Powerful dopamine junkies, Geniuses are depressed and Nueroscience of environments

This video we're going to talk about three things. Dopamine junkies are powerful, why geniuses become depressed, and the neuroscience of environmental conditioning. All the while, I'm going to be building this like LEGO set of a castle. It looks pretty cool. I'm pretty far along in the project and you know, these videos used to be super serious, but I kind of enjoy the nonchalantness of. I've just been like building this castle here and it's come a pretty long ways. So I've been traveling all sorts of different places lately. I, I did the math and I spent I think like $400,000 last year on travel. And I went to. Last year, I did nine different countries I was in and I stayed in something like 50 different Airbnbs and hotels. Too many to keep up with, that's for sure. Had all sorts of different adventures. But lately I've been on this trend of like, how do I just learn cool stuff and then have that stored into my knowledge? So I figured if I make these videos of fairly instructive of just like, what have I learned? It'll help me retain the information better and it'll also make you guys richer, more money, sexier. It also make it so that way you understand life a little bit better because this really helped me. So I had this interesting run into of learning with, with dopamine. You see, I always thought like dopamine was a bad thing. You see that? Like, I always thought like, okay, yeah, you don't want to be some sort of like dopamine obsessed person because then you'll start to like chase cheap dopamine, like scrolling on social media or playing video games. And that's something that I definitely did a lot of when I was in a position where I didn't really have the time or I shouldn't be doing that. You know, it was times when I should have been building my business, but instead of building my business, I was just like wasting my time on a bunch of things that just weren't really productive. And that's until I really learned that like dopamine is actually a superpower. So there's this concept where dopamine is actually, it's actually used for two things. It's, it's the reward center to your nervous system into your body of whatever it is that you just did to signal obviously to go do more of what you just did. But it also drives action. So the nerve, the dopamine also drives action and it also gets you to go do something. So as an Example, if you're going to, if you think of something like cake, right, Some chocolate cake, maybe I'm making some of you guys hungry right now. Then what happens is your dopamine starts filling inside of your body, visualizing the cake. So you got your first injection of the drug of dopamine. Then what happens is this is like a really technical part, it looks like here. Then what happens is, is when you then have all this dopamine filled now you get up, move, and then you go whatever it takes to go get the cake. Maybe you have to make the cake, maybe you have to go to a restaurant to get the cake, maybe you already have some in your fridge. And then that's when it's a problem because you don't have to do that much work and it's already there, easily accessible, but we go out of our way to go then get the result. And that's why people with Parkinson's disease, they actually end up taking, I think the drug's called like L Dopo. Basically they get a drug that's gives them dopamine. So that way their neuro movements align with like what their body actually wants to do. And then they're not, you know, on it that way. They're actually like a normal functional human being. And the crazy concept is, is like realizing that like your visualize, visualization, your ability to like think positive, your ability to think of what you can make. Let it be a castle. And the castle that you're building fills you with dopamine. And then what happens is it numbs you to the actual work or the effort that it takes to actually do the thing to make the million bucks to build the castle. Like I'm literally like hurting my fingers, like building this castle right here. And you forget about all these negative things because you're so focused on the outcome of what it can actually become that you'll overcome any how. Overcome any what? Because the why is strong enough. And so a lot of us, the question is, you know, a lot of us were trying to figure out laziness. One of the most common questions I've gotten on social media now that I've like blown up and gotten like, I don't know, 50 million views last year on social media is Devin, how do you stay so motivated all the time? How do you always stay so productive? It seems like you're posting 50 TikToks a day and you're posting on Instagram and you do three hour lives twice a week. You make some of the YouTube videos, you do all this stuff. How do you stay so motivated? And to be honest with you guys, I actually don't really know what. Like, it's such a weird question for me to answer because I'm, like, motivated. I don't even think about the concept of motivation. It's just the things that need to get done. And you guys are only seeing what's, like, scratching the surface. You guys are seeing me make the content, what I put out and the emails I send out and all that stuff. But what you don't see is then the travel logistics I have, and then booking a new Airbnb, like, some new city or someplace that I'm at or whatever. Like, there's so much that's going on in my life, like, girlfriend's appendix burst, and we had to figure that out. And then the medical treatment for that when we were in Amsterdam. There's just so