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I'm just now in the pre-prod of my first film. Still need to find some of the finances, but I'm so passionate about it and it will happen. I love what you've said. And I haven't heard about your games before, they look amazing! I just bought Pinstripe on PS and will get Neversong when I finish it :)
Dude you've inspired me. The reason so many people get burnt out is because they're not enjoying going up the hill, they're in it for the results. I didn't realize that until now, thank you.
That's half the cause of job burnout: unrealistic high expectations of one's job performance, the pay, benefits, etc. The other half is overwork and a hostile work environment.
While I grew up my parents told me that I should follow my dream but understand the consequences of failure. When I told my mom I wanted to be an animator she gave me all the supplies I needed and locked me in my room. I spent all summer doing nothing but drawing classes, submissions, and assignments for 7-10 hours a day. I hate drawing now because of it but it did help me understand that I wouldn’t want to have a job like that. It was a harsh lesson but I’m glad I learned it in high school instead of going to the industry and learning it there
What?! Why would she do that? Especially when you are a beginner (and a teen), you can't just practice for 7-10 hours a day! Interest is the first spark. In the beginning, you should focus on having fun more than anything else. Having fun and practicing should be considered equal. With time, your passion will grow. If you just sit there the entire time practicing, you're gonna be bored. Everyone would be bored. Ask professional in the Art Industries and I bet most of them will say they don't like practicing. Practice will rarely be the part of any craft that you like the most. I personally love creating (images, stories, etc.). That's something in common between most of the interests I've had over the years. I'm still a beginner, and a teen, my interests might change and I have no idea what it is like to work in animation (while I bet that it isn't anything like what you experienced that summer). But I do know that what your mom did is something a parent should never do to their children. I don't know if you'd end up being an animator, but the thing about exploring your interests is that even if you don't actually enjoy that thing, you'll find something in it that you do. And that thing could have led you to find something else that you'd have loved.
that's not how animation works........ really..... Creativity is not something you can grind. You WILL obviously hate it. Try this with someone who wants to be an engineer or a gamer. They will hate it.
I feel like no matter what the dream is, if someone pushes it on you like that, you will grow to hate it. Maybe that was your moms goal in the first place?
In a similar vein, for me, one of the joys in creative endeavors is when you see stuff coming together. When I figure out a cool new trick with 2D shaders, or a new deformer animation technique, I can't wait to start using it or optimizing my workflow. When I'm practicing with Blender and it finally starts to click, I get that dopamine rush. Money out of all this is a side effect, a necessary and desirable one that makes it all possible, but it's the process and fine-tuning the process that makes it worthwhile. That said, acknowledgement and revenue is real nice.
Same !! For me as well, I enjoy the process and I find it exciting to see the multiple possibilities that lie ahead, but also seeing things come to life and come together as something concrete is when all of it really hits home and makes me want to push it further everytime !
i'd rather keep my dreams as a side job. this way my dreams will never faint as i know i can still eat and live another day to get to my dreams. no point in suffering for dreams. just get a decent job. i'd do any dev job or any random part time job for food. then after work i'd learn or create my favorite stuff. like in school, no school will teach your favorite subject, u study them at home 😋. in my spare time i like studying game dev, web dev, art, automatons etc. if this was 1000 year ago i'd be polymath 😶 but that's impossible in modern day rat race. find joy in hobbies, and get day job that is as close to my hobbies is what i prefer.
I think I'm personally done with dev jobs unless it's a project I really believe in or like. I've spent the past 10 years as a software dev and when I came home I was so mentally beat I couldn't work on my own stuff anymore. I did work some pretty demanding and stressfull jobs tho.
@@snokzor In my teens I had the most mindless chain gang style summer job, basically sorting rocks from a big pile by size. Even though it was physically quite exhausting, I was super eager to work on some creative stuff when I got home, as my mind had been pretty much idle all day. Kind of the opposite of doing demanding dev work all day. 😁
I personally feels like @snokzor, working in dev but not games. I try to work on spare time but it's a bit frustrating, even more since I have a family to care about :) I've made many games since ... the last 20 years Oo ... but none in a professional way. But I'm still thinking about it and I like the way if thinking of Thomas, perhaps it will help me in this quest ^^
Same approach here. Working as a software tester, that's my fallback. My hobbies are gamedev and investing. My dream is financial freedom so that I can create income streams to facilitate bigger projects and helping others, while enjoying life.
I wanna thank you Thomas for this amazing video. Up until now I was feeling very lost and depressed because I felt that I wasn't reaching the end result. But now after watching your eye opening video, I now understand and am back on track. Thank you so much.
I think following your dreams is a reason to live for me. When i wake up i remember what i must do and then i try my best to do it. Yes you’ll fail a lot but failure is part of the journey so really i think you should follow them
Yah I would rather deal with the constant failure while trying to achieve my dreams. Rather than living with regret on not pursuing them. “Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” Cormac McCarthy
@Jack Iscarito you missed the point of video , he was trying to say that our dreams/motives are at fault. It's simple meaning was just enjoy your work .
Been feeling extremely down on myself about my game development work lately and this video is kinda exactly what I needed, so thank you Thomas! Entrepreneurship is a constant battle, but also an enjoyable experience.
Thomas has a point with thinking about what you get in return part. That is something I will be thinking about. If you work hard you can achieve your dreams. But you can also fail at trying to achieve your dreams. Most people if not everyone fail more than they succeed. And of you give up easily or if you give up at all even if you been trying for 10 years, was it your dream? Maybe it was your dream at one point but people do change and what you wanted then might not be what you want now. The one issue I have is people saying get up early or work late hours. No. I am living proof that the human body needs sleep and I am here to tell you that you can work hard and still get 8 hours of sleep. Working hard doesn't mean give up everything and suffer. It means work hard. And by taking care of yourself, you will be able to work harder than someone who grinds themselves into dust. They may get further than you in the beginning but once that life long fatigue slowly hits, they slow down and your consistent healthy rate will outshine in the long run. Point is the hard work mantra is true but its not a guarantee nor do I think people really understand what it means.
