You’re the reason I ditched VSCode and switched to Neovim 2.5 years ago-and I’ve loved every moment of it. You’re the reason I pushed myself to become twice the developer I once was. You’re inspiring millions to stay disciplined this year. Wishing you all the success and fulfillment you’re aiming for in 2025. Thanks for everything!
Prime I can’t really articulate how you’ve helped me see things differently. I’ve always been fascinated by programming but I never thought I was smart enough to do it. Now I know I can if I put in the hard work AND just because the work is hard that doesn’t mean it’s not fun. Thanks man. Here’s to 2025.
Really can't thank you enough for all of the advice and effort you put into your videos. I've learnt a tremendous amount from you, evolved as a developer. I've been working as a developer full time for four years now, and for at least three of those, you've been right there, making me think differently, helping me to become more disciplined. Thanks for everything, Prime.
Atomic Habits, great book that taught me to look at goals not as tasks but as habits. Kind of like having discipline, one needs to establish habits, not accomplish goals.
Huge +1, the best book I've read on this topic, as it addresses not only how to pickup habits, but also what derails one from adopting habits. And reasonning about this helped me to remove a lot of reasons why I would fail (eg: too high friction)
Laravel hoodie! ❤good going on the discipline! I'm doing something similar, waking up early and staying sober... Currently finding that my level of sobriety is directly linked to the amount of BS I'm willing to tolerate. More soberiety, less self doubt & less BS. Keeping track of the goals, successes, and failures is key to building a real sense of accountability outside of a demanding work environment. Live in the past, be depressed, live in the future, be anxious, live in the present, now that's the ticket. Let the silence do the heavy lifting. Thanks for all the great content, here's to a wonderful 2025
Single dad here without any backup, just started full time in the software engineering field less than a year ago, trying to work on a big project in the evenings after the kids are out. I will say I that watching a couple episodes of squid games or related self care activities are definitely needed but they can easily get carried away. I think knowing when to slow down and take a break and being aware of how much of a break one needs is more important than simply denying breaks or guilt tripping oneself. Always look for the balance. Happy New Year!
Man, that video gives me hope. You inspire me, to be a better version of myself. The view of mentallity rather than goals is something I never thought about. Although my life looks different than yours, I will try to apply it in 2025. You're really the Primea-gem today. Thank you!
Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?
I think 2025 will see a lot fewer improvements in AI than we've seen in the last year. The bubble probably won't burst, but it will probably flatten and maybe decline a bit.
The trick to being faster with AI is that you get AI to write slop for you, and then you get other people to review it, and that slows them down so much that it makes you faster by comparison.
I hope you understand what you're asking for here. AI is propping up the tech sector and the stock market as a whole. If the bubble bursts, the market will see a massive correction, leading us into a recession and far more people out of jobs than what we have now. Sorry, but the world without AI is not happening anymore, AI is here to stay.
That is almost exactly my resolution from 2024. I got myself a planner, specifically a planner that had sections for quarterly goals, monthley goals, and space to reflect about my progress the prior month. I did this planner exercise specifically to help me trim out a lot of the cheap dopamine activities that would suck up my free time and drain me of any motivation (like midless instagram scrolling, shorts scrolling, and mindless reddit). The act of writing my thoughts and plans down changed hiw I approached my free time and helped me improve this past year way more than any other year in my life. I of course wasn't perfect about it all year, so now this year my resolution is to keep it up and improve just a little more than last year. Great resolution, that change in thinking is exactly what I needed and I think it would help you out as well.
I work as a data scientist and my team just got offered a single copilot license, i passed it off because I am happy just using my personal claude license from time to time but dont want any autocomplete. My coworker is using it now and he was reporting it is really great and makes him more efficient. Then recently he needed me to find some bug in his code and he ended up screen sharing and coding for like 60 minutes. His whole coding workflow was only prompting in his jupyter notebook. almost no real coding anymore. even doing one liner list comprehensions or writing to a file he prompted the copilot. i was so shocked. He just finished his masters this year and i feel this is just gonna make him decline super hard. Using AI to understand some concepts or let ai write you some simple examples that you can then understand and adapt to your workflow and you really learn way faster and the stuff actually sticks. But Copilot or copy pasta the code directly and you'll just get fked
Why would using autocomplete when writing code to write to a file have an impact on your capacities as a developer? At the end of the day, if you ship efficient readable, bug free code at a reasonable time, who cares how the process of writing it looked like. I use AI a lot when coding too. Currently making a Django application for work. I am very strict on making beautiful code (try my best) cover all edge cases and obviously prevent bugs. I will admit, I some of the syntax for eg opening a json file I still don't know perfectly because I just never need to type it out completely.
experience doesn't come from not using copilot. experience comes from when you serialize 1 million objects in the same process and you find a leak in the serializer lib you've been using for years without issue.
@@wnbdriver well to be able to get to that point i dont think it helps to code with copilot. It just takes a lot of learning opportunities away from you. Someone who already has 5 years of expoerience in react for example might get a nice speed boost saving time on boilerplate stuff. Not saying its all bad. Just especially junior devs should be careful.
simple wisdom, as always my dude. thanks for all the content this year, I just completed my year in review, and your name went down as one of the people that had the most impact on me. here's to a mega 2025.
When I worked towards this, I always had to start small. It started with me deciding to make my bed every morning. From there I decided to do 20 pushups before I made my bed. You can scale up from there, knowing you can scale back down if you need too.
Routines are great, and I know people often think discipline and routines go hand in hand, but personally I think discipline is so much more. I see it as the willingness of force yourself to do things, if that makes sense. Sometimes new things just come up out of the blue, and you need to do it once and now. Routines can in fact even be harmful in this sense, for example if you are very comfortable in your current job / routines but you'd like to setup a company. Having good base routines are of course always useful, like washing your teeth, going to gym, etc.
This video spoke to me, I've also been feeling kinda lost after changing job, being less stressed at work makes me loosey goosey and non focused on the core of the problems at hand, more distracted in general. I'll also try to journal myself, thanks for the inspiration and good luck!
This year has been the year I found this channel, it has made me a better dev, speaking of discipline this month has also been my longest coding streak, of 18 days in a row, with an average of 5 hours a day, i hope to continue this to 2025, any advice is welcome.
