1 00:00:00,112 --> 00:00:03,765 If you are a student, especially in medical school, 2 00:00:04,102 --> 00:00:07,739 and want to teach medicine, I urge you to start 3 00:00:07,964 --> 00:00:11,777 without any experience. Just start and then learn along the way. And 4 00:00:12,034 --> 00:00:15,511 the beautiful thing about the teaching is that when you 5 00:00:15,639 --> 00:00:19,357 teach, you learn more. When you teach, um, you, 6 00:00:19,421 --> 00:00:23,219 the information that you've learned stays in the brain for 7 00:00:23,251 --> 00:00:26,279 a longer period of time, and you can build on that one easier. 8 00:00:26,969 --> 00:00:29,812 So teaching is actually the best form of learning. 9 00:00:31,370 --> 00:00:35,017 When we recorded this episode, Taim Dawod was still practicing 10 00:00:35,017 --> 00:00:38,792 medicine and building his YouTube channel on the side. Well, since then, 11 00:00:39,081 --> 00:00:42,213 a lot has changed. For one, he's almost grown to nearly 12 00:00:42,374 --> 00:00:46,148 400,000 subscribers. He shifted from being a 13 00:00:46,148 --> 00:00:49,570 doctor, medicine, creating content to just creating on— 14 00:00:49,666 --> 00:00:53,377 focusing on educational content full-time. And now he has a film 15 00:00:53,377 --> 00:00:56,878 selected for TREF, which is an Educational Film Festival, which is 16 00:00:57,296 --> 00:01:00,717 going to be amazing, and I'll be actually one of the keynote speakers this year, 17 00:01:01,086 --> 00:01:04,909 which we're super excited about. So what I like about this episode 18 00:01:04,941 --> 00:01:08,586 though is listening back to what he had to say back in 2024. 19 00:01:09,438 --> 00:01:13,035 It's not just growth that stands out, but it's his approach. He 20 00:01:13,051 --> 00:01:16,505 actually teaches a lot in a way that he wants to learn. He talks about 21 00:01:16,505 --> 00:01:20,006 being very visual and wanting to learn that way. And of course, medicine, 22 00:01:20,199 --> 00:01:23,841 anatomy, which which we talked about during this episode, is very visual. 23 00:01:24,932 --> 00:01:27,659 And this has actually been able to scale for him very well. And he's been 24 00:01:27,659 --> 00:01:31,220 able to go beyond just using video, but is using video as a primary 25 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:34,861 mechanism to reach out. And if you read some of the comments, and I encourage 26 00:01:34,861 --> 00:01:37,941 you to go out, find his YouTube channel, we'll link to it down below, go 27 00:01:38,006 --> 00:01:41,824 read some of the comments from the people who have benefited from 28 00:01:42,016 --> 00:01:44,743 this content. I hope you enjoy the rest of this episode as I look back 29 00:01:44,743 --> 00:01:48,497 with time on his journey from medical doctor YouTube 30 00:01:48,497 --> 00:01:51,724 creator. We've got Taim Dawood, and he's a 31 00:01:51,788 --> 00:01:55,416 29-year-old newly graduated medical doctor from Norway running a 32 00:01:55,416 --> 00:01:58,884 medical educational YouTube channel which was made in the early days of 33 00:01:59,253 --> 00:02:02,833 med school. He started his channel during, during his first year of medical school 34 00:02:02,961 --> 00:02:06,637 with an aim to simplify difficult concepts in medicine and 35 00:02:06,717 --> 00:02:09,735 help other people learn in a faster and easier way. 36 00:02:10,426 --> 00:02:13,973 With that said, please help me welcome Taim to the Visual Lounge. 37 00:02:14,278 --> 00:02:17,906 Well, welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you for that beautiful introduction. 38 00:02:18,452 --> 00:02:21,662 Well, thank you for being here. We appreciate you, you know, 39 00:02:22,048 --> 00:02:25,820 bridging time zones to meet at a time after a long day at the hospital. 40 00:02:26,077 --> 00:02:29,913 What's one tip that you would give our audience about, you know, 41 00:02:29,993 --> 00:02:32,433 making, creating videos that might help them in their work? 42 00:02:34,247 --> 00:02:37,987 Well, I can give tips based on my experience, and I 43 00:02:38,035 --> 00:02:41,679 started this medical YouTube educational channel during my medical school, 44 00:02:41,727 --> 00:02:45,067 during my first year of medical school. And, um, I 45 00:02:45,179 --> 00:02:48,825 started without any background knowledge on how 46 00:02:48,938 --> 00:02:52,471 to edit videos and how to teach online, how to make YouTube videos or 47 00:02:52,471 --> 00:02:56,278 anything. So if one, I have a lot 48 00:02:56,278 --> 00:02:59,603 of tips, but just if I only had one tip I could give is 49 00:03:00,374 --> 00:03:04,100 start even though you don't have any experience, because you will learn 50 00:03:04,197 --> 00:03:07,987 along the way. That's basically how I did. Uh, 51 00:03:08,292 --> 00:03:12,099 I just started making my first videos really bad. Those people who 52 00:03:12,163 --> 00:03:15,488 follow my YouTube channel from the beginning, they know how my 53 00:03:16,082 --> 00:03:19,840 old videos used to be and how my new videos are. So you basically 54 00:03:19,856 --> 00:03:23,374 learn along the way. So start even though you don't have any experience. 55 00:03:23,952 --> 00:03:27,244 I love that because that's, I mean, that's great advice because that's the only way 56 00:03:27,260 --> 00:03:30,633 you're going to get better is by getting going. I'm curious and I want to, 57 00:03:30,778 --> 00:03:33,685 I want to have this conversation because I think you're in a unique position. I 58 00:03:33,685 --> 00:03:37,363 don't know personally how many doctors are 59 00:03:37,363 --> 00:03:40,989 out there who are also running YouTube channels? I'm guessing there's a handful 60 00:03:41,101 --> 00:03:44,839 of you, but it's probably not like a million. It's 61 00:03:44,871 --> 00:03:48,689 probably not even 100,000. You know, it's probably maybe 100, couple hundred. 62 00:03:49,641 --> 00:03:53,204 And I'm curious for you, you kind of in your intro, it talks about you, 63 00:03:53,414 --> 00:03:57,193 you started this during the early days of med school. What was 64 00:03:57,371 --> 00:04:00,119 really your thinking at that point? Because here, I, you know, I don't know what 65 00:04:00,119 --> 00:04:02,931 it's like where you are, but in the US, I think of med school is 66 00:04:03,206 --> 00:04:07,050 it's incredibly challenging. It's It's got a huge demand on time. It's got 67 00:04:07,050 --> 00:04:10,480 all these things that say like, the last thing I want, I would want to 68 00:04:10,496 --> 00:04:14,214 do is also take on a project to create this 69 00:04:14,262 --> 00:04:18,029 content. So tell us a little bit about your thinking about what, what, what 70 00:04:18,029 --> 00:04:21,651 was, went into that decision to start. So 71 00:04:22,276 --> 00:04:24,504 the reason why I started is basically, 72 00:04:26,636 --> 00:04:30,210 it's not the usual reason why you start a YouTube 73 00:04:30,210 --> 00:04:34,010 channel. Most doctors who are on YouTube, they, Many teach 74 00:04:34,219 --> 00:04:37,879 medicine and many have that, have it as a vlog, so they just film their 75 00:04:38,264 --> 00:04:41,941 daily life and, and stuff like that. I started YouTube, uh, 76 00:04:42,406 --> 00:04:45,537 not with the intention of becoming a YouTuber. 