So clear. So well explained. Thank you for putting this vidio up in spite of your little hater.
You are so right about the creative process and any time away from it breeds the lack of confidence. Taking action, moving my body changing my posture playing the most up beat music will always snap me away from my little hater. Thank you so much for your public expression of truth. Sharon
My little hater only stops me from communicating with others, so I just pretend I'm talking to myself, that I don't need anyone's approval, because these words are just for me. Then I hit send, and then I freak out and think it wasn't good enough, but there is no turning back.
I'm a hip hop artist and it's hard for me to be inovative sometimes because I don't feel that connection with my audience. I feel like I'm going over their heads and it would be better for me to quit because modern mainstream hiphop is more acceptable. Quality and discipline seem like fading principasl so the little hater in my head tells me to persue something else and leave this generation with what they want to hear.
Also, trying when I truly don't want to drives her BONKERS; she goes on a rampage whenEVER I get up and do something! However,, when I end up succeeding,, she has nothing at all to say. :)
My little hater sounds like a super-maniacal bitch that I'd stab with a dinner fork!! Unfortunately, she has my voice... ! She's always trying to beat me the fuck up, telling me I'm not brave enough to make it, yet jumping up-n-down on me for NOT being brave enough!! Dx BUT:: She can't overshout my Prayers, my Scriptures, my chants or my green tea! All four of those send her sprinting!! :3
...wait till about a week or two to see if the things I created take on a life or is at least good enough to show. And trying to create something good means driving yourself crazy trying. Even though we are told time and time again that we will never reach perfection or that we are wasting our time trying, we can't help but want it, dammit! Just doing some kind of work is at least a testament to the fact that you are doing something, and that's all one can ask for.
Dang, I have those everyday. the little haters are a mirror of people who comment on crap everyday like they know something. Perfectionism always starts there because we know that we want people to like the stuff that we want to create. Nobody wants to hear crap, and neighbor do you, so how do you keep it from being crap? I make music, and most of the time, I wait till something is up. After that, I strive to create something great. What I do is create something and...
OK Ill...Here we go. *in the tiny me voice* No ones listening. You aren't dope as you think you are. Every time you do something & give it to people they are already doing that without your input. This won't make any difference. You're too old to be doing things like this...
Then I remember why I'm doing it... trying to be someone else rather than being myself is dead! Plus, it just keeps a loop going so it will continue to have power.
My little hater sets me up for failure, and makes me feel ashamed when I do fail. She builds up all these huge projects in my head, but when I start them, tells me I'll never have the time, energy or creativity to finish them. So I lose my motivation and have all these unfinished projects that could be awesome. When I regain the motivation, I feel guilty and unsure of myself going back to my old projects, so I start new ones which inevitable fail again.
So speaking of procrastination - I just wrote a little something about this on my own blog - My writing is at a stop the last month, and I know it has to do with my own little hater.
I don't have a "little hater" in me, instead I have this "flattering lover" that compliments me for every day that gets by without actually getting anything done; it's quite rewarding actually, you should try it.
My little hater wants to stop in the middle of work and sleep. She also makes me insecure about great ideas and says its impossible. BUT I can really say my little hater don't come around as much....just when I'm at the HUGE milestones in my life. KoyToy(The boss) always slaps the the little hater.
My little hater was trying to win over me. I must have a strong front.I only have one browser open but I'm going to open a new word document and actually start writing. I'm going put the music in the background because I don't really need to see the video.
My little hater constantly tells me that what I think is, to put it bluntly, stupid. It nags at me day in and day out for lack of creativity, but when I try to express what little creativity I possess, it puts me down, saying that what I think or feel isn't good enough.
My little hater is obsessed with balance and questioning, which sounds like a good thing but it's really not. When I've done 7 hours of school I just want to do nothing to balance the work, which is when the work I should do at home piles up. When I'm going to do something big and life changing, I question it so many times I become very indecisive and it gets delayed. My little hater brings commitment issues which affects my relationships the most.
This is solid. If you guys want more thoughts on "the little hater," I posted a video of a speech on my profile dealing with the same subject, except there they're called "head bullies."
My little hater involves trying to capture the ideas in my head, but no matter how well I write something, I always feel that it doesn't fully capture how beautiful it really is to me. My little hater is the doubt that everything I write just isn't good enough.
My little hater forces me to write verses when I know I shouldn't write, simply because I know I'm not in the mood and I have no good idea, so I repeat myself in the subject matter, and on and on and on! This little hating bastard also makes me procrastinate, on every level!
Steven Pressfield calls this Resistance in his book The War of Art. Its a good read and I highly recommend it! The best remedy for "the little hater" is sitting down and working!
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all this superficial psycho babble.. Bottom line for 200 years blacks have big penises that people want. I'm white, small dick, and rap, if it took 8 years for a female to make it, N.minaj, imAGINE MY POSSIBLE STRUGGLE..
Great message!!! I've known people who have an excuse for everything. I prefer to look at my little hater and laugh in it's face. Don't give your little hater the time of day. Use your little hater comments to sharpen your resistance to nay-sayers.
(I sent this first to my friend who posted your video and she said to post what I said to her...soooo...) Got pleasantly distracted by the daydreaming cat at the beginning, ha ha...did you notice the line in the back momentarily looks like his/her tail standing straight up?!! ha ha ha.... I wanted to leave a comment on his site but my little hater told me anything I would have to say would already have been said...AND IT WAS!!!! Oh no!!!! ha ha
my little hater happend the first time i tried to record, leaving a hot verse on paper sounding like crap. i got through it by tuffing it out and working on my craft.
DAHMM you're so right!!! I have that too,, :p I listen to some songs to get to get in the mood to write sime lyrics or make a beat,,when I'm done,,I feel like it ain't good enough because it ain't as good as the music I just listened to,,but then I start thinking: why should I look at those other artists ?? It's my music. I get stuff like that everytime! but I can't explain it as well as you do x)
I love how openly and lovingly you are able to express your feelings for the connection between you and us (the audience) and I can never thank you enough for holding yourself to such a high standard, and never letting the ease and convenience of the internet lessen the impact of your words. Much Love Jay Smooth
LOLOL - you completely encapsulated my entire summer thus far. Example: going through your old videos instead of working on some new poems. D'oh! LOLOL
My little hater is mostly banished now... but it used to be like anything I asked for was unjustified and would be refused, which extended to crippling shyness. I eventually fought it back, and now my little hater only interferes with my big ideas, like this book I'm working on. I have this chronic insecurity that I can't possibly know how people like my characters would think or feel, because I've never been in their situations.
I know this is basically several years too late, but damnit I only just discovered you. So nyeh. As a teacher's kid my Little Hater is perfectionism. The terror of producing something that is not better than everyone else's efforts, and therefore brings shame on me, and my dad; who had to prove to the parents of the kids he's teaching that his excellent teaching is evidenced by his own kids' awesomeness. So therefore from me which is less than awesome is shameful. Much easier not to do anything.
