@@Salmacream I doubt he is big in Asia. NA and SA is still sleeping. It's also Tuesday where most people are working. Not saying you're completely wrong but I don't think he is that wrong either.
Reminds me when my last therapist introduced me to the concept of Radical Acceptance. It's like, you can have parts of your life that you aren't satisfied with and want to change and you absolutely should work on changing them if/when you can. But in the meantime you can accept the reality of your situation for what it is rather than constantly railing against it knowing that it won't last forever. Struggle is mandatory, suffering is optional.
Big mountaineer here. Can confirm that I am consistently in 'I don't wanna be here mode' going up the mountain, but when you get to the top it feels awesome. Then when I come down I'm just like 'can I get to my car any faster.'
the thing is, climbing a mountain is 10000000000x better than going to some retail job, having to hear bs from coworkers, take shit from bosses and customers, and then you don't even feel good when the paycheck comes in.
@@robert7100 Well that is because you dont want to be there and beeing there does not take you further to your actual goal. It only steals energy and time so it is logical that it is 100000000x worse.
For physical activities with set finish lines, the analogy is great. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of people who have more career-oriented or life event-oriented goals, especially over long stretches of time, they often don't feel much at the peak of their mountains. And then they start looking towards the next peak and hope that next time, next time they'll feel something. I'm not sure what the special sauce is, for getting a "sense of pride and accomplishment", but far from all difficult and monotonous activities will lead there. Maybe the immediate lead-up needs to be something extremely challenging or complicated or persistently time-consuming.
@@Hotshot2k4 I agree with this. I read something about the word patience having two meanings. The first one lines up with the mountain peak analogy, it takes time and effort but after a certain number of steps it will happen. Same as high school or university, you have to put in the effort and do the right, slowly the days turn into years but eventually its done. The second meaning is more like the job promotion. You put in the hard work and do all the right things, but you have no idea when or if it will actually pay off. Because they don't have to promote you in 1 year, or 5 years or ever really. But you still need the patience to work hard and do the right things. I feel like the second meaning of patience is harder but probably more important to life after school. Careers and love don't really have easy to measure progress. I don't know anyone who doesn't feel the "doing the right thing but still waiting" burnout.
@@Hotshot2k4 Me doing art: "Oh, I can finally draw a hand... now I just need to learn all the other parts in the body, next Light, next composition, next... and so on" until you can actually draw something that you actually envisioned in your head. Well, I suppose you need to find that peak in every single step, but It's just hard not to get discouraged when you think of the bigger picture, that bigger picture you realize is even bigger the more you feel like getting closer, you need to arrive to the point where you are fully aware that the grind will probably never end, and still choose to do it because is worth it, that's probably where you break trought. Nah, I don't mean to discourage anyone, we need to keep doing it anyway, it's okay to vent sometimes, I just wish I could started my journey when I was younger and didn't care for the "End goal", just doing art for fun, though I don't even know if I could keep going even then, I've always been too self-aware. Nowdays I look at the kids at the workshop I assist and I just love how they joyfully make what they can, with what they have, while having fun. Kids really are like a mirror for your past self.
I once applied to be a bank teller for PNC about nine years ago. Told me they pay 9 bucks an hour and required a MINIMUM of one year cash handling experience. 9 bucks an hour + required experience for a job where I am responsible for people's finances, and can potentially get robbed at gunpoint? Eight years before that, I was getting paid $7.15 to work at McDonalds. I'm good. The audacity of the employers to offer slave wages and crappy benefits for jobs that require experience, awful shifts, and possible hazards amazes me.
@@zephyrwayfarer I am guessing the implication was that he 'wussed' out of the bad paying job? You arent going to get your answer, it is obvious it is a bad joke/insult that fell flat on its face.
On the other side of the coin for this conversation, I am a person who pursued the job he thought he wanted to do, went to college for it, got several jobs doing it, and *hated every second of it*. I'm in my late 30s and all of the effort I put into my career is a waste because I find the job so discouraging and unpalatable that I'll never get a job in that industry again. You can't know what you don't know, but don't let that discourage you from trying to find a job you like doing. I now have a job I enjoy, but I make a quarter of the money I did previously. I chose the general happiness of my everyday life over my paycheck.
10:15 I had the same experience. It's like getting a weight off your shoulders. As much as people hate the idea of "I suffered therefore you should too", modern job hunting is something everyone should experience before complaining to anyone for not having a job.
I fletched 2,000 maple shortbows to fletch 2,000 maple longbows to fletch 3,000 yew shortbows to fletch 10,000 yew longbows to fletch 1 Magic Shortbow. The pride I have in my little bow is impossible to overstate.
Ah man, I remember learning that 30 years ago my parents house costed 50.000 euro (equivalent) and is worth today 350.000 euro. Happily, my parents are under no illusion that this was something like "Oh, we worked hard!" and they are outraged by the housing prices today, the pay for jobs failing to even keep pace with inflation while basically every necessity price has gone up by 30% in four years. My parents opinion is basically "So yeah, our generation really did a number on the world and I don't envy what is coming after..." But hey, I don't blame them. They fought the system as much as they could, and they still do.
The issue was millennials didn't do anything except make things worse hollering on climate change and other expensive issues with no concept of how economics costs lives.
But see Hockey1973, if you skip the coffe AND the avocado toast AND you account for inflation you can have the down payment in only 15 years, instead of 10!
Didn't know I needed to hear this, thank you for the motivation Josh! Been really struggling with doing the work I know should be doing because I'm scared all my effort will go to nothing. But I'll never get where I need to be unless I embrace the suck.
A successful music producer I follow was one asked what his process was for making good music and being so successful. His answer was "Just do" he went on to explain that a lot of what he writes is shit but the small amazing bits that creep through show up in the finished product. Gotta accept the uninspiring moments and keep trying to reach the accomplished payouts
As a uni student who has been looking for a tech internship for the past two years with no success, I can confirm that the process of looking for a job sucks.
