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If you are a student, especially in medical school,

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and want to teach medicine, I urge you to start

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without any experience. Just start and then learn along the way. And

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the beautiful thing about the teaching is that when you

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teach, you learn more. When you teach, um, you,

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the information that you've learned stays in the brain for

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a longer period of time, and you can build on that one easier.

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So teaching is actually the best form of learning.

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When we recorded this episode, Taim Dawod was still practicing

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medicine and building his YouTube channel on the side. Well, since then,

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a lot has changed. For one, he's almost grown to nearly

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400,000 subscribers. He shifted from being a

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doctor, medicine, creating content to just creating on—

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focusing on educational content full-time. And now he has a film

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selected for TREF, which is an Educational Film Festival, which is

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going to be amazing, and I'll be actually one of the keynote speakers this year,

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which we're super excited about. So what I like about this episode

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though is listening back to what he had to say back in 2024.

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It's not just growth that stands out, but it's his approach. He

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actually teaches a lot in a way that he wants to learn. He talks about

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being very visual and wanting to learn that way. And of course, medicine,

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anatomy, which which we talked about during this episode, is very visual.

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And this has actually been able to scale for him very well. And he's been

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able to go beyond just using video, but is using video as a primary

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mechanism to reach out. And if you read some of the comments, and I encourage

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you to go out, find his YouTube channel, we'll link to it down below, go

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read some of the comments from the people who have benefited from

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this content. I hope you enjoy the rest of this episode as I look back

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with time on his journey from medical doctor YouTube

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creator. We've got Taim Dawood, and he's a

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29-year-old newly graduated medical doctor from Norway running a

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medical educational YouTube channel which was made in the early days of

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med school. He started his channel during, during his first year of medical school

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with an aim to simplify difficult concepts in medicine and

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help other people learn in a faster and easier way.

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With that said, please help me welcome Taim to the Visual Lounge.

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Well, welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you for that beautiful introduction.

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Well, thank you for being here. We appreciate you, you know,

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bridging time zones to meet at a time after a long day at the hospital.

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What's one tip that you would give our audience about, you know,

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making, creating videos that might help them in their work?

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Well, I can give tips based on my experience, and I

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started this medical YouTube educational channel during my medical school,

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during my first year of medical school. And, um, I

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started without any background knowledge on how

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to edit videos and how to teach online, how to make YouTube videos or

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anything. So if one, I have a lot

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of tips, but just if I only had one tip I could give is

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start even though you don't have any experience, because you will learn

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along the way. That's basically how I did. Uh,

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I just started making my first videos really bad. Those people who

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follow my YouTube channel from the beginning, they know how my

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old videos used to be and how my new videos are. So you basically

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learn along the way. So start even though you don't have any experience.

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I love that because that's, I mean, that's great advice because that's the only way

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you're going to get better is by getting going. I'm curious and I want to,

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I want to have this conversation because I think you're in a unique position. I

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don't know personally how many doctors are

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out there who are also running YouTube channels? I'm guessing there's a handful

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of you, but it's probably not like a million. It's

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probably not even 100,000. You know, it's probably maybe 100, couple hundred.

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And I'm curious for you, you kind of in your intro, it talks about you,

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you started this during the early days of med school. What was

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really your thinking at that point? Because here, I, you know, I don't know what

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it's like where you are, but in the US, I think of med school is

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it's incredibly challenging. It's It's got a huge demand on time. It's got

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all these things that say like, the last thing I want, I would want to

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do is also take on a project to create this

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content. So tell us a little bit about your thinking about what, what, what

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was, went into that decision to start. So

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the reason why I started is basically,

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it's not the usual reason why you start a YouTube

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channel. Most doctors who are on YouTube, they, Many teach

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medicine and many have that, have it as a vlog, so they just film their

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daily life and, and stuff like that. I started YouTube, uh,

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not with the intention of becoming a YouTuber.