I hear you, Prime. All the best for 2025. I am looking forward to see how this goes and what you learn. For me, I want to get to a place in 2025 where money does not take up so much of my mind space. I am not talking about rolling in the cash, but to get to a place where I feel comfortable and where I know I can can take care of my family and not be floored by those lovely little nasty surprises live tends to throw at us every once in a while. We got this.
Yes Primeagen! Affirming quote: “What you get from achieving your goals is not as important as who you become”. I would recommend 90 day goals, monthly self-check for pacing, and blocking off “self-date night.” Time to enjoy two squid games. Eg Friday 2pm - 4pm every week. Also consider an unstructured day like Sunday where you plan to have no lists or goals. Just wake up, live and be with fam. Rest & Power Up times make the week stronk. Happy New Year-agen 🎉
Just what I needed-perfect timing. Thank you for all the wisdom and humor over the years. Wishing you the very best in 2025; your presence is more essential than ever. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mike, I sincerely wish you to achieve your goals in 2025, no matter in which context (means or character, or both)! And I'm completely agree with your inference that the discipline is the key. But... don't forget it's a way easier to exercise discipline, when you're relatively young, 'cause it's not yet a decisive function of the will. You know (probably) the saying: "Don't look for willpower in the young, look for it in the old." Happy New Year and good luck!
Thank you for making such a great example, MrPrimeagen. You'll impact so many people by working hard and building this mindset. Your observation about the january gym person combine well with my own thought: they're being driven only as long as their motivation lasts. But motivation is a fickle mistress and so is inspiration. I've found great luck by making things I wanna do a habit and reaching for discipline when I'm falling out of said habit. Motivation and inspiration help me surpass my limits momentarily, and lately I've started reminding myself to feel grateful for each day I've already been including goals in my diary and found satisfactory success with it. Both types of goals, the "goal as the end" and "goal as the means". I wish you, your family and anyone reading this comment all the best and Happy New Years
P.S.: I wanna mention how I keep my list of goals. I separate them into short/medium/long term (judged not from now, but from the moment I decide to begin) and each of these is split into high/low priority. Every now and then I simply go through them and add, reshuffle, mark as done/abandoned, etc.
I love this, your focus on systems and processes as opposed to results is exactly what I need to do in my life. I have a similar goal this year, to just journal every day of the week. Everything else is going to sort itself out, through pure goal-setting and reflection. have a great 2025 prime
I am with you. I have been spending WAY to much time on youtube and on X. Unless I need to research something I am going to limit these to only a few min of catchup between 8-9 at night. Thanks for the energy.
Wow having a goal for the discipline needed to achieve the goal instead of the goal itself, this just shifted things in me I will be striving for the same!!
"The goals are the means, the ends is the character." I have honestly never thought about it that way, and it really is a great way to frame it. I hope you accomplish what you set out to do, Prime!
Good to hear it, bro. I started using a journal again recently and it's been great. Just recently, I realized writing down a list of tasks each day wasn't enough but if I wrote in an active voice what my plans were and how I wanted to accomplish them I found I was much more motivated and followed through. It's been huge for me
I respect this, I have been working for myself, and it is easy to slide into "doing whatever whenever". I think a lot of young people need to hear that honestly everything is a domain addicting product and a subscription these days, it is okay to scale back, let it go and reset for the sake of your goals. You earned my like a subscription!
it really sounds like cgp gray's yearly themes. also it seems like you are at the same point about notebooks. if you didnt checked already, it is really cool
I love this incremental approach and monthly check in with yourself. I’ve been working on self discipline for the last year but it was a little more open ended. I’m gonna try your method prime! Thanks for doing everything you do.
Keep it coming, P. 2023-2024 was me trying to start an AI product, then transitioning into a full time unemployed. My self discipline was NOT up to either task. I am fortunate enough to have a startup contract role now. I'm working way harder than ever in my career, and absolutely into it. Prime is hitting on some gems there in the value of daily practices and character versus achievement/outcome driven.
One quick advice I do have that helped me a LOT is get an Elliptical bike set it near where you watch anything like TV, TH-cam or Twitch, and do at least 30 minutes to and hour everyday. Your stress levels go way down, as you actually unwind, and you can just get to it right away instead of thinking you need to go anywhere else. At first you won't be starting with 30 minutes, just do 5 each day or how much you feel it's good for you but stick with it. I'm doing it for a few years now and not only I lost like 20/30 pounds but I do feel way, way better overall. That being said, I really appreciate your kind words and help wish you nothing but Peace and Love!
This was a very inspiring video! I also think this year I want to scale back from all the unrealistic goals, and instead take a more methodical approach like your doing by focusing on a single theme or concept. I choose consistency as my theme of the year! 🎉
I can really resonate with this video. When I started working from home everyday I lost that discipline to get up early and prep for my day. I am hoping to regain some of that lost discipline this year too. Keep up the great videos.
i can totally feel this. I got even just a little taste of being creatively self employed and it was as stresful as it was beautiful. Really great and inspiring little video
Words of wisdom. You made me realize that I also want to adopt the resolution of developing greater discipline, I simply didn't know how to articulate it. Thanks for sharing!
the "decisions of last night" really resonated with me -- what you described of the slow/late morning-after sounded a lot like a hangover and in sense that's exactly what it ends up being. great takes!
Sounds to me like you already have a lot of discipline streaming consistently for 6 years while having a job etc. Glad you found your way out of the grind, would love to hear a bit about how you decided to get started with streaming, the ups and downs. Love the content look forward to more in 2025.
I've been struggling with discipline and planning since I was 15. Looking back at my notes from 2014, articles saved, books read. I realize I haven’t made much progress. I’m good at setting realistic goals, but over the years, I’ve rarely accomplished all of them. My discipline relies on punishment, deadlines, and time crunches. This year, I planned with my lead in February to get an AWS certification paid by work. I put it off until literally the very end of December. I started studying for it on 2024-12-23 and took the exam on 2024-12-30. Succeeded, all exams in school were the same, but not happy about it. If the work that i have to do is not comfortable. I can’t seem to do it for long period of times until the consequences stare at me. Just sending these thoughts into the void. Ignore it, good video, these kinds of videos always help me put things into perspective. Will def try something similar.