77 00:04:46,179 --> 00:04:49,855 Um, I started first year of medical school and, 78 00:04:50,593 --> 00:04:54,222 uh, my brain is very visual. Uh, I can't learn if it's 79 00:04:54,286 --> 00:04:57,882 only text. And we started with anatomy. I remember anatomy, 80 00:04:58,139 --> 00:05:01,013 uh, the university gave us a huge companion, a huge 81 00:05:02,073 --> 00:05:05,656 pile of a lot of written texts for 82 00:05:05,705 --> 00:05:09,448 anatomy. And anatomy is like basically all, it shows 83 00:05:09,705 --> 00:05:13,449 all organs. You need to know all the structures on different organs. And I, 84 00:05:14,124 --> 00:05:17,225 there was no way I could read that, all of those texts. 85 00:05:17,691 --> 00:05:21,531 So I, what I did was I took, for example, we had a class 86 00:05:21,595 --> 00:05:24,905 on Thursday and the weekend before I just took, 87 00:05:25,532 --> 00:05:29,064 I just read through those notes and I tried to make a presentation 88 00:05:29,882 --> 00:05:33,654 with a lot of pictures. And then just to make things easier 89 00:05:33,654 --> 00:05:36,832 for me, I made that presentation, I just recorded it 90 00:05:37,169 --> 00:05:40,845 and I uploaded it to a YouTube channel so that I can 91 00:05:40,861 --> 00:05:44,488 listen to myself on my way to the, you know, university or on my way 92 00:05:44,488 --> 00:05:47,987 to the gym or anything. And that way I would passively learn. 93 00:05:49,126 --> 00:05:51,405 Basically, I would be ready for the class 94 00:05:51,534 --> 00:05:55,275 without spending a lot of hours, you know, studying for the class. 95 00:05:56,142 --> 00:05:59,225 So I did that, and 96 00:06:00,766 --> 00:06:03,977 over time, I think I uploaded like 30 videos to that YouTube channel. I didn't 97 00:06:03,994 --> 00:06:07,365 have any views, but then suddenly I got like my first 98 00:06:07,510 --> 00:06:10,946 comments on that, on one of those videos. 99 00:06:11,540 --> 00:06:14,896 And then it just struck me. I was like, okay, people can actually see those 100 00:06:14,896 --> 00:06:18,091 videos. I didn't know that, you know, So, 101 00:06:18,588 --> 00:06:22,422 um, the first ever comment I got was, thank you, that was helpful, it 102 00:06:22,775 --> 00:06:26,513 helped me from the past. Yeah. And I thought, oh, 103 00:06:26,626 --> 00:06:30,316 if somebody actually, you know, are having, you know, they, they, 104 00:06:30,636 --> 00:06:33,701 those videos are actually helping them, let me, you know, try to make it a 105 00:06:33,701 --> 00:06:37,262 little better. Let me continue with that. And so I just did that, you know, 106 00:06:37,294 --> 00:06:40,872 I just tried to make the video a little better. I just, uh, I kept 107 00:06:40,968 --> 00:06:44,788 making all my videos for free. I just kept uploading them. And, uh, 108 00:06:45,398 --> 00:06:48,867 the, the channel just grew from there. And, and, uh, what 109 00:06:48,931 --> 00:06:52,625 motivated me to continue YouTube was, uh, seeing all the 110 00:06:52,625 --> 00:06:56,046 comments of people saying that these videos actually helped them 111 00:06:56,543 --> 00:06:59,739 and that they passed anatomy because of those videos. 112 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:04,445 Um, so that's, that's my story. I didn't— I never had any 113 00:07:04,445 --> 00:07:07,352 intention of becoming a YouTuber. I just— it just happened. Well, 114 00:07:08,203 --> 00:07:11,639 but, but I love that, right? Because it was a born out of a need 115 00:07:11,639 --> 00:07:15,461 that you felt and had. And, you know, obviously there's so much information that needs 116 00:07:15,461 --> 00:07:19,089 to be processed that you were doing it for yourself, but then it, it ends 117 00:07:19,105 --> 00:07:22,878 up helping these other people. So as you started to see 118 00:07:22,878 --> 00:07:26,555 that traction grow, like you got the, the first comment, you know, thank you, 119 00:07:26,667 --> 00:07:30,392 and then you can see people saying, oh, I passed anatomy for this. What were, 120 00:07:31,403 --> 00:07:34,727 you know, again, here you are very busy thinking about, like, you know, you're still 121 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:37,503 doing, probably still doing it for yourself for a while to just help you move 122 00:07:37,503 --> 00:07:41,158 forward. But what were the things that you kind of keyed in on 123 00:07:41,190 --> 00:07:44,845 that said, if I can make this better, that, 124 00:07:45,021 --> 00:07:48,002 that really made a difference for maybe for you, or you saw that make the 125 00:07:48,002 --> 00:07:50,936 biggest difference for others? Because I imagine there's lots of— you got a lot of 126 00:07:51,289 --> 00:07:54,799 trade-offs to make when you're particularly the videos. I've seen your videos and they're 127 00:07:54,799 --> 00:07:57,909 beautiful. You're using a lot of— bringing a lot of tools together 128 00:07:58,662 --> 00:08:01,788 to make those. But what were some of those things you said, hey, this— if 129 00:08:01,788 --> 00:08:04,641 this can't— I got to make this better. If I'm going to keep doing this? 130 00:08:04,914 --> 00:08:06,051 Anything that stood out to you? 131 00:08:09,545 --> 00:08:13,359 I think one of the big changes early on in the channel 132 00:08:13,407 --> 00:08:16,916 was animations. And it's so much 133 00:08:17,077 --> 00:08:20,650 easier to explain structures using animations. And I didn't know how to— my 134 00:08:20,939 --> 00:08:24,352 earlier videos was just presentations, pictures and then text, and then I would 135 00:08:24,624 --> 00:08:27,669 click on next slide and, you know, so 136 00:08:29,577 --> 00:08:33,369 I think, um, once I started trying to animate a 137 00:08:33,369 --> 00:08:37,192 little bit, a little, you know, transitions at least, and 138 00:08:37,224 --> 00:08:40,759 changing, you know, views of organs and stuff like that, people, uh, 139 00:08:40,839 --> 00:08:44,631 said that— that's, that's when I started seeing a change 140 00:08:44,631 --> 00:08:48,358 to the channel as well. That's when people, more people started commenting and saying 141 00:08:48,390 --> 00:08:52,069 that this, this was really helpful, uh, and a way 142 00:08:52,069 --> 00:08:55,539 for me to see the organ on three-dimensional, uh 143 00:08:56,808 --> 00:09:00,647 view, you know, and it was easier for them to visualize 144 00:09:00,663 --> 00:09:04,421 it as well. So, so learning animations was, 145 00:09:04,678 --> 00:09:07,617 was, you know, the big, big breakthrough for my, uh, 146 00:09:08,532 --> 00:09:12,146 YouTube channel, if I understood the question correctly. Sorry. Yeah, no, no, that's 147 00:09:12,146 --> 00:09:15,984 absolutely— and what do you think of, like, so obviously seeing things 148 00:09:16,017 --> 00:09:19,791 in 3D, uh, was there something about that that you think 149 00:09:19,791 --> 00:09:22,393 helps from a learning perspective, particularly again, we're talking 150 00:09:23,484 --> 00:09:26,535 highly complex systems and, you know, 151 00:09:27,499 --> 00:09:31,079 I gotta imagine too, there's so many just like vocabulary 152 00:09:31,111 --> 00:09:34,853 pieces to, you know, an anatomy and then understanding all the structures and 153 00:09:35,190 --> 00:09:38,754 how they connect together. Like there's so much. What do you think about 154 00:09:38,883 --> 00:09:41,933 animations made that difference for your audience 155 00:09:42,544 --> 00:09:46,349 versus just, you know, what they were seeing maybe elsewhere or what they're 156 00:09:46,365 --> 00:09:49,994 getting out of their books and lecture? So the way I 157 00:09:49,994 --> 00:09:53,766 make my YouTube videos is that I teach based on how I 158 00:09:54,473 --> 00:09:58,229 wish I would learn from YouTube. 