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Um, I started first year of medical school and,

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uh, my brain is very visual. Uh, I can't learn if it's

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only text. And we started with anatomy. I remember anatomy,

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uh, the university gave us a huge companion, a huge

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pile of a lot of written texts for

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anatomy. And anatomy is like basically all, it shows

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all organs. You need to know all the structures on different organs. And I,

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there was no way I could read that, all of those texts.

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So I, what I did was I took, for example, we had a class

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on Thursday and the weekend before I just took,

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I just read through those notes and I tried to make a presentation

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with a lot of pictures. And then just to make things easier

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for me, I made that presentation, I just recorded it

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and I uploaded it to a YouTube channel so that I can

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listen to myself on my way to the, you know, university or on my way

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to the gym or anything. And that way I would passively learn.

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Basically, I would be ready for the class

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without spending a lot of hours, you know, studying for the class.

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So I did that, and

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over time, I think I uploaded like 30 videos to that YouTube channel. I didn't

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have any views, but then suddenly I got like my first

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comments on that, on one of those videos.

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And then it just struck me. I was like, okay, people can actually see those

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videos. I didn't know that, you know, So,

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um, the first ever comment I got was, thank you, that was helpful, it

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helped me from the past. Yeah. And I thought, oh,

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if somebody actually, you know, are having, you know, they, they,

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those videos are actually helping them, let me, you know, try to make it a

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little better. Let me continue with that. And so I just did that, you know,

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I just tried to make the video a little better. I just, uh, I kept

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making all my videos for free. I just kept uploading them. And, uh,

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the, the channel just grew from there. And, and, uh, what

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motivated me to continue YouTube was, uh, seeing all the

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comments of people saying that these videos actually helped them

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and that they passed anatomy because of those videos.

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Um, so that's, that's my story. I didn't— I never had any

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intention of becoming a YouTuber. I just— it just happened. Well,

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but, but I love that, right? Because it was a born out of a need

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that you felt and had. And, you know, obviously there's so much information that needs

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to be processed that you were doing it for yourself, but then it, it ends

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up helping these other people. So as you started to see

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that traction grow, like you got the, the first comment, you know, thank you,

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and then you can see people saying, oh, I passed anatomy for this. What were,

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you know, again, here you are very busy thinking about, like, you know, you're still

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doing, probably still doing it for yourself for a while to just help you move

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forward. But what were the things that you kind of keyed in on

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that said, if I can make this better, that,

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that really made a difference for maybe for you, or you saw that make the

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biggest difference for others? Because I imagine there's lots of— you got a lot of

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trade-offs to make when you're particularly the videos. I've seen your videos and they're

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beautiful. You're using a lot of— bringing a lot of tools together

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to make those. But what were some of those things you said, hey, this— if

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this can't— I got to make this better. If I'm going to keep doing this?

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Anything that stood out to you?

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I think one of the big changes early on in the channel

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was animations. And it's so much

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easier to explain structures using animations. And I didn't know how to— my

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earlier videos was just presentations, pictures and then text, and then I would

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click on next slide and, you know, so

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I think, um, once I started trying to animate a

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little bit, a little, you know, transitions at least, and

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changing, you know, views of organs and stuff like that, people, uh,

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said that— that's, that's when I started seeing a change

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to the channel as well. That's when people, more people started commenting and saying

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that this, this was really helpful, uh, and a way

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for me to see the organ on three-dimensional, uh

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view, you know, and it was easier for them to visualize

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it as well. So, so learning animations was,

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was, you know, the big, big breakthrough for my, uh,

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YouTube channel, if I understood the question correctly. Sorry. Yeah, no, no, that's

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absolutely— and what do you think of, like, so obviously seeing things

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in 3D, uh, was there something about that that you think

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helps from a learning perspective, particularly again, we're talking

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highly complex systems and, you know,

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I gotta imagine too, there's so many just like vocabulary

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pieces to, you know, an anatomy and then understanding all the structures and

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how they connect together. Like there's so much. What do you think about

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animations made that difference for your audience

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versus just, you know, what they were seeing maybe elsewhere or what they're

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getting out of their books and lecture? So the way I

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make my YouTube videos is that I teach based on how I

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wish I would learn from YouTube.

