Finding The Right Medium - TDBS 18 April 2017

Yo! What is going on, everyone? Welcome back to day 77 of the Daniel Bourke Show. Well, this is day 77 of the podcast, but it's only about day 6 of these YouTube videos. And I'm really glad that I started making the podcast in the form of, I don't know, more than just one outlet. It's video and now it's audio. So, if you're listening to the podcast, make sure you check out my YouTube channel, MrDBourke.com/videos. You can find all the links there. Or if you're watching on YouTube and you want an audio form of this, you don't have time to watch it, check it out, mrdyberg.com/podcast. But whatever you guys are up to, I hope you're having an awesome day. Thank you so much for tuning in, YouTube or podcast. I just finished leg day, so that's why I'm all sweaty. And leg day is hard. I failed today. I failed. I tried to get 5x5 of 95 kilos on the squat. And I've been reworking my squat over the last few months to get a better technique. I've had some knee pain in the past, and I've been reading books and implementing studies and things like that— or studies— implementing my own fixes to get this knee pain better. And so far, it's working amazing. I've been focusing on yoga, increasing mobility in my ankle, just generally improving my squat activation of my glutes. I missed out a lot on that when I was just starting squat. If I was to go back and start working out again, however long it was, I would start squatting earlier. I didn't do legs for at least the first year of training, just because I only thought the upper body was worth doing, because they're the girl-getting muscles. But definitely the squat is the number one exercise. If I had to pick one exercise, it would be right now, between pull-up and squat as to what I think are the best for overall physique development. And that's just my personal opinion. May be shared with others, may not be, but that's my personal opinion. If you want to get bigger and stronger, do pull-ups and squats and you'll be on the right path. But, oh yeah, where did I fail? I tried to get 95 by 5 and I failed on the last set. I only got 3 reps. I scratched my back. I couldn't— I dropped down, I couldn't get the bar back up. So, that's a good feeling actually. I haven't failed on a weight in a long time. And so, the fact that I'm failing at all is good. 5x5, you're sort of meant to be pushing the bar each time. And literally pushing the bar, as well as figuratively in terms of upping the amount of weight that you do each time. So, the camera's only got about 30% more battery, and I don't know how long it will last. For this podcast. So, we're going to keep it, try to keep it 10 minutes so we get everything on the video as well as the audio. So, what am I going to do? I'm recording this on YouTube, but if you've checked out my YouTube channel, it doesn't have all the recent episodes, and I know that. I've been— the podcast goes out every day because that's something quick that I can publish, and it's a small file, so I can upload it quickly to SoundCloud. But YouTube, I'm gonna probably going to do it in batches. Reason being is because I live at home with, with my family, and if I'm uploading YouTube, that's gonna wipe out the internet for like 4 solid hours. Maybe I just wake up at 3 AM and upload it then. That's, that could be an idea. I'll figure that out in the past, in the future, in the past. But at the moment, I think I'm gonna make, make 4 or 5 videos at a time. Go to my local Apple Store or go to my local library, which have fast internet, and just upload them all in one hit, spend a day there studying while I'm uploading, and everything will be gravy. And then you guys will get 4 or 5 YouTube videos at a time. But still slowly trying to work it out. And what have I been up to today? I think I overslept. I think I did. I went to bed at maybe 10 and I woke up at 8. I didn't set— I forgot to set my alarm. Just, just out of pure coincidence. Or maybe I didn't set it on purpose, I don't think. I can't remember. But then all day I was in this slump of just being in and out of being tired. I had like 2 naps today and it was harder and harder to get up each time. And I think I had a fair bit of caffeine yesterday, more, much more than I would usually. And so my body was just titrating the caffeine out and it was slowly, slowly getting out of my body. And I know this is just me thinking out loud. I don't know if this is the exact principle, but I just had to keep napping. It was hard to like stay awake and stay focused. But nonetheless, I did a bunch of Python study, which is a programming language if you've never heard of it. Did some work on my Udacity course on deep learning in a very complicated section at the moment. It really— it was frustrating at some points because I couldn't understand a fair bit of it. But then after After enough time, after enough practice, I was able to get the problem solved. And I mean, that's like anything. Learning programming is easy. It's like learning how to work out. I'm good at working out. I wasn't good when I started. It took me 7 years to get where I am now. And now I'm a low body weight and I'm pretty ripped and I've got a fair bit of muscle. But that, that's taken 7 years. Of consistent working out. No, it's 6 years of diet and exercise. And I work out 5 to 6 times a week and it's hard, but now it's easier for me to work out than it is to not work out. Because I just did leg day and it was ridiculously hard, but I feel amazing right now, which is why I'm recording the podcast. I'm incredibly hungry after that workout, but I'm going to do this podcast now so that I can get inside, have some dinner, and then I'll spend the next couple of hours editing some videos. And I had that epiphany today as well. I'm trying to work out what the best, best way for me to make content is. I would document my life. I like writing, so I've been posting on Medium. If you check me out, mrdebo.com/blog, there's my blog. I do a monthly newsletter if you want to sign up to it there. I've been starting to make YouTube