159 00:09:58,662 --> 00:10:02,419 So for example, if the teacher said that next 160 00:10:02,419 --> 00:10:06,240 week we're going to learn about the peritoneum, and the peritoneum is, you 161 00:10:06,256 --> 00:10:10,044 know, the fat layer that, that protects all the organs within the abdominal cavity. 162 00:10:10,911 --> 00:10:14,347 And if I, for the first time in my life, I heard the word 163 00:10:14,363 --> 00:10:17,714 peritoneum, and I go into YouTube and 164 00:10:18,307 --> 00:10:22,075 I open a video and I try to make videos based on how 165 00:10:22,299 --> 00:10:25,842 I wish that video could teach me so that I learn everything. 166 00:10:26,547 --> 00:10:30,250 Yeah. So I teach based on how I learn. Uh, 167 00:10:30,635 --> 00:10:34,274 and that's, that's basically what I continued on for 168 00:10:34,274 --> 00:10:37,672 the YouTube channel. And I learn 169 00:10:37,849 --> 00:10:41,231 best with, uh, when organs are visualized. 170 00:10:41,936 --> 00:10:45,557 And not just visualize with one picture, because in order for me to 171 00:10:45,557 --> 00:10:49,307 understand this, this view of the organ, I need to see the lateral 172 00:10:49,307 --> 00:10:53,120 view, the medial view, the posterior view, and that way I have a full, 173 00:10:53,633 --> 00:10:56,725 you know, um, idea of how that organ 174 00:10:57,334 --> 00:11:00,939 not just looks like, but how it works as well. Uh, 175 00:11:01,276 --> 00:11:04,720 so, uh, that's why I went try to make a more 176 00:11:04,881 --> 00:11:08,678 3D, uh, animated type of videos, uh, because 177 00:11:08,710 --> 00:11:11,322 that's how I learn. Things better. And 178 00:11:12,140 --> 00:11:15,730 obviously, as far as I understood after doing 179 00:11:15,762 --> 00:11:19,528 that, I saw that a lot of other people also learn easier that way. 180 00:11:20,266 --> 00:11:23,519 So yeah, I love it. So 181 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,782 obviously, you've been doing this for a couple years, your channel is, you know, I 182 00:11:28,023 --> 00:11:31,869 was looking here over 100,000 subscribers, which is amazing. Congratulations 183 00:11:31,869 --> 00:11:35,716 on that. Helping. I mean, that's helping a lot of people who are 184 00:11:35,716 --> 00:11:39,547 moving through their medical— to their medical careers. And I'm curious 185 00:11:39,547 --> 00:11:42,819 now that you've kind of moved through the— and I'm sure you're always learning as 186 00:11:42,852 --> 00:11:46,701 a doctor, right? There's always something new. There's always topics that, you 187 00:11:46,701 --> 00:11:50,503 know, you have to kind of continue growing in. But now 188 00:11:50,632 --> 00:11:54,257 as you're balancing this, you know, you talked about before that you were like, this 189 00:11:54,321 --> 00:11:57,337 is what I need to learn, and this is how I wanted to learn. As 190 00:11:57,353 --> 00:12:00,866 you continue, because you're continuing to do this, what are you 191 00:12:00,898 --> 00:12:04,620 considering as like the fodder for the topic or the material 192 00:12:04,668 --> 00:12:07,555 that you're like, oh, I need to make a video about this? How are you 193 00:12:07,555 --> 00:12:11,405 coming about those decisions at this point in your career? Yeah, that's, that's 194 00:12:11,405 --> 00:12:14,901 a good question. And, and those are things that I thought about a lot. Um, 195 00:12:15,398 --> 00:12:18,653 when I started the YouTube channel, I started it during my first semester, and we 196 00:12:18,653 --> 00:12:22,390 didn't have any clinical, um, subjects at that time. We only had 197 00:12:22,390 --> 00:12:25,918 like just basic, uh, human physiology and basic 198 00:12:25,918 --> 00:12:29,462 human anatomy and stuff like that. And I started the channel 199 00:12:29,526 --> 00:12:33,102 based on anatomy, and anatomy in our medical school is 1.5 years. 200 00:12:34,321 --> 00:12:38,075 And obviously after a year, um, I didn't cover everything, 201 00:12:38,252 --> 00:12:41,720 and those topics that I did cover was not that great. 202 00:12:42,507 --> 00:12:45,911 Um, so later on when I finished, uh, 203 00:12:46,377 --> 00:12:49,989 anatomy and started going into third year and fourth year of medical 204 00:12:49,989 --> 00:12:53,650 school and started having, you know, cardiology, neurology, and all of those 205 00:12:53,763 --> 00:12:57,086 clinical subjects, I thought since I 206 00:12:57,135 --> 00:13:00,507 started with anatomy, I want to at least 207 00:13:00,747 --> 00:13:04,596 finish it. So that's basically what 208 00:13:04,596 --> 00:13:08,090 I did. I just went by our school curriculum. 209 00:13:08,668 --> 00:13:12,514 And so, for example, we had about the central nervous system, and 210 00:13:12,530 --> 00:13:16,265 I started, even though I had a class on cardiology, something 211 00:13:16,457 --> 00:13:19,952 completely irrelevant, I just made sure to 212 00:13:20,128 --> 00:13:23,798 set aside time to teach, make a video, for example, about the cerebral 213 00:13:23,815 --> 00:13:27,229 cortex, and then another video about the internal, 214 00:13:28,719 --> 00:13:32,279 you know, parts of the brain. And then I just continued, um, 215 00:13:33,225 --> 00:13:36,689 through that curriculum. Um, and now 216 00:13:36,817 --> 00:13:40,153 recently, that's actually after 6 years 217 00:13:40,730 --> 00:13:44,339 of having that YouTube channel, I finished. I covered all the subjects of anatomy. 218 00:13:45,060 --> 00:13:48,829 Um, and it's not that it took me 6 years to 219 00:13:48,829 --> 00:13:52,502 finish it. It just took me 6 years to learn how to 220 00:13:52,534 --> 00:13:55,757 animate and learn how to make YouTube videos and learn how to 221 00:13:56,142 --> 00:13:59,835 teach and all of those, all of that package. It wasn't just, 222 00:13:59,979 --> 00:14:03,464 you know, anatomy is not that hard. It's not like you need 6 years to, 223 00:14:03,544 --> 00:14:06,819 you know, it's, it's just, uh, 224 00:14:07,542 --> 00:14:10,881 the fact that, you know, learn how to make those videos and stuff like that. 225 00:14:11,780 --> 00:14:14,799 Um, and there was a point where I 226 00:14:15,473 --> 00:14:19,278 actually nearly finished the whole anatomy. I think it took me 2 years. 