Such a W take. The discipline is the reward. The grind is the reward. I remember when I got my first internship, the dopamine rush was gigantic. And then, when I got my actual job, it was less of a dopamine hit. Now im on to just chasing the next dragon of 'sde2' or whatever, ya know. I thought that achieving a job title in of itself would cure my life, and all of a sudden everything would change and I would be happy. Nope. I just took a week off for the holidays from work, and by the end, I was fucking miserable. It hit me REALLY hard today, that the grind itself is the true reward. It keeps you together. It makes you feel mentally good about yourself. Im the exact same way. Time off doesnt make me feel good, it makes me feel worse. Discipline is the best resolution for 2025. We will all win bros ❤
I hear you bro. Having very similar feeling of myself being undisciplined and unhappy as the result of this. Wish you all the best in your challenge, good luck!
I find it's useful to spend some time on new year's eve to reflect on the entire year and basically do a self-retro. What went well, why, what went bad, why, and so on. It's one of my favorite times of year for that reason.
I'm right there with you man! My goal in 2025 is to improve my focus and discipline skills! To be able to do more with less effort. I'm kinda lost there on how I can achieve that. But for sure, prioritizing things is a good way to start! Rock on in 2025 man!
Hey PrimeAgen, just wanted to say thanks for making this video explaining your plans/goals for 2025. The way you have laid out your plans and setting them monthly to then check back on what went well & what didn't is easier said then done. But at the same time its simple process that helps us kick ourselves into gear to get stuff done. I've always liked taking notes on stuff and always looking back to remind myself of what is upcoming in the future (for a long time). But half the time, nothing stuck & I kept floating through life like a zombie (aka on autopilot). But I have been recently more and more taking notes on things that need to get done and been breaking them down to a point where in my brain it is feasible and I swiftly take action, even if it is small steps towards the goal. Something about planning and laying things out in small simple steps has been something I have been more & more aware nowadays. And I think it may be a key goal to hold myself accountable. But again, easier said then done. Thanks again.
Happy New Year!! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on that. Listening to you inspired me to do the same and accomplish much more than I did in 2024. Much love
My 2025 goals (I'll come back to this): + First side project made at least 100USD + Break into HFT (read at least 2 OS books, mastered leetcode in C++) + Join 1000 lbs club (currently 730 lbs). Current bw 140lbs, target 155lbs
Great to hear your gym goals for the new year! My issue isn't usually dispoline is doing too much and burning out lol. Hope you have a good new year and the AI bubble finally bursts
"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." - Jim Rohn Your last thoughts in the video reminded me of that
I feel the exact same way about discipline, I started my channel during my final year of University, for a while after that I was able to keep everything in line but as of late I've certainly been letting things slip, sleeping in way past when I should be, staying up way too late, putting things off when they could be done now.
I'm working on this with my therapist. It all starts with a good routine for the most basic things, and by basic I mean human basic needs like consistant sleep. Then building on that routine from there has been much easier.
Spirituality advice, stop trying to "BECOME", and start BEING, oldest advice "know yourself" "be yourself", don't become something else, we all [probably] love/like the way you already are, and what value you give in your content
I found writing on a tablet (ex ipad or surface) >> a paper notepad: 1. I tend to review my notes more often at longer time scales. 2. it's easier to organize and takes up less space 3. I loose them less can sync them over multiple devices. 4. I don't run out of paper Def have both options, as I don't want an excuse to not write something down, but I find digital as something that is generally better and more user friendly.
I made a similar comment. I'm thinking of having multiple timers (buckets) for things and when that bucket is empty move on to something more productive. Then add a couple of Pomodoro timers when I'm actually working to stay focused. Time can be the enemy or Time can be an ally
@@dominikvonlavante6113 I mean do they give visa or something. I always wanted to explore a developed country, though I might not wanna stay there forever due to being all alone
Can attest to using a notebook. I used to compulsively overwrite in notebooks then basically stopped. Since starting again I feel way more dialed in on goals. Studies have shown increased neural activity in writing vs typing, definitely worth the extra time. Have a great year, Prime.
I have been writing in notebooks for years, much to the bemusement of other technical people around me. I also use digital tools for task management and planning, but I find the pen to paper really helps with the mind-body connection. Best of luck with 2025.
You’re better than me I would never want to step into the full grindset. :Muscle: I am just trying to stay balanced emotionally physically and mentally. Sounds like that looks different from me to you. Good luck on your mindset goal.
I have a similar goal, my "resolution" for 2025 is to have some sort of creative task that I can learn to enjoy and be consistent at, such as drawing or making music. There's no strict outcome here, but if I can do this properly, I have a new hobby that can branch out into a hundred different other hobbies or opportunities. Also congrats on 666k subs.
Preach it! What do you mean by character? Like, the person who you want to become / be and the "what" you want to have when you're that person? I.e., discipline in this case? I dig that!
This actually inspired me. Last year I was able to make my open source hobby my full time job. I work from home all day and I'm living in only one room, thus I'm practically always working. The thing I struggle with is indeed discipline. How do I make sure I maintain myself correctly? How do I make sure my room doesn't become a mess? How do I maintain consistency with going to the gym or making sure I satisfy my social needs? This video now motivated me to try the same and set goals. 🎉
Talk about serendipity!!! I first heard about Vim from the Primeagen and I made the switch away from VS code. Today I decided to switch from a traditional file manager to a terminal file manager (Yazi). I needed a video file to test it out and I stumbled on this gem of a video. Going to make this my most disciplined year. I don't know what crazy bs will happen next year but I will not give up. Thanks again Prime
There’s this song with great lyrics that I’ve paraphrased a bit: We fall when our life stops being a daily stream. Life’s hygiene is so, so important-whether you’re working or not, whether it’s remote or on place. I took a break after 10 years as a programmer and became a driver for six months. I came back refreshed, and I’ve stayed fresh for the next 10 years.
