Name: never doubt yourself
Uploaded: 2025-11-28T17:51:33.000Z
Duration: 5 min 41 s
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I don't really have anything to say, but this is dop.

The topic of this video is self doubt and why you should never have any.

I was calling actually the other day with one of my good friends from the Czech Republic, and

we were like talking about life in general, and they asked me a really interesting question.

They were like, you know, I wonder what would have happened if you locked in like 2019, 2020, when you had the most amount of views, you know?

You know, back in the day, I used to doubt myself a lot with these videos.

Like, I would always, you know, that's the reason why I was always so inconsistent is because, like, even if I would like start a series of videos, I would like, do like two or three and then I just start like, doubting myself.

Or I think that my ideas aren't funny enough or refreshing enough, whatever that may mean.

Like, I always wanted to make super original content, right, with my edits.

I always wanted to, like, make my videos perfect, even though they never were.

Like, I'm not saying that my past videos are perfect, but

I always had that perfectionist mindset in my mind in the sense that, like, this video can still be better.

You know, this video, I should still work on that.

I should cut it better, I should edit it better.

I mean, there's got to be at least, like, I mean, I would say dozens of videos that didn't get uploaded on the channel just because I was doubting myself, just because I was telling myself, this is not good enough.

Even recently though, when I started this Raffy's vlogz series, I started to doubt how I should make them, if anybody's even interested in watching them and stuff like that.

And what I just found to be the cure for it, what I just found really helped me was inspiration.

So, for example, even though I already lived in Kyoto two years ago, recently I started to go to all of the, like, major Kyoto destinations, like all the temples and shrines, just to kind of get a feel of Kyoto, just to kind of, you know, realize where actually in the world I am currently.

A lot of times when I was, for example, living in Prague, everything looked so mundane to me, everything looked so normal to me that I never really knew how to make videos.

Outside in the Czech Republic, for example, in my own country, I didn't know how to make these same type of vlogs.

And it started to become like that with Japan as well.

Because as of right now, this is my third time living in Japan.

And a lot of these things, like, have become so normal to me.

Even though at first when I came here, I was, like, so extremely amazed.

It's also kind of, yeah, I guess that's my neighborhood now.

So I've been just doing that to try to get into that, you know, Kyoto mood.

Some people get in the Christmas mood, I get in the Kyoto mood.

So I'm really just trying to get inspired by this.

Also, though, I'm studying Japanese because I don't want to, like, get behind.

You know, I've done that mistake in the past.

So right now that I'm really proficient in Japanese, I just really want to keep at it and do that jlpt, you know, language exam.

I just want to take everything that this experience, living the past half year in Japan could have possibly given me.

I just want to, you know, harvest it all and put it into my future.

But if we get down to brass tacks, I guess what I'm really trying to say, I guess grab the opportunities that are presented to you, like, just go at it, you know, don't take opportunities for granted.

Like, I'm not saying that I regret anything.

It's just like now with perspective, for example, I know that there was a point where I was like, no, I don't want to go on a high school exchange to Japan.

I wouldn't be graduating at the same time as all of my other high school friends.

Like, that was a big deal for me, you know, So I was actually thinking about, yeah, let me just.

Let me just do a study abroad when I get to college.

You know, can you imagine what my life would have been like?

This YouTube channel probably would not exist.

I would have never met one of my best friends, you know, Jacob.

So many people that I would have never met.

So many things that I would have never learned.

But obviously at the moment when the opportunity presented itself to me, I didn't really see everything that is waiting for me behind it.

You just don't have that sort of perspective anytime in life.

Don't waste your opportunities, otherwise you're gonna fall off.