many logistical things that what you guys see right now in this video is just scratching the surface. So then how do I overcome all of it? You could say it's because I'm insanely motivated, or it's because I understand the neuroscience that is dopamine. And so what happens is I'm really just focused on, like, who is the person I'm becoming? What is the end result of all this? What's the castle that I'm building? What is the structure of my life that I'm building next? What is the life that I am building? And then, as a natural byproduct, I will sit there and work and work and work so many hours, because it doesn't feel like work. It just feels like the necessary byproduct of the end result of that, of becoming. And then I end up just falling in love with the process. You fall in love with pain, you fall in love with the suffering, because you just know that it's the. It's the necessary step for the outcome that you're trying to achieve. And so you guys can, like, see what I'm building right here. I think that's a little bit better, right? Hopefully it doesn't cut off my head on the top, but it then becomes the necessary step of the person that I'm becoming in this whole process. And then I got to thinking, you know, why do people stay unproductive? Why is it that some people, they don't do anything and they don't make any progress in their life? Is it because they're unmotivated? Is it because they were born in some poverty programming, maybe? What is it because they're tired all the time. What if it's what if laziness and your inability to be productive. I heard this from a guy and I was like, I love that. Forget the guy's name. Put it in the description if I remember it. But he said, what if. What if laziness is a byproduct of focusing on the cost to achieve our outcomes and not focusing on the outcome itself. Imagine that. What if. What if you're lazy or your inability to be productive is because you're focusing on how bad your fingers hurt and how long it's going to take to make the freaking castle not. Oh, shoot, this castle is going to look badass. And this entire time while I'm doing this, I literally have in front of me with my mess of coffee and everything here, the castle of what I am building, of the sacrifice that I'm going to build this to create said castle. Right? What if that's why we're lazy, is because we're so focused on the work that it takes. And that completely rewired my brain. My. My brain chemistry. My brain literally rewired after I heard that. So anytime that we actually don't want to do the work or anytime that we don't want to go through suffering, or anytime that we don't like the. The necessary suffering, you know, I understand. Like, you're just like, yeah, I don't. I don't want to suffer if I don't have to. But necessary suffering, and I don't want to go through it. What if it's because you're just so focused on the suffering and then you actually never achieve anything in life because you're just so focused on the. The consequence of the act of the. Of the outcome or the goal that you want to have, not the outcome itself. And the goal of itself, part of it, too. I ended up watching, like, around Christmas time. I had the benefit of being able to just kind of take things slow. My companies are doing better than ever before. We're scaling faster than ever before. We're just having a good old time, to be honest. So I started watching all these Lord. I watched the entire game of. Not Game of Thrones, the Hobbit series. I watched the entire Hobbit series. And then what else did I watch? I didn't watch Lord of the Rings. I watched another, like, series that was similar to that. If it comes to me, I'll remember or I'll say it, but I just remember the, like, the whole concept of the adventure, which was just, we. We must Accept the adventure. We must accept the journey. And there's just gonna be trials and tribulations that allow us ultimately, at the end of the day, to become Bilbo Baggins or become. What's the other hobbit's name? Billbo? Frodo. To become Frodo, it's like you must go through all the trials and tribulations that equip you for that end outcome. And at the end of the day, it's inevitable. You're going to have sacrifice, you're going to have effort that's going to go. You're going to have failures, you're going to have setbacks, you're going to have wins. You're going to have an emotional roller coaster that is the journey of success. Success. My computer keeps shutting down on me. You're gonna have this emotional roller coaster that is becoming success. That's just the process. That's the journey of the hero, the hero's journey. And so the biggest guarantee that you're gonna fail and not become successful is you just avoid the journey altogether because you're so enamored by how awful it's going to be in the process of going through it that you just don't do anything at all. That's how. That's how people don't become successful. They never accept the hero's journey. They never accept the call to adventure. They never accept the journey of what they are to become. And so they never end up doing anything worthwhile in their lives. And then they always ask, why do they feel so behind? Why do they feel like they've not amount to much, you know, for no matter whatever they've been through in their life? And it just is this constant setback or holding back of the person that they really want to be. And it really is just this. Stop focusing on how much you're going to lose, how much you're going to fail, what the consequences are. Just stop. Just stop all of that garbage. Because really, at the end of the day, what