Another common mistake is giving up after missing one day or failing to be consistent when hardships come your way. Say, you're trying to work out every day and then you oversleep and end up skipping one day, the next day you are disappointed in yourself and decide to give up on it altogether. Forgive yourself, then try again. Some advice from Matt D'Avella that has really stuck with me is to try to never skip two days in a row. Once you have a cheat day, enjoy it, but don't get stuck there. Start over, like in a video game, and keep going. Great video, as always. Your videos act as gentle reminders not to give up on my goals, so thank you.
@@ramyakrohanmohanty9895 Don't curse yourself! It's difficult because it's been instilled into our culture to hate ourselves for not being able to do things right but we need to be more gentle with ourselves. Say "It was just a bad day", put it behind you and don't dwell too much on it, even if it was your ·fault". I believe in you!!
1. Start small 2. Realize that not everything is going to turn out as planned and that unexpected stuff can always happen 3. Stick to your habits by for example make a bet with a friend or download apps (kind of a motivation or a reason to stick to your habits) 4. You need a strong reason to achieve your goal otherwise you will loose motivation That's all I got hope that helps😁
Solid advice as always. The scientific reason for that is also interesting. When we do things over and over, our synapses (junction between two neurons) become more strong, making them easier to initiate and difficult to get rid of. So repeat the good habits until your synapses are strong enough to last a life time.
*Summary of the video:* 1) 0:38 Jumping into the deep end and taking on too many habits at once. Start small. 2) 2:26 Assuming there is no chimp. Essentially, there is always a "chimp" ready to throw a spanner into your habits, being unexpected and ruining something. People tend to think that there is no such "chimp", which is a big mistake. 3. 4:55 Choosing not to sit beneath the sword. This mistake is where people choose not to set consequences for failure of a habit. With no consequences, they often lack the self-discipline to stick to those habits. 4) 7:05 Trying to build a habit without a strong personal reason. Before setting a habit, you should have a good personal reason to do so, instead of copying someone else's habit that doesn't apply to you. Other people learn differently from you, and you should find the best way to do it yourself. Overall summary at 8:50
Hey man I just want to let you know that I've just finished my first year of university, and your videos helped a lot along the way. I started watching at the beginning of grade 12 to prepare. My first year is over, I've got mostly A's or A+ in my classes with a few B's. Thanks for your work, you've made my university experience much more enjoyable and less stressful. Cheers, Nick
Just out of the top of my head: books, public speaking, guitar, electric guitar, piano, editing skills, figure skating, climbing, cryptography, cycling, running, bodybuilding, swimming or I don't know.. and now music production !!! Bro you need to chill 😂 Just kidding you really inspire me.
1. Jumping into the deep end and taking on too many habits at once. 0:38 2. Not everything goes according to plan. Expect the unexpected. 2:26 3. Hold yourself accountable to your habits with fun rewards or bets with friends. 4:55 4. You need a strong personal reason to stick to your habits or you will lose motivation. 7:05 Quick Summary 8:50
Joao we have the same youtube schedule it seems, first i binged your covers, bombed you with comments, then I saw you yesterday on the new getgooddrums comments , now here haha. Have a great weekend
@@Thomasfrank haha cool ! Did you get the Invasion set ? I saw you used Native Instruments software in your video ! also saw you listened to ERRA 🤘I am still rewatching your videos for some Inspiration and Tips, doing my MBA right now. So thanks for that ! 🏋️♂️all the best from hamburg germany
@@MacStones I got the Modern & Massive to start out with, though I haven't had time to play with it much yet. I just ended up using Logic Drummer for the track in this video - I tried doing MIDI replacement to swap in the GGD samples, but the note mapping is different between Drummer and GGD so I'll need to see if I can make them match... or just learn to program drums properly :P
@@Thomasfrank yeah i am more or less in the same process right now..try to dial in some drums over my guitar Covers i try to create, its a challenge , but its a lot of fun 😁 just got a MIDI Controller and still looking for my Software to go..
Knowledge isn't *POWER - APPLIED* knowledge is. Show up, push yourself and make yourself to stick to one thing at a time. Following purpose needs relentless dedication.
your music sounds good! You are very motivating. I discovered your channel in 2017 when my professor for Psychology of Adjustment gave us additional reference links which included one of your videos. I am trying to build a habit right now to study for the GRE every day. It’s so hard to even start!
Me and my friend got the best commitment device going on. He's currently programming a game and I'm writing a novel. If i finish my first draft before he does finish his first version of the game I'll get 50 bucks. If he manages to be quicker I'll give him 50.
Idk if you're reading this but....your information treasure trove is gonna be very helpful for so many struggling souls out there. I hope your latest videos on the channel gets blessed by the Algorithm, so that your channel grows faster. Just be tactful in the title you choose and the way you present data. I actually prefer this older style Tom Frank videos. A great admirer of you and your work!!
I am blessed that I subscribed to your channel 6 months ago. See, I started watching your channel when I had problems studying in my first year at college. Your videos were very useful and helpful for me. And then, for some reason, I stopped watching. For the whole year I didn't do anything productive, I never stopped my bad habbits (in fact, they got much worst), and my mental health has been going down hill without even noticing it. The last couple of weeks specifically were really hard and diffecult to handle. And watching your videos today just gave me this extra burst to be back on track and stop just sitting around watching myself getting worst and worst every day. Thank you so much, Thomas. Really hopeing the best for you always.
