Something I realized years ago, and many people doesn't understand. Life in general is selling your time to get money, and if you get enough, buy other people time to help with your tasks. Classical example is people who works to hiring a nanny
"Be mindful" is the most important part imo. Make the active choice to spend time on those non-productive activities instead of just getting sucked into it and wondering where the time went.
Been saying, thinking and acting on this exact philosophy for 4 years now. I've seen nothing but growth from it. Glad you're sharing to those who need to hear it.
Thank you so much for saying this. It always blows my mind why people don't consider how much money 1 hour of their life is worth and use it efficiently.
What you did was played smart not dumb compared to your friend. Playing games is great way to take break. Like you said he could have thrown that 10 hrs at a different thing. Heck he even could have played and beat a new game with that time. Work smart not hard people
Royal Skies, I appreciate you for being actually helpful and concise with teaching instead of wasting my time for monetization/attention like most tutorial channels seem to do.
We all tell ourselves this, but it helps to hear to someone say it out loud. I've been lacking the motivation to chase anything in recent months, getting a reminder to not waste my entire off day trying to catch virtual fish in ff14, is probably a good thing.
@@kidmosey I partially agree with you. But what if he needs that add-on for a job that will yield a larger sum of money, in that case he might be better off buying it. Thinking of another example, imagine you want to make a drawing but for that you had to learn how to manufacture a pencil and a sheet of paper. Yeah you would acquire lots of knowledge along the way but is it really the best approach for your goal?
Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time. -Bertrand Russell procrastination and playing games aren't necessarily the same thing. You might not understand why someone would be proud of beating a game but , If a silly phone game fills a need, it's not a waste. It's an investment in a person's happiness which in turn makes them more productive than that person would be without the game. It may not be true for you, but for them it usually is.
Absolutely, only if they aren't running to escape something they could've done that day that was avoided or forgotten! Always important to enjoy the life and leave something for our future selves the next day.
You're right that in-game accomplishments and "e-peen" mean more to some than others, but his main point is that we need to be Mindful of the time. We have to ask ourselves just Why we want that achievement, and ask ourselves if we're even having fun on the way there to begin with In a lot of these grindy F2P games, the gameplay winds up more stressful than fun once they start putting Hours into it (and they don't always consciously realize it!). Like Guild Wars in Granblue Fantasy, or any other game that has a tiering event. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people stressing about Guild Wars and just thought to myself "is it really worth it guys?" So why not spend all that time on your projects instead, especially if the time invested will make you happier in the long run? Only you can answer that question for yourself, but it's an important question that everyone needs to ask themselves often and sometimes... the answer's gonna be that you didn't actually enjoy the time you wasted.
@@bruhmoment6984 I agree with some of what you said.. But if you enjoy it it's not wasted time, and you ended what you said with saying that you hypothetically did in fact waste time, which makes me think you don't quite get what I'm saying. If you ask yourself.. Am I really enjoying this, and the answer is no? Then stop. But if you're not really enjoying it.. Then that's a different situation all together. In the story this guy told, the other guy was enjoying his game and sense of accomplishment. That has value. We give up fun far too quickly as adults without realizing how important it is to our sanity. And we tend to over value work. Life needs balance. work, fun, rest, social connections. But our society pressures us to live without balance, to put no value on half of that. And then we wonder why depression and heart disease is so common
@@jameshughes3014 You're right, I don't think I quite got what you were saying the first time I agree now, that was kind of a weird part; sure the guy who spent 10 hours on Puzzles n Dragons didnt make that extra 60 bucks, but also doing an extra shift comes with its own set of caveats Sometimes you just wanna relax and play a game, hell, oftentimes we NEED to goof off if we want to use the rest of our time well (I definitely still agree with the main point of the video tho ie. be Mindful of your time)
@@bruhmoment6984 your right about that, another thing this world is good at is encouraging escapism and it's easy to lose track. Finding that balance can be tough, at least it is for me.
I like some of the lofi channels -- they are music like you said, encouraging the listener to study and work. I've found them very helpful to help me concentrate, focus, and stop wasting time. And I watched this video with speed set to 1.25
For me, the biggest time waster is the "idea pool". As a game developer, I constantly get new ideas for games I want to make and either start a new project for every one (leaving me with a hundred started projects and none finished) or debate with myself for hours on what idea to start developing (leaving me with nothing done)... In order to fix this I've started forcing different limitations on the idea pool in order to decrease its size (such as graphical/stylistic limitations, gameplay/genre limitations, topic/story limitations, console-style limitations, etc.) until, ideally, I only have one idea left in the pool and can just start working on that until I finish it.