Trully agree. I had to learn it the hard way... have to pay my bills and support others financially so i can only do what I used to do all day in two hours a day, at the most. Thought it was completely impossible, but its getting there...
This is the first time I’ve ever seen your videos...and dang, I gotta say: some of the best advice, and description of entrepreneurship I’ve heard in awhile. I appreciate the metaphors, and the context you provide in your explanation. Makes me better understand myself, and my own creative endeavors. Thanks, man
Thanks so much for this video, Tom. I've been seriously been struggling with heavy burnout from 5 years of grinding with almost no money whilst building my brands, being abused by multiple jobs since 2014 and struggling with serious trauma and $40 equivalent in my pocket. Thank you for the encouragement to keep moving forward with a new perspective towards the seemingly boring but EXTREMELY valuable character building bricks. You're a legend!
Aye pretty much. Don't follow your dreams, they're dreams. Set goals, ones that are SMART. Right now, I have a goal with a platform I'm making, but it's a pretty big goal (at least big considering my situation), and so I set a smaller goal within that, and even smaller goals within that, and I'm achieving each one of those goals slowly, getting closer and closer to the big goal. Once that's achieved, I have another bigger goal to achieve that would use the previous project's results to aid in achieving the new one.
I love that you've pointed out the tendency to attach to outcome. Loving the journey should be why you choose your career. There will be ups and downs regardless, it's just about how badly you want to create that "thing". When it comes down to that, money isn't the end goal, because if it was, you would've put your energy elsewhere.
I very much enjoyed watching this. This was a very interesting way of seeing things. The wisest man is the one who know he knows nothing. I think that statement could be connected to your part about being humble and confident at the same time!
Amazing point of view! That's pretty much what i believe. It's like you'll NEVER BE happy, happiness is something that comes and goes all the time. You need to be good on being happy more often.
It means, there is no sense winning in competition without your family or the people supports you and being humble and having confidence you can make a golden bricks. You made my day Thomas thanks a lot for sharing it.
After this summer I decided to drop out of college (just hated everything about it and wasn't Interested in the degree I was going for) so I decided to try and figure out what I would actually enjoy doing. While I was searching I came across your channel and Dani and some others which has inspired me to try and learn how to make my own games. Here's hoping I can figure out what the heck I'm doing 😂 Keep doing what your doing I love your content man!
It's never a wrong choice to try out different things, even if it means dropping out of college. I studied media engineering (coding, video, image editing etc) for about a year, and mostly hated the half-assed attitude of everyone around me. The whole place lacked ambition and determination. I applied to military academy and it was the best thing I ever did. But even after years of training conscripts and getting good money and knowledge from the job, I still tend to do nerdy stuff like coding video games, producing RUclips content etc. So never completely "close the door" behind you even though some aspect of the thing you liked didn't work. Just a few months back I started working on my biggest video game project so far.
Thank you for the Brick analogy Thomas. It brings me to tears... perhaps because I feel I have some bricks ready but I have a sneaking suspicion I will never finish the castle. Life just keeps on happening... Perhaps an unfinished castle is all I will ever complete, and perhaps that's what most of us will ever finish and perhaps that is... also ok. I am already ok with my grind not having a happy ending... I just want to focus on what I can do...
When i should be hanging out with friends, I'm rather at home on blender and Unreal. When i am at work i bring my laptop and work on my game. When i sleep, i dream about my game and after i publish the game and i earn bricks and stones, i don't care, it's not about money it's about me having the most fun.
I think part of the aspect he wasnt so fullfilled is that it didnt do to much money to support his family and for all that effort and the added negative emotions this and also having to add content to his YT channel inspired this video...
I had a dream ( recently since back in June 15th this year ) to become an Illustrator Artist because I failed myself on every type of Subject like Modelling 3D, Coding, Composing, Vocalist, Editor, name it all you can... The reason is that I'm tired of being unproductive and not doing something that'll benefits to other, so I started myself to draw in June 15th and now I'm getting better and I'm close to be able to do Commissioning... I'm still young ( 17 ) but I feel like my time is short considering that... I don't wanna repeat the last mistake I made on learning Blender for 5 years when I only manage to scrap 5+ month worth of the knowledge... I know I tried to push my limit on practicing drawing stuff everyday for 24/7 I had to limit myself cuz otherwise I'll be never improve, like what people said " Keep Practicing Everyday" by everyday they meant Everyday BUT not 24/7, I made my own Schedule for my drawing Session at 9 PM till 12 Midnight because I mostly gaming during morning till Noon... I want to improve and I want to show my father that I can improve this time and I will keep on improving until I became like those Pro Anime Illustrator Artist I've seen on Pixiv ( my sources of Reference comes from Pixiv ) My agreement to your statement is 50/50, what I agree is that Dream is more like a Challenge and the Highest Obstacle you have to break/pass it, but once you achieve your dream, what are you gonna do next? Nothing, because many people focusing on a single dream because they don't want to overwork themselves with huge expectations including myself who had a dream of becoming Animator Rig in Blender but I notice that my skill is sucks like trash and I forgetting those dream... Now with me dedicating my whole year to drawing and becoming an Illustrator and Mangaka, I will keep on pushing forward to improve. What I don't agree is that Dream is one kind of Expectations that... Help you motivated, it help you keep on moving and had a main purpose on why you must improve, without Dream, why you even doing this, why improving when all you do is wasting your precious time... Not everyone can agree that dream is either a scam and just a burden that make people hate themselves for unable to achieve it... Just don't dream too much because if you do then you're gonna make yourself even more demotivated because you knew you can't do this...
