The timing of this video is great for me. Thanks! On this subject, do you have any previous videos on what is a good learning path for me to learn machine learning? I'm currently taking online courses and my interests are in visual GANs and I'd eventually like to be making AI that makes music.
I didnt realize all the people in the comments were such masters of life! I apologize for those of us that didnt know motivation was like soo stupid and annoying and that we should just build habits... Duhh.
Make it a habit - set a minimum amount each day - schedule it every day (minimum) 2hrs for a year or even less like 10minutes - discipline - grind it out even though you don't want to - struggle is a sign you're on the right path - see it as competition other people will give up
Spot on Lex, Spot on. I've become proficient in many different domains in my life. These include becoming a licensed architect, college professor, armature racer, surfer, golfer, solo sailor, long distance cyclist, mixed martial artist, fine art photographer and musician. All of these began with passion and obsessional interest, followed by years of daily hard work and dedication to building the skills required for each. If you love something, learning about it and mastering the skills needed to do it is an absolute joy - so do what you LOVE. The rest will follow.
Keep in mind, when your career/jobs revolve around learning, that becomes your life naturally. Lex is a great example of this. His learning of these different fields benefit his business/jobs. That can create a lot of motivation, realizing that both of these things benefit each other. Lex is part of the intelligentsia, (it’s not inherently good or bad), which means he gets paid to learn and teach. It’s kind of like an HVAC tech learning more about electricity, energy consumption, and business, then applying it. Knowledge and education is best when it benefits you just as much as others.
Thank you for the inspiration, that really means a lot. I have been struggling in my classes until I saw your videos and how you and other very skilled people see the world, what they think about the future and now. That really inspired me to be better of myself, thank you.
"Strumming in a way that allows me to sing" - So relatable. After my son was born, and after 15 years of playing guitar and never really learning to sing while playing, I finally started trying in earnest. I've always had what I'd call a "focused" mindset, one in which I pay attention, more or less, to one thing at a time. As such, I've found singing while playing to be very challenging; it feels like some sort of mental gymnastics. The best advice I have is to learn the guitar part so well that you could play it in your sleep, and then add the lyrics. I've also found that practicing guitar on my acoustic while wandering around the house, trying to have conversations while playing, etc, also helps. After some months of practicing this every day, slowly improving, it's beginning to feel like I'm finally making some progress. At times, it almost feels as though I've unlocked another CPU core.
The forming of habits around a skill is one of the best things we can do to get better at something. Just 10 minutes a day on something everyday can be huge in improvement its great to hear someone as skillful as Lex put things into the context of forming habits.
From my own experience of being self-taught in a lot of things like programming (which is now my job), french, guitar, singing etc: i think the most important part of "learning how to learn" is to find your own way of learning - and that only comes from experience. I know that's kind of a "duuh", but it's true.. But i'll give you what helps me: If i'm learning to code for example: instead of focusing on the details of the skill (like a certain language), I try to put myself in the shoes of a skilled programmer and I think to myself: why does this person love to code? What is it about writing gibberish computer talk that gives this person so much pleasure/feeling of accomplishment? (insert own answer here) My own answer: because it enables them to make/do cool things! Like back in the day before I knew how to code I used to think Facebook was the coolest thing (it's not anymore lol), so my first project was to create a very stripped-down version of facebook where you can upload pictures and you can write posts.. and voila I was on my way! And the cool thing about doing it this way is that it won't feel like learning if you're only trying to accomplish a specific goal, because then that function that uploads the pictures is only a stepping stone to reach the greater goal. So in the end I was left with a broken, shitty version of facebook that took 12s to load each refresh and it was terrible - but I had somehow learned the basics of programming while not really thinking about it (because spoiler alert: code is just a tool to reach your goal, your way of thinking/problem solving is your skill) And when i learned french, everyone in every course tells you to learn grammar first, which is of course the most logical way and will help you later... But nah that shit is too boring for me! So i just found a TH-camr that i like (i recommend Norman Fait des Videos), put on subtitles and i just sat for hours on end pausing the video for every sentence and translating the words over and over again until I remembered them and got a feel for the language! Very inefficient, but I enjoyed doing it this way and got to watch cool videos at the same time: I'm a very brute-force kind of learner haha. So yeah that was my two cents on learning! Good luck to you guys out there.
Those four skills are all habits I’m trying to build into my life but have struggled. I’ll do really good for a week or two then fizzle out in motivation. Thanks for getting me to push myself a little harder!
@@kombaimusiclab3699 Ah c'est cool! Es-que tu faire musique dans la ordinateur ou tu joué un instrument? Oui mon travail me plait beaucoup! Merci pour ton commentaire et je te souhaite bonne chance!
Just to confirm Lex point, I'm an English learner, I'd been in an English academy for 1.5 years and I got my B2 level some months ago, I knew that I had to improve my listening skill because I wasn't good at it, so I started spending around 4h per day, pushing myself even if I wanted to just mess around. It took me up around 7 months to understand a native English speaker well, however, right now I know that I have to get better in my writing and speaking skill, but I know that day by day, step by step even If it is a small step, with discipline and passion I can achieve it, so guys keep in mind that hard work always pays off! Don't step back!
