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  • Hey, what is going on guys?

  • It is Labor Day as I record this.

  • I just knocked out a 25 mile bike ride,

  • and I thought it would be a cool idea

  • to answer some of your questions.

  • A few days ago, I asked for questions over on Twitter.

  • A lot of you guys responded,

  • and I'm going to crank through

  • a bunch of them in this video.

  • Now, if you want to get your questions answered

  • in future Q&A videos, because I think this may be

  • a fun thing to do in the future,

  • you can follow me on Twitter over at TomFrankly.

  • With that being said, let's get into the first question.

  • "Do you have any tips on creating a creative,

  • "yet productive work area?"

  • I thought this might be a good question to start out with,

  • because you might have noticed that the work station

  • in the background has changed a bit since

  • maybe two videos ago,

  • and I'm going to do an updated

  • work station video pretty soon.

  • I promise you guys,

  • but I did want to give you a few pointers

  • that I have discovered through my own

  • multiple, multiple work station iterations.

  • What I found works really well for me

  • is to create a balance of having access

  • to all the things I need to be creative

  • and to get work done,

  • but to also have everything that isn't related

  • to my current task at least out of sight,

  • and preferably out of hand or out of access.

  • What I mean by that, is I have a lot of tools

  • in this little spinning drawer thing over here.

  • I've got books behind me.

  • I've got all my camera gear within easy reach,

  • and I usually have my overhead shooting set-up

  • over in the other room

  • if my friends don't need to use the table,

  • but when I'm working, I also try to shut down

  • all my other tabs, all my other apps,

  • and I put everything away,

  • and I try to keep the desk as clear as possible,

  • and I also use a Pomodoro App called Tomighty,

  • which basically keeps me focused on the task at hand.

  • Remember, a balance between access

  • to your creative and productive tools,

  • but also focus and lack of distraction.

  • "How did you decide to start a YouTube channel?"

  • That's a bit of an interesting story actually,

  • because my channel has been on YouTube sine 2006,

  • and back when my brother and I created it,

  • we shared it, and it was just a place

  • for us to dump all of our dumb home videos

  • and ninja fights and all sorts of really dumb stuff

  • that I've since pulled off for good reason,

  • but the reason I started making educational videos

  • is because I was an educational blogger in college,

  • and then I moved onto being a podcaster,

  • and I realized in about 2014, the middle 2014 I think

  • that I was watching a lot of YouTube videos,

  • and I was having more fun watching videos

  • than I was reading blogs.

  • Naturally I thought to myself,

  • "Why don't I start making videos as well,"

  • and the rest is a two year history.

  • Now, if that's not enough detail for you,

  • I did make an entire YouTube story video

  • which explained my entire journey to becoming a YouTuber,

  • and you can find that by clicking the box right there,

  • or finding the link down below the Like button,

  • and that's about ten minutes and my full high school story

  • and everything that led up to this point.

  • "When and why did you decide to become super-productive?"

  • I like to tell myself

  • that I'm a naturally productive person,

  • and in truth, I do get antsy

  • if I haven't done much for awhile,

  • and if I haven't accomplished anything

  • for a span of a few days.

  • In fact, when I travel to places like San Diego,

  • recently, for example, I could only make it about four days

  • before I started working again.

  • Maybe it's a little bit in my DNA.

  • That being said, there is one catalyst from my past

  • that made me work even harder

  • than I probably would have worked by default,

  • and that was the 2008 stock market

  • and housing collapse crisis.

  • Alien invasion basically.

  • This was really traumatic for me, basically,

  • because I was scheduled to graduate in 2009,

  • and when this happened in 2008,

  • there were all these articles and news reports

  • and people, like talking heads on the TV, saying,

  • "College graduates of this year are completely screwed.

  • "They're not going to be able to find a job,"

  • and I was scared by that,

  • and I was even more scared,

  • because there were adults that I knew personally in my life

  • who got laid off from their jobs,

  • or whose entire companies went under,

  • and I was thinking to myself,

  • "Am I going to go into college and have to deal with that

  • four years from now?"

  • I don't want to make it sound like

  • fear was the only motivator,

  • because I do really have a lot of passion for what I do,

  • but when that happened,

  • there was this switch flipped in my brain.

  • I never want to have that happen to me.

  • I never want to be in a situation where

  • an economic downturn, or a company going over or under,

  • or basically, anybody just saying,

  • "Hey, we don't want you anymore."

  • I never wanted external events like that

  • to be able to totally throw me out on the street.

  • When I went into college, I had this mindset of,

  • "I'm going to get ahead,

  • "and I'm going to collect as many skills as I can.

  • "I'm going to have a really versatile skill set,

  • "so that way if one thing doesn't work,

  • "I can move right into something else

  • "and I'll always be employable."

