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“You think your videos are good, but they suck. They just do. And the sooner you learn how to make great videos that people actually want to watch, the sooner you’ll get views. I think it’s the biggest takeaway.”

He continues:

“When I was 14, I thought my videos were the best in the world. They weren’t. They were terrible. Many people were making way better videos than me, but I didn’t think that… To be successful, you kind of have to have a little bit of that ego where you’re like ‘my content is great.’ You’ve got to believe in it. But also, if you have sub 1,000 subscribers, there’s a good probability your videos just suck. They just do. And you need to make 100 videos and improve something every time and just get to the point where they don’t.”

It’s not the algorithm:

“When you make good content, you’ll blow up. It’s not the algorithm… Most people just make terrible videos, and that’s OK because you have to make a bunch of videos and improve over time to be great. You don’t just pick up a baseball and become an MLB-level athlete within a year. It takes many, many years, and YouTube is kind of the same way.”

Watch the full interview on the Creative Disruption Podcast here.

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“Don’t just sit down with an open-ended ‘I’m gonna work on this problem.’ That’s a ridiculous torture to put on a human being’s head. It’s like you’re going to hire a trainer and you go ‘how long is the session?’ and he goes ‘it’s open-ended’. Forget it! I’m not doing it. It’s over right there… You have to have an end time to your writing session. If you’re going to sit down at your desk with a problem, you’ve gotta get a reward for that. And the reward is the alarm goes off and you’re done… That, to me, is the beginning of a system that will help almost anybody learn to write.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

“You think your videos are good, but they suck. They just do. And the sooner you learn how to make great videos that people actually want to watch, the sooner you’ll get views. I think it’s the biggest takeaway.”

“When I was 14, I thought my videos were the best in the world. They weren’t. They were terrible. Many people were making way better videos than me, but I didn’t think that… To be successful, you kind of have to have a little bit of that ego where you’re like ‘my content is great.’ You’ve got to believe in it. But also, if you have sub 1,000 subscribers, there’s a good probability your videos just suck. They just do. And you need to make 100 videos and improve something every time and just get to the point where they don’t.”

“When you make good content, you’ll blow up. It’s not the algorithm… Most people just make terrible videos, and that’s OK because you have to make a bunch of videos and improve over time to be great. You don’t just pick up a baseball and become an MLB-level athlete within a year. It takes many, many years, and YouTube is kind of the same way.”

Watch the full interview on the Creative Disruption Podcast 

“Don’t just sit down with an open-ended ‘I’m gonna work on this problem.’ That’s a ridiculous torture to put on a human being’s head. It’s like you’re going to hire a trainer and you go ‘how long is the session?’ and he goes ‘it’s open-ended’. Forget it! I’m not doing it. It’s over right there… You have to have an end time to your writing session. If you’re going to sit down at your desk with a problem, you’ve gotta get a reward for that. And the reward is the alarm goes off and you’re done… That, to me, is the beginning of a system that will help almost anybody learn to write.”

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