10:29 Oh lord. Speaking as a life-long antique dealer, a year old listing (or any active buy-it-now listing) is barely going to be relevant in the current market, let alone 20+ year old reference books. The market for most niche collecting areas have been cut to a single digit percentage of what they were 10-20 years ago. And that's not even considering that so many collectors/dealers are out of business or dead, there's almost no market for any middle of the road to low end pieces. The top 1% will always sell, anything else will be a struggle. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
This is good advice. A good work ethic does not mean loving what you do at all times. A good work ethic means you push through the mundane and work hard even when it is tough.
that is what you learn in school. it isn't about the topics... it is about learning to force yourself to time management and do the crappy homework. those who struggle the most will be able to do and achieve more in the adult real world. those who cut corners and never did the grind ... they never learned the traits needed to survive in the real world. and as you get older it becomes more difficult to learn/unlearn traits. also people really need to re-learn that you can't have good things in life if you're not willing to do the bad boring things to earn it.
Literally this tho. I'm in gamedev and every few months I get the project I work on changed. The one I've loved the most? Making weapons. But I've been in shithole metaverse & NFT projects, I've been in handpainted projects that I'd usually adore but they're shitty props with choking estimates. Rn I'm in the process of getting into a mobile company. I still do what I overall like, which is 3D modelling. If I can lower the pace at which I grind, I might just have energy at the end of the day to do personal projects of things I actually wanna do.
love how the talk went from a different type of "this is the reality". From enjoying (or not) a proccess to the house market, and then the UK Driving Atlas vs GPS.
its funny hearing you talk about the medical roleplay actors i had to do an assessment with them when i was trainning at uni, one of them was an older bloke who made 4 people cry asking what would happen to his dog when he died (oncology related job)
As someone who's on the last leg of writing their masters thesis in university this really resonates with me. Writing it has been fun at times and miserable at times, it's not always fun going through correcting all the mistakes I made first time through, but I am sure once I have it finished and returned I'll feel good about it and have moment of relief.
I think the issue with people giving up too easily and struggling to accept discomfort might at least in part come from not having had support to feel comfortable in that. At least that was the case for me. Im still learning now that i have that support i need but it should be noted that very frequently people who can't handle that sort of thing aren't taking that view out of pure laziness or pleasure seeking.
This, absolutely. I believe in discomfort lies the key to personal growth. And conversely I also believe the search for all encompassing comfort will eventually lead to personal stagnation or even regression. However as a human being you need to get over that initial bump when you challenge yourself. For example the fear of failing, letting yourself or others down. Or the fear of the unknown. There are more fears like that, most imagined and only few real, that hold us back. But in that discomfort grows the seed of our learning experience. You just need to pick out the bits that have healthy influence on your personal growth. I hope that through personal experience you now understand the search for personal growth is always worth it, no matter the discomfort. :)
The key is to find aomething where theres a chance itll pay off and you can see results. It sucks just struggling *if* you get nothing in return, which sadly occurs a lot because of exploitation or incompetence. This is where having an actual audience or knowing what the fuck youre actually doing is so important.
Thank you, Josh. Going through a transformative time of my life and your opinions really help form the checkpoints and eventual goalpost for my journey.
A PhD here, who ended up in the job I love: the grind becomes less painful if you take it 1 day at a time. Yes there will be weeks when you are exhausted, but it will be very bearable if you don't think much about your end goal and focus on the intermediate milestones instead. You can always change careers when better opportunites arise. And remember that doing things you don't like is normal: do them today so you can have a better tomorrow.
Also another thing is , and this is for general rule of thumb - Never ever do your favorite hobby as your job, despite what influencers say so. Do the Job you like, but not the hobby. Because you will learn in time, Jobs suck. And there will be extra suck-ass days. You need to have a hobby to return to at the end of the day or weekend. Something good to look forward to. The influencers and education system fuck this up. They say - oh yeah you are going to live your amazing ideal life that you dream of when you grow up. No. Sure you get some agency to decide on things, but it will never be perfect, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. There's a few LOTR quotes i keep for my down swings - “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
I've been making games for almost 20 years now and I started making boring kid movie tie-in games that nobody wants to work on. It wasnt a dream, it wasnt great, those games were either destroyed or ignored by reviewers, but they were great stepping stones. Nobody starts big and if you want to start big, well you'll probably just never start.
I just finished the West Highland Way in Scotland, it was painful, some days were really hard. But when I arrived at the destination I felt so happy. You know that moment when you get a chuckle and feel your eyes start watering. That feeling is amazing.
Hey I worked in Mobile Gaming for 5 years and now I work at a first party. The thing is, even if you don't like the end result, you can like what you're doing, because you're learning and genuinely making good stuff. You may not like the direction of the product, but if you can be extremely proud about making something well done such as a 3D model, art, banner, code, whatever. In my case I made an entire mini game inside the mobile game, with the objective of increasing retention, I don't care about retention or the results, but making the mini game was actually fun and learned a lot. This got me working on a first party.
You can start enjoying stuff when you get good at it. It's weird but it's like with motivation - it appears after you actually start doing it. Also sometimes you're gonna totally HATE what you usually enjoy. And that's when you should especially keep pushing because no amount of extrinsic reward (vision of eating a pizza or going to gym with the money you earn after work) will make it suck less because your engagement with the activity is based on the intrinsic one (liking what you do/satisfaction from doing it). Trust me on this one, I've been an absolute failure for many years and had to really work my way out of misery and poor performance, I'm not one of these "enjoying the grind" or inherently motivated people lmao
Maybe I'm crazy but when I climbed Fuji I felt amazing at the top and happy at the bottom. I enjoy my work bar my current job which is an outlier. I work on my side projects which are also similar to my job and enjoy it more than relaxing. I feel blessed in this way. Not in other ways, but in this way.
This vid reminded me of how I'll be seeing people try to get into fighting games and then they give up cuz they give up because they don't wanna learn. I feel like there's nothing more satisfying than putting time into training mode and grinding up in ranked, especially if you've got a friend to run matches with, and seeing your skills advance over time
The "just go there and ask them" thing is so true. Every once in a while my mom will go "I just don't understand why you don't just go and talk to the lady that owns it (the shop near me I've applied to)", and I've tried to explain that that just isn't how it works, and like if they don't take me from the online application I've sent then they wouldn't take me just because I came and asked in person. Last time she said "yeah but that application is on a corporate level and not for that shop" and I again had to explain that, no, the application _is_ for that individual shop, and the only thing corporate has to do with it is that I gave them permission to give my CV to any nearby shops that might be in need of someone. At this point I've just given up so when she brings it up I will just find a way to steer the conversation away from it immediately
You know, if i could have heard this like 14 years ago, I would have been a better student in college or worked towards my dream career. I know it isn't too late. It's the fact that now I gotta break the habit I formed. Either way, i appreciate the philosophical videos you put out recently
There's going to be the learning process, too. It's hard to practice something when you fail or only barely manage what you want again and again. You aren't always going to have fun learning, but to get to the point where you do enjoy it, you've gotta do the leg work.