I am procrastinating right now....shit, time to get back to work after watching your videos all morning. Just got turned on to them today. Good work, keep em coming
I needed to see this video at this very moment. Been avoiding working on my book all day. No, let me be honest: for the past few days. THANK YOU!! Have to go now ...
yo,illdoc you got some great ideas.Keep it up!! haha,your beatboxing aint tooo bad either.I like the "what we think vs who we are" video- its got a good concept.Oh and i totally agree with your steez on hiphop.just gotta make em think its dead right? haha. words got life.
I'm working on my PhD. For grad students, there's always more to do than can ever possibly be done, and all of your work is subject to criticism, so you feel like it's never good enough, even when you know you've been successful because you're in grad school. My little hater tells me "you accomplished nothing today" when really, I took all sorts of little steps in a bigger project. I make lists of all the little things I accomplished in my day to show the little hater it is wrong.
My little hater use to tell me that my work is worth nothing, even though I'm proud of it. Its just waste of time, others wont understand, theyll just laugh and I aint really doing anything. Then I start doubt myself: quality of my work and my reasons for doing it. I have given my little hater a name, so I can silence her before she really gets started, because if she does I can only go to sleep and hope its forgotten tomorrow.
My little hater sounds like gary coleman and keeps for writing my rhymes. I can't remember the last time that I wrote a rhyme that I had on my mind. lol!
that little hater is stopping me from doing stuff. That little hater is very good at breaking my self down. That little hater is playing tricks on my so I start doubt my self.
I have a word for the cycle you describe: "shamelock."
The shamelock is worst when you've gone so long without talking to someone that you put off talking to them because you dread having to apologize for not talking to them for so long.
This is SO true! God its so great you did this video. I get to a point where I can barely say what you have said because I think 'people are gonna think you're a mad... mad... mad man' Thanks you enabled me to laugh at it and deal with it. Wish I saw this video years ago! lol.
really really nice... lol.. and all I could think was... how can I do that sort of thing without a camera... One of my haters is.. " Where do I focus when my focus is on paying rent.. ;-) But you named most of my traps...
my lil hater tells me to get off my behind up and get some work done on a daily basis. But even when I start my day even somewhat productively, at the end of the day I always feel like I could have done more. It's just never enough for my little haters.
my lil hater usually tells me that I've spent too much time doing unproductive things, and so there is too little time left to do the thing that I needed to do in the first place. And sometimes this becomes true, but only after I've been thinking it long enough and continuing to avoid working because I feel like I can't do it. Obviously, I need to be more proactive earlier, but this trick is slow to catch on.
I like this video... I try to stay away from my little hater but at times he haunts me. However, i can play this video as a reminder to keep the little hater away.
smart, smart, smart......first, to know the difference between your true voice and this little hater.....and then to tell him/her to shut up in a kind gentle way....or laugh at it....i spent months every morning in the shower telling him/her to get off my back....love it....thanks!!!!
My hater is a bad one. He tells me, the more I learn doesn't matter, because I still don't know how to do everything that is possible within my craft (due to my craft being a constantly evolving medium). He overcomplicates things, and tells me that my goals are impossible to achieve on my own.
"I can relate, I can never get anything done but peole give me tremendous feedback when I do have a new video, the little hater is telling me that im not good and not perfect enough."
Good great awesome... Your face and voice made an indelible mark of truth the first video I saw of you... And it's easy for me to wander off and forget but then friends remind me and bring me back!
I'll remember your advice in this video for a long time. Thank You!
My Little Hatter is trying to attack me this week. I have been talking about my script for days but I can't seem to sit down and do another revision. Instead I am just listening the voice in my head that says, oh well I will get to it tomorrow....well tomorrow is TODAY. Thanks for the kick in the ass Smooth!!!
How did you get into my head?! LOL. Shake the Haters!!! Great video. My creative spirit makes me go shopping in craft stores filled with ambition of what I will make and the little haters just let the bag sit on the table, contents still inside! No productivity. Blah! Shaking the Haters. Gotta get the creativity from the inside. . .out
As artists, we just have to come to terms with the the idea that sometimes you're going to come up short of communicating your vision. Once you can accept that, the little hater will become the little motivator.
I completely understand where you're coming from Jay.
When I make a new beat that I think is ill, my ego is sky high. But when I can't create something new, or make something that sounds as good as my last piece, I get very very discouraged.
I've been doing this for 6 years, and I have yet to figure out the ideal conditions for me to stay consistent. I see myself doing this for a living in 5 years but "my little hater" keeps telling me I can't make a beat everyday. So they've become monthly.
I write fiction for fun, and its real easy to think that what you are writing is just a pile of horse shit you threw all your time into...a big 3 year...waste of time. that happened once, where i actually did waste 3 years writing something that was just terrible! so thats where the little hater comes in!!! he remembers that shitty story i wrote and convinces me that my good work is of equal quality!. now how i beat my little hater is one week on one week off. one week i play guitar, next, write
My Little Hater is almost the same. When there is a time when I can't upload any video, I want to do something special. But than I go to my YouTube account and I see that there are very little (or none at all) comments left. At that time, I start thinking: Nobody wants to see my video's any more, I have to do something special. And when I put that special video online, my subscribers are happy again and I feel comfortable again. But then the Little Hater comes around the corner again...........
funny, a lot of us are online beause we are supposed to be uploading our own video blogs and instead the little hater makes us think we are being productive by watching yours lmao! DAMN YOU J for being so entertaining we are not getting OUR work done LOL!
i stretch every day. if i don't do it, my mind is all cloudy. the first time i think about it in a given day, i do my stretches - if i think i'm too busy, i need it even more.
Yeah, the little hater. I've always called that voice the troll and on a good day I can hear it, recognize it as the troll/hater, and not listen to it. Where does that stuff come from?
My little hater makes me analyze everything about myself on every single level, from my relationships to my creativity to my personality, and pushes me through a cycle of doubt, alienation and self-hatred that swirls around that self-doubt. My little hater's favorite game is to let me think I've defeated him, then come out of the shadows to reveal just yet another level of the same old story. I try to remember that my little hater exists to keep a little perspective on the situation, when I can.
First, thanks for posting this video - it's helped me realize that I too have a Little Hater inside of me, and that it's something that can be conquered.
My Little Hater feeds on self-doubt and humility; I know I'm good, but every time I think or say that, I start to scale it down a bit. What if I'm not as good as I think? That's where the doubt comes in, and oftentimes his voice is so pungent that it's hard to turn away from him. He's got me in his clutches now, and I'm trying to get out...
wow. where do i start? lol. my little hater tells me that i'm making the wrong decision to go to college and i just need to move to LA and pursue acting now. while i have no money and need to hone in on my craft more. :/ my little hater also says that i will never be good enough for my family's full appreciation and that most of who i am is wrong. i have a lot to think about.
now i can push this hater out, because i kow what it's doing. thanks man :)
My little hater forces me to subconsiously fuck up something good I have going for myself and revels in me having to get someone to bail me out of the bad situation that i put myself into by fucking up in the first place. Ignoring my little hater and asking other people for advice before i do something is the way i combat my little hater although this doesnt always work because my little hater tells me people will think I sound stupid for asking for advice.