@@Entikai No, and I wouldn't even want to. I'm one of those people who like closure. The feeling of being able to close a book and moving onto something new is just the best. However, if you would want to make something like that, maybe look into the history of Earth and/or the history of mankind, I'm sure you could make a game from that and keep expanding it indefinitely with new periods, new lands, new species, new ages, new frontiers... and so on. You could call it Life the Game and make it an MMO so everyone could play it together.
Can you teach us how to use Cascadeur which is a new animation rigging software with AI tech? I think a lot of people will want to know about it because it is just very useful!
This is really interesting. I think the reason most people don't see it this way is because they don't have easily controllable ways to turn their time into money, or at least they don't think they do. Someone might work a standard full-time job that doesn't have many options to pick up extra shifts or money so they convince themselves that there's a limit to what money will be available. I've learned that a lot of people are really skilled at certain things but they just don't know how to market that skill so they never make money from it.
I've only gotten convinced witb this recently, after hearing the word "economical". It has been too late or even, more emotions are stronger, hahahahahh school life is a pain.
Absolutely! I was trying to explain this to friend physiotherapist. He was making all his accounting himself and spent hours figure out how to do it. Most of it on the weekends. He was terrible with numbers and was making mistakes etc. In his views, he was saving money by not hiring an accountant. I was like, why don't you work extra hours as a physiotherapist to pay for it? He was spending 10 days doing his accounting and he needed half a day of work to pay for the accountant fee... He couldn't agree with that for some reason.
I totally understand where your friend comes from as I have been there(not with finances but with other stuff), but there comes a point where the opportunity cost is just too great
To be a bit fair to your friend, that's knowledge that carries over. First time it takes 10 days, next time 5, and so on. I'm not saying it's worth it still, but that depends on multiple factors and it's not as simple as you present.
@S S Yes, but I think that there is a limit on how much of an expert you can become for something you do once or twice a year. He will probably never be able to do it in half a day. On top of that, what he is able to charge as a physiotherapist also increases yearly so the gap between what he can earn as physiotherapist and what he saves when doing his accounting might never close. If he wants to get new skills, there is a ton of trainings he can get as physiotherapist that might boost his income. I would understand if he enjoys the accounting part. I have learned a lot of skills that are not related to my job but they are hobbies to me. I don't when he struggles and complains about it.
I would say one thing for people who likes to listen to music, watch series, shows, movies, or even play games, and if you are the creative type, you will get ideas randomly at times. For me, I do a little bit of everything depending my mood, and if it is just right, I get some ideas that I am more proud of than "brute force" it trough. It have helped me to not only be more creative as a writer and as an artist, but also be more knowledgeable when I search up information on Wikipedias about the world, concepts that are both low and high, learning something new every day. So in my eyes, any entertainment with an imagitive mind will net you some results, but you will still need to be mindful of it, as if something takes too much attention from you, you will not be able to do what you love until you take a break. For people who want to take notes, just take a phone or a notebook wherever you go, write down anything you can think of, let alone you are walking, at a resturant, or on holiday. Ideas comes and goes, and it is a powerful element to embrace.
I feel attacked, called out, because all things said is a fact. Comparing myself now to myself in the past, I was able to flawlessly learn 3D art for 2 years, 2015 to 2017. Now, I just barely learn new stuff, I haven't even sunk my teeth on Geometry nodes. No one is to be blamed but me, I did have a job now as a 3D artist but on my free time, playing is much more satisfying. I still do watch 3D tutorials from time to time, whenever I forget specific stuff, and to improve my workflow but that is only when I am working.
One very important to thing to consider is how you spend your free time and avoid guild-tripping yourself over the past. A one simple, but powerful quote that I learned from Internet is: If you enjoyed your time doing something (like playing games, etc) - it's not a waste of time. I played many games in my past - more than I should have, but it's exactly because of that now as a character artist I can see more clearly in which direction I want to grow, and in what projects I would love to work in! I wanna do many things in my life, so rn I'm trying to dedicate more work time into various stuff and convince my brain that it's a normal life now. So every month I add a little more time limit to how much I work on stuff (1st month 1h, 2nd month 1h 15m), and then I try to maintain such schedule. Being a perfect machine mentally drains tho, so recreation is a must, I do not really advise anyone to null fun in their day schedule as it's a tough - rn I dedicate 1-2 hours into games/movies, and weekends as a full-game/fun activity time, soooo
One thing to do is it figure out how much you want to get paid for your game and work backwards. Once you have that, you can get your hourly rate you would pay someone to do the work for you. Then, when you see a sale on a bundle or something that would save you time, you know it is a deal compared to how long it would take you to do it. Also, It is going to take you a lot more time than a professional to do that work. That is something to factor in. At the end, if it is something you are selling, will it look as good? Probably not. So, you'll probably have to hire a professional to fix your work. I try to remember the Red Adair quote - "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
Aww... You 're too kind ! But i'm afraid, the most people will never understand your generosity. Because we all are different and perceive this world... differently. Well... At least you tried. It seems, it was in the Bible: - "...even if among all this crowd, there will be only one person, who will hear my words. My work will not be in vain."