  • Today, I don't even want to be employed by anybody else,

  • at least not for the foreseeable future,

  • but that was at least part of the motivation

  • for working really, really hard when I started college.

  • "How do you study efficiently when you're sleep deprived?"

  • Stop trying to work and get some sleep.

  • "Who do you main in Super Smash Brothers 4 and Overwatch?

  • Some of you guys might hate me for this,

  • but my main character in Super Smash Brother 4

  • has always been Diddy Kong,

  • and yes, I know he is the top tier character,

  • and you could just say I'm picking him

  • so I can win as many matches as possible,

  • but I really, truly did enjoy playing him.

  • That being said, ever since Bayonetta got released

  • as a DLC character, she is my new favorite,

  • because her movement, like the speed,

  • and the agility, and her skill set, it's just sick.

  • I love it.

  • I'm going to be practicing with her.

  • With Overwatch, I do actually make an attempt

  • to play every single character, other than a few

  • that I just don't like,

  • and I also spend a lot of time

  • in each of the four classes,

  • so I can be a very versatile player.

  • That being said, my mains right now

  • are Reaper, Mei, Junkrat, Zenyatta,

  • and sometimes Winston if I'm feeling like I want to go tank.

  • "When do you think is the right time

  • "to start applying for scholarships?"

  • Believe it or not, you can start applying for scholarships

  • as early as your freshman year in high school,

  • and in fact, there are probably

  • private organizations out there

  • that cater to even younger people.

  • If you are a future-minded person

  • who is even in sixth grade or something,

  • you could start,

  • but I would say that you want to start

  • getting serious about it when you are in eleventh grade.

  • That gives you two full years

  • to start making sure your resume is how you want it to be,

  • and let's you start thinking about clubs,

  • and it let's you apply for a decent number of scholarships.

  • Also, don't stop applying for scholarships

  • after you graduate from high school,

  • because the majority of the scholarships I won

  • came after I had started college.

  • I probably won five or six scholarships in college,

  • and I won one scholarship in high school,

  • so keep applying throughout the entirety

  • of your educational career.

  • "When you're feeling lazy, how do you personally

  • "muster that last bit of energy

  • "and focus on what is at hand?"

  • Okay, I'm going to share a few different tips here

  • that really help me, but please,

  • please listen to me on this first one,

  • because I have learned through personal experience

  • that no matter how tired I am,

  • no matter how much I think the day is wasted,

  • no matter how much I think this particular tip

  • is not going to help me,

  • it always helps, at least to some degree.

  • That tip is to take a walk and to do it outside,

  • because the sunlight exposure and the little bit of exercise

  • is really going to rejuvenate you

  • and sunlight actually does help us

  • to suppress the sleep urge,

  • which contributes to that afternoon slump

  • and a lot of those tired feelings you get

  • when you're studying.

  • Go for a walk.

  • Do it for just 15 minutes, 10 minutes even,

  • make it outside, and then when you come back

  • choose one task, clear off your work space,

  • and do a Pomodoro Session.

  • This is basically a 25 minute work session

  • where you focus only on one task.

  • You have an external timer, either an egg timer,

  • or your phone, of the app that I like to use,

  • which is for both Mac and Windows and is free.

  • It's called Tomighty,

  • and basically, this external timer

  • is going to help you to one, put the task in perspective.

  • It's just 25 minutes of work.

  • You don't have to worry about finishing it,

  • and number two, put everything else out of your mind.

  • "Tell us everything.

  • "All of the knowledge."

  • Dude, it's like you don't even know

  • that all of the knowledge in the universe

  • becomes unlocked once you purchase 42 Lamborghinis.

  • I thought everyone knew that.

  • "What is your favorite YouTube channel?

  • "Besides yours of course."

  • All right, number one,

  • my channel is not my favorite channel,

  • though I am quite proud of animations

  • like the one you're about to see in a second,

  • and number two, I don't have a favorite channel,

  • because my interests really do change

  • on a pretty quick basis,

  • so instead of giving you a favorite one,

  • which will change two seconds from now,

  • I'm going to give you a bunch of them,

  • and definitely go check these channels out.

  • CrashCourse, Vsauce3, LinusTechTips, Satchell Drakes

  • Caddicarus, Jon Tron, I Like to Make Stuff,

  • Gary Vaynerchuk, the NerdWriter, Anna Akana,

  • h3h3, MowtenDoo, Tom Scott, CGP Grey,

  • Geography Now, Casey Neistat, Comics Explained,

  • Regular Car Reviews, BrainCraft, Caleb Wojcik,

  • Alpha M., The School of Life, Colin Furze (whoops mispronounced it),

  • Yungtown, SeaNanners, Smarter Every Day,

  • Did You Know Gaming, and Smooth McGroove.

  • "How can you develop discipline instead of motivation?"

  • I think the main contributing factor

  • for going from fleeting motivation

  • over to regular and reliable discipline

  • is the habitualization of your work.