Thank you for this video. I found that one of the greatest obstacles of learning is the feeling that you’re no progressing fast enough. Listening to you explaining how long it takes to really learn something was refreshing and inspiring
Whats great about this Lex, is that people like me can discover this at any point from the moment you uploaded this, and onward. I have lost that thing called passion with my guitar, and with me falling in love with working in the trade business. Thank you for the gentle reminder on how it can be done.
Love your channel, Lex. I was amazed to see all these amazing people you talk to. Very soon after listening I can see why they would love your company. Legend mate!
Dude Ive slept on you for way too long. Thank you so much for all that you do. You truly are a rolemodel and someone who continues to inspire me daily. Thank you.
Beautiful! Thank you. I completely agree with this credo. I've been following my passion (juggling diabolo) for the last 21 years and I do 1 hour of practice every day. Although I'm not naturally gifted at it and I started practicing pretty late in life, the rewards that I get from the discipline of it are amazing over the long run. Sometimes it's tough to keep doing the practice, when you're not motivated, but it's now a strong habit. I've been coaching students for the last 20 years and keep talking about how important discipline and habit are. It's so great to hear someone else talking about this overlooked aspect of achieving long-lasting joy and happiness in life :) Thanks Lex!!
This is so motivating as I’m following my passion as a painter . I’ve cried and felt like giving up and when I decide to push through it , magic happens and I’ve realized I did it . My painting doesn’t t look like shit .
Great mind hack, Lex! Having retired recently, and looking for something to do to keep me from total boredom, I dusted off my old guitar and started playing again with the idea of maybe visiting skilled care facilities and playing for the elderly in a post covid world. One trick? I implemented to fuel my interest and dedication is that I purchased a three string cigar box guitar (a super nice one, solidly built electric). I play mostly in an open G turning (GDg), occasionally using a slide. I've found that the cigar box guitar tends to lead me back to my six string acoustic, learning the same songs on both instruments, cross training--if you will. There is a huge community of dedicated CBG enthusiast which has also helped fuel my interest in learning. I'm certainly not a master of either instrument, but I'm enjoying the journey, the learning experience. And, so far, I haven't been bored since I retired. Be safe. Be well. And thank you.
I think the everyday thing works simply because your brain realizes, "Oh, I need this everyday" and registers that neurons should be allocated to the activity, making it actually easier as time goes along to improve. I live in Japan, and struggled for years to improve in the language, but I started a habit of listening to Japanese news/talk shows on the way to work (non-passively) and after a while, I was able to say things that I hadn't sat down to study... as though my mind had decided to learn it for me to help me out. Fascinating stuff!
Hey Lex, thanks for sharing. For a lot of people following you you are an example and an outstanding person who achieved a lot. So your life example is important
Sir you are one of the most down to earth and hardworking person i have ever seen, your approch to life has chnaged my prepective . Thanks for all of the contribution to the earth.
Great advice for anyone looking to get into a new skill or profession. Coming from a 15+ year freelance tv/commercial audio cue producer/stock broker/mastering engineer/indie artist.
Thanks Lex! Very useful advice. I appreciate your connection to music. Music and art has been a catalyst and anchor of positivity in my life for 47 years. I just turned 49. 🤘🖖👽🇨🇦
Thank you Lex!! I followed your advice religiously and now I became an expert at smoking meth. Some days I didn't want to do it but I came back to this video for motivation, I remembered I had to grind and push through no matter how difficult it seemed. Bless you
Keep being you lex. I've heard you broach the subject of maintaining/building an audience and im sure you were just being humble but you already know the answer because you've done just that thus far. You are the perfect balance of wise and knowledgeable yet curious and open minded. Something I strive to be as well. Thank you for your content and I look forward to seeing how you progress!
Hugely helpful video Lex. Discipline is the first word that comes to mind when I see you in a suit! Would love to see more of these short videos thanks!
I appreciate that Lex continues to ask and attempt to answer questions that are seemingly answerless. The questions that we may all sheepishly be curious about.
Thank you. You are showing us how to overcome inertness! I love your compassion and I am very fortunate to have encountered you when I watched a Joe Rohan. To undo a habit and create a new one, Is the key to developing discipline. As Peterson also teaches. You are changing our society. Happy holidays. Margo
7:20 "I enjoy the pursuit of mastery of the art itself, not necessarily in comparison to others" (paraphrased). I can relate. Great vid, Lex, thank you!
As I take anouther spin around the sun in the next few days and get a year older I have been contemplating life. I found this video in my Home page on said journey and was glad I hit 'play'.....I listened to your words and found some inspiration that had been missing for me. Life has been so crazy and hectic for me recently, but thankful for your words! Thru your words I too believe that "discipline can lead to a meaningful life". I feel excited about life again maybe because of you and this video, who knows :) I may look into getting a guitar too, though I am a trained saxaphone player, I may just have to dust that off for now. I love that 'mind hack' you discussed and I feel motivated! I will tell you Lex, I was moved by your words in this video, which is why I write this. I have followed you for a few years and enjoy your diverse, intellectual and thought provoking videos. This is an "oldie but goodie" vid and I know this sounds funny but I have an idea on how to live the last half of my life now! Blessings and love to you!
