Reversal of Desire 1. Imagine the task as a cloud 2. Yell "Bring it on" 3. Move into the cloud and feel at one with it, say I LOVE PAIN 4. Feel the cloud spit you out, propel upwards and say "Pain sets me free" Inner Authority 1. Imagine standing in front of people that make you feel insecure 2. Project your insecurities as a shadow 3. Imagine you and the shadow turning to audience and shouting LISTEN! Jeopardy tool 1. See yourself on your deathbed, tubes and all 2. See your olderself sit up and yell " Don't waste your time"
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
I've learnt another tool recently that helps not to procrastinate: each time you feel that you will go doing something useless instead of starting working on your important goals, tell yourself the following sentence: "My discipline, it's choosing between what I want know, and what I want most."
Pain can serve as checkpoint, a platform for growth. So true about the 'shadow' self, wise to embrace it instead. Working in unison, rather than in opposition. Fantastic review n summary.
The summary video did a great job of explaining the book "The Tools" concisely and simply. There are many more tools to discover in "The Tools" and in the sequel "Coming Alive" to overcome mental or emotional issues. These is an additional sequel by the authors that has not been released yet.
If you use tool #3 you actually build more anxiety because whenever you feel like doing something for pleasure you'll feel guilty, like you should be doing something productive or you'll regret for the rest of your life. It so happens that sometimes you have to do things that bring you pleasure and happiness instead of results. You've got to rest, play, have fun too, not only learn and develop yourself, and by using that tool you turn those happy but healthy (when used moderately) activities into a source of guilt, and the result is that you get extremely anxious and counterproductive. The other tools seem like they could work, but I think number 3 should be used carefully
Excellent, thank you so very much Productivity Game! love all you do. You have also changed my life in a positive way, and I am very glad I found your channel. Looking forward to another very interesting book summaries.
Peace is a lie. There is only Passion. Through Passion I gain Strength. Through Strength I gain Power. Through Power I gain Victory. Through Victory my chains are Broken. The Force shall free me.
I used the reversal of two days when I was getting my wisdom teeth pulled. I was an ounce but I was not under anesthesia and working on the imagery really did help me get through it I cried but honestly I know the immaturity and listening to the video a few times for the procedure helped
I have bought several books because of these videos… books I never heard of. so helpful!! Thanks 🙏🏻 🥰 Also, I have never felt insecure because of others or not being good enough or something. So most of these kind of books don’t apply. For example, When people talk about “imposter syndrome” I have literally no idea what they mean as far as the inner feeling goes. Every human exists on a spectrum of ability. If you are at the high end of IQ, you won’t find self-help or really basically anything aimed at you. Your particular difficulties. For example, my MAIN insecurity is that people won’t understand me. Then the other one is that they will use prior prejudices and try to pigeonhole me. So a lot of people have that problem because of lack of ability not too much. So who then needs the therapy? I could probably help psychologists. (I was a psychology major). How do I get past THAT painful insecurity 😂 🤷♀️ when other people may not have the ability to see what I see -like ever. Sucks to be me I guess. I have problems that psychologists simply don’t and even cannot understand. For example I would have to tell them how I view the world. Which is NOTHING like most people. For example I watch history programs on TV and I am always like “that’s not what they were thinking or why they did that…” or really any program. I saw so much more in the Voyager probe on that panel they sent. I see information vital to the future of humanity in things people don’t see at all or they ignore as irrelevant. Like what the universe is, and what it means for example. I left graduate school because all my professors were basically wrong-even though what they were doing was valuable and I learned from it. People tend to pave over paradoxes, blind spots, inconsistencies in things. Like we do with blind-spot in visual field where ocular nerve exits… For example at one point in my life I got really upset because I thought they were doing it on purpose. This blindness. For nefarious subconscious reasons… like money and prestige or power. But I grew some more and once I said to someone after much thought that all IQ was, at the most basic level was motivation… and they looked at me funny and said that it definitely wasn’t for most people. That funny look constantly happens if I just be myself and say things I really think. I have prejudices too-like that motivation thing-so it was very helpful in understanding that people tend to project onto the world how they are inside and interpret things accordingly. Luckily that incident and many others happened early on so I have been working on that ever since. (Prejudices, projections). Once a very helpful person told me to view people as children and that helped immensely. Kids can be so irritating but you also can’t help love them. Adults are much more cantankerous and prejudiced but it certainly helps. I learned a lot from my kids, and adults too of course. I shouldn’t comment really. People get pissed as a defense mechanism, literally can’t get their minds around the sincerity of what I say, the objectivity of it. Thanks for reading if you did. I wrote a book no one read. Now I am writing another one about the universe. Hopefully one day someone reads it. Unless the psychic matrix erected by electronically solidified social prejudices weeds them all out in the next few years. All I was trying to say was I need to sample a lot of things so that I can put together a program which works for me. Found some gems here-enough that I am buying the book when I get paid. Thanks 🙏🏻 😊
Great video - I'm just curious, I've read this book and I'm curious why you didn't make examples for ACTIVE LOVE and THE GRATEFUL FLOW? You did such a good job simplifying the tools in this video, I'm actually bummed that you don't have explainers for those two as well. Either way, great job! This definitely added to the book's sometimes confusing explanation of the tools, particularly inner authority.