227 00:14:20,129 --> 00:14:23,726 Uh, but then when COVID hit, we had a lot of 228 00:14:23,758 --> 00:14:26,969 online classes and I took a 229 00:14:27,049 --> 00:14:30,003 project. I thought, let me just, you know, 230 00:14:30,565 --> 00:14:34,226 remake all my previous videos since I have a little bit more experience now. 231 00:14:35,382 --> 00:14:38,593 And so that's what I did. I, uh, it took me one and a half 232 00:14:38,593 --> 00:14:42,013 year to remake all the previous videos that I did and make a more high, 233 00:14:42,302 --> 00:14:46,075 higher quality ones with, you know, um, I didn't have 234 00:14:46,075 --> 00:14:49,751 any microphone. I didn't have it, you know. So, so those new, new 235 00:14:49,751 --> 00:14:53,510 videos were kind of Um, with, with, with a microphone, 236 00:14:53,543 --> 00:14:57,158 with a better visualization, stuff like that. Uh, and all my previous 237 00:14:57,158 --> 00:15:00,596 videos, I put them, you know, I hid them. It's private. Um, yeah. 238 00:15:01,095 --> 00:15:04,646 Yeah. So now that I've finished anatomy, 239 00:15:05,096 --> 00:15:08,807 uh, now I'm graduated, I finished anatomy. Uh, I 240 00:15:08,807 --> 00:15:11,924 did make a poll and ask all my viewers, uh, all ask my 241 00:15:12,117 --> 00:15:15,845 subscribers on what subject they would want to learn 242 00:15:16,424 --> 00:15:20,196 first. So, uh, we landed on cardiology. 243 00:15:20,999 --> 00:15:24,755 And so now, um, even though I'm not working in cardiology 244 00:15:24,851 --> 00:15:28,687 departments, I'm in emergency department right now, surgery. 245 00:15:29,747 --> 00:15:33,342 Um, I still, I am planning on 246 00:15:33,615 --> 00:15:37,435 what all covering all the subjects of cardiology because, 247 00:15:37,853 --> 00:15:41,641 you know, all subjects are important as a medical doctor. You need to know, 248 00:15:41,882 --> 00:15:45,253 you know, at least you know that knowledge of everything, not that you need to 249 00:15:45,253 --> 00:15:49,025 know everything in that subject, but you have a lot of knowledge of it. Uh, 250 00:15:49,105 --> 00:15:52,927 so that's what I'm doing. Even though I'm not working 251 00:15:52,959 --> 00:15:56,411 with cardiology, I am going to cover all, uh, 252 00:15:56,491 --> 00:16:00,329 subjects, all the topics in cardiology. And then after that, I 253 00:16:00,329 --> 00:16:03,556 will move on to another subject, you know. I will just continue it that way. 254 00:16:03,637 --> 00:16:07,458 And, and most of it is for my own learning. And 255 00:16:07,795 --> 00:16:11,328 that is actually a really important point when it comes to making an 256 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,005 educational channel. Um, teach based on, 257 00:16:15,118 --> 00:16:18,459 you know, who have the, the main— your main 258 00:16:18,651 --> 00:16:22,410 idea, your main reason why you want to make those videos should be for 259 00:16:22,410 --> 00:16:24,562 your own learning. Um, 260 00:16:26,281 --> 00:16:29,895 and, and, and, you know, find ways, you know, teach based on how you want 261 00:16:29,895 --> 00:16:33,477 to be taught. Uh, and try, try to have the 262 00:16:33,493 --> 00:16:36,737 idea, make the videos based, you know, because you want to learn about it. 263 00:16:37,284 --> 00:16:40,753 Yeah, well, well, it doesn't escape me, and, and, and I know, 264 00:16:41,122 --> 00:16:44,477 you know, from a language perspective, I don't know if this translates super well, but 265 00:16:44,590 --> 00:16:48,410 like the fact that your viewers wanted cardiology is really just a matter of 266 00:16:48,442 --> 00:16:52,214 the heart. You know, they loved it so much, right 267 00:16:52,214 --> 00:16:55,375 from the heart. But what could be 268 00:16:56,226 --> 00:16:59,998 time? I'm, I love that process, right? And I love that you're talking like, 269 00:17:00,544 --> 00:17:04,267 you know, in educational, particularly channels, it's got to be something that you're interested in. 270 00:17:04,331 --> 00:17:07,445 You've got to, you know, think about the way you want to learn because there's 271 00:17:07,541 --> 00:17:11,233 obviously a connection there to others who want that as well. Can 272 00:17:11,233 --> 00:17:14,383 we, can we take a little time? I wanna break down a little bit of 273 00:17:14,447 --> 00:17:17,709 what you do because again, you're, you're talking about these 274 00:17:17,805 --> 00:17:21,388 complex topics that obviously are, 275 00:17:21,581 --> 00:17:25,341 there's visuals involved, but could you at a high level at least 276 00:17:25,357 --> 00:17:29,116 walk us through, let's say you've got your next topic, whatever it might be, maybe 277 00:17:29,149 --> 00:17:32,073 it's cardiology related or maybe it's an anatomy one. 278 00:17:33,487 --> 00:17:36,700 And I know you just made a really great video talking about your full process, 279 00:17:36,990 --> 00:17:40,675 But for the purpose of our audience, we can link to that video. 280 00:17:41,091 --> 00:17:44,649 But just walk us through kind of your start to finish of what goes into 281 00:17:44,649 --> 00:17:48,382 making a video. Are you like, you pick a topic and then, then what? And 282 00:17:48,622 --> 00:17:51,202 what leads you to kind of final product on, on YouTube? 283 00:17:52,805 --> 00:17:56,217 Sure. There's actually, I, while I've made 284 00:17:56,730 --> 00:18:00,560 a couple of, I've made a lot of videos, maybe 100, over 100 videos, and 285 00:18:00,576 --> 00:18:03,636 I never really thought about, do I have any steps on how I make those 286 00:18:03,684 --> 00:18:07,419 videos? And since I have a lot of— that I get a lot of comments 287 00:18:07,419 --> 00:18:11,202 on asking me, yeah, I want to start a medical educational channel, but I don't 288 00:18:11,202 --> 00:18:14,486 know how. Do you have any tips? What programs do you use? And stuff like 289 00:18:14,486 --> 00:18:18,182 that. And so that's why I decided to make that, uh, recent video. 290 00:18:19,066 --> 00:18:22,408 And that was actually the first time I ever showed myself as well. Uh, I, 291 00:18:22,617 --> 00:18:25,691 I don't really usually show myself. I, I'm really, um, 292 00:18:25,981 --> 00:18:29,701 embarrassed in front of the computer, in front of the camera. But, 293 00:18:29,766 --> 00:18:33,480 um, that was, uh, that was a huge project that I took in. And 294 00:18:33,577 --> 00:18:37,376 I tried to analyze how I make videos, and I came 295 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,095 up with 7 steps on, on, 296 00:18:41,351 --> 00:18:44,910 um, so if you want to make a medical education channel, the medical 297 00:18:45,198 --> 00:18:48,998 video, there are 7 steps you, you should go through. And the first step 298 00:18:49,126 --> 00:18:52,845 is plan, uh, plan the top, you know, what 299 00:18:52,845 --> 00:18:56,676 top, what, what is the topic you're going to present? How are you going 300 00:18:56,676 --> 00:19:00,523 to present it? Um, what sources are you going to use? You 301 00:19:00,523 --> 00:19:04,274 know, make sure that you use sources that are up to date because when it 302 00:19:04,274 --> 00:19:07,063 comes to medical subjects, you have to be up to date sources 303 00:19:08,601 --> 00:19:11,742 and either primary sources or secondary sources on, you know, 304 00:19:12,543 --> 00:19:16,068 so planning is the first one. Second one is you want to start 305 00:19:16,068 --> 00:19:19,129 making a presentation and I keep it simple. 