Dan you are brilliant. My no 1 reason why I am trapped in beginner’s hell is that I am not structured. I have so many ideas but I am not structured. And your video let me know that I’m not hopeless . There is a way to make it in this creator economy.
The thing that is keeping me in beginner's hell is not applying a structure to my content. I didn't have the distinctions to even understand what to look for. I have just started and I'm just know feeling confident in looking at my content with an analytical view. Last four months I have been doubling down in making content, not caring much for form and style. Also not having a clear mind on who I am doing this for, I keep switching. I have decided to tackle this as a profession to do what I love to do and open new horizons for me. This decision is what I needed to get more serious and gain clarity of mind. Thank you for the amazing class on escaping beginner's hell.
Hi Dan! I believe what makes me stay in beginner hell is constantly trying to emulate what bigger players are doing, instead of doing what is on my level... and my biggest takeaway is not trusting that just the quality content will increase the audience, but I also have to network and get other key folks to share what I produced. Thanks for the masterclass! I'm also a fan of your book... cheers
This is absolutely amazing. It’s so easy to devalue practical knowledge because we are unconsciously and secretly seeking a magical strategy. But, these strats stacked gives me a very structured window (that I’ve been lacking) to create from. My struggle has been on structure. I’m an off-the-curd passionate and engaging speaker, but I lack a structural support both in my tweets and my RUclips videos. I’ll be watching this again tomorrow and the next day fully. I’ve learned it takes my brain 3 times of viewing and dissecting something to pickup on the biggest value given in other’s information. It’s like I go from beginner, then intermediate, then to advanced (metaphorically speaking) and absorb new levels of content acquirement that I would have never gotten by watching once. Thanks, Dan! A masterclass!
Dan, I want to say that I’m going through the exponential event currently. I owe a lot of this to you. You helped me refine my content strategy and now it’s actually working. I’ve went up 1000 subscribers in the last 30 days when it used to take me a year. I do enjoy the repetition in your videos, keep doing what you do man!
Love it, Dan! ❤ I was stuck in beginner hell a long time, because I was overthinking too much: Personal brand vs. sellable business, niche down vs. just get started, building content vs. building products, etc. As a senior full stack web developer, I started a niche brand, but I also want to build SaaS products. I'll now start building in public and prioritize my personal brand. I also have the feeling of more authenticity this way.
Dan I did your genius idea method. It resulted in one of my most popular threads which landed me a paid feature in a mainstream magazine. The magazine feature landed me 2 PHD offers from two different universities. I declined to focus on what I'm doing. Appreciate your content.
Beginner’s hell is real, and this video sheds so much light on how to escape it. 🔥 The biggest takeaway? Clarity and consistency are everything. It’s not just about creating-it’s about structuring, iterating, and pushing past self-doubt
This video couldn't have come at a better time for me. I've recently started posting on Instagram but I've been feeling lost and demotivated, just because it seems like there is so much I don't know. Thanks Dan! There was a lot of value in this video here.
This one really hit home for me. I have watched your content for years, and as you say, repetition helps solidify things in the mind. Divinely timed too. Thank you! DK for all you do. 🙏
Being more specific on what message or messages that I’m trying to put in the audiences mind over time. Then, realizing I have to reiterate ideas for the new audience that didn’t know the previous information that my current audience knows, then also building upon that! Great video Dan!
I got humbled even dan koe himself says he cant change your own business by watching him. its all in our own so all I need is to apply and do what he says and learn anything. sounds simple but it takes years to do. 🙂
I'm stuck not knowing social media culture and navigating the learning curve for networking in these spaces. I love the valueyou deliver and your direct approach to respond to my pain.😭 This is very encouraging that most of us are tempted to quit, so just keep failing until it clicks 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ok, so this may be one of the most helpful videos to date for ME. First, 10 big accounts and the reply steps. Duh. I feel like a total dipsh*t because I have been doing it wrong for months now. First thank you. Second thank you- as much as I think that my content is good, apparently if i have 25 followers, it can't be as good as i think it is. This is not tough for me to take because I am used to rejection. And not in a "feel sorry for me" way, just as a person who has auditioned for almost 40 years and rejection is usually not personal in that life. Does it feel like it? Absolutely. But, obviously I need to change something. Maybe everything. Third and final thank you. Thank you for your brutal honesty. It keeps me going and I appreciate it more than you know. Looking forward to more!