Lack of caring for one's mental health is the other half of this video, because for a large portion of this video's target audience, they're not only chasing desires, they're also running from something that they should be confronting (with a professional's guidance)
Relax, don't fall to the hustle culture. Excessive gaming or binge watching tv is certainly not great, but observing everything through a payed hourly rate is not great either, makes you burnout.
That has a good point, yet there’s a caveat. In my country an entry job such as the one you exemplified on the fast-food restaurant would net you about 3 dolars an hour. These gatcha games are prohibitive expensive since they are still based on dolars. No wonder everyone I know are just leaving the country.
Hey, great video! I loved the way you explained why time is important and how we should value it more. However, I do have a slight difference of opinion on one part of the video. At around the 3:08 mark, you talked about how your friend grinded for 10 hours to get some stones in a game, for me you made him sound like an idiot for wasting his time but that's just my opinion! also I don't think you fully understood why your friend was happy about his accomplishment. In my opinion, your friend probably had fun while grinding for those stones, even though it did take up a lot of his time. He enjoyed the process and was satisfied with the outcome. Plus, he might be playing the game for free, so buying items might not be an option for him. Therefore, I think it's important to acknowledge that everyone has their own way of enjoying things and achieving their goals. Buying items in a game might be a good option for some, but for others, the process of working hard and grinding for rewards is equally rewarding. Overall, great job on the video and thanks for sharing your video with us!
Excellent, I'm self employed. And while i love martial arts. I do not want to get up at 5 am or 11 pm. To avoid practicing in the -17 cold or 90 degree heat. Strap on 70 lbs. While swinging a 5lbs sword. Really don't want to die to get in shape either. Believe it or not, practice keeps me from literally going blind. But while i'm at it might as well work out. Definitely don't want to then spend the next 5-8 hours, drawing, writing, research, designing or coding. And yup some days i don't, and nothing gets done. Those days are great. But if that's all i do self employed or not ill still be out of a job. And a home with the space and resources i need. Great job, Take care & have a good one.
you know I felt that. gave me the idea of converting my time into income and I invest most of the income in things like blender. who knows with all the time I spend on mastering blender, it might be another way to turn something into income as well, you never know but it will be time worth using if you ask me.
One of the main differences being mindful does to you - you stop caring about bullshit like battlepasses, finishing games on first week to avoid spoilers and participate in social media of an early game, mmos in general(very few human beings can play mmos regularly as well as responsibly, they're specifically designed to consume your time), and gatcha games I play video games specifically to utilize my time for leisure. It's purpose should be to maximize my pleasure, not become a second job that pays nothing. If you like competition, just play an actually competitive game, playing csgo or iracing for just an hour is far easier than playing some random chance based pay to win game
But you wrong at this topic: the big companies give you what you want. It's not that way: they offer what you are suposed to like. But you are free to choose. Anyways it's nice to see this kind of perspectives. Bit of a change in all the meme, condescending, and presumably good deeds of youtubers videos.🤘 good day
This... I feel like being hit by a truck. A reality hit hard indeed. I think i need this but also didn't like to watch this video. For few months back, I felt i can't do anything at all, be it learn 3D or do my thesis. I do want to learn but also I can't, more likely I'm on depression. But thanks for telling me this. I do want to change, even one step at a time.
I love playing sim racing games but it takes a lot of time and work. I think sim racing games helped me improve my driving skills and awareness of other motorists on the road (*cough* Monza turn 1 *cough*).
Well, I personally think the 4 years I have at my job is wasted time at this point, but I can't seem to leave it, so I really don't know what that means.
If I don't apply the lesson from this video, can I consider watching it wasting my time? 🤔 But serious comment: Regularly thinking about your time:money ratio is amazing advice. Also works well for the opposite of what you mentioned-how many hours do I need to work to afford this?
Because life not threatened, so you have extra time from against disease and how today work more brutal to soul than body itself, You either pick fight against people in harmless but enough to stressed about it Or You go outside do what old time do and get 50/50% ..with guide or lost.
So, does this mean I should pay the $900 for the full version zbrush instead of spending the time to learn blender? I've heard zbrush is much more user friendly.