306 00:19:20,074 --> 00:19:23,727 Again, I don't have a lot of experience. I keep it simple. I use PowerPoint, 307 00:19:24,497 --> 00:19:28,006 same as we used back in primary school. So 308 00:19:28,006 --> 00:19:31,659 PowerPoint. So make a PowerPoint presentation. 309 00:19:32,718 --> 00:19:36,249 And PowerPoint has a lot of good animations you can 310 00:19:36,249 --> 00:19:40,054 use and, and, you know, things that you can use to make 311 00:19:40,118 --> 00:19:43,601 the PowerPoint presentation pretty well, uh, good looking as well. 312 00:19:44,789 --> 00:19:48,304 So make the presentation. The third one is make a script. 313 00:19:50,086 --> 00:19:53,521 Some people just talk freely following the 314 00:19:53,521 --> 00:19:55,752 presentation. I like to use a script when I 315 00:19:55,752 --> 00:19:59,267 record. The fourth step is 316 00:19:59,379 --> 00:20:03,180 record. The presentation using that script and then 317 00:20:04,109 --> 00:20:07,941 edit that recording. And then you need 318 00:20:07,941 --> 00:20:11,724 to, you know, screencast that after you've just 319 00:20:11,724 --> 00:20:14,866 talked. The fifth one is, you know, 320 00:20:14,914 --> 00:20:18,633 screencast the PowerPoint presentation over the edited 321 00:20:20,365 --> 00:20:24,020 recording that you just recorded. And then the 322 00:20:24,404 --> 00:20:27,807 sixth step, I don't know if Yeah, 6th step is, 323 00:20:29,029 --> 00:20:32,371 uh, edit the video, you know, add, 324 00:20:33,046 --> 00:20:36,805 edit the video. I use Camtasia for that one. So edit the video, um, 325 00:20:37,866 --> 00:20:41,610 uh, you know, add animations, add extra things that could make your 326 00:20:42,060 --> 00:20:45,739 video more, um, um, you know, 327 00:20:45,980 --> 00:20:49,708 uh, dynamic. Yeah. And so, and the last one, the 7th 328 00:20:49,708 --> 00:20:53,354 step is make a The 7th step is really, 329 00:20:53,627 --> 00:20:56,981 you know, if you want to, uh, the 7th step I use, I use Canva 330 00:20:56,981 --> 00:21:00,288 to make a, you know, cover image. I try to make a description for the 331 00:21:00,288 --> 00:21:03,947 video, try to include everything, uh, in the description that the video includes 332 00:21:04,637 --> 00:21:07,526 to just to make it easier for the viewer if they want to, as more 333 00:21:07,526 --> 00:21:11,137 summarized version. If you don't want to watch the video, uh, you can just 334 00:21:11,442 --> 00:21:14,861 go to the description and just read what the video covers 335 00:21:15,038 --> 00:21:18,810 basically. So those are the 7 steps. Uh, that I 336 00:21:18,810 --> 00:21:22,535 primarily go through. Well, no, I love that. 337 00:21:22,599 --> 00:21:26,405 And I love the simplicity in the sense that you're not overcomplicating it, 338 00:21:26,517 --> 00:21:30,098 right? Because as someone who, again, making an 339 00:21:30,146 --> 00:21:33,807 assumption here that you're super busy and this is one more thing to do. 340 00:21:34,401 --> 00:21:37,901 If it was much harder, it becomes a barrier to getting it done, 341 00:21:38,174 --> 00:21:38,495 right? 342 00:21:43,296 --> 00:21:47,117 Again, it depends on how you look at it. For me, it's more 343 00:21:47,166 --> 00:21:50,907 of a lifestyle, to be honest. I really enjoy making YouTube videos, 344 00:21:52,046 --> 00:21:55,563 and the reason why I enjoy it is because I learn a lot from it. 345 00:21:56,382 --> 00:21:59,063 And when I learn something from it, I enjoy it more. 346 00:22:00,010 --> 00:22:03,847 So I don't really look at it as work, even though I 347 00:22:03,847 --> 00:22:07,412 have long shifts at the hospital and 348 00:22:07,412 --> 00:22:11,233 sometimes I am tired. And when I am tired, I take a break. 349 00:22:11,394 --> 00:22:14,605 I make food, I watch series, Netflix and stuff like that. 350 00:22:15,263 --> 00:22:18,266 But I do have personal life as well, 351 00:22:19,374 --> 00:22:23,083 of course. But, um, I just make sure, I just make sure to, you 352 00:22:23,115 --> 00:22:26,872 know, give YouTube at least 1 hour of the day, even 353 00:22:26,904 --> 00:22:30,565 though I'm not so efficient during that hour because I am tired. I 354 00:22:30,661 --> 00:22:34,242 just, you know, give it 1 hour. As long as I 355 00:22:34,435 --> 00:22:38,047 just write 1 sentence, for example, I'm, I'm happy, you know. 356 00:22:38,304 --> 00:22:41,885 So 1 video can take 1 month, Or it can take 1 357 00:22:41,982 --> 00:22:45,692 week, uh, depending on how much, how my energy 358 00:22:45,692 --> 00:22:48,808 level is, how much I have to do and, and, and things like that. But 359 00:22:49,130 --> 00:22:52,390 I just make sure to, to keep going, to keep give YouTube at least 1 360 00:22:52,423 --> 00:22:56,262 hour. Well, I, I, I wanna say, I, you know, I've talked to, 361 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,293 I mean, we're probably what, episode 207 of this show, 362 00:23:01,032 --> 00:23:04,646 right? And I, so I've talked to so many different creators and people are 363 00:23:04,646 --> 00:23:08,389 making learning content, for corporations. I've talked to YouTube creators who are making 364 00:23:08,839 --> 00:23:12,131 informational type videos and have big audiences. 365 00:23:12,597 --> 00:23:16,259 But this is the first time I've heard this approach and I absolutely 366 00:23:16,356 --> 00:23:20,098 love this. And so that like, because it's very 367 00:23:20,211 --> 00:23:23,921 healthy. Like if I just— you have a scheduled kind of 368 00:23:23,921 --> 00:23:26,812 block, I'm going to put 1 hour and whether you get a sentence or you 369 00:23:26,812 --> 00:23:30,474 get a full video or whatever it is, I love that because it's always 370 00:23:30,522 --> 00:23:33,827 making progress. And you're making effort forward. But 371 00:23:34,115 --> 00:23:37,849 you're, you know, what it sounds like is you're not at the end of the 372 00:23:37,881 --> 00:23:41,374 day. It's not about, oh gosh, I've got to meet the grind of 373 00:23:41,871 --> 00:23:44,804 a video a week or a video a day or whatever it is. And I 374 00:23:44,852 --> 00:23:47,416 get why some people need to do that. They feel like that because it's their 375 00:23:47,416 --> 00:23:51,038 business model or whatever. But I think that's a really awesome approach to say, 376 00:23:51,054 --> 00:23:54,515 like, let's just make some progress, but do it every day consistently. 377 00:23:55,188 --> 00:23:59,034 And that gets you done faster than, you know, not doing anything, right? 