Thanks Dan, this is exactly what I needed to hear at this point. Starting from zero, not sure how to start, this will give me a direction. Loving kortex, keep up the great work.👍
What has kept me stuck is what product or service i can make out of my passions. I love to travel and have had a passion for sports since i was a kid. I'm slowly learning that i can monetize these hobbies more and more. From writing a sports newsletter or setting up a business where i photograph hotels and hostels as a service. Your content is slowly giving me the belief that i could make a one person business out of my passions. Excited to see the next video on building a product and how it can expand my beliefs further.
Great video, thanks Dan. To answer your question, a sticky point for me is overthinking video ideas/ scripts and pushing past a few videos that dont perform as well. I noticed the videos on which I spend more time are ones that tend to perform poorer. I adopted your writing framework last year, in fact, I have it at the start of every script, I'm working to reduce the stress around overthinking and its helping me alot in my production and narrowing down my nice which is personal finance + life in early retirement. Thanks a lot 💗
The content always gets me back in focus. The big lesson I’m getting here is to experiment and explore. In this experience, be analytical and see what works. Following the guidance given will serve as a path in the void. I struggle with consistency personally. I find that I create in bursts 1 day on, 3 days off. It sucks because I know it takes consistency. The bright side to this is that there’s a pain there and a problem to solve. Gotta figure this shit out😅. Anyways thank you for the videos and the added resources to help!
10:24 This conversation about repetition being necessary is a good one. You need repetition to succeed and then even more repetition to sustain this success in the long term. Telling one story in 100 different ways is more valuable than telling 100 new stories.
Thaks mate, great value content as usual. I started posting in social media for little more than a year ago, then I got a mentor, he gave me a blueprint and I started to follow it. But did the misstake most people do, I started to listen to more and more people and I got confused. Then I started to do less and less videos and posts. Kind of I lost my way.. Now I´m getting back to business. This info is great 💙🤙
My sticking point was that as a 51 year old with decades of experience in corporate roles, I thought I was beyond training wheels & I've missed an opportunity to grow through frameworks, not realising I'm a beginner at all of this again. Thanks for the reminder, I'm totally up for the beginner mindset & ready to build myself out of beginner hell. Thanks for reminding me that I'd already paid for 2 hour writer & OPBL!!! 😘
In beginner hell right now, but it's only the beginning. I'm grateful for the tiny tiny support I've had in my first month. I'm just going to keep getting better at it. The tips in the video were helpful. Thanks, Dan! (Breaking out of my shell and actually commenting instead of just thinking about it)
I never thought frameworks are going to be my key out of beginner hell. Thank you, Dan! I will be testing the pain point - process framework in the next 5 days.
I am stuck in the beginner hell because I don't iterate enough. I am socially awkward. I think too much about "being authentic". Now I will follow your tips to focus on building a world for my audience.
Thank you Dan. Thank you for sharing such strong advice. You are successful and busy and have plenty of other things to do to make money, but instead you help us, for free, with passion and clear actionable points. I appreciate this so much and you are helping me focus and make my first steps. Thanks
I didn't know about idea structure although I have been following you for a year now. So I will start learning how to structure my ideas then restart the posting journey 🙂 Thank you
100% on beginner hell (sandbox) but man it's fun once you breakout! Great video! You offer so many great concepts and frameworks to help creators. Just found you and subscribed.
Find your favorite creators and watching their beginner videos is the best advice. I did this and that overwhelming feeling of not being good enough goes away. Everyone had to start somewhere.
This one has me really feeling it, man. A sip of water while stranded in the desert. Didn't know that I needed to let out a few tears of weary self-gratitude. Only being 4 months into this, it's massively encouraging to get some perspective on the reality of my situation. Learn what works for beginners, start by investigating pain points & understanding relatability. Still a fool, still a beginner, but nourished to forge onward.
