You already know it's the creative spaces show. Are you a creator?
So yeah. I mean, a creator is someone who brings something into existence, right? No matter how small it is, I am and I do it regularly. So I guess I can call myself a creator. Yeah.
And so what exactly do you
create? I create posts, which express. My past experiences, thoughts and how I got to them and how I specifically use them to overcome adversity and develop myself in hopes of someone may read it and decide to change something in their life. Because most, especially the young people, which I think is my target group. Like they don't know they're suffering, but they actually suffer so much from not living their own life.
So. You write on Quora and Twitter, is that accurate?
Yes. Yes, but I'm also trying to get into
medium now. Awesome. So I want to dig in on that. You mentioned that you think that people are suffering, but they're suffering from not living their own. Could you explain that?
Yeah. All young people, like my, my old friends, my old classmates, or like students even are 24, 25. I tell them what I did. I tell them, yeah. I stopped school because I wanted to find myself first. I wanted to improve first. And they were saying like the students, when they all said, yeah, I wished I would have done that when I was 18, just stopped school because they all started studying stuff. They don't even really care. I just met a psychology student.
He switched, uh, university classes four times before deciding for psychology. And he was just 25. So many young people, they have a lot of disadvantage from not learning more. What about themselves first before deciding on a three year journey that they are not even sure of and possibly that will even cost them at least $30,000 in America. But if the student or like someone who's. Consciously decided that I want to study because I want to be a lawyer. That is not what I mean.
What I mean is young people who don't know how they are like just planning the next two to three years who have no idea about what they actually want to do or who didn't discover themselves first before. Deciding for something so big. I think
that makes a lot of sense. I actually did go to school for something that I ended up being interested in, but I probably would have gone to school for something totally different if I was going back now.
Yeah. It was some people actually get interested in the topic after they decide to enroll in it. That's okay. That's fake. Right. But I still shouldn't say that, but I'd still say take time off. I'm not even saying that people should abandon education. I'm just saying that before you decide, like when you're 18 or 16 and you can take a year off school, do that and just look at yourself, improve truly look at yourself. Or do you have any addictions that you want to get rid of?
What do you not like about yourself? What do you want to change? Do you have maybe anger issues? Like many young people have that they don't know how to, how to overcome those things. My opinion is when you. To leave school when you're allowed to do that for a year and just focus on yourself. And after that, you can still go back. No problem. But I'm just saying we should, especially young people, please. We need to focus more on herself first before focusing on something else. I like
that.
Yeah, no, I will actually believe it's going to change soon because in about 10 to 15 years, the majority of the public will realize that people who decide not to go to school. And instead of six years of studying, they put six years in an themselves. I think it will become majorly known that investing six years in yourself will make you turn out at a better point than studying for six.
Yeah. And so you're investing that six years in yourself now, right?
Yeah, I was 16. That was the thing I wanted to become a psychotherapist actually, because from childhood on I loved philosophy. I'm psychology, but I heard it doesn't pay well, so it's not oh, period. Yeah. Yeah. Like at all. So I was like, yeah. All right, psychotherapist. And that I looked at how many years he would take, like it would have taken me eight more years. I would have finished studying, just finished studying, not even started working. I would've just finished studying at 24.
And I was like, what? Eight more years of waking up every day, going to school studying and probably even learning stuff that I don't really care about. So I just thought I'd users. And I was like, if I invest ages in myself, I must be really stupid if I don't come out somewhere where I'm truly happy and set up.
So you're investing in yourself now and you're writing a core article every day for a year and you're building an audience around yourself, right?
Yeah. I just want to grow my reach basically and find my community and audience, which I think, or other young people like me who would have started. I actually just realized this two days ago. Yeah. That's I think what sets sets me apart from any others self-improvement writer. So I'm just publishing every day. That's the path.
And so in the past month, I see you've gotten almost 55,000 views on Quora.
