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Brain can be built · We can build our mental health naturally

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  Speaker 1: And the content itself is designed to keep you watching
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  Speaker 1: as long as possible, by any means necessary, sometimes even
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  Speaker 1: by playing two videos at the same time, to keep
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  Speaker 1: the novelty up, to keep the dopamine flowing. But people
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  Speaker 1: have really started to notice that the more they consume
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  Speaker 1: this content, the dumber they feel, the more useless they feel,
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  Speaker 1: to the point where people have now coined the term
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  Speaker 1: brain rot content, insinuating that by consuming this content, Your
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  Speaker 1: brain is rotting. It is degenerating in some way. And
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  Speaker 1: there's some truth to this. Studies have found that the
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  Speaker 1: human attention span is decreasing to the point now where
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  Speaker 1: the average phone pickup lasts about 10 seconds. And that
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  Speaker 1: was in 2021. But people have been talking about this
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. I'm not saying anything new here.
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  Speaker 1: And the term brain rot wouldn't have been coined if
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  Speaker 1: nobody was talking about it. Well, of course there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: you can do about it. It's over. We're doomed. Pack
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  Speaker 1: it up. But here's the thing. I think we're asking
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  Speaker 1: the wrong questions. I think society has become pretty obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with the idea that external forces cause them to do
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  Speaker 1: certain things. It's like, oh, this short form content is
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  Speaker 1: now on the internet and it's there. And it's so
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  Speaker 1: addictive that it's making everybody just watch it and people
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  Speaker 1: are getting hooked on it and it's frying their brains
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  Speaker 1: and now we're just a bunch of NPCs. But the
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  Speaker 1: truth is, nothing can make you do anything. You know,
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  Speaker 1: short form content is inanimate. It can't make you watch it.
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  Speaker 1: And there are plenty of things that might be really
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  Speaker 1: bad for you that you are currently not tempted to
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  Speaker 1: go and consume. Now, there is something to be said
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  Speaker 1: about giving smartphones to toddlers and turning them into iPad kids.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're watching this, then chances are you have
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  Speaker 1: a fully formed brain. or something close to it. And
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case, I want you to know that
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  Speaker 1: you are in full control over all of your actions
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  Speaker 1: in life. Even though it might not seem like it
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  Speaker 1: at times. You know, people who have anger issues, they say, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just can't control my anger. It's like, well, you can.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people who go through rehabilitation learn
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  Speaker 1: that they do have control over their anger. And getting
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  Speaker 1: over their anger issues is about Learning that they have
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  Speaker 1: had control is learning to exercise that control in a
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  Speaker 1: healthier way. Now, this leads me to what I believe
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  Speaker 1: is the actual brain rot in society. There is a
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  Speaker 1: pervasive sentiment going on right now, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how long it's been going on for. I suspect a
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  Speaker 1: lot longer than social media has. that you are not
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  Speaker 1: in control over your own actions. It's this idea that
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  Speaker 1: the things that are around you in your environment, inanimate objects, situations,
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  Speaker 1: can make you do things that you don't want to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's just not true. The real brain rot is thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I should be doing my work, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just so addicted to my phone and I get
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  Speaker 1: down this rabbit hole and I can't stop. Or once
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  Speaker 1: I beat my internet addiction, I will finally be a
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  Speaker 1: productive human being. Then I can start living the life
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  Speaker 1: I want. I just need to, you know, reel it in.
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  Speaker 1: I need to just learn how to beat this thing.
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  Speaker 1: That type of belief system is a feedback loop that
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  Speaker 1: you will never get out of. It's subscribing to this
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  Speaker 1: idea of helplessness. It's determinism. It's rejecting the idea that
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  Speaker 1: you have free will. And when it comes to your
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  Speaker 1: own behaviors, a lot of the time, the ideas that
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  Speaker 1: you subscribe to become true for you. If you believe
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  Speaker 1: that you are helpless, that you're just a leaf blowing
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  Speaker 1: in the wind in your own life, then that will
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  Speaker 1: become true for you. You'll wait around for some perfect
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  Speaker 1: situation to line up. The stars will align perfectly and
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  Speaker 1: that will make you do something that you already want
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  Speaker 1: to do. You make on average 35,000 decisions every single day.