My sticking point is I have never tried to structure how I speak, ever! I would just speak freely. Now I am overly focused on trying to be structured and I have lost my voice because it doesn't feel natural. My only solice and hope has come this week after watching your podcast with the Stan guys and one of them mentioned this Emma Chamberlain girl (I had never heard of her.) I checked her out and was bowled over by the sheer numbers of followers she has. She's given me a feeling of freedom that there is space for people on you tube who are less naturally structured and that I am not utterly failing by doing something more casual until I can get over the stress of trying to be more articulate with my thoughts when the flow of my thoughts are being fully blocked by these bullshit notions of failure because doing what everyone else is doing is not working for me at the moment because I have never had to discipline myself to speak in real time. I appreciate this Emma Chamberlain girl because there's freedom in her videos which I think I need to have for a long period before I can progress to feeling comfortable with structure because it does not come naturally for me. FAILURE! 😆
I think I am afraid of unknown. Whenever I start it feels so tough because I don’t know yet how to do. It feels overwhelming. My mind starts distracting me. I am afraid to deep dive into it. I am in my comfort zone. I need to get out of this. Time is precious. Thank you Dan for value you provide.
@@sunainasaroeay8098 work on ownself to know what is evil , stopping me. I am also working on that. The beginning is know thyself. That's bring clarity
Great video. The one thing that is keeping me trapped is finding the one niche idea to discuss on social media for growth. I feel like im all over the place with my tweets on X, but I feel that is how X is too.
In the interest of letting you know which part resonated or "landed well" with me, because I know it's helpful to creators to know, the summary at 42:11 really stood out. It makes the process seem a little less daunting. Cheers, I appreciate you.
Wow, actually good advise! This is a staple of info. Thank you for not holding back and giving it your all. I will be re-listening to this over and over.
Beginner hell for me is getting trapped by the dopamine hit of watching content with no action taken afterwards. As you say, I need to just start building and learn the gaps in my knowledge as I do that!
Here’s a suggestion: reframe “beginner hell” to “learning heaven” I’m at 330 subscribers. Part of me feels like that’s so low. But a quick reframe and I realize that this is AMAZING. Imagine someone you know watching one of your videos, all the way through. Imagine how proud you’d feel. Then, imagine 330 people doing the same thing. All of a sudden, “beginner hell” isn’t so “hellish”. It’s more like heaven.
I started my instagram account as content creator and one of my post reached 638k. After that I stopped posting and changed my account from content creator to personal blog because I got too scared. And I’ve don’t this on and off. I was afraid to start again but watching this gives me a newer perspective on how much I didn’t know and that’s what I was afraid of.
I feel Daniel König will cross 1M threshold within next 6 months, thanks to the compound effect at play here. Meaning he will making 10% progress, in less than 10% of the time(relative to his whole online presence). Wish u good luck Dan!!
I always look forward to listening to these videos on Sunday afternoons and finally have a smartphone to film music-related content. Thanks, @DanKoeTalks . I really enjoyed reading this newsletter about the video last week.
From start to finish, could you imagine that this video cost me 4 hours 22 minutes to finish because I had to watch stop write, and play over and again, and in Nigeria, it was already midnight thank you dan
Here is what keeps me trapped> Not allowing myself to be seen. Feelings and emotions interfere with me posting me in action, with a voice, putting personality into my mini world that I am creating.
I'm not even sure what my sticking point is really. I'm in my 2nd month of consistent content creation, mostly Twitter/X but also RUclips. I am going to try to focus more on content templates and commenting even more on others' timelines within my niche this month to see if that helps. Great video as always.
It seems like I have to adjust so much for planning and follow through. While handling all the fires that are coming at me metaphorically, more systems are more precise coaching. I have to do more following through. I truly love everything I'm doing. I just want more money from what I'm doing.
just pulled all my designs to rework them now i am questioning if i should redo my logo as well this video is serendipity and just what is needed I think
Hi! What kept me trapped is lack of clarity of what I’m sharing, why and how. I am craving structure for my imagination and a plan to take action. On it ! Thanks for your contribution to my growth!
Not committing the topic to become an authority in and jumping from topic to topic and thinking I don't need a structured approach for my content and media approach.
The thing that keeps me trapped in beginner hell are the posts that get a big engagement and succeeds... It always make the next post harder because I expect it to work as good as the one before and this tortures me and keeps me from posting more. And Hi Dan, Love you
the thing keeping me trapped in beginner hell is not practicing other people templates with my own ideas, I do free style post and I gues that is why I don't have enough engagement. Thanks the video was very helpful.
The thing that is keeping me trapped in beginner hell is having the RIGHT THINGS for the content I am creating. Outdated hardware/equipment, cheap equipment, broken equipment. It all hinders my progress in some way.
Dan, I want to thank you for the content you give away. I've had a blog for 3 years, offering a service that has made 10 grand each year, but I'm ready to make "real" money. I'm a 62 year old grandma that's just getting started...😂. Thank you, sir!