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So for example, if the teacher said that next

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week we're going to learn about the peritoneum, and the peritoneum is, you

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know, the fat layer that, that protects all the organs within the abdominal cavity.

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And if I, for the first time in my life, I heard the word

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peritoneum, and I go into YouTube and

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I open a video and I try to make videos based on how

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I wish that video could teach me so that I learn everything.

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Yeah. So I teach based on how I learn. Uh,

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and that's, that's basically what I continued on for

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the YouTube channel. And I learn

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best with, uh, when organs are visualized.

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And not just visualize with one picture, because in order for me to

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understand this, this view of the organ, I need to see the lateral

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view, the medial view, the posterior view, and that way I have a full,

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you know, um, idea of how that organ

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not just looks like, but how it works as well. Uh,

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so, uh, that's why I went try to make a more

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3D, uh, animated type of videos, uh, because

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that's how I learn. Things better. And

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obviously, as far as I understood after doing

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that, I saw that a lot of other people also learn easier that way.

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So yeah, I love it. So

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obviously, you've been doing this for a couple years, your channel is, you know, I

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was looking here over 100,000 subscribers, which is amazing. Congratulations

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on that. Helping. I mean, that's helping a lot of people who are

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moving through their medical— to their medical careers. And I'm curious

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now that you've kind of moved through the— and I'm sure you're always learning as

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a doctor, right? There's always something new. There's always topics that, you

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know, you have to kind of continue growing in. But now

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as you're balancing this, you know, you talked about before that you were like, this

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is what I need to learn, and this is how I wanted to learn. As

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you continue, because you're continuing to do this, what are you

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considering as like the fodder for the topic or the material

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that you're like, oh, I need to make a video about this? How are you

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coming about those decisions at this point in your career? Yeah, that's, that's

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a good question. And, and those are things that I thought about a lot. Um,

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when I started the YouTube channel, I started it during my first semester, and we

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didn't have any clinical, um, subjects at that time. We only had

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like just basic, uh, human physiology and basic

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human anatomy and stuff like that. And I started the channel

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based on anatomy, and anatomy in our medical school is 1.5 years.

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And obviously after a year, um, I didn't cover everything,

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and those topics that I did cover was not that great.

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Um, so later on when I finished, uh,

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anatomy and started going into third year and fourth year of medical

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school and started having, you know, cardiology, neurology, and all of those

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clinical subjects, I thought since I

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started with anatomy, I want to at least

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finish it. So that's basically what

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I did. I just went by our school curriculum.

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And so, for example, we had about the central nervous system, and

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I started, even though I had a class on cardiology, something

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completely irrelevant, I just made sure to

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set aside time to teach, make a video, for example, about the cerebral

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cortex, and then another video about the internal,

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you know, parts of the brain. And then I just continued, um,

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through that curriculum. Um, and now

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recently, that's actually after 6 years

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of having that YouTube channel, I finished. I covered all the subjects of anatomy.

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Um, and it's not that it took me 6 years to

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finish it. It just took me 6 years to learn how to

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animate and learn how to make YouTube videos and learn how to

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teach and all of those, all of that package. It wasn't just,

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you know, anatomy is not that hard. It's not like you need 6 years to,

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you know, it's, it's just, uh,

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the fact that, you know, learn how to make those videos and stuff like that.

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Um, and there was a point where I

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actually nearly finished the whole anatomy. I think it took me 2 years.

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Uh, but then when COVID hit, we had a lot of

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online classes and I took a

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project. I thought, let me just, you know,

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remake all my previous videos since I have a little bit more experience now.