The fun thing is... The GPS can be wrong a lot. But usually only when they haven't been updated for new construction. The printed map will have the same problem multiplied by how old it is. The one argument I can see for keeping a printed map is just in case you lose signal when going to a remote area. Though usually the GPS part still works even there, and you'd want to print a fresh map for the area.
Recently when I went to the city google maps was constantly going haywire, same for my friend. Couldn't tell directions, which way we were facing or moving, etc. We wasted hours trying to get anywhere. Seems it's not perfectly reliable. Wonder what could've caused that?
What got me over the whole, have to do crap jobs or crappy things sometimes to get to what you want and enjoy, was reading the subtle art of not giving a fuck. Sometimes you have to accept where you are is shit, and that’s ok.
Well thanks for the nice, concise summary of coffee expenditures, letting me know how much I'm saving by just not being a coffee drinker in the first place. It's not "buy a house" levels of savings, but I'm sure a lot of people would love to have an extra thousand pounds at the end of the year.
As another point, this video is convincing me that synchronicity exists, because less than two hours ago, I was playing Space Engineers, and I could honestly see Josh's speech here being used as background audio for an advertisement for that game.
This was me about acting. I chalk my relative talent for acting up to the fact I had to learn how to mimic proper behaviour, as an autistic kid. But after finishing college I realised I wasn't prepared to grind it out for potentially decades for modest success.
At least it has value for all your life as it feeds back in to your everyday performance. Joining a socially cutthroat industry sounds horrible for an autistic person.
It's funny you mention maps, I work in agriculture in Scotland, and you would be amazed how many times I have had to consult an actual map, because Google can only give me a rough area based on a postcode that might encompass 5 farms. But the map will potentially have the name of the farm or feature near it that is only known locally.
10:28 My stepdad did that boomer thing, he left school when he was 15 and got a job putting together lamps at a Swedish factory. Think this was back in the 70s when you could still just walk to a company and get hired the same day. Something that's pretty much impossible to do since they require years of experience and university degrees to even be considered employment.
Modern Warfare Zombies. A Call of Duty game that's $70 and has a PvE only Zombies mode similar to the free to play DMZ mode as part of that $70 deal. . People who've gotten EVERYTHING done are already bored, because typical $70 AAA game moment. I genuinely enjoy the mode and HOW do I make the grind enjoyable? I just take my time with it. I haven't played for the entirety of Season 2 of MW3, until maybe 2 weeks ago and I JUST finished the BP but also got the entirety of the story missions up to Act 4 done. All I did was take breaks and go at it on my own time and at my own pace. EDIT: I just realized this is about job grind. Shit, idk, I'm mentally broken now due to my previous job and physically can't go outside for more than 2 hours, otherwise I'll have a panic attack which causes me to hyperventilate. All I do now is just work on my models and animations to make a game.
As someone who has had to interview candidates for vacancies in the team, for a relatively small company, I love the idea of someone walking up to me and handing me their CV on a printed out bit of paper. My industry is fairly fast paced (what isn't these days?) so we need to be on the ball. That paper is going straight in the bin. Why? Because a tonne of other people submitted their CVs by email and I do not need one random drifting bit of A4 in my draws or on my desk or whatever, lurking around in the hopes that it gets remembered. It won't. I can't search for that CV and have a handy list of relevant emails with attachments that take ten seconds to do. Your printed CV vs the dozens of others I can access at the click of a button - which is more efficient? A printed CV literally just makes my life more inconvenient until I want to print that CV myself.
I take timestamps in what I work on, because numbers don't stick in my head very well BUT in the rare occasion that I don't (like something I'm currently working on) I speed up the video by x2 or x4 to skip travel bits (just had to increase the video by x10 when I crossed the map). I've been able to watch 5 hours of footage in roughly 1-2 hours and edit it down to about 10 minutes for every hour.
A few of my jobs were like a walk-in and hired on the spot. But for a lot of them, oncludong when I KNEW the Hiring manager, when He called ME and said please fill this position, i still had to go through the very lengthy online application.
9:40 This is literally how I got my current job. Im a streetbuilder, one day after being over it with the company i was with at the time, on my way home i drove passed a construction company office (one of the largest in the state) I walked into the office still in my work clothes and boots and asked at the front desk if theyre looking for streetbuilders. The lady looked at me pretty weirdly but asked me to wait. About 5 minutes later a gentlemen escorted me through a hall into a meeting room with a computer and projector and we had a very pleasant conversation about what the company was about, and not only what I had to offer to the company but what the company had to offer me. 2 days later after a call with that gentleman i go back in, now meeting with the owner of the company, and within about 15 minutes of going over my CV and qualifications and experience, I had a job. It was literally that easy.
This is basically the tate philosophy without all the extra nonsense. Great to hear someone so level headed explain that, doing something meaningful isn't always fun and nor should be for so many reasons.
I think it comes down to the question of "Are you enjoying the process OR is the end result worth doing it even if you don't enjoy the process?" Because if you aren't all that invested in the end result, then there's no point in enduring something you don't enjoy in itself just to get there. Like, if someone is passionate about acting, the bad times between jobs are worth enduring because you really live for those food moments when you do get to be in a production. But if you are, for example, only becoming a lawyer because your family wants you to, not because you yourself like even ANY part of the job, then is the harsh path through law school even worth it? Especially with videogames, I find that people often do content just because it exists. They don't care about what they get in the end and they don't enjoy the things they have to do to get it. And I think it's important to self-evaluate and make more concious decisions about what to put effort into.
As someone who does A LOT of sandbox work in OpenRCT it’s not just MMOs. Games even things you enjoy will have aspects you don’t like. I dislike having to place every scenery piece individually. I hate the trial and error associated with getting shoestringing working; it’s genuinely frustrating when you’re trying to merge tracks or add vehicles to another and you crash the ride 20+ times. It’s frustrating and annoying designing your ride supports; BUT and here’s the BUT. When you’re done, being able to hop on my train ride or a rollercoaster and just enjoy the visuals of the park I built; it’s all worth it. Every bit of frustration and annoyance melts away when I see what I’ve built. I spent 10 hours yesterday building bridges; that’s it. Building BRIDGES.