Probably the thing keeping me in beginner hell is not really knowing who my audience is and what they get out of what we're producing (inspiration, information, entertainment, etc.). We had a fair amount of success early on with a video series and that kind of dissipated. We haven't been able to deduce what the missing variable is to our more recent content.
TOP video .. I think my idea about the concept I have will take time to resonate with my audience as my tribe is biased by the ego I also had. So it will take time but it is possible step by step ... trial and error.
I think I understand what you feel. I'm not really pursuing a music career, but I tried playing bass guitar once and quit. I SUCKED more than words could describe, that's how I felt before I dropped it. I am currently learning copywriting with a bit of design but Here's what I would do: → Try sharing your story, when I think about storytelling sometimes I overcomplicate things. Just be simple with it. You can write something like ''3 Things I Did To Write My First Song". Share the problems you faced, and how you tackled them, get people interested, and build an audience. → Teach a simple process of how you write music to the audience you've built, you can sell this as a service or course and maybe even share a few of your songs too. → You don't just do music you do everything. Basically, you shouldn't only focus on your music, several other things are required if you want to make a living doing what you love 30:14. Dan Koe explains this better than I can in The One-Person Business Playlist. This is what I do if I were in your shoes. Hopefully, it gave you some clarity on what to do next. By the way, I still love bass guitar, I just don't play; I enjoy listening to people play good music.
I’ve ran a town Facebook page for over a decade. It was pretty much a monthly cycle where posts would just get average attention and then it would spike and drop off again. Was interesting to observe. I’ve only more recently stopped paying attention to it. So it’s good to get the reminder that that is what happens. 13:22
I guess the one thing keeping me in the beginner hell is not knowing what value I'm meant to create. I've tried some stuff but it doesn't seem to work. I also have a lot of emotional blockages... they keep me from opening up beyond a certain point. There may be more things, but this is what comes to mind for now. Thanks for the value though... this video was really helpful.
As someone on the border between beginner hell and intermediate heaven, this video could not come at a better time. Trust me, everything Dan is saying here is true. I am living through it right now.
What has kept me in beginner hell is not knowing any better, trapped within the thought that my creativity is jus around my specialty, that is music, but now I've been seing results of learning that I can be a creative business entrepeneur, teacher, and even product designer!
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Dan you are brilliant. My no 1 reason why I am trapped in beginner’s hell is that I am not structured. I have so many ideas but I am not structured. And your video let me know that I’m not hopeless . There is a way to make it in this creator economy.
This video is highly insightful. Anyone can improve significantly in about 2-3 years by simply listening to your videos and applying your teachings.
The thing that is keeping me in beginner's hell is not applying a structure to my content.
I didn't have the distinctions to even understand what to look for. I have just started and I'm just know feeling confident in looking at my content with an analytical view. Last four months I have been doubling down in making content, not caring much for form and style.
Also not having a clear mind on who I am doing this for, I keep switching.
I have decided to tackle this as a profession to do what I love to do and open new horizons for me. This decision is what I needed to get more serious and gain clarity of mind.
Thank you for the amazing class on escaping beginner's hell.
Mine is that I thought content is everything, I was here waiting for the algorithm to work its magic
Starting with pain points just saved my content. My mind gets so scattered. I am highly motivated, however my focus has been off. Thank you Dan!
Hi Dan! I believe what makes me stay in beginner hell is constantly trying to emulate what bigger players are doing, instead of doing what is on my level... and my biggest takeaway is not trusting that just the quality content will increase the audience, but I also have to network and get other key folks to share what I produced. Thanks for the masterclass! I'm also a fan of your book... cheers
This is absolutely amazing. It’s so easy to devalue practical knowledge because we are unconsciously and secretly seeking a magical strategy.
But, these strats stacked gives me a very structured window (that I’ve been lacking) to create from.
My struggle has been on structure. I’m an off-the-curd passionate and engaging speaker, but I lack a structural support both in my tweets and my RUclips videos.
I’ll be watching this again tomorrow and the next day fully. I’ve learned it takes my brain 3 times of viewing and dissecting something to pickup on the biggest value given in other’s information. It’s like I go from beginner, then intermediate, then to advanced (metaphorically speaking) and absorb new levels of content acquirement that I would have never gotten by watching once. Thanks, Dan! A masterclass!