Some key notes: To Master something, Build a habit around that activity and make sure you do it everyday. At the initial stage, 2h/day for an year and after that ~20m/day for 5 years to get exceptionally good at it. But the key point is to do it everyday despite the fact that you might not feel like doing it and just grind through these days. Passion is volatile and it'll come in again and carry you through.
I got an iOS app called Productive and one of the habits I put in there is practice guitar every day. At least half an hour. Seeing visually how many times I’ve done it helps a lot. I got the app trial then ended the subscription before trial and they offered it for 10 a year instead of 30. That guitar rust is falling off me, plus I’m back at the gym and recording more music. Good luck out there!
Discipline is the one virtue we undervalue in most any society I've lived in, come to think of it, especially when it comes to instilling it in our children. It just hurts to make them do stuff they don't want, and they look happy just being allowed to do whatever, but in conjunction with a few other traits it leads to a lot of regret-driven depression during adulthood, I've found.
Agreed. I spent at least 3 hours 5 times /week when I picked up Latin dance for 3 years straight and dropped down to 2 hours 3 times/ week from year 4 to year 5. To me it takes 1.5 years to know the basic and 2 years to be good at it and the rest of the time you are in the flow to improvise freely and as your mind/heart united with the music as one - you movements/dancing is the extension of the music itself of how the music want to interpret..
Thanks Lex, this is good advice, I started learning French 1 year ago and I would do 2 or 3 hours a day if it, and I really enjoy it and I have a good foundation of knowing french
I love watching your podcast and watching you speak so intelligently on various subjects and fields. The passion I see when you’re talking about programming and AI has inspired me to learn to code. I’m starting with python as many experts suggest. It’s actually waaay easier than I thought. I mean I’ve only just started so I know it should get more difficult, but I’m loving it so far. What stopped me from learning before was the bullshit outdated notion that you have to be mathematically / analytically inclined to succeed in such fields. I know better now. Thanks for inspiring me Lex.
Thanks Lex. Every time I start to feel lazy, you appear like Yoda and straighten things out. This thanksgiving , thankful to have found you in black hole of you tube ❤️🙌🏼
Lex, thank you for sharing with us kindly and candidly what you know, what you love and what you need to work on! I really enjoyed listening to you as a guest on many JRE podcasts. As someone who imigrated from Romania 16 years ago, I liked hearing that you are still connected to the place where you were born, still speak the language fluently and consciously step out of your comfort zone to think deeply about many issues that humans face / have faced and will face throughout our evolutionary history. I enjoyed listening to your podcast with Dan Carlin and all the really deep questions you were asking him! I didn't know Putin was very admired and respected when he first became president and that B Yeltsin chose him as his next successor, which was the first time in Russian history that has ever happened. I don't know much about Russian history, but I do know, from growing up in a deep communist country, that no matter how bad things get, idealistic young people ( true, brave-heart, bleeding-heart, woke people) are and will always be the ones to raise the alarm whenever there's injustice in the world! I'm greatful for and to them! I think there will always be wars to be fought because of the duality of human spirit. Even if, in the far away future, AI will be trained to recognize instigators, the beginning of chaos and quench those fires by removing the threat, disconnecting it from everyone and everything else, the seed of our human nature was implanted in us at the very beginning - we're made from chaos ( big bang? the stars, DNA mutations..etc) and nothing about human nature is calm and serene. Everything that brings us joy ( healthy bodies, sharp minds, giving and receiving love, helping someone/ something selflessly, listening to music made by human gods like Estas Tonne - The Song of the Golden Dragon, or Omar Bashir/ To my mother or by nature gods - like a breezy symphony in a meadow on a summer afternoon in Ouray, Colorado right after a thunderstorm) - is very valuable to us. We will always fight to protect these sources of joy....but i wouldn't want it any other way. La joie de vivre! I love this beautiful life! 🌺🕊️👣🌾🌼
Thank you, Lex. What you've discuss about "passion vs discipline" really bothers me for a long time. I used to be a disciplined person, and I think this personality comes form my father. When I was a kid, he always told me that "Skill comes only with practice, patience and persistence...". I started to practice English after I was humiliated by my ugly accent in my first presentation. In the first two month, it takes 2 hours to memorize 50 words. What's worse, I hardly recalled a word the next day and my English didn't make any progress. But this soon became my habit, and the duration also dropped to 30mins. Now, I am confident that I can make an easy conversation in a few minites, though still not very fluent :) It takes about 2 years, and now I feel I need read some English text everyday. I started learning AI about 1 year ago, when I subscribed you :) Prior to that, I knew nothing about AI, neither programming. I understood the most "foolish" way is simply pracitce with it. I read "deep learning" every night for 30mins before sleeping. This really helped me get fimilar with AI and deep learning. Some months ago, I realized that "discipline" does help you get fimiler with new things. However, given limited time and spirit per day, I must choose wisely “the most lucrative" habits to form. Things like practice English for 10 mins, reading books and coding on leetcode for 30 mins do helps me build up abilites. By contrast, when I feel like learning a topic such as "object detection", "passion" helps me concentrate on it. When I study it for a couple of weeks, my passion began to decrease, "dicipline" start to function in the sense that I could push myself by saying "I can master it if I just stick to it for a sec".😂
THANKS FOR THIS IM HAVING A VERY TUFF TIME IN THE STOCKMARKET BUT IM VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT IT AND THIS HELPS ME ALOT . KEEP GRINDING !! STRUGGLE MEANS IM ON THE RIGHT PATH .