You are strong, really strong, but we all need to make ourselves stronger. I know how it's feeling when you do smth, and that's what you do, not improving. But I try to never lost motivation. I don't dream. So, I can be happy even when my game has only 5 downloads at all(all is from my friends), cuz making games that is what I like to do. Do what you like to do, and become the one you want to become. Wish you good luck and to became a good artist( I think I will enjoy your anime one day :) )
Wow! Please share your work I want to follow you! I'm getting old, just turned twenty and seeing you already did, all the things I currently go to uni for to learn, hits hard :D lol. Just when I thought, I was ahead, you come along. You are nuts.
my only purpose in life is to chase goals that I set for myself. I think that´s what life should be about. Achieving goals and then setting higher goals until you pass away.
Thanks for this Thomas. You reassured me that I'm on the right path and I should keep on going. I'm currently wanting to shift from another career to be an artist. I know it's a tough road, but I'll keep going anyway and improve my flaws. :)
I'm following my dreams because I would 100% regret not giving it a shot. I had a very typical 40 hour a week job for over a decade. I was the guy pushing the bike up the hill to ride it down, week after week. Except I wasn't enjoying the ride down. So I quit my job, and I'm devoting all of my time to my own game/company. My dream is to simply earn enough money to keep doing this for as long as I can. While I get the metaphor of wanting to keep pushing the bike up the hill forever, I also feel like not every person has to follow that exact path to be called an "entrepreneur". I think you can definitely be an entrepreneur that just wants to make x amount of money and retire. Nothing wrong with that at all. For some people the dream is to reach a certain goal and then stop working. I think an entrepreneur is just someone who wants to be successful running a business... that's pretty much it. It's someone who wants to take their ideas/visions, turn them into reality, and earn a profit from it. In terms of risk of failure... I would rather fail on an epic level than go my whole life playing it safe, not taking any risks, and then dying with regret, thinking about what I could have done if I just took some risk. It's not crazy to quit your job and pursue game dev. If it doesn't work out, you can always find work doing something else. It's not the end of your life as you know it.
I agree so much! I’m in a similar situation with my day job. I’m absolutely miserable rn 😞 but I’ll hold onto my job until other things start to pan out. I’m not going into this blindly. I’m sure as hell not trying to stay stuck in the same place forever.
I've been dealing with the pain of pursuing my dreams to learn to code and make my ideas come to life for the past year and a half, still very far away from saying I am a confident coder (currently in a web development Bootcamp to help with that) and really hoping I can have a go at your full-time game dev course, Tom. I haven't published a game yet, seems long a long haul, but I'm constantly learning new things, spent hours grinding a problem to realize I was missing a semicolon ; ( or some ridiculously minor syntax error, but I'm not deterred, I will build the beautiful game worlds that my mind has thought up one day in the future. So is it worth it? yeah of course! I can't imagine doing anything else.
Happens to me everytime. As I develop a software, it's enjoyable, it's fun, and frustrating, especially as a person with mild perfectionism. But as soon as the software is done, the magic disappears, it becomes more like a functional brick, a brick with contraption that works in which 95% of us don't care.
when i read the title i thought it would've been some de-motivational video for some reason but I also knew that it couldn't be just that so I clicked. Found myself agreeing with pretty much every point, thought of the "brick foundation" metaphor before you even explained what you'd do with that brick. Good job on the whole structuring of the video
6:43 rolling b roll white fence, green grass, so relaxing. Bricks, bring freedom. Be humble, learn from life, make progress. Square space. Awesome editing.
Thanks for not only the advice but for the little inside in what's going on in your soul and brain! That motivated me and shook me awake at the same time. Thanks again, this video was awesome, so thumb's up!
The thing is, I'm not planning on becoming a full time youtuber(thats my dream) I don't even care whether people watch or not I just love sharing my thoughts, reading the comments I get and meeting new friends.
Thank you for some of your insights. I am consumed with the thought of making it "big", and getting that "one shot'. It's good to embrace the grind. Thank you!
I tried starting a company and 2 years of clawing to get traction, I ultimately failed. I hear alot if you put the time in you'll get rewarded. Sometimes you dont. It sucks but that's just how life is. Will it stop me from trying again? Nope.
Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you fail. Sometimes that’s mainly down to your decisions and sometimes the primary factor is just good or bad luck. One thing to remember though is that the more times you go for it, the better you’ll be at controlling the circumstances of your efforts and therefore the more likely you’ll be to succeed. There are almost no extremely successful people who haven’t failed multiple times along the way. Keep it up man.
@@DanielK1213th you do understand that games have a concept of probability right? Basically thats luck irl. The chances of your game success does need a push of luck. Say releasing the right game at the right time. Its applies for anyone
Hey Thomas! :) I was a KS backer for Pinstripe years ago. I've discovered your RUclips channel by pure chance, and wow! It really like your videos and your honest talking! That's super useful for me :)
Very glad to see within 1 minute you are not saying this...cause man, the world doesn't need more lemmings. We are all going to fail a lot in life, its better to fail at something you are passionate about.
