OPINIONS | Derek 18

Derek Cole and two others discuss a college research project about filming classroom interactions, then reflect on relationships and self-doubt. Derek closes with a push to stop overthinking and act on your passions, referencing episode 103 of his two-year-old Ask Derrick Cole Show.
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You have learned a skill.
I knew that skill before I got here.
You videotape people? Yeah, really, I did.
I did a movie in college. Did you not look at my resume when I came here?
I don't remember.
And when I, as a student, I was working for research group, and we're going to classrooms and we're filming there.
Yeah, class for research, like with a big camera.
Well, it was kind of like this. The college did not have more money for better cameras, but it was like a scientist research how the kids react to however they are taught what to do.
Yeah, I did not know that.
What's on my resume?
These people want relationships for benefits, seeing through their skin, and I can tell you that they delicate. Seeing through their shadow when the truth is always evident. They trying to bring me down, so I'm always staying hesitant. Life been getting crazy. Is it really what I wanted when I put in time? I worked for this. I always saw it coming, but I was having second thoughts. Was I driven for the wrong reasons? Becoming someone surrounded by all the demons, and I stepped back and took time off. Found myself when I felt lost.
Found the things that I want in life and I What's up guys, short video today but it's just one single message. Stop thinking, stop wondering, stop analyzing should it be done and just do it. If you have something that you want to do inside of you, you want to be the best pottery person in the world, then go for it. Stop wondering and thinking and stopping and starting and, uh, should I, shouldn't I? Just do it. There's no better action. There's no way to make you feel better about anything in your life than doing what you love. The problem I've seen so many people is they're just going through the motions of life. They're going through the motions of what's happening. They think they should be doing this because they're this kind of person, or the family expects this, and maybe— and they don't want to do that thing they want to do because they're worried about losing. They're worried about the loss. Do you know how many people laughed when I started the Ask Derrick Cole Show 2 years ago?
Hey, this is Derrick Cole. Welcome to episode 103 of the Ask Derrick Cole Show, answering your home and energy questions.
And do you know how many people now are trying to see how they can do it themselves? So if you have a vision and you want to do something, you have to do it. You can't worry about what people think. You can't worry about your brother, your mom, your dad, your wife, your husband, whatever, your kids. You have to do what makes you happy, and don't let anyone hold you back.
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