 What is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose in this video Me and Ali have sat down and answered a whole bunch of questions that you guys sent over to us on Instagram This is actually the second part of a two-part video The first part is up on Ali's channel so make sure you guys click and watch that after this is done Okay, next question from Mohammed underscores saw us. How did you find each other in reality? That was a good hat Yeah, I am actually No, Ali's been absolutely great with me today We went out for lunch with a couple of his friends and it's been a pleasure. Yeah, man I wanted to do collab with you for a while and true when we haven't been able to make this happen for quite some time We wanted to do a pre-covid. Yeah, and then covered happened then covered happened and then us only happened Yeah, like yeah, and I was like, oh, you're free now. I'm free this weekend. Do you want to come down? Yeah, we're just chilling. Yeah, I'm gonna get time. It's been great all that stuff question from Bonnello underscore m underscore Tips for someone who's camera shy, but wants to start a YouTube channel I feel like you're gonna say something nice and I'm gonna say something mean the meaning I'm gonna say something nice Every everyone thinks that their camera shy camera being camera shy is a natural state of affairs No one is born being able to look at a camera and talk to it and like rant at it If you want to start a YouTube channel But you think you're camera shy Recognize that this is a skill and like everything else in life is a skill that you can work on and get better at I hated talking to a camera for the first few months of being on YouTube I'm sure you did as well like this. It's it's not a thing you just get better at it And it is possible to make a successful YouTube channel without showing your face True. It's a hell of a lot harder to do with voice-overs. Yeah, and like be everyone's people like when Wendover Productions codes Versace CDP grade they don't show their faces But it's really really hard to get to that level where you're so pro where the content and the story and tells it Informational is so good that you don't need to show your face. That's true. It's so hard to do I wouldn't recommend it. I was gonna say something very similar to you I think that was great advice like everyone when they pick up a camera are camera shy and I'm camera shy till this day I still need a little bit of time to warm up to it So it is like you said recognize that it's a skill like anything else You can learn to speak more eloquently in front of a camera and go back to any of our earlier videos Like you will notice how differently we speak to a camera. Hi. My name is Nasser Karma I'm 22 years old and I want to start making YouTube videos. Hey YouTube, how's it going? I'm back for video number two on my channel video number three video number four. What's up guys karma medic here? Welcome back to another dose. So it's something that you get over with time same with vlogging in public practice practice practice Yeah, it's still a challenge. I'm sweating enough just doing this if this were in public. Oh god This is a fun question from a Bruno Wigelius. How is having multiple income streams impacted your lives as medical students? So for me, it's just enabled me to make purchases that I otherwise would have never done before Like for example yesterday, I bought this Apple watch series six. Oh, nice. I've still got a series four man. All right Yeah, you must be boring So like this literally came out a couple of days ago and I didn't even have to think that hard about it I was like, this is something that I think will be beneficial in my life. I could make some videos on it I want to get it and so I did whereas before like I would have never even considered getting an Apple watch It's not a necessity in my life It's not something that I need in order to be productive or anything like that So yeah, it's enabled me to make decisions like that The other cool thing is that so in in my case a lot of the purchases that I can make Are business expenses so cameras microphones lights laptop screen like almost every piece of tech I buy is as a business expense And when you have it as a business expense, you essentially don't pay tax on it like three times over and so you kind of get at half price I've got a video talking about this more in depth coming out at some point I think yeah having that business and having that business make money It's just like so helpful because like, you know, like you said if like a new iPad comes out I will just buy it no questions asked and that's you know, a really fortunate and privileged position to be in Which is what you get when you start a business and have multiple streams of income And you can get there by following my video about how to make money online three levels of LinkedIn the video description and up there Plug emoji plug emoji. All right We've got a question from Iqra Hussain who says do you ever have days where you just a CBA laugh emoji? I think I have parts of days where I just CBA Generally when I wake up in the morning I like we'll get out of bed because I'm already thinking about what the first thing I want to do is after breakfast And so I generally just start doing things that are on my to-do list I do have times where I CBA and then I'll just sit down and watch some youtube videos or like Go procrastinate and talk to my sister or whatever, but full days where I CBA. I think it's pretty rare for me Yeah, same for me Like I think when when you're a beginner to the productivity thing you have to really decouple What you feel like doing from what you're actually doing Because what you're going to feel like doing is just watching Netflix all day or something stupid like that And if you want to start a youtube channel, it'll be consistent and start a business with anything You need to use discipline to overcome that barrier between The thing I feel like doing is not the thing that I know I should be doing for me now I'm at the point where actually if I just do what I feel like doing at any given moment Things are probably going to be all right and it is something productive probably anyway Yeah, it probably is like occasionally I'll sit on the on the couch and just scroll through instagram completely unproductively or tiktok or tiktok In your case in your case. Yeah If you're working on something that you really enjoy like These youtube channels that we're working on then it doesn't really feel like work doesn't feel like a chore It