PumasRevenge
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Nothing wrong with that, that's actually pretty funny!
How patient are you?
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Nothing wrong with that, that's actually pretty funny!
JesusGreen
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There's actually a video I recorded today (but haven't yet edited or uploaded) that's about sticking with the long game, not the short game. As human beings, most of us are motivated by immediate results and instant gratification.
We get lucky once on a scratch card, and that immediately tells us that what we did was a good strategy and encourages us to play more. We approach that girl or guy we're interested in, and get rejected, and that one action and result puts us off doing it again.
In the short term, this seems fair enough, but take those two things and apply them to the long game:
Let's take the scratch card first, if you play once and win your first time, and then just keep playing and playing because of it, chances are you're going to lose quite a bit of money since the odds are stacked against you. The more times you repeat the experiment, the closer the results will get to their statistical probabilities, aka the more scratch cards you play, the closer you'll get to an overall loss or being down a bunch.
Now the case of approaching someone we like and getting rejected. The thing is, even if you have the social skill of a sleeping tree sloth and the looks of a baboon's a**, there are people out there who'll be interested in you for who you are - so even if your chances might have been low with a particular person, overall, out of the hundreds of people you'll like and could have potentially had a chance with - you have a pretty good shot with a high % of them. So if someone let that one rejection affect them, they'd be missing out.
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Same goes for YouTube. In the short run, you start off with a lack of supplies and ideas - or rather, you probably have supplies, and some ideas, but they might not end up being the thing that gets you any deal of success. So first you have that initial minor failure of realising you need to adapt and improve. Then you find growth is perhaps not as fast as you imagined, and you have to learn about SEO, advertising, monetisation, and a whole host of other things.. all the while you're perhaps only gaining a sub or two here and there.
If you're only in it for the short game, you'll just give up at that point, and leave because things started off slow, but just take a look at any of your favourite large YouTubers. Many of them did get lucky and grew faster than average even from the beginning, but many others had incredibly slow starts, with just 100-200 subscribers for their first couple of years or longer. Had they given up and only been in it for the short game, they'd never have the 100k+ or 1m+ subscribers they have today.
If you have a good strategy and good implementation, then you shouldn't care about whether your videos are having a good day or a bad day, just continue on, and as your amount of content increases, things will eventually balance in your favour over a larger number of results.
We get lucky once on a scratch card, and that immediately tells us that what we did was a good strategy and encourages us to play more. We approach that girl or guy we're interested in, and get rejected, and that one action and result puts us off doing it again.
In the short term, this seems fair enough, but take those two things and apply them to the long game:
Let's take the scratch card first, if you play once and win your first time, and then just keep playing and playing because of it, chances are you're going to lose quite a bit of money since the odds are stacked against you. The more times you repeat the experiment, the closer the results will get to their statistical probabilities, aka the more scratch cards you play, the closer you'll get to an overall loss or being down a bunch.
Now the case of approaching someone we like and getting rejected. The thing is, even if you have the social skill of a sleeping tree sloth and the looks of a baboon's a**, there are people out there who'll be interested in you for who you are - so even if your chances might have been low with a particular person, overall, out of the hundreds of people you'll like and could have potentially had a chance with - you have a pretty good shot with a high % of them. So if someone let that one rejection affect them, they'd be missing out.
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Same goes for YouTube. In the short run, you start off with a lack of supplies and ideas - or rather, you probably have supplies, and some ideas, but they might not end up being the thing that gets you any deal of success. So first you have that initial minor failure of realising you need to adapt and improve. Then you find growth is perhaps not as fast as you imagined, and you have to learn about SEO, advertising, monetisation, and a whole host of other things.. all the while you're perhaps only gaining a sub or two here and there.
If you're only in it for the short game, you'll just give up at that point, and leave because things started off slow, but just take a look at any of your favourite large YouTubers. Many of them did get lucky and grew faster than average even from the beginning, but many others had incredibly slow starts, with just 100-200 subscribers for their first couple of years or longer. Had they given up and only been in it for the short game, they'd never have the 100k+ or 1m+ subscribers they have today.