Yeah, that's it. Wasn't a home run answer,
honestly. I think that's, that's how it works. You just keep publishing and you get a few home
runs. Yeah. Keep publishing. You get a few home runs and analyze them and you'll be able to even make even more home runs. So that's a data point. Like Nicholas Cole taught us at ship 30, and I believe I subconsciously somehow wrote to the answer in a way that seems that it's readable and people liked it. And I didn't even include a picture. I told him. A small story. Yeah. I'm improving on that. I'm currently, I'm learning, I'm writing so much.
I couldn't come home from work from my kitchen job and I started right. Instantly until I'm tired. And then I wake up and I write again. It's yeah, I'm really focused on that. And every day I realize that I need to write even more and read even more and meditate. Yeah. You just need to do these simple, stupid things, but those are the things that will actually bring you to success and improve you.
So I hope you don't mind, but I did a little research and I saw that your core answer was actually about philosophy in effect, you are becoming a philosopher by teaching others, how to think better and live better. And by answering questions about philosophy. Yeah,
because in the end you do attract the audience based on what you write. Yeah. I wrote an answer about philosophy and I attracted an audience who were into philosophy, but at this point I'm just writing my thoughts and learning along the way. Like I know nothing about this, so I'm just writing and looking what is good and just focusing on improving my writing, but I actually see myself in the future as someone. Yeah. Leads other young people towards living their own better life.
So that's like my, my, and my background, and I'm always thinking about it. So
does that mean you become a life coach or a writer or a philosopher? What's the plan? Is there airplane?
I believe philosophy and life coach and right. They are basically like holding hands together, because if you're a good writer, you can become a better life coach because you can communicate clearly. And if you're a philosopher, that means that you've got something in your brain. So you're worth teaching. So it's all leads towards the same thing of being someone who is able to help other people.
So right now you mentioned you work in a kitchen, you're a cook. Is that right?
Not even a cook. It's not really a kitchen. It's actually the food distribution center of our hospital. So every food comes pre-packaged and done, and we have 50 stations in a house. Yeah, they call me like four pound packages or, or 10 pound packages. And my job is to put the exact amounts of like weights of food into the certain like little metal boxes, which then get transported to each station. So I have never caught a single onion in my job, but it's still a kitchen, but I'm not cooking.
You know, if it makes
you feel any better. When I worked in a kitchen. I chop vegetables all day, every day. So my job would be, we need 20 gallons of broccoli by lunch, but, but
now you're a fast cutter. So that's a good
skill. Yeah. It impresses my dates when I cooked dinner for them. What's your north star metric.
Now my north star metric for success actually is my own wellbeing because this is all so new to me. I've never been exposed to such amounts of dopamine and pain. So my north star metric for success is I do what I want to do, which is write every day and read every day and improve every day. While knowing that I am working towards my future self and being happy while doing it. Awesome. So it's not really about followers because they will come automatically.
Followers are the result of me just being happy with who I am and what,
and then what's your current goal as a
creator? My current goal as a creator is to be more myself online just yesterday. I thought people, you are not really yourself online because I actually I'm crazy. Like I sometimes started talking accents, I jumped, I dance to music and I'm really hype, but online, like it's just nervousness and fear that holds me back now. And it's like my next goal that I'm going to say. I'm actually surprised by how comfortable I am talking. Come on. She was really Tom. Yeah. It's I don't know what it is.
When you face your fears, they just disappear. It's funny how that works. Yeah. Again, I'm actually smiling right now. Okay. Thank you so much, Michael. Thank you so much for inviting me to encourage you and really gives me strength and motivates me to be more myself and to achieve my goals, honestly. It's incredible. Thank you so
much. Thank you for coming on and sharing. And that actually leads me to the last question. If you could send a tweet back to your start, what would it be? And when
would it be to my store, which was actually just three months ago on the first March, actually, nobody wants to end March actually, because the March cohort starts in April. So that was actually the first day that I made Twitter just for ship 30. So I would have told myself, just discover more about yourself. Which is actually what I was doing. Like I was discovering more about myself, so I would tweet to myself discover your true colors. Perfect.
Just that just discover your true colors and everything else would come.