you're looking for is going to require a lot of sacrifice. It's going to require you losing a lot of money. When I started business, I lost so much money. I failed so much. My parents asked me, like, devon, do you really want to do this? Do you really want to be successful? Like, do you really want to, like, keep trying to build these businesses that keep failing? Or are you just gonna get a job at some point? And I told him, no, I'm gonna do whatever it takes. That's just part of it. And it's because I was so truly believed of who I was gonna become, no matter what trial or tribulation I have. I just knew that the outcome was so worth it, and it was so personalized to me that I was willing to overcome anything for it. And what happens is, is every zoo keep imagining that future self, who you're becoming, and you stop focusing on the costs and the consequences. You'll have more motivation, you'll have more dopamine firing. You'll have so many constant reminders that you need to keep going, which will loop back in eventually into the neuroscience of environmental conditioning. But that brings us over to the next point. Why geniuses become depressed. So I was watching this video of this concept of why geniuses are all enamored by sadness and depression. There was, like, this constant thing that they found in ancient Roman. Ancient times, like ancient Roman times, ancient Greek times, where these are some funky pieces I gotta use, where basically the. The pattern of all these very successful creative genius people were all just really into weird stuff, okay? And what I mean by that is that they were, like, really into, like, death, and they were really into, like, mortality. Like, you listen to Marcus Aurelius's meditations. He's, like, infatuated with death. He's constantly talking about it. And it's like just. There's just the class of geniuses, like, super geniuses, a lot of them, and the works that are present to today, the Genghis Khan, Alexander the Greats, the. Everybody. Everybody's kind of really into that death. Like, it's like a weird kink or something. And there's. There's actually a. There's actually some science behind it. There's some. There's a reason for that, which until I watched this video, I had no clue. And then now it makes so much sense. I'm like, wow, this is crazy. So today we have this concept called. We have sadness and depression. Those are like two of our, you know, most used words of, you know, when you don't feel good. And this is a lot to unpack, by the way. So, you know, buckle up. So sadness impression. So sadness is reactive. You know, I could be like, I don't know, let's say something breaks on this tower. Okay? Okay. The tower broke off. Oh, I'm sad that I lost it. If I lost a piece or something, I'm reactively sad. Like, I'm reactively feeling a negative emotion due to the thing that happened. Right. I'm sad that that happened. Now. I don't really remember how this was. But it's all good. That is a reactive emotion. Depression is a clinically prescribed emotion. It is something that you can't cure on your own. Like, like in the sense that it's like you're handicapped or you have some sort of chronic illness that is known as depression. Those are the two vocabulary words that we have for negative emotions today in our, in our society. But in ancient Roman times and ancient Greek Greece, they had this concept of sadness called melancholy, which I forgot the root of it. I took some notes in here the other day. Let's see if I have it. Which basically it's a seder. It's a feeling you slip into, it's a mood. It's like you're acutely aware of everything you love will finally, will eventually disappear. It's like the concept of basically like beauty isn't without loss. And I thought that was like pretty interesting that it's like you really can't admire beauty without admiring the fact that beauty is of short time. You know, the why, the reason why the woman is so beautiful is because her beauty is temporary, it's not permanent. I mean, yeah, we have like plastic surgery and we try to do all these things to like prolong beauty now at this point. But for most of the, you know, human experience, we were very limited on the sense of how long a woman could become beautiful. And that's what made her so valuable. And so the ancient Romans knew that they, they understood this concept of, of, of melancholy. And it was actually a mo. It was like they would try to create, you know, there's this concept in, in ancient Roman times called odium that they would always try to pursue, which odium was perceived as the, the best life that you could possibly live is full of odium. Odium is. It directly translates to leisure. But it's kind of like a lazy, you know, English term that we have right now for odium. But in reality, it's like an intense pursuit of leisure. And so that's why, you know, you're wealthier, you're rich to pursue arts over working all day. That's why for me to be able to build Legos is on a random day of the week is, is wealthy. Because I have the luxury to be able to do that in whatever random city that I'm in right now, around the world at some crazy huge like 4 million dollar house. Just building Legos is wealth. It's odium. It's. It's the ability to just like have leisure, an intense way of exploring yourself. It's like conversations with other friends. It's. It's reading books, it's studying psychology, it's making art. And so the wealthiest people of the times are the ones that can spend more time in odium. And then there became this concept of negodium, which is like what we now call like, negotiation. Negodium