Don't do this if you want a successful music career.

This is an amazingly informative video and also motivates me to start getting into my own YouTube channel again. :)

These are my favorite videos of yours. Your honesty is so refreshing and insightful. Thanks Andrew🙏🏻

I think I'll be that weirdo that experiments with music. I can't imagine becoming a one genre artist. It would be so infuriating. I love too many genres to be boxed in.

“The weirdo who’s always experimenting with music” is why you’re one of my very favorite channels, music or otherwise.

Good to hear you reflect and see your new approach. Such a journey it’s been following your channel, looking forward to the future!

Great video Andrew! A fun question I'll ask myself sometimes is "What can I do less of?" and then tag on "for my career" like you ask in this video. I find it helps a lot with focus since you let go of things that aren't the most helpful! Miss you!

man, i feel this 1000%. a major thing i fumbled with my channel was that I got cocky really fast and thought i was going to continue growing as fast as i was, and being able to make any type of content at my own rate and thinking everyone was gonna rock with me. I had to face the sad reality of this, but it also taught me a lot and excited for the future to come. Thank you for this video Andrew, great stuff!

Late to the party here but man, Andrew, this is a phenemonal video! Love your insight so much!

The choice to do something that would make you LESS successful to find deeper satisfaction in life is something that requires a lot of maturity - super cool to hear that thought. You've been a solid inspiration to me for several years - keep doing you

Thank you for all the care with which you have used your influence for good!

Love this message. Totally a different outlook on my part. I unfortunately don't have a music based channel, but I still make music on the side wanting to pursue a music career in the future- but the fine focus needed pulls me away from both music and my channel. It's a struggle

IMO the idea of "unified sound" with an artist is changing. It used to be based on genre, now I'd say it's a sonic signature of songwriting or production that transcends genre. I still think Andrew has a unified sound because of 1. His Voice and 2. His personal songwriting style. Genre is becoming less relevant in the wider music industry.

As someone who just exited that period of hyper focus in their music career, I really appreciate this video, Andrew. Maybe it’s the kind of thing where you need some long periods of focus and long periods of diffuse searching… just in the same way the creative process works, but at a larger scale. Thanks for making this!

I had to take a deep breath before watching this video. I've been recording music for nearly 20 years, recorded 15 albums, hundreds of songs, been on youtube since 2008, but performed in maybe only 10 gigs and made about $500 from my music in my entire career. Sometimes I feel like I've failed, but I remember that small handful of fans who really enjoy my work, and I keep in mind that recognition and praise are not why I create music- I do it mostly for my own mental health. I'm lucky to have a good day job lol. I really dig the wisdom and insight that you share in this video Andrew.

Literally everything said here is sooo true and relatable. I learnt a lot of new perspective and it also reinforced some things I was doing right. Andrew huang just woke up that day and decided to spit pure uncontaminated facts.

In my early life, I chose a practical career over music, but now that I'm stable, I want to fully devote myself to music. I'm learning as much as I can as quickly as I can and making music as much as possible. I don't know whaty life would be like if I'd chosen differently all those years ago, but I know going forward, I will pour myself into music and make it my life.

Yes!!!! The first tip is the one I live by. Don't spread yourself too thin by doing too many things. The harder you go at one thing, the better chance you'll have at becoming successful at it.

In the immortal words of Ron Swanson: "Never half-ass two things; whole-ass one thing." Great video and exactly something I'm dealing with right now. I started going to school full-time right as a great long term music opportunity landed in my lap and I'm coming up on a crossroads where this is desperately what I need to consider. I'm one of those people who tries to whole-ass several unrelated things so I'm ready for any opportunity...but that just makes me less prepared when any of those opportunities actually knocks on my door.

Andrew your diversity makes you… the advice is BE YOURSELF and do it for YOU Success is meaningless without cultivation Your message is something like Don’t be afraid to explore the possibilities Thanks for showing me this🙏🏽

This is one of the best music channel subjects I've seen in a long time. Every one talks about WHAT they do, no one seems to talk about how they approach it or even why they do it. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride with your brand.