My Little Hater in my head, I think is trying to defeat me. All the things that I once felt confident about, are now becoming my embarrassments.
I was so confident in the work I did as an artist. I was so sure of what I wanted to do with my life. Now, through stress, and some not so good things happening to me, all that, that seems to overwhelm me has shown through my work.
I keep telling my teachers that I have run out of gas, creativity. IDK
Man, I have the utmost respect for you and the words you say and the things you do. Thank you for blogging all the time.
Anyway, I can completely identify with this. Right now there are so many haters in my head defeating all the dreams I have that I want to make a reality, but this makes me feel differently about them. If other people have these problems then I can recognize that they are there in me too and find a way to defeat them.
Well, my little hater tells me that there is no way that I will ever be able to find a career in hip-hop and that my music isn't good enough. My methods of beating the little hater are remembering that even though this little collection of people may not like my music, there will always be someone out there who will like it. That little pocket of people aren't the only ones in this world. And by the way, message me if you or anyone wants the link to my music.
I usually sleep with somebody to feel better and get very drunk. This only works when I confess to my mother afterwards and have her kiss my hands before I write.
my little hater gets in my way of actually sitting down and starting work for my dissertation, by presenting so many other options of spending time. but a good way of shutting him up is getting started reading something interesting that is linked to my dissertation, so that i slide right in. does not work as effectively as I would like it to, but gets the job done more often than not. cheers
Ha ha - most people can relate to this! am trying to finish something that should have been done a month ago, and am so scared of it not being perfect, it is paralysing, my trick is to leave the house for an hour, walk around, come back do 2 hours, and tell myself it doesn;t matter if it is not perfect today cause my job for tomorrow is to make it perfect. may job today is to lay it down. thanks for the video btw, awesome as always.
The fact that someone as talented as you is prone to 'haters' ... reminds me of someone I know, and makes looking myself in the mirror and smiling that much easier.
The smiles have been scarce, and from them I derive my power, so thanks for giving me power to face the day.
My Hater: IS KICKEN MY ASS AT THE MOMENT. Fortunately for me, I've now got your vid. For YOU, I have words: I've just seen 6 of your videos, and you MOVE me with NUANCED truths, you connect important howeer hidden 'dots'; I wish I had more access to your brain. You not only see the dots, but you COMMUNICATE them. RARE.
My hater is the reason it took me three years to NOT finish my masters degree. The litte bugger took complete control over my life, but these days I'm taking back my life and selfworth one day at a time, and I'll finish that damn paper some day. I feel ya. Keep fighting, stay strong :)
I play guitar and sing, so when that happens, I just scream and play horrible music until I get distracted by something nice coming out of it. By then, I'm usually to wrapped up in the cool sound to think about how bad I was.
My Hater talks me outta everything lol... Fuck the little haters...
When I record somethin and its not perfect I usually procrastinate untill I just want to get something done, Then I say Fuck It, And Put Out The shit How ever I finish it... But I'm always surprised that my standards were unnecisarily high when everyone diggs it
I dropped out of college, because it was uncreative for me. My city does not that creative, so I have the internet to express my ideas.. but just as you noted, i begin to question my profesionalism, then i PROCRASTINATE, HELL IM PROCRASTINATING NOW. I'm glad I saw this video, I am not alone.
I teach a class on fire arts. My little hater pops up everytime I meet someone who is much much better then me or I cant master a new talent. Makes me ask myself why I think Im good enough to teach other person. Then I remind myself that people come to me to learn not the other way around. Thats what makes me good enough.
great video man, an example of my little haters deals with women... like, whenever i vibe with a girl and feel a connection with her and we're going somewhere with it, and i dont hear from them for a couple days, and i hit them up and dont get a response, i start feeling like theyre ignoring me, and i lose all faith in getting them back and instead of thinking maybe shes busy and caught up, i think maybe she saw/heard/realized something that makes her wanna dead me
I sleep well and eat well, this allows my mind to be focused so I can see with 20/20/20 vision and face the hater in me and always counter-attack with success.
I make sure I get the right amount of sleep for my mind to work, and eat properly and that allows my mind to stay focused with 20/20/20 vision so that I can always outsmart the hater in me. It works for me, anyone else agree?
My little hater stops me from editing together my music videos because it tells me that I hate cutting clips, that I can't plan out a video because it'll suck so what's the point, that I'm no longer imaginative or creative, and generally makes me feel like I already hit my peak and now nobody's interested anymore.
But you know what? I finished my first movie video a couple days ago and it feels fantastic :D
Real talk Jay...everytime I miss a week with my podcast (The Wade-O Radio Show...free in iTunes), I feel like this. But I the key for me is to focus on why I do what I do (telling others about Jesus). That may be different for everyone, but that helps me tons.
The way you articulated this was dope though. You got a true gift fams.
my little hater says i shouldnt be in the industry because i didnt have the classical training growing up and thus i am not as qualified as the next guy who has reference behind reference behind reference. then i go on and try to enrich myself with some boring ass history that i thought i would be interested in leading me to thank the stars that i brought a new alt perspective to the table...every once in a blue moon. all the other times i end up refreshing my fb page & email a billion times...
OK I need to do a blog... but in short, Im a Digital Artist/Graphic Designer/Writer. I have these moments when Im in my zone and on a roll. As a writer I can sit down and do 10,000 words or crank out a decent enough image in a few hours on a good day. I hit this really bad patch a while back and my hater had me stop work on a few projects for the last 4 years. YEP - 4 years! You know youre in trouble when people find your stuff online and you get emails asking if youve given up...
My little hater says that I'm too fat to be a dancer. I know that that is not the case because I am a beautiful dancer. :-) And even the excuse that I won't be able to do certain things because of my size is a lie, because I know of people bigger than me who do those same things and their size is not a problem.
my little hater is always pesimistic. It makes me obsess on negative things like high taxes, failure, disease, death you name it. so by distracting me It keeps me from getting any work done
that's what i'm going through when i have to write papers. i never got lower than a 91 on a paper but everytime i write one, my little hater is like "this shit sucks dude, you need a way better paper than this!"
You summed up my procrastination very well there man, I never thought of my procrastination being as a result of perfectionism, but i justify putting shit off, so that when the end product is mediocre i just think i COULD have done better, then why the fuck dont i??? Im gonna nail this shit and become all that i can...
My hater loves tools. He says, "Oooh if we had that we would kick some." I'll get real busy researching it, camparison shopping and KaChing, buy it. I am a great salesman when I am the customer. It comes and now I am twice the dirtbag because I got a box full of tools that aren't making me any more productive than I was without them. Hater? He just wants more tools!!!
my little hater is a bitch. it always pops up when I look at other peoples artwork sayin' "Thats better than yours and you cant do that" So I never really appreciate my artwork and the point of making it basically kinda dies. What I usually do is I dont draw when someone else is so I never compare with other people. And I watch them to learn different techniques then practice them myself Till I get em right so I can never say I cant ever do that. I got a nasty lil' hater.