378 00:24:00,235 --> 00:24:03,808 I think that's something I want to comment on because I think every 379 00:24:04,065 --> 00:24:07,862 YouTuber or everyone that, that, you know, make 380 00:24:07,942 --> 00:24:11,595 YouTube videos, they have had a time where they feel like they need to upload 381 00:24:11,595 --> 00:24:15,024 something. And I really felt that 382 00:24:16,081 --> 00:24:19,077 during my last year of medical school because I had so much to do. 383 00:24:20,567 --> 00:24:24,204 You know, we had like, you needed to write a thesis and needed to 384 00:24:24,429 --> 00:24:27,938 study for the state exam and stuff like that. So I didn't have a lot 385 00:24:27,938 --> 00:24:31,272 of time for, for YouTube. But during that time, uh, 386 00:24:31,865 --> 00:24:34,975 I felt like I, I really need to push myself to, 387 00:24:35,568 --> 00:24:39,351 to, um, make a YouTube video. I really need to push myself, 388 00:24:39,399 --> 00:24:42,861 you know. And, and, and that was, that was unhealthy. 389 00:24:43,246 --> 00:24:46,307 Uh, that was when I started having a, uh, 390 00:24:47,590 --> 00:24:51,373 negative, um, you know, approach to the whole you 391 00:24:51,421 --> 00:24:53,617 making a YouTube, making educational YouTube, uh 392 00:24:54,226 --> 00:24:58,058 channel. So I did 393 00:24:58,074 --> 00:25:01,650 have a time when, you know, I went, I 394 00:25:01,699 --> 00:25:05,387 tried, I pushed myself a lot and I wasn't efficient at all. And the 395 00:25:05,387 --> 00:25:08,802 videos I made was not as good of a quality, which 396 00:25:10,743 --> 00:25:13,774 I would make usually when I, you know, make, I enjoy making 397 00:25:14,608 --> 00:25:18,168 the videos. So I have had a time when I 398 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,018 really pushed myself and I figured out that this is not a good way. Uh, 399 00:25:22,146 --> 00:25:25,776 so you take 1 hour. If it's 1 sentence, 400 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,582 it's fine. If it's— you make a whole presentation just during 1 hour, that's 401 00:25:29,695 --> 00:25:33,388 perfect. But if you're not efficient, if it takes you 402 00:25:33,388 --> 00:25:37,114 2 months even to make 1 video, that's totally fine. Uh, 403 00:25:38,511 --> 00:25:42,302 I'm making this channel just to teach, uh, and for my own 404 00:25:42,302 --> 00:25:46,108 learning as well. And I never had the intention of becoming a YouTuber. 405 00:25:46,220 --> 00:25:49,865 I had intentions of teaching. And so if I start thinking 406 00:25:49,913 --> 00:25:53,285 that I need to upload, I have this urge, you know, to— I need to 407 00:25:53,382 --> 00:25:56,625 upload, I need to upload— that's when you start having this 408 00:25:56,834 --> 00:26:00,125 unhealthy relationship to the, to the YouTube channel. 409 00:26:00,912 --> 00:26:03,883 Um, so I think this is something you need to keep in mind all the 410 00:26:03,883 --> 00:26:07,512 time. So even though you don't upload, um, once a week, 411 00:26:07,752 --> 00:26:11,445 even though you don't upload once a month, it's totally fine. Yeah, 412 00:26:11,542 --> 00:26:15,296 just keep that mentality. I love it. Well, we're going to 413 00:26:15,296 --> 00:26:18,951 go to our speed round questions. But before we do, you know, you mentioned during 414 00:26:18,983 --> 00:26:22,558 our first— when we asked you about the tip at the beginning, any, any 415 00:26:23,295 --> 00:26:27,143 tip that you would want to tell people that maybe we haven't had 416 00:26:27,143 --> 00:26:29,980 a chance to talk about yet? Anything you want to mention? We'll get to our 417 00:26:29,980 --> 00:26:33,314 speed round and kind of final stuff, but I want to give you that chance 418 00:26:33,314 --> 00:26:37,066 before we, we jump in. Yeah. So 419 00:26:37,178 --> 00:26:40,224 there are a lot of tips I can give if you're— at least I can 420 00:26:40,224 --> 00:26:43,254 give you a tip based on if you're a medical student and want to make 421 00:26:43,270 --> 00:26:47,101 educational videos. Or if you just want to make educational videos and you're 422 00:26:47,117 --> 00:26:50,964 a student or, you know, part-time next to your work or, uh, you know, 423 00:26:51,749 --> 00:26:54,971 uh, the first tip is, you know, start even though you don't have any experience, 424 00:26:55,051 --> 00:26:58,337 as I said earlier. Uh, because if you wait, 425 00:26:58,818 --> 00:27:01,704 if you study and study, how are you going to make the video? How are 426 00:27:01,704 --> 00:27:05,374 you going, you know, you will never, you will never start that way. 427 00:27:05,454 --> 00:27:09,173 You just, you will just get discouraged because you feel like you're not good 428 00:27:09,173 --> 00:27:12,686 enough. You don't have enough experience. You. You know, so 429 00:27:12,847 --> 00:27:16,494 just start even though you don't have any experience. Uh, 430 00:27:16,928 --> 00:27:20,559 the next tip I can give you is even though you don't 431 00:27:20,624 --> 00:27:24,383 have any views, just keep going. You know, have a set of goals. 432 00:27:24,496 --> 00:27:27,436 Like, why are you— why did you make that video to be— why did you 433 00:27:27,452 --> 00:27:30,939 make that YouTube channel to begin with? Is it for your own learning, or is 434 00:27:31,003 --> 00:27:34,795 it for, you know, if you have— do you have a plan 435 00:27:34,795 --> 00:27:38,522 of actually becoming a YouTuber? Have a set of goals and just keep going, 436 00:27:39,036 --> 00:27:42,472 and the views will come after a while anyway. 437 00:27:43,131 --> 00:27:46,743 So just keep, keep uploading, keep making videos, don't get 438 00:27:46,743 --> 00:27:50,452 discouraged. And of course, 439 00:27:50,661 --> 00:27:53,776 while uploading a lot of videos, 440 00:27:54,916 --> 00:27:58,738 as I said earlier, when I was in last year, in the 6th year, I 441 00:27:58,962 --> 00:28:02,623 did feel like, you know, it was a more of a work, not a 442 00:28:02,623 --> 00:28:06,344 hobby. And I pushed myself and I wanted to give up on YouTube. 443 00:28:07,034 --> 00:28:10,738 And that is what I also, I think is also a really important, uh, 444 00:28:10,818 --> 00:28:14,361 point to, to get across is don't give up when you're, you know, 445 00:28:14,410 --> 00:28:18,033 tired. Just keep going. It's okay to take a break, 446 00:28:18,498 --> 00:28:22,282 uh, but when you take a break, just keep going, keep going back 447 00:28:22,282 --> 00:28:25,906 to YouTube. So, um, yeah. 448 00:28:26,275 --> 00:28:30,043 And yeah, I have a set of goals. Like, why did you make that 449 00:28:30,043 --> 00:28:32,913 YouTube channel to begin with? For me, it was to teach 450 00:28:33,490 --> 00:28:37,321 and learn. And that is my primary, 451 00:28:37,738 --> 00:28:40,752 you know, reason why I keep going on the YouTube channel. 