Dan, I want to say that I’m going through the exponential event currently. I owe a lot of this to you. You helped me refine my content strategy and now it’s actually working. I’ve went up 1000 subscribers in the last 30 days when it used to take me a year. I do enjoy the repetition in your videos, keep doing what you do man!
Love it, Dan! ❤ I was stuck in beginner hell a long time, because I was overthinking too much: Personal brand vs. sellable business, niche down vs. just get started, building content vs. building products, etc. As a senior full stack web developer, I started a niche brand, but I also want to build SaaS products. I'll now start building in public and prioritize my personal brand. I also have the feeling of more authenticity this way.
Dan I did your genius idea method. It resulted in one of my most popular threads which landed me a paid feature in a mainstream magazine. The magazine feature landed me 2 PHD offers from two different universities. I declined to focus on what I'm doing. Appreciate your content.
Wild bro haha. Respect
Beginner’s hell is real, and this video sheds so much light on how to escape it. 🔥 The biggest takeaway? Clarity and consistency are everything. It’s not just about creating-it’s about structuring, iterating, and pushing past self-doubt
This video couldn't have come at a better time for me. I've recently started posting on Instagram but I've been feeling lost and demotivated, just because it seems like there is so much I don't know.
Thanks Dan! There was a lot of value in this video here.
This one really hit home for me. I have watched your content for years, and as you say, repetition helps solidify things in the mind. Divinely timed too. Thank you! DK for all you do. 🙏
Being more specific on what message or messages that I’m trying to put in the audiences mind over time. Then, realizing I have to reiterate ideas for the new audience that didn’t know the previous information that my current audience knows, then also building upon that!
Great video Dan!
I’ve felt lost for a long time, like I have no direction, but your videos have helped me start figuring things out. That means a lot.
"You are the CEO. Act like it."
You never let us wallow in self-pity. Lol. Thanks for this, Dan. Absolutely FILLED with gold!
I got humbled even dan koe himself says he cant change your own business by watching him. its all in our own so all I need is to apply and do what he says and learn anything. sounds simple but it takes years to do. 🙂
I'm stuck not knowing social media culture and navigating the learning curve for networking in these spaces. I love the valueyou deliver and your direct approach to respond to my pain.😭 This is very encouraging that most of us are tempted to quit, so just keep failing until it clicks 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ok, so this may be one of the most helpful videos to date for ME. First, 10 big accounts and the reply steps. Duh. I feel like a total dipsh*t because I have been doing it wrong for months now. First thank you.
Second thank you- as much as I think that my content is good, apparently if i have 25 followers, it can't be as good as i think it is. This is not tough for me to take because I am used to rejection. And not in a "feel sorry for me" way, just as a person who has auditioned for almost 40 years and rejection is usually not personal in that life. Does it feel like it? Absolutely. But, obviously I need to change something. Maybe everything.
Third and final thank you. Thank you for your brutal honesty. It keeps me going and I appreciate it more than you know. Looking forward to more!
Thanks Dan, this is exactly what I needed to hear at this point. Starting from zero, not sure how to start, this will give me a direction. Loving kortex, keep up the great work.👍
What has kept me stuck is what product or service i can make out of my passions. I love to travel and have had a passion for sports since i was a kid. I'm slowly learning that i can monetize these hobbies more and more. From writing a sports newsletter or setting up a business where i photograph hotels and hostels as a service. Your content is slowly giving me the belief that i could make a one person business out of my passions. Excited to see the next video on building a product and how it can expand my beliefs further.
Great video, thanks Dan. To answer your question, a sticky point for me is overthinking video ideas/ scripts and pushing past a few videos that dont perform as well. I noticed the videos on which I spend more time are ones that tend to perform poorer. I adopted your writing framework last year, in fact, I have it at the start of every script, I'm working to reduce the stress around overthinking and its helping me alot in my production and narrowing down my nice which is personal finance + life in early retirement. Thanks a lot 💗
you are my fav personal development creator! thank you for everything 🙏🏼
The content always gets me back in focus. The big lesson I’m getting here is to experiment and explore. In this experience, be analytical and see what works. Following the guidance given will serve as a path in the void. I struggle with consistency personally. I find that I create in bursts 1 day on, 3 days off. It sucks because I know it takes consistency. The bright side to this is that there’s a pain there and a problem to solve. Gotta figure this shit out😅.