Man I know exactly what you're talking about. My little haters are strong right now, but I'm battling back. This vid is actually getting my little haters scared. Thanks!
I was trippin hard on a couple of your videos. I think you should just re-think the subjects you chose to make videos about. If you think it's going to raise a bit of controversy. Then chill.
75% of them are meaninful. But when ''that voice in your head'' tells you you shouldn't make that ONE VIDEO. you probably shouldn't.
not to discredit your opinion but just for the record: all the videos you hated were actually big successes :) but in general i'd always rather do something and learn from it than not do it at all.
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So clear. So well explained. Thank you for putting this vidio up in spite of your little hater.
You are so right about the creative process and any time away from it breeds the lack of confidence. Taking action, moving my body changing my posture playing the most up beat music will always snap me away from my little hater. Thank you so much for your public expression of truth. Sharon
InnovativeHypnosis 2 days ago
My little hater only stops me from communicating with others, so I just pretend I'm talking to myself, that I don't need anyone's approval, because these words are just for me. Then I hit send, and then I freak out and think it wasn't good enough, but there is no turning back.
Smischmal 1 week ago
Sound advice,
best of luck to you.
RoShamBohhh 3 weeks ago
I'm a hip hop artist and it's hard for me to be inovative sometimes because I don't feel that connection with my audience. I feel like I'm going over their heads and it would be better for me to quit because modern mainstream hiphop is more acceptable. Quality and discipline seem like fading principasl so the little hater in my head tells me to persue something else and leave this generation with what they want to hear.
imperialshalom 1 month ago
My little hater tells me that my voice doesn't sound good. I tell it that nobody is gonna listen to my tracks anyway so it might as well STFU.
CMFangirl 1 month ago
I really needed to see this today. Thank you.
brideym 3 months ago
F the haters. Keep keeping on.
onetangospring 3 months ago
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EllengeeEvolve 3 months ago
Also, trying when I truly don't want to drives her BONKERS; she goes on a rampage whenEVER I get up and do something! However,, when I end up succeeding,, she has nothing at all to say. :)
GadSammit 4 months ago
My little hater sounds like a super-maniacal bitch that I'd stab with a dinner fork!! Unfortunately, she has my voice... ! She's always trying to beat me the fuck up, telling me I'm not brave enough to make it, yet jumping up-n-down on me for NOT being brave enough!! Dx BUT:: She can't overshout my Prayers, my Scriptures, my chants or my green tea! All four of those send her sprinting!! :3
GadSammit 4 months ago
...wait till about a week or two to see if the things I created take on a life or is at least good enough to show. And trying to create something good means driving yourself crazy trying. Even though we are told time and time again that we will never reach perfection or that we are wasting our time trying, we can't help but want it, dammit! Just doing some kind of work is at least a testament to the fact that you are doing something, and that's all one can ask for.
interpolluter29 5 months ago
Dang, I have those everyday. the little haters are a mirror of people who comment on crap everyday like they know something. Perfectionism always starts there because we know that we want people to like the stuff that we want to create. Nobody wants to hear crap, and neighbor do you, so how do you keep it from being crap? I make music, and most of the time, I wait till something is up. After that, I strive to create something great. What I do is create something and...
interpolluter29 5 months ago
OK Ill...Here we go. *in the tiny me voice* No ones listening. You aren't dope as you think you are. Every time you do something & give it to people they are already doing that without your input. This won't make any difference. You're too old to be doing things like this...
Then I remember why I'm doing it... trying to be someone else rather than being myself is dead! Plus, it just keeps a loop going so it will continue to have power.
Keep on...
Keepin ON!
philfordfeel 5 months ago
My little hater sets me up for failure, and makes me feel ashamed when I do fail. She builds up all these huge projects in my head, but when I start them, tells me I'll never have the time, energy or creativity to finish them. So I lose my motivation and have all these unfinished projects that could be awesome. When I regain the motivation, I feel guilty and unsure of myself going back to my old projects, so I start new ones which inevitable fail again.
I'm still working on how to combat this.
kcolwell24 5 months ago
Word
MarkPheonix 5 months ago
So speaking of procrastination - I just wrote a little something about this on my own blog - My writing is at a stop the last month, and I know it has to do with my own little hater.
tarajean517 6 months ago
I don't have a "little hater" in me, instead I have this "flattering lover" that compliments me for every day that gets by without actually getting anything done; it's quite rewarding actually, you should try it.
eselstam 6 months ago
My little hater wants to stop in the middle of work and sleep. She also makes me insecure about great ideas and says its impossible. BUT I can really say my little hater don't come around as much....just when I'm at the HUGE milestones in my life. KoyToy(The boss) always slaps the the little hater.
janeblow80 6 months ago
My little hater was trying to win over me. I must have a strong front.I only have one browser open but I'm going to open a new word document and actually start writing. I'm going put the music in the background because I don't really need to see the video.
ealvarezz10 7 months ago
My little hater constantly tells me that what I think is, to put it bluntly, stupid. It nags at me day in and day out for lack of creativity, but when I try to express what little creativity I possess, it puts me down, saying that what I think or feel isn't good enough.
folgerschic 9 months ago
My little hater is obsessed with balance and questioning, which sounds like a good thing but it's really not. When I've done 7 hours of school I just want to do nothing to balance the work, which is when the work I should do at home piles up. When I'm going to do something big and life changing, I question it so many times I become very indecisive and it gets delayed. My little hater brings commitment issues which affects my relationships the most.
ReadMyCrimsonLips 9 months ago
Awesome advice. I'm going to close like 30 browser tabs and do that thing I was supposed to do two hours ago. After this kitty video. ;-)
moishefriedman 9 months ago
This is solid. If you guys want more thoughts on "the little hater," I posted a video of a speech on my profile dealing with the same subject, except there they're called "head bullies."
offTheLeftEye 9 months ago
My little hater involves trying to capture the ideas in my head, but no matter how well I write something, I always feel that it doesn't fully capture how beautiful it really is to me. My little hater is the doubt that everything I write just isn't good enough.
TLERocker 10 months ago
My little hater forces me to write verses when I know I shouldn't write, simply because I know I'm not in the mood and I have no good idea, so I repeat myself in the subject matter, and on and on and on! This little hating bastard also makes me procrastinate, on every level!
CrypticDoppleganger 10 months ago
Steven Pressfield calls this Resistance in his book The War of Art. Its a good read and I highly recommend it! The best remedy for "the little hater" is sitting down and working!
Mochafairiemonster 11 months ago
love this man :)
CGjobo 11 months ago
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radioheadgear 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
all this superficial psycho babble.. Bottom line for 200 years blacks have big penises that people want. I'm white, small dick, and rap, if it took 8 years for a female to make it, N.minaj, imAGINE MY POSSIBLE STRUGGLE..
emzzdad 1 year ago
Great message!!! I've known people who have an excuse for everything. I prefer to look at my little hater and laugh in it's face. Don't give your little hater the time of day. Use your little hater comments to sharpen your resistance to nay-sayers.
gfb3consulting 1 year ago
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(I sent this first to my friend who posted your video and she said to post what I said to her...soooo...) Got pleasantly distracted by the daydreaming cat at the beginning, ha ha...did you notice the line in the back momentarily looks like his/her tail standing straight up?!! ha ha ha.... I wanted to leave a comment on his site but my little hater told me anything I would have to say would already have been said...AND IT WAS!!!! Oh no!!!! ha ha
I concur...LOVED this...thanks!