452 00:28:41,826 --> 00:28:45,609 Yeah. Well, wonderful tips and advice, things I think we 453 00:28:45,609 --> 00:28:49,376 can all be better at practicing. Well, time— we're going to jump into our 454 00:28:49,376 --> 00:28:52,502 speed round questions. For those who are new to the show or haven't listened to 455 00:28:52,502 --> 00:28:56,108 this part, this is where we're going to play a little stinger and then we're 456 00:28:56,108 --> 00:28:59,475 going to ask some answers based on a die roll. So let's go ahead and 457 00:28:59,475 --> 00:29:01,062 play that and we'll jump right in. So here we go. 458 00:29:06,036 --> 00:29:08,733 All right, we're gonna jump over to our dice cam. So we've got this die 459 00:29:08,925 --> 00:29:11,221 here that we're gonna roll, and we've got a couple questions on. 460 00:29:12,955 --> 00:29:16,535 Let's see if it can focus. Come on, come on. Ah, my 461 00:29:16,567 --> 00:29:19,297 camera doesn't want to focus for whatever reason, but I can tell you it looks 462 00:29:19,297 --> 00:29:22,492 like a 5. It is a 6. There we go. 463 00:29:24,595 --> 00:29:27,693 There we go, it's a 6. I don't know what, what it's doing with the 464 00:29:27,725 --> 00:29:31,498 focus, but there it is. So with number question 6, 465 00:29:31,643 --> 00:29:35,320 here we go. So 466 00:29:35,577 --> 00:29:38,724 this is a share a piece of advice. You've shared a lot of advice with 467 00:29:38,724 --> 00:29:42,481 us actually. It's really great. But what's a piece of advice that you've received that 468 00:29:42,481 --> 00:29:46,174 has, has had lasting impact on you? Anything 469 00:29:46,190 --> 00:29:48,759 that someone said to you that's kind of changed? It doesn't have to be about 470 00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:52,195 video. It could be about anything, but anything that's kind of changed you or shaped 471 00:29:52,195 --> 00:29:56,032 you as a person. Yeah. So I have, One thing in my— I did 472 00:29:56,064 --> 00:29:59,320 receive a lot of tips which have changed my life to the better, 473 00:29:59,817 --> 00:30:03,522 which have, you know, I've kept, you know, close to my heart. 474 00:30:04,405 --> 00:30:08,142 But one thing, one tip that really helped me during 475 00:30:08,399 --> 00:30:11,735 my, especially during my years of studying medicine, your 476 00:30:11,767 --> 00:30:14,959 physical health is as important as studying 477 00:30:15,937 --> 00:30:19,274 for your exams. Because when you are 478 00:30:19,562 --> 00:30:22,947 under a lot of pressure, sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time to 479 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,325 focus on your physical health. And when 480 00:30:28,695 --> 00:30:32,082 you don't focus on your physical health, that impacts 481 00:30:32,082 --> 00:30:35,326 negatively on your mental health as well, and you get prone for 482 00:30:35,374 --> 00:30:37,510 depression and anxiety, all of those things. 483 00:30:39,228 --> 00:30:43,001 So one tip that I received was that focus on 484 00:30:43,001 --> 00:30:46,774 your physical health. Try to put in at least half an hour, 485 00:30:46,838 --> 00:30:50,612 at least 1 hour of workout. And if you don't have time to work out, 486 00:30:50,628 --> 00:30:53,552 at least try to eat or 487 00:30:54,708 --> 00:30:58,450 lay off those sweets during those periods that you're not 488 00:30:58,499 --> 00:31:01,920 working out to keep the body 489 00:31:02,739 --> 00:31:06,529 healthy. And that's a really important tip, 490 00:31:06,594 --> 00:31:09,934 actually, for as a medical standpoint as well, 491 00:31:10,705 --> 00:31:13,757 because when the body is healthy, when you're 492 00:31:14,223 --> 00:31:17,322 working out, consistently, your blood flow 493 00:31:18,414 --> 00:31:22,235 gets optimized, your lipid level gets optimized, and all of those things. 494 00:31:22,348 --> 00:31:26,121 And your blood supply, your oxygen supply to the brain gets optimized as well, 495 00:31:26,603 --> 00:31:30,071 which at least optimizes the functioning of the brain. 496 00:31:30,681 --> 00:31:34,294 And so I think that's the most important tip that I've 497 00:31:34,294 --> 00:31:37,730 received, and I've tried to incorporate it into my life as well, 498 00:31:38,388 --> 00:31:41,613 is try to keep working, uh, you know, 499 00:31:42,014 --> 00:31:45,811 keep workout within your daily life. I love 500 00:31:45,923 --> 00:31:49,223 it. So the doctor's orders, we, we got to go. If you make sure you're 501 00:31:49,223 --> 00:31:52,876 doing that, make— I can't promise you to make better videos, but it can 502 00:31:52,892 --> 00:31:56,353 help, right? So, well, let's do another question here. I don't know, again, I don't 503 00:31:56,369 --> 00:32:00,086 know why my— this camera is not working. Hang 504 00:32:00,182 --> 00:32:03,194 on, try this again. There we go. 505 00:32:03,979 --> 00:32:07,792 It's still blurry, so we're gonna go with, uh, blurry, and everyone's just 506 00:32:07,792 --> 00:32:11,593 gonna have to trust me. But there we go, we rolled the 12. Okay, 507 00:32:11,690 --> 00:32:15,007 so this is the next question for you is what's 508 00:32:15,441 --> 00:32:19,209 your one go-to tool that helps you get your job done on 509 00:32:19,257 --> 00:32:22,015 a regular basis? This could be a piece of software, it could be a physical 510 00:32:22,548 --> 00:32:26,380 piece of gear, it could be anything. We'll, we'll focus on your, 511 00:32:26,671 --> 00:32:30,034 your video creation side, not maybe your medical side, because I'm sure it's a whole 512 00:32:30,131 --> 00:32:33,615 different set of tools. But is there one tool or a 513 00:32:33,777 --> 00:32:37,620 piece of equipment that you go to as your go-to? Yeah, there is. There's 514 00:32:37,732 --> 00:32:41,460 one tool that I use for everything, actually. It's a to-do list. 515 00:32:41,830 --> 00:32:45,621 It's on an app called Microsoft To-Do List. And what I 516 00:32:45,621 --> 00:32:49,429 like to do the day before, so for example, today, 517 00:32:50,201 --> 00:32:53,639 I try to plan tomorrow. 518 00:32:54,314 --> 00:32:57,463 So I try to make it as detailed as possible 519 00:32:57,833 --> 00:33:01,335 to the point where I even write what I am going to eat for 520 00:33:01,368 --> 00:33:05,056 breakfast and from what time to what time. So for example, I'm going to wake 521 00:33:05,056 --> 00:33:08,150 up at 5:30 in the morning and from 5:30 522 00:33:08,182 --> 00:33:11,083 to 6, I'm going to 523 00:33:12,349 --> 00:33:15,410 take a shower and breakfast and then keep 524 00:33:16,195 --> 00:33:20,042 making, planning my day that way. And 525 00:33:20,058 --> 00:33:23,135 it has helped me being more efficient during the day because 526 00:33:24,065 --> 00:33:27,062 sometimes some days when I haven't planned anything, 527 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,989 I try to be efficient, but I feel like I haven't been 528 00:33:31,438 --> 00:33:35,157 efficient at all, um, because everything that I want to do, I haven't 529 00:33:35,173 --> 00:33:38,331 had time to do it. So when I have this to-do list, I just, you 530 00:33:38,331 --> 00:33:41,281 know, check off those points. And at the end of the day, I feel like 531 00:33:41,441 --> 00:33:44,776 this day has been a really efficient day because I finished off so many 532 00:33:45,032 --> 00:33:48,591 points. So Microsoft To Do, or any to-do 533 00:33:48,591 --> 00:33:52,294 list app, I think everybody's— everyone 534 00:33:52,342 --> 00:33:55,324 should at least try to incorporate it into their lives. 