Art and Game Dev are two things that I'm very passionate about and that I absolutely live for, but that's exactly why I DON'T want a career pursuing either. I want the things I'm passionate about to stay fun and enjoyable, with the ability to do them however and whenever I want, without a job corrupting the experience with particular standards and deadlines. Because of this, I'm fine making my living with a day-job and spending my free time doing what I love. Having something you can do on your own terms makes life much more enjoyable :)
Thanks Thomas. I stopped trying to make games in my spare time. As a full time game dev I don’t have a lot of spare time and it would take years to finish a game. Not a plan I liked so I refocused my efforts and decided to write a book about Game Dev instead. To use your analogy, I want this to be my first “brick”. I’ve had peers try to discourage me as they go for their “Dream Game” and I’ve seen two fail sadly. I’m trying to build something that lasts and gives me freedom so it’s good to hear from someone who is content for the time being with the freedom from their machine.
Thats what hes trying to say, that if youre in it for the long run you shouldnt put your dream on having one hit game and then stop, you should enjoy the journey and build your skilld and rely on the skills to keep going
@@CrystalKeeper7 Ill copy paste my comment above that I just posted because I think it explains it further what Thomas tried to say here "Reminds me of a scene in the Conan movie where the father explains the Riddle of Steel to Conan, saying to his kid that in life he can only trust steel. I've read online an interpretation that the steel represents knowledge and experience in life. Basically, having a hit game is a lottery, it might or might not happen, but knowledge and experience is something you can steadily build upon (like you said - bricks) and use it to make more quality games in your journey of game design/dev. Knowledge and experience is the steel we can trust."
This was well thought out and I love the brick metaphor. You need to keep working on your dreams each and every day, and pursuing the journey rather than the destination.
I 100% agree with you.... I'm a nobody but anything I've ever done, I've never thought of the result, always loved the journey (it's hard not to sound pretentious), I've always thought of my projects to be the next big step to the next step to create a productive item
Damn! I'm going through kinda same problem, like I wanted to be this tech genius, I tried programming, and than I wanted to become a game dev, and than into pentesting, and than again into game dev. Every single time I watch a new RUclips video, about any of these I just get curious and start learning about it, and than I loose interest. . . . . . Whatever, I'm High Again.
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this a really solid and realistic piece of information, thanks buddy =D
I'm just now in the pre-prod of my first film. Still need to find some of the finances, but I'm so passionate about it and it will happen. I love what you've said.
And I haven't heard about your games before, they look amazing! I just bought Pinstripe on PS and will get Neversong when I finish it :)
As Bruce Lee once said: "Success is in the journey, not the destination"
The way principle=道
Be like water.
Kung fu game dev!
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You gotta lay bricks. Make that foundation...get off the floor...pay me later🤣🤣
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Dude you've inspired me. The reason so many people get burnt out is because they're not enjoying going up the hill, they're in it for the results. I didn't realize that until now, thank you.
That's half the cause of job burnout: unrealistic high expectations of one's job performance, the pay, benefits, etc. The other half is overwork and a hostile work environment.
"Entrepreneurship requires you to enjoy the process". That's deep. You earned my like!
I agree!
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This applies to any industry
true .
Absolutely
I’m not gay
”Theres a thing going around in a lot of industries” he says in the beginning of the video
@@NotGayBen ooookay
While I grew up my parents told me that I should follow my dream but understand the consequences of failure. When I told my mom I wanted to be an animator she gave me all the supplies I needed and locked me in my room. I spent all summer doing nothing but drawing classes, submissions, and assignments for 7-10 hours a day. I hate drawing now because of it but it did help me understand that I wouldn’t want to have a job like that. It was a harsh lesson but I’m glad I learned it in high school instead of going to the industry and learning it there
Maybe you want to be a 3D animator instead :D
What?! Why would she do that?
Especially when you are a beginner (and a teen), you can't just practice for 7-10 hours a day!
Interest is the first spark. In the beginning, you should focus on having fun more than anything else. Having fun and practicing should be considered equal. With time, your passion will grow.
If you just sit there the entire time practicing, you're gonna be bored. Everyone would be bored. Ask professional in the Art Industries and I bet most of them will say they don't like practicing.
Practice will rarely be the part of any craft that you like the most. I personally love creating (images, stories, etc.). That's something in common between most of the interests I've had over the years.
I'm still a beginner, and a teen, my interests might change and I have no idea what it is like to work in animation (while I bet that it isn't anything like what you experienced that summer). But I do know that what your mom did is something a parent should never do to their children. I don't know if you'd end up being an animator, but the thing about exploring your interests is that even if you don't actually enjoy that thing, you'll find something in it that you do. And that thing could have led you to find something else that you'd have loved.
@@diogobernardino54 Good Comment
that's not how animation works........ really..... Creativity is not something you can grind. You WILL obviously hate it. Try this with someone who wants to be an engineer or a gamer. They will hate it.
I feel like no matter what the dream is, if someone pushes it on you like that, you will grow to hate it. Maybe that was your moms goal in the first place?
Yeah, "follow your dreams" is crap. I tried to follow the girl of my dreams, but she called the police on me for "being a stalker", whatever...
try but be realitic... since only few will succussful.. look at 1 million cov19 dead right now...
You let the cops stop you? You quit too soon. 😛
you need to repeat that at least 3 times
@@campkira only success I had is being debt friend
Lmao 🤣
Sounds just like my experience with the music industry. I'm a software engineer now.
How much you get paid mate
what happened?
I love how this all just slowly evolved into a Minecraft metaphor.
In a similar vein, for me, one of the joys in creative endeavors is when you see stuff coming together.
When I figure out a cool new trick with 2D shaders, or a new deformer animation technique, I can't wait to start using it or optimizing my workflow. When I'm practicing with Blender and it finally starts to click, I get that dopamine rush.
Money out of all this is a side effect, a necessary and desirable one that makes it all possible, but it's the process and fine-tuning the process that makes it worthwhile.
That said, acknowledgement and revenue is real nice.
