Trying Something New - TDBS April 14 2017

What's good, YouTube? What is going on, everyone? Welcome back. It is April 14th, 2017. Almost had to think about it really hard for the year just now. But doing a little experiment today, and if you're joining on YouTube, this is the first time I've recorded one of these shows live. So I've got a— and if you're listening on the podcast, I'm actually recording this as well. On a camera set up in my dash on my— in my car. So it is day 74 of the Daniel Bourke Show. No, day 73. I can't even remember what day it is, but nonetheless, welcome back to the Daniel Bourke Show, April 14, 2017 edition. Now, for those of you watching on YouTube, I have a podcast. I've been doing it for the last 74 days or 73 days, whichever one it is. I can't really remember. Go me. And I record one podcast every day. I don't really have a topic of what it is. I just sort of read stuff, learn things throughout the day, and then I just start recording my voice. And so, this is the first time I've ever done it on YouTube or recording video of it as well as doing it live on the voice recorder on my iPhone, which is about 3 centimetres below you. So, Let's see how it goes. It's all an experiment, right? So, I figured if I'm doing this in my car and I'm recording the audio, I might as well record some video so I can watch myself back and see, hey, if I want to get better at public speaking, maybe I should video myself speaking rather than just speaking into a microphone, because I might have these little hand gestures and mannerisms in my face that I don't know, would be annoying for people listening to me if they were watching. So, this is kind of selfish. I'm doing it as an experiment for myself. I want to get better at public speaking. I want to talk about topics that I don't know really much about. So, things like that I've been reading. And I'm kind of— it's like I'm jumping back and forth. I'm talking to the podcast audience as well as the YouTube audience. But I'll find a happy medium one day. Don't you worry. Don't you worry. We'll all get there eventually. But I should have checked how I looked before this. Do I look good? Do I look good? Nah, I'm probably, I'm still a bit glazed over. I had a workout a few hours ago, actually more than a few hours ago, with some of my friends. I haven't showered since, so I'm probably, nah, I don't smell. But nonetheless, we're at day 73, April 14th. Let's get on to talking about some actual topics. The whole reason I started this podcast was to get better at public speaking. And so, I had an epiphany. Public speaking doesn't just involve audio, it involves a lot of visual. So, I need to practice visual as well. And I also want to start making YouTube videos. So, why not do a podcast at the same time that I'm recording a YouTube video? Who knows? Maybe the universe will converge and everything will— I'll get more views on my— nah, I'm not after more views. I'm after becoming a— a better person in myself and bringing value to other people. That's, that's how I'll bring value to myself eventually, is by bringing value to others first. And then, hey, way the universe works, put something out there, it returns to you tenfold. I believe in karma, so good acts. Now, what have I got written down? So this is what I usually do for those of you watching on YouTube. if you're listening on the podcast, I'm showing my iPad to the camera. This is what I do. I write down a note in Evernote of a few topics, and if I'm talking just by myself, I will just write down Podcast Day 73. There we go, Day 73, The Daniel Bourke Show, and then I'll have about 6 dot points or however many it is, however many I decide on the day. Of what I want to go through and what I want to talk about. So, today's day 73, and what have I been reading today? Well, what I've been up to today. So, this morning I got up at 6 AM. I went for a walk. I did 50 star jumps in the morning to wake up. That's kind of my ritual now. I like get out of bed and I do 50 jumping jacks. And I'm probably talking really fast right now because I'm like talking to a camera and a microphone, and it's sort of wiggling me out, and I'm wearing this shirt that's really thick and black, and I'm kind of sweaty, but my face is probably going red. Oh well, we move on. I digress. I'm jumping back and forth. I can't hold a single topic down for longer than a single minute. Maybe I have ADD or something, who knows. But what did I do? I went for a walk. I listened to a podcast on the walk. I did a Headspace walking meditation when I did on the walk. So, essentially, when you, when you do the Headspace walking pack, instead of sitting calmly, which in the past few days I haven't really wanted to sit down when I get up out of bed because I've been doing a lot of study and a lot of sitting down. So, I will do a walking meditation. And instead of focusing on the breath during the walking meditation, you focus on your feet hitting the