What I learned from the video 1. Keep your dopamine baseline check and make sure to do delayed gratification 2. Doing nothing is better than doing something that is bad 3. The more you do it the more it compounds 4. Make sure that you’re still addicted but to good things
this spring I went back to China to meet my entire dad's side of the family tree. We had a huge reunion dinner with many children (like 5-12 years old) present. They were ALL on a device in one way or another. the younger ones were begging their parents for their phones to watch tik toks and the older ones were just scrolling the entire time social media is SCARY those kids probably only watch tik toys because their parents do without realizing how much it harms them.
fr i decided it in a while around more than a year ( i jus decided yesterday ill detox my mind and dopamines on friday i really failed to, and then this videos comes up always by ruff on exact days)
In a nutshell 1. Replace the habits you can't be proud of with those that you can be proud of (replace instant gratification with delayed gratification) in such a way that your core need is still met, just in another form. Ruff used to play video games for the satisfaction gleaned from visible improvement and achievements-now he makes youtube videos for the same, where levels are likes and subscribers, youtube achievements, etc. 2. "Bored chapter" means initially, you will realize that you are in a downward spiral of sorts (bad habits), and instead of enforcing bad habits, it's better to simply not do them and think of something else. It's ok to do nothing for a while and be bored. Being bored lowers your dopamine level, making less stimulating habits like reading a nonfiction book easier to do that it was before when you could play video games. 3. "Lonely chapter" means if you take self help in levels of 0-10 where 0 is never having done anything to improve in your life and 10 is having consistently improved yourself for years, you r current friends might be at like 2, your target is a 10, so this disparity between your goal and your environment will leave you feeling disconnected from society (sort of) and bored, which is why you should learn to embrace boredom instead of something worse for the brain.
Not gonna lie I don’t think that is much of a delayed gratification in the first place to be honest if you really want to do delayed gratification you should read a book instead Note- this is just my opinion
@@RashadImproves i rly agree, that's why i said 'a bit'. remembering i used to comment and scroll through it before finishing the video. i've also read 3 books this year and it really helped me to cure my scrolling addiction. thanks for the advice tho!
Dude, I can't thank you enough for this video. Recently, I've been falling off of self improvement and the instant dopamine was really getting to me. This video completely stole me back from that. The advice of just being bored works like nothing else. My day just turned around completely. I hope you have a great week man.
Hey, Ruff! What's your eyeglasses prescription? My left eye is -5.00 D while my right is -3.50 D with bad astigmatism. Just wondering because I read in a research paper that most Singaporeans are nearsighted.
Ruff i can see tht u have knowledge about everything today i had eye checkup and my right eye is -2.50 and left eye is surprisingly-4.50 now im 18 yrs old how can i recover my eyes naturally not fully but little please help me
First of all, I love your content! I actually enjoy reading. I read on my e-reader regularly. Im not gonna stop reading as it does not seem and feels harmful, especially compared to p*rn and shorts. But it does make me wonder if its causing a dopamine spike. Anyways, love your content!
same, but feel like I have to tone down the reading cuz my instant gratification is reading I go through so many books in a month (31 for April, I'm not sure if I should be proud or disappointed ) and these books are 350 - 700 pages long when I'm not reading I update my read list and get more books I don't have like instead of studying for exams like even before exams I find myself reading a six-hundred-page book I can't put down I love keeping track of the books I have and have read and I love going to different worlds through books, what do you think is a delayed gratification I can substitute for reading?
wait i wanna talk about something, about leaving 18 behind because it was the age that i succeed dopamine detox. so yeah a few days ago i turned 19, it means ive been an adult for a year. come to think about it, it was a nice year for me. i feel a lil bad because i couldnt achieve ALL my goals but still, i tried SO HARD to achieve those difficult goals, so it's not a total loss for me. every mistake i made actually made me better. i cant believe im actually thankful. bc in fact im a person who would get way too sad and frustrated about that. it's odd that im positive lately i must admit being positive is actually cozy. well yes im still not a hundred percent positive but who is? at least, no one should be. people have to learn how to use negativity for good. in brief i wrote down my new goals again and i started working for em, wish me luck and power.