If you don't have a lot of extra cash laying around, just keep learning Blender. It is sufficient. If you really, really enjoy 3D sculpting specifically and have a lot of money, I would buy Zbrush. The permanent license pays off in the long term, but only if you stick with it.
The problem man, its that i WANT to be productive. But i just sometimes cant. Sometimes, i enjoy being productive alot, but then... i just wanna play games. I dont wanna be productive. I wanna do what i want, and when i try to be productive anyway, i feel bad, like some kind of dread. Will this ever go away?
Go outside for a walk, short run even if its 5-10 minutes, come back as your best self. A little blood flow to the brain shows in FMRIs that we just need a little push sometimes to get a go on in life. The feeling will subside, starting is the hardest part, even harder when the mind is tired and sleepy. You've got this!
Its not that simple... Its so much more complex in that you are equating all tasks with the same level of spoons (the mental effort it takes to do the task) for a lot of people it is easy to drown 10 hours into something to get a base level of dopamine just to function, yet when it comes to tasks they are resistant too its extremely hard to do them. Think of it like this: 10 hours of time playing that game for a cosmetic costs 0 psyche, working for 10 hours = -80/100 psyche points per day. Psyche points don't fully recover after a rest at a guaranteed or steady rate. Therefore the burnout of that hussle is a cost you are ignoring.
I think we missed the point of MEANING here, it is not all about money. For example, for those business men who make 1M per day will probably think we are wasting our time to master out CG skill, which make much less money.
I really hope the Story at 2:50 is as fabricated as it sounds.. While I 100% agree that if you are trying to monetize your work, there is no faster way to do it then to take shortcuts and buy the work that someone else already did. On the other side of the isle, there is 100% no reason to buy things if your goal is to learn how to make the things yourself. If that story was true, I feel so, so, so sorry for you and anyone that thinks that way. Your friend may have 'wasted' his time in your eyes, but he felt more real joy at that moment than you did while working to also 'waste' that money in the same thing he did. So at the end of the day, who is the real loser? He felt pure joy. you had to deal with Gerry for 8 hours, and then when to waste the 8 hours of earnings to make fail point. TLDR: If you want to make money off of your art, yes buy addons and shaders etc. If you want to feel real pride in your art, 'waste' the time to learn how to do it yourself.
For anyone wondering, the Responsibility song is not real, I just made it for this video, sorry :(
Please upload it somewhere. I need that in all of my playlists as a reminder.
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We need the song!
It is a real song: 'Lil Dicky - $ave Dat Money'
Something I realized years ago, and many people doesn't understand. Life in general is selling your time to get money, and if you get enough, buy other people time to help with your tasks. Classical example is people who works to hiring a nanny
someone said "poor-minded people trade their time to get more money, and rich-minded people trade their money to get more time."
"Be mindful" is the most important part imo. Make the active choice to spend time on those non-productive activities instead of just getting sucked into it and wondering where the time went.
Been saying, thinking and acting on this exact philosophy for 4 years now. I've seen nothing but growth from it. Glad you're sharing to those who need to hear it.
Thank you so much for saying this. It always blows my mind why people don't consider how much money 1 hour of their life is worth and use it efficiently.
What you did was played smart not dumb compared to your friend. Playing games is great way to take break. Like you said he could have thrown that 10 hrs at a different thing. Heck he even could have played and beat a new game with that time. Work smart not hard people
Thanks!
❤ made my day, thanks for this video, you’re awesome
Royal Skies, I appreciate you for being actually helpful and concise with teaching instead of wasting my time for monetization/attention like most tutorial channels seem to do.
i expected a quick 3d tips and tricks, i got solid life advice that hurt just enough for it to linger at the back of my head. 10/10
We all tell ourselves this, but it helps to hear to someone say it out loud. I've been lacking the motivation to chase anything in recent months, getting a reminder to not waste my entire off day trying to catch virtual fish in ff14, is probably a good thing.
Song is great. The world needs a standard 10hrs version of it. Or maybe 24hrs?:)
I learned this lesson a while back, but way, way later than I should have done. Mind you, people I know who are older than me still haven't twigged
this is me when I say "$10 for a blender add-on? No thanks." And spend the next 2 days recreating it myself.
But then you have 2 days of learning how to make blender add-ons, which can be worth more than the $10 you would have spent otherwise.
@@kidmosey I partially agree with you. But what if he needs that add-on for a job that will yield a larger sum of money, in that case he might be better off buying it. Thinking of another example, imagine you want to make a drawing but for that you had to learn how to manufacture a pencil and a sheet of paper. Yeah you would acquire lots of knowledge along the way but is it really the best approach for your goal?
Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time. -Bertrand Russell
procrastination and playing games aren't necessarily the same thing.