is like, is neg to like, not, like, not enjoy odium, you know, or to be the negative odium. So then it's like work, being at the office, working. That's what Romans considered slaves. Work is no good. Some of them had to do it, you know, if you're a senator, you had to put some time into it. But anyways, also being said is like the, the, the elites would put as much time into becoming melancholistic as possible because if the other. That's a word I don't know. But to put themselves into melancholy because the, that put them into a more creative state. It made their philosophy better, it made their art better, it made their odium a whole lot better. And then eventually the, the empire collapsed. Some of the people took advantage of their hedonistic capabilities and it just ended up just the demise of ancient Roman times because of a huge slew of issues, but that was part of it. And then we entered the medieval times where then it was pursued. It was then articulated that like, working is a way for you to get closer to God. And the more that you worked and the harder that you worked, the closer you were to the more that of a servant you were to life and to God and to the human consciousness. And it was actually impressive to work more. And then, and then we entered this weird time that became the Romantic period, which then eventually became the Industrial Revolution, which are very. Two interesting time periods that are very close to each other. So what happened was, is eventually as society started to come back to a very efficient society again, you know, we're kind of getting back to ancient Roman times in the sense that, like there were slaves and then there were people that were able to reap the rewards of the slaves working all the time. Then what happened was it's going to make me make much of this, isn't it? So then what happened was then the Romantic era became this huge concept of how do we live as much as. What's the word? Melon, More of a Mellon colony, colony life, lifestyle. So how do we maximize that? That's why if you look at the art in ancient Rome or in the Romantic period, it's just really weird. It makes you feel weird. Things looking at a lot of the art, it's kind of disturbing. A lot of the art from that time period. And the reason being is because they realized or like they believed that happiness is kind of like a, a fake way of living life. But instead when you feel a little bit like melancholia is the combination of awe, terror and fear all at the same time. And when you live that, you actually are living a more full life. So they would do all sorts of weird stuff. Like they would have like men be little hobbits on their property just with a beard and a goatee, like a beard and grow at their hair just so that way they can feel a little bit more melancholy. It was like literally they were like a statue at their house, but they would just hire like an old man just to live at their house, just so that way they could feel things. And just watching the, the passing of time, it's into really weird stuff. And then what happened was the industrial revolution came and we started to be able to finally measure time with our, with clocks and with watches. And so what changed in that time was we started to then value time as money. We could actually say, hey, you work this amount of time and, and you earn this amount of money. So then time became money and that became the value indicator of society is that the more work that you put in, the more money that you would make. And the more money that you make, the more valuable that you were to society. Which the ancient Romans believed that your wage is just the indication that you're a slave in life. And it's what you have to show for your, your, for your slavery, which is kind of crazy. And they really invented this concept of wage slaves. And then here we are and coming into the 20th century, the industrial revolution, where then you know, it's then perceived cool to, to work a bunch because you're closer to God. And then also time is money. So then you're validated and justified for all this time that you're putting in. And then they ended up hiring clinical psychologists or psychologists to then go into these factories hired by Henry Ford and a lot of these different companies to then figure out what was the difference of a productive employee versus a non productive employee. And what they realized is that the non productive employees they had what they then eventually called like they started calling sadness. They're like, oh, they're sadder. People like these people that are unproductive to our workplace are the ones that were more reflective on life. They're the ones that kind of moved a Little bit slower. They're a bit slower paced. And so then the. The workforce started to just like having to let go and not hire these people that were kind of like, sadder because it like, held back the productive assembly line. And then that was what then became a huge bottleneck in the. What's the time period called? In the. The service economy. So the service economy then became our next huge, huge bottleneck that happened with these sad group of people, which reality, it's just like a lot of the real geniuses in the times were these sad people. But what happened was this is a really technical part of the LEGO set. So I'm like, really confused doing this at the same time, so bear with me. But what happened was, is then the service economy came and it's like the hotels, airlines, restaurants started to become a very booming industry. And a lot, A lot of money was to be made. Millions of