I've heard with regards to learning something and being able to retain it longer, is to take breaks. Like Lex says, practice for 1, 10, 30, 60 minutes a day for a while and you'll eventually get good at something over the long term. But more so if you try to learn something and then try to regurgitate the information on your own a few days later, you'd be surprised on how long that information will last in your brain. For example, when you were first learning math; I bet you still remember or think of grade 1-5 things when you're solving a math problem. It's because you learned in the same way I mentioned.
I agree. I also think that when something seems to be difficult, regardless whether it is at the beginning or later during the learning process, it means that you are actually learning and your mind is trying hard to figure out how thing are related. If something seems to be too easy, you may almost know it or just not paying too much attention or overseeing something. So yeah, actual learning feels hard and difficult. Already knowing and understanding something is easier.
WHY do most people think or rather foolishly believe "It takes a huge amount of time?" In case you are not aware of it, Time is all YOU have: In fact, Time is your best friend, you just arent aware of it YET: ANY skill can be learned if you are willing and able: USE YOUR ILLUSION:
Couldn't agree more with the first point! I was a skinny guy, and during November 2022 I did about 15 push-ups a day and my muscle was noticeably bigger after 4 days
A couple questions & answers on how I approach the process of learning. I'll try to do more of these if it's of value to anyone.
Very valuable. Gonna commit to learn meditation 💪🏿
Always interesting and my level of intrigue for what pearls of wisdom will follow next is through the roof
Discipline + Consistency + Passion + Good Habits = Mastering Subjects and Life!!! Winners never quit and losers always quit!!!!
The timing of this video is great for me. Thanks! On this subject, do you have any previous videos on what is a good learning path for me to learn machine learning? I'm currently taking online courses and my interests are in visual GANs and I'd eventually like to be making AI that makes music.
It's definitely if use, Lex
"The way to remove motivation out of the picture is to build a habit"
- Lex Fridman
Great quote!
Nice
Yes.
I didnt realize all the people in the comments were such masters of life! I apologize for those of us that didnt know motivation was like soo stupid and annoying and that we should just build habits... Duhh.
@Masster Gunnz im calm.. Ur trying to win to feel good about urself and u dont get to win. I win cause im white and better...
The pursuit of habitness
Lol
Hahaha
There's a bumper sticker
Lol is this in response to the comment above? Lol perfect
Lol. That's the path to excellence though
Make it a habit
- set a minimum amount each day
- schedule it every day (minimum) 2hrs for a year or even less like 10minutes
- discipline - grind it out even though you don't want to
- struggle is a sign you're on the right path - see it as competition other people will give up
I've done this with alcohol 🍸
@@paddymuppy Nice
Holy shit that last part 😳
@@paddymuppy good ..
aren't we lucky that people like lex share their thoughts and passion online? this channel is very inspiring and goal-affirming.
Thank you. It's a very good observation.
"mastery is impossible" is an excellent reminder to just keep going and going and never ever stop. gotta remind myself this every single day.
i don't like "mastery is impossible" , i prefer "halfass the whole damn thing".
Be one of a kind with your own set of skills 🤝
Spot on Lex, Spot on. I've become proficient in many different domains in my life. These include becoming a licensed architect, college professor, armature racer, surfer, golfer, solo sailor, long distance cyclist, mixed martial artist, fine art photographer and musician. All of these began with passion and obsessional interest, followed by years of daily hard work and dedication to building the skills required for each. If you love something, learning about it and mastering the skills needed to do it is an absolute joy - so do what you LOVE. The rest will follow.
"Struggle is a sign that you are on the right path"-Lex(I straight away write it down and put on my study table thanks 🙏)
Keep in mind, when your career/jobs revolve around learning, that becomes your life naturally. Lex is a great example of this. His learning of these different fields benefit his business/jobs. That can create a lot of motivation, realizing that both of these things benefit each other. Lex is part of the intelligentsia, (it’s not inherently good or bad), which means he gets paid to learn and teach. It’s kind of like an HVAC tech learning more about electricity, energy consumption, and business, then applying it. Knowledge and education is best when it benefits you just as much as others.
Such a well spoken and humble guy. If only the world could be like this..
You're a great role model Lex. Keep up the great work my man
Rolex.