ground. So, left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. And you, you just be conscious of the way it feels when your feet hit the ground. So, it's about a 10-minute, 10-minute or so meditation. And I leave my house, and by the time I get to the waterfront, the meditation's over. And then I just stand there, and because the sunrise is about 6 AM where I live at the moment, The sun has just came up because I wake up at 6 and I go for a walk practically straight away and just look out over the water, look out over the bay, and it is an amazing way to start the day. I, I'm so grateful to be able to do that every morning. But what, what did I do after that? I listened to a podcast, Gary Vee and Sean McCaffey. If you just Google Gary Vee McAfee podcast, M-C-A-F-E-E, amazing episode, really funny guys. Like, it's inspired me to, to, I don't know, make some, make some, I don't know, make my podcast more listenable. Who knows? How can I do this? Doing it every day, hard, making excuses, whatever, that's okay. Don't be too harsh on yourself. That's a point that's coming up in the podcast whenever I start to actually talk about something. But long story short, I want to start making more YouTube videos. So, I'm doing one right now. I want to start— what will the YouTube videos be about? Probably about just what I do. My life revolves around fitness, eating, studying, reading, having good times with people. Adventures. That's about it really. Could probably condense it down into 3 main things. They all come under movement, learning, and what's the third one? Eating. There we go. So, after that, came home, did some study. I did some writing. I helped someone on Quora. If you've never been on Quora, check it out. Amazing platform for answering questions. Asking questions, helping people out. And then I finished a course on Udacity, so Python Fundamentals programming course, because I'm enrolled in Udacity at the moment doing a deep learning fundamentals course. And good news, everyone on the podcast who knows I'm doing this deep learning, deep learning course, I passed my first project. Winner winner chicken dinner. This is already at 8 minutes, so in terms of YouTube, maybe that's too long for someone to watch an 8-minute video. But who knows, this is just an experiment. If it was me, I don't know if I'd be able to watch a full 8-minute video on YouTube. Our attention spans are getting really small. But after that, went to a friend's house, got some repair work done on my jet ski, which involved a piece of tape covering, covering a small crack on this, on the hull that, uh, I know my friend may or may not have done. Don, I'm looking at you. Nah, I'm kidding, I don't care. It's just a cosmetic issue. But then I worked out with friends and pretty much got home, ate some food, did some reading, and now I'm here. I'm reading Poor Charlie's Almanac right now. Amazing book by Charlie Munger. If you haven't heard of it, check it out. You can get the PDF somewhere online, or you can buy the print book on Amazon, about $100. So amazing. But Did I say I passed my first project on Udacity? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Oh man, I was so stoked when that happened. I got my camera out and like tried to film my reaction because I'm like, I want to remember this moment. I was so satisfied. I scrolled through the— I scrolled through the marking criteria and the feedback I got given, and they said great first submission, gave me some helpful tips on how to improve the next one because I got a passing mark. But it wasn't sort of above and beyond, which maybe that's what I can aim for next time. So, what's the next point I was going to talk about? So the first one was, "Don't be so harsh on yourself. Even the best in the business come off the rails." This is a quote I read from some Stoic philosophy that I had in my email. And what matters most is how quickly you get back on the horse and keep pursuing virtue. So that's real. B, I like this. This is going to be sort of a counterintuitive, be your own worst critic at the same time as don't be so harsh on yourself. I like that. So, if you're finding that you're not, I don't know, performing at where you want to be, well, start performing at where you want to be. But at the same time, don't get angry at yourself for having one day off or something like that. Just the— or having an hour of downtime, something like that. But the quicker you can get back to pursuing where you want to be, that's what you should be recognizing. Not the fact that, ah, maybe you need some downtime here or maybe you need a day off here. Don't worry about that. Don't be so harsh on yourself with that. And I'm not saying take days off like all the time. Hey, maybe you can. Maybe you're financially independent, whatever. That's how you do it, but who knows. Just the thing you should be worried about is how quickly you can get back into doing things. So for example, like last week I was at this MIT bootcamp