dollars, billions of dollars was made in the service industry because the Industrial revolution created such a beautiful economy or such a flourishing economy that it allowed for just a lot of expenditure of money and need to spend more money. And so then what happens is all these companies in the 60s started then testing out, how can we. How can we take. How can we commoditize emotions and service? And so what happened was then became extremely frowned upon to be sad. It became extremely frowned upon to be in a bad mood. It became frowned upon to basically just not be a positive experience which we kind of live in, that we're still living at the end of that. The edge of that society. And so, dang, we really did something here to mix this up. Okay, we got to fix this. Okay, let's see. So this should go. Okay. Ah, I figured it out. Cool. All right, sweet. But, yeah, so then what happened is we started to. Dang, this is a really tedious step. So what happened was then we had to suppress our emotions as human beings or else he didn't get the job, or else you were fired, or else. Else you just wouldn't get like, the good. The good tables or you wouldn't get the good. The good jobs. So then that became a whole paradigm of where there was this huge group of people that were then outcasted for then having this kind of like, slower pace of life and was a little bit more on the sad side. So then all these psychologists then started diagnosing people with depression or terminal sadness, basically, or not terminal sadness, but as like depressed people. So then they needed drugs. And then the drugs then. Then like, reduce the amount of people's ability to feel, to hoping that that would cure the problem. And then it just kind of became this ever ending cycle of where it's just not good to be a sad person. And lot of the old ancient societies or a lot of the older societies, they would actually encourage it especially for the geniuses of the times. They were encouraged to have this bit of morbidness in their ability to, to see the world in a much better light or to see the world in the light of. They were able to kind of add a touch of death into, into what they were building and what they were creating. And so that's why like today, if you want to, if, if, if you're somebody who's sad, it's kind of like it's frowned upon him in society. But you also have a huge competitive advantage because you have the luxury to be able to be sad. And if you have luxury to be able to be sad without trying to like, you know, trying to, trying to fix it. That's why somebody like Ernest Hemingway, he was such a great artist because his life was very morbid. They tried all sorts of stuff to try to fix him. But in reality it made things worse. And it, it ended up getting him away from his real true passion, which was writing books. And then that kind of left to him eventually offing himself, sadly. But the greatest artists and the greatest people and the greatest creator of all time, they're able to slip into this phase of melancholy. So maybe a little bit more, a little bit weird, but I found that extremely interesting. If you can have a touch of death in your life, a touch of that, like things are going to end soon. A touch of this video might end soon. So it's going to be kind of sad. What am I going to listen to after this video? I'm about to go find more Devin Canuck videos to watch all of those things. So that then leads us over to the last part. We got a little technical there, but is the. The neuroscience of environmental conditioning. So this kind of plays back into the first one. I kind of doubled up the topics here. But hey, whatever, we'll get started kind of making these videos because I do enjoy making videos. I miss you guys. I miss talking on this channel. I miss making more content like this. And I do want this to become like a bigger priority in my life. Just because it's fun. Not because the money's sake, but just because it's fun. It's fun. It's fun talking to you guys. It's fun hanging out with you guys. It's fun reading your comments and, and seeing the impacts of the, the videos and content that I make. But yeah, at the end of the day it's like we're constantly, I love the saying. It's like the neurons that wire together, fire together. And whatever we're reminded of in our lives, we're basically just going to keep having the same days over and over again. We're going to have the same patterns loop over and over again and things are just going to constantly keep happening at the same rate over and over again unless you interject change. And so this can either work for you or can work against you. If you have a hyper wired environment that allows you to be insanely, that allows you to be insanely productive. There is no better gift in life. If you have something, if you have a, if you're able to constantly create an environment around you that just motivates the crap out of you. I don't know how to explain it other than just like, that's the life I live right now. And it's insane. It makes it so easy to be motivated. It makes it so easy to be productive. It makes work effortless. Like I don't even think about working. I don't, I do not think about working. Instead I just show up, do whatever it is I'm supposed to do that day, have fun, hang out. And I just am able to make so much money from just living that lifestyle pretty much of being able to try to match the direction of this, of being just me and living my day to day life. And my environment constantly recreates it. So what happens is, if you're in your like childhood bedroom and you're just constantly