Thank you for the inspiration, that really means a lot. I have been struggling in my classes until I saw your videos and how you and other very skilled people see the world, what they think about the future and now. That really inspired me to be better of myself, thank you.
"Strumming in a way that allows me to sing" - So relatable.
After my son was born, and after 15 years of playing guitar and never really learning to sing while playing, I finally started trying in earnest. I've always had what I'd call a "focused" mindset, one in which I pay attention, more or less, to one thing at a time. As such, I've found singing while playing to be very challenging; it feels like some sort of mental gymnastics. The best advice I have is to learn the guitar part so well that you could play it in your sleep, and then add the lyrics. I've also found that practicing guitar on my acoustic while wandering around the house, trying to have conversations while playing, etc, also helps.
After some months of practicing this every day, slowly improving, it's beginning to feel like I'm finally making some progress. At times, it almost feels as though I've unlocked another CPU core.
The forming of habits around a skill is one of the best things we can do to get better at something. Just 10 minutes a day on something everyday can be huge in improvement its great to hear someone as skillful as Lex put things into the context of forming habits.
From my own experience of being self-taught in a lot of things like programming (which is now my job), french, guitar, singing etc: i think the most important part of "learning how to learn" is to find your own way of learning - and that only comes from experience. I know that's kind of a "duuh", but it's true.. But i'll give you what helps me:
If i'm learning to code for example: instead of focusing on the details of the skill (like a certain language), I try to put myself in the shoes of a skilled programmer and I think to myself: why does this person love to code? What is it about writing gibberish computer talk that gives this person so much pleasure/feeling of accomplishment? (insert own answer here)
My own answer: because it enables them to make/do cool things! Like back in the day before I knew how to code I used to think Facebook was the coolest thing (it's not anymore lol), so my first project was to create a very stripped-down version of facebook where you can upload pictures and you can write posts.. and voila I was on my way! And the cool thing about doing it this way is that it won't feel like learning if you're only trying to accomplish a specific goal, because then that function that uploads the pictures is only a stepping stone to reach the greater goal. So in the end I was left with a broken, shitty version of facebook that took 12s to load each refresh and it was terrible - but I had somehow learned the basics of programming while not really thinking about it (because spoiler alert: code is just a tool to reach your goal, your way of thinking/problem solving is your skill)
And when i learned french, everyone in every course tells you to learn grammar first, which is of course the most logical way and will help you later... But nah that shit is too boring for me! So i just found a TH-camr that i like (i recommend Norman Fait des Videos), put on subtitles and i just sat for hours on end pausing the video for every sentence and translating the words over and over again until I remembered them and got a feel for the language! Very inefficient, but I enjoyed doing it this way and got to watch cool videos at the same time: I'm a very brute-force kind of learner haha.
So yeah that was my two cents on learning! Good luck to you guys out there.
Those four skills are all habits I’m trying to build into my life but have struggled. I’ll do really good for a week or two then fizzle out in motivation. Thanks for getting me to push myself a little harder!
Alors qu'est ce que tu deviens ? Ton travail te plaît ? Moi aussi je fais de la programmation et de la musique, et j'adore les podcast de Lex !
Woah. Thanks for that !!
thanks for this
@@kombaimusiclab3699 Ah c'est cool! Es-que tu faire musique dans la ordinateur ou tu joué un instrument? Oui mon travail me plait beaucoup! Merci pour ton commentaire et je te souhaite bonne chance!
Just to confirm Lex point, I'm an English learner, I'd been in an English academy for 1.5 years and I got my B2 level some months ago, I knew that I had to improve my listening skill because I wasn't good at it, so I started spending around 4h per day, pushing myself even if I wanted to just mess around. It took me up around 7 months to understand a native English speaker well, however, right now I know that I have to get better in my writing and speaking skill, but I know that day by day, step by step even If it is a small step, with discipline and passion I can achieve it, so guys keep in mind that hard work always pays off! Don't step back!
I am on the same path but different langauge :) C1 is all about understanding subtle differences. I am also amazed you understand everything here.
@@oscarinacan Thanks :)
Thank you for this video. I found that one of the greatest obstacles of learning is the feeling that you’re no progressing fast enough. Listening to you explaining how long it takes to really learn something was refreshing and inspiring
Passion will go up and down, that's when discipline comes into play. Bravo!!
i am from india,i watch your all videos.and i loved it,thanks for making my life better.
I get happy whenever I see lex fridman video . Period
Whats great about this Lex, is that people like me can discover this at any point from the moment you uploaded this, and onward. I have lost that thing called passion with my guitar, and with me falling in love with working in the trade business. Thank you for the gentle reminder on how it can be done.
Love your channel, Lex. I was amazed to see all these amazing people you talk to. Very soon after listening I can see why they would love your company. Legend mate!
I needed this today Lex, you're an inspiration to us all. I deeply appreciate everything you bring us. Hope your day is a good one.
Dude Ive slept on you for way too long. Thank you so much for all that you do. You truly are a rolemodel and someone who continues to inspire me daily. Thank you.