Misu1963SB 1 year ago
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Misu1963SB 1 year ago
Damn, I can identify.
beatmixer16 1 year ago
My lil hater tells me to kill myself so instead I try to love life everyday.
LiLTWITCH13 1 year ago
Yeh man! I'm SO there right now! That bastard is trying to kill me.
"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling." - Frida Kahlo
phntsticpeg 1 year ago
i watch this vid everytime my lil hater starts...it really does shutem down. THANKS!
blackwoodjankins 1 year ago
my little hater happend the first time i tried to record, leaving a hot verse on paper sounding like crap. i got through it by tuffing it out and working on my craft.
maverick2215 1 year ago
lil haters just hate
imacrazyrussian 1 year ago
The cat's responsible for camera failures. I can see it written on the cat's face...
ogunhe 1 year ago
DAHMM you're so right!!! I have that too,, :p I listen to some songs to get to get in the mood to write sime lyrics or make a beat,,when I'm done,,I feel like it ain't good enough because it ain't as good as the music I just listened to,,but then I start thinking: why should I look at those other artists ?? It's my music. I get stuff like that everytime! but I can't explain it as well as you do x)
TheElusive4real 1 year ago
I love how openly and lovingly you are able to express your feelings for the connection between you and us (the audience) and I can never thank you enough for holding yourself to such a high standard, and never letting the ease and convenience of the internet lessen the impact of your words. Much Love Jay Smooth
smeerios 1 year ago 2
true true we lose touch with the lil luvva who got us started cuz we needed to say somethin. lil luvva loves to do the work cuz it feels so real
IamTheGenieOfTheLamp 1 year ago
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IamTheGenieOfTheLamp 1 year ago
LOLOL - you completely encapsulated my entire summer thus far. Example: going through your old videos instead of working on some new poems. D'oh! LOLOL
seudonimosa 1 year ago
My little hater is mostly banished now... but it used to be like anything I asked for was unjustified and would be refused, which extended to crippling shyness. I eventually fought it back, and now my little hater only interferes with my big ideas, like this book I'm working on. I have this chronic insecurity that I can't possibly know how people like my characters would think or feel, because I've never been in their situations.
latestranger 1 year ago
I know this is basically several years too late, but damnit I only just discovered you. So nyeh. As a teacher's kid my Little Hater is perfectionism. The terror of producing something that is not better than everyone else's efforts, and therefore brings shame on me, and my dad; who had to prove to the parents of the kids he's teaching that his excellent teaching is evidenced by his own kids' awesomeness. So therefore from me which is less than awesome is shameful. Much easier not to do anything.
Jumjumcider 1 year ago
I read The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield and it put so much in perspective! It's a great little book about how to beat your little hater.
soundofyellow 1 year ago
Illdoc1 for president. I'm going to listen to this periodically. Thanks again for speaking up.
Jenntasnim 1 year ago
I love this guy. you are like Tony the Tiger....Grrrrrrrrreat!
sexxxyshar 1 year ago
I am procrastinating right now....shit, time to get back to work after watching your videos all morning. Just got turned on to them today. Good work, keep em coming
Millertyme47 1 year ago
I needed to see this video at this very moment. Been avoiding working on my book all day. No, let me be honest: for the past few days. THANK YOU!! Have to go now ...
CheezInspector 1 year ago
yo,illdoc you got some great ideas.Keep it up!! haha,your beatboxing aint tooo bad either.I like the "what we think vs who we are" video- its got a good concept.Oh and i totally agree with your steez on hiphop.just gotta make em think its dead right? haha. words got life.
hammogreev 1 year ago
I'm working on my PhD. For grad students, there's always more to do than can ever possibly be done, and all of your work is subject to criticism, so you feel like it's never good enough, even when you know you've been successful because you're in grad school. My little hater tells me "you accomplished nothing today" when really, I took all sorts of little steps in a bigger project. I make lists of all the little things I accomplished in my day to show the little hater it is wrong.
dragonflyphebe 1 year ago 2
My little hater use to tell me that my work is worth nothing, even though I'm proud of it. Its just waste of time, others wont understand, theyll just laugh and I aint really doing anything. Then I start doubt myself: quality of my work and my reasons for doing it. I have given my little hater a name, so I can silence her before she really gets started, because if she does I can only go to sleep and hope its forgotten tomorrow.
Guldefisk 1 year ago
My little hater is exactly the same. EXACTLY the same. =/
I hope to get back to blogging soon. lol
darkdazh 1 year ago
The score currently for me is
Lil hater 2344534 me 3
HipHopPolooza 1 year ago
My little hater sounds like gary coleman and keeps for writing my rhymes. I can't remember the last time that I wrote a rhyme that I had on my mind. lol!
Beans420730 1 year ago
@Beans420730 hahaha gary coleman.
hammogreev 1 year ago
My little hater keeps me from pursuing writing!!!!! This along w/ the lil hater ballad gets me through all the "hater stuff".....excellent, J!!!!!
growflowerswkim 1 year ago
that little hater is stopping me from doing stuff. That little hater is very good at breaking my self down. That little hater is playing tricks on my so I start doubt my self.
henokpenok 1 year ago
I have a word for the cycle you describe: "shamelock."
The shamelock is worst when you've gone so long without talking to someone that you put off talking to them because you dread having to apologize for not talking to them for so long.
anjiaoshi 1 year ago 30
This is SO true! God its so great you did this video. I get to a point where I can barely say what you have said because I think 'people are gonna think you're a mad... mad... mad man' Thanks you enabled me to laugh at it and deal with it. Wish I saw this video years ago! lol.
global001 1 year ago
Brilliant!
zach0520 2 years ago
really really nice... lol.. and all I could think was... how can I do that sort of thing without a camera... One of my haters is.. " Where do I focus when my focus is on paying rent.. ;-) But you named most of my traps...
madhypnotist 2 years ago
my lil hater tells me to get off my behind up and get some work done on a daily basis. But even when I start my day even somewhat productively, at the end of the day I always feel like I could have done more. It's just never enough for my little haters.
TAltafi 2 years ago
my lil hater usually tells me that I've spent too much time doing unproductive things, and so there is too little time left to do the thing that I needed to do in the first place. And sometimes this becomes true, but only after I've been thinking it long enough and continuing to avoid working because I feel like I can't do it. Obviously, I need to be more proactive earlier, but this trick is slow to catch on.
IMDWT 2 years ago
I like this video... I try to stay away from my little hater but at times he haunts me. However, i can play this video as a reminder to keep the little hater away.