doesn't feel like effort. It's something that I want to do anyway And yeah, maybe I'm not bothered at this specific time, but then I'll just tell myself Okay, fine. I'll take a break for an hour and then I will do it and then it gets done after that All right, we've got a cool question from linky h2z z or something like that who says how do I gain confidence? I'm third year and feeling like I know nothing can't diagnose and feeling insecure Okay, so I guess there's kind of two strands There's confidence generally and there's like domain specific confidence confidence specifically So in any field whether that's medicine or law or anything for me The only way I can see myself overcoming a weakness or not being confident in something is by practicing that exact thing That I'm not good at or researching how I can become better at it Especially in medical school the times when I've learned the most and grown the most is when I've been put in a really uncomfortable situation When I really didn't want to take that history or I really didn't want to practice this clinical skill But I was told to and I was like, okay, it's time to actually do this now That's when I learned the most and I think don't be scared of failure A lot I think a lot of people put too much emphasis on failure If I ever fail at something or if I do bad at something like that's completely okay I'm I'm fine with not being good at things. Everyone is not good at things And I think it's like what you take from that experience and how you move forward, which is important as opposed to the act of failing Everyone fails multiple times a day. It's completely fine. And I don't think we should put so much emphasis on it Yeah, absolutely There's a nice phrase that competence breeds confidence You can't be confident at like surgery unless you're competent at surgery And you shouldn't try and be confident in surgery unless you're competent at it So work on the skill first and over time you'll become more confident I think also there is a school of thought because like when when I was in school I wasn't very confident at all and I kind of read a lot of books about this and watched a lot of videos and stuff about How to become more confident Okay And I came across a book which was called like the wrongless approach It was written by this like magician hypnotist pickpocket kind of performer guy And he was talking about how to become more confident and doing bossy things like going up to someone like Stealing their watch without them noticing stuff like that that requires a large degree of confidence Let's put your hands away Require a large degree of confidence And he was saying that the thing that changed it for him Is that you realize that that there's no real difference between real confidence and fake confidence Instead of treating confidence as like this a sort of magical power that we have to acquire over time You can just choose one day to flip your mind into thinking that okay I'm a confident person and I'm going to pretend to act as a confident person would And no one else from the outside would be able to tell that you're faking confidence As opposed to you're actually confident And so certainly when I'm on camera, I certainly I I I hope that I look that I'm confident But I am faking it. I'm pretending to be I'm pretending to act like a confident person would and no one can tell the difference And that's the thing with like Generalized confidence versus specific confidence. I think specific confidence Domain specific confidence is built on a background of competence But general confidence is a skill that you can just choose It's like it's like a mindset that you can choose to embody if you want do you disagree I don't think I disagree I just think that's probably hard for a lot of people who aren't confident to sort of flip that switch I mean even for me like when I'm putting uncomfortable situations in a group of people who I don't know, for example Like I am naturally more nervous and my voice will crack more than it normally does And as much as I pretend that I am confident, it doesn't always work I think for me again, it just comes down to exposure But obviously there's so many different ways that people overcome these types of things Um, but for me exposure sort of triumph triumphs everything So we've got a question here from Akshai Singh 6253 and they ask how to grow your audience I think I think we think very similar things with this because I've heard you talk about this and I could not possibly agree more I think at the very beginning especially when I started making videos No one cares about who nasa is nobody even knows who nasa is The only thing people care about is that you're telling them something of value You're giving them some point that they can take away that they can write down that can help improve their life in some way shape or form And so all my beginning videos were trying to give out information trying to give value to the people who are watching And even though I wanted to do more vlog type content lifestyle type content I always told myself nobody cares right now because no one knows who I am No one knows about my personality what I do like what I don't like And so there wasn't really as much of a point making those videos Because why would somebody watch that about me if they don't know who I am first provide the value Gain your audience from that and then you can start to experiment in different streams Yeah, man value lead with value people don't care about you They care about the value you give to them and so the way to grow your audience is by just giving them loads and loads of value Doing it for free. I've got this like three pot formula. I'm gonna make a video about this It's like build your audience number one take notes provide value number two Do it for free once a week and three do it for two years If you can do that if you can actually do all those things create valuable content Put it out for free once a week and do it for two years You will have an audience you're basically guaranteed to do it It's just that no one who asked that question who like actually does the does all three of those things I completely I completely agree The biggest thing I think is people can't do it for two years. Like I just reached the point now I was looking at my analytics yesterday and For half the time my youtube channel has existed I have had nobody watching my videos like 50 to 100 people watching for half the time My channel has existed and then the second half is what you guys are used to and what you