Hey Mr.Primeagen, I've been journaling for a few years and I have a suggestion: The Bullet Journal Method. It's what I'm using currently. Started on March 2024 and it feels like it's been 3 years already. Life really slows down when you track everything you do and start to make conscious decisions on how to spend your time. There's a book about that you can read, but you can probably find the whole method on the internet for free if you want to. Ryder Carroll is the guy who came up with it and there's a lot of content about it on his TH-cam channel (Bullet Journal). It's basically just a system for taking notes quickly by using custom bullet points and a few "collections" for tracking future tasks and reflecting on progress in different time scales (weekly, monthly, annually and so on). It fit my brain perfectly I, even though I don't know that well, I think you'll like it too.
I like that I fundamentally agree that the end goal is "who you become" but I'm taking a whole different approach. It's not measurable because it's 100% mindset and it's about consistency on the mindset itself. Side note: 44 years old, self-taught (no bachelor's in anything), with 2 years of fool-stack experience (I know what I typed). Here are my changes - this is the short version: - Start internalizing both my successes and failures - Stop blaming luck as the definitive factor in my outcomes (also made it hard to internalize my victories) - Start believing in my ability to ultimately learn and build what I set my mind to learn and build. This made me distro hop and language/framework hop, and generally made me "a bundle of insecurities and fears" that stunned my personal progress in EVERYTHING for MONTHS. As TSoding said on Twitter "I am someone who knows languages but not programming" Bless you, and have a great year!
The problem with setting goals for the whole year is underestimating the longness of the year and things that go in the way. Keep it simple :D. But... be realistic with yourself. Goals are fine, but.. life lived goes longer mile. Now.. not waking up in 5am... I guess sleeping till 8-9am is perfectly fine. I guess, if you do what you need to do in the evening, well, that's the price. Like me working tonight because I've done nothing during the day. Have I woke up at 8am today... maybe I might have done something more, but.. who knows. I try not to beat myself up for not keeping up to the pressure. I run a small business, and most of the stress is a direct result of lack of discipline. That is, have I done what needed to be done, in time, it would be much less stressful. So... being "lazy" is really a major stressor, especially if you need to keep up. On the other hand, one has to know his limits. Going either way to extremes will result only in more stress, and eventually burnout.
Can relate to this so much!.I'm almost through with Angela Yu's Fullstack web dev course and I decided my New Year's resolution is to get Quality Sleep. That's it!. I believe this would yield compounding results. My goal is to land a dev job in 2025. I know I'll be back to write that landed one!.
Sounds similar to a goal achieving strategy I’ve been using past few months of having 6-week focuses. The goals within the focus are to do the actions you believe will result in moving towards your more abstract life goals. Like 1hr stretch everyday, 3hrs on project A 5 days a week, 4 1hr swims per week, etc. The actions are controllable, how fast you progress or how lucky/unlucky you are is not, so achievement goals are not included themselves.
Although I can't recommend enough Dr K vid called How To Make Life Easy if you feel slugish. He partly talks about the willpower (discipline requires a lot of it) - you can accomplish a lot with willpower, but it will be exhausting and there are other factors, that take role in making yourself driven.
My goal for 2025 is to take a deep dive into C++. I've been meaning to do it but always put it off for one reason or another. Now that I'm working on an offline maps navigation software for low end systems like Pis, I'm starting to feel the limits of Python (yes yes I know, wrong tool for the job, but that's the only tool I know. Ayways) The goal is to basically allow people to tap into their already existing infotainment systems so that the car remains stock for the most part. Lots to learn. Well, gotta get to it. Have a great day Prime.
My goal for 2025 is to have my evenings feel more like 1995. More reading books and less, or preferably no doomscrolling.
based goal! cheers to enjoying more of everyday life
real shit right here
Me 2!!
literally just bought 20 books to try to read more
I hope you get it done bro
You’re the reason I ditched VSCode and switched to Neovim 2.5 years ago-and I’ve loved every moment of it. You’re the reason I pushed myself to become twice the developer I once was. You’re inspiring millions to stay disciplined this year. Wishing you all the success and fulfillment you’re aiming for in 2025. Thanks for everything!
wtf, giving away $1000 while some people can't even pay rent... I'm pretty sure this streamer has no money issues.
@@smthngsmthngsmthngdarkside 1000 Turkish Lira (29 USD)
@@smthngsmthngsmthngdarkside it is not us dollars mate. 😊
@@smthngsmthngsmthngdarkside TRY is Turkish Lira, which equates to 0.03 USD. The guy donated USD$ 28.32
@@smthngsmthngsmthngdarksidewhat's ur issue exactly??
And by the way, it's not dollars but TRY, the Turkish lire. 🚶🚶🚶
Prime I can’t really articulate how you’ve helped me see things differently. I’ve always been fascinated by programming but I never thought I was smart enough to do it. Now I know I can if I put in the hard work AND just because the work is hard that doesn’t mean it’s not fun. Thanks man. Here’s to 2025.
The hardness just makes u smarter
@@hikemalliday6007gotta love when it’s hard
I want slow software on fast machines to go away
get rid of the foreign factory coders.
my software is going nowhere boy!
You'd better watch your mouth before talking about every code of mine!!!
I cringe at these unrealistic wishes a bit.
SPA is a slow method
Really can't thank you enough for all of the advice and effort you put into your videos. I've learnt a tremendous amount from you, evolved as a developer. I've been working as a developer full time for four years now, and for at least three of those, you've been right there, making me think differently, helping me to become more disciplined.
Thanks for everything, Prime.
Atomic Habits, great book that taught me to look at goals not as tasks but as habits. Kind of like having discipline, one needs to establish habits, not accomplish goals.
Great book, helped me start and stay on a routine.
Huge +1, the best book I've read on this topic, as it addresses not only how to pickup habits, but also what derails one from adopting habits. And reasonning about this helped me to remove a lot of reasons why I would fail (eg: too high friction)
I was just about to go and suggest this book. Really great read for understanding and forming good habits.
I'm tried of LinkedIn cringe. I just want a normal life in 2025
I cannot stand the verbose descriptions people write about themselves on there. Just cut the shit and state your skills lol
Me too! All the ChatGPT text with a bunch of those emotes 📔💡.
@@hikemalliday6007 wait, people write those ? it is not AI ?