Scheffee 2 years ago
My little hater forces me to spend hours picking a single word or overworking a sentence because I feel like it's not exactly right.
Thank you for reminding me that this thing is actively out to get me and I need to remind myself that I'm good at what I do. Keep being awesome, man.
Koushirouhan801 2 years ago
Awesome vid! Great way of describing those inner forces using modern metaphor. That's creativity!!!!
AReyesJKD 2 years ago
dont listen to your little hater! your bad ass and ppl love your shit :D
norlack89 2 years ago 5
smart, smart, smart......first, to know the difference between your true voice and this little hater.....and then to tell him/her to shut up in a kind gentle way....or laugh at it....i spent months every morning in the shower telling him/her to get off my back....love it....thanks!!!!
annabmusical 2 years ago
Dang you're mad charismatic. Amazing video.
Eggz2021 2 years ago
My hater is a bad one. He tells me, the more I learn doesn't matter, because I still don't know how to do everything that is possible within my craft (due to my craft being a constantly evolving medium). He overcomplicates things, and tells me that my goals are impossible to achieve on my own.
Please kill him!
ParodyPatches 2 years ago
i watch this video whenever i feel like i'm slacking
rexkid 2 years ago
"I can relate, I can never get anything done but peole give me tremendous feedback when I do have a new video, the little hater is telling me that im not good and not perfect enough."
WWENBA95 2 years ago
Good great awesome... Your face and voice made an indelible mark of truth the first video I saw of you... And it's easy for me to wander off and forget but then friends remind me and bring me back!
I'll remember your advice in this video for a long time. Thank You!
peacefromtrees 2 years ago
You're awesome.
spellcoat 2 years ago
story of my life
nuke572 2 years ago
OMG! I feel you! WOW... love to hear it spelled out. Keep up the good work.
mothertojake 2 years ago
My Little Hatter is trying to attack me this week. I have been talking about my script for days but I can't seem to sit down and do another revision. Instead I am just listening the voice in my head that says, oh well I will get to it tomorrow....well tomorrow is TODAY. Thanks for the kick in the ass Smooth!!!
Blacktalent1 2 years ago
How did you get into my head?! LOL. Shake the Haters!!! Great video. My creative spirit makes me go shopping in craft stores filled with ambition of what I will make and the little haters just let the bag sit on the table, contents still inside! No productivity. Blah! Shaking the Haters. Gotta get the creativity from the inside. . .out
thecreativelady 2 years ago
Oh my god it's like looking in a mirror.
tamaraweikel 2 years ago
As artists, we just have to come to terms with the the idea that sometimes you're going to come up short of communicating your vision. Once you can accept that, the little hater will become the little motivator.
ConradSly 2 years ago
I completely understand where you're coming from Jay.
When I make a new beat that I think is ill, my ego is sky high. But when I can't create something new, or make something that sounds as good as my last piece, I get very very discouraged.
I've been doing this for 6 years, and I have yet to figure out the ideal conditions for me to stay consistent. I see myself doing this for a living in 5 years but "my little hater" keeps telling me I can't make a beat everyday. So they've become monthly.
dsbounce 2 years ago 2
I write fiction for fun, and its real easy to think that what you are writing is just a pile of horse shit you threw all your time into...a big 3 year...waste of time. that happened once, where i actually did waste 3 years writing something that was just terrible! so thats where the little hater comes in!!! he remembers that shitty story i wrote and convinces me that my good work is of equal quality!. now how i beat my little hater is one week on one week off. one week i play guitar, next, write
ELFKRUNCH 2 years ago 2
My Little Hater is almost the same. When there is a time when I can't upload any video, I want to do something special. But than I go to my YouTube account and I see that there are very little (or none at all) comments left. At that time, I start thinking: Nobody wants to see my video's any more, I have to do something special. And when I put that special video online, my subscribers are happy again and I feel comfortable again. But then the Little Hater comes around the corner again...........
XguitarrockerX 2 years ago
funny, a lot of us are online beause we are supposed to be uploading our own video blogs and instead the little hater makes us think we are being productive by watching yours lmao! DAMN YOU J for being so entertaining we are not getting OUR work done LOL!
MCMIreport 2 years ago
Scientologists would call that "the reactive mind"... My dad used to call it the little devil on your shoulder lol...
MCMIreport 2 years ago
yep.
i stretch every day. if i don't do it, my mind is all cloudy. the first time i think about it in a given day, i do my stretches - if i think i'm too busy, i need it even more.
mattiereitman 2 years ago
I'm a perfect being, no emotions, no impulses, no doubt, no little hater, no weakness, just a perfect being.
Some call me God.
ahhahaha, my little hater is just like yours. Constantly making me feel useless, though she forgets that if I fail, she fails too.
teawead 2 years ago
Yeah, the little hater. I've always called that voice the troll and on a good day I can hear it, recognize it as the troll/hater, and not listen to it. Where does that stuff come from?
BeamVA 2 years ago
My little hater makes me analyze everything about myself on every single level, from my relationships to my creativity to my personality, and pushes me through a cycle of doubt, alienation and self-hatred that swirls around that self-doubt. My little hater's favorite game is to let me think I've defeated him, then come out of the shadows to reveal just yet another level of the same old story. I try to remember that my little hater exists to keep a little perspective on the situation, when I can.
gr4ssh0pp3r 2 years ago 35
First, thanks for posting this video - it's helped me realize that I too have a Little Hater inside of me, and that it's something that can be conquered.
My Little Hater feeds on self-doubt and humility; I know I'm good, but every time I think or say that, I start to scale it down a bit. What if I'm not as good as I think? That's where the doubt comes in, and oftentimes his voice is so pungent that it's hard to turn away from him. He's got me in his clutches now, and I'm trying to get out...
robotmastercutman 2 years ago
wow. where do i start? lol. my little hater tells me that i'm making the wrong decision to go to college and i just need to move to LA and pursue acting now. while i have no money and need to hone in on my craft more. :/ my little hater also says that i will never be good enough for my family's full appreciation and that most of who i am is wrong. i have a lot to think about.
now i can push this hater out, because i kow what it's doing. thanks man :)
OnlyAlexandria 2 years ago
My little hater forces me to subconsiously fuck up something good I have going for myself and revels in me having to get someone to bail me out of the bad situation that i put myself into by fucking up in the first place. Ignoring my little hater and asking other people for advice before i do something is the way i combat my little hater although this doesnt always work because my little hater tells me people will think I sound stupid for asking for advice.
Gooderz21 2 years ago
My Little Hater in my head, I think is trying to defeat me. All the things that I once felt confident about, are now becoming my embarrassments.
I was so confident in the work I did as an artist. I was so sure of what I wanted to do with my life. Now, through stress, and some not so good things happening to me, all that, that seems to overwhelm me has shown through my work.
I keep telling my teachers that I have run out of gas, creativity. IDK
Im still trying to find a way to defeat my hater.
prettyinpunk03 2 years ago
Man, I have the utmost respect for you and the words you say and the things you do. Thank you for blogging all the time.