Loved this! Thank you so much. Extremely insightful. The fog tool is genius. I now use it on the regular. It's similar to Ryan Holiday's "The Obstacle Is the Way" frames.
Love your work, Nathan. Thank you. This one is brilliant. I’ve never heard of The Tools or the authors. I feel very grateful you’ve introduced me to them. The Tools are awesome. I can’t wait to start trying them out. Looking forward to the next vid!
Mind is hard to fight mind. These are taking for granite the change in perspective a negative mind state can bring. Like saying "next time I'm horny, I won't sext with strangers" or "next time I'm hungry I will say no to the cookies in front of me". It's silly! Take action, not try to think more... act before you have time to try and think. Thoughts are slippery! Specially when in alter states! Visualization is especially hard during these times, certainly when it's about something opposing your current state.
I can't see the difference between The Reversal of Desire and Jeopardy. Can you explain if there is any difference? In both situations, you want to stay in your comfort zone and do nothing.
These tools are nice in the short term because they’re immediately accessible by everybody. I am sceptical however about the longterm effect of convincing yourself over and over again that you love pain and/ or visualising yourself dying. That can’t be healthy.
@@m.ahmed.y1723 - I think the Stoic philosophers have it right with ‘Memento Mori’ or ‘Remember Death’ but visualising yourself sitting up in your death bed exclaiming that you must live now would make me an anxious wreck.
Has anyone read the book? The book has 5 techniques according to its book cover. What are the 2 other tools that the creator of the video supposedly found less useful and not worth including in the video?
What if using the ‘Jeopardy’- imagining your deathbed do the exact opposite? What if I fantasize the final moment or wished it would happen right away, can’t wait it or makes me to think ‘uh, what is the point of me trying if the end is inevitable kinda thoughts instead of the ‘urgency that sparks the freewill’? Could someone please help me to find what I am missing? In the book someone asked a similar question what if I can’t use the tool Jeopardy’, Barry answered no matter how demoralized or lazy you are, if you’re alive and conscious, you have enough energy to make some tiny effort in your own behalf. But I don’t think it answers my question unlike all of the other great answers I have for every question and doubt I had😢
I had a similar but different experience. I’ve been hopelessly depressed for years and sometimes reading these type of books make me feel worse because I think my brain is beyond the point of help. I have an issue with the “shadow” because my shadow is me right now. It doesn’t elaborate on that situation unless my brain tuned out during that part of the book. The worst one is the death bed. I can’t wait to die and just stop being… it’s not a deterrent, but a desire.
english is not my own native language so i can't actually understand what is "Bring it on" mean , can somebody explain me with another sentences ,words
Very interesting tools. but I think is it not easy to implement on the first go. Probably need to be consistent, and probably try and fail a few times, before mastering these tools. then of course by then, you will feel invincible!
There s something in the 2nd one, thought to give out authority is faulty in the first place. The 1st and 3rd are wrong because of visualising negative things. That is very wrong.
ok, but pain in a capitlist society is mostly disfunctional things that are unnevessary pain and simply harmful, not positive, in a sense of opportunity or „realm of possibilities“
What if I am the epitome of the shadow right now. I am it and it is me. I look like the lost shameful guilty ugly regretful self. I can't find anything other than that.
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Anyone else find some of these tools useless because they already passed the point of no return? The first tool is basically a better thought out version of the 5 second rule. I can see how this works sometimes. I didn’t see any addendum to “the shadow” in case your shadow version is the present moment version of yourself. So that doesn’t work in my head. The worst one is the death bed one. What if someone’s current mind set is that the only thing they are looking forward to is death? If death is not an ultimate deadline to someone, but is their desired ultimate goal, how is it going to deter lazy or bad behavior? Not being a dick just to be a dick… these are legit issues I have to a book I was told would be life changing and that the tools were supposed to be fool proof.