reminded in your childhood bedroom about, I don't know, all the failures that you had or all the mistakes that you had growing up or all the things that you did that you weren't supposed to or whatever, then what happens is. This one's really technical. Let me get this part right. There it is. Okay, cool. All right. I was trying to get the right direction of the little things here. But if you have this childhood bedroom that's like reminds you of all the shame, the guilt and all the bad emotions of growing up, of all the failed class math classes that you had, or the time that you got in trouble for, whatever, if you have an environment that reminds you of all these like negative emotions or negative feelings, then what happens is, is it's easy. You're constantly reminded of those negative emotions which then inhabits it, makes it impossible for you to be productive in society or in life because you're constantly reminded of how you're not enough or how you're not good enough and how you're somebody who you know was a failure versus if you're constantly in new environments that excite you, that remind you of the person that you're becoming and the hard work that you put in and the change that is happening in your life from the hard work that you're putting in, then you'll constantly want to keep working and doing things that'll be more like that person. And so you have like a push motivation and a pull motivation in life. And most pull motivations in people's lives inhibit their ability to make any sort of progress because they're just constantly reminded of how crappy of a person that they are. And if they have an environment that constantly reminds themselves that they're not enough, they're going to keep telling themselves that they're not enough. So you can see how that can be like really negative, right? If you're constantly reminded that you're not enough, are you not good enough? And so what you have to have. That's pretty cool. We got a little tower here. So what happens is then you get this feedback loop. Most mental illnesses I've realized after studying, like I was just studying perfectionism, most mental illnesses are a bad feedback loop. It's like the issue with perfectionism is you have a low self esteem. And because you have a low self esteem, you go into things, you go into problems with very rigid structures. Like you must be this, you must do this, you should never do this, you should always do this, you should always be a good parent, you should always feed your kids, you should never leave your kids alone, you should never be a bad mom or a bad dad. And you build all these like very rigid goals. And then what happens is, is you are faced with a decision matrix that is okay, am I going to do this activity that's in front of me? Am I competent at it or am I not? What happens is in the perfectionist brain is they avoid the things they're not competent at and only do the things that they're competent at. But anything that they avoid, they then feel guilty about it. And then, and then they beat themselves up. Like, hey, you can't even do the bare minimum, like record a YouTube video when there's like a million other people recording YouTube videos. You're a piece of shit and lowered yourself on self esteem. You're super aggressive with yourself. And then the suit cycle repeats and then you only do the things that you're competent at. And then even if you do a home run on the thing that you are competent at, it's never enough because you always compare yourself to somebody who's an exceptional 0.001% at it. So I could be like, oh yeah, I built this LEGO set, but it wasn't that impressive because some people have like a hundred Lego sets out there and I've only built five. It's like that's the mindset of a perfectionist. And it's just this constant feedback loop that just keeps reminding them of that. And what happens is, is your environment does that exact same thing. It constantly reminds you of who you are. And so that's why I constantly change my environments. I constantly remind myself that I'm capable of incredible things. I constantly go to a new places, like every week to every two weeks I go to a new place where I do something that reminds me that I am badass in life and that I can do incredible things. Because then it builds a feedback loop of an upward spiral that I am constantly doing more in life. I'm constantly staying at greater places, I'm constantly seeing better views, I'm constantly eating at nicer restaurants. I'm constantly like doing more in my life. And I just get a constant reminder that I am a badass mofo that can do anything I put my mind to, versus a lot of people's feedback loops look like this. Oh, yep, I'm still in my parents basement. I can't ever do anything to ever get out of here. I'm stuck here for life. And then you just keep going through the same rhythm, the same pattern in life and nothing ever changes. That's why a couple things you should do is keep your room clean. Another thing you should do is go travel somewhere. Even if it means you have to sleep in your car. Just go physically somewhere. Because then what happens is your brain gets a physical manifestation of a reminder. If you had a decision, you did something with it and you have something actual physical to show for the work that you did. Like when I'm done with this LEGO set, I'm going to have a LEGO set that's done, that's built. And it reminds me that I was able to create a vision. I was able to go through the endure the work of the thing that I was creating. And then when it's done, I get the dopamine hit of it being done. And then