threw me off the rails for like a solid 4 or 5 days afterwards because I just had a lack of sleep, a lack of good nutrition. And amazing experience, but it took me a little while to bounce back. But now I feel like I'm in a good groove. I've done— I've got back into workouts, I've got back into eating right, I've got back into learning more, to reading more, to writing more. I'm in a good place right now, so I'm happy. Just get back on the horse and keep going. Another point, like another quote I read, "Creativity is something that needs to be constantly reinvented." Totally agree. So, that's what I'm trying to do with this, this thing that's going on right here, this, this podcast and this YouTube video. So, I'm trying to expand my creativity, test it out, and I don't even know how this YouTube video will go. I'm gonna— what? I'm just gonna keep recording each episode that I do in the car to practice talking in front of a camera and talking on a podcast. So, this video may not even be watchable because I'm in a car, the lighting might not be that great, I'm sweating a little bit now because it's hot inside a car unless it's on, but who knows? We'll see. It's all an experiment, right? I'm having fun. So, creativity, unless you're reinventing creativity, unless you sort of challenge yourself and you're doing the same thing over and over, Is that really creativity? So, I've done 70+ episodes of podcasts, and of course, they're all different to the previous one. But now I'm really changing it up by adding the camera here, because now there's a visual aspect as well as an audio aspect. And the reason why I want to practice talking in front of a camera is because if I'm going to make YouTube videos and one of them is going to be me talking in front of a camera for a podcast episode, This is some great practice for, say, if I wanted to make a video about me cooking something, or me training in the gym, or me training outside of the gym, or me explaining a learning process in terms of how machine learning works, or whatever it is. Just practicing talking in public, because I believe that is a very valuable skill. If there's one thing you could work on for the rest of the year, it's practice talking in public, because There are more people probably scared of public speaking than dying. I read that somewhere. I don't know how true it is, but for some reason it just came into my mind when I was speaking like that. What's another point? So yeah, what about— you guys see that thing that happened on American Airlines? What happened? Like, that guy just got full-on dragged out of a plane. That was— I can't believe what was going on. Now, of course, you could blame everything on American Airlines, which, yeah, pretty much it is entirely their fault for literally hiring people to, or paying people to rip this guy out of his seat so a few of their crew members could get on the plane. They could have upped the ante a bit if no one was buying onto whatever they were offering, $400 and a hotel or something. But what about the people around him? Why don't they just stop the guys from moving? Like, what's stopping them from stopping the guards from getting the guy off the plane? Or does someone not voluntarily give their seat? That plane was packed. Like, you know, and look, I'm not a perfect person, right? But I like to think if I saw a human being about to be literally dragged out of his seat depending on what my situation was, maybe if I had to get somewhere for like a wedding or an annivers— I don't know. I don't know. But if I was just travelling, just getting from one place to another, I think I would give up my seat. Because I don't want to— I don't know how people sort of stood around and watched that guy literally get dragged out of his seat and was bleeding and then he came back into the plane. Now, of course, I don't know the full sequence of events, but that's just my opinion. And it comes back, if any of you see that video where that man broke up that fight and then he got recognized by the council. And so these two kids were fighting in the street and all their friends were filming it and they were laughing. And this guy comes up, walks over, hands in his jacket, and he's just like, "What are you guys doing? What are y'all playing?" And then he points at the friends, he breaks them up, breaks the two kids fighting up, and then he gets their attention and says, "Kids." You're almost men. You're about 17, 16, 15, whatever, but you're almost men. Look at all your friends laughing at you. They want you to be angry. They're not your friends if you're— if they want you to be angry. And what that makes me think, like, that guy, amazing props to him. Like, the internet went crazy over that. I want more videos like that on the internet, not of American Airlines, someone getting dragged out of a seat and No one doing that. Why wasn't— if that guy was there, I'm sure he wouldn't have let that guy get dragged out of the chair. Why didn't