Anyway, I can completely identify with this. Right now there are so many haters in my head defeating all the dreams I have that I want to make a reality, but this makes me feel differently about them. If other people have these problems then I can recognize that they are there in me too and find a way to defeat them.
Thanks.
randomflyingpigeons 2 years ago
I'm always scared that my hater is right...
I make video's to but it their not good enough anymore (the pefection thing)
so I want to do somthing elce (video clips in sofia print) but I need another program for that ... pfff. and a lot of more time!
liedjelisette 2 years ago
I hate my little hater!!!
lo0gie 2 years ago
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unfamilliar 2 years ago
my little hater tells me im not good enough to ba a computer animator
when he comes along i think of the future i wont have if i dont get working
Iamnr 2 years ago
és lindo:)
Fazes-me lembrar o meu ex namorado.... :)
Gostei muito do teu vídeo.
Um enorme beijo :)
christiaanna 2 years ago
My little hater says really random s)-( it but it mostly comes out in my mother's voice... only a little more nasally
dreamerinneon 2 years ago
Well, my little hater tells me that there is no way that I will ever be able to find a career in hip-hop and that my music isn't good enough. My methods of beating the little hater are remembering that even though this little collection of people may not like my music, there will always be someone out there who will like it. That little pocket of people aren't the only ones in this world. And by the way, message me if you or anyone wants the link to my music.
gbtew001 2 years ago
I usually sleep with somebody to feel better and get very drunk. This only works when I confess to my mother afterwards and have her kiss my hands before I write.
martyregal 2 years ago
Ha, I know what you mean. Pretty much sounds like my "Little Hater."
JDubbsTheatre 2 years ago
Lemme try to be more concise. To destroy, create.
Simplify one's life, prepare for one's own death.
An old phrase: "the work won't get done by itself."
Set ridiculously small goals... like turning on your work software, or w/e.
Sleep... from an continual insomniac, I know lack of sleep does exacerbate The Little Hater, as does staying indoors for more than 24 hrs straight.
"It doesn't have to be perfect."
Just do a "draft for now."
These are just a few tools of the trade.
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MusesK 2 years ago
I have a comic that i draw but my little hater doesn't give me any positive reinforcement telling me that my ideas are good enough
Rhodebunny 2 years ago
so true
tcr1988 2 years ago
my little hater gets in my way of actually sitting down and starting work for my dissertation, by presenting so many other options of spending time. but a good way of shutting him up is getting started reading something interesting that is linked to my dissertation, so that i slide right in. does not work as effectively as I would like it to, but gets the job done more often than not. cheers
klausHans 2 years ago
my little hater thinks your cool! cute too!!
tcshaggy 2 years ago
mans a legend. slightly neurotic thoe.
merrh who isnt..? still a legendd
cassiusman986 2 years ago
Ha ha - most people can relate to this! am trying to finish something that should have been done a month ago, and am so scared of it not being perfect, it is paralysing, my trick is to leave the house for an hour, walk around, come back do 2 hours, and tell myself it doesn;t matter if it is not perfect today cause my job for tomorrow is to make it perfect. may job today is to lay it down. thanks for the video btw, awesome as always.
tkmax76 2 years ago
my little hater says what i can do in half an hour now, i can do in half an hour later.
interesting theory, i agree haha!
subscribed->
AAgibsonAA 2 years ago
AAAAAHHHHHH man you nailed it. I must kill the little hater and pick up a pint brush from real
bluejd 2 years ago
My little hater messes up my head all the time :) I feel like a total looser very often but you cheered me up with the video. Thanks !:))
iusyrneim 3 years ago
So fucking true!
tenshi7angel 3 years ago
LOL oh man..i cant even explain my little hater..that mufucka does all typa shit...dude is multi-taskable if thats even a word lmao
mckilla2121 3 years ago
My Little hater is kindda big and tells me not to draw.. sketch.. paint.. spraypaint.. bastard!
XernaKlan 3 years ago
This is the best. Absolutely true. Thank you so much for the kick in the ass! You got me back on my blog and it feels gooooood.
amandiar 3 years ago
The fact that someone as talented as you is prone to 'haters' ... reminds me of someone I know, and makes looking myself in the mirror and smiling that much easier.
The smiles have been scarce, and from them I derive my power, so thanks for giving me power to face the day.
jamexcel 3 years ago
My Hater: IS KICKEN MY ASS AT THE MOMENT. Fortunately for me, I've now got your vid. For YOU, I have words: I've just seen 6 of your videos, and you MOVE me with NUANCED truths, you connect important howeer hidden 'dots'; I wish I had more access to your brain. You not only see the dots, but you COMMUNICATE them. RARE.
jamexcel 3 years ago
AWESOME :-) that is EXACTLY what happens to me lol. OK I've got to beat the little hater lol :-)
RochelleHansonMusic 3 years ago
omg! i thought i was the only one that had that little h8er problem
x3caramelhoneyo7 3 years ago
My hater is the reason it took me three years to NOT finish my masters degree. The litte bugger took complete control over my life, but these days I'm taking back my life and selfworth one day at a time, and I'll finish that damn paper some day. I feel ya. Keep fighting, stay strong :)
tonemoverby 3 years ago
I play guitar and sing, so when that happens, I just scream and play horrible music until I get distracted by something nice coming out of it. By then, I'm usually to wrapped up in the cool sound to think about how bad I was.
qingofchina 3 years ago
yo... I Feel the EXACT same way...
My Hater talks me outta everything lol... Fuck the little haters...
When I record somethin and its not perfect I usually procrastinate untill I just want to get something done, Then I say Fuck It, And Put Out The shit How ever I finish it... But I'm always surprised that my standards were unnecisarily high when everyone diggs it
illogikal 3 years ago
I just properly identified my Lil Hater, he was disguising himself as doubt, and second guessing. Now it's been identified the battle rages on.
L00KING410 3 years ago
nice
Kasey92Kohus 3 years ago
Mr. Smooth.
Hiphop needs more people like you!
One.
4twizzle 3 years ago
that really does sum it all up.
good video
baghdaddy12 3 years ago
I know i have a lil hater... i wonder if some people don't?... they must be madd productive
lbrances 3 years ago
Yeah, My lil hater is kinda too Hard for me to beat.
Damn The Hater!!!
algbeautii 3 years ago
my little hater just took a shit, and in that time i found a job.
lastword13 3 years ago
think i found my problem...haha
think my little hater grew up to a big punkass adult...
RoCKmaN73 3 years ago
funny stuff.... kill the little haters!!!!!!!
thebruno44 3 years ago
~thank you for this wisdom~
ijamsville97 3 years ago
I dropped out of college, because it was uncreative for me. My city does not that creative, so I have the internet to express my ideas.. but just as you noted, i begin to question my profesionalism, then i PROCRASTINATE, HELL IM PROCRASTINATING NOW. I'm glad I saw this video, I am not alone.