videos, which I'm absolutely loving, and I've made 76 days of a podcast. Today's day 77, and if you are one of those people who is majestically— you're probably very rare because I'll be honest, I— the listen— the maximum listens I get on a podcast episode is 50. Maximum views I have had on YouTube video is 100 and something. So there aren't many people that I may be hitting at the moment, but that's all right. I'm happy to start small. I'm happy to cop the criticism for years on end. But if you're one of those people who's seen all of my, my content, like YouTube, Medium, podcast, hit me up on one of my outlets. You, you know where to find it if you follow me enough. Let me know which one you think is the best. And I'm still experimenting with which one. I'm enjoying all three at the moment. So if you want to see more of me on YouTube, let me know. If you want to see more podcasts, let me know. If you want to see more writing, let me know. I'd love to hear. Even if no one lets me know, I'll just keep keep putting it out. I don't really look at what other people are doing. I just, I listen to some podcasts, I watch some YouTube, but I'm just at the moment just working my creative muscles something fierce. I'm just putting out writing, putting out YouTube videos, putting out podcasts, and it was all daunting at the start, but now it's, I don't know, I need to, I feel like I need to do it. It's, it's, it's incredibly fun documenting all this stuff and creating all these things. If you're, if you've never tried it before, I highly suggest creating something. I've spent so much time in the past consuming rather than creating, and now that I've sort of made a switch to creating more than I consume, it's one of the best things I've ever done and brought me an incredible amount of satisfaction. So another point I was going to talk about is that training is paying off. So I've been consistent over the last few weeks with my workouts, and I'm noticing changes in my physique already. And I've been doing it for so long now that I can, I can tell when I'm in a good zone. And I feel like I'm in a good zone with training right now. And so that's, that, that mental model that I just spoke about, about the fact that I've been working out for 6 years, I just need to apply that. That's what I'm, that's what my intuition is telling me to apply to this creation of content. I was, I wasn't good working out for the first year. I've only just started writing. I've only just started making podcasts. I've only just started making YouTube videos. So, I know I'm not going to be good for the first, maybe, year, 2 years, 3 years. It was only when I started working out, it was only until maybe the year 4, year 5 of putting in hard work that I was confident in taking my shirt off and showing people what I looked like. Because before then, I was like, "Oh, I'm putting all this work, but I still don't look that good in the mirror." And now, after all this hard work, it's finally— I'm in a good place right now, but it's only after having that 6 to 7 years of work to put in. And that's what I can— I can see the future— I can't see— what am I saying? I can see the future, like, of this show, of The Daniel Bourke Show, maybe being the same thing. As long as I put in the work, make it continually better. Right now, for me, it's I'm— it's a really early version. I'm kind of embarrassed by the work I'm putting out, but not in the sense that it's bad, but it's like, okay, you can do better. But it's— I know that it's a process to slowly get better, and I'm only ever going to get better if I keep doing it. And so, yeah, that's what I plan on doing. Time is over, but I'm going to finish up on some quick— more quick points here. Oh yeah, my meditation practice has been lacking over the past few days. I only just got back into it today. But after doing that session, felt phenomenal. And really, once you become sort of self-aware so much, you can see yourself, I don't know, swaying from rationalism with your decisions. And I'm finding this hard to explain, but after meditating for a total of 75 hours or so this year through Headspace, my self-awareness is incredibly high. Like, I can sense when I'm, I'm, I don't know, not in a good headspace now. Or, and this is, I don't know, I'm having trouble explaining it, but I find that if I deviate from doing the practice every single day, my judgment and my self-awareness falls down. It starts to, just like working out, If I stop working out for a consecutive number of days, getting back into it is a lot harder, and I can feel my body not being as functional as what it would be if it was continually training. Same with not eating well over the— for a number of days. So, I find getting back into the practice, it really— after about 6 or 7 days, a week or so of meditating every day, it just— I hit this another level of self-awareness, which is, which is a superpower in my opinion. Self-awareness is a superpower. But I'm gonna wrap this podcast up. It's just over, just under 12 minutes. And what am I gonna do? I'm gonna go inside, eat some dinner, and I'll edit some YouTube videos. They'll be up in the next week or so of all the latest podcast episodes. And I did one yesterday, Monday, of what I ate during the day, and tracking my macronutrients in MyFitnessPal. Just a nice little short video. But yeah, thank you all so much for watching. Thank you all so much for listening. Leave a review, leave a like, whatever you want to do. I'd greatly appreciate it. Hope you're all having an amazing day. Oh, daily challenge: try out some form of meditation. Google it, download Headspace, try it out. One session, that's all I'm going to give you. One session, try it out. It's changed my life. Maybe it'll do the same for yours. If not, that's alright. We try things out. That's what life is, an experiment, right? It's an experiment, right? I'm talking too fast. But tomorrow's day 78. Not sure what'll be on, but I'm lining up one of my friends actually for a future episode. She's an amazing girl, so you'll know when it comes out. Catch you later.