You might not understand why someone would be proud of beating a game but , If a silly phone game fills a need, it's not a waste. It's an investment in a person's happiness which in turn makes them more productive than that person would be without the game. It may not be true for you, but for them it usually is.
Absolutely, only if they aren't running to escape something they could've done that day that was avoided or forgotten! Always important to enjoy the life and leave something for our future selves the next day.
You're right that in-game accomplishments and "e-peen" mean more to some than others, but his main point is that we need to be Mindful of the time. We have to ask ourselves just Why we want that achievement, and ask ourselves if we're even having fun on the way there to begin with
In a lot of these grindy F2P games, the gameplay winds up more stressful than fun once they start putting Hours into it (and they don't always consciously realize it!). Like Guild Wars in Granblue Fantasy, or any other game that has a tiering event. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people stressing about Guild Wars and just thought to myself "is it really worth it guys?"
So why not spend all that time on your projects instead, especially if the time invested will make you happier in the long run? Only you can answer that question for yourself, but it's an important question that everyone needs to ask themselves often and sometimes... the answer's gonna be that you didn't actually enjoy the time you wasted.
@@bruhmoment6984 I agree with some of what you said.. But if you enjoy it it's not wasted time, and you ended what you said with saying that you hypothetically did in fact waste time, which makes me think you don't quite get what I'm saying.
If you ask yourself.. Am I really enjoying this, and the answer is no? Then stop. But if you're not really enjoying it.. Then that's a different situation all together. In the story this guy told, the other guy was enjoying his game and sense of accomplishment. That has value. We give up fun far too quickly as adults without realizing how important it is to our sanity. And we tend to over value work. Life needs balance. work, fun, rest, social connections. But our society pressures us to live without balance, to put no value on half of that. And then we wonder why depression and heart disease is so common
@@jameshughes3014 You're right, I don't think I quite got what you were saying the first time
I agree now, that was kind of a weird part; sure the guy who spent 10 hours on Puzzles n Dragons didnt make that extra 60 bucks, but also doing an extra shift comes with its own set of caveats
Sometimes you just wanna relax and play a game, hell, oftentimes we NEED to goof off if we want to use the rest of our time well (I definitely still agree with the main point of the video tho ie. be Mindful of your time)
@@bruhmoment6984 your right about that, another thing this world is good at is encouraging escapism and it's easy to lose track. Finding that balance can be tough, at least it is for me.
I like some of the lofi channels -- they are music like you said, encouraging the listener to study and work. I've found them very helpful to help me concentrate, focus, and stop wasting time. And I watched this video with speed set to 1.25
For me, the biggest time waster is the "idea pool".
As a game developer, I constantly get new ideas for games I want to make and either start a new project for every one (leaving me with a hundred started projects and none finished) or debate with myself for hours on what idea to start developing (leaving me with nothing done)...
In order to fix this I've started forcing different limitations on the idea pool in order to decrease its size (such as graphical/stylistic limitations, gameplay/genre limitations, topic/story limitations, console-style limitations, etc.) until, ideally, I only have one idea left in the pool and can just start working on that until I finish it.
Can you imagine a game that would be worth spending the rest of your career on? Like keep making updates to it forever?
@@Entikai No, and I wouldn't even want to. I'm one of those people who like closure. The feeling of being able to close a book and moving onto something new is just the best.
However, if you would want to make something like that, maybe look into the history of Earth and/or the history of mankind, I'm sure you could make a game from that and keep expanding it indefinitely with new periods, new lands, new species, new ages, new frontiers... and so on. You could call it Life the Game and make it an MMO so everyone could play it together.
Came across and liked 2 UE5 videos. Now came across this. Amazing.
All my free time is spent refining my craft so i can produce stuff... that people don't like.
So much better than any motivator!
I always move to game when I get dead-end. It's not good habit.
Thanks for getting to the point quickly, saving us time while imparting wisdom about managing our time.
came here for the puzzle and dragons video lol been playing like 10 years+, its great.
0:34 There's "Wake up! Get up! Get out there!" Incentivizing us to wake up from these illusions and go outside.
Can you teach us how to use Cascadeur which is a new animation rigging software with AI tech? I think a lot of people will want to know about it because it is just very useful!
Thank you Joey Wheeler, i needed to hear that
This is really interesting. I think the reason most people don't see it this way is because they don't have easily controllable ways to turn their time into money, or at least they don't think they do. Someone might work a standard full-time job that doesn't have many options to pick up extra shifts or money so they convince themselves that there's a limit to what money will be available. I've learned that a lot of people are really skilled at certain things but they just don't know how to market that skill so they never make money from it.