If you have a good strategy and good implementation, then you shouldn't care about whether your videos are having a good day or a bad day, just continue on, and as your amount of content increases, things will eventually balance in your favour over a larger number of results.
PumasRevenge
Well-Known Member
Wow those are some excellent points! Couldn't agree more! Youtube isn't for everyone, but if you enjoy it, you'll find patience somewhere.There's actually a video I recorded today (but haven't yet edited or uploaded) that's about sticking with the long game, not the short game. As human beings, most of us are motivated by immediate results and instant gratification.
We get lucky once on a scratch card, and that immediately tells us that what we did was a good strategy and encourages us to play more. We approach that girl or guy we're interested in, and get rejected, and that one action and result puts us off doing it again.
In the short term, this seems fair enough, but take those two things and apply them to the long game:
Let's take the scratch card first, if you play once and win your first time, and then just keep playing and playing because of it, chances are you're going to lose quite a bit of money since the odds are stacked against you. The more times you repeat the experiment, the closer the results will get to their statistical probabilities, aka the more scratch cards you play, the closer you'll get to an overall loss or being down a bunch.
Now the case of approaching someone we like and getting rejected. The thing is, even if you have the social skill of a sleeping tree sloth and the looks of a baboon's a**, there are people out there who'll be interested in you for who you are - so even if your chances might have been low with a particular person, overall, out of the hundreds of people you'll like and could have potentially had a chance with - you have a pretty good shot with a high % of them. So if someone let that one rejection affect them, they'd be missing out.
---
Same goes for YouTube. In the short run, you start off with a lack of supplies and ideas - or rather, you probably have supplies, and some ideas, but they might not end up being the thing that gets you any deal of success. So first you have that initial minor failure of realising you need to adapt and improve. Then you find growth is perhaps not as fast as you imagined, and you have to learn about SEO, advertising, monetisation, and a whole host of other things.. all the while you're perhaps only gaining a sub or two here and there.
If you're only in it for the short game, you'll just give up at that point, and leave because things started off slow, but just take a look at any of your favourite large YouTubers. Many of them did get lucky and grew faster than average even from the beginning, but many others had incredibly slow starts, with just 100-200 subscribers for their first couple of years or longer. Had they given up and only been in it for the short game, they'd never have the 100k+ or 1m+ subscribers they have today.
If you have a good strategy and good implementation, then you shouldn't care about whether your videos are having a good day or a bad day, just continue on, and as your amount of content increases, things will eventually balance in your favour over a larger number of results.
Aegislasher
Leader of the GoudaEmpire
i'm in it for the long haul not instant gratification. I'm really interested in seeing just how far i can go
PumasRevenge
Well-Known Member
Well, I hope you go far!
Takadaroba
Active Member
I tend to be quite patient, IF, like you said, I really do enjoy what I am doing. Such as Youtube, I've had my channel way back since 2011, making videos every once in a while along the way, but only recently I've been making weekly series. You do have to be pretty patient to be able to wait for new subscribers to come and to sit through and edit your own content.
But overall, I'd say I'm pretty patient c:
But overall, I'd say I'm pretty patient c:
PumasRevenge
Well-Known Member
Couldn't agree more! Yeah, youtube does take awhile, still it's just fun to post content!
Takadaroba
Active Member
Even if you don't have many views on your content, it's good to just keep making content. It shows your determination, AND on top of that, new people can always go back and look at it and see what you did in the past ^.^
PumasRevenge
Well-Known Member
Very true!
I'm patient with some things and impatient with other things. If I feel like someone is wasting my time, or if they are dilly-dallying with something that I feel "actually matters," then I get impatient.....like... reaaallly impatient.... and my type "A" personality flares up on the extreme side. LOL! Otherwise, I'm a patient person. However, there comes a time when I've waited long enough to realize my time is better spent elsewhere. Usually, as long as I'm having fun, I wouldn't say there is any patience involved! ^_^
Otherwise, I'm a patient person. However, there comes a time when I've waited long enough to realize my time is better spent elsewhere. Usually, as long as I'm having fun, I wouldn't say there is any patience involved! ^_^