guys are seeing I guess So it takes a long time for people to find you people to become accustomed to you people to like you people to share your stuff And the difficulty is sticking through it for that long period of time And I feel like that's where most people fail if you do stick with it I genuinely think you're guaranteed to have an audience you're guaranteed to have people who care about you There's enough people who watch these videos enough people who share them and they have friends and they tell their friends Like it's bound to happen. Just given enough time Okay, so we've got a question from a zack highly who says do you have a 10 year plan? So a short answer to that is no, I don't have a 10 year plan. I don't even really have a five year plan I think uh barely have a one year plan. Yeah, no, exactly like Um, I think like the future is so uncertain like, you know For us like two years ago like a year ago We wouldn't like neither of us would have had any idea about the impact that our youtube channels would have on our lives And how kind of change things moving forward every everything changes so rapidly that to have any kind of plan It just seems to me to be a bit of a waste of time I get that some people say that it is useful to do the exercise anyway just because then you really figure out what what do you actually want and Try and imagine what you'll feel like when you get there and stuff So maybe there's value in it But at the moment I haven't really done the 10 year planning extensively I very much agree with what you said and I think like having goals is something that's obviously very important But I talked about this in one of the recent videos I posted about how I studied so long for six months for the step one exam And the last thing I said in that video was that I try and always focus on what's directly in front of me And I don't think too far ahead. I don't try and over complicate things because then it's just it's overwhelming And it's stressful the more I can focus on what's directly in front of me the better of a job I can do at that So I have goals that I want to achieve in life But they're sort of these vague big things that I'm going to eventually reach in the future If I just keep up doing what I'm doing What are the goals you want to achieve in life? Want to become a doctor okay first and foremost You know have a family like all the standard things. I don't really have anything like out there Yeah far enough kind of the same for me except I want to become a gymshark athlete True. You're on your way there. You're not wearing this t-shirt though You've got to wrap the brand Question from YNO Pilapil says best collab exclamation mark What do you think you both have in common that led to your success? One of the things that we have in common is that we're willing to put in the work Over long periods of time even if it isn't something that is easy Or something that's beneficial right now, but we know that it could be in the future I think where a lot of people might get bored or give up or lose faith We would be willing to push through that. Yeah, I think the consistency is definitely a big part of it I think also like the formula for success is sort of putting in a hard work But then multiplying it by unfair advantages certainly the unfair advantage that we both have is that we're both medics That is Immediately an unfair advantage because there are so many medical students medical applicants looking for medical content The other unfair advantage is that we're both a certain level of privileged whereby we could have just decided that You know, I want to start a youtube channel. It wasn't the case that I imagined for you we had to sort of work a Sort of a job in like a shop or something like some of my friends had to do during the summer to make ends meet that kind of thing We were like sufficiently privileged to be able to put in the graph for two years While not really getting much success and continue to kind of plug away at it So I think there are those unfair advantages Some people would say we're both guys we're both reasonably well spoken Like all of these things are complete complete accidents that we had nothing to do with that come together nicely to give There's a package of unfair advantages and then you just multiply that with hard work and consistency and stuff And then that's the formula and then sprinkle in some luck sprinkle in some luck exactly Yeah, that's such a huge part in it like right place right time. Yeah, especially with the videos doing well We're like going big exactly like there's no way to predict a certain video going big But it's like the end that there's a thing that Gary V says which is that it just takes one piece of content to change your life You just never know which one that's going to be that's a good quote And so, you know, I was plugging away videos It it took me like I don't know 70 videos to get to a few a few thousand subscribers You probably got a lot sooner took me a year and a bit before my first video took off Oh, okay. What was that video that took off? It was a medical school vlog final Oh, yeah It did it did I have no idea Some of my videos have changed my life You know the ones that that like have zillions of hours of research to go into them might not might do as well Your how to type fast video. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah like for the first few days It was on six out of ten on the analytics I was thinking. Oh, it's just a crappy video And then suddenly you just absolutely blew up I like how you never know How does this happen? You never know? dose of luck. But then just keep on doing what you're doing. The more videos you plug out, the luckier you get. All right, so we've got a question from Hott, who says podcast that you would recommend for young entrepreneurs. Oh, this is a good one. Seems like it's right up your alley. Right on my alley. Yeah. I'll be listening as well. This is a good question for me. Okay, I'd recommend the Indie Hackers podcast. This is a podcast where they interview independent creators who have set up internet businesses that are making money. Usually they talk about revenue figures as well, which I always like that, for example, this is the story of how this dude who's 16 years old from, I don't know, Mumbai made this app that's making him $2,000 a month. And that's like so interesting because he like really digs into it, like how'd you get started, how did it work, blah, blah. And it's just so inspiring hearing these stories. And you get some people