Jeff Langmaid recounts a recent personal anecdote where his wife strongly disliked his first video, causing him to feel devastated for about two weeks. He uses the story to urge creators to persevere: practice will improve video skills, every platform currently favors video, and being able to produce video enables creators to repurpose content for other formats.
Believe me, you can get better. It's no big deal, but it's going to take time. I remember the first time this caused a big rift in my family. This is when I thought I was doing good, right? So this is less than a year ago. I'm all pumped. I show my wife a video that Paul and I shot, and she's like, why are you talking weird? Why does your mouth look funny? I was, like, devastated. I mean, it was like. It took me, like, two weeks to get over. So just get over it, though. Just keep working through it as you do it. You will get better. Every single platform currently favors video. It'll change, probably, but every platform favors video. And if you can do video, it enables you to do everything else.