"You run a marathon, you're gunna feel good at the end." "You climb a mountain, it's going to suck, but you get that sense of accomplishment at the end" I dont get that. There is no feel good at the end. Just the pain I am now in from having done the thing, and it having sucked. People will say, "Go for a run, or even a long walk, you'll get a runner's high, it's great!" No. No high. Just pain. Just suck. Hate every second of it. Get home, collapse, feel crap.
I love my dad and my dad loves me but the number of times he's told me I just need to "hit the pavement" and "go into businesses to show them I exist and I'm interested" is high.
I have a hard time with this stuff. I don't know if it's boomers posing bad arguments or others only sharing half of the argument so it's easier to dunk on. I've never gone longer than 2 weeks without a job. They are everywhere and I've gotten a lot by going in person. The thing is I just maintained connections so I was never walking in blind. I could go in saying I know the owners brother or I'd have a previous employer send an email first. Sometimes I'd just chat up the person at the front for 20 min and turn it into a job. I was told growing up that you had to do it that way and then worked flawlessly.
I had to do a lot of things I did not really enjoy to get into the position I am now today. after 15 years my god damn job makes fun at least most of the time.
When my parents bought their house, the average cost of a house was 3-5 years income for someone fresh out of school, and a deposit was 3 months of earnings (after living expenses) Now, a house is 13 years of income for someone fresh out of school, and your earnings after living expenses put you in debt.
There is a misconception that maximizing joy leads to happiness. Its not true. Whats more fun, 1h of exercise or 1h of watching youtube? TH-cam is more fun but you are happier after 1h of exercise.
@@Qamikace You can always change your perspective so you realize your actions create value for you and the people around you. instead of "i have to do the dishes" it is "I want to create an environment where dishes are always clean and available". Its a very simple example but you get the idea. I helps having a job that contributes towards society or your goals in any way. unless you are a scammer or something unethical, there are people counting on you that youre job is done correctly.
Pain is intrinsically understood to be good when it is willingly taken on to achieve something you both want and believe is possible. A lack of hope or feelings of powerlessness is what causes people to pay more attention to the things they dislike. I find that the advice of "Understand pain is part of the game" is somewhat irrelevant compared to the issues people face for that to even be a concern in the first place.
The phrase " You don't have to enjoy it, you just have to do it" should be more widely taught. I know I can't speak for everybody, but i feel like 75%-80% of the stuff I do I'd rather be doing something else, but its gotta get done.
I worked on IT for more than 15 years now, servers and network structure, and I have a paper map in my car. I have a printed map because I know that there is no small chance that when I needed the most technology can fail me.
You trust paper?! I've memorized constellations, sun and moon positions throughout the year so I can guide myself when you deluted paper apologists crash and burn. Also I've carved in my house's wall a map of whole US
@@jassao On a more serious note, keeping in your mind roughly how to get to the last petrol station you passed is a good idea on a long trip. Better still, keep a note of where each one is and how far apart they are. Have it written down somewhere. Even excluding getting lost, it's just generally not a bad practice to know where you need to go if something happens with your car and, say, your phone is dead.
Sadly I have way less goals that I want to achieve, in comparison to things I don't want to do. There were times in which I really "grinded to get there". But now it feels kind of pointless to do again. And I'm only 27. Like wtf why can't I find real interests in the world.
11:30 You are being sarcastic, but in more than one occasion GPS decided, that turning right on the intersection and then straight to my home is not the best option and suggested going left and around the city. Do yeah, maybe trust military grade technology - I am pretty sure soldiers will not, but that besides the point - but don't be afraid to double check it sometimes.
You don't enjoy the grind, you just do it. If it's a job, the grind is a requirement to get paid so you can afford to live (and support the things that bring you joy). If it's a hobby, the grind is necessary to improve. There's no secret, grinding will generally be considered dull or exhausting. Figure out whether it's necessary and go from there. Welcome to life.
16 views in 2 minutes brother fell off
its 10am on a tuesday sir
For a second I had to check I wasn't in Destiny's comments section. 😂
@@bobbysauer7826 It's also a time in everywhere else.
@@bobbysauer7826it's currently 2pm in England and 3pm for me sir
@@Salmacream I doubt he is big in Asia. NA and SA is still sleeping. It's also Tuesday where most people are working. Not saying you're completely wrong but I don't think he is that wrong either.
im enjoying these insights into your brain, Josh. You're pretty cool.
Oh awesome, Marco is a fan of josh too! Your thoughts on music are great to hear, man
This is going straight into the Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon google doc
Reminds me when my last therapist introduced me to the concept of Radical Acceptance. It's like, you can have parts of your life that you aren't satisfied with and want to change and you absolutely should work on changing them if/when you can. But in the meantime you can accept the reality of your situation for what it is rather than constantly railing against it knowing that it won't last forever. Struggle is mandatory, suffering is optional.
"Struggle is mandatory, Suffering is optional" that should be on a shirt! Love that
Thanks for this.
Big mountaineer here. Can confirm that I am consistently in 'I don't wanna be here mode' going up the mountain, but when you get to the top it feels awesome. Then when I come down I'm just like 'can I get to my car any faster.'
the thing is, climbing a mountain is 10000000000x better than going to some retail job, having to hear bs from coworkers, take shit from bosses and customers, and then you don't even feel good when the paycheck comes in.
@@robert7100 Well that is because you dont want to be there and beeing there does not take you further to your actual goal. It only steals energy and time so it is logical that it is 100000000x worse.
For physical activities with set finish lines, the analogy is great. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of people who have more career-oriented or life event-oriented goals, especially over long stretches of time, they often don't feel much at the peak of their mountains. And then they start looking towards the next peak and hope that next time, next time they'll feel something. I'm not sure what the special sauce is, for getting a "sense of pride and accomplishment", but far from all difficult and monotonous activities will lead there. Maybe the immediate lead-up needs to be something extremely challenging or complicated or persistently time-consuming.
@@Hotshot2k4 I agree with this. I read something about the word patience having two meanings.
The first one lines up with the mountain peak analogy, it takes time and effort but after a certain number of steps it will happen. Same as high school or university, you have to put in the effort and do the right, slowly the days turn into years but eventually its done.