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And so that's what I did. I, uh, it took me one and a half

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year to remake all the previous videos that I did and make a more high,

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higher quality ones with, you know, um, I didn't have

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any microphone. I didn't have it, you know. So, so those new, new

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videos were kind of Um, with, with, with a microphone,

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with a better visualization, stuff like that. Uh, and all my previous

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videos, I put them, you know, I hid them. It's private. Um, yeah.

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Yeah. So now that I've finished anatomy,

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uh, now I'm graduated, I finished anatomy. Uh, I

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did make a poll and ask all my viewers, uh, all ask my

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subscribers on what subject they would want to learn

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first. So, uh, we landed on cardiology.

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And so now, um, even though I'm not working in cardiology

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departments, I'm in emergency department right now, surgery.

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Um, I still, I am planning on

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what all covering all the subjects of cardiology because,

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you know, all subjects are important as a medical doctor. You need to know,

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you know, at least you know that knowledge of everything, not that you need to

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know everything in that subject, but you have a lot of knowledge of it. Uh,

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so that's what I'm doing. Even though I'm not working

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with cardiology, I am going to cover all, uh,

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subjects, all the topics in cardiology. And then after that, I

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will move on to another subject, you know. I will just continue it that way.

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And, and most of it is for my own learning. And

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that is actually a really important point when it comes to making an

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educational channel. Um, teach based on,

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you know, who have the, the main— your main

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idea, your main reason why you want to make those videos should be for

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your own learning. Um,

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and, and, and, you know, find ways, you know, teach based on how you want

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to be taught. Uh, and try, try to have the

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idea, make the videos based, you know, because you want to learn about it.

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Yeah, well, well, it doesn't escape me, and, and, and I know,

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you know, from a language perspective, I don't know if this translates super well, but

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like the fact that your viewers wanted cardiology is really just a matter of

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the heart. You know, they loved it so much, right

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from the heart. But what could be

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time? I'm, I love that process, right? And I love that you're talking like,

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you know, in educational, particularly channels, it's got to be something that you're interested in.

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You've got to, you know, think about the way you want to learn because there's

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obviously a connection there to others who want that as well. Can

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we, can we take a little time? I wanna break down a little bit of

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what you do because again, you're, you're talking about these

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complex topics that obviously are,

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there's visuals involved, but could you at a high level at least

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walk us through, let's say you've got your next topic, whatever it might be, maybe

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it's cardiology related or maybe it's an anatomy one.

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And I know you just made a really great video talking about your full process,

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But for the purpose of our audience, we can link to that video.

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But just walk us through kind of your start to finish of what goes into

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making a video. Are you like, you pick a topic and then, then what? And

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what leads you to kind of final product on, on YouTube?

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Sure. There's actually, I, while I've made

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a couple of, I've made a lot of videos, maybe 100, over 100 videos, and

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I never really thought about, do I have any steps on how I make those

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videos? And since I have a lot of— that I get a lot of comments

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on asking me, yeah, I want to start a medical educational channel, but I don't

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know how. Do you have any tips? What programs do you use? And stuff like

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that. And so that's why I decided to make that, uh, recent video.

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And that was actually the first time I ever showed myself as well. Uh, I,

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I don't really usually show myself. I, I'm really, um,

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embarrassed in front of the computer, in front of the camera. But,

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um, that was, uh, that was a huge project that I took in. And

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I tried to analyze how I make videos, and I came

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up with 7 steps on, on,

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um, so if you want to make a medical education channel, the medical

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video, there are 7 steps you, you should go through. And the first step

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is plan, uh, plan the top, you know, what

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top, what, what is the topic you're going to present? How are you going

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to present it? Um, what sources are you going to use? You

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know, make sure that you use sources that are up to date because when it

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comes to medical subjects, you have to be up to date sources

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and either primary sources or secondary sources on, you know,

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so planning is the first one. Second one is you want to start

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making a presentation and I keep it simple.

