My Former Daily System
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the creator discusses their journey with a personal rating system for classifying the quality of their days. Initially, they used a simple scale but expanded it over time, leading to various projects and YouTube videos detailing their best and worst days. However, they encountered issues such as increased sensitivity to minor annoyances and dwelling on negative experiences. After receiving negative feedback and realizing the system's impact on their well-being, they decided to switch to a letter grading system and share their experiences to encourage a healthier approach to appreciating life's moments.
Takeaways
- 📊 The creator used a scale to rate the quality of their days, which evolved from a simple to a complex system over time.
- 🎯 Initially, the scale was a six-point system, but it expanded to a 10-point and eventually a 20-point scale with color coding.
- 🗓️ The creator ranked their days from best to worst each month and reflected on the best and worst days of each year.
- 🤔 The detailed rating system led to increased self-awareness but also caused the creator to become overly focused on minor issues.
- 👵 A piece of advice from the creator's grandmother highlighted the value of not letting small things ruin the entire day.
- 📉 The creator faced negative feedback and mockery from others due to the depth and personal nature of their day descriptions.
- 🔄 In response to the negative experiences, the creator made modifications to their rating system, simplifying it to a letter grade.
- 💡 The creator introduced the 'Golden Award' system as a positive counterpart to the 'Rotten Award' system, focusing on good qualities of days.
- 🌟 The video concludes with a message encouraging viewers to appreciate good moments and not dwell on minor annoyances or past unhappiness.
- 🎥 The creator mentioned a planned special video for their 18th birthday, which they are currently taking a break from scripting.
Q & A
What was the initial purpose of creating a scale to classify the quality of days?
-The initial purpose was to have a system to look back at what the best and worst days were from every year in the speaker's life.
How did the speaker's rating system evolve over time?
-The system evolved from a simple scale to a more complex one with additional ratings and color codes, eventually leading to the creation of projects based on the quality of days.
What influenced the speaker to change to a five-point scale for rating days?
-The influence came from watching people review episodes of SpongeBob and giving ratings to the episodes, particularly from the YouTuber py Guy Rules.
Why did the speaker decide to change the mindset involving the rating system?
-The speaker realized that the system and the projects created from it were causing several problems and affecting their mental well-being.
What was the speaker's approach to rating the best and worst days of each month?
-The speaker used a color-coded scale to rank all days from best to worst and later expanded it to a 10-point and then a 20-point scale, with ratings based on enjoyment and duration for good days, and the degree of upset for bad days.
How did the speaker's online friend contribute to the rating system?
-The online friend made public lists of their top 10 best and worst days of their life, which inspired the speaker to post similar lists for their own best and worst days.
What were the problems the speaker encountered due to the rating system?
-The problems included becoming more easily affected and sensitized to minor nuisances, dwelling on bad days, and over-emphasizing negative aspects, which led to negative feedback from others.
How did the speaker's grandmother's advice influence their perspective on bad days?
-The grandmother's advice, comparing a bad day to having $10 stolen from a bank account with $86,400, helped the speaker realize the relative insignificance of minor issues and to not let them ruin the entire day.
What changes did the speaker make to their rating system after realizing its negative impact?
-The speaker changed the ratings to a letter grade, removed adjectives, and made descriptions shorter and less personal to address the issues they faced.
What is the 'Golden Award System' mentioned in the script?
-The 'Golden Award System' is a reversal of the 'Rotten Award System' where the speaker identifies the best qualities of good days from each year in their life.
What lesson did the speaker learn about enjoying the present moment?
-The speaker learned not to let the rating system interfere with fully enjoying good days and to not worry about maintaining a high rating, as it could lead to missing out on the present moment.
Outlines
📊 The Evolution of a Personal Day Rating System
The speaker, 32584, discusses their journey with a personal day rating system. Initially, they used a simple scale to categorize the quality of their days, which over time became more complex with additional ratings. This system influenced their projects, leading to a detailed analysis of their best and worst days annually. They were inspired by YouTubers reviewing SpongeBob episodes and created a chart ranking their days from best to worst. Despite the initial enthusiasm, they encountered problems with this system, leading to a decision to change their approach on December 9th, 2019, by simplifying the scale to a five-point system. They also reflect on how this system affected their mindset and behavior, causing them to be overly focused on the negative aspects of their days.