Anyways thank you for the videos and the added resources to help!
your every video gives me new goosebumbs
10:24 This conversation about repetition being necessary is a good one. You need repetition to succeed and then even more repetition to sustain this success in the long term. Telling one story in 100 different ways is more valuable than telling 100 new stories.
Thaks mate, great value content as usual. I started posting in social media for little more than a year ago, then I got a mentor, he gave me a blueprint and I started to follow it. But did the misstake most people do, I started to listen to more and more people and I got confused. Then I started to do less and less videos and posts. Kind of I lost my way.. Now I´m getting back to business. This info is great 💙🤙
My sticking point was that as a 51 year old with decades of experience in corporate roles, I thought I was beyond training wheels & I've missed an opportunity to grow through frameworks, not realising I'm a beginner at all of this again. Thanks for the reminder, I'm totally up for the beginner mindset & ready to build myself out of beginner hell. Thanks for reminding me that I'd already paid for 2 hour writer & OPBL!!! 😘
In beginner hell right now, but it's only the beginning. I'm grateful for the tiny tiny support I've had in my first month. I'm just going to keep getting better at it.
The tips in the video were helpful. Thanks, Dan!
(Breaking out of my shell and actually commenting instead of just thinking about it)
Very nice value.
Just started my content creation journey for my small e-commerce business.
This helped a lot in creating a direction.
I never thought frameworks are going to be my key out of beginner hell. Thank you, Dan! I will be testing the pain point - process framework in the next 5 days.
I am stuck in the beginner hell because I don't iterate enough. I am socially awkward. I think too much about "being authentic". Now I will follow your tips to focus on building a world for my audience.
thank you so much Dan. After watching this, will go on a walk. Have taken notes in Cortex as well. I am currently stuck in the beginner hell phase.
The timing of this video!! Thanks Dan
Wish I could travel back in time and tell my past self - but I guess we all do the best with the level of awareness we have in this moment ✨
Thank you Dan. Thank you for sharing such strong advice. You are successful and busy and have plenty of other things to do to make money, but instead you help us, for free, with passion and clear actionable points. I appreciate this so much and you are helping me focus and make my first steps. Thanks
Dan the CHAMPION
This video is like a 45 minute masterclass
Appreciate the knowledge
I didn't know about idea structure although I have been following you for a year now. So I will start learning how to structure my ideas then restart the posting journey 🙂 Thank you
Absolutely brilliant-so much value here-thank you! I'm trying the framework right now. 🙌
100% on beginner hell (sandbox) but man it's fun once you breakout! Great video! You offer so many great concepts and frameworks to help creators. Just found you and subscribed.
I actually managed to transform my mind completely in 30 days. More ideas, more clarity, only focus.
Find your favorite creators and watching their beginner videos is the best advice.
I did this and that overwhelming feeling of not being good enough goes away.
Everyone had to start somewhere.
This one has me really feeling it, man. A sip of water while stranded in the desert. Didn't know that I needed to let out a few tears of weary self-gratitude.
Only being 4 months into this, it's massively encouraging to get some perspective on the reality of my situation.
Learn what works for beginners, start by investigating pain points & understanding relatability.
Still a fool, still a beginner, but nourished to forge onward.
My sticking point is I have never tried to structure how I speak, ever! I would just speak freely. Now I am overly focused on trying to be structured and I have lost my voice because it doesn't feel natural. My only solice and hope has come this week after watching your podcast with the Stan guys and one of them mentioned this Emma Chamberlain girl (I had
never heard of her.) I checked her out and was bowled over by the sheer numbers of followers she has. She's given me a feeling of freedom that there is space for people on you tube who are less naturally structured and that I am not utterly failing by doing something more casual until I can get over the stress of trying to be more articulate with my thoughts when the flow of my thoughts are being fully blocked by these bullshit notions of failure because doing what everyone else is doing is not working for me at the moment because I have never had to discipline myself to speak in real time. I appreciate this Emma Chamberlain girl because there's freedom in her videos which I think I need to have for a long period before I can progress to feeling comfortable with structure because it does not come naturally for me. FAILURE! 😆
I think I am afraid of unknown. Whenever I start it feels so tough because I don’t know yet how to do. It feels overwhelming. My mind starts distracting me. I am afraid to deep dive into it. I am in my comfort zone. I need to get out of this. Time is precious. Thank you Dan for value you provide.
@@sunainasaroeay8098 work on ownself to know what is evil , stopping me. I am also working on that.
