Name: 英國絡腮鬍大叔教你在 2025 年停止消費，開始創造改變命運【中文字幕】
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If this video has shown up on your feed today, it might be God telling you that it's time for you to start creating.

So I want to share a story from about four years ago.

I'm at work, working a shift as a Domino's pizza delivery driver, and it was a day shift so it's very quiet and there are no orders on screen.

I'm at the back, making pizza boxes on my own, because that's what I had to do at the time, and I'm staring at the white tiles, thinking, this is so meaningless and unfulfilling, and I just had the overwhelming sense that it doesn't matter what I'm doing, anybody could be doing this.

I'd had this same thought every day for probably the last three months.

So I was trying to figure out what's the problem here.

And I realized that the job wasn't the problem, because I'm actually being quite productive, I'm delivering people food that they really enjoy, so that's fine.

The problem was, this is somebody else's purpose, so this is my boss, and I got a lot of respect for the boss of Domino's at the time, and I'm not creating anything of my own.

And the thing where you get resistance is because there are a lot of hours that I'm not creating.

And I realized that while I'm here, I'm actually being productive, but it's the thought that outside of this job, I'm not creating anything of value.

And the problem was consumption, constantly consuming.

So that's consuming food, consuming information, you can be reading books feeling like it's productive, but you're still consuming, you're not producing anything.

And then the worst one of all is scrolling on social media, consuming media.

So you might be able to relate to this, the unfulfilling, kind of soul-destroying feeling that you're not adding anything to the world.

So after realizing this, I figured out, oh, it's the consumption, I need to start producing something.

So then I made a massive mistake that cost me probably another year, which was I consumed more thinking I was producing something.

So I thought if I'm going to produce something of value, I need to know more, I need to get more information.

So I then vowed to read 100 books, not thinking that's consumption.

I thought that was a productive activity.

If you take anything from it, you're ready now.

Whatever you need to produce, you're ready now.

It might not be as high quality as what you see other people doing, but you don't need to consume more.

So it took me a couple of years to realize this, but in 2023, actually in December of 2022, I decided I'm not going to consume anything else or because habits are quite ingrained, I'm going to try my best not to consume and all I'm going to do is produce something of value every day.

I started producing content and I did that.

I've done that every day since in one form or another.

It solved that problem of the unfulfillment.

And since then, I've gained some success.

I've got about 300,000 followers on a TikTok account and I get comments all the time, people encouraging me and it's very positive comments.

Just recently, I got 100,000 views on one of my YouTube videos and the comments are very beneficial and that you've helped me and I'm having a positive impact on the world.

So that has come about from me creating instead of consuming.

I could have just scrolled, kept watching stuff on TikTok on YouTube because I like consuming that type of content.

But I've produced something and it's had a positive impact.

And then another positive benefit is I've made money from it.

Now, this isn't the reason why you're going to want to do it.

But often it can be that you receive value to the degree that you add value to the world.

That's why people that run businesses make more money than employees because they're adding more value sometimes.

And I've made more money in the last couple of months than I ever have.

And that's down to creating rather than consumption.

I've done this every day for over a year.

And it's only recently that I'm kind of seeing the fruits of my labor.

So the point is you might gain success, but that's not why you do it.

You do it because you were created in the image of God and we are designed to be creators, not consumers.

But inevitably, if you plant enough seeds, trees will start to grow.

If you create something, value is going to come back to you.

But one very beneficial reason why you want to do this is because you enter a positive feedback loop.

You create something, you put it out in the world, and people critique it.

And then you can gain some knowledge from that and implement an improvement.

And then you get better, and then you help people, and then you just serve the world in a better way.

And if you do that long enough, it compounds, and then you become very highly skilled.

And then it's inevitable that you are going to help people and receive some sort of reward for that.

When you're scrolling on TikTok, you know you come again, like you find a funny meme, and you do that like...

That is a dopamine hit that is going to sustain you for all of two seconds until you scroll to the next thing.

And you know while you're doing it that that's not what you're here for.

Come to this earth to scroll on TikTok at cat videos.

You can shift from being a consumer to being a producer, and it's going to bring fulfillment, purpose, and you're learning every iteration, every time you post something or create something.

My journey since realizing this, I've created physical things.

So it's going to bring fulfillment, purpose, and you're of service to others.

So you might be thinking, well, I don't know what to create.

You want to create whatever it is you're consuming already.

So if you're consuming content on surfing, then create content on surfing.

Wherever you are, you might not be near the beach like I am, so you can't go surfing and record yourself, but you can chop up videos of your favorite surfer.

I think it's big wave surfing season somewhere.

So chop up them videos, do a voiceover, review each run or whatever it is.

There's always a entry point that you can start at.

And there'll be a lot of resistance to this because consuming is easy.

It's a passive activity and you get rewarded instantly.

Producing takes a lot of thought and a lot of effort and you might not get the feedback you're expecting.

So there's resistance to that and that's why it's good.

Like avoiding the palatable foods or going to the gym, whatever it is.

If you don't know what to produce, produce what you're already consuming.

So I'll just share a couple of Bible verses.

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英國絡腮鬍大叔教你在 2025 年停止消費，開始創造改變命運【中文字幕】

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