If you've come this far with me, I want to say thank you and congratulations, you are part of a true elite. Because, you know, he actually gives us the statistics of how many people engage in a course how many minutes they watch how deep into the course they go. So if you're here, you are in a very elite crew. So I want to congratulate you on that. But I also want to challenge you. To be great with the media takes a lot more than just sitting back and watching video or reading books.
You constantly have to speak, create, whether you like to write, speak on audio, podcast, create videos, it requires taking something from inside you in putting it out there and experimenting. Now I have had what I think is a fun, interesting career and made a nice living and enjoyed myself through all the different media activities I've been hosting. Dozens of talk radio shows, TV shows, podcast writing columns, books. I've done pretty much everything other than trying to make feature movies. But as you heard me mentioned earlier, I haven't succeeded at most of those things. In fact, I've failed it many of those things.
But the thing I have going for me and I hope that you have going for you, is the willingness to keep trying, keep experiment, see what works. One of the things I found, and I think you'll find too, is that you can see somebody doing something and they're wildly successful anyone better than they are, I can do that. I'm as good as they are. I can do that. And you do it. Nothing.
Crickets, no views, no pick up from mainstream media, no sales, no nothing. And you could try something else. And that might not work but you keep trying and keep building and keep honing yourself skills, you will have some successes. Now we can't all be as successful as Oprah Winfrey or whoever the most successful talk show host commentator news anchor in your country is. But we can all learn to communicate, learn from our failures. also figure out what works for what do we like doing.
Ai, for example, as you figured out by now, I don't particularly enjoy doing lots of edits and post production. So on YouTube, when I looked at the people who have the most success, they had that thing where it's every two seconds like this, and it's brought back and there's constant variation. And a lot of people who go on YouTube like that, it's quick, it's catchy. That what I like to do, not what I do, I've found a medium that really works for me, right here on Udemy. Because people who come here want in depth substance. They want detail, they want to go deeper.
This works for me. So I actually have a huge, huge audience here. More than 190 countries, more than 100,000 students at the time of creating this. So this is working for me in a way where I've had other YouTube channels or facebook live channels that didn't do much. So that's my final word for you and suggestion for us. keep experimenting till you find a medium that allows you to communicate or you're happy with it, and you have an audience that's happy with it too.