🌈 Expanding and Refining the Day Rating Scale
In this section, the speaker elaborates on their continuous expansion of the day rating scale, eventually reaching a 20-point system without color coding. They shared this system with an online friend and together they edited the ratings for their best and worst days. The speaker also began to reflect on their best and worst days from each month, creating a 'remix' and a YouTube video summarizing these days from 2013 to 2021. They discuss the realization that their detailed and negative descriptions of bad days led to negative feedback and even hateful comments, prompting them to modify their approach by making descriptions shorter and less personal.
🌟 Learning from the Past and Moving Forward
The speaker concludes by discussing the issues they faced with their rating system, such as focusing too much on the day's rating and aiming for perfection, which detracted from their enjoyment. They learned a valuable lesson about not letting minor incidents ruin their day, inspired by their grandmother's analogy of seconds in a day. They transitioned to a letter grading system for their best and worst days, removing adjectives to simplify and reduce the focus on negative aspects. The speaker emphasizes the importance of sharing happy memories healthily and not dwelling on the past, suggesting a 'Golden Award' system as a positive alternative to the 'Rotten Awards'. They express a desire to move past their obsession with the rating system and to appreciate each moment without undue focus on minor issues or past unhappiness.
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Keywords
💡Self-awareness
💡Rating Scale
💡YouTuber
💡Top 10 Lists
💡Behavioral Issues
💡Color-Coded
💡Perfectionism
💡Rotten Awards
💡Golden Award System
💡Letter Grading
💡Unhealthy Obsession
Highlights
Introduction of a personal scale for classifying the quality of days.
Evolution of the scale from a simple to a complex system over time.
Influence of watching SpongeBob episode reviews and YouTuber py Guy Rules on the rating system.
Creation of a chart ranking days from best to worst in November 2019.
Decision to use a five-point scale for rating days starting December 9th, 2019.
Experimentation with a six-point scale and color coding for ratings.
Concept of creating YouTube videos discussing the best and worst days.
Expansion of the rating system to a 10-point scale in May 2021.
Inclusion of a 20-point scale and removal of color coding in July 2021.
Reflection on the impact of the rating system on mental health and well-being.
Realization of the system's negative effects and decision to change the mindset.
Adoption of a letter grading system to replace the numerical ratings.
Introduction of the Golden award system as a positive counterpart to the rotten Awards.
Advice on appreciating good moments and not focusing on small nuisances or unhappy memories.
Mention of an upcoming special overview video and a break from writing the script.
Transcripts
[Music]
hello everyone it's
32584 and in this video I'm going to
talk about something I used to use all
the time not long
ago I have always been aware of how
everyone has good days and bad days so I
thought it would be a good idea to make
a scale used for classifying the quality
of all my days and looking back at what
my best and my worst days were from from
every year in my
life over time the scale I was using
kept increasing in
size I progressively added more ratings
to the scale and started making projects
based on the quality of my days in the
past it turned out to be one of my
greatest
interests eventually I came to realize
that the system I was using for my days
and the projects I was creating
involving my days have caused me to run
into several problems
my mind began developing an awareness of
these problems as I was becoming more
self-aware as a result I decided that I
should change my mindset involving the
system that I created on December 9th
2019 I developed the idea to make a
five-point scale for rating all my days
in November 2019 and to rank all my days
of the month from best to
worst I believe what influenced me to do
this was how in 2019 I really enjoyed
watching people People review episodes
of SpongeBob and giving ratings to the
episodes and the YouTuber py Guy Rules
influenc me the
most that evening or the next evening I
made a chart on the notes app of my iPad
that ranked all my days in November
20119 from best to worst and I ended up
using a Sixpoint scale with the color
code for each
rating after I did that I thought about
doing a YouTube video where I talk about
all my days from worst to best of that
month
but I eventually scrapped
it but I decided to do the same chart on
my notes for for December 2019 when that
month ended although the chart is
incomplete around the same time I tried
to think about what my top 10 best and
worst days in 2019 were since I can
memorize dates from the
past in 2020 I was using the Sixpoint
