 Hey Critical Thinkers! So today I'm meeting you in a celebration mood because we achieved something and that is we reached 3,000 subscribers so I wanted to share this moment with you and also to talk about what's coming up next for Critical Thinkers. Before I continue the celebration I also wanted to say I love you 3,000 and that's a reference for those who watch Marvel movies. I think it's a cool moment to use that reference. Reaching 3,000 subscribers is a big and a small achievement at the same time. It depends on how you look at it. One thing I wanted to share is there's the fact that we tend to under-appreciate things and that's something that I've been thinking a lot about these days and that's something I shared if you haven't watched I made the video called I'm No Hero where I speak more about that you can check it somewhere in the links here. But the fact is that lately I noticed that some of the things that I achieved in my life I tend to under-valuate it and especially with YouTube because they have my main channel MyRashLightNsJourney which now is close to 150,000 subscribers. I got used to getting their thousands of views and sometimes millions of views and there's like a thousand subscribers every month and here we are in critical thinkers being at 3,000 and when you compare those two you can get that feeling of oh it's just 3,000 but then you think about 3,000 3,000 is a lot that's more than 300 Spartans who kick percious ass which is not really like a fully true story but you know still that's a good movie it's a fun movie. But what I really want to say is yeah 3,000 subscribers is a lot that's I these videos here in the channel they they're still so much small but sometimes they get a thousand views and when you imagine a thousand people watching your videos sharing your experience joining your your thought process that's really special that's like a lot pack them in in a in a studio who I mean pack them in in a room that's like you're gonna have a packed room but again that's how we are we are programmed to think like that we need to be superstars that we need to be the next rock star that unless you have a million subscribers that means you're no one and that's simply not true but but I have to face it and be honest that I have that same programming I guess by a society by by my own thinking but always thinking that there needs to be more but the more I look at it the more I realize how important it is to stop and to appreciate the small things and the appreciation is what really matters every view matters every connection every comment every interaction that's what matters and I feel the more I focus on every view the more I focus on every interaction I have the more I appreciate how amazing it is that we can connect up through videos that we can without knowing each other for across the whole globe we can share a thought process we can educate each other we can challenge each other that's truly amazing no matter if it's one view ten views or a million so even more so that's my one to honor this moment celebrate together with you then raise a toast raise a glass have a drink together with me as always to critical fingers and the journey we're having together now with every milestone and every celebration it is natural to stop and not only appreciate but also to ask what's next I've recognized that last year the 2020 it was a strange year for many people but but also it was an unusual year for me there was a lot of trying and experiments and a lot of exploration and I can't say that I reached a point where I'm extremely clear and this is like exactly what I want to do and this is exactly what I'm about but I'm getting there and there's some more clarity including the martial arts journey and including the critical thinkers and I want to let you know a little bit about that I want to continue on promoting critical thinking through this channel but there's a bit of a twist or improvement that I want to make here with help of the people I realized that I was focusing a bit too much on the critical side of the things let's say if I'm criticizing yoga I'm only criticizing yoga and I'm not really admitting that there's a good side to yoga and I understand why I do that that's because I really want to relay my message but at the same time I realized I'm not really encouraging people to have a complete or multiple perspective view towards a subject which I think critical thinking is all about that critical thinking is not just about seeing the downside of things but it's also about being able to understand both sides of the picture to be able to understand where you can be wrong and where the other side of the matter can be right too when you look at some of the statistics and you kind of just have a quick glimpse at the world it's clear that there's a lot of division that there's a lot of separation and how people perceive what's true and each side thinks that they're right and don't get me wrong I'm not saying that everyone is right I think that's a false way of looking at things but the thing is if you are not willing to admit that your perspective may be wrong if you're not willing to entertain that idea and consider where you may be wrong you cannot expect the other side to do the same so even if you're dead sure that you know your perspective is right that's already a bad way to look at it you have to look at also the other side and consider okay where they may be right why are they thinking the way they are and to also challenge your own perspective until we can do that we cannot expect again the other side to do that and we cannot really have a debate and we cannot evolve together so I feel we ourselves need to improve and the ability to take multiple perspectives to consider both sides of matter as much as everyone else and I want to drive the vision and the mission of this channel much more to that to a wholesome perspective to taking a critical look at both sides of the picture to coming to a more or less the conclusion which side makes more sense but always remembering that you still may be wrong and to always be open to be challenged and to be debunked or to be proven wrong so if you're interesting to promote that kind of critical thinking which looks at different perspectives then I invite you to continue to go for this journey together I also want to thank you for being on this journey already so far and it's been a great journey and I really appreciate you being there together with me let me know in the comments what you think about this improved future direction of critical thinkers also let me know if you tend to under appreciate things that you achieve in your life and if you tend to always think that there's a bigger next thing and you undervaluate the good stuff that is already happening in your life I'm curious to know as always so again thank you to each one of you and as always keep questioning