The second meaning is more like the job promotion. You put in the hard work and do all the right things, but you have no idea when or if it will actually pay off. Because they don't have to promote you in 1 year, or 5 years or ever really. But you still need the patience to work hard and do the right things. I feel like the second meaning of patience is harder but probably more important to life after school. Careers and love don't really have easy to measure progress. I don't know anyone who doesn't feel the "doing the right thing but still waiting" burnout.
@@Hotshot2k4 Me doing art: "Oh, I can finally draw a hand... now I just need to learn all the other parts in the body, next Light, next composition, next... and so on" until you can actually draw something that you actually envisioned in your head.
Well, I suppose you need to find that peak in every single step, but It's just hard not to get discouraged when you think of the bigger picture, that bigger picture you realize is even bigger the more you feel like getting closer, you need to arrive to the point where you are fully aware that the grind will probably never end, and still choose to do it because is worth it, that's probably where you break trought.
Nah, I don't mean to discourage anyone, we need to keep doing it anyway, it's okay to vent sometimes, I just wish I could started my journey when I was younger and didn't care for the "End goal", just doing art for fun, though I don't even know if I could keep going even then, I've always been too self-aware. Nowdays I look at the kids at the workshop I assist and I just love how they joyfully make what they can, with what they have, while having fun. Kids really are like a mirror for your past self.
Accepting that you often have to do the boring and uncomfortable things is crucial for self growth and maturity. "You gotta do what you gotta do"
You don't, actually.
@@satanic_rosayou have, actually. You will never "just have fun. " No job works like that.
@@alvejadoI don't work. No need to.
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@@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer Why would I?
I once applied to be a bank teller for PNC about nine years ago. Told me they pay 9 bucks an hour and required a MINIMUM of one year cash handling experience. 9 bucks an hour + required experience for a job where I am responsible for people's finances, and can potentially get robbed at gunpoint? Eight years before that, I was getting paid $7.15 to work at McDonalds. I'm good.
The audacity of the employers to offer slave wages and crappy benefits for jobs that require experience, awful shifts, and possible hazards amazes me.
Name checks out
@@chaosgyrobootlicker. 😂
To be fair, the McDonalds was probably more likely to be robbed than the bank.
@@chaosgyro I'm confused. Please explain to me how the name checks out?
@@zephyrwayfarer I am guessing the implication was that he 'wussed' out of the bad paying job? You arent going to get your answer, it is obvious it is a bad joke/insult that fell flat on its face.
Being an adult is perfectly summarized by that Futurama Poster of the man in a hard hat giving a thumbs up "You gotta do what you gotta do"
"Pizza goin' out; C'MOOOOONNNN!"
On the other side of the coin for this conversation, I am a person who pursued the job he thought he wanted to do, went to college for it, got several jobs doing it, and *hated every second of it*. I'm in my late 30s and all of the effort I put into my career is a waste because I find the job so discouraging and unpalatable that I'll never get a job in that industry again. You can't know what you don't know, but don't let that discourage you from trying to find a job you like doing. I now have a job I enjoy, but I make a quarter of the money I did previously. I chose the general happiness of my everyday life over my paycheck.
Good for you! Happy to hear you're happy
10:15 I had the same experience. It's like getting a weight off your shoulders. As much as people hate the idea of "I suffered therefore you should too", modern job hunting is something everyone should experience before complaining to anyone for not having a job.
Visa you FOOL this video was like four amazing stories. FOUR. Could've been so many clips!
It's too late, I've consumed and enjoyed all of it now!
I fletched 2,000 maple shortbows to fletch 2,000 maple longbows to fletch 3,000 yew shortbows to fletch 10,000 yew longbows to fletch 1 Magic Shortbow.
The pride I have in my little bow is impossible to overstate.
Ah man, I remember learning that 30 years ago my parents house costed 50.000 euro (equivalent) and is worth today 350.000 euro.
Happily, my parents are under no illusion that this was something like "Oh, we worked hard!" and they are outraged by the housing prices today, the pay for jobs failing to even keep pace with inflation while basically every necessity price has gone up by 30% in four years.
My parents opinion is basically "So yeah, our generation really did a number on the world and I don't envy what is coming after..."
But hey, I don't blame them. They fought the system as much as they could, and they still do.
The issue was millennials didn't do anything except make things worse hollering on climate change and other expensive issues with no concept of how economics costs lives.
Okay boomer
But see Josh. . if you skip the coffee AND the avocado toast. . . you can have the down payment in only 9 years, instead of 10!
But see Hockey1973, if you skip the coffe AND the avocado toast AND you account for inflation you can have the down payment in only 15 years, instead of 10!
"You don't have to enjoy the whole process." That's how it be painting miniatures. The end result always pays off.
Didn't know I needed to hear this, thank you for the motivation Josh! Been really struggling with doing the work I know should be doing because I'm scared all my effort will go to nothing. But I'll never get where I need to be unless I embrace the suck.
"I could pay an editor hundreds if not thousands of dollars"
Instead you pay visa a bowl of cereal a month. With milk if they did very well.
Don't forget about the jar of mayonnaise
The goal isn't 100% enjoyment 100% of the time. Without the bad or mundane, the enjoyment part would lose it's luster and become meaningless
But what if you enjoy the mundane and grind it for enjoyment?
A successful music producer I follow was one asked what his process was for making good music and being so successful.
His answer was "Just do" he went on to explain that a lot of what he writes is shit but the small amazing bits that creep through show up in the finished product.
Gotta accept the uninspiring moments and keep trying to reach the accomplished payouts
As a uni student who has been looking for a tech internship for the past two years with no success, I can confirm that the process of looking for a job sucks.
10:29 Oh lord. Speaking as a life-long antique dealer, a year old listing (or any active buy-it-now listing) is barely going to be relevant in the current market, let alone 20+ year old reference books. The market for most niche collecting areas have been cut to a single digit percentage of what they were 10-20 years ago. And that's not even considering that so many collectors/dealers are out of business or dead, there's almost no market for any middle of the road to low end pieces. The top 1% will always sell, anything else will be a struggle. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
This is good advice. A good work ethic does not mean loving what you do at all times. A good work ethic means you push through the mundane and work hard even when it is tough.
that is what you learn in school. it isn't about the topics... it is about learning to force yourself to time management and do the crappy homework. those who struggle the most will be able to do and achieve more in the adult real world. those who cut corners and never did the grind ... they never learned the traits needed to survive in the real world. and as you get older it becomes more difficult to learn/unlearn traits. also people really need to re-learn that you can't have good things in life if you're not willing to do the bad boring things to earn it.