rating system in my head throughout the
year and October 2020 I took the
information about the days that I
remembered and I made a chart of my best
and worst days of 2019 and 2020 and the
notes on my
phone I also imagined in my head what it
would be like to do other things to
contribute to this idea in 2021 I began
to message a friend from the internet on
a website known as the top 10s I noticed
that he can remember dates from his past
like me and he made two different lists
that that he publicly posted on that
website one list had the top 10 best and
the other one had the top 10 worst days
of his life once I saw what he did in
April of that year I decided to post a
list of my best days of 2020 and a list
of my worst days of 2020 with a
description of why the days were good or
bad and then I showed him as the year
progressed I was going further and
further back with my favorite and least
favorite days list and I ended up
getting as far back as 2010 the
following year although I had to guess
most of the dates on that
list over time I also made other types
of projects in my notes and on YouTube
videos involving my best and worst dates
including three top 10 lists on both the
best and worst side that I uploaded to
YouTube which were the years 2018 2019
and 2022 my online friend decided to do
the same list on the top 10 that I was
doing throughout
2021 my favorite day of every year was
usually a vacation day and was in the
month of August most of the
time as for my worst days the theme
changed throughout the years I had to
guess the dates from 2011 and before and
I only know of the stories at all from
2009 and before because I heard someone
mention those stories to me but I still
found a bad day from every year in my
life my worst day of 2005 to 2007 had to
do with me getting hurt or being in
pain my worst days of the years from
2008 to 2017 were because of my
behavioral issues with all of them
taking place in school aside from the
days from 2008 and
2015 as for my worst days from the years
2018 to
2022 all of them were the worst because
I was very upset about something that
someone said to me or about a thought I
had while I was at
home later in 201 21 I convinced another
friend online to make the same
contributions as I was and he did so in
2021 I also expanded the rating scale
multiple times and around May 2021 I
extended it to a 10-point colorcoded
scale one day I used my planner for the
year to shade in some of the days on the
calendar with whatever color describe
the quality of my day for my days that
were good and went on the 6 to 10 range
I combined the amount of enjoyment I
experienced with how long the enjoyment
lasted to find out my rating on the
contrary when my day was not good I'd
see where on the scale for the 1 to five
range my day fell into by combining the
degree of how much something made me
upset angry or anxious with how long the
problem
lasted in July I expanded the scale to a
20 point scale and took out the color C
coding all together and I showed my
online friend after I showed him the
rating scale we started editing the
ratings to the end of our descriptions
of our best and worst days list on the
top
10 eventually I already rated enough
days where I could give ratings to my
days by comparing them to others rather
than using my original
criteria in November 2021 I doubled ring
scale
again this time I added r ings with
numbers ending in 05 in between each
former one and I came up with a new
adjective for each new rating I also
started reflecting on my best and worst
days from every month of the year and
putting them on a remix around this time
with a brief description and a rating
for the best and worst day of each
month I eventually did this on a YouTube
video in February 2022 with all the
months of every year from 2013 to
2021 in January
2022 my two internet friends and I
started giving ratings using the
adjectives that the number corresponds
with for every day of the month whenever
a month would end by sharing it in a
message gradually I realized that the
system I used for rating days caused
some difficulties for me when I looked
back at my bad days gave ratings for
them and plotted them on a worse days
list I happened to start looking for new
bad days to have as a result I likely
became more easily affected and
sensitized to minor nuisances that
bothered me as well as dwelling on them
to make the past the present day I am
reviewing much worse than it needed to
be when my paternal grandmother could
see I was being like that she told me
that there are
86,400 seconds in the day so therefore
letting something little ruin your day
is like having someone stealing $10 out
of your bank account
when you have $86,400
total and throwing away the rest of the
money I thought that was a good
moral when I made my least favorite days
list I gave excessive depth to my
descriptions I will describe every minor
detail about my bad days which made me
seem overly negative and sharing
personal things I also came to realize
