Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The 30 Hour Stalingrad Documentary Behind The Scenes video" video.
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Trying to do for Stalingrad what you did for Crusader was EXTREMELY ambitious, and the 100,000 who loved it are possibly the only 100,000 people in the world who care deeply enough to do it justice.
With 250k subscribers and 100k views, you are hopefully making enough money to hire an able assistant or two. I never learned how to do that until injuries forced me to direct others, rather than just handle everything, myself. Especially the editing stuff, which you probably think only you can do. I'm that way with my math videos. But your strength is your research and analysis. If I were you, I'd take a step back and try to strategize what things to delegate and how to go about it.
I'm a great one to talk, because I make shit up as I go along, and delegate mundane tasks on an ad hoc basis. But I get better at it as I go along. The toughest thing for me is the helper not reading my mind, i.e., when they f*** up, it's because I didn't make myself clear enough and/or anticipate the bits that they need explained. The beauty of it is when you find somebody who's actually competent and self-disciplined enough, they don't need everything spelled-out, and just do things on their own initiative.
I bet you could find one or five people out there who'd love to do the heavy lifting for you for free or nominal compensation, just to work with you and get a mention.
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