who are like, you know, some dude in America who built an app that makes him $500,000 a month. And he does basically like half an hour of work a week for it. Like, it's absolutely next level. It's so cool. Indie Hackers? Indie Hackers podcast. There's another podcast that's really good called My First Million, which is run by The Hustle Newsletter. And that talks about, you know, how people made their first million, kind of how they got started, how long it took to get there, well, any tips they have along the way, you know, if they had to start again completely from scratch, how would they go about becoming a millionaire, assuming they couldn't use the network and stuff like that? So those two are really good, Indie Hackers and My First Million for aspiring young entrepreneurs. All right, we've got a question from underscore Airman, who says, what's the secret to a good life? Didn't think you were going to take that question. Secret to a good life? Balance. If I do too much of any one thing, then I don't feel fulfilled in my life, because I get bored quite quickly. And the more you can stimulate yourself by doing new experiences or getting involved in different things, the easier it's going to be to stay fulfilled. I like to do as many different things as I can. That keeps me happy. Yeah, I fully agree. I think having a full-time job is never going to be fun, because you're kind of stuck doing one thing for an extended period of time. I think variety is really good. One thing I've started to think about a lot recently is that the secret to a good life is to find the stuff that you like doing and figure out a way of continuing to do that stuff. Certainly for me, for YouTube, I like doing YouTube. There is no end game here. The end game is to continue being able to do YouTube, to keep it sustainable, to keep it fun, to keep it enjoyable. And sometimes people ask me that, oh, what's the next step? Are you going to go on TV? I'm like, no. Why the hell would I want to go on TV? YouTube is the absolute dream. And so if you can find something that you like doing and you can just figure out a way to keep on doing it, then I think that's the secret to a good life. All right, question from SMTAR121472 who says, is your life fulfilling? I think yes. Well, I know yes, because I mean, fairly similarly from what I said from the last video, because I try and keep it as varied as possible. And I have these non-negotiables in my life, which are things that make me happy. And I make sure that the things that make me happy are the things that I am doing on a consistent basis. And that way, I try and stay on top of my mental health and just doing things that I enjoy and just saying no to everything else. Like, if you don't feel like hanging out with people, you can just say no. And like, I think that's completely okay. Or if you don't feel like going on a night out or staying out very late, just stay no. Like you can do whatever you want. It's your time. It's your life. Don't feel obliged to make other people happy. But on board with that, I feel fulfilled as well. I think it's sort of a balance between, I think about it in terms of happiness and meaning, like happiness being am I enjoying what I'm currently doing and stuff. And meaning is am I being useful to others? And I think right now I've got a good setup where I've got a large chunk of happiness. And I also have a large chunk of meaning from hopefully being useful to others through these videos and stuff. So yeah, pretty fulfilling life. Alright, final question we've got from Kazianica who says how to get over disappointments. This is a lot easier said than done. But I try to always find some sort of learning point or some sort of learning thing I can take from failure or disappointment. I think as soon as it happens, it's easy to internalize and sort of blame yourself like, why did I do this? This is my fault. I could have done better. I could have done X, Y or Z. And I think it's fine to have those feelings. And in fact, it probably helps in the process of like overcoming the event. For me, time heals everything. I let time pass. And I like think about it. I talk it out with people. And I try and focus on what's one thing I can do that would help avoid this next time or help improve this for me next time. Yeah, I think it's broadly similar for me. Like I think disappointment comes from this mismatch between expectations and reality or hopes and reality. And so one thing that I always try and do is I try and keep my my expectations or my hopes that are outside of my control as low as possible. So for example, I know it's within my control to release two videos week. I know it's completely outside of my control how many views those videos get the initial like I can avoid avoid feelings of disappointment by not having an expectation for how many views something's going to get because it's completely outside of my control. Having said that, when you get a video that tanks on the analytics, you do feel a sense of ah, it does. Yeah. What is my life? Why is it turned out? Oh, God, such a waste man out of this video. Oh, my God. And then I think I and then I have to do all these mental gymnastics to I sort of feel Tim Ferriss and Gary Vee and all the people stoic people sort of screaming in my head being like, no, this is not how you should think, decouple your feeling from reality. It's fine. It's a learning experience. Look what you learned. It's outside of control. All of the all of these kind of mental gymnastics that I eventually have to do and after a while, I'm like, okay, what is it works? These mental gymnastics and changing your perspective or how you think about a situation really helps. It really does work. Emma, it's Hebs law. Axons that fire together wire together. So the more I was like a thing in your in your like, so the more you train for processes, the more they become actually ingrained into the plasticity of your brain and stuff. I find that the more the more I think in this way, the more I'm trained and prone to thinking in that way. And all right, guys, thank you for sending in so many questions. We've definitely had fun reading and answering them. If you guys enjoyed this video, don't forget to leave a like on it and also subscribe to both of our channels. You'll find links to that in the description down below. And yeah, hopefully we'll do this again. Yeah, that's some point in the future. Definitely. You'll come to London next time. I'll come to London next time. And yeah, we'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.