Youtube drama and future proving yourself.

You might have noticed that the creator of the biggest youtube channel, PewdiePie, is complaining (again) about how youtube is changing. Youtube can change it's algorithms whenever it want's and that can effect all the video creators on youtube.

The first thing to do when you are dependent on one media outlet is to diversify your media outlets.
If you are dependent on one thing in your life and you have no control over it changes you might want to change that. Diversify.

Another great youtube creator with a big following is Casey Neistat. He was doing one of the most popular vlogs on youtube and now has stopped it because it wasn't a challenge anymore and is looking to challenge himself to become better as a content creator.

Yes, you need to keep challenging yourself to improve and find new challenges in order to keep on growing.

Still, no matter what you do when you look at everything at a micro level you will see ups and downs and when you keep focussing on the when things go down you can become frustrated or feel like giving up.

I am focussed here on the long game in this article. If you want to have a sustainable lifestyle you need to take a step back sometimes and let small things that can change all the time be and focus on the big picture. Maybe you will find that most things you were worried about don't matter at all. It is easy to get lost in unnecessary details. Focus on the long game if you want sustainability.

Challenging yourself means that you are taking risks. When you keep taking small risks that put you to the test you will be ready when big changes come and need to take bigger risks.

You will need to reinvent yourself from time to time, not only when things seem to go drastically bad and need drastic change but also when you don't feel challenged anymore. When things get too comfortable it can reduce the passion you put into your work.

When changes can come at any moment it is important that you keep an eye out always at the horizon and scan for trends. Some will seem important but will turn out not to be and some can start small but grow fast. Watch for patterns instead of single big issues that seem to blow up. Get multiple opinions and viewpoints before you consider changing things because of it.
The most emotional stories are not always the most accurate stories as you know.


These are the 4 things that will future proof you for changes in your life:

1. Keep an eye on the horizon.
2. Don't judge incoming info on face value.
3. Challenge yourself.
4. Reinvent yourself from time to time.

Be the best you every day! Have a great day.

Christmas in the 1920s

It's so funny to look at footage of Christmas in the 1920s.

 

We often forget how fast things change.When we look back we easily got nostalgic. 

The same is true about technology. We look at older people that don't want to learn the technology or think that technology goes too fast as a bit silly but we all have the tendency to believe that technology will slow down as we get older. 

This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956. (retronaut.com)

We all feel that music of our time was the best music sometimes.

Looking back can be positive or negative. It depends on what you are focussing on and how long you stay focused on it. Don't get stuck there.

 Enjoy the broad range of music and movies we have now thanks to the internet. We can watch old and new movies and listen to old and new songs. That opportunity is reasonably and pretty amazing, if you ask me. 

Let's enjoy the new possibilities that we can get from looking back and looking to the future.  

The game of life.

Sometimes I wished life was more gamified but then again getting rewards for doing meaningless stuff doesn't seem like a practical thing to do.

Gamification does help with being motivated to continue the grind but if you aren' motivated to keep improving and grinding in what you are doing maybe you shouldn't do it in the first place.

I am just rampaging about gamification because I am watching Final Fantasy XV gameplay and it's looking great. I love RPG's.

Video games are a great medium for telling stories. Role-playing video games let you level up the skills you practise over time while you follow a story. In real life you almost never get clear indications how good you are doing when you set long-term goals unless you have the kind of task that can be tracked with statistics.

Soft skills are not that easy to gauge process on unless you learn how to calibrate people state of mind. We all have a level of empathy and when we cultivate that and take feedback that we get from interacting with people over time we can gauge others state if being.

That demands a holistic and abundance mindset. It's not about trying to get people to do things against their will. God, those youtube videos of people who just try to exploit other people get so many likes and for what? What do you get from it in the long run. Those people seem to get all the good stuff but you don't see how they are living the rest of their life.

Even "success" is something that is different for everybody. The parameters for success are different for everybody. We have other criteria for success and happiness so defining it for other people and judging them on our own criteria of success and happiness can do some serious damage to a relationship.

Overall playing it nice and being great at playing along with other people that have the best interest in you with get you on new levels of opportunities and even bigger games to win.

Let's play.