Try freelancing. It’s a game changer
I never read my LinkedIn feed, I only use it as a job searching platform and responding to recruiters' messages.
Laravel hoodie! ❤good going on the discipline! I'm doing something similar, waking up early and staying sober...
Currently finding that my level of sobriety is directly linked to the amount of BS I'm willing to tolerate. More soberiety, less self doubt & less BS.
Keeping track of the goals, successes, and failures is key to building a real sense of accountability outside of a demanding work environment.
Live in the past, be depressed, live in the future, be anxious, live in the present, now that's the ticket. Let the silence do the heavy lifting.
Thanks for all the great content, here's to a wonderful 2025
Single dad here without any backup, just started full time in the software engineering field less than a year ago, trying to work on a big project in the evenings after the kids are out. I will say I that watching a couple episodes of squid games or related self care activities are definitely needed but they can easily get carried away. I think knowing when to slow down and take a break and being aware of how much of a break one needs is more important than simply denying breaks or guilt tripping oneself. Always look for the balance. Happy New Year!
I am currently carried away watching Dead Like Mike.. 😞
Man, that video gives me hope. You inspire me, to be a better version of myself. The view of mentallity rather than goals is something I never thought about. Although my life looks different than yours, I will try to apply it in 2025. You're really the Primea-gem today. Thank you!
Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?
My feelings rn
holy shit dude i completely forgot about this meme, it also has a very chill music/remix of it by Random Value, gonna listen to it now
@@semmu93 i remember the 4 hour edit
in 2025 i want the AI bubble to burst already. no jeremy, i don't believe you. you aren't 10x faster with copilot. you're just saying that.
@@hamm8934 AI is only gonna get better in coming years
I think 2025 will see a lot fewer improvements in AI than we've seen in the last year.
The bubble probably won't burst, but it will probably flatten and maybe decline a bit.
The trick to being faster with AI is that you get AI to write slop for you, and then you get other people to review it, and that slows them down so much that it makes you faster by comparison.
I hope you understand what you're asking for here.
AI is propping up the tech sector and the stock market as a whole. If the bubble bursts, the market will see a massive correction, leading us into a recession and far more people out of jobs than what we have now.
Sorry, but the world without AI is not happening anymore, AI is here to stay.
@@georgehelyar Best career advice ever
That is almost exactly my resolution from 2024. I got myself a planner, specifically a planner that had sections for quarterly goals, monthley goals, and space to reflect about my progress the prior month. I did this planner exercise specifically to help me trim out a lot of the cheap dopamine activities that would suck up my free time and drain me of any motivation (like midless instagram scrolling, shorts scrolling, and mindless reddit). The act of writing my thoughts and plans down changed hiw I approached my free time and helped me improve this past year way more than any other year in my life. I of course wasn't perfect about it all year, so now this year my resolution is to keep it up and improve just a little more than last year. Great resolution, that change in thinking is exactly what I needed and I think it would help you out as well.
mah boy has started month sprints.
with a sprint review at the end 😅😂😅
😂😂😂
The ultimate plot twist: Prime as a scrum master/ PM
He is now of the Agile mindset, but for himself. Truly cursed realization.
😂😂😂😂😂
Lmfaooooo
I work as a data scientist and my team just got offered a single copilot license, i passed it off because I am happy just using my personal claude license from time to time but dont want any autocomplete. My coworker is using it now and he was reporting it is really great and makes him more efficient.
Then recently he needed me to find some bug in his code and he ended up screen sharing and coding for like 60 minutes. His whole coding workflow was only prompting in his jupyter notebook. almost no real coding anymore. even doing one liner list comprehensions or writing to a file he prompted the copilot. i was so shocked. He just finished his masters this year and i feel this is just gonna make him decline super hard.
Using AI to understand some concepts or let ai write you some simple examples that you can then understand and adapt to your workflow and you really learn way faster and the stuff actually sticks. But Copilot or copy pasta the code directly and you'll just get fked
aight you convinced me.
Mindless copypasting got to a new level of mindless😅
Why would using autocomplete when writing code to write to a file have an impact on your capacities as a developer?
At the end of the day, if you ship efficient readable, bug free code at a reasonable time, who cares how the process of writing it looked like. I use AI a lot when coding too. Currently making a Django application for work. I am very strict on making beautiful code (try my best) cover all edge cases and obviously prevent bugs. I will admit, I some of the syntax for eg opening a json file I still don't know perfectly because I just never need to type it out completely.
experience doesn't come from not using copilot. experience comes from when you serialize 1 million objects in the same process and you find a leak in the serializer lib you've been using for years without issue.
@@wnbdriver well to be able to get to that point i dont think it helps to code with copilot. It just takes a lot of learning opportunities away from you.
Someone who already has 5 years of expoerience in react for example might get a nice speed boost saving time on boilerplate stuff. Not saying its all bad. Just especially junior devs should be careful.
50 new js frameworks
Sorry those are already deprecated
I, too, would like only 50 new frameworks.
And what do you want on January 2nd?
Only 50?
500 frameworks
simple wisdom, as always my dude.
thanks for all the content this year, I just completed my year in review, and your name went down as one of the people that had the most impact on me. here's to a mega 2025.
Hey Prime, so you woke up at 5am, but how long did you sleep, and, if it is less than 8 hours, how did you stay in shape? Thank you for your content 🙏
i think sleep and being in shape is mutually exclusive
When I worked towards this, I always had to start small. It started with me deciding to make my bed every morning. From there I decided to do 20 pushups before I made my bed. You can scale up from there, knowing you can scale back down if you need too.
Routines are great, and I know people often think discipline and routines go hand in hand, but personally I think discipline is so much more. I see it as the willingness of force yourself to do things, if that makes sense. Sometimes new things just come up out of the blue, and you need to do it once and now. Routines can in fact even be harmful in this sense, for example if you are very comfortable in your current job / routines but you'd like to setup a company. Having good base routines are of course always useful, like washing your teeth, going to gym, etc.
Thank you, Prime. You don't know how much your videos mean to me and others. Thank you, and I wish you a wonderful New Year!
the david goggins of programming
Typecraft really showed up... great 👍
the dr. disrespect of programming
He doesn't curse enough lol
@@pos1orfeed647 but not into minors
Who is gonna carry the laptops
This video spoke to me, I've also been feeling kinda lost after changing job, being less stressed at work makes me loosey goosey and non focused on the core of the problems at hand, more distracted in general.