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Again, I don't have a lot of experience. I keep it simple. I use PowerPoint,

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same as we used back in primary school. So

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PowerPoint. So make a PowerPoint presentation.

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And PowerPoint has a lot of good animations you can

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use and, and, you know, things that you can use to make

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the PowerPoint presentation pretty well, uh, good looking as well.

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So make the presentation. The third one is make a script.

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Some people just talk freely following the

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presentation. I like to use a script when I

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record. The fourth step is

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record. The presentation using that script and then

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edit that recording. And then you need

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to, you know, screencast that after you've just

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talked. The fifth one is, you know,

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screencast the PowerPoint presentation over the edited

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recording that you just recorded. And then the

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sixth step, I don't know if Yeah, 6th step is,

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uh, edit the video, you know, add,

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edit the video. I use Camtasia for that one. So edit the video, um,

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uh, you know, add animations, add extra things that could make your

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video more, um, um, you know,

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uh, dynamic. Yeah. And so, and the last one, the 7th

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step is make a The 7th step is really,

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you know, if you want to, uh, the 7th step I use, I use Canva

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to make a, you know, cover image. I try to make a description for the

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video, try to include everything, uh, in the description that the video includes

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to just to make it easier for the viewer if they want to, as more

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summarized version. If you don't want to watch the video, uh, you can just

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go to the description and just read what the video covers

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basically. So those are the 7 steps. Uh, that I

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primarily go through. Well, no, I love that.

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And I love the simplicity in the sense that you're not overcomplicating it,

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right? Because as someone who, again, making an

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assumption here that you're super busy and this is one more thing to do.

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If it was much harder, it becomes a barrier to getting it done,

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right?

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Again, it depends on how you look at it. For me, it's more

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of a lifestyle, to be honest. I really enjoy making YouTube videos,

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and the reason why I enjoy it is because I learn a lot from it.

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And when I learn something from it, I enjoy it more.

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So I don't really look at it as work, even though I

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have long shifts at the hospital and

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sometimes I am tired. And when I am tired, I take a break.

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I make food, I watch series, Netflix and stuff like that.

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But I do have personal life as well,

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of course. But, um, I just make sure, I just make sure to, you

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know, give YouTube at least 1 hour of the day, even

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though I'm not so efficient during that hour because I am tired. I

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just, you know, give it 1 hour. As long as I

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just write 1 sentence, for example, I'm, I'm happy, you know.

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So 1 video can take 1 month, Or it can take 1

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week, uh, depending on how much, how my energy

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level is, how much I have to do and, and, and things like that. But

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I just make sure to, to keep going, to keep give YouTube at least 1

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hour. Well, I, I, I wanna say, I, you know, I've talked to,

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I mean, we're probably what, episode 207 of this show,

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right? And I, so I've talked to so many different creators and people are

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making learning content, for corporations. I've talked to YouTube creators who are making

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informational type videos and have big audiences.

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But this is the first time I've heard this approach and I absolutely

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love this. And so that like, because it's very

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healthy. Like if I just— you have a scheduled kind of

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block, I'm going to put 1 hour and whether you get a sentence or you

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get a full video or whatever it is, I love that because it's always

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making progress. And you're making effort forward. But

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you're, you know, what it sounds like is you're not at the end of the

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day. It's not about, oh gosh, I've got to meet the grind of

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a video a week or a video a day or whatever it is. And I

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get why some people need to do that. They feel like that because it's their

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business model or whatever. But I think that's a really awesome approach to say,

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like, let's just make some progress, but do it every day consistently.

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And that gets you done faster than, you know, not doing anything, right?

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I think that's something I want to comment on because I think every

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YouTuber or everyone that, that, you know, make

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YouTube videos, they have had a time where they feel like they need to upload

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something. And I really felt that

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during my last year of medical school because I had so much to do.