that my long descriptions were probably
exhausting for many people to read when
users of the top 10s viewed my worst
days list some of them started to mock
me for it and I even got a few comments
that were filled with
hatred in September
2022 I got a hateful comment with
profanity on two different days on the
top 10 because of my worst days
list the comments hurt my feelings and
caused me to be ashamed of myself for
making those lists and
projects on the former day the hateful
comment I got was on a a post where I
took 15 common negative qualities in my
bad days and rate each quality from 1 to
10 how present each one was for each day
and then adding up the score for every
bad day of the year to see what my worst
days were
objectively I got this idea after I
started messaging one of the friends a
few months before that about which
single day had the ultimate example of
each one from every year in my life
and I called them rotten
Awards I already felt like the post I
made was a silly idea and that angry
comment really made me feel that way and
I even deleted the post
afterwards I recently started making
modifications to my worst days list by
making my descriptions much shorter and
less personal because I noticed the
lists would have at least been better if
I had done those list that way from the
beginning and I think I made the right
decision when it comes to raying and
ranking my best days I noticed to have a
few other
issues I realized that in
2022 how when I was having an enjoyable
day my mind was continually thinking
about how I was going to rate the day
when it was
over I may not have enjoyed myself to
the full extent that I would have
without the ring system I
used when I realized that I tried to
wait until the end to think about my
ring for those
days I also noticed that I was aiming
too hard for Perfection when I was
having a very good day as a result I
worried that something unpleasant would
happen on the same day I had fun doing
something and my rating of the day would
get
lowered I learned a lesson about how I
should not let everything Brew My Day on
May 11th
2023 when I had an excellent day since I
went to the yearly Starlight formal at
my school school that night but I had a
rough moment that night
afterward that also caused me to be
aware of how it took little effort for
something to bring my day to the bottom
of the scale but considerably more
effort to bring a day to the top so
nowadays I'm trying to look at things
more positively I decided to keep my
descriptions on my favorite days list
the same but I changed the ratings to a
letter grade and took out the adjective
to describe the day on both them my best
and worst days list since I was aware of
the problems I had when I was doing it
the original
way here's what my original ratings
convert to on the newer letter grading
system overall I think it's good to
share happy memories but like I was
saying the way I was doing it became
unhealthy for me I also came up with a
reversal of the rotten award system I
just talked about which I called the
Golden award system for that one I took
15 common qualities of good days that I
have and looked into what day from each
year in my life had the ultimate example
of each good
quality I still think this would
actually be a good thing to do it shows
appreciation and an optimistic view
while I my fond memories in a healthier
manner making projects related to my
best and worst days of every year was
something I began doing because it
combined my interest in talking about
stories in the past but giving rankings
and ratings to things to describe the
quality having a friend I discovered who
liked talking about his past days in the
same manner was a major part of why I
became passionate about taking part in
it when I began to use the rating system
and creating charts involving the
quality in my days from the past I did
not know as much about myself as I do
today so I did not realize that it was
was unhealthy for me to go as far as I
have gone with systematic scale I was
using now that I'm starting to move past
my obsession with using all the days
that I had with this tool the
difficulties it has been causing are
progressively coming to an
end I may still look at my ratings for
new days sometimes by the force of my
habit for some time longer but I will
still try to make
progress I like everyone should
appreciate every good moment for how it
is and try not to stay focused on small
nuisances or any unhappy memories that
happened in the past there you go I hope
you enjoyed this video one last thing I
would like to say is that I mentioned on
my 18th birthday video that I was going
to do a special overview video I thought
I'd have it uploaded by now but I
decided to take a break from writing the
script I'm not exactly sure when I'm
going to go back to working on it though
but again I hope you all like this video
and learned from it goodbye
[Music]
everyone
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