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Workpost 70: Picking a Path

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Today, I have many different paths that I can walk down.

I can focus on work. I can spar with my friend, I can go to jiujitsu. I could try to do it all. But I feel weary and tired from not sleeping yesterday. I feel stressed and pressured, and so I want to focus on a few things.

I suppose, first thing is first, I need to focus on work, because without that I cannot be focused tomorrow. Nothing matters until I get that piece done, and once that part is done, all manner of things are possible.

I did indeed get that done, and I feel extremely proud of the work I did.

Workpost 9: Depression

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I’ve been feeling that I need to take a bit of a departure from what I normally write in these workposts because I need to write more about my emotions, and let tools like my todolist take over the structured work elements of my day.

Caged

I feel caged in the prison

Of my own ambition

Unable to do anything

But work

Mindless work

Though I know I love work

It gives me purpose

I can’t shake the feeling that

I’m not happy

Some free part of me is no longer free

I’m starting to feel like a major issue with how I’m approaching life right now is balancing between structure and freedom. I created so much structure to assist me in achieving all my goals, but now I have too much structure. I feel the need to relax and indulge myself a bit and I don’t know how to hold onto both. I suspect there are too many challenges that I am splitting my attention between and the fewer the better. I will seek to finish as much work today as possible so as to not split my attention as much.

I think something else I’ve been thinking about is cleaning my apartment and making it something other than just work. Perhaps that would create the spaciousness and happiness I need. Maybe I need to go outside more, not to do anything in particular, just to walk and think about things. In fact, I wonder if I would worry about having a huge number of things to do if I was able to just walk and think about them.

On second thought, I will try one more day with my multitude of goals, I will not try to finish one to free up my attention. Instead, I will try to find a way to work on all of these goals walking, or at the gym hanging, or crawling around my apartment. Maybe I can make art too! Use art to work through any challenge I have. I will also focus on cleaning up my apartment as much as possible.

Matches: Continued

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Match 1: Video Editing Planning

Goals: I really want to feel less shitty and tired and I want to come up with a direction for my podcast edit and how I can edit it in 40 minutes or less.

Here are the metrics for scoring:

  1. Energy rejuvenation (1-5)
  2. Confidence in solution (1-5)
  3. Creativity (percentile)
  4. Raw efficiency, work over energy (percentile)

My plan for my warmup is just for go for a long 15 minute walk.

Plan for work session:

UNIT ONE: Analyze video (10 min)

  1. Might want to create a good intro
    • who are you and what have you done
  2. What would help her as a writer?
    • Creative process from start to end
    • Talking about book in a way people want to read it or get greater insight
    • Greatest struggles as a writer
    • What like to write about
  3. What do other people probably want to know about a writer?
    • Where come up with ideas
    • Interesting passages from book

UNIT TWO: Process/look at other ideas (10 min)

Going all in on Judy Blume masterclass video:

As soon as you tell me I can’t do something,
I’m going to do it.

I hope that in sharing with you what
I’ve learned over 50 years of writing that it will help
you find your way as a writer.

As a 12-year-old, I was obsessed by the idea of growing
breasts and getting my period.
But there was no place that I could read about it.
When I started to write, I was determined to be honest.
So I’m going to share with you the practical side of writing.

There’s nothing more important than character.
You’re living with these people for years.
You had better feel for them.
Do some exercises.
Have your character write a letter to you.
The first draft is pure torture for me.
I hate every second of it.
I have a messy mind, and my writing
is a process of cleaning up the mess,
then slowly making a story.
I will be able to show that to you.

I got a particularly nasty review once.
It got to me, and I took my typewriter,
and I held it over this arroyo.
And I was going to throw it in.
I thought I cannot do this anymore.
And then this little voice went off in my head.
Wait, you’re going to let this one review stop you
from writing?
That’s crazy!
That’s one opinion.
I enjoy finding and supporting new writers,
and this is a chance for me to reach more of you.

I always ask myself, why would anyone
write if they didn’t have to?
I mean it’s so hard.
So this is for all of you who feel that you have to.

I’m Judy Blume, and this is my Master Class.

Something really special about Danuta and unique about her personality, show don’t tell.

*Beeroll on books and images from life, maybe emotional points of interview

Some sort of intro to talk about what this is about (maybe introduction)

Something about how she gets started with creative process, or something about art or creativity.

Walk through the step by step creative process

*Images or animation if possible

Talk about a challenging emotional experience

Resolution if possible

Deeper philosophical point

End

UNIT THREE: Create plan for actual editing (currently thinking one short, one long) (10 min)

UNIT ONE: Gathering clips

UNIT TWO: Gathering broll

UNIT THREE: Compositing

Bonus time: shot list

  1. Something really special about Danuta and unique about her personality, show don’t tell. Should be humorous and controversial.
  2. Beeroll on books and images from life, maybe emotional points of interview
    • To kill the other
  3. Some sort of intro to talk about what this is about (maybe introduction)
  4. Something about how she gets started with creative process, or something about art or creativity.
  5. Walk through the step by step creative process
  6. Images of process
  7. Talk about a challenging emotional experience with resolution if possible
  8. Deeper philosophical point
  9. Some sort of ending

Bonus time: animation thoughts

Trying out pencil 2d!

Postmatch Review:

Overall, this was very fun and rejuvenated my love for editing and video.