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You know, we had like, you needed to write a thesis and needed to

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study for the state exam and stuff like that. So I didn't have a lot

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of time for, for YouTube. But during that time, uh,

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I felt like I, I really need to push myself to,

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to, um, make a YouTube video. I really need to push myself,

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you know. And, and, and that was, that was unhealthy.

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Uh, that was when I started having a, uh,

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negative, um, you know, approach to the whole you

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making a YouTube, making educational YouTube, uh

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channel. So I did

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have a time when, you know, I went, I

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tried, I pushed myself a lot and I wasn't efficient at all. And the

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videos I made was not as good of a quality, which

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I would make usually when I, you know, make, I enjoy making

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the videos. So I have had a time when I

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really pushed myself and I figured out that this is not a good way. Uh,

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so you take 1 hour. If it's 1 sentence,

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it's fine. If it's— you make a whole presentation just during 1 hour, that's

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perfect. But if you're not efficient, if it takes you

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2 months even to make 1 video, that's totally fine. Uh,

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I'm making this channel just to teach, uh, and for my own

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learning as well. And I never had the intention of becoming a YouTuber.

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I had intentions of teaching. And so if I start thinking

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that I need to upload, I have this urge, you know, to— I need to

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upload, I need to upload— that's when you start having this

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unhealthy relationship to the, to the YouTube channel.

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Um, so I think this is something you need to keep in mind all the

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time. So even though you don't upload, um, once a week,

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even though you don't upload once a month, it's totally fine. Yeah,

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just keep that mentality. I love it. Well, we're going to

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go to our speed round questions. But before we do, you know, you mentioned during

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our first— when we asked you about the tip at the beginning, any, any

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tip that you would want to tell people that maybe we haven't had

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a chance to talk about yet? Anything you want to mention? We'll get to our

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speed round and kind of final stuff, but I want to give you that chance

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before we, we jump in. Yeah. So

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there are a lot of tips I can give if you're— at least I can

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give you a tip based on if you're a medical student and want to make

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educational videos. Or if you just want to make educational videos and you're

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a student or, you know, part-time next to your work or, uh, you know,

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uh, the first tip is, you know, start even though you don't have any experience,

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as I said earlier. Uh, because if you wait,

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if you study and study, how are you going to make the video? How are

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you going, you know, you will never, you will never start that way.

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You just, you will just get discouraged because you feel like you're not good

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enough. You don't have enough experience. You. You know, so

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just start even though you don't have any experience. Uh,

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the next tip I can give you is even though you don't

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have any views, just keep going. You know, have a set of goals.

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Like, why are you— why did you make that video to be— why did you

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make that YouTube channel to begin with? Is it for your own learning, or is

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it for, you know, if you have— do you have a plan

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of actually becoming a YouTuber? Have a set of goals and just keep going,

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and the views will come after a while anyway.

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So just keep, keep uploading, keep making videos, don't get

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discouraged. And of course,

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while uploading a lot of videos,

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as I said earlier, when I was in last year, in the 6th year, I

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did feel like, you know, it was a more of a work, not a

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hobby. And I pushed myself and I wanted to give up on YouTube.

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And that is what I also, I think is also a really important, uh,

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point to, to get across is don't give up when you're, you know,

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tired. Just keep going. It's okay to take a break,

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uh, but when you take a break, just keep going, keep going back

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to YouTube. So, um, yeah.

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And yeah, I have a set of goals. Like, why did you make that

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YouTube channel to begin with? For me, it was to teach

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and learn. And that is my primary,

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you know, reason why I keep going on the YouTube channel.

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Yeah. Well, wonderful tips and advice, things I think we

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can all be better at practicing. Well, time— we're going to jump into our

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speed round questions. For those who are new to the show or haven't listened to

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this part, this is where we're going to play a little stinger and then we're

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going to ask some answers based on a die roll. So let's go ahead and

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play that and we'll jump right in. So here we go.

