or how lamest jokes can be funny when you're confined to a boring situation, i personally enjoy work more than reading. For me reading is like the highest form of meditation i can do atm with so many distractions.
Boredom helped me most of my bad habits to discover self development and see unimaginable success but it took 7-8 years. So greatful to boredom. Stay Uncommon!
To be honest, it wasn't a new channel level video, it was an above average channel level video. The video was great. There were just a few minor flaws. Keep improving.
@@katielowen 🤨Dude, I'm not doing anything serious like this friend, it's just something I do as a hobby when I feel like it. Also, I didn't compare myself to Yan and say that there was a deficiency, I watched and commented on the video objectively, and this is something that is needed for new and developing channels, even all channels. My goal is not to see myself as superior, but to criticize to help them grow.
@@txnow I have to apologize to you, when I first read your comment last night I thought you were harshly criticizing his video.. Sorry, it was a late night. My bad, and thanks for explaining better!🙏
Meditation, reading and working out all have very positive benefits. I do all 3. If I’m on my phone too long I either put it in a lock box or turn it to black and white mode.
I have this moment when I wake up in the morning and just have a moment to stare at nothingness.. thoughts just surging in my head and a lot of ideas, right there in the moments of doing nothing before I actually start my day.. Sometimes I write down those idea but they just vanish right away by some diversion in the environment like,.. ( Mom’s calling, shouting.. unnecessary sounds. Knocks etc ) I get easily bored as well, I really hate my job 🙉
I think writing down the ideas helps a lot. It kinda gives them out of your brain. Also, in zen buddism, it says that if you "like" something, it means that you must hate the opposite. So if you hate your job, it means that you must love the opposite. Maybe try to dive deep into the opposite and see if you can make a living out of it. idk, it's just my opinion.
Sir HC Verma has shared a similar experience in one of his interviews. He said, one day he was locked with a science notebook in his room. He sat around for minutes and when he felt really bored, he picked the book up and began reading it. That day he understood all the concepts very well and around was the time when his interest rose up in studying. Another one is my case. Recently when I was in the middle of my final exams, I finished two books of Harry Potter meanwhile in normal days, reading felt like a burden. These examples go with your explanation - fun is relative. When I had to choose between studying chemistry or reading Harry Potter, I went with the latter. Similarly, the key to making yourself do hard things is to get so bored that you are left with no better choice that to do that hard thing. Another way would be to do something productive that is more fun than the unproductive habit you were following earlier.
This is got to be the best video ive seen which explains how to not make everything fun. And it surprises me that this channel has not yet blown up. Keep up the great work!
A lot of this video reminds me of my experiences trying to handle my unmedicated ADHD, which revolves around trying to be more sensitive to finding things rewarding by avoiding things that flood me with dopamine. The likes of videogames or masturbation are the death of productivity for me and seem to affect me a lot more intensely than they do other people. It's only by actively creating an atmosphere that would be extremely condusive to boredom do I manage to dial into enjoying more delayed gratification, creative, growth activities.
Wow! So beautifully explained, I watched the full video without skipping a second. Great video and production quality. Just keep working on such content. I am sure this channel will blast off to reach heights! All the very best buddy 🙌🏼
bro! bro! bro! this is like maybe a 50th video of self development i watched and it was so good. The choice of music, illustrations, explanation, obviously the content and everything was so so good. And the best part according to me was writing down tasks based on boredom level and how then we can arrange them in our day, that was so obvious and so ignored. Hats off to the content and your efforts Wish you luck for your future and everyone watching this Thank you for such content
As I was watching the video 6 minutes in I just realized the channel doesn’t have 1M and I thought it had because of the quality of the video💯💯keep it up
I want to thank you for this amazing video! I've been digging into Taoism and how fascinating it is for years. Wu Wei works magic when understood correctly ("understanding" isn't really the best word here, more like "tap into it"). You flow. You slide. Zero resistance. Work done! It is what I prefer to the "you-must-grind-and-become-the-best" attitude of modern self improvement culture. Lao Tzu's wisdom is much deeper than a self-improvement trick and this is just the tip of the iceberg. His teachings are truly liberating. Secondly I want to give an extra tip that I think works well. When we *immediately* move from work to fun (reading, RU-vid etc.), there's a sudden surge of stimulation (dopamine rush, if I want to be fancy). What I like to do instead is to meditate before AND after work (or just stare at a wall, go for a walk without my phone or something). That way work itself becomes "relatively fun" ... I'm not looking forward for work to end anymore. Subscribed !!