someone else jump in and do that? Who knows? I don't know the situation of the other people on the plane. Maybe what American Airlines wasn't— was offering was, was terrible. Is it even American Airlines? Maybe United. I can't remember. One of the American airline companies, whoever it was, American Airlines or United. Not the greatest view image for your company. And I'm sorry if I've been badmouthing the wrong airline, but I don't have the full details. All I know is some dude got dragged off a plane in a very unnecessary manner, in my opinion. And surely someone from the public could have stand up— stood up and said, hey guys, I think this has all gone a bit too far, I'll give up my seat. But anyway, I've got written down American Airlines, so hopefully it was American Airlines, not United. Who knows? But this brings it back to the stoicism quote from Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, awesome dude. Check him out if you haven't. Got so many tips on life. But it says, waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. And I know that's literally what I just did. I argued what a good man should be. Be one. So that's what I'm trying to do. This is literally my idea of being a good man. Wake up, help one person throughout the day, do some work, create some value for the world, and that's, that's it. That's, that's all I try to do. That's every day. I just try to help one person and create some sort of value for the rest of the world as well as myself. You gotta You can't forget yourself. Take care of yourself first, 100%, and then take care of others. Alright, so I take care of myself as best I can, and that way I can give the best of me to the rest of the world. That's just how I do it, and I don't know if it's the right way to do it. It's just what my intuition tells me. I'm 23 years old. I'm a quarter of— not even a quarter of a century. All I can do is learn from people who have gone before me and then make my own best judgment and try to bring some value in the world in that way. So waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. Just be a good man. I want to frame that and put it on my wall. I like that quote. Really do like that quote. What are we going to finish on? I'm going to finish on this other quote that I stumbled upon. I think it was from an email from Ryan Holiday. Also check him out if you haven't checked him out. Amazing guy. Author of 3 or 4 books, but it says, I don't know quite what we're doing on this significant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confide in me. Yet one thing I believe, and I believe it with every fiber of my being: a man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best he can. In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated, but a man must go down fighting. That is victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man. So, what's the takeaway from that? It says, do what you can, as best you can, and go down fighting if you're doing a good job. Because even if you go down fighting for goodness, it's still a victory. And that's, hey, I guess that's what I try to do every day. I try to do good. I don't want to ever be the person who didn't try at something. I know I use the 20-year rule on myself all the time. If I look forward in 20 years, will I regret what I did? And often, I'm never going to regret making this YouTube video right now. But if I go back in 20, if I look forward in 20 years and I think, man, I really wish I started getting into YouTube and recording a podcast. I'm not gonna think that. So, that's, that's how I like to view things. And we're coming up on the 20-minute mark, so I'm gonna wrap this up. But thank you all for listening. This has been an awesome episode. I've had a lot of fun introducing the camera to this aspect. So, if you're on the podcast, you can check out this video if you go to mrdeburgh.com/videos. And if you're on YouTube, you can check out my blog at mrdeburgh.com And the podcast is mrdeburgh.com/podcast. But I'll put links in descriptions on both platforms. And yeah, thank you all for listening. Thank you all for watching. And I'm going to make this a more regular thing. I'm going to— every time I record in my car and I'm stationary, I'll make sure I do it on YouTube and on the podcast. And we'll see how it goes, because I'm having a lot of fun doing this and I'm getting some good public speaking practice. At least I think I am. So, I'll watch it back and what could I improve on? Could I do my hair a little bit better? Nah, that doesn't matter. It's the content that counts, right? Whatever you're doing, I hope you have an awesome day. Tell someone you love them. Leave a like, subscribe if you want, leave a review, leave a rating on the podcast. I'd really appreciate it. Makes my day. But have an awesome day and I'll catch you tomorrow. And who knows, I may do it in the car, I may interview someone else, but we'll see what the universe throws at me. Catch you later.