I'll also try to journal myself, thanks for the inspiration and good luck!
This year has been the year I found this channel, it has made me a better dev, speaking of discipline this month has also been my longest coding streak, of 18 days in a row, with an average of 5 hours a day, i hope to continue this to 2025, any advice is welcome.
I hear you, Prime. All the best for 2025. I am looking forward to see how this goes and what you learn. For me, I want to get to a place in 2025 where money does not take up so much of my mind space. I am not talking about rolling in the cash, but to get to a place where I feel comfortable and where I know I can can take care of my family and not be floored by those lovely little nasty surprises live tends to throw at us every once in a while. We got this.
Yes Primeagen! Affirming quote: “What you get from achieving your goals is not as important as who you become”. I would recommend 90 day goals, monthly self-check for pacing, and blocking off “self-date night.” Time to enjoy two squid games. Eg Friday 2pm - 4pm every week. Also consider an unstructured day like Sunday where you plan to have no lists or goals. Just wake up, live and be with fam. Rest & Power Up times make the week stronk. Happy New Year-agen 🎉
perfect timing, needed a video while shittinf
bro posted this twice to make sure everybody knows he had watched it while shitting
Just what I needed-perfect timing. Thank you for all the wisdom and humor over the years. Wishing you the very best in 2025; your presence is more essential than ever. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
After losing my morning to watching the Squid Game finale... man, I needed to watch this
Mike, I sincerely wish you to achieve your goals in 2025, no matter in which context (means or character, or both)!
And I'm completely agree with your inference that the discipline is the key. But... don't forget it's a way easier to exercise discipline, when you're relatively young, 'cause it's not yet a decisive function of the will. You know (probably) the saying: "Don't look for willpower in the young, look for it in the old."
Happy New Year and good luck!
Thank you for making such a great example, MrPrimeagen.
You'll impact so many people by working hard and building this mindset.
Your observation about the january gym person combine well with my own thought:
they're being driven only as long as their motivation lasts.
But motivation is a fickle mistress and so is inspiration.
I've found great luck by making things I wanna do a habit and reaching for discipline when I'm falling out of said habit.
Motivation and inspiration help me surpass my limits momentarily, and lately I've started reminding myself to feel grateful for each day
I've already been including goals in my diary and found satisfactory success with it.
Both types of goals, the "goal as the end" and "goal as the means".
I wish you, your family and anyone reading this comment all the best and Happy New Years
P.S.: I wanna mention how I keep my list of goals. I separate them into short/medium/long term (judged not from now, but from the moment I decide to begin) and each of these is split into high/low priority. Every now and then I simply go through them and add, reshuffle, mark as done/abandoned, etc.
imagine if prime got a low taper fade
imagine if prime got a mullet
He’s a boomer doesn’t give a fuck about his looks.
that would be massive😮
the prime getting a low taper fade meme is still massive
I only know of this meme because of LIMC.
I don't always agree with you, but I really appreciate you, dude! All the best in 2025!
I love this, your focus on systems and processes as opposed to results is exactly what I need to do in my life.
I have a similar goal this year, to just journal every day of the week. Everything else is going to sort itself out, through pure goal-setting and reflection.
have a great 2025 prime
I am with you. I have been spending WAY to much time on youtube and on X. Unless I need to research something I am going to limit these to only a few min of catchup between 8-9 at night. Thanks for the energy.
All the very best for that Prime. And great to hear you sum it up so succinctly 🙌
Wow having a goal for the discipline needed to achieve the goal instead of the goal itself, this just shifted things in me I will be striving for the same!!
✊Thank you prime, this year you helped me alot. Up the prime.
Good luck my guy! I wish you the best of everything in 2025!
"The goals are the means, the ends is the character." I have honestly never thought about it that way, and it really is a great way to frame it.
I hope you accomplish what you set out to do, Prime!
Good to hear it, bro. I started using a journal again recently and it's been great. Just recently, I realized writing down a list of tasks each day wasn't enough but if I wrote in an active voice what my plans were and how I wanted to accomplish them I found I was much more motivated and followed through. It's been huge for me
I respect this, I have been working for myself, and it is easy to slide into "doing whatever whenever". I think a lot of young people need to hear that honestly everything is a domain addicting product and a subscription these days, it is okay to scale back, let it go and reset for the sake of your goals. You earned my like a subscription!
it really sounds like cgp gray's yearly themes. also it seems like you are at the same point about notebooks. if you didnt checked already, it is really cool
I love this incremental approach and monthly check in with yourself. I’ve been working on self discipline for the last year but it was a little more open ended. I’m gonna try your method prime! Thanks for doing everything you do.
Keep it coming, P.
2023-2024 was me trying to start an AI product, then transitioning into a full time unemployed. My self discipline was NOT up to either task.
I am fortunate enough to have a startup contract role now. I'm working way harder than ever in my career, and absolutely into it.
Prime is hitting on some gems there in the value of daily practices and character versus achievement/outcome driven.
One quick advice I do have that helped me a LOT is get an Elliptical bike set it near where you watch anything like TV, TH-cam or Twitch, and do at least 30 minutes to and hour everyday.
Your stress levels go way down, as you actually unwind, and you can just get to it right away instead of thinking you need to go anywhere else.
At first you won't be starting with 30 minutes, just do 5 each day or how much you feel it's good for you but stick with it.
I'm doing it for a few years now and not only I lost like 20/30 pounds but I do feel way, way better overall.
That being said, I really appreciate your kind words and help wish you nothing but Peace and Love!
This was a very inspiring video! I also think this year I want to scale back from all the unrealistic goals, and instead take a more methodical approach like your doing by focusing on a single theme or concept.
I choose consistency as my theme of the year! 🎉
Happy New Year Prime!
I can really resonate with this video. When I started working from home everyday I lost that discipline to get up early and prep for my day. I am hoping to regain some of that lost discipline this year too. Keep up the great videos.
i can totally feel this. I got even just a little taste of being creatively self employed and it was as stresful as it was beautiful.