In Sha Allah you’ll be able to achieve your goals man. I relate with you a lot in this aspect. Many times I get 30-80% of my goals done but not the full 100% but I stopped beating myself from it. Atleast I’m not in level 0 anymore.
I like how you did a video similar to this, you even drew it yourself (I have that drawing of the two graphs posted in my door). But this video was just a more improved version of that video. Nice job man, keep doing the good work and take action!
I can't believe that a guy like you is of my age . I really get jealous of you like how a guy could have this level of self control and mindset . But I am glad that I follow a guy like you that's a little win for me 🙂. I really got inspired by your videos and I am really on my path of self improvement not 100% but still I am happy with my new and positive self 😇🤓 . Thanks for making videos 😊
I was just thinking about this topic and wow here ruff knowing it through telepathy and uploading ( really got me thinking into a long zoning out session for thinking if human brain are thinking the same think at same time -)
Is it just me or y'all also be sleeping when bored. I can't even imagine how low my dopamine level if i sleep legit when im not scrolling or sm shit- I'm in desperate need of s cure/replacement for this. Please help y'all..
It's summer now and studying doesn't really seem like something important So what do i even do I don't think sitting in boredom for like 12 hours is normal
Hey man, do you ever feel like behind on trends just by not going on social media? I've been kinda going on less social media nowadays and I started realising that I kind of just don't get all the dances and the memes that people are talking about.
this guy is just telling us what our mom tells us everyday but expect he's saying it instead of our mom so it sounds more legit and its working (no offence to mom)
please pin me there is this qoute I made for myself and I wanted to share that.. Don't be like a person who is "if they can do it then I can too" Be like a person who is "if they can't do it, it dosen't mean I can't" ✨✨
This whole video is so useful especially for self-improvement in general. For me i think this is very important to self improve like delayed gratification.
Bruh being on nofap sometimes is so hard. Your brain thinks you're going out of track from normal routine. And then it starts wavering from one thought to other. And you can't even work. I don't know how to deal with it 😅
Thank you ruff! you have helped me so much with my life. Every video you make is changing mine and others lives. I can't thank you enough for everything you have done. Good luck with your channel!
Really good video. I can relate to what you said about feeling a lack of motivation after indulging in instant gratification, that was something I struggled with for about 2-3 years. I've been on a Dopamine Detox/Reduced Instant Gratification Lifestyle for about 4 months now and I've gotta admit, it's really improved my productivity.
I am proud that I've kept my phone screen time below 3 hours (although i watch videos more on my laptop now since I use it everyday for programming and stuff) Even when I last went on holidays. Mostly achieved this through deleting all my "fun" games and social media (discord really)
Yo ruff I doubt you will see this comment but I'll be glad if you do. First of all, thankyou for this video this is exactly what I needed, i have watched all your videos so i was aware of how much instant gratification i was consuming but I still did it anyway. It was getting tougher to get back on track but now I'm gonna try again. Also, could you make a video on how to find the right career for yourself? I'm in my 2nd year of high school and I need to make a decision soon. I have seen advices that says find your interest and all, ik that's right but those advises wasn't really enough for me. That's why I was hoping if you could make a guide or something about it since I always find your advices unique and easier to understand and implement :] (praying to God that you'll somehow see this comment)
after a bit of thinking, i think having a love hate relationship with a habit seems to be the real problem. lets take cold showers for example, in my opinion i feel hot showers are better to have a healthier body in some aspects and cold showers are too, so in this way a conflict arises. and for indecisive people like me, my brain avoids conflict so i end up giving up way sooner. im trying to fix this but idk how.
I've been trying to go down the path of improvements for the short time of a week. I feel like the hardest part so far for me has been separating myself from the friends I have. On one hand I can see that the progress I make alone is far greater than it is with people. But on the other hand all of the friends I made appreciate me, and want me to talk with them. I just don't know if how I can balance friendships and work while maintaining motivation to stay on the work I am doing. Is the work i'm filling the holes with not sufficient enough? Or is there some way to find a proper balance that i'm not seeing?
when sitting on the bus, I never pull up my phone unless to check the time, call someone or text or read an interesting article. I have found that my baseline is higher as I am not bored doing menial work at my workplace
yo russ long time viewer can you make a vid on how to speak to strangers more confidently? or something along the lines of that, it would help a ton. thanks
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