  • Basically, showing up every single day,

  • sitting down and getting it done,

  • without needing inspiration, and doing it on a schedule.

  • That is actually the main idea

  • of a book I've been reading recently

  • called, "The War of Art."

  • Now, this book mainly for writers, and creative people,

  • and people who feel like they have a calling in their lives,

  • but I think this is actually an essential read

  • for anyone who struggles with procrastination.

  • One of the big concepts in this book

  • is this idea of going from amateur over to professional,

  • and I want to share with you

  • a couple of sentences from the book

  • about this idea of what a professional is.

  • I think this particular paragraph

  • in the Professional section sums it up pretty clearly.

  • "Someone once asked Somerset Maugham

  • "if he wrote on a schedule

  • "or only when struck by inspiration.

  • "'I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied.

  • "'Fortunately, it strikes every morning at 9:00 sharp,'"

  • and that's a pro.

  • "Which is your favorite One Piece Arc?"

  • I guess this is another confession time,

  • because I only watched about the first 200 episodes

  • of One Piece before I gave the show up.

  • Now, I love the show.

  • I love the characters.

  • I have bought stuff, like One Piece stuff in Japan,

  • like a ship and a t-shirt,

  • but there's just too much.

  • There's 700 episodes at this point,

  • and I had to move on with my life,

  • and I think they pad out the anime way too much,

  • so the manga and the wiki is good enough for me,

  • and the films are pretty cool too.

  • That being said, within the first 200 episodes,

  • my favorite arc is Alabasta, which I have on DVD,

  • and I think I like this one more than the Skypiea arc,

  • just because the setting is cooler,

  • and I think the villains are a bit more compelling as well.

  • "Is there any video making equipment

  • "that you would recommend?"

  • Oh yes there is.

  • It's right here.

  • Okay, just kidding.

  • I'm not Casey Neistat,

  • though I do think there is something to be said

  • for caring way more about the story

  • and the content than the gear

  • if you're a beginning YouTuber,

  • or you're somebody who has any aspirations

  • and dreams for making video of any sort,

  • because those are way more important.

  • Take for example, Jenny Nicholson's channel.

  • Now, I think she literally is filming these things

  • on a potato, but one of them has over 2,000,000 views,

  • and she's funny.

  • Her stuff is compelling,

  • but I know you guys don't want to hear just that,

  • so here are some quick recommendations

  • if you are a beginner.

  • Number one, I would start by filming on a smart phone.

  • This is an iPhone 6S.

  • This can film in 4K.

  • The quality is just bananas.

  • It's nuts,

  • so you don't need to worry too much about a camera,

  • but audio is much more important than video

  • for the pleasure of a viewer.

  • This thing has on okay mic.

  • It's not that great.

  • I'm filming on a shotgun mic which is right above me,

  • but if you're just starting out,

  • I would recommend a cheap lav mic,

  • like this one from Royal Voice.

  • I got this on Amazon for I think 16 bucks.

  • It's just a wired mic.

  • You can put it into your phone,

  • and I use an app called Rode Rec

  • to record my audio recordings,

  • and I actually tape it to the inside of my shirt

  • just using masking tape,

  • and that really helps to cut down on any wind noise.

  • Now, if you guys want gear recommendations beyond that,

  • I'll probably make an updated gear video

  • about my own set-up in the near future,

  • but until then, you should definitely go over

  • to my friend Caleb Wojcik's channel

  • and subscribe to him, because he makes excellent videos

  • about video gear, video techniques,

  • and he's the guy who taught me a lot of what I know

  • about how to make good videos.

  • "Favorite fictional books?"

  • I did make a video on my top ten favorite fictional books

  • a little while ago, and you can check it out right there,

  • because my picks have not really changed.

  • That being said, I'm currently reading a book called,

  • "a Darker Shade of Magic," and this is highly enjoyable,

  • so I can give it a recommendation

  • even though I haven't finished it yet,

  • but I'm getting there.

  • That about does it for the questions

  • I'm going to answer in this video.

  • Hopefully you guys enjoyed this new Q&A format,

  • and if you did, I would love it

  • if you went down into the comments and let me know,

  • and if enough people did, I'll probably make this

  • an ongoing Q&A format that will sprinkle in

  • with the regular videos.

  • Also, if you want to ask me your own question,

  • something that you just need to know,

  • you can follow me over on Twitter @TomFrankly

  • and sometimes, periodically I will put out a tweet

  • asking for questions, which I will pull from

  • for these videos.

  • Also, if you want to get my free book

  • on earning better grades,

  • you can click the link right there

  • and get it delivered right to your email address,

  • and you can subscribe to this channel

  • for more tips on being a more effective student

  • every single week, right down there.

  • If you missed last week's video,

  • we talked about a habit that can keep you

  • motivated and organized all semester,

  • so check it out right there

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