Incredible video. I was bored of being bored and this made things a hell lot more clear! Now guitar playing and recording my songs and videos will feel a lot more interesting!! They were not compared to games that I was drenched into all day for the last few days!!! I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. A great channel, soon to be a big one as well. My regards 🙂
i never comment on videos. But this small video inspired me so much. Thank you asian guy for helping me out. I think this way i would be able to cure my adhd
Watched the video then I saw you only had less than 600 subscribers! I thought I was watching a video with way more views and subs, the production and quality is that good. Very helpful video, cheers
This is actually a form of Stimulus Control Therapy. People with neurodivergency uses this a lot. Instead of using willpower, you engineer your environment to work towards your goal. External factors (aka stimuli) are taken away so that your brain will choose to do the one thing you supposed to do. Many people, even neurotypicals, are using this for insomnia. Nice video 👍
I really like your content brother 👍🏻 after reading the top comment i noticed that it is only 1k subs channel but while watching the whole video i felt like i was watching a really professional video ☺️ keep it up buddy
So, someone actually made a video of what I've been doing all this time. Wow. It's just awesome how human minds' interrelate with each other. As someone who needs to study for 10 hours a day, eliminating every activities that will stimulate my brain is the key to be consistent. It also comes down to the food (sugar) intake for the day as this stimulates our brains too. The secret is, to eliminate everything that you've been doing before that is stimulating, then you'll come to love what you are doing (studying) eventually. It's difficult, but hey, once you make it a lifestyle you just have to accept it. You won't lose "all the fun" in life because you do not play games anymore or make a leisure out of watching videos, playing games, etc. because this guy said it all, FUN IS RELATIVE.
great video, subscribed! This is a very good representation of how our current world is just too full of distractions and dopamine-indulging facilities.
Incredible vid. I'm 13, and I started trying to improve at 11 or so, and I have not achieved much. Last year I was distracted a lot, now it has somewhat reduced, but I still fall prey. I will structure my day from tomorrow onwards to do all my tasks and be the person I want to be. amor fati
This was fantastic! Yours was the first video about practicing boredom I stumbled upon that actually gave actionable advice. And the production quality is beyond awesome! Great work dude, keep it up! P.S. Can you please make such tutorial for meditation?
your concept of leveraging boredom helped me gained a new perspective. I'm really excited to try it out by myself. Also, great video, man. you've gained a new subscriber
Hey man! I usually dont comment on any videos but yes this time! I really like how resilient you are even though u have less views and less subscribers! Tbh i thought u had a popular channel until i saw the number! so keep at it! And u will actually reach those numbers u deserve
My take on it is value and discipline I valued destructive actions choosing video games and other things over healthy actions I realized when studying temperance one of the virtues of stoicism I realized that yes I was right video games are valuable but at some point it makes your life a mess and instead of happiness it becomes a waste of time and at that point is should it even be seen as valuable
Amazing video! It makes so much sense... If you don't mind, I would like to offer some feedback on the editing: I found the music a bit too loud sometimes in the video. Which made it hard to focus on what you were saying.
Dayumm!! The content is top-notch! The work you have put into making these videos shows~ You have managed to make this video both practically applicable and fun. This channel is gonna blow up. Keep going and making helpful content. Thankyou and Wish you the best
I thought about this as well. I think it comes down to if we are conscious about scrolling. Like youtube has a lot more educational content, but tiktok doesn't. So it depends on the content really.
no one talks about the train of thoughts over which we have no control over that's a distraction too thats an escape route to and that is just a stimulating the music that can't be stopped in our ears
Nice video. Speaking of not rushing, those curls you show at around 3:05 could be improved if you perform them slower and giving your full attention to the contraction. Do some research about Eugene Sandow's light dumbbell system. I bet you'll like it and it'll change your perception about doing exercise.
bro said boring video this was super exciting and fun and enjoyable to watch. i done a little meditation i called it concentration training but the principle is the same but didnt think about doing meditation in between stuff or just being bored good idea
I'm grateful that this video popped up on my explore. thanks for inspiring me to become better version of myself. keep the good work up yan. i believe your channel will grow greater in no time!
Your video and editing skills are amazing. Just a tiny bit of advice noone mentioned is that you should try to incorporate vocal variety into your speech. Simply by changing the tone of your voice inorder to keep the audience more engaged to the video just like how MrBeast or Ali Abdaal does it. Incorporating this will keep us more engaged and make the video more interesting overall. Wishing you all the best 🎉
Very informative, but it's easy to be disciplined for a person like you who didn't get spoiled at the first place. Because a person's brain who was raised well do not know possibility of what levels of dopamine can be achieved doing bad things. However, these are cheap dopamine but once a person gets used to it his subconscious mind aware of what it feels and unfortunately he can never unlearn it. The logical things you are talking about can manipulate our conscious mind, that means the information you are giving us by explaining what is wrong and right is helpful but we already know thousand of things which is right but never able to do those. So gap here is to how to pass these things from our conscious mind to subconscious mind because those habits and awareness(suppose how it feels to smoke) are deep rooted in our subconscious mind and our actions are mainly governed by our subconscious mind. For example you easily said if I am pulling my phone away and telling my brain I am having only option either to read or to work, the most challenging part is to tell our brain I am not having phone as an option because that was deep rooted in our subconscious mind. If you put a lot of pressure on yourself to not do certain thing guess what you end up doing it even more, as a human we cannot comprehend negative , we can only stop doing something by focusing on other things that we are interested more. Conclusion here is very simple whatever you said in this video is 100% correct but it's really impossible to choose boredom as an option in this era where we have thousand options to be entertained(spiking dopamine). There comes concept of Faith, Submission and Tawakkul.