I've only gotten convinced witb this recently, after hearing the word "economical". It has been too late or even, more emotions are stronger, hahahahahh school life is a pain.
Absolutely! I was trying to explain this to friend physiotherapist. He was making all his accounting himself and spent hours figure out how to do it. Most of it on the weekends. He was terrible with numbers and was making mistakes etc. In his views, he was saving money by not hiring an accountant. I was like, why don't you work extra hours as a physiotherapist to pay for it? He was spending 10 days doing his accounting and he needed half a day of work to pay for the accountant fee... He couldn't agree with that for some reason.
I totally understand where your friend comes from as I have been there(not with finances but with other stuff), but there comes a point where the opportunity cost is just too great
To be a bit fair to your friend, that's knowledge that carries over. First time it takes 10 days, next time 5, and so on. I'm not saying it's worth it still, but that depends on multiple factors and it's not as simple as you present.
@S S Yes, but I think that there is a limit on how much of an expert you can become for something you do once or twice a year. He will probably never be able to do it in half a day. On top of that, what he is able to charge as a physiotherapist also increases yearly so the gap between what he can earn as physiotherapist and what he saves when doing his accounting might never close. If he wants to get new skills, there is a ton of trainings he can get as physiotherapist that might boost his income. I would understand if he enjoys the accounting part. I have learned a lot of skills that are not related to my job but they are hobbies to me. I don't when he struggles and complains about it.
@@Kalsifere maybe he just wanted to brag about it.... some people like to complain thinking they will look cooler.. bah
I would say one thing for people who likes to listen to music, watch series, shows, movies, or even play games, and if you are the creative type, you will get ideas randomly at times.
For me, I do a little bit of everything depending my mood, and if it is just right, I get some ideas that I am more proud of than "brute force" it trough. It have helped me to not only be more creative as a writer and as an artist, but also be more knowledgeable when I search up information on Wikipedias about the world, concepts that are both low and high, learning something new every day.
So in my eyes, any entertainment with an imagitive mind will net you some results, but you will still need to be mindful of it, as if something takes too much attention from you, you will not be able to do what you love until you take a break.
For people who want to take notes, just take a phone or a notebook wherever you go, write down anything you can think of, let alone you are walking, at a resturant, or on holiday. Ideas comes and goes, and it is a powerful element to embrace.
Damn. I gotta say, this opens up a whole new perspective for me that I have never seen. And dang, does it make sense!
Shia LaBeouf - Just Do It (Make Your Dreams Come True)
I feel attacked, called out, because all things said is a fact.
Comparing myself now to myself in the past, I was able to flawlessly learn 3D art for 2 years, 2015 to 2017.
Now, I just barely learn new stuff, I haven't even sunk my teeth on Geometry nodes.
No one is to be blamed but me, I did have a job now as a 3D artist but on my free time, playing is much more satisfying.
I still do watch 3D tutorials from time to time, whenever I forget specific stuff, and to improve my workflow but that is only when I am working.
One very important to thing to consider is how you spend your free time and avoid guild-tripping yourself over the past. A one simple, but powerful quote that I learned from Internet is: If you enjoyed your time doing something (like playing games, etc) - it's not a waste of time.
I played many games in my past - more than I should have, but it's exactly because of that now as a character artist I can see more clearly in which direction I want to grow, and in what projects I would love to work in!
I wanna do many things in my life, so rn I'm trying to dedicate more work time into various stuff and convince my brain that it's a normal life now. So every month I add a little more time limit to how much I work on stuff (1st month 1h, 2nd month 1h 15m), and then I try to maintain such schedule.
Being a perfect machine mentally drains tho, so recreation is a must, I do not really advise anyone to null fun in their day schedule as it's a tough - rn I dedicate 1-2 hours into games/movies, and weekends as a full-game/fun activity time, soooo
One thing to do is it figure out how much you want to get paid for your game and work backwards. Once you have that, you can get your hourly rate you would pay someone to do the work for you. Then, when you see a sale on a bundle or something that would save you time, you know it is a deal compared to how long it would take you to do it.
Also, It is going to take you a lot more time than a professional to do that work. That is something to factor in. At the end, if it is something you are selling, will it look as good? Probably not. So, you'll probably have to hire a professional to fix your work.
I try to remember the Red Adair quote - "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur."
Man... you are more then game dev, you are a true big creator, that was surprisingly impressive :)
Royal Skies out here dating himself with the Pandora comment.
Aww... You 're too kind !
But i'm afraid, the most people will never understand your generosity. Because we all are different and perceive this world... differently.
Well... At least you tried.
It seems, it was in the Bible: - "...even if among all this crowd, there will be only one person, who will hear my words. My work will not be in vain."