BrunoFoShuno 3 years ago
I love your vidoes man, 10000000/5!!!
ribbledude 3 years ago
I teach a class on fire arts. My little hater pops up everytime I meet someone who is much much better then me or I cant master a new talent. Makes me ask myself why I think Im good enough to teach other person. Then I remind myself that people come to me to learn not the other way around. Thats what makes me good enough.
prcdslnc13 3 years ago
Die lil haters Die!!!!!
better2x 3 years ago
great video man, an example of my little haters deals with women... like, whenever i vibe with a girl and feel a connection with her and we're going somewhere with it, and i dont hear from them for a couple days, and i hit them up and dont get a response, i start feeling like theyre ignoring me, and i lose all faith in getting them back and instead of thinking maybe shes busy and caught up, i think maybe she saw/heard/realized something that makes her wanna dead me
Killa11226 3 years ago
I sleep well and eat well, this allows my mind to be focused so I can see with 20/20/20 vision and face the hater in me and always counter-attack with success.
Anyone else the same?
fieldscarecrow 3 years ago
Sorry for the double comment, youtube messed up and I thought it didn't post the first...
fieldscarecrow 3 years ago
I make sure I get the right amount of sleep for my mind to work, and eat properly and that allows my mind to stay focused with 20/20/20 vision so that I can always outsmart the hater in me. It works for me, anyone else agree?
fieldscarecrow 3 years ago
yeaaa what chance do u have with the haters in society if u cant stand up to the hater inside of you
extrasawty 3 years ago
My little hater stops me from editing together my music videos because it tells me that I hate cutting clips, that I can't plan out a video because it'll suck so what's the point, that I'm no longer imaginative or creative, and generally makes me feel like I already hit my peak and now nobody's interested anymore.
But you know what? I finished my first movie video a couple days ago and it feels fantastic :D
AlcoholicPixie 3 years ago
Real talk Jay...everytime I miss a week with my podcast (The Wade-O Radio Show...free in iTunes), I feel like this. But I the key for me is to focus on why I do what I do (telling others about Jesus). That may be different for everyone, but that helps me tons.
The way you articulated this was dope though. You got a true gift fams.
wadeoradio 3 years ago
my little hater says i shouldnt be in the industry because i didnt have the classical training growing up and thus i am not as qualified as the next guy who has reference behind reference behind reference. then i go on and try to enrich myself with some boring ass history that i thought i would be interested in leading me to thank the stars that i brought a new alt perspective to the table...every once in a blue moon. all the other times i end up refreshing my fb page & email a billion times...
testwhite 3 years ago
OK I need to do a blog... but in short, Im a Digital Artist/Graphic Designer/Writer. I have these moments when Im in my zone and on a roll. As a writer I can sit down and do 10,000 words or crank out a decent enough image in a few hours on a good day. I hit this really bad patch a while back and my hater had me stop work on a few projects for the last 4 years. YEP - 4 years! You know youre in trouble when people find your stuff online and you get emails asking if youve given up...
NativeMoon 3 years ago
This is so true i'm watching this as i'm supposed to be getting on the way with my new business. DAMN.. You hit it on the head...
yamwho74 3 years ago
wow...that was...brilliant.
[slightexaggeration]The articulation here is nearly divine.[/slightexaggeration]
but seriously...that is what I face every single day...I agree with Becca...you have to live in our minds lol...
my little hater needs to begin an infinite losing streak...
RALthaDon 3 years ago
Dude...you are killing it right now. This video is classic
wadeoradio 3 years ago
wow - do you live in my mind???? i don't think I could have articulated this spiral of emotions so accurately....
Beccathepromomami 3 years ago
My little hater says that I'm too fat to be a dancer. I know that that is not the case because I am a beautiful dancer. :-) And even the excuse that I won't be able to do certain things because of my size is a lie, because I know of people bigger than me who do those same things and their size is not a problem.
yochick 3 years ago
my little hater is always pesimistic. It makes me obsess on negative things like high taxes, failure, disease, death you name it. so by distracting me It keeps me from getting any work done
worldsbestCEO 3 years ago
that's what i'm going through when i have to write papers. i never got lower than a 91 on a paper but everytime i write one, my little hater is like "this shit sucks dude, you need a way better paper than this!"
bones6689 3 years ago
What I tell my "little hater"...hmmm...well I am telling it now that ...wow..there is a huge chocolate stain on my shirt...wth...
trinabear 3 years ago
this is a good post man. ha...it's true!
stillsameolg04 3 years ago
You summed up my procrastination very well there man, I never thought of my procrastination being as a result of perfectionism, but i justify putting shit off, so that when the end product is mediocre i just think i COULD have done better, then why the fuck dont i??? Im gonna nail this shit and become all that i can...
TheDonUK 3 years ago
My hater loves tools. He says, "Oooh if we had that we would kick some." I'll get real busy researching it, camparison shopping and KaChing, buy it. I am a great salesman when I am the customer. It comes and now I am twice the dirtbag because I got a box full of tools that aren't making me any more productive than I was without them. Hater? He just wants more tools!!!
4QFilms 4 years ago
my little hater is a bitch. it always pops up when I look at other peoples artwork sayin' "Thats better than yours and you cant do that" So I never really appreciate my artwork and the point of making it basically kinda dies. What I usually do is I dont draw when someone else is so I never compare with other people. And I watch them to learn different techniques then practice them myself Till I get em right so I can never say I cant ever do that. I got a nasty lil' hater.
Keiyoko 4 years ago
Hey, you're not fishing, but you caught one. Lovin the beat.
SerinaJK 4 years ago
Man I know exactly what you're talking about. My little haters are strong right now, but I'm battling back. This vid is actually getting my little haters scared. Thanks!
LazarusDurden 4 years ago
As long as we unite, we can keep them on the ropes if not knock them out for good. :-)
yochick 3 years ago
you are radical cool
jennaow 4 years ago
A little walk always helps me. Something about solitude and fresh air cleanses me. It's like I breathing GODs love in.
northside80 4 years ago
Yeah you said it. That damn "Hater" is why I never got that new camera I said I'd get 6 months ago. My works's not worth it.
I mean who cares about some guy doing shit with stupids puuppest in the middle of the night in a deranged radio station.
Humm, 'think aspirins might help?
uncle559 4 years ago
Little haters gonna get fired from our team this year J!! thanks for the words!!
littledsoundlab 4 years ago
I wish my hater would get out and get laid a bit more.
sm80808 4 years ago
this is a great video, mos def favorited. This is exactly what i go through with every aspect of my life, not just video making.lol
jtball1888 4 years ago
truce Jay.
I was trippin hard on a couple of your videos. I think you should just re-think the subjects you chose to make videos about. If you think it's going to raise a bit of controversy. Then chill.
75% of them are meaninful. But when ''that voice in your head'' tells you you shouldn't make that ONE VIDEO. you probably shouldn't.
Mister92503 4 years ago
not to discredit your opinion but just for the record: all the videos you hated were actually big successes :) but in general i'd always rather do something and learn from it than not do it at all.
illdoc1 4 years ago
Why do you have half a mustache?
Devilmatic 4 years ago
I think it's the post-production blowing ou