Really great and inspiring little video
Words of wisdom. You made me realize that I also want to adopt the resolution of developing greater discipline, I simply didn't know how to articulate it. Thanks for sharing!
the "decisions of last night" really resonated with me -- what you described of the slow/late morning-after sounded a lot like a hangover and in sense that's exactly what it ends up being. great takes!
This is one of your most valueable video. Congrat!
Sounds to me like you already have a lot of discipline streaming consistently for 6 years while having a job etc. Glad you found your way out of the grind, would love to hear a bit about how you decided to get started with streaming, the ups and downs. Love the content look forward to more in 2025.
I've been struggling with discipline and planning since I was 15. Looking back at my notes from 2014, articles saved, books read. I realize I haven’t made much progress.
I’m good at setting realistic goals, but over the years, I’ve rarely accomplished all of them. My discipline relies on punishment, deadlines, and time crunches. This year, I planned with my lead in February to get an AWS certification paid by work. I put it off until literally the very end of December. I started studying for it on 2024-12-23 and took the exam on 2024-12-30. Succeeded, all exams in school were the same, but not happy about it.
If the work that i have to do is not comfortable. I can’t seem to do it for long period of times until the consequences stare at me. Just sending these thoughts into the void. Ignore it, good video, these kinds of videos always help me put things into perspective. Will def try something similar.
Thank you for putting this out into the world. Happy New Year!
Such a W take. The discipline is the reward. The grind is the reward.
I remember when I got my first internship, the dopamine rush was gigantic. And then, when I got my actual job, it was less of a dopamine hit. Now im on to just chasing the next dragon of 'sde2' or whatever, ya know. I thought that achieving a job title in of itself would cure my life, and all of a sudden everything would change and I would be happy. Nope. I just took a week off for the holidays from work, and by the end, I was fucking miserable. It hit me REALLY hard today, that the grind itself is the true reward. It keeps you together. It makes you feel mentally good about yourself. Im the exact same way. Time off doesnt make me feel good, it makes me feel worse.
Discipline is the best resolution for 2025. We will all win bros ❤
Out of ALL of Prime's content, the message in this video is invaluable to me and very well said. Happy 2025!
I hear you bro. Having very similar feeling of myself being undisciplined and unhappy as the result of this. Wish you all the best in your challenge, good luck!
I find it's useful to spend some time on new year's eve to reflect on the entire year and basically do a self-retro. What went well, why, what went bad, why, and so on. It's one of my favorite times of year for that reason.
Great to hear this perspective. Stay on the path, find out where it leads.
Btw, I just subbed. You don't get to complain no more :P
I'm right there with you man! My goal in 2025 is to improve my focus and discipline skills! To be able to do more with less effort. I'm kinda lost there on how I can achieve that. But for sure, prioritizing things is a good way to start! Rock on in 2025 man!
I need this. Thank you so much. You're inspiring me and also helping me to take my own actions.
"Discipline is a lost art" True. I want this art form.
Hey PrimeAgen, just wanted to say thanks for making this video explaining your plans/goals for 2025.
The way you have laid out your plans and setting them monthly to then check back on what went well & what didn't is easier said then done. But at the same time its simple process that helps us kick ourselves into gear to get stuff done.
I've always liked taking notes on stuff and always looking back to remind myself of what is upcoming in the future (for a long time).
But half the time, nothing stuck & I kept floating through life like a zombie (aka on autopilot).
But I have been recently more and more taking notes on things that need to get done and been breaking them down to a point where in my brain it is feasible and I swiftly take action, even if it is small steps towards the goal.
Something about planning and laying things out in small simple steps has been something I have been more & more aware nowadays. And I think it may be a key goal to hold myself accountable.
But again, easier said then done. Thanks again.
I can dig it Prime. I'm with you, this year, is the year of discipline. Top notch, great stuff - rock on good sir!
Happy New Year!! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on that. Listening to you inspired me to do the same and accomplish much more than I did in 2024. Much love
My 2025 goals (I'll come back to this):
+ First side project made at least 100USD
+ Break into HFT (read at least 2 OS books, mastered leetcode in C++)
+ Join 1000 lbs club (currently 730 lbs). Current bw 140lbs, target 155lbs
Great to hear your gym goals for the new year! My issue isn't usually dispoline is doing too much and burning out lol. Hope you have a good new year and the AI bubble finally bursts
"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." - Jim Rohn
Your last thoughts in the video reminded me of that
I feel the exact same way about discipline, I started my channel during my final year of University, for a while after that I was able to keep everything in line but as of late I've certainly been letting things slip, sleeping in way past when I should be, staying up way too late, putting things off when they could be done now.
I'm working on this with my therapist. It all starts with a good routine for the most basic things, and by basic I mean human basic needs like consistant sleep. Then building on that routine from there has been much easier.
Spirituality advice, stop trying to "BECOME", and start BEING, oldest advice "know yourself" "be yourself", don't become something else, we all [probably] love/like the way you already are, and what value you give in your content
Just a cool guy helping other people, thanks
5:32 so just scrum and retros then
😂
Lol i hate both
I found writing on a tablet (ex ipad or surface) >> a paper notepad:
1. I tend to review my notes more often at longer time scales.
2. it's easier to organize and takes up less space
3. I loose them less can sync them over multiple devices.
4. I don't run out of paper
Def have both options, as I don't want an excuse to not write something down, but I find digital as something that is generally better and more user friendly.
I made a similar comment. I'm thinking of having multiple timers (buckets) for things and when that bucket is empty move on to something more productive. Then add a couple of Pomodoro timers when I'm actually working to stay focused.
Time can be the enemy or Time can be an ally
I just want a job. Literally any tech job will do
Go to Europe, they are searching desperately for tech
Do they hire remote?
@@silentbang7193 some do ... But you do have to relocate to the country of employment.
@@dominikvonlavante6113 I mean do they give visa or something. I always wanted to explore a developed country, though I might not wanna stay there forever due to being all alone
Same here
Can attest to using a notebook. I used to compulsively overwrite in notebooks then basically stopped.
Since starting again I feel way more dialed in on goals.
Studies have shown increased neural activity in writing vs typing, definitely worth the extra time.