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All right, we're gonna jump over to our dice cam. So we've got this die

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here that we're gonna roll, and we've got a couple questions on.

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Let's see if it can focus. Come on, come on. Ah, my

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camera doesn't want to focus for whatever reason, but I can tell you it looks

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like a 5. It is a 6. There we go.

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There we go, it's a 6. I don't know what, what it's doing with the

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focus, but there it is. So with number question 6,

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here we go. So

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this is a share a piece of advice. You've shared a lot of advice with

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us actually. It's really great. But what's a piece of advice that you've received that

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has, has had lasting impact on you? Anything

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that someone said to you that's kind of changed? It doesn't have to be about

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video. It could be about anything, but anything that's kind of changed you or shaped

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you as a person. Yeah. So I have, One thing in my— I did

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receive a lot of tips which have changed my life to the better,

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which have, you know, I've kept, you know, close to my heart.

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But one thing, one tip that really helped me during

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my, especially during my years of studying medicine, your

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physical health is as important as studying

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for your exams. Because when you are

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under a lot of pressure, sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time to

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focus on your physical health. And when

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you don't focus on your physical health, that impacts

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negatively on your mental health as well, and you get prone for

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depression and anxiety, all of those things.

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So one tip that I received was that focus on

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your physical health. Try to put in at least half an hour,

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at least 1 hour of workout. And if you don't have time to work out,

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at least try to eat or

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lay off those sweets during those periods that you're not

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working out to keep the body

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healthy. And that's a really important tip,

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actually, for as a medical standpoint as well,

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because when the body is healthy, when you're

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working out, consistently, your blood flow

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gets optimized, your lipid level gets optimized, and all of those things.

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And your blood supply, your oxygen supply to the brain gets optimized as well,

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which at least optimizes the functioning of the brain.

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And so I think that's the most important tip that I've

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received, and I've tried to incorporate it into my life as well,

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is try to keep working, uh, you know,

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keep workout within your daily life. I love

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it. So the doctor's orders, we, we got to go. If you make sure you're

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doing that, make— I can't promise you to make better videos, but it can

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help, right? So, well, let's do another question here. I don't know, again, I don't

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know why my— this camera is not working. Hang

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on, try this again. There we go.

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It's still blurry, so we're gonna go with, uh, blurry, and everyone's just

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gonna have to trust me. But there we go, we rolled the 12. Okay,

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so this is the next question for you is what's

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your one go-to tool that helps you get your job done on

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a regular basis? This could be a piece of software, it could be a physical

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piece of gear, it could be anything. We'll, we'll focus on your,

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your video creation side, not maybe your medical side, because I'm sure it's a whole

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different set of tools. But is there one tool or a

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piece of equipment that you go to as your go-to? Yeah, there is. There's

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one tool that I use for everything, actually. It's a to-do list.

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It's on an app called Microsoft To-Do List. And what I

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like to do the day before, so for example, today,

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I try to plan tomorrow.

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So I try to make it as detailed as possible

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to the point where I even write what I am going to eat for

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breakfast and from what time to what time. So for example, I'm going to wake

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up at 5:30 in the morning and from 5:30

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to 6, I'm going to

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take a shower and breakfast and then keep

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making, planning my day that way. And

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it has helped me being more efficient during the day because

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sometimes some days when I haven't planned anything,

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I try to be efficient, but I feel like I haven't been

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efficient at all, um, because everything that I want to do, I haven't

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had time to do it. So when I have this to-do list, I just, you

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know, check off those points. And at the end of the day, I feel like

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this day has been a really efficient day because I finished off so many

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points. So Microsoft To Do, or any to-do

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list app, I think everybody's— everyone

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should at least try to incorporate it into their lives.