I get the kid constantly reminded that I put something my mind to Something and I was able to build the thing that I put my mind to. And you need to create an environment of that. Otherwise entropy happens and things start falling apart and you just get constantly reminded of how you're not enough and how you're not good enough. And it just gives. Feeds into this negative self belief feedback loop that makes you just feel like a terrible person. And so that's why your environment needs to change. If you have a bad feedback loop, then at a certain point the only thing you can do is just change your environment because you're just so toxic to yourself that there's no amount of like fixing your environment that will change anything other than physically changing it. There's this concept when it comes to like drug addicts. If, if you put them in rehab a lot of the times they'll be able to recover and rehab because they're in a new place. And then you take them back to their environment, back to their house and then they become a drug addict all over again. Is because their environment reminds them of everything that, that they used to be. This happened. I used to have like a vaping addiction. So I used to vape all the time. And then I was constantly reminded about how everywhere and everything that I did about how I vaped and. And it would just wild me up every time I try to quit. I ended up relapsing, going, going back to vaping multiple, multiple times. Because I kept getting constantly reminded about vaping in these different environments. In my car, in my room and my living room, in my bed, like everywhere that I would go. And it was just to the point where I was just coughing up all this snot. It was just disgusting. And it wasn't until I left that I traveled and I left the vape back at home. Like it was hard like maybe the first day or two because I just was like really feel like I needed it. But then what happened was, is because I was in a different environment, I just, it was just became wildly inconvenient to go to a vape shop or any of that stuff for me to go out of my way to, to go get it. And so then eventually I just kind of forgot about it all together because it just was wildly inconvenient to, to go out of my way to go do it. It's the same with video games. It's the same with television and watching Netflix shows. It's the same with YouTube. If you just remove the thing from your environments entirely. You don't have the cheap and free dopamine. That you. That is, that is constantly available at your fingertips that you crave all of the time. And so if you just control your environment or you just leave your environment altogether, it gives you, like, a huge reset button in life. So if you just go travel and go put yourself into cool, beautiful places, another thing you could do is just go find, like, some luxury resort nearby and go get coffee there. I've had friends tell me, like, oh, they'll kick me out. They're like, oh, you're not a guest at the hotel. I've actually never had that issue. I think it's because I'm not cheap whenever I go. And I think it's because, like, in the sense that always buy coffee, I'm always, like a gentleman to everybody. I always chat people up everywhere that I go. And you can go hang out at resorts that are like $2,000 a night for the cheapest hotel room. If you're just like, a decently dressed person, you're normal, you're not some sort of weirdo, and you can just watch and observe the mannerisms of all these rich people around you, see how they act, see how they order things, see how they do things, and then start incorporating that as your own with your own mannerisms, and that will completely change the wealth that you make. I. I've done that for years. And it was cool because I ended up staying at the Ritz Carlton the other day. And it reminded me of how I used to always go to that hotel and, and look around and be like, oh, my gosh, this is crazy. I can't believe people pay $1,000 a night to be here. Some of the rooms are like, 10, $20,000 a night. Like, how is this possible? And here I was staying at the place, realizing that it's just like, I was just another one of the people that was there. That was just another part of the. Of. Of the. Of the environment. I was another person that was part of the environment. And it's just because I leveled up so much and I could see it, like, looking back, like, wow, I used to think this was crazy and expensive. I. And now this was just another day in my life. I ended up staying, extending the stay there for a couple nights just because of my own, like, logistics. It just made more sense to stay there longer than it was to go on the next part of my trip. And that was even crazy just to be able to, yeah, let me just extend it two more nights. Let me just drop two more grand to stay here two more nights and think nothing, nothing of it. Like just it being a normal day in my life. I was just like, wow, this is crazy. I've come so far in my life. I remember when I had like $50 in my bank account and I couldn't even possibly comprehend spending thousands of dollars for something. So anyways, that's what I got. I gotta move over to the next bag and I didn't want to go do that and try to figure that out while I'm recording this video. So I'll just end it there. Tell me what you guys think about this video format. I'm just kind of sharing some of the stuff that I've been learning and how it's been impacting my life and how it's changed my life in efforts to help you get richer and to help change your life. So that's what I got. See you guys in the next one. Bye.