Same !! For me as well, I enjoy the process and I find it exciting to see the multiple possibilities that lie ahead, but also seeing things come to life and come together as something concrete is when all of it really hits home and makes me want to push it further everytime !
ah yes, Zedrin spitting straight facts
Zcdrin, you summed it up succulently. My thoughts exactly.
i'd rather keep my dreams as a side job. this way my dreams will never faint as i know i can still eat and live another day to get to my dreams. no point in suffering for dreams. just get a decent job. i'd do any dev job or any random part time job for food. then after work i'd learn or create my favorite stuff. like in school, no school will teach your favorite subject, u study them at home 😋. in my spare time i like studying game dev, web dev, art, automatons etc. if this was 1000 year ago i'd be polymath 😶 but that's impossible in modern day rat race. find joy in hobbies, and get day job that is as close to my hobbies is what i prefer.
I think I'm personally done with dev jobs unless it's a project I really believe in or like. I've spent the past 10 years as a software dev and when I came home I was so mentally beat I couldn't work on my own stuff anymore. I did work some pretty demanding and stressfull jobs tho.
@@snokzor In my teens I had the most mindless chain gang style summer job, basically sorting rocks from a big pile by size. Even though it was physically quite exhausting, I was super eager to work on some creative stuff when I got home, as my mind had been pretty much idle all day. Kind of the opposite of doing demanding dev work all day. 😁
I personally feels like @snokzor, working in dev but not games. I try to work on spare time but it's a bit frustrating, even more since I have a family to care about :)
I've made many games since ... the last 20 years Oo ... but none in a professional way. But I'm still thinking about it and I like the way if thinking of Thomas, perhaps it will help me in this quest ^^
somehow you can get an online certificate to help you land in a dev job
Same approach here. Working as a software tester, that's my fallback. My hobbies are gamedev and investing. My dream is financial freedom so that I can create income streams to facilitate bigger projects and helping others, while enjoying life.
I wanna thank you Thomas for this amazing video. Up until now I was feeling very lost and depressed because I felt that I wasn't reaching the end result. But now after watching your eye opening video, I now understand and am back on track. Thank you so much.
I think following your dreams is a reason to live for me. When i wake up i remember what i must do and then i try my best to do it. Yes you’ll fail a lot but failure is part of the journey so really i think you should follow them
He got married?
No wonder the video, I think he is looking for closure.
Yah I would rather deal with the constant failure while trying to achieve my dreams. Rather than living with regret on not pursuing them.
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
Cormac McCarthy
@Jack Iscarito you missed the point of video , he was trying to say that our dreams/motives are at fault. It's simple meaning was just enjoy your work .
Been feeling extremely down on myself about my game development work lately and this video is kinda exactly what I needed, so thank you Thomas! Entrepreneurship is a constant battle, but also an enjoyable experience.
Thomas has a point with thinking about what you get in return part. That is something I will be thinking about.
If you work hard you can achieve your dreams. But you can also fail at trying to achieve your dreams. Most people if not everyone fail more than they succeed. And of you give up easily or if you give up at all even if you been trying for 10 years, was it your dream? Maybe it was your dream at one point but people do change and what you wanted then might not be what you want now.
The one issue I have is people saying get up early or work late hours. No. I am living proof that the human body needs sleep and I am here to tell you that you can work hard and still get 8 hours of sleep. Working hard doesn't mean give up everything and suffer. It means work hard. And by taking care of yourself, you will be able to work harder than someone who grinds themselves into dust. They may get further than you in the beginning but once that life long fatigue slowly hits, they slow down and your consistent healthy rate will outshine in the long run.
Point is the hard work mantra is true but its not a guarantee nor do I think people really understand what it means.
Truly agree
Trully agree. I had to learn it the hard way... have to pay my bills and support others financially so i can only do what I used to do all day in two hours a day, at the most. Thought it was completely impossible, but its getting there...
This is the first time I’ve ever seen your videos...and dang, I gotta say: some of the best advice, and description of entrepreneurship I’ve heard in awhile. I appreciate the metaphors, and the context you provide in your explanation. Makes me better understand myself, and my own creative endeavors. Thanks, man
Started my brand “humble and fearless” And now I’m glad I called it that 😎
Thanks so much for this video, Tom. I've been seriously been struggling with heavy burnout from 5 years of grinding with almost no money whilst building my brands, being abused by multiple jobs since 2014 and struggling with serious trauma and $40 equivalent in my pocket. Thank you for the encouragement to keep moving forward with a new perspective towards the seemingly boring but EXTREMELY valuable character building bricks. You're a legend!
Aye pretty much. Don't follow your dreams, they're dreams. Set goals, ones that are SMART. Right now, I have a goal with a platform I'm making, but it's a pretty big goal (at least big considering my situation), and so I set a smaller goal within that, and even smaller goals within that, and I'm achieving each one of those goals slowly, getting closer and closer to the big goal. Once that's achieved, I have another bigger goal to achieve that would use the previous project's results to aid in achieving the new one.
Great message. It’s not about destination, it is about the journey. Liked and Subscribed
"You can't achieve your dream" okay... *deleting unity and visual studio* .
IRONIC 🤣🤙
Well you can't argue with that logic
FIGHT THE POWAH
@@ArtofWEZ ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER.
That's not true for everyone...... take FNAF's dev.. he was about to quit at 30, and yet it succeeded. Its a hand of luck
Not sure how I found you (or you found me) but I needed to hear this shit man, thank you!
I love that you've pointed out the tendency to attach to outcome. Loving the journey should be why you choose your career. There will be ups and downs regardless, it's just about how badly you want to create that "thing". When it comes down to that, money isn't the end goal, because if it was, you would've put your energy elsewhere.