This video was truly special and only made me admire your channel even more. You're awesome, man! 👍
Lack of caring for one's mental health is the other half of this video, because for a large portion of this video's target audience, they're not only chasing desires, they're also running from something that they should be confronting (with a professional's guidance)
Just second video in and this might just be your best series yet
on top of making good blender tutorials, you make good life tutorials.
1000 percent agree. If you wat to waste your time. Spent it with your family or love one
6 months and I'm still waiting for this song to release! T_T xD
From Blender Coach to Life Coach, dude stahp. Youre like the dad I never had.
Thank you for making this. Seriously your beyond amazing. Great honest explanation.
G vibe is on the air. Thank you for it. I wish the Matrix won't delete your channel, bro.
Just as a funny one, A song I adore is hamilton's 'Non-stop' and it is exactly that xD It's genuently motivational sounding
Relax, don't fall to the hustle culture. Excessive gaming or binge watching tv is certainly not great, but observing everything through a payed hourly rate is not great either, makes you burnout.
Really scary
Thanks for waking us up 😭
That has a good point, yet there’s a caveat.
In my country an entry job such as the one you exemplified on the fast-food restaurant would net you about 3 dolars an hour. These gatcha games are prohibitive expensive since they are still based on dolars. No wonder everyone I know are just leaving the country.
Hey, great video! I loved the way you explained why time is important and how we should value it more. However, I do have a slight difference of opinion on one part of the video.
At around the 3:08 mark, you talked about how your friend grinded for 10 hours to get some stones in a game, for me you made him sound like an idiot for wasting his time but that's just my opinion! also I don't think you fully understood why your friend was happy about his accomplishment.
In my opinion, your friend probably had fun while grinding for those stones, even though it did take up a lot of his time. He enjoyed the process and was satisfied with the outcome. Plus, he might be playing the game for free, so buying items might not be an option for him.
Therefore, I think it's important to acknowledge that everyone has their own way of enjoying things and achieving their goals. Buying items in a game might be a good option for some, but for others, the process of working hard and grinding for rewards is equally rewarding.
Overall, great job on the video and thanks for sharing your video with us!
Grinding is not fun.
@@GabyEnLAN Well grinding can be a matter of personal preference. While some may not enjoy it like you, others find it fun and engaging
Excellent,
I'm self employed. And while i love martial arts. I do not want to get up at 5 am or 11 pm. To avoid practicing in the -17 cold or 90 degree heat. Strap on 70 lbs. While swinging a 5lbs sword. Really don't want to die to get in shape either. Believe it or not, practice keeps me from literally going blind. But while i'm at it might as well work out. Definitely don't want to then spend the next 5-8 hours, drawing, writing, research, designing or coding. And yup some days i don't, and nothing gets done. Those days are great. But if that's all i do self employed or not ill still be out of a job. And a home with the space and resources i need.
Great job, Take care & have a good one.
you know I felt that. gave me the idea of converting my time into income and I invest most of the income in things like blender. who knows with all the time I spend on mastering blender, it might be another way to turn something into income as well, you never know but it will be time worth using if you ask me.
One of the main differences being mindful does to you - you stop caring about bullshit like battlepasses, finishing games on first week to avoid spoilers and participate in social media of an early game, mmos in general(very few human beings can play mmos regularly as well as responsibly, they're specifically designed to consume your time), and gatcha games
I play video games specifically to utilize my time for leisure. It's purpose should be to maximize my pleasure, not become a second job that pays nothing. If you like competition, just play an actually competitive game, playing csgo or iracing for just an hour is far easier than playing some random chance based pay to win game
Excellent video. Just what I needed to hear today.
Dunno man, that song... I feel it! it can rise to the top!...
It was amazing, not gonna lie xD, what a surprise.
Concise. Analytical. Insiteful. Thank You.
Thanks, now Imma buy 3 welkin moon subscription for Genjin Inpact
Heya, So I took a semi part time at mcd. How to handle the leg pains?
RoyalSkies know what you save when you whale a Gacha Game 🐳
But you wrong at this topic: the big companies give you what you want. It's not that way: they offer what you are suposed to like. But you are free to choose. Anyways it's nice to see this kind of perspectives. Bit of a change in all the meme, condescending, and presumably good deeds of youtubers videos.🤘 good day
Make this a weekly motivational speech video
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This... I feel like being hit by a truck. A reality hit hard indeed. I think i need this but also didn't like to watch this video. For few months back, I felt i can't do anything at all, be it learn 3D or do my thesis.
I do want to learn but also I can't, more likely I'm on depression. But thanks for telling me this. I do want to change, even one step at a time.
