad, decide on the tradeoff between a shitty job and no job. Keep in mind that while you have a shitty job you can AND SHOULD look for a better job. Finally, I suggest you study Alex Hormozi's 1st book like the bible. Take the first book $100M offers and use it in the context of yourself being the offer. Companies aren't intersted in employing parents, they're much more interested in making money. Keep that in mind in every interview. Plus, for low-wage jobs the candidate quality is so low that if you put some intention into how you present yourself and what you say (the offer thing I told you), you'll crush it easily.

@integral Exactly, you got her strat!

@stephenkettley Maybe this could help. I have two ideas: 1. Gain clarity over each possible path. Make it explicit, write it down if needed. Then, think of how you would get to make a living off of it. Think of the actual lifestyle during the grind, and after. Some options will be more unpleasant than others, while some will be very inspiring. Sometimes the idea is good, but the reality of doing it as a job sucks. 2. Think of what the best outcome would be, considering all your paths. What would a dream life (keep it minimalistic in terms of money). Maybe a combination of all of them, maybe of some of them, maybe a different business structure comes to mind. You can apply point 1 to the different combinations. THEN, SERIOUSLY (IMPORTANT, DO IT FOR REAL), LOOK FOR A SOLUTION TO ACHIEVE THAT. Your mindset needs to be: there must be a way. You have no idea of the opportunities around you. This is because of business ignorance. Seriously keep this thought in mind, and make your mind run day after day. Instead of thinking: these are my resources, and with these I can't see a way, think: this is the way I want, now let's make my gears work to find a way to make it happen. Let's make it real with an example. I had a job full of menial tasks. I didn't make much, but I thought of delegating. Too expensive. Fuck. I needed a result, but with my current knowledge or resources there wasn't a solution, if not to continue doing the tasks myself and wasting hours every week. And then BOOM, I discover no-code automation, and with one click I do 40 minutes of work. In my case, necessity forced an innovation. Without necessity I was doing the dumb work myself. When it became a problem, and my mind started to think, a solution came pretty quick. I suggest you shortcut this by taking the pursuit of finding a way to get there even without the pressing need I had. Another example: I want to work 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. And then I start to reverse-engineer how I can achieve that. But for this to be successful (and you'd be surprised how often there is a solution (I'd seriously say 99% of the time, not exaggerating), you need: A resonating, ambitious goal Confidence in the fact you can get there. If you have both, the result is the actual thing that gets you there: A SERIOUS EFFORT TO FIND A SOLUTION. Hopefully this helps. Internalizing this notion is changing my life. I now think of what I want, and then of how to get there, instead of thinking of what I have, and then of where I can get from that.

@Jannes Reality of life purpose: you need to become a marketing God. This is an understatement. Everything clicks when the bridge from current situation to "I'm making some money from this" takes shape, even if just in your knowledge and understanding. People will NOT pay you if you're the best in the world. People will pay you if they first know about you (big problem #1), and then perceive you to be the best. People will keep paying you if you are actually the best. The idea of life purpose is motivating, but only half motivating, because if you haven't made money once in your life as an entrepreneur (enough to make a living), it just sounds like a pipe dream, with the only thing in the middle is the trust you have in Leo's promises, keeping a strand of hope there, but there's not much more behind that. Tell me if this isn't true. It was for me. Imagine the motivation you'd have if the path to making a living through your life purpose was crystal clear all the way through. So you'll make yourself a huge favor by mastering marketing. Re-read the 3 sentences above on people paying you. This is not an option, plus, it will revolutionize your motivation, because the link between input (putting in the work into something meaningful) and output (actual impact + making a living) will be obvious and direct.

Idea: Breaking up your long-form video into clips and then releasing the clips of your new long-form video 1 week earlier on your 2nd channel. After one week posting the whole video on the main one as usual. Benefits I see: Traffic to the clips channel, because early access will be very compelling to send us there People can get a priming of what's to come, and once the long form video comes out, they've had time to digest some of the notions and can make more of it. More videos = more end screens of book list and LP course = mo' money. All without being more pushy at all. More videos = multiplied chance to get seen by someone new and have an impact because it's more likely the algo will push one of the vids Larger 2nd channel can be a nice backup for many reasons. Safety, and a fresher algorithm where you're not full of inactive subscribers that kill your video performance. Could appeal to people who aren't ready for a 3 hour video (but this was discussed in the past already) Costs: Shouldn't be too expensive since it's only a bunch of cuts, and even an editor would be very cheap, especially with a video a month or less. This is it really. I don't think it would hurt the main channel or your message in any way. Even if you don't care much about growth, I see no costs to this approach. Extras: Btw, I also suggest changing the "actualized clips" name, it inherently feels like the worse version of something else, and people won't subscribe. I would call it "Leo Gura" instead. A cartoon-like or painting-like AI thumbnail with MidJourney would also make the channel feel more unique and compelling, instead of the current Joe Rogan clips-inspired thumbnails of the 2nd channel. I'm thinking of super low-effort solutions that's why I suggested AI. @Leo Gura

@Leo Gura Love the slideshow, also because I'm interested in making long-form videos as well. I'd love to know your process behind videos (mainly researching & scripting, talking & recording), I'm sure many other people would be interested too, a blog post would be super cool!

Chess ELO percentiles if you want to check out a chart: https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

@Leo Gura They're little reminders of the fundamentals, that otherwise aren't mentioned if not through a topical blog post. I don't know about "useful", as most stuff was covered more in depth through the videos, and without the videos is hard to understand the depth of the quotes anyway. But I did like today's one on opinions though, that I found directly useful.

I guess I kind of got it... if you sell at a price that's in line with what you offer, "you're good", even if you make a lot of money. Because that would not be grifting. So if you sell medium quality stuff, but you make it very accessible, then it's justified, and it's not grifting. Then if you want to make a lot of it free, it's not about morality, but personal preference and willing to help for free. I get 99% of people who sell courses don't operate this way, but this was also to decide a strategy for myself. It's easy to abuse an opportunity when you can, and I want to be more conscious than that.

@Emerald Thank you

@Leo Gura @PenguinPablo even if they are providing value, ChatGPT made the great critique of "not fully leveraging their wealth to benefit others". And that while he's not harming anybody, that doesn't mean he's doing good either. It's as if selling 12 legit courses is not a scammy or evil approach, but just a neutral one. While a positive one would be to leverage that privileged position to help for free or at a lower cost. It's similar to the debate of capitalism vs communism, or at least capitalism vs the sharing of wealth so that the less fortunate can live a great life, and the more fortunate don't have a disproportionate and unnecessary lifestyle.