You're absolutely right. If we really stick with something for a long we'll get all the things from it sooner or later
Beautiful! Thank you. I completely agree with this credo. I've been following my passion (juggling diabolo) for the last 21 years and I do 1 hour of practice every day. Although I'm not naturally gifted at it and I started practicing pretty late in life, the rewards that I get from the discipline of it are amazing over the long run. Sometimes it's tough to keep doing the practice, when you're not motivated, but it's now a strong habit. I've been coaching students for the last 20 years and keep talking about how important discipline and habit are. It's so great to hear someone else talking about this overlooked aspect of achieving long-lasting joy and happiness in life :) Thanks Lex!!
Thank you for another piece of great advice. I started playing bass at 50 years old and following something along these lines is right on.
This is so motivating as I’m following my passion as a painter . I’ve cried and felt like giving up and when I decide to push through it , magic happens and I’ve realized I did it . My painting doesn’t t look like shit .
Great mind hack, Lex! Having retired recently, and looking for something to do to keep me from total boredom, I dusted off my old guitar and started playing again with the idea of maybe visiting skilled care facilities and playing for the elderly in a post covid world. One trick? I implemented to fuel my interest and dedication is that I purchased a three string cigar box guitar (a super nice one, solidly built electric). I play mostly in an open G turning (GDg), occasionally using a slide. I've found that the cigar box guitar tends to lead me back to my six string acoustic, learning the same songs on both instruments, cross training--if you will. There is a huge community of dedicated CBG enthusiast which has also helped fuel my interest in learning. I'm certainly not a master of either instrument, but I'm enjoying the journey, the learning experience. And, so far, I haven't been bored since I retired. Be safe. Be well. And thank you.
I think the everyday thing works simply because your brain realizes, "Oh, I need this everyday" and registers that neurons should be allocated to the activity, making it actually easier as time goes along to improve. I live in Japan, and struggled for years to improve in the language, but I started a habit of listening to Japanese news/talk shows on the way to work (non-passively) and after a while, I was able to say things that I hadn't sat down to study... as though my mind had decided to learn it for me to help me out. Fascinating stuff!
1. Build habit.
2. Do it everyday.
3. Never miss twice in a row.
4. Struggle is a sign of progress.
5. Reward on the skill per se.
You just solve my biggest problem nowadays in the first 3 minutes of your video. Thank you
This is the first video I've watched from your channel... And I feel like I've learnt something very fundamental about living life... Thank you...🙏
Hey Lex, thanks for sharing. For a lot of people following you you are an example and an outstanding person who achieved a lot. So your life example is important
Keep doing what you are doing Lex. It's awesome to see a channel like yours grow!
Sir you are one of the most down to earth and hardworking person i have ever seen, your approch to life has chnaged my prepective . Thanks for all of the contribution to the earth.
Great advice for anyone looking to get into a new skill or profession.
Coming from a 15+ year freelance tv/commercial audio cue producer/stock broker/mastering engineer/indie artist.
Thanks Lex! Very useful advice. I appreciate your connection to music. Music and art has been a catalyst and anchor of positivity in my life for 47 years. I just turned 49. 🤘🖖👽🇨🇦
Discipline leads to a meaningful life. Yes. Please enjoy your life Lex. You've EARNED it!
Thank you Lex!! I followed your advice religiously and now I became an expert at smoking meth. Some days I didn't want to do it but I came back to this video for motivation, I remembered I had to grind and push through no matter how difficult it seemed. Bless you
You're an inspiration Lex, thank you.
Every teenager who struggles with the challenge and quits needs to hear this.
Keep being you lex. I've heard you broach the subject of maintaining/building an audience and im sure you were just being humble but you already know the answer because you've done just that thus far. You are the perfect balance of wise and knowledgeable yet curious and open minded. Something I strive to be as well. Thank you for your content and I look forward to seeing how you progress!
Definitely of value. Thanks Lex, your fans really appreciate these videos
Hugely helpful video Lex. Discipline is the first word that comes to mind when I see you in a suit! Would love to see more of these short videos thanks!
The idea of grinding it out even when you don't want to do it resounds strongly with me!!! Thanks for the video.
I appreciate that Lex continues to ask and attempt to answer questions that are seemingly answerless. The questions that we may all sheepishly be curious about.
Thank you.
You are showing us how to overcome inertness!
I love your compassion and I am very fortunate
to have encountered you when I watched a Joe Rohan.
To undo a habit and create a new one,
Is the key to developing discipline.
As Peterson also teaches.
You are changing our society.
Happy holidays.
Margo
You are a fascinating human being Lex. I admire you. You are wise beyond your years.
Lex you are truly a gift to humanity. Thank you for everything you do. Keep up the great work
7:20 "I enjoy the pursuit of mastery of the art itself, not necessarily in comparison to others" (paraphrased). I can relate. Great vid, Lex, thank you!