I love your mindset!!!! I'm definitely subscribed! THANK YOU FOR THE CONTENT!
For me success is just to be able to continue doing what i love....
You'll experience some ups and downs but if you got the will power, it's not a problem.
I very much enjoyed watching this. This was a very interesting way of seeing things. The wisest man is the one who know he knows nothing. I think that statement could be connected to your part about being humble and confident at the same time!
Brick by brick... great video Thomas!
You guys at film courage are the film equivalent of this guy
Amazing point of view! That's pretty much what i believe. It's like you'll NEVER BE happy, happiness is something that comes and goes all the time. You need to be good on being happy more often.
13:20 His inner monster tried to come out for a sec.
Thomas must have tried replying, but then selected all the letters, and erased 🤣
thank you brush i am a 13 year old game developer and I find your "brick laying" mindset really helpful!
Most people have a very hard time admitting that they'd rather be a dreamer than whatever it is they're dreaming about being.
It means, there is no sense winning in competition without your family or the people supports you and being humble and having confidence you can make a golden bricks. You made my day Thomas thanks a lot for sharing it.
After this summer I decided to drop out of college (just hated everything about it and wasn't Interested in the degree I was going for) so I decided to try and figure out what I would actually enjoy doing. While I was searching I came across your channel and Dani and some others which has inspired me to try and learn how to make my own games. Here's hoping I can figure out what the heck I'm doing 😂 Keep doing what your doing I love your content man!
Good luck for the rest of your life! :D
I actually finished college now im in debt doing 2 jobs and scrapping projects that have too big a scope. Yay😅😪
@@Chevifier Noice!
Depending on what engine your using I might be able to help. :D
It's never a wrong choice to try out different things, even if it means dropping out of college. I studied media engineering (coding, video, image editing etc) for about a year, and mostly hated the half-assed attitude of everyone around me. The whole place lacked ambition and determination. I applied to military academy and it was the best thing I ever did. But even after years of training conscripts and getting good money and knowledge from the job, I still tend to do nerdy stuff like coding video games, producing RUclips content etc. So never completely "close the door" behind you even though some aspect of the thing you liked didn't work. Just a few months back I started working on my biggest video game project so far.
Thank you for the Brick analogy Thomas.
It brings me to tears... perhaps because I feel I have some bricks ready but I have a sneaking suspicion I will never finish the castle. Life just keeps on happening...
Perhaps an unfinished castle is all I will ever complete, and perhaps that's what most of us will ever finish and perhaps that is... also ok.
I am already ok with my grind not having a happy ending... I just want to focus on what I can do...
Video is 20 min long. It was uploaded 2 minutes ago, everyone saying "thanks, great video"
Thanks, great video
Thanks, great reply
Have you not tried the new playback speed x20? It's really efficient.
Yup I'm watching at 3x speed and still not done yet lol
So basically, to make sure, this is a joke right?
I totally get what you mean Thomas. You can be confident in your search for improvement and humble enough to know what needs to be improved.
When i should be hanging out with friends, I'm rather at home on blender and Unreal. When i am at work i bring my laptop and work on my game. When i sleep, i dream about my game and after i publish the game and i earn bricks and stones, i don't care, it's not about money it's about me having the most fun.
Yeah, it doesn't even matter if the game will do well, or if it'll even be finished (least rn anyways), it's fun to do, and it keeps me keeping on.
Doing something I enjoy helps me fight depression. In fact programming and gaming are the stuffs that scared depression away from me
you should really hang out with friends too. believe me.
I think part of the aspect he wasnt so fullfilled is that it didnt do to much money to support his family and for all that effort and the added negative emotions this and also having to add content to his YT channel inspired this video...
If you stop hanging out with REAL FRIENDS (witch are hard to find these days) You missed the point of life its self!
Wow, that's a real, deep and serious conversation, thank you for that man.
I had a dream ( recently since back in June 15th this year ) to become an Illustrator Artist because I failed myself on every type of Subject like Modelling 3D, Coding, Composing, Vocalist, Editor, name it all you can...
The reason is that I'm tired of being unproductive and not doing something that'll benefits to other, so I started myself to draw in June 15th and now I'm getting better and I'm close to be able to do Commissioning... I'm still young ( 17 ) but I feel like my time is short considering that... I don't wanna repeat the last mistake I made on learning Blender for 5 years when I only manage to scrap 5+ month worth of the knowledge...
I know I tried to push my limit on practicing drawing stuff everyday for 24/7 I had to limit myself cuz otherwise I'll be never improve, like what people said " Keep Practicing Everyday" by everyday they meant Everyday BUT not 24/7, I made my own Schedule for my drawing Session at 9 PM till 12 Midnight because I mostly gaming during morning till Noon...
I want to improve and I want to show my father that I can improve this time and I will keep on improving until I became like those Pro Anime Illustrator Artist I've seen on Pixiv ( my sources of Reference comes from Pixiv )
My agreement to your statement is 50/50, what I agree is that Dream is more like a Challenge and the Highest Obstacle you have to break/pass it, but once you achieve your dream, what are you gonna do next? Nothing, because many people focusing on a single dream because they don't want to overwork themselves with huge expectations including myself who had a dream of becoming Animator Rig in Blender but I notice that my skill is sucks like trash and I forgetting those dream...
Now with me dedicating my whole year to drawing and becoming an Illustrator and Mangaka, I will keep on pushing forward to improve.
What I don't agree is that Dream is one kind of Expectations that... Help you motivated, it help you keep on moving and had a main purpose on why you must improve, without Dream, why you even doing this, why improving when all you do is wasting your precious time...
Not everyone can agree that dream is either a scam and just a burden that make people hate themselves for unable to achieve it... Just don't dream too much because if you do then you're gonna make yourself even more demotivated because you knew you can't do this...