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It has helped me being more efficient, uh, during my studies and

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work and YouTube and everything. I love it. Perfect. Great advice. Let's do

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one more here. It's still going to be blurry, but that's okay. And

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we've rolled a, a 5. So this time—

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so, okay, this, this is a fun one because you're

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even, uh, you are a great person of learning, right? So if you could

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instantly acquire a new skill,

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like, just like that, what would that skill be and why? So

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you get that superpower, you get to pick up one skill perfectly instantly,

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what would it be?

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I've actually, you know, to be honest,

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I am not a person who picks up information quickly.

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And I can use my little brother as an example. He's also studying med— he,

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he, he's, he used, he studied medicine, uh, one year.

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Uh, so I was in, you know, how was this? Yeah. How was I

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gonna formulate this one? Um,

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yeah, my little brother is also in med school, and my—

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if you want to compare my little brother with me, he's a

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type who only reads a sentence once and he understands it. Like,

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he just sticks in his brain. I have

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to, uh, put in a lot of work. I have to put in a lot

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of work. I have to study. I have to draw it. I have to visualize

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it. I have to, you know, I have to do a lot more. And so

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if this one thing I could actually try, wish I could

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acquire is learn information just by reading it once or something like that.

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That would be amazing. Yeah. But

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then again, if you learn things just

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straight away, it takes away the hard working part,

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if that makes sense. Yeah, it does. Well, we'll just say your brother gets

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the benefit of watching all your videos though. So, you know,

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Exactly. He just, he just

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reads one page and then starts gaming or something.

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He's listening to those videos you made. I can guarantee it.

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Well, well, time. This has been just a wonderful conversation. I appreciate you

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spending some time with me. Before we wrap up, if someone wanted to

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go watch your videos, go, go learn from you, you know, connect with you,

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where, where should they go? Uh, so

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obviously it's a YouTube channel. That's, that's, uh, the main

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page where I upload all my, uh, videos. But I

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did recently make an Instagram account. Uh, so if

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anybody wants to, you know, contact me, have questions, uh,

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want to follow me on social media, I, I have, uh, an Instagram

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account for the YouTube channel called Time Talks Med. So

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go follow it. You know, subscribe to the channel and

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yeah, that's perfect. We'll link to those in the comments and

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descriptions and all that stuff. So if anyone wants to find those easily, you can.

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Well, with that said, Taim, again, appreciate you so much.

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We always like to ask our guests for their final take, kind of that

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summary, the wrap-up for our show. For you, Taim, what is

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your final take from today's conversation?

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Well, just to wrap up, uh, what I said earlier is

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that if you are a student, especially in medical

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school, and want to teach medicine, I urge

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you to start without any experience. Just start and then learn along the way.

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And the beautiful thing about the teaching is that

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when you teach, you learn more. When you teach, um,

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you're— the information that you've learned stays in the brain

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for a longer period of time, and you can build on that one easier.

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So teaching is actually the best form of learning. Time. This

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has been fantastic. I want to thank you again for joining me in the Visual

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Lounge, and, and thank you for all the great videos that you make. And, you

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know, as someone who, uh, I'm, I'm not in the medical field at all, but

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I do have friends and I understand how challenging it is, I'm sure there's many

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people who are very appreciative for all the work you're, you're doing. So thank

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you. Thank you very much, Matt, and thank you for inviting me to this channel.

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Absolutely, absolutely glad to have you. So, all right, everybody,

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that— isn't this awesome? You know, and we talked a lot about medical school and

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medicine and things like that, but this applies to— you could apply this to

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any field. The things that Time is doing, the conversations that he's having, the ways

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that he's teaching, educating, learning— it doesn't have to be medicine, but

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he's doing it really well. So go check out his channel, go check out his

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stuff, Of course, we're all about teaching and educating here at TechSmith as well. We

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want you to be better. We want you to be better at making videos, better

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at using images in your workplace, whatever that might be. So we hope that,

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you know, like and subscribe so you can learn from more great people like Tyne.

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Like and subscribe so you can never miss an episode. And of course, what we

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really want is for you to take a little time to level up every single

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day. Thanks, everybody.