As I take anouther spin around the sun in the next few days and get a year older I have been contemplating life. I found this video in my Home page on said journey and was glad I hit 'play'.....I listened to your words and found some inspiration that had been missing for me. Life has been so crazy and hectic for me recently, but thankful for your words! Thru your words I too believe that "discipline can lead to a meaningful life". I feel excited about life again maybe because of you and this video, who knows :) I may look into getting a guitar too, though I am a trained saxaphone player, I may just have to dust that off for now. I love that 'mind hack' you discussed and I feel motivated! I will tell you Lex, I was moved by your words in this video, which is why I write this. I have followed you for a few years and enjoy your diverse, intellectual and thought provoking videos. This is an "oldie but goodie" vid and I know this sounds funny but I have an idea on how to live the last half of my life now! Blessings and love to you!
Clearly humility is very important.
You are a great thinker and so should we all strive to be
Thank You sir, You quickly became one of favorite people that I listen to! You always know what to say and how to say!
Yes , looking forward to hearing the full answer. Genuine and thoughtful as always
Some key notes:
To Master something, Build a habit around that activity and make sure you do it everyday.
At the initial stage, 2h/day for an year and after that ~20m/day for 5 years to get exceptionally good at it.
But the key point is to do it everyday despite the fact that you might not feel like doing it and just grind through these days. Passion is volatile and it'll come in again and carry you through.
I’m 22 and look at you like a big brother! Love the show keep it up!
So eloquently explained! Listening to your podcasts motivates me everyday
Lex just served us Atomic habits in less than 10 minutes.
Is a nice book btw
@@stopPlannedObsolescence yup
Thank you, Lex! I needed to hear this today, as I'm trying to learn to code at 52, to make a career change due to a recent disability.👊🏽🙏🏽
"It gets easier. But you have to do it everyday, thats the hard part. But it does get easier."
BoJack
Watching this was very important for me at this moment in my life :) Thank you, Lex!
A lot of love for you and your podcast Lex, truly a diamond in the rough as far as humans go :D
“I personally think that struggle is a sign that you're on the right path.” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I got an iOS app called Productive and one of the habits I put in there is practice guitar every day. At least half an hour. Seeing visually how many times I’ve done it helps a lot. I got the app trial then ended the subscription before trial and they offered it for 10 a year instead of 30. That guitar rust is falling off me, plus I’m back at the gym and recording more music. Good luck out there!
Discipline is the one virtue we undervalue in most any society I've lived in, come to think of it, especially when it comes to instilling it in our children. It just hurts to make them do stuff they don't want, and they look happy just being allowed to do whatever, but in conjunction with a few other traits it leads to a lot of regret-driven depression during adulthood, I've found.
Thanks Prof. Lex.
God bless you.
Agreed. I spent at least 3 hours 5 times /week when I picked up Latin dance for 3 years straight and dropped down to 2 hours 3 times/ week from year 4 to year 5. To me it takes 1.5 years to know the basic and 2 years to be good at it and the rest of the time you are in the flow to improvise freely and as your mind/heart united with the music as one - you movements/dancing is the extension of the music itself of how the music want to interpret..
So humble, Lex. You are one out of the box 🌈❤️
Lex, thank you. This is great, I have been on and off picking up Python and trying to learn it, maybe this time I’ll manage to stick to it.
Perfect video, I've been spending the last few weeks learning how to draw and I've been trying to do it for at least a bit everyday. Awesome video
I started the same in January. It works, even if I did it only for couple minutes on bad day. It's worth it!
Thanks Lex, this is good advice, I started learning French 1 year ago and I would do 2 or 3 hours a day if it, and I really enjoy it and I have a good foundation of knowing french
I love watching your podcast and watching you speak so intelligently on various subjects and fields. The passion I see when you’re talking about programming and AI has inspired me to learn to code. I’m starting with python as many experts suggest. It’s actually waaay easier than I thought. I mean I’ve only just started so I know it should get more difficult, but I’m loving it so far. What stopped me from learning before was the bullshit outdated notion that you have to be mathematically / analytically inclined to succeed in such fields. I know better now. Thanks for inspiring me Lex.
That look when you gave while saying "Not singing" is very powerful. Hey Lex I enjoy your podcast and your other works. Keep it going.
You are wise beyond your years. Thank you for these insights.
Thanks Lex. Every time I start to feel lazy, you appear like Yoda and straighten things out. This thanksgiving , thankful to have found you in black hole of you tube ❤️🙌🏼
I love the 2 hours a day for a year to start something. Great way to start with music :)
Thank you Lex , your podcasts are very insightful and inspirational.
Lex, thank you for sharing with us kindly and candidly what you know, what you love and what you need to work on! I really enjoyed listening to you as a guest on many JRE podcasts. As someone who imigrated from Romania 16 years ago, I liked hearing that you are still connected to the place where you were born, still speak the language fluently and consciously step out of your comfort zone to think deeply about many issues that humans face / have faced and will face throughout our evolutionary history.