Dude jst brought a Hammer down on my life
That is really interesting thank you
Watching this while studying 💪
That what some fire song haha :D
Anyone else read that title in Steven He's voice?
My new motivation playlist 👻
really amazing video!
Thank you for all of your videos. It helps me a lot
def did raised some awareness on me thank you,
1:05 Meanwhile I BARELY dodge his fortune telling by munching on gummy spice drops.
I love playing sim racing games but it takes a lot of time and work. I think sim racing games helped me improve my driving skills and awareness of other motorists on the road (*cough* Monza turn 1 *cough*).
wow. this made a lot of sense. thanks for the video
Do more of these videos when you can.
Well, I personally think the 4 years I have at my job is wasted time at this point, but I can't seem to leave it, so I really don't know what that means.
The EDM section.. haha
Thank U Sir
If I don't apply the lesson from this video, can I consider watching it wasting my time? 🤔
But serious comment: Regularly thinking about your time:money ratio is amazing advice. Also works well for the opposite of what you mentioned-how many hours do I need to work to afford this?
Because life not threatened, so you have extra time from against disease and how today work more brutal to soul than body itself,
You either pick fight against people in harmless but enough to stressed about it
Or
You go outside do what old time do and get 50/50% ..with guide or lost.
what a banger song
Good point, I my just buy the grind system for unreal that i been trying to make myself for past 2 weeks
So, does this mean I should pay the $900 for the full version zbrush instead of spending the time to learn blender? I've heard zbrush is much more user friendly.
Meh, up to you. I like Blender because it's at a price I can afford (lol).
I think zbrush has a trial or something, you could try.
Only if you plan to sculpt full time professionally. Otherwise, I'd recommend either just going with the monthly plan, or just stick with Blender -
If you don't have a lot of extra cash laying around, just keep learning Blender. It is sufficient.
If you really, really enjoy 3D sculpting specifically and have a lot of money, I would buy Zbrush. The permanent license pays off in the long term, but only if you stick with it.
Dood, thats something cool u said xD
Great story! Have you ever read the book Superabundance?
Great
seriously :: make that chorus go 2x upload to your artstation for $1. 🐧🐉
The problem man, its that i WANT to be productive. But i just sometimes cant. Sometimes, i enjoy being productive alot, but then... i just wanna play games. I dont wanna be productive. I wanna do what i want, and when i try to be productive anyway, i feel bad, like some kind of dread.
Will this ever go away?
That feeling of "dread" when you need to do something is a symptom of ADHD. A ton of people have ADHD without knowing it.
I have it.
Go outside for a walk, short run even if its 5-10 minutes, come back as your best self. A little blood flow to the brain shows in FMRIs that we just need a little push sometimes to get a go on in life. The feeling will subside, starting is the hardest part, even harder when the mind is tired and sleepy. You've got this!
Its not that simple... Its so much more complex in that you are equating all tasks with the same level of spoons (the mental effort it takes to do the task) for a lot of people it is easy to drown 10 hours into something to get a base level of dopamine just to function, yet when it comes to tasks they are resistant too its extremely hard to do them. Think of it like this: 10 hours of time playing that game for a cosmetic costs 0 psyche, working for 10 hours = -80/100 psyche points per day. Psyche points don't fully recover after a rest at a guaranteed or steady rate. Therefore the burnout of that hussle is a cost you are ignoring.
Damn that hit hard 😢
I think we missed the point of MEANING here, it is not all about money. For example, for those business men who make 1M per day will probably think we are wasting our time to master out CG skill, which make much less money.
TIL that people in the US can pay for netflix with just 1 hour of their work
ChrisFix ???
i came to this channel to learn blender not get philosophical 😭😭😭
I really hope the Story at 2:50 is as fabricated as it sounds.. While I 100% agree that if you are trying to monetize your work, there is no faster way to do it then to take shortcuts and buy the work that someone else already did. On the other side of the isle, there is 100% no reason to buy things if your goal is to learn how to make the things yourself. If that story was true, I feel so, so, so sorry for you and anyone that thinks that way. Your friend may have 'wasted' his time in your eyes, but he felt more real joy at that moment than you did while working to also 'waste' that money in the same thing he did. So at the end of the day, who is the real loser? He felt pure joy. you had to deal with Gerry for 8 hours, and then when to waste the 8 hours of earnings to make fail point.
TLDR: If you want to make money off of your art, yes buy addons and shaders etc. If you want to feel real pride in your art, 'waste' the time to learn how to do it yourself.
algo 13
Lol...now you're even doing Life tutorials...
Did not waste time with this video
Just work an extra 8 hours at McDonald's bro. It's way better than playing the game you like.