Have a great year, Prime.
I have been writing in notebooks for years, much to the bemusement of other technical people around me. I also use digital tools for task management and planning, but I find the pen to paper really helps with the mind-body connection.
Best of luck with 2025.
You’re better than me I would never want to step into the full grindset. :Muscle: I am just trying to stay balanced emotionally physically and mentally. Sounds like that looks different from me to you. Good luck on your mindset goal.
If my 2018 self asked who ThePrimeagen is and why I’m hooked on his content, I’d simply say, "He's like my new PewDiePie"
Good luck and I believe in you. Cheers man.
I have a similar goal, my "resolution" for 2025 is to have some sort of creative task that I can learn to enjoy and be consistent at, such as drawing or making music. There's no strict outcome here, but if I can do this properly, I have a new hobby that can branch out into a hundred different other hobbies or opportunities. Also congrats on 666k subs.
Preach it! What do you mean by character? Like, the person who you want to become / be and the "what" you want to have when you're that person? I.e., discipline in this case?
I dig that!
This actually inspired me. Last year I was able to make my open source hobby my full time job. I work from home all day and I'm living in only one room, thus I'm practically always working.
The thing I struggle with is indeed discipline. How do I make sure I maintain myself correctly? How do I make sure my room doesn't become a mess? How do I maintain consistency with going to the gym or making sure I satisfy my social needs?
This video now motivated me to try the same and set goals. 🎉
Talk about serendipity!!! I first heard about Vim from the Primeagen and I made the switch away from VS code. Today I decided to switch from a traditional file manager to a terminal file manager (Yazi). I needed a video file to test it out and I stumbled on this gem of a video.
Going to make this my most disciplined year. I don't know what crazy bs will happen next year but I will not give up. Thanks again Prime
I'm excited to see you tackle this challenge head-on! Like you do most topics. Keep it up !
There’s this song with great lyrics that I’ve paraphrased a bit: We fall when our life stops being a daily stream.
Life’s hygiene is so, so important-whether you’re working or not, whether it’s remote or on place. I took a break after 10 years as a programmer and became a driver for six months.
I came back refreshed, and I’ve stayed fresh for the next 10 years.
This resonates so much... Thanks for putting the message out there.
You do anything what you want to do!!! You are 10x-er, So... you do streaming, because you LOVE IT!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Hey Mr.Primeagen, I've been journaling for a few years and I have a suggestion: The Bullet Journal Method.
It's what I'm using currently. Started on March 2024 and it feels like it's been 3 years already. Life really slows down when you track everything you do and start to make conscious decisions on how to spend your time.
There's a book about that you can read, but you can probably find the whole method on the internet for free if you want to. Ryder Carroll is the guy who came up with it and there's a lot of content about it on his TH-cam channel (Bullet Journal).
It's basically just a system for taking notes quickly by using custom bullet points and a few "collections" for tracking future tasks and reflecting on progress in different time scales (weekly, monthly, annually and so on).
It fit my brain perfectly I, even though I don't know that well, I think you'll like it too.
Love this man.The key to a consistent morning routine is a consistent evening routine.
I like that I fundamentally agree that the end goal is "who you become" but I'm taking a whole different approach. It's not measurable because it's 100% mindset and it's about consistency on the mindset itself. Side note: 44 years old, self-taught (no bachelor's in anything), with 2 years of fool-stack experience (I know what I typed). Here are my changes - this is the short version:
- Start internalizing both my successes and failures
- Stop blaming luck as the definitive factor in my outcomes (also made it hard to internalize my victories)
- Start believing in my ability to ultimately learn and build what I set my mind to learn and build. This made me distro hop and language/framework hop, and generally made me "a bundle of insecurities and fears" that stunned my personal progress in EVERYTHING for MONTHS. As TSoding said on Twitter "I am someone who knows languages but not programming"
Bless you, and have a great year!
was actually very helpful in way i cant adequately articulate. ty the primeagen
The problem with setting goals for the whole year is underestimating the longness of the year and things that go in the way. Keep it simple :D.
But... be realistic with yourself. Goals are fine, but.. life lived goes longer mile.
Now.. not waking up in 5am... I guess sleeping till 8-9am is perfectly fine. I guess, if you do what you need to do in the evening, well, that's the price. Like me working tonight because I've done nothing during the day. Have I woke up at 8am today... maybe I might have done something more, but.. who knows. I try not to beat myself up for not keeping up to the pressure.
I run a small business, and most of the stress is a direct result of lack of discipline.
That is, have I done what needed to be done, in time, it would be much less stressful. So... being "lazy" is really a major stressor, especially if you need to keep up.
On the other hand, one has to know his limits. Going either way to extremes will result only in more stress, and eventually burnout.
Can relate to this so much!.I'm almost through with Angela Yu's Fullstack web dev course and I decided my New Year's resolution is to get Quality Sleep. That's it!. I believe this would yield compounding results. My goal is to land a dev job in 2025. I know I'll be back to write that landed one!.
keep entertaining and enlightening us next year!
Sounds similar to a goal achieving strategy I’ve been using past few months of having 6-week focuses. The goals within the focus are to do the actions you believe will result in moving towards your more abstract life goals. Like 1hr stretch everyday, 3hrs on project A 5 days a week, 4 1hr swims per week, etc. The actions are controllable, how fast you progress or how lucky/unlucky you are is not, so achievement goals are not included themselves.
What matters is that you feel good about how you're approaching your life and are working towards the results that you want in the long run. ❤️
gl bro, best wishes
Although I can't recommend enough Dr K vid called How To Make Life Easy if you feel slugish. He partly talks about the willpower (discipline requires a lot of it) - you can accomplish a lot with willpower, but it will be exhausting and there are other factors, that take role in making yourself driven.
My goal for 2025 is to take a deep dive into C++. I've been meaning to do it but always put it off for one reason or another. Now that I'm working on an offline maps navigation software for low end systems like Pis, I'm starting to feel the limits of Python (yes yes I know, wrong tool for the job, but that's the only tool I know. Ayways) The goal is to basically allow people to tap into their already existing infotainment systems so that the car remains stock for the most part. Lots to learn. Well, gotta get to it. Have a great day Prime.