Literally this tho. I'm in gamedev and every few months I get the project I work on changed. The one I've loved the most? Making weapons. But I've been in shithole metaverse & NFT projects, I've been in handpainted projects that I'd usually adore but they're shitty props with choking estimates.
Rn I'm in the process of getting into a mobile company. I still do what I overall like, which is 3D modelling. If I can lower the pace at which I grind, I might just have energy at the end of the day to do personal projects of things I actually wanna do.
love how the talk went from a different type of "this is the reality".
From enjoying (or not) a proccess to the house market, and then the UK Driving Atlas vs GPS.
I absolutely needed to hear this, Josh. Thank you
I saw a guy leaning out of his car window, pointing at his map and talking to a passer by the other day and it just cracked me up.🤣
its funny hearing you talk about the medical roleplay actors i had to do an assessment with them when i was trainning at uni, one of them was an older bloke who made 4 people cry asking what would happen to his dog when he died (oncology related job)
As someone who's on the last leg of writing their masters thesis in university this really resonates with me. Writing it has been fun at times and miserable at times, it's not always fun going through correcting all the mistakes I made first time through, but I am sure once I have it finished and returned I'll feel good about it and have moment of relief.
I think the issue with people giving up too easily and struggling to accept discomfort might at least in part come from not having had support to feel comfortable in that.
At least that was the case for me. Im still learning now that i have that support i need but it should be noted that very frequently people who can't handle that sort of thing aren't taking that view out of pure laziness or pleasure seeking.
This, absolutely. I believe in discomfort lies the key to personal growth. And conversely I also believe the search for all encompassing comfort will eventually lead to personal stagnation or even regression. However as a human being you need to get over that initial bump when you challenge yourself. For example the fear of failing, letting yourself or others down. Or the fear of the unknown. There are more fears like that, most imagined and only few real, that hold us back. But in that discomfort grows the seed of our learning experience. You just need to pick out the bits that have healthy influence on your personal growth.
I hope that through personal experience you now understand the search for personal growth is always worth it, no matter the discomfort. :)
Thanks Josh applying this to my 99 runecrafting grind
The key is to find aomething where theres a chance itll pay off and you can see results.
It sucks just struggling *if* you get nothing in return, which sadly occurs a lot because of exploitation or incompetence.
This is where having an actual audience or knowing what the fuck youre actually doing is so important.
Thank you, Josh. Going through a transformative time of my life and your opinions really help form the checkpoints and eventual goalpost for my journey.
A PhD here, who ended up in the job I love: the grind becomes less painful if you take it 1 day at a time. Yes there will be weeks when you are exhausted, but it will be very bearable if you don't think much about your end goal and focus on the intermediate milestones instead. You can always change careers when better opportunites arise. And remember that doing things you don't like is normal: do them today so you can have a better tomorrow.
"I not gonna say 'I told you so', but I will help you fill out the online CVs"
What a goddamn gent.
'Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.' - Ronnie Coleman
the cv rant hit me so hard on the point, i laughed, but it hurts how real it is.
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,” Thomas Edison
Also another thing is , and this is for general rule of thumb - Never ever do your favorite hobby as your job, despite what influencers say so. Do the Job you like, but not the hobby. Because you will learn in time, Jobs suck. And there will be extra suck-ass days. You need to have a hobby to return to at the end of the day or weekend. Something good to look forward to.
The influencers and education system fuck this up. They say - oh yeah you are going to live your amazing ideal life that you dream of when you grow up. No. Sure you get some agency to decide on things, but it will never be perfect, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. There's a few LOTR quotes i keep for my down swings -
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
I've been making games for almost 20 years now and I started making boring kid movie tie-in games that nobody wants to work on. It wasnt a dream, it wasnt great, those games were either destroyed or ignored by reviewers, but they were great stepping stones. Nobody starts big and if you want to start big, well you'll probably just never start.
I just finished the West Highland Way in Scotland, it was painful, some days were really hard. But when I arrived at the destination I felt so happy. You know that moment when you get a chuckle and feel your eyes start watering. That feeling is amazing.
Hey I worked in Mobile Gaming for 5 years and now I work at a first party. The thing is, even if you don't like the end result, you can like what you're doing, because you're learning and genuinely making good stuff. You may not like the direction of the product, but if you can be extremely proud about making something well done such as a 3D model, art, banner, code, whatever. In my case I made an entire mini game inside the mobile game, with the objective of increasing retention, I don't care about retention or the results, but making the mini game was actually fun and learned a lot. This got me working on a first party.
Man I can't believe how hard you spit sometimes Josh!!! A lot of people really need to hear this!
I thought this was going to be about video games.
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I enjoyed the video anyway, thank you Josh.
You can start enjoying stuff when you get good at it. It's weird but it's like with motivation - it appears after you actually start doing it.
Also sometimes you're gonna totally HATE what you usually enjoy. And that's when you should especially keep pushing because no amount of extrinsic reward (vision of eating a pizza or going to gym with the money you earn after work) will make it suck less because your engagement with the activity is based on the intrinsic one (liking what you do/satisfaction from doing it).
Trust me on this one, I've been an absolute failure for many years and had to really work my way out of misery and poor performance, I'm not one of these "enjoying the grind" or inherently motivated people lmao
Maybe I'm crazy but when I climbed Fuji I felt amazing at the top and happy at the bottom. I enjoy my work bar my current job which is an outlier. I work on my side projects which are also similar to my job and enjoy it more than relaxing. I feel blessed in this way. Not in other ways, but in this way.
In Avatar the Last Airbender, there is a recurring lesson here, they call it "Bitter Work"
This vid reminded me of how I'll be seeing people try to get into fighting games and then they give up cuz they give up because they don't wanna learn.
I feel like there's nothing more satisfying than putting time into training mode and grinding up in ranked, especially if you've got a friend to run matches with, and seeing your skills advance over time
The struggle makes the goal worth it. Josh is the guru we didn't know we needed. Lol
The "just go there and ask them" thing is so true. Every once in a while my mom will go "I just don't understand why you don't just go and talk to the lady that owns it (the shop near me I've applied to)", and I've tried to explain that that just isn't how it works, and like if they don't take me from the online application I've sent then they wouldn't take me just because I came and asked in person. Last time she said "yeah but that application is on a corporate level and not for that shop" and I again had to explain that, no, the application _is_ for that individual shop, and the only thing corporate has to do with it is that I gave them permission to give my CV to any nearby shops that might be in need of someone.