BRUH!!
This comment hits me right in the heart, thank you for your comment
You are strong, really strong, but we all need to make ourselves stronger. I know how it's feeling when you do smth, and that's what you do, not improving.
But I try to never lost motivation. I don't dream. So, I can be happy even when my game has only 5 downloads at all(all is from my friends), cuz making games that is what I like to do. Do what you like to do, and become the one you want to become.
Wish you good luck and to became a good artist( I think I will enjoy your anime one day :) )
Wow! Please share your work I want to follow you!
I'm getting old, just turned twenty and seeing you already did, all the things I currently go to uni for to learn, hits hard :D lol. Just when I thought, I was ahead, you come along. You are nuts.
I'm 17 too 😅
can I know where you live
my only purpose in life is to chase goals that I set for myself. I think that´s what life should be about. Achieving goals and then setting higher goals until you pass away.
Thanks for this Thomas. You reassured me that I'm on the right path and I should keep on going. I'm currently wanting to shift from another career to be an artist. I know it's a tough road, but I'll keep going anyway and improve my flaws. :)
HELL ! I was skipping this one because of title say something but after watching full video it just make me more confident .
I'm following my dreams because I would 100% regret not giving it a shot. I had a very typical 40 hour a week job for over a decade. I was the guy pushing the bike up the hill to ride it down, week after week. Except I wasn't enjoying the ride down. So I quit my job, and I'm devoting all of my time to my own game/company. My dream is to simply earn enough money to keep doing this for as long as I can. While I get the metaphor of wanting to keep pushing the bike up the hill forever, I also feel like not every person has to follow that exact path to be called an "entrepreneur". I think you can definitely be an entrepreneur that just wants to make x amount of money and retire. Nothing wrong with that at all. For some people the dream is to reach a certain goal and then stop working. I think an entrepreneur is just someone who wants to be successful running a business... that's pretty much it. It's someone who wants to take their ideas/visions, turn them into reality, and earn a profit from it.
In terms of risk of failure... I would rather fail on an epic level than go my whole life playing it safe, not taking any risks, and then dying with regret, thinking about what I could have done if I just took some risk. It's not crazy to quit your job and pursue game dev. If it doesn't work out, you can always find work doing something else. It's not the end of your life as you know it.
I agree so much! I’m in a similar situation with my day job. I’m absolutely miserable rn 😞 but I’ll hold onto my job until other things start to pan out. I’m not going into this blindly. I’m sure as hell not trying to stay stuck in the same place forever.
This popped up in my suggested watch again and I really needed to hear it. Thank you.
I've been dealing with the pain of pursuing my dreams to learn to code and make my ideas come to life for the past year and a half, still very far away from saying I am a confident coder (currently in a web development Bootcamp to help with that) and really hoping I can have a go at your full-time game dev course, Tom. I haven't published a game yet, seems long a long haul, but I'm constantly learning new things, spent hours grinding a problem to realize I was missing a semicolon ; ( or some ridiculously minor syntax error, but I'm not deterred, I will build the beautiful game worlds that my mind has thought up one day in the future. So is it worth it? yeah of course! I can't imagine doing anything else.
Thank you for this, I always look ahead.
"Don't enjoy the product, Cherish the input. "
Happens to me everytime.
As I develop a software, it's enjoyable, it's fun, and frustrating, especially as a person with mild perfectionism.
But as soon as the software is done, the magic disappears, it becomes more like a functional brick, a brick with contraption that works in which 95% of us don't care.
Thanks for sharing, Thomas. Keeps me motivated
I just realize that I'm striving for freedom. Thank you.
when i read the title i thought it would've been some de-motivational video for some reason but I also knew that it couldn't be just that so I clicked. Found myself agreeing with pretty much every point, thought of the "brick foundation" metaphor before you even explained what you'd do with that brick. Good job on the whole structuring of the video
You’re my unofficial teacher, I appreciate it.
This guy gives me reality. Like my mind finally opens up when I hear him
New subscriber here... good talk.
Holy shit... It's the MASTER OF CHUG himself! \m/
I am also new
same. great vid
So thats why RUclips suggested me this video :D thank you Ola the chug grandmaster!
Follow your chug, it’s no scam.
6:43 rolling b roll white fence, green grass, so relaxing. Bricks, bring freedom. Be humble, learn from life, make progress. Square space. Awesome editing.
if you think about it we are all slowly dying every second
i think our body also constantly heals and regenerates itself until we die too..so technically we're also slowly living/growing every second
Epic. Thanks for sharing, brother!
There aint nothing wrong with having some ego and pretentiousness.
Hey Thomas, I wanna thank u for ur motivation man. U gave me the spark to finally start vlogging for my RUclips channel. Respect!
My motto has always been follow your dreams but take your brain with you. And follow your dreams but keep money in the bank too.
Thanks for not only the advice but for the little inside in what's going on in your soul and brain! That motivated me and shook me awake at the same time. Thanks again, this video was awesome, so thumb's up!
The thing is, I'm not planning on becoming a full time youtuber(thats my dream) I don't even care whether people watch or not I just love sharing my thoughts, reading the comments I get and meeting new friends.
Thank you for some of your insights. I am consumed with the thought of making it "big", and getting that "one shot'. It's good to embrace the grind. Thank you!
i was depressed thanks for the motivation by this ultimate tittle
That was dope and probably just what I needed to hear
"You have to imagine Sisyphus happy".
Great video.
Loving the brick to structure analogy, great life concept. Keep creating SOLID bricks, you got this!
