My Future is COOKED! HELP! 🆘 #LifeAdvice | Hey Tablo Ep. 40

Hey Tablo

In this episode of Hey Tablo, the host addresses a variety of community life advice questions ranging from procrastination to career burnout

Key takeaways

• Procrastination is often driven by an underlying fear of failure rather than simple laziness or lack of focus.
• To balance traveling with financial security, individuals can monetize their journeys through content creation like SubEX or YouTube vlogs.

Main topics

• Overcoming procrastination
• Travel vs. financial saving

Notable quotes

Failure is just a part of life.

Conclusion

The episode provides a reflective look at how embracing failure and di

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) Welcome to one of the most beloved traditions of Hey Tableau. Life advice! Hey Speaker 1 (0:09) Tableau. Speaker 2 (0:11) Whenever we post to our community section, our post section, do you guys want life advice? It's just comments go crazy. Like immediately there's like hundreds. Hopefully I can help a little bit, okay? I don't have the answers, but hopefully I'll help you get closer to one. I cannot escape from your song, Anime. Please help me. Speaker 2 (0:36) Common issue. A lot of people have this problem right now. If you don't know what this person's talking about, there's a song called Anime by Tablo featuring Bang Ye-dam, also known as Demorex. It was released recently because we had a song battle. Unfortunately, I lost that battle, and I'm no longer the leader of Epik High for six months. But you helped me feel better. Whoever commented this, you're awesome. I have big dreams that I want to achieve, but I keep getting stuck in cycles of procrastination. Specifically, I want to go to med school. but I'm always studying last minute for my exams and not seeking out extracurricular activities. I know that I'm procrastinating because there's some underlying fear I have of failure and trying to avoid that in my life. I really want to change and become better, but I feel like I either give myself too much grace or I'm too hard on myself. Okay, procrastination is a huge problem everyone deals with, right? I don't. Speaker 2 (1:49) Let me just get that out there. I don't, and I am grateful every day that I was born this way. Like I do not procrastinate. I will do things that I don't have to do for like months. I will just do them right now if I can, if I have time. The reason why I throw that out there is I feel like. I'm able to not procrastinate because I do not have a fear of failure. Like my relationship with the concept of failure is that shit, it can happen and shit happens, right? Like failure is just a part of life. Like it will happen most of the time, right? Like I'll try out for things and I'll get rejected for like 90 % of them. Right. And that's how I've always been. Like in high school, I tried out for so many different varsity teams. I didn't make a single varsity team all four years. I tried out every year for tennis. I tried out every year for like soccer. I didn't get, you know, I didn't get picked up for any of the teams. I was JV like senior year. OK, that's that's pathetic. But what I'm saying is I still kept at it because I was like, you know, it's. Yeah, but what if you don't make it? Most likely I won't. They can't have 100 people on that team, right? So some of us are going to get cut, and that might be me, right? The fact that this, you who left this comment, the fact that you have identified the cause of procrastination is something to be applauded. Most people don't know why they procrastinate. They just put words like lazy or whatever to it, and they can't figure it out, right? They say, oh, I'm distracted. I can't focus. But you said it perfectly. You have some underlying fear of failure that you're trying to avoid. And by not doing it, your brain is thinking that you can avoid that failure by simply not even trying. Right. By simply putting it off. But that's a failure in it on its own. That's like a failure in itself. Right. A failure to to move, a failure to like to act because this weird underlying fear of actually nothing. Right. I think if you embrace that failure as a part of your day to day. Speaker 2 (4:25) It's much easier to to to try things and to to to to do things go to our hey tableau YouTube home Click on home and you see like go to video right you see all the videos right scroll down you'll see oh It's like a wide range of views some videos will have like 500k views some video like one or two videos have like a million views and then some have like Like 100,000 views. It's all over the place, right? It's never like hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit episodes. It's always like we have a great episode. The next week, for some reason, we don't get that many views. It fluctuates a lot. And if every time this happened, like I was like, yo, we got 500K views last time and now we have 200K views. That means like, you know, we failed. Then we can't make the next episode. Right. So look at Hey Tablo. We are just dropping episodes every week regardless. And we accept that usually we won't get that many views sometimes. Most of the time, we won't have a hit episode. And only some of the time we will. So we just keep trying for that some of the time. And, you know, I'm still doing this after nine