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  Speaker 1: A decision implies that there are multiple options on the
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  Speaker 1: table and that you have the autonomy to actually choose
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  Speaker 1: from an array of options. Otherwise it's not really a decision,
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  Speaker 1: which means that you have the ability to make a
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  Speaker 1: different decision. Every single one of these decisions can be different.
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  Speaker 1: And just because certain decisions are a little bit harder
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  Speaker 1: or easier or they might feel that way doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have the option and that you don't
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  Speaker 1: make the decision. So a really good example of this
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  Speaker 1: distortion of control is the election that just happened in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. I'm up here in Canada, so I
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  Speaker 1: have a degree of separation. from the drama. So with
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  Speaker 1: the election, you have an outcome that shapes what it
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  Speaker 1: feels like to live in a certain country. And right,
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  Speaker 1: the country that you live in is your environment. There
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  Speaker 1: are certain laws and there are certain rules. And when
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  Speaker 1: those laws and rules change, it can feel pretty different.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever the outcome of an election is, is the outcome, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like you individually don't make a difference in that outcome.
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  Speaker 1: You only have the illusion of making a difference. You
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  Speaker 1: have very powerful people who lobby and control things and
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  Speaker 1: have all the money and power, and they present you
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  Speaker 1: with this option, right? Here's your control citizen. you can
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  Speaker 1: choose this candidate or this candidate. And it makes you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're really making a difference. Like, oh, cool,
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  Speaker 1: I get to make a choice now. The fate of
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  Speaker 1: the country is in my hands. But it's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. You individually don't get to decide what the
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  Speaker 1: food supply is or what the border security is like. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you don't make all these decisions. Like, you only... have
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  Speaker 1: the illusion of decision so to argue about what that
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  Speaker 1: decision ultimately came to in my opinion is really dumb
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  Speaker 1: doing that is like being involved in a poker game
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  Speaker 1: you're sitting there at the poker table and the dealer
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  Speaker 1: hands you a card and instead of trying to maximize
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  Speaker 1: the hand that you're dealt even if it's a horrible hand.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of trying to decide for yourself what you do
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  Speaker 1: when you get that hand, you don't play the game
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  Speaker 1: and you argue with the dealer, you argue with everybody
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  Speaker 1: at the table about like how stupid this hand is.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, no matter what, the hand you're dealt
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  Speaker 1: is the hand you're dealt. You may have an opinion
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  Speaker 1: and you might know for certain what a good hand
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  Speaker 1: looks like. But even if you get the best hand
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  Speaker 1: in poker, Somebody else could have a better hand, just
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  Speaker 1: based on the mixture of cards at the table. No
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  Speaker 1: matter what, ultimately the decisions that you make will determine
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  Speaker 1: the outcome of the game for you. You have far
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  Speaker 1: less control over the hand you're dealt than you think
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  Speaker 1: you do, and you have way more control over how
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  Speaker 1: you play that hand than you've been led to believe.
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  Speaker 1: So what does this all mean? How do we solve
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  Speaker 1: the problem of brain rot? How do you take control
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  Speaker 1: over your own own life and actually change your behavior.
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  Speaker 1: So you stop feeling like a passenger in your own
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  Speaker 1: life and get back into the driver's seat. Well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: so now that you're equipped with the mindset that will
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  Speaker 1: help you counteract brain rot, which I believe is the
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  Speaker 1: most important step, what are some practical ways that you
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  Speaker 1: can actually remember this mindset and stay on track so
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  Speaker 1: that you can start attacking life instead of being a
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  Speaker 1: passenger who just consumes stupid videos all day and regrets
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  Speaker 1: it later? Well, the number one thing that you can
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  Speaker 1: do is be conscious of this thing that I call
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  Speaker 1: mental posture and structure your day with that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: So what the hell am I talking about? So everybody
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  Speaker 1: kind of already instinctually feels what I mean when I
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  Speaker 1: say mental posture. You know, when you're kind of consuming
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  Speaker 1: content all day. So you're down a YouTube rabbit hole.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like almost mentally your brain itself is lounging
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  Speaker 1: back and you're scrolling content and you have this sort
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  Speaker 1: of passive mindset. You know, you want things to entertain you.