The beginning is know thyself. That's bring clarity
Great video.
The one thing that is keeping me trapped is finding the one niche idea to discuss on social media for growth. I feel like im all over the place with my tweets on X, but I feel that is how X is too.
In the interest of letting you know which part resonated or "landed well" with me, because I know it's helpful to creators to know, the summary at 42:11 really stood out. It makes the process seem a little less daunting. Cheers, I appreciate you.
Thank you Dan! I listened to your video twice while talking notes. Not sure if you realize it but you are getting better every time!
Wow, actually good advise! This is a staple of info. Thank you for not holding back and giving it your all. I will be re-listening to this over and over.
Beginner hell for me is getting trapped by the dopamine hit of watching content with no action taken afterwards. As you say, I need to just start building and learn the gaps in my knowledge as I do that!
Thank you for dropping this
Here’s a suggestion: reframe “beginner hell” to “learning heaven”
I’m at 330 subscribers. Part of me feels like that’s so low. But a quick reframe and I realize that this is AMAZING.
Imagine someone you know watching one of your videos, all the way through. Imagine how proud you’d feel. Then, imagine 330 people doing the same thing.
All of a sudden, “beginner hell” isn’t so “hellish”. It’s more like heaven.
This is beautiful.
I started my instagram account as content creator and one of my post reached 638k. After that I stopped posting and changed my account from content creator to personal blog because I got too scared. And I’ve don’t this on and off. I was afraid to start again but watching this gives me a newer perspective on how much I didn’t know and that’s what I was afraid of.
That’s crazy it’s like I wrote nearly the same thing. I’d just go ghost whenever one of my posts would go viral.
I feel Daniel König will cross 1M threshold within next 6 months, thanks to the compound effect at play here. Meaning he will making 10% progress, in less than 10% of the time(relative to his whole online presence). Wish u good luck Dan!!
Facts. I think he will have 1 Million by June 1st, 2025.
I have shared this video to my small community of creators. So much valuable advice packed in 45 mins. Thanks for sharing
I always look forward to listening to these videos on Sunday afternoons and finally have a smartphone to film music-related content. Thanks, @DanKoeTalks . I really enjoyed reading this newsletter about the video last week.
From start to finish, could you imagine that this video cost me 4 hours 22 minutes to finish because I had to watch stop write, and play over and again, and in Nigeria, it was already midnight thank you dan
I love how you're able to put things into perspective without making me feel overwhelmed or stupid for wanting to actually make this work. Thank you
feeling unsure of what to talk about is what keeps me a bit stuck.
Here is what keeps me trapped> Not allowing myself to be seen.
Feelings and emotions interfere with me posting me in action, with a voice, putting personality into my mini world that I am creating.
Saved, this is video is 🔥🔥🔥 on actual steps to take!!! Thank you!
Another extremely valuable video! Thanks Dan!
Thank you.. very helpful. Need to stick to the frameworks and work myself out of there.
I'm not even sure what my sticking point is really. I'm in my 2nd month of consistent content creation, mostly Twitter/X but also RUclips. I am going to try to focus more on content templates and commenting even more on others' timelines within my niche this month to see if that helps.
Great video as always.
I was waiting for this, I am in this exact spot. Thank you Dan ❤️
It seems like I have to adjust so much for planning and follow through. While handling all the fires that are coming at me metaphorically, more systems are more precise coaching. I have to do more following through. I truly love everything I'm doing. I just want more money from what I'm doing.
"people are as afraid as dming someone as they are to speak to speak to someone on the street" facts
just pulled all my designs to rework them now i am questioning if i should redo my logo as well this video is serendipity and just what is needed I think
What comes first, the offer or the content? This has been the biggest hold up for me
Perfect timing for this video. I’m 3 months into my RUclips journey but I know my people are out there. 1000 subs are right around the corner!
In sha allah
Pain point + sharing solution = authority growth....wow... ty
finding the perfect nich to follow and thinking about the destination with out traying the first step
Superb analysis dear kèep it up
Hi! What kept me trapped is lack of clarity of what I’m sharing, why and how. I am craving structure for my imagination and a plan to take action. On it ! Thanks for your contribution to my growth!
Not committing the topic to become an authority in and jumping from topic to topic and thinking I don't need a structured approach for my content and media approach.