months. So like, stop having that fear. Okay. Does that help? Hopefully. Next one. What do you think is more valuable? Working your ass off for years and saving money for buying a house and retirement? Or saving just enough? To travel the world when you're still young. So putting a little to the side and traveling. Is there a way to find a balance in both? Because I want to see the world in my youth and not wait for it till I'm too old. And at the same time, I'm scared of the fact that doing that might not leave me with enough savings for a secure life later on. Okay, there's multiple ways of making your... you know, trip around the world, financially rewarding. We're living in the year 2026 now, right? If you just make content out of your traveling the world, and by content, I mean, it can be, you know, you can shoot like shorts or reels. You can shoot like long form YouTube vlogs, but you can also like just journal and turn that into a book. You can get a sub stack, you know, just post short essays about the places you visit or the people you met, the experiences you had. There's just so many different ways of I don't really like using this word, but since you're talking about money, monetizing your travel. And that way, not only are you able to like fund some of this traveling the world because it costs a lot. Right. Even if you're just with a backpack, it still costs money. You might run into like medical issues like I had in London. That's going to fucking cost you thousands of dollars. But what I'm saying is there's ways to make it profitable. And it's not just all bad because like you're also providing. something for audiences you're providing something for others right they'll see your journal or they're they'll see read your book they'll see your content and maybe they're planning a trip there and and they'll they'll be able to avoid something dangerous because of you so you're providing something good um for other people and also benefiting so that way you don't have to think of it like as this binary thing as saving for the future And living for the present are two, like, totally disjointed things. Because now in this modern age, it can be the same thing, right? You can save for the future by traveling and enjoying the present, but doing it in a way that benefits others. And I didn't have that back in the day. So when I had the option, like, after, you know, college, like, a lot of my friends decided to travel the world, you know? It was a thing at the time. And I could not because I needed, you know, I was, you know, I needed money. And there was no way to really turn anything into content like you can now. Like we didn't have, we had the internet, but like we didn't have social media. No one would care like if I was posting on YouTube. And YouTube was barely like, you know, YouTube was just starting. So like, yeah, that would be my advice. But if you're like hell-bent on like just traveling the world and not keeping record of any of it or showing anyone, maybe, I don't know, maybe change your thinking a little bit. I'm not recommending that. I don't want everyone in the world to become an influencer. I don't want everyone in the world to create content because who's going to consume the content then, right? If everyone becomes a singer, who's going to listen, right? But if you're worried, that living for the present is going to damage your future, then that's the recommendation I would give. Ooh, another person who supported Team Tableau. I'm sorry I failed you. This person says, feels like I'm stuck in an anime. Seriously, I do. I feel stuck. At a point where I always ask myself a lot of what-if questions. I'm in my 30s. I chose a different path in my life due to unforeseen reasons a few years ago. These days, I've always wondered, what if I stayed on the same path? Would my life be better, or will it be the same old boring life? Or will it be worse? It feels too late to return to my previous path, and seeing people around me who seem to be progressing well with their life career. And here I am, still figuring out life and my own career. These are the thoughts that are keeping me awake these days. Will I be okay? Sometimes it makes me anxious to think of the future. It makes everyone anxious to think of the future, to be honest. Dude, when I was like, I don't know, 16? Speaker 2 (11:08) Thinking of the future was super anxiety-inducing because, you know, I was like a junior in high school. I knew that, you know, a huge decision would need to be made about my future and that my future is not only resting on my decisions but on someone else's decisions, like applying to college, you know, having to take SATs, like... doing all these different things. And then ultimately for somebody at a desk to just see my name on a piece of paper and decide for me if my future was going there or going here or not going anywhere, right? My daughter's 16, so sometimes she'll just come to me and she'll be like, Daddy, can you give me a hug? And I give her a hug, and sometimes she cries because the future at that age is just... really troubling sometimes and just scary. When I was 26, I was dealing with the fact that I was in my, you know, heading to my, you know, late 20s and that I would soon be 30. Like in four years, I'm going to be 30, right? And people around me telling me that, oh, yo,