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  Speaker 1: You want things to affect you. You don't really want
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  Speaker 1: to do anything. the goal here isn't to be a
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  Speaker 1: perfect human being. It's to feel as if though that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing a better job of being a person, the
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  Speaker 1: person that you want to be. So what I've done
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  Speaker 1: is I've really made sure to structure my day so
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  Speaker 1: that I am starting the first half of the day
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  Speaker 1: with a more aggressive and proactive mental posture. And it's
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  Speaker 1: really hard to get into that framework if the first
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  Speaker 1: part of your day is riddled with this sort of
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  Speaker 1: passive mental posture, which means don't start your day by
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  Speaker 1: getting into this YouTube rabbit hole. Don't start your day
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  Speaker 1: by being a passenger and a consumer of things. And
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  Speaker 1: you do that by just doing nothing really, right? Instead
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  Speaker 1: of going on your phone. don't go on your phone.
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  Speaker 1: It's that simple. Go get your coffee or whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to do. Start your day off slow with very
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  Speaker 1: little stimulation and start thinking about the things you want
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  Speaker 1: to do that day. And I think naturally your motivation
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  Speaker 1: kicks in if you don't flood it with consumption. If
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  Speaker 1: you have absolutely no stimulation except the delicious cup of
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  Speaker 1: coffee that you have and the sound of the rain
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  Speaker 1: hitting the window, then your imagination will actually have time
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  Speaker 1: to breathe. You'll think, oh, you know, maybe you have
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  Speaker 1: to go to work. I think most people have to
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  Speaker 1: go to work, but it's like, okay, how do I
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  Speaker 1: want this workday to go? You start thinking of ways
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  Speaker 1: that you can play your poker hand to the best
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  Speaker 1: of your ability. You know, what hand am I going
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  Speaker 1: to be dealt today? And how can I play that
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  Speaker 1: hand effectively? Whereas if you start the day and you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for the first hour of the day before
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  Speaker 1: you go to work, you're just in this YouTube shorts
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  Speaker 1: or Instagram reels binge, then you're just going to start
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  Speaker 1: the day off being affected by things. You have this
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  Speaker 1: mental posture of passivity and you're not going to attack
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  Speaker 1: life and mold it. it to your will. And the
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  Speaker 1: second thing you can do is to eliminate things that
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  Speaker 1: pull you into this habit of consumerism. One of the
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  Speaker 1: most useful things that you can do is A, delete
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  Speaker 1: stupid apps from your phone that you waste a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time on, number one. You know, I'm a chronic
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  Speaker 1: Instagram deleter. I'll download TikTok like once every two months
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  Speaker 1: when somebody sends me a TikTok and I have to
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  Speaker 1: react to it to respond to it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Just delete stuff that you don't want on your phone.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds obvious, but a lot of people don't do it.
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  Speaker 1: They just have all these time wasting apps on their
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  Speaker 1: phone and they expect that they won't click on it
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  Speaker 1: one day. You don't have to delete your account. Although
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  Speaker 1: that's what I did. You'll probably get there to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: but just delete the app. And then secondly, go into
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  Speaker 1: the settings of your phone and disable like 99% of
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  Speaker 1: all of your notifications for things. What do you really
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  Speaker 1: need to be notified about other than somebody sending you
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  Speaker 1: a text message directly or receiving a phone call? scanner,
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  Speaker 1: texting you and causing a phone pickup, Adobe PDF scanner.
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  Speaker 1: What the f * * *? So do a serious
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  Speaker 1: vetting of your phone, making sure that you are reducing
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  Speaker 1: phone pickups that will pull you out of being a
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  Speaker 1: proactive person in your life and back into being this
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  Speaker 1: backseat driver. And the third thing I would say is
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  Speaker 1: do as many things as you can that make you present.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I play hockey, I go to the gym.
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  Speaker 1: These things kind of pull you into the present moment
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  Speaker 1: and it gets you in the habit of actually doing
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  Speaker 1: things and moving things in space and time and contributing
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  Speaker 1: to the world physically. And these things can be things
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  Speaker 1: that you genuinely enjoy doing. You know, these are nice
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  Speaker 1: moments where you're not a mere battery for a giant
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  Speaker 1: corporate oligarchy. These are moments where you break free of
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  Speaker 1: the matrix and you're a real person in the real
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  Speaker 1: world doing real things. Maximize the time in your life
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  Speaker 1: where you're doing stuff like that. Even if you're going
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  Speaker 1: for a walk or grabbing coffee with a friend, be
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  Speaker 1: a person in the world. The internet isn't real. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of just like pictures on a screen. So stop
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  Speaker 1: looking at pictures on a screen so much and go
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  Speaker 1: and live the life that you actually want to live.