535 00:33:56,174 --> 00:33:59,925 It has helped me being more efficient, uh, during my studies and 536 00:34:00,101 --> 00:34:03,836 work and YouTube and everything. I love it. Perfect. Great advice. Let's do 537 00:34:03,964 --> 00:34:07,539 one more here. It's still going to be blurry, but that's okay. And 538 00:34:07,731 --> 00:34:11,386 we've rolled a, a 5. So this time— 539 00:34:11,434 --> 00:34:15,009 so, okay, this, this is a fun one because you're 540 00:34:15,089 --> 00:34:18,439 even, uh, you are a great person of learning, right? So if you could 541 00:34:18,552 --> 00:34:21,549 instantly acquire a new skill, 542 00:34:22,703 --> 00:34:26,535 like, just like that, what would that skill be and why? So 543 00:34:27,112 --> 00:34:30,865 you get that superpower, you get to pick up one skill perfectly instantly, 544 00:34:31,540 --> 00:34:32,101 what would it be? 545 00:34:35,216 --> 00:34:39,052 I've actually, you know, to be honest, 546 00:34:39,229 --> 00:34:42,584 I am not a person who picks up information quickly. 547 00:34:43,820 --> 00:34:47,336 And I can use my little brother as an example. He's also studying med— he, 548 00:34:47,352 --> 00:34:50,996 he, he's, he used, he studied medicine, uh, one year. 549 00:34:51,349 --> 00:34:55,089 Uh, so I was in, you know, how was this? Yeah. How was I 550 00:34:55,138 --> 00:34:57,658 gonna formulate this one? Um, 551 00:34:58,893 --> 00:35:02,392 yeah, my little brother is also in med school, and my— 552 00:35:02,681 --> 00:35:06,244 if you want to compare my little brother with me, he's a 553 00:35:06,292 --> 00:35:09,919 type who only reads a sentence once and he understands it. Like, 554 00:35:09,967 --> 00:35:13,803 he just sticks in his brain. I have 555 00:35:13,899 --> 00:35:17,702 to, uh, put in a lot of work. I have to put in a lot 556 00:35:17,702 --> 00:35:20,703 of work. I have to study. I have to draw it. I have to visualize 557 00:35:20,736 --> 00:35:24,458 it. I have to, you know, I have to do a lot more. And so 558 00:35:24,506 --> 00:35:28,002 if this one thing I could actually try, wish I could 559 00:35:28,034 --> 00:35:31,835 acquire is learn information just by reading it once or something like that. 560 00:35:32,766 --> 00:35:36,487 That would be amazing. Yeah. But 561 00:35:36,535 --> 00:35:39,839 then again, if you learn things just 562 00:35:40,224 --> 00:35:43,768 straight away, it takes away the hard working part, 563 00:35:45,131 --> 00:35:48,964 if that makes sense. Yeah, it does. Well, we'll just say your brother gets 564 00:35:48,964 --> 00:35:51,691 the benefit of watching all your videos though. So, you know, 565 00:35:51,932 --> 00:35:55,416 Exactly. He just, he just 566 00:35:55,528 --> 00:35:58,724 reads one page and then starts gaming or something. 567 00:35:59,398 --> 00:36:03,043 He's listening to those videos you made. I can guarantee it. 568 00:36:04,215 --> 00:36:07,763 Well, well, time. This has been just a wonderful conversation. I appreciate you 569 00:36:07,763 --> 00:36:11,537 spending some time with me. Before we wrap up, if someone wanted to 570 00:36:11,922 --> 00:36:15,663 go watch your videos, go, go learn from you, you know, connect with you, 571 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,517 where, where should they go? Uh, so 572 00:36:20,030 --> 00:36:23,354 obviously it's a YouTube channel. That's, that's, uh, the main 573 00:36:23,627 --> 00:36:27,063 page where I upload all my, uh, videos. But I 574 00:36:27,255 --> 00:36:30,530 did recently make an Instagram account. Uh, so if 575 00:36:30,932 --> 00:36:34,560 anybody wants to, you know, contact me, have questions, uh, 576 00:36:34,865 --> 00:36:38,654 want to follow me on social media, I, I have, uh, an Instagram 577 00:36:38,654 --> 00:36:42,427 account for the YouTube channel called Time Talks Med. So 578 00:36:42,989 --> 00:36:45,970 go follow it. You know, subscribe to the channel and 579 00:36:46,776 --> 00:36:50,416 yeah, that's perfect. We'll link to those in the comments and 580 00:36:50,416 --> 00:36:53,346 descriptions and all that stuff. So if anyone wants to find those easily, you can. 581 00:36:53,876 --> 00:36:56,995 Well, with that said, Taim, again, appreciate you so much. 582 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:01,372 We always like to ask our guests for their final take, kind of that 583 00:37:01,372 --> 00:37:05,133 summary, the wrap-up for our show. For you, Taim, what is 584 00:37:05,230 --> 00:37:07,078 your final take from today's conversation? 585 00:37:09,402 --> 00:37:12,895 Well, just to wrap up, uh, what I said earlier is 586 00:37:13,328 --> 00:37:16,950 that if you are a student, especially in medical 587 00:37:16,950 --> 00:37:20,716 school, and want to teach medicine, I urge 588 00:37:20,716 --> 00:37:24,305 you to start without any experience. Just start and then learn along the way. 589 00:37:25,170 --> 00:37:28,808 And the beautiful thing about the teaching is that 590 00:37:28,952 --> 00:37:32,734 when you teach, you learn more. When you teach, um, 591 00:37:32,943 --> 00:37:35,875 you're— the information that you've learned stays in the brain 592 00:37:36,708 --> 00:37:39,913 for a longer period of time, and you can build on that one easier. 593 00:37:40,666 --> 00:37:44,416 So teaching is actually the best form of learning. Time. This 594 00:37:44,416 --> 00:37:47,412 has been fantastic. I want to thank you again for joining me in the Visual 595 00:37:47,444 --> 00:37:50,361 Lounge, and, and thank you for all the great videos that you make. And, you 596 00:37:50,361 --> 00:37:53,934 know, as someone who, uh, I'm, I'm not in the medical field at all, but 597 00:37:53,934 --> 00:37:57,764 I do have friends and I understand how challenging it is, I'm sure there's many 598 00:37:57,796 --> 00:38:01,497 people who are very appreciative for all the work you're, you're doing. So thank 599 00:38:01,545 --> 00:38:05,173 you. Thank you very much, Matt, and thank you for inviting me to this channel. 600 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,637 Absolutely, absolutely glad to have you. So, all right, everybody, 601 00:38:09,830 --> 00:38:13,362 that— isn't this awesome? You know, and we talked a lot about medical school and 602 00:38:13,362 --> 00:38:16,959 medicine and things like that, but this applies to— you could apply this to 603 00:38:17,199 --> 00:38:20,635 any field. The things that Time is doing, the conversations that he's having, the ways 604 00:38:20,667 --> 00:38:24,360 that he's teaching, educating, learning— it doesn't have to be medicine, but 605 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,331 he's doing it really well. So go check out his channel, go check out his 606 00:38:27,331 --> 00:38:30,945 stuff, Of course, we're all about teaching and educating here at TechSmith as well. We 607 00:38:31,009 --> 00:38:33,515 want you to be better. We want you to be better at making videos, better 608 00:38:33,515 --> 00:38:37,258 at using images in your workplace, whatever that might be. So we hope that, 609 00:38:37,290 --> 00:38:40,470 you know, like and subscribe so you can learn from more great people like Tyne. 610 00:38:41,290 --> 00:38:44,020 Like and subscribe so you can never miss an episode. And of course, what we 611 00:38:44,020 --> 00:38:47,667 really want is for you to take a little time to level up every single 612 00:38:47,667 --> 00:38:48,743 day. Thanks, everybody.