# Day 4: 👨‍🏫 Creating Valuable Educational Content Is a Skill  ## Metadata - Author: [[Ali Abdaal]] - Full Title: Day 4: 👨‍🏫 Creating Valuable Educational Content Is a Skill - Category: #articles - Summary: Why would I even make this email Crash Course about being a YouTuber? I’m still under 3m subscribers - there are people out there who are infinitely more successful on YouTube than I am. ## Highlights - Something which isn’t said enough is that **90% of your audience will be complete beginners** . Even when you’re targeting professionals (trust me, I’ve tried). And the issue with an expert teaching a beginner, is that they’re so out-of-touch and on a different level that they struggle to remember what the experience of the beginner is like. They just can’t connect well. CS Lewis called this the ‘Curse of Knowledge’. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hdkm77tvaebdtttsy4nxx7we)) - I never paint myself as someone who’s figured it all out and is spreading his wisdom (the Guru). I’m just some guy with a camera who’s trying something out to see if it works and sharing his journey with others (Guide). If you’re the latter, it’s hard to go wrong. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hdkm90s79fyg6qdqbgzp2cp2)) - What it boils down to is that we grow exponentially when we’re uncomfortable. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hdkmdtxynsa4gnf2r4xytf12))