I've had lots of success creating new habits by only doing new things for such a small amount of time each day that Im left feeling anxious of impatient to do the activity again the next day. For instance my painting routine started with 20 seconds the first day then I added 10 seconds each day. Im still building up to 30 min a day or perhaps more. this method has really worked.
I bought myself a copy of Atomic Habits per your recommendation, and I'm so glad I did! I hadn't read a book for pleasure in about 4 years (thanks college and small children, I'm looking at you!), and this is the first one I've been able to squeeze time in to read. I love it!
I got my guitar when I was 15. I was playing my first solo gigs when I was 18. (No prior music experience) now I have picked up the violin and piano. Music is not hard. :-)
Great video! And I also love your book videos. Please make another “top books to read”. I buy/ download almost every book you mention in your videos and they are the best books i have ever read. 😊
The last summery part of the video is very remarkable! Sometimes i had to write down the points to remind them, but that summery does that job! Luv ur work and keep going!
1. Really Great ideas. 2. With much respect to you and Fender, perhaps.... some classical music notes instead? Sorry, I got distracted (and upset), uh, tuned out! 3. I will re-watch and re-listen and practice. Thanks again. Cheers!
TF: Hi, Sorry for any confusion. The (metal?) music genre was not for me. Plus, it was quite loud so, I suddenly couldn't hear you. It was a double whammy so, I bowed out, but, as aforementioned, I'll be back ;~) .
8:10 - I'm here trying to seriously better myself, taking notes and stuff, and then...he drops this and I'm-----how does he understand his audience so well? XD Instant mood-booster!
Great video. I think its so helpful how frequently you repeat similar advice with different framing and concept. It really helps internalize the concepts! Great videos past few months!
Simply have the passion and do it every single day. It doesn’t have to be a lot, what’s most important is you don’t miss a single day even if it’s one push-up.
7:30 And books can take an eternity to finish and will be very dfficult to just skip to parts you want to cause they usually have some sort build up and narrative (the last one to my occasional chagrin), but only you can go straight to the point and there are lot of helpful people in comments with summaries, more tips and anecdotes.
Thanks for the well timed video. I am putting myself on a no eating out ban for a week to start starting 4/18/19. I made some rules but no consequences if I break the ban. That wasn't something that I thought of. I'm going to have to rethink this for the next dining out ban (which will hopefully be the week after this first week).
I want to give another high five for the Fender sponsorship. With my last name being what it is it would be pretty rad to land a sponsorship like that one day. Or maybe a sweet American Fender Jazz bass or Tele. I'm not picky.
Thank you so much for this, actually yeah I started walking and I didn't plan for the pain and discomfort, now I will have to adjust and anticipate that. ❤️❤️Love your video, so helpful
An eye-opening video as I had to learn about the aforementioned mistakes about building habits the hard way like chimp never existing (Monkey Wrench) it occurred to me on the path of building book reading habit as I started big with a goal to read about 40 pages a day which consumed about an hour and a half and never helped to increase my reading speed around achieving this goal reducing my free time also making my social life a little week as I had to skip book club and friendly hangouts just for the book
Can you make a video on how to make a habit lifestyle or something like that as i need to integrate gym, workout, running, waking early and eating healthy into my lifestyle help is appreciated as always thanks for videos I'm becoming better each day
For me, the most important consideration about identifying a new habit or goal is specifying the satisfaction I expect to achieve at various stages. If I do not feel that satisfaction despite successfully completing its benchmark, then I know something is wrong.
Throughout the video, I was actually thinking to myself about how good the background music was. Turns out, you produced it! Good job :D hope to see more music from you too! Great video as always. :)
@@kavkazsk8r I forget I was Procastinating the night before in order to sleep I literally wake up and have little time finish anything. I sleep too much I wake up ,I wake up and suffers headache
One of my problems is that my "sword of Damocles" is large and in the distance. If I don't exercise and eat right, I will die. But not today and probably not next week. But having a doctor lecture me every three months or so is not motivating.
Hey I really did not need the video but this an idea for a future one how to stop being lazy I got this idea because I alleyways thought that I could do a lot but what is stopping me is that lemations and my laziness but I know that i could get though the lemations but the laziness i need help
Just like this video, do summarize all the points at the end which you talked about in your video, and preferably showing them all up on the same screen if possible.
I am a great (44 years old dude) fan from Brazil. If you allow me to make a suggestion, once I am also a heavy metal fan and you mention the importance of music in this video, in my humble oppinion the background msic of all your videos, are pretty loud for a background music and "pretty robotic" distracting the audience, specially when you use headphone to listen your videos. I believe you should chance the background music concept, for something more "agreable" and with a bigger compass. Most of time the background music "steal" your attention. This is a constructive critic.
For me a more higher conscious type of outlook would be to look at the big picture of things; to see how my life would be how I'd be impacting the world for sticking to these habits a lower conscious type would be to get pissed off for not doing as much as I can, for being a little puss for not sticking to a habit that i know is good for me I use both and it helps me commit to drinking alcohol every day
Hey Thomas, Did you ever speak on the podcast about what happened to all of the ninja warrior training? I don't remember hearing anything about why you shifted for focus away from that onto other things for the moment. To anyone else: if he did mention it on a podcast could someone let me know which one?
Great video! You have a really similar music taste to me which is pretty cool. Checkout the band Karnivool. I think you'd really like then!! Australian Prog rock/metal at it's best