I tried starting a company and 2 years of clawing to get traction, I ultimately failed. I hear alot if you put the time in you'll get rewarded. Sometimes you dont. It sucks but that's just how life is. Will it stop me from trying again? Nope.
cause in entertainment industry, its part luck and part hard work and more networking........
Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you fail. Sometimes that’s mainly down to your decisions and sometimes the primary factor is just good or bad luck. One thing to remember though is that the more times you go for it, the better you’ll be at controlling the circumstances of your efforts and therefore the more likely you’ll be to succeed.
There are almost no extremely successful people who haven’t failed multiple times along the way. Keep it up man.
@@SasukeUchiha723 luck has nothing to do with it. it's about giving people what they want. if you don't, you fail. simple as that.
@Manannan anam unless you can explain what "luck" is scientifically, you are just saying gibberish nonsense.
@@DanielK1213th you do understand that games have a concept of probability right? Basically thats luck irl. The chances of your game success does need a push of luck. Say releasing the right game at the right time. Its applies for anyone
Thanks for saying all that. It is a powerful presentation of the creative life that most artists feel but isn't necessarily valued by others.
just when i think i get my life together
I know right
Hey Thomas! :) I was a KS backer for Pinstripe years ago. I've discovered your RUclips channel by pure chance, and wow! It really like your videos and your honest talking! That's super useful for me :)
Very glad to see within 1 minute you are not saying this...cause man, the world doesn't need more lemmings. We are all going to fail a lot in life, its better to fail at something you are passionate about.
One of the most gentle ways to remind the viewers to like your video!
Great video 💯👌🏽
God Bless you for keeping it real bro! thank you for sharing!
This was something I feel I needed to see to be honest the timing is kinda odd how this subject has been in my thoughts alot recently
kudos to you for talking like a real guy without rushing or playing the background music like most youtubers!
As long as my crazy dreams aren't about getting money, I can still follows it
Just upgraded my way of thinking and that's awesome thanks!
Wait what? Did he really burp on-camera? 13:13 😂 Keepin' it real.
Art and Game Dev are two things that I'm very passionate about and that I absolutely live for, but that's exactly why I DON'T want a career pursuing either. I want the things I'm passionate about to stay fun and enjoyable, with the ability to do them however and whenever I want, without a job corrupting the experience with particular standards and deadlines. Because of this, I'm fine making my living with a day-job and spending my free time doing what I love. Having something you can do on your own terms makes life much more enjoyable :)
It's the journey, not the destination...
I love how honest you are in your vids.
15:35 This reminds me of my first LSD Trip
I adore your ability to put in words what has been haunting me for years now.
Thanks for this video, I really needed this👍👍.
By the way, how do you earn monthly (Estimated).
Thanks Thomas. I stopped trying to make games in my spare time. As a full time game dev I don’t have a lot of spare time and it would take years to finish a game. Not a plan I liked so I refocused my efforts and decided to write a book about Game Dev instead. To use your analogy, I want this to be my first “brick”. I’ve had peers try to discourage me as they go for their “Dream Game” and I’ve seen two fail sadly. I’m trying to build something that lasts and gives me freedom so it’s good to hear from someone who is content for the time being with the freedom from their machine.
so a diamond brick on top of a gold brick, on top of a granite brick, on top of a clay brick... dude, how much minecraft have you been playing?
listening to this was like assembling scattered parts of my ideas and goals in life in one coherent concept. thanks!
I feel like making games and things are the end for me, as opposed being the means to an end.
Thats what hes trying to say, that if youre in it for the long run you shouldnt put your dream on having one hit game and then stop, you should enjoy the journey and build your skilld and rely on the skills to keep going
@@mch43856 Yeah, you should enjoy the journey, and do it for liking the doing, not just the end product.
@@CrystalKeeper7 Ill copy paste my comment above that I just posted because I think it explains it further what Thomas tried to say here "Reminds me of a scene in the Conan movie where the father explains the Riddle of Steel to Conan, saying to his kid that in life he can only trust steel. I've read online an interpretation that the steel represents knowledge and experience in life. Basically, having a hit game is a lottery, it might or might not happen, but knowledge and experience is something you can steadily build upon (like you said - bricks) and use it to make more quality games in your journey of game design/dev. Knowledge and experience is the steel we can trust."
This is my first time watching your video. Already love the transparency and vibe. I immediately smash the like and subscribe button.
13:21 Now class, this is what we in the industry refer to as "authenticity"... lol
This was well thought out and I love the brick metaphor. You need to keep working on your dreams each and every day, and pursuing the journey rather than the destination.
Dude, if I was making 2k a month, i could go full time indi dev.
Meaning I would be happily making content every day.
Oh Thomas. Your lighting is so warm and inviting, your manner of speech is always so open, and you've always got good advice. You must be an INFJ.
It's to discourage people, the best thing is to never give up
Elon musk is the real representation of not giving up
He was born super goddamn rich dude, come on
@@poposterous236 have you even seen his documentary
Damn I needed this video right now. Thank you.
Imagine getting a heart from Thomas Brush
You Dog ,well played Sir Sreejith Kakkat 👌🏽.
Yea imagine
imagine to get two hearts from Thomas Brush :/
Imagine actually imagining that.
Your dreams came true!
I 100% agree with you.... I'm a nobody but anything I've ever done, I've never thought of the result, always loved the journey (it's hard not to sound pretentious), I've always thought of my projects to be the next big step to the next step to create a productive item
Damn! I'm going through kinda same problem, like I wanted to be this tech genius, I tried programming, and than I wanted to become a game dev, and than into pentesting, and than again into game dev. Every single time I watch a new RUclips video, about any of these I just get curious and start learning about it, and than I loose interest.
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Whatever, I'm High Again.
I mean you can always make a game overtime. It doesn’t have to be a career or anything it could be a hobby