I enjoyed listening to your podcast with Dan Carlin and all the really deep questions you were asking him! I didn't know Putin was very admired and respected when he first became president and that B Yeltsin chose him as his next successor, which was the first time in Russian history that has ever happened. I don't know much about Russian history, but I do know, from growing up in a deep communist country, that no matter how bad things get, idealistic young people ( true, brave-heart, bleeding-heart, woke people) are and will always be the ones to raise the alarm whenever there's injustice in the world! I'm greatful for and to them!
I think there will always be wars to be fought because of the duality of human spirit. Even if, in the far away future, AI will be trained to recognize instigators, the beginning of chaos and quench those fires by removing the threat, disconnecting it from everyone and everything else, the seed of our human nature was implanted in us at the very beginning - we're made from chaos ( big bang? the stars, DNA mutations..etc) and nothing about human nature is calm and serene. Everything that brings us joy ( healthy bodies, sharp minds, giving and receiving love, helping someone/ something selflessly, listening to music made by human gods like Estas Tonne - The Song of the Golden Dragon, or Omar Bashir/ To my mother or by nature gods - like a breezy symphony in a meadow on a summer afternoon in Ouray, Colorado right after a thunderstorm) - is very valuable to us. We will always fight to protect these sources of joy....but i wouldn't want it any other way. La joie de vivre! I love this beautiful life! 🌺🕊️👣🌾🌼
I love this guy! Thanks for doing what you do for others! 👍💪
Lex is a gem among all other youtubers and I am happy to have discovered him. He is actually a role model for me since we have so much in common)
Hes the man of focus, Commitment and sheer fookin will.
Thanks Lex, video for the rest of the 2021... DO THE THING does not matter how hard it get, one must keep rolling.
You only learn and be successful when there is competition. Your competitor is the best motivator.
You're a good man, lex. Love from 🇮🇪
internet explorer?!
What a great base of knowledge you build and share! Thank you.
Touchingly honest. I respect that strong 💪🏻 willpower, presented without superfluous flannel. All good stuff. 👍🏻
You are one hell of a man! You have become a role model of mine and many.
Thanks!
Excellent lessons, Lex. I especially liked the point about embracing difficulties
Thank you, Lex. What you've discuss about "passion vs discipline" really bothers me for a long time. I used to be a disciplined person, and I think this personality comes form my father. When I was a kid, he always told me that "Skill comes only with practice, patience and persistence...". I started to practice English after I was humiliated by my ugly accent in my first presentation. In the first two month, it takes 2 hours to memorize 50 words. What's worse, I hardly recalled a word the next day and my English didn't make any progress. But this soon became my habit, and the duration also dropped to 30mins. Now, I am confident that I can make an easy conversation in a few minites, though still not very fluent :) It takes about 2 years, and now I feel I need read some English text everyday.
I started learning AI about 1 year ago, when I subscribed you :) Prior to that, I knew nothing about AI, neither programming. I understood the most "foolish" way is simply pracitce with it. I read "deep learning" every night for 30mins before sleeping. This really helped me get fimilar with AI and deep learning. Some months ago, I realized that "discipline" does help you get fimiler with new things. However, given limited time and spirit per day, I must choose wisely “the most lucrative" habits to form. Things like practice English for 10 mins, reading books and coding on leetcode for 30 mins do helps me build up abilites. By contrast, when I feel like learning a topic such as "object detection", "passion" helps me concentrate on it. When I study it for a couple of weeks, my passion began to decrease, "dicipline" start to function in the sense that I could push myself by saying "I can master it if I just stick to it for a sec".😂
i love this guy's clarity
THANKS FOR THIS
IM HAVING A VERY TUFF TIME IN THE STOCKMARKET BUT IM VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT IT AND THIS HELPS ME ALOT .
KEEP GRINDING !!
STRUGGLE MEANS IM ON THE RIGHT PATH .
I've heard with regards to learning something and being able to retain it longer, is to take breaks. Like Lex says, practice for 1, 10, 30, 60 minutes a day for a while and you'll eventually get good at something over the long term. But more so if you try to learn something and then try to regurgitate the information on your own a few days later, you'd be surprised on how long that information will last in your brain. For example, when you were first learning math; I bet you still remember or think of grade 1-5 things when you're solving a math problem. It's because you learned in the same way I mentioned.
Thanks for sharing, Lex! You da GOAT
I agree. I also think that when something seems to be difficult, regardless whether it is at the beginning or later during the learning process, it means that you are actually learning and your mind is trying hard to figure out how thing are related. If something seems to be too easy, you may almost know it or just not paying too much attention or overseeing something.
So yeah, actual learning feels hard and difficult. Already knowing and understanding something is easier.
Undoubtedly one of the most Inspirational personalities on TH-cam.... Thanks again Lex!!
WHY do most people think or rather foolishly believe "It takes a huge amount of time?"
In case you are not aware of it, Time is all YOU have: In fact, Time is your best friend, you just arent aware of it YET: ANY skill can be learned if you are willing and able: USE YOUR ILLUSION:
Couldn't agree more with the first point! I was a skinny guy, and during November 2022 I did about 15 push-ups a day and my muscle was noticeably bigger after 4 days
There's something therapeutic listening to lex.