  1. Energy rejuvenation – 4 I don’t feel 100% but my energy went up TONS since I started working
  2. Confidence in solution – 2 I feel the plan is really solid but the timing seems a little tight to get all of this done
  3. Creativity – 70th percentile, pretty good, not revolutionary. But I don’t think most people could do this.
  4. Raw efficiency, work over energy – 80th percentile, I think most sessions and people can’t be this productive in 40 minutes that was actually insane.

Match 2: Video Editing

Goals: I want to be excited about this video edit, feel satisfied, while boosting my confidence in pushing out videos faster with less effort

Here are the metrics for scoring:

  1. Excitement in the edit (1-5)
  2. Satisfaction in the edit (1-5)
  3. Efficiency (percentile)
  4. Fun (1-5)
  5. How ME it is (percentile)

My plan for my warmup is to hype myself up – play music, tell friends etc. + motivation.

Clean, write on my board.

UNIT ONE: Gathering clips (10 minutes)

  1. Something really special about Danuta and unique about her personality, show don’t tell. Should be humorous and controversial.
  2. Beeroll on books and images from life, maybe emotional points of interview
    • To kill the other
  3. Some sort of intro to talk about what this is about (maybe introduction)
  4. Something about how she gets started with creative process, or something about art or creativity.
  5. Walk through the step by step creative process
  6. Images of process
  7. Talk about a challenging emotional experience with resolution if possible
  8. Deeper philosophical point
  9. Some sort of ending

UNIT TWO: Gathering broll

UNIT THREE: Compositing

Postmatch Review:

  1. Excitement in the edit – 2 I’m not that thrilled about the cut so far
  2. Satisfaction in the edit -1 I’m not all that satisfied in the edit
  3. Efficiency (percentile) – 60% I’m better than average but a bit slow compared to experienced video editors
  4. Fun (1-5) – 3 I had quite a lot of fun
  5. How ME it is (percentile) – 15% not a lot of me in it so far

Match 3: Video Editing + MEified

Goals: I was right that the last match did not finish the process of editing. It was just too much. But I did make REALLY good progress. The only problem is, it’s not ME enough. This last challenge, I want to get the edit done, and I want to inject some Jack magic into it.

Metrics for scoring:

  1. How ME is it (percentile)
  2. Completeness & polish (percentile)

For my warmup, I’m going to watch a bunch of my videos.

Ok the warmup didn’t work, I’m gonna play some nice music and meditate. Me is goofy, profound, soft, and emotional.

UNIT ONE: Compostiting

UNIT TWO: MEify

UNIT THREE: Finalize

Postmatch Review: It ended up taking two hours. I’m tired now!

  1. How ME is it – 65% it does feel real, and grounded but not as me as I could make it
  2. Completeness & polish – 65% its actually not bad at all, could use some broll and animation

Matches 2: Results From Day 2

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Match 1

Reflections:

  1. Ended up spending all the warmup time at the gym
  2. Feel amazing but felt the mental work was less exceptional
  3. Felt much more healthy and sustainable
  4. Found that walking every 5 minutes or deep breathing was extremely nourishing and helpful

Result Calculation:

  1. How much do I think this work is worth? I feel this work was worth less maybe $100-$175. The task for getting the test data was time consuming but straightforward. The coding required much more thinking, but I didn’t get extremely far with it.
  2. How difficult intellectually was this work from 1-10? Maybe a 5. Someone less intelligent could achieve this, but they would of course, need to put in a lot of effort.
  3. What percentile do I place this work in terms of innovation? 35% percentile. Pretty interesting ideas about character count. Pretty clever overall.
  4. Gains in communication and charisma? Not many gains, but will help me a lot with future work that will be very helpful in telling the story (looking at data).
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Workpost 12: Deep Journaling

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I was doing some deep journaling in the form of questions and answers, where I would ask all the questions I have, feel deep in my heart what answer is coming to me, and then asking more questions about those answers.

For example, I will ask myself, what do I do about the anxiety with art? The answer that I feel come up intuitively is to create art which then poses the question, what do I do with art? Then I have the answer, use art to create richness in your life.

I was doing this exercise because I realized at this point in my life, I am so confused on what will happen next and what direction I want to go for my coaching, my career, and my relationship that the best way to serve myself is to get some clarity about what I am feeling and what I want. The faster you make decisions, the faster you progress. I felt that having clarity would make it much easier to make faster decisions.

I had quite a few revelations from this exercise I wanted to note down a few of the most important ones:

  1. I will achieve what I want in the field of AI not by working with others and creating a startup but rather by involving others into my creative process. Remember the energy of anything is possible. Solve difficult problems in practical ways and help people dream again. Change the world for the better.
  2. The long distance relationship does not meet the physical needs of closeness. I will need to dance more to keep in touch with the physical. I want to use emails and video chats to keep connected with my girlfriend on a spiritual level.
  3. I’ve lost a bit of my focus with coaching where it has become too much about the client. Coaching is not just about helping people create amazing beautiful art, but also to create a space of my design. Aka a space where connection theory and flow theory rule.
  4. Use your fear of not having enough money to fuel art that creates more wealth than money can buy (not about the value of the art, but the experience about having stories, music, and paintings so beautiful I may as well be rich).

One more note I wanted to make…I had a new idea with coaching a few days ago. I always wanted to create video clips of my coaching in order to show social media, but I was thinking recently, I can create clips that can be used to share something a package that can be used to motivate my clients (clips of songs created during the session, major breakthroughs etc.)