Q&A with Grey #2 (One Million Subscribers)

CGP Grey

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🗓️ 20 November 2013

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, internet. So I think this is the part where I'm supposed to have a dramatic opening.
0:05.0	Perhaps the 2001 theme song playing in the background as the number 1 million slowly fades into view, but obviously...
0:10.0	That's not happening. Don't get me wrong. I'm lucky that so many people want to watch my videos.
0:15.0	It's just that 1 million subscribers is a number too large to be comprehended with a monkey-derived brain.
0:21.6	To try and have it feel more real, I've taken some YouTube data and made a spreadsheet.
0:25.6	You can select your country and enter the population of the city where you live,
0:28.6	and it will spit out the statistically approximate number of people in that city who are subscribed to this channel.
0:33.6	Doing that for London shows there are about 9,000 people in the city who are subscribers. Now, 9,000 is obviously a smaller number than 1 million, but it's a number with constraints and is small enough to be partially understood while still large enough to be very intimidating.
0:48.3	If you're interested, you can click here to play around with the spreadsheet.
0:51.3	Now, as promised, on to the Q&A.
0:53.3	What do you like most about being a YouTuber?
0:55.6	The best thing about this strange new world is the people I've met, which is quite the
0:59.0	statement for a social recluse to make.
1:01.1	All these guys are amazing to talk with and I feel very lucky that I get the occasional
1:05.0	chance to do so.
1:06.2	What's the biggest change of opinion you've had? That's a little too personal to share with say one million people but I do want to talk about the importance of being able to
1:13.5	change your mind in general. The trick is to keep your identity separate from
1:16.9	your opinions. They are objects in a box you carry with you and should be
1:20.7	easily replaceable if it turns out they're no good. If you think that the opinions
1:24.5	in the box are who you are then you'll cling to them despite any evidence to the contrary.
1:28.3	Bottom line, if you want to always be right, you need to always be prepared to change your mind.
1:32.3	Were you trying to create a unique aesthetic by using stick figures?
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