At this point I've just given up so when she brings it up I will just find a way to steer the conversation away from it immediately
My motto to life is "Things will get worse before they get better".
This was so wholesome and motivating damn
You know, if i could have heard this like 14 years ago, I would have been a better student in college or worked towards my dream career. I know it isn't too late. It's the fact that now I gotta break the habit I formed. Either way, i appreciate the philosophical videos you put out recently
True, a few months ago I was making shitty skibidi toilet mobile games, now I work on developing apps for LEGO
Needed to hear this today thanks
There's going to be the learning process, too. It's hard to practice something when you fail or only barely manage what you want again and again. You aren't always going to have fun learning, but to get to the point where you do enjoy it, you've gotta do the leg work.
Every job you do prepares you for the next one and you better be prepared when an opportunity comes, or the opportunity is gone.. thats life
The fun thing is... The GPS can be wrong a lot. But usually only when they haven't been updated for new construction. The printed map will have the same problem multiplied by how old it is. The one argument I can see for keeping a printed map is just in case you lose signal when going to a remote area. Though usually the GPS part still works even there, and you'd want to print a fresh map for the area.
Recently when I went to the city google maps was constantly going haywire, same for my friend. Couldn't tell directions, which way we were facing or moving, etc. We wasted hours trying to get anywhere. Seems it's not perfectly reliable. Wonder what could've caused that?
What got me over the whole, have to do crap jobs or crappy things sometimes to get to what you want and enjoy, was reading the subtle art of not giving a fuck. Sometimes you have to accept where you are is shit, and that’s ok.
Well thanks for the nice, concise summary of coffee expenditures, letting me know how much I'm saving by just not being a coffee drinker in the first place. It's not "buy a house" levels of savings, but I'm sure a lot of people would love to have an extra thousand pounds at the end of the year.
As another point, this video is convincing me that synchronicity exists, because less than two hours ago, I was playing Space Engineers, and I could honestly see Josh's speech here being used as background audio for an advertisement for that game.
This was me about acting. I chalk my relative talent for acting up to the fact I had to learn how to mimic proper behaviour, as an autistic kid. But after finishing college I realised I wasn't prepared to grind it out for potentially decades for modest success.
At least it has value for all your life as it feeds back in to your everyday performance. Joining a socially cutthroat industry sounds horrible for an autistic person.
It's funny you mention maps, I work in agriculture in Scotland, and you would be amazed how many times I have had to consult an actual map, because Google can only give me a rough area based on a postcode that might encompass 5 farms. But the map will potentially have the name of the farm or feature near it that is only known locally.
10:28 My stepdad did that boomer thing, he left school when he was 15 and got a job putting together lamps at a Swedish factory. Think this was back in the 70s when you could still just walk to a company and get hired the same day. Something that's pretty much impossible to do since they require years of experience and university degrees to even be considered employment.
You say that but have you tried? University degrees are dropping off and many factories will just take you if you're young and fit.
Modern Warfare Zombies. A Call of Duty game that's $70 and has a PvE only Zombies mode similar to the free to play DMZ mode as part of that $70 deal. . People who've gotten EVERYTHING done are already bored, because typical $70 AAA game moment. I genuinely enjoy the mode and HOW do I make the grind enjoyable? I just take my time with it. I haven't played for the entirety of Season 2 of MW3, until maybe 2 weeks ago and I JUST finished the BP but also got the entirety of the story missions up to Act 4 done. All I did was take breaks and go at it on my own time and at my own pace.
EDIT: I just realized this is about job grind. Shit, idk, I'm mentally broken now due to my previous job and physically can't go outside for more than 2 hours, otherwise I'll have a panic attack which causes me to hyperventilate. All I do now is just work on my models and animations to make a game.
As someone who has had to interview candidates for vacancies in the team, for a relatively small company, I love the idea of someone walking up to me and handing me their CV on a printed out bit of paper. My industry is fairly fast paced (what isn't these days?) so we need to be on the ball.
That paper is going straight in the bin. Why? Because a tonne of other people submitted their CVs by email and I do not need one random drifting bit of A4 in my draws or on my desk or whatever, lurking around in the hopes that it gets remembered. It won't. I can't search for that CV and have a handy list of relevant emails with attachments that take ten seconds to do. Your printed CV vs the dozens of others I can access at the click of a button - which is more efficient?
A printed CV literally just makes my life more inconvenient until I want to print that CV myself.
I take timestamps in what I work on, because numbers don't stick in my head very well BUT in the rare occasion that I don't (like something I'm currently working on) I speed up the video by x2 or x4 to skip travel bits (just had to increase the video by x10 when I crossed the map). I've been able to watch 5 hours of footage in roughly 1-2 hours and edit it down to about 10 minutes for every hour.
A few of my jobs were like a walk-in and hired on the spot. But for a lot of them, oncludong when I KNEW the Hiring manager, when He called ME and said please fill this position, i still had to go through the very lengthy online application.
9:40
This is literally how I got my current job. Im a streetbuilder, one day after being over it with the company i was with at the time, on my way home i drove passed a construction company office (one of the largest in the state) I walked into the office still in my work clothes and boots and asked at the front desk if theyre looking for streetbuilders. The lady looked at me pretty weirdly but asked me to wait.
About 5 minutes later a gentlemen escorted me through a hall into a meeting room with a computer and projector and we had a very pleasant conversation about what the company was about, and not only what I had to offer to the company but what the company had to offer me.
2 days later after a call with that gentleman i go back in, now meeting with the owner of the company, and within about 15 minutes of going over my CV and qualifications and experience, I had a job. It was literally that easy.
Just about to finish college for video game development and design. Cant learn to build the exciting "AAAA" without starting with the basics
This is basically the tate philosophy without all the extra nonsense. Great to hear someone so level headed explain that, doing something meaningful isn't always fun and nor should be for so many reasons.
Fun and joy are not the same as fulfillment.
I think it comes down to the question of "Are you enjoying the process OR is the end result worth doing it even if you don't enjoy the process?"
Because if you aren't all that invested in the end result, then there's no point in enduring something you don't enjoy in itself just to get there.
