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Hey there, I’m Clark Kegley, a pro drummer turned self-improvement advocate. Here on YouTube, I provide guidance to help you transform into your 2.0 version.

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[KornerHR]

it’s kinda crazy how nobody’s talking about Antozent, they are selling 150 self help books for the price of one

[cmothepeople]

Big Idea 1: Stop Waiting 0:14
Big Idea 2: Self Reliance 5:22
Big Idea 3: Forgiveness 9:36

[chrisblanc]

“Happiness comes from solving your problems, not avoiding them”
Best quote ever!!!

[rhetoricbytolyan]

I love the phrase: “Happiness comes from solving your problems, not avoiding them”.

[DeadLkeMe]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate he actually gets right to the point and not spend 3 min introducing himself followed by a 5 min sponsor and then followed by a 10 min explanation about why he read all these books and where he got them followed by another 3 min sponsor

[franco_ngl]

"What you resist persists."
"The best is the enemy of good"
"How you do anything is how you do everything"
"Forgive others and forgive yourself"

[ronwenthapelo]

Building wealth involves developing good habits like regularly putting money away in intervals for solid investments. Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future. Putting our time and effort in activities and investments that will yield a profitable return in the future is what we should be aiming for. Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it. "You're not going to remember those expensive shoes you bought ten years ago, but you will remember every single morning when you look at your bank account that extra 0 in there. I promise, that's going to be way more fun to look at everyday", I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life

[lisaostrowski]

"How you do anything, is how you do everything." That's a great quote....

[tylerdurden]

"Your ability to reach your standards actually comes through action, not just waiting and prepping on the side lines".

Love that.

[Olsza]

"How you do anything is how you do everything"
Great quote

[rainevalimaki]

This was so massively brilliant, thank you so much! Started crying out of gratefulness (see below why) when you and your friend talked about the courage to change your own life. I just changed mine in a profound way and haven’t been happier in years, or maybe ever.

[frankpalomino]

“Self improvement is half of it, self healing is the other half”. Hopefully the self healing movement takes off as much as self improvement did!

[wetokebitcoins]

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. - Alden Nowlan

[learnenglishbybangla]

"Happiness comes from solving your problems, not avoiding them" - I got the best learning from you.

[bruno]

My issue with self-improvement books is that the vast majority, pretty much all of them, could just be summed up in an article. In most cases, the authors just add unnecessary filler text and an absurd amount of redundant examples so they can make a book out of it. And then you end up wasting hours on end on something that could be communicated much more effectively in just a couple of pages.

[yusufvarzideh]

He always catches my attention literally RIGHT away and constantly holds my focus on the next word. So little fluff and only pure truth. Love the is guy! Dude your speaking ability is next level

[aweisshassan]

"HOLDING ONTO ANGER IS LIKE DRINKING POISON AND EXPECTING THE OTHER PERSON TO DIE."
This is one of the BEST quotes I have ever come across.

[WhiskATango]

Probably one of the best self help videos I’ve ever seen on YouTube or the internet. Very well done.

[thedokkodoka]

Getting to the point in ten seconds is a rare trait in YouTube videos nowadays.

Thx.

[kaitlynhuizar]

I honestly agree with this video. My parents pulled me and my sisters out of private school to homeschool us when I was in the 5th grade, and my siblings younger. For YEARS, we did nothing. I would spend my days playing video games on my laptop or Wii. Due to other environmental stressors, on top of failing at school, I became severely depressed.

Some years later, when I was almost a year or two behind on school, should have been in high school, I heard about dual enrollment at my local community college. My friend’s mom encouraged me to work on catching up and to do it.

I wanted to start my sophomore year, but was still too far behind. Made too many bad grades. But I continued to work. Work on understanding my courses. Work on making better grades. Work on doing what I’d say I’d do. And my junior year, I barely finished my courses, took the college entry exam, and passed with flying colors. I had to coordinate the meetings with advisors and get my parents to sign off on paperwork and I made it. Barely. I ended up with all the classes no one else wanted, but I took them in stride. Because the hard part wasn’t over.

I gained confidence in being 16 in a college classroom and earning better grades than half the class. I maintained a 4.0 GPA and earned 48 college credits. (12 of which thanks to free courses offered during the pandemic, high school class of 2020.) All while taking other high school classes, dance classes, participating in Girl Scouts, summer camp volunteerism, GS cookie season, Gold Award projects, and starting my first part time job. I became active in the homeschooling college credit communities and was determined to figure out how to graduate early.

I started attending university in the middle of the pandemic, in the middle of nowhere, but I kept pushing. I discovered my interests and career goals and pushed even harder. I completed 42 college credits my first year and summer there, while working 20+ hour weeks and started volunteering in research as I made the quick decision to change from counseling to neuroscience when I had one year left. And I maintained my 4.0 GPA.

My second year was filled with second jobs, club positions and meetings, honor societies, research clubs and volunteering, PhD interviews and acceptances and rejections, earning my first B in 4 years, academic conferences and symposiums and job interviews, etc. It was insane but I knew my end goals and I knew how to push it (though I don’t recommend going as ham as I did). But I did it. I graduated two years early at the age of 19, summa cum laude, and was offered an acceptance into a PhD program.

Sadly, when I applied to the one PhD program I got into, I was still in my discovery phase and thought maybe I’d want to join that line of research. But I realized I didn’t and needed to explore the field more. So, I rejected the offer and, the day of graduation, I interviewed and got offered a position at Johns Hopkins less than a week later.

But everyone I met on this journey for the past four years have assumed I’ve always been responsible. They didn’t know the depressed and undisciplined and ill-motivated and learned helpless child I was. But I saw a need to change and I did.

It took a lot of effort and sweat and blood and tears. But I did it. And I couldn’t have done it if I wasn’t willing to rely on myself to do it and to stop waiting for it. Going forward, I hope to continue to produce good fruit, however that may look. And maybe take a break every so often.