11:58 PM
When I was 25 years old back in 2018, I watched this video of Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, being asked what he would do if he was 25 again. I don't remember it fully, but I believe he made a comment that he would give everything away to be 25 again. He also said something like he would travel to China or travel to the States and observe what was going on. The advice he gave was pretty generic and nothing out of the ordinary. I think after hearing it enough, you've heard practically all of the platitudes and "secrets" out there.
The real secret to success is that there is no secret. It's like when Po from Kung Fu Panda (I watched Kung Fu Panda 4 recently on the plane) sees himself in the scroll, and found out there was no secret to becoming the Dragon Warrior after all. Success is really obvious. It requires hard work and it requires luck in being in the right place at the right time. Without those two elements, success isn't possible.
Many people start YouTube channels, businesses, Instagram pages, X accounts. They take up lessons at school for any field they want to enter, they sign up for courses and lessons in what they want to compete in like Muay Thai or boxing or another sport. For every one success story, there's magnitudes of failures, or just people who didn't get as far. Even for something very niche and uncommon like ice speed skating, there's hundreds, perhaps thousands of people that dedicate their lives to it, yet they never make it to the Olympics, let alone win any medals.
YouTube is the same. There's many people that want to just quit their work and do YouTubing full time, or maybe for today's generation it's TikTokking full time. How many of them will make it? Less than 1% of 1% will be able to make a career out of YouTube or TikTok. I really appreciate the hard work, but most people don't actually put in as much hard work as they think.
Especially with AI around nowadays, like for example I published 2 new music albums and one music single using AI, taking shortcuts to creating things will become the norm. Will people put in the decades of musical practice needed to succeed, if they can just make entire albums without knowing how to play a music instrument at all?
I think due to AI, physical labor jobs will become more valuable. Jobs that AI can't do yet. Or maybe it will become less valuable, because many people will flock to those jobs if AI takes over theirs. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm turning 31 in a few days, and just yesterday I remember being 25. In 2018, I was 25 years old, and I'm already 31. It all went by in the blink on an eye. I am still literally in the same bedroom I was sleeping in back when I was 25, everything is basically the same, yet I'm already 6 years older.
As the years go by, I always have to ask, what am I doing with my life? But I'm way to sleepy to reflect on and answer this question now. I'll just quickly summarize my day today.
I tracked my calories again, but I was starving in the morning, so I ate a decent sized ~850 or so calorie meal. I ate some vanilla vegan protein powder with some chocolate almond milk. I like eating this from a bowl, it's sort of like a powdery pudding, sort of like cereal but it's with this powder instead. I like the taste and texture of it, and that's why I eat it whenever. It's chocolate and vanilla, it tastes freaking amazing. I also had a Beyond Burger with some rice and ground flax seed. I was really hungry since the last time I ate was at 2 PM yesterday.
Then I browsed the Internet for a while I guess. Then I went to the mall with my dad, so we could just exercise by walking around the whole mall, using it sort of like a track and field. We weren't the only ones doing this, while walking I encountered a woman in a tracksuit power walking, so I think she also had the same idea. Then I walked by a man and his daughter jogging, wearing a jogging outfit. I don't think they were there to buy anything, but maybe they were and were just late and running towards something? I didn't encounter them again because my dad and I would visit some stores every now and then, and we went up and down the floors.
After this we went to Costco and bought $106 worth of vegan foods after taxes. This will last the 3 of us, my parents and I, a week. I took a photo of the food and the receipt and posted it on X.
Then I went out to exercise again. I already took like 7000 steps from the mall and Costco, but I went outside again and took around another 9000 or so steps by going to the gym and then going through the forest. I rested at home for a bit, and then I went back to the gym. And then I ate and rested at home, and that brings us to now. Oh yeah, I also did my brain training at some point in the morning, and some vegan activism posts in the afternoon or so.
I was very motivated to exercise today because I'm very serious now at losing weight. That's why I took over 15k steps today, and why I went to the gym twice today. The second time didn't really count as anything though, I couldn't lift anymore weights due to being so sore from the first workout, so I just got on the elliptical for 10 minutes. It was already 10 PM or so this second time I went to the gym today, so I just went back home early after just 10 minutes because I felt like it was so late, and I was so tired.
Anyway, that was my day today.
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