Like, if someone is passionate about acting, the bad times between jobs are worth enduring because you really live for those food moments when you do get to be in a production. But if you are, for example, only becoming a lawyer because your family wants you to, not because you yourself like even ANY part of the job, then is the harsh path through law school even worth it?
Especially with videogames, I find that people often do content just because it exists. They don't care about what they get in the end and they don't enjoy the things they have to do to get it. And I think it's important to self-evaluate and make more concious decisions about what to put effort into.
As someone who does A LOT of sandbox work in OpenRCT it’s not just MMOs. Games even things you enjoy will have aspects you don’t like.
I dislike having to place every scenery piece individually. I hate the trial and error associated with getting shoestringing working; it’s genuinely frustrating when you’re trying to merge tracks or add vehicles to another and you crash the ride 20+ times.
It’s frustrating and annoying designing your ride supports; BUT and here’s the BUT.
When you’re done, being able to hop on my train ride or a rollercoaster and just enjoy the visuals of the park I built; it’s all worth it. Every bit of frustration and annoyance melts away when I see what I’ve built.
I spent 10 hours yesterday building bridges; that’s it. Building BRIDGES.
"You run a marathon, you're gunna feel good at the end."
"You climb a mountain, it's going to suck, but you get that sense of accomplishment at the end"
I dont get that. There is no feel good at the end. Just the pain I am now in from having done the thing, and it having sucked.
People will say, "Go for a run, or even a long walk, you'll get a runner's high, it's great!" No. No high. Just pain. Just suck. Hate every second of it. Get home, collapse, feel crap.
11:40 why is there a busted TV from the 80's in morrowind? at the same time as discussions about job hunting in the 80's?
Stoner here. Josh's advice is good, but remember, there's also always weed.
9:32 i hate modern job hunting
I love my dad and my dad loves me but the number of times he's told me I just need to "hit the pavement" and "go into businesses to show them I exist and I'm interested" is high.
I have a hard time with this stuff. I don't know if it's boomers posing bad arguments or others only sharing half of the argument so it's easier to dunk on. I've never gone longer than 2 weeks without a job. They are everywhere and I've gotten a lot by going in person. The thing is I just maintained connections so I was never walking in blind. I could go in saying I know the owners brother or I'd have a previous employer send an email first. Sometimes I'd just chat up the person at the front for 20 min and turn it into a job. I was told growing up that you had to do it that way and then worked flawlessly.
I had to do a lot of things I did not really enjoy to get into the position I am now today. after 15 years my god damn job makes fun at least most of the time.
A lovely take all-around.
Life is pain and suffering. Gotcha. Gotta choose the goals whose resulting pains you are willing to suffer.
When my parents bought their house, the average cost of a house was 3-5 years income for someone fresh out of school, and a deposit was 3 months of earnings (after living expenses)
Now, a house is 13 years of income for someone fresh out of school, and your earnings after living expenses put you in debt.
The moment I realized the process isn't always need to be fun is when getting a haircut
Quit my job today and I needed this video
to be fair having a printed map is not the worst idea as a back up for when i forget to charge my phone and run out of battery.
There is a misconception that maximizing joy leads to happiness. Its not true. Whats more fun, 1h of exercise or 1h of watching youtube? TH-cam is more fun but you are happier after 1h of exercise.
But there is a world of difference between a challenge you set upon yourself, and society setting you up for shit jobs just to make ends meet.
@@Qamikace You can always change your perspective so you realize your actions create value for you and the people around you. instead of "i have to do the dishes" it is "I want to create an environment where dishes are always clean and available". Its a very simple example but you get the idea. I helps having a job that contributes towards society or your goals in any way. unless you are a scammer or something unethical, there are people counting on you that youre job is done correctly.
… I exercise while watching/listening to TH-cam (ok not the actual point but felt unreasonably and personally called out) 😂
Great philosophy
It's about the mentality that goes with spending $5 on a coffee
Pain is intrinsically understood to be good when it is willingly taken on to achieve something you both want and believe is possible. A lack of hope or feelings of powerlessness is what causes people to pay more attention to the things they dislike. I find that the advice of "Understand pain is part of the game" is somewhat irrelevant compared to the issues people face for that to even be a concern in the first place.
ur so real for this
The phrase " You don't have to enjoy it, you just have to do it" should be more widely taught. I know I can't speak for everybody, but i feel like 75%-80% of the stuff I do I'd rather be doing something else, but its gotta get done.
Even if you love your job there always parts that are “thorns and thistles”. So long as that’s less the joy part you are doing ok.
I worked on IT for more than 15 years now, servers and network structure, and I have a paper map in my car. I have a printed map because I know that there is no small chance that when I needed the most technology can fail me.
You trust paper?! I've memorized constellations, sun and moon positions throughout the year so I can guide myself when you deluted paper apologists crash and burn. Also I've carved in my house's wall a map of whole US
@@jassao On a more serious note, keeping in your mind roughly how to get to the last petrol station you passed is a good idea on a long trip. Better still, keep a note of where each one is and how far apart they are. Have it written down somewhere. Even excluding getting lost, it's just generally not a bad practice to know where you need to go if something happens with your car and, say, your phone is dead.
@@jassaoJokes on you, I carry an astrolabe as backup
The better you know technology, the less you trust it. There's a reason the people most familiar with tech don't have fancy "smart homes"!
Honestly Josh became my second most inspirational guy thanks to how down to earth he is. Don't tell him though, good think he'll never see this :v
Solid Dad advice from someone young enough to be my son.
Sadly I have way less goals that I want to achieve, in comparison to things I don't want to do. There were times in which I really "grinded to get there". But now it feels kind of pointless to do again. And I'm only 27. Like wtf why can't I find real interests in the world.
11:30 You are being sarcastic, but in more than one occasion GPS decided, that turning right on the intersection and then straight to my home is not the best option and suggested going left and around the city. Do yeah, maybe trust military grade technology - I am pretty sure soldiers will not, but that besides the point - but don't be afraid to double check it sometimes.
so true..great video man 👍👍
5 POUNDS OF COFF- oh wait I'm American
As a fellow American, that threw me off as well.
You don't enjoy the grind, you just do it. If it's a job, the grind is a requirement to get paid so you can afford to live (and support the things that bring you joy).
If it's a hobby, the grind is necessary to improve. There's no secret, grinding will generally be considered dull or exhausting. Figure out whether it's necessary and go from there.
Welcome to life.