Why You Find Everything Boring

What's good, y'all? It's your boy Samir Gardner. Hope y'all doing good. So look, um, um, bro, I talk so fast, baby. Um, I've watched yesterday, I've watched, uh, Hamza Unfiltered, uh, his video about like momentum or something. And bro, I can relate so much because look, I'm gonna explain what basically he said in the video, but I'm gonna explain it in my own experience. Look, Once you reduce the amount of instant gratification, right? Once you reduce that, like the sort of like you eliminate the activities with the most gratification, everything else that's on the bottom in terms of the amount of dopamine or the amount of instant gratification is gonna become way more fun. And I am proof of that. I used to go on dopamine detox for like 7 days without phone or anything, reading became like the thing that I craved. Like, that's where I was just reading, like I couldn't wait to, to read out. And I was reading like 70 pages a day sometimes, and for me that's a lot. But look, like once you just reduce the amount of instant gratification that you get every day, everything's going to be more fun. He said in the video, reading is going to be more fun. Uh, working out is gonna be more fun, uh, you know, everything else. And you know, that's basically the same with diets. Diets is the same, bro. Like, for example, I reduce sugar. If everything that just has a little bit of sugar tastes way better, or everything that's— that doesn't have sugar, it tastes way better. It's like this, bro. Once you just reduce the dopamine— I'm not saying go monk mode on everything, but look, just once you reduce the highest amount of dopamine, then bro, it's gonna be more fun. Because look, for example, I remember I was sick one time and like all I did all day was like watch YouTube videos. But I went back to my like my old type of videos that was— that used to be watching. I was watching like Minecraft gameplay, but I was watching like it was like 50 minutes of like a Minecraft like sort of video. I don't know, but it was like— I mean, it's a popular video and everything, But I was watching it and, you know, like a week before and, you know, now also, but a week before that and just in the past, pretty much like the past months and everything, I used to, you know, watch, for example, I'll watch people talk about like health, about diets. And, you know, the videos are not edited. The videos are just them talking in front of a camera. That's not much dopamine. That's not much instant gratification. Compared to the Minecraft thing. But once I started watching the Minecraft thing, I didn't even want to watch the people talking about diet and health, even though that's one of the things I like to do the most. I just lost the desire or lost the fun related to that activity. So that explains, like, once you go high instant gratification, boom, like the little habits or activities that you do every day are gonna become way less fun. You know, it's like, it's like this, it's like, like he said in the video, you know, the guy first goes at the gym like for the first time and everything, like he wonders how people can go to the gym every day for like the rest of their life and everything. But what you gotta understand is we get used to it. Like for me, like it's For me, it's really, really important that I try to keep my dopamine receptors as low as possible. So things like the gym, like every day, is not that hard. Like, it's, yeah, it's maybe mental, but I'll still go to the gym, or I mean, I'll work out on my own. I just still work out on my own. You know, like, that's what you gotta understand. I used to go like sort of monk mode. Like, I used to, I still do it like till this day, but it's just a bit different. I just try to watch only one YouTube video per day and maybe listen to one podcast while I'm drawing and everything. And I don't get— maybe I plan on getting 2 hours of Netflix per weekend, but I mean per week, but I don't know. I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure yet. I haven't tried yet, but I don't know if I want to even indulge in Netflix anymore. I don't even want to go on Netflix. I swear I don't want to go on Netflix because, for example, I replaced— I kind of replaced or substituted Netflix for drawing. I'm drawing and I became like a— I'm not a god at drawing, but I became way more good than I was before. So like, I don't even want to go back to Netflix because I feel like it's a waste of time, and I feel like just drawing is going to be making me way more fulfilled. Especially for my future. But I don't know, like, bro, once you just reduce the amount of instant gratification, bro, just what you're gonna do is just what activities gives you the most dopamine. For me, for example, was just YouTube, like too much YouTube. Like, I always kept like my sort of motivation and discipline down because, you know, just scrolling on YouTube just takes all, all the time away, bro. And once you reduce that instant gratification, you're gonna be left with way more time, I swear. Like, the time— because you're not gonna be just mindlessly or unconsciously on a phone 24/7. Like, bro, you're gonna be more able to be conscious about, oh, it's only 1 PM. Like, how is it only 1 PM? Like, I feel like I've done already everything I had to do. Like, bro, it's, it's gonna be like this because you reduce instant gratification. So, but that's it for the video. Hope y'all like, take comments, just subscribe and like, and peace.