We are all going to make it 🙌🏽
The thing that keeps me trapped in beginner hell are the posts that get a big engagement and succeeds... It always make the next post harder because I expect it to work as good as the one before and this tortures me and keeps me from posting more.
And Hi Dan, Love you
the thing keeping me trapped in beginner hell is not practicing other people templates with my own ideas, I do free style post and I gues that is why I don't have enough engagement. Thanks the video was very helpful.
This video is so rich that I can't sit still. Thanks so much!
The thing that is keeping me trapped in beginner hell is having the RIGHT THINGS for the content I am creating. Outdated hardware/equipment, cheap equipment, broken equipment. It all hinders my progress in some way.
this video was much needed thanks dan
13:28 that's a smile I've rarely ever seen 😂
Dan, has anyone ever told you that you’re like a good version of Dennis from It’s Always Sunny?
Joke aside, thank you for your work.
Dan, I want to thank you for the content you give away. I've had a blog for 3 years, offering a service that has made 10 grand each year, but I'm ready to make "real" money. I'm a 62 year old grandma that's just getting started...😂. Thank you, sir!
What keeps me in beginner's hell is believing that the country I live in will hinder my succcess along with the mindset of the people that live in it.
Probably the thing keeping me in beginner hell is not really knowing who my audience is and what they get out of what we're producing (inspiration, information, entertainment, etc.). We had a fair amount of success early on with a video series and that kind of dissipated. We haven't been able to deduce what the missing variable is to our more recent content.
Please drop more of these videos. ❤❤❤
TOP video .. I think my idea about the concept I have will take time to resonate with my audience as my tribe is biased by the ego I also had. So it will take time but it is possible step by step ... trial and error.
44:31 for me I’d say being on the fence with 8 different ideas before going all in on one
I often struggle with translating these concepts into my music career as a singer-songwriter.
I was about to type this. I understand the points in the video but I don’t understand how to put it into a music career context
I think I understand what you feel. I'm not really pursuing a music career, but I tried playing bass guitar once and quit. I SUCKED more than words could describe, that's how I felt before I dropped it.
I am currently learning copywriting with a bit of design but
Here's what I would do:
→ Try sharing your story, when I think about storytelling sometimes I overcomplicate things. Just be simple with it. You can write something like ''3 Things I Did To Write My First Song". Share the problems you faced, and how you tackled them, get people interested, and build an audience.
→ Teach a simple process of how you write music to the audience you've built, you can sell this as a service or course and maybe even share a few of your songs too.
→ You don't just do music you do everything. Basically, you shouldn't only focus on your music, several other things are required if you want to make a living doing what you love 30:14. Dan Koe explains this better than I can in The One-Person Business Playlist.
This is what I do if I were in your shoes. Hopefully, it gave you some clarity on what to do next.
By the way, I still love bass guitar, I just don't play; I enjoy listening to people play good music.
Currently in year 5 of begginers hell… feels great to know im not alone. Feels terrible to know I have no idea how to get costumers.
i needed this one Dan, thank you !!
I’ve ran a town Facebook page for over a decade. It was pretty much a monthly cycle where posts would just get average attention and then it would spike and drop off again. Was interesting to observe. I’ve only more recently stopped paying attention to it. So it’s good to get the reminder that that is what happens. 13:22
Awesome as always Dan, thank you so much
I guess the one thing keeping me in the beginner hell is not knowing what value I'm meant to create.
I've tried some stuff but it doesn't seem to work.
I also have a lot of emotional blockages... they keep me from opening up beyond a certain point.
There may be more things, but this is what comes to mind for now.
Thanks for the value though... this video was really helpful.
I took almost 4 pages of notes from this video.
Dan Koe's every sentence basically holds immense value. Guy is a legend.
Yes, can relate. Super refreshing, I love that he doesn't waste time, just starts. I always need to pause his videos to make notes.😊
As someone on the border between beginner hell and intermediate heaven, this video could not come at a better time. Trust me, everything Dan is saying here is true. I am living through it right now.
Hey Dan
Thank you so much for your valuable insight sharing here from ❤your heart.
I am drifting in
Public Speaking
Writing
Know thyself
What has kept me in beginner hell is not knowing any better, trapped within the thought that my creativity is jus around my specialty, that is music, but now I've been seing results of learning that I can be a creative business entrepeneur, teacher, and even product designer!
Dan the MAN! 🙏🔥😉
Im doing horrible in RUclips but god knows I have a positive message on ima keep posting video here