Kris Turner oh yea i was thinking about that too and also unlike others he has that unique feeling and attention that makes us to focus I thought it was like a 5min video. He is using high quality vocabs too. I just learned like 3 new vocabs It feels amazing. I just realize how amazing and incredible havared students are. I just can feel the difference I wish I can talk like this 😔 He is extremely talented he will inspire the world someday I bet.
John's mom here. I don't have the same degree of self control as John so I decided to use the same technique i do with potato chips. With chips I dont keep them in the house. With my phone, I have a grand total of 150 MB of data per month. Which means I leave the data turned off all the time but there's enough if I need it.
I went a month without Social Media and I became extremely focused. You realize how much time social media, and youtube, take away from your day to actually read, learn something new, and/or enjoy the environment around you. Go outside, read something new, discover your passion, and the most important of them all, discover yourself.
Deleting social media apps off my phone has really helped me to use it a lot less... It takes a while to train your brain to stop taking out your phone just to scroll through something haha
yuh!! i have no social media apps and otherwise keep myself logged out of everything online. so whenever i take my phone out just because, not cuz im texting or anything, im like....what now?!
I've done the same thing it's just I randomly give myself random 1 month breaks I don't plan when I take SM breaks I just take them when I feel wherever I seem disconnected
I can understand brother. I decided a while ago to go 'feed free'. With no feeds like insta, fb or quora around, my fingers still keep searching for something to scroll and they often find their solace in RU-vid, but anyway after while when you no longer consume social media, you open you open and you go like 'wtf now?'
We can do so much more if we limit our social media use. Even if we get 1 extra hour each day, if you keep using that 1 hour on say working on your business, you can go far
Sport, reading, and whatever skill you might want to learn because you're passionated by it ( playing an instrument, coding, learning a new language...) and of course social activities... I think you have enough ideas to be busy now
Didn't you see the written eassy about what he's talking about that appers in the video at some minute? It was called something like "Thinking about your time in social media".
@@sarahromero8090 But if you read carefully you will be able to see that his name is actually written in there, under the title (as the author of the essay).
Hey, John! I am writing this message to express my gratitude. Last semester I flunked 2 subjects. I was feeling down and had lost my confidence. One day while surfing on RU-vid, I stumbled upon your 'Day in the life of a Harvard student' (the first one) video. After watching it, I was really inspired and gave me new perspective on how to be productive. I worked hard throughout the semester. I gave my exams. The result has just come out and I have cleared all of my subjects. I really appreciate your videos. Thank you very much.
I know you commented this long ago, how did you manage to evolve and change your grades, I'm hooked to my phone, my study methods seems to be worthless, advice me please
Yeah and be a hypocrite and don’t actually take in the message. I’m pretty sure John had already persuaded that you can spend your time more effectively in active leisure. Stop being “woke” and actually start taking his advice if you believe in it.
@Internet Explorer There's no need to. We live in the information age. We just have to balance the filter of information that we're constantly taking in.
I just deleted Instagram because of you, I want to focus on the important things moving forward in life. I wasn't giving attention to my important things in life, my goals and dreams. Hopefully moving forward I'll succeed in my goals
You are a huge influence John. I don’t think I can go as far as deleting all social media, but time spent mindlessly on these things is taking time away from my life. I understand that I get no benefit from consuming digital media, yet I continue to fall into the rabbit hole. I have deleted all the games on my phone and from this point on will work towards lowering the amount of time spent mindlessly on my phone. Thank you for final bringing this problem to my attention
I love that you have mentioned and/or quote Mary Oliver. This is very informative. I appreciate how well you explain things in a universal way. Thanks for sharing.
5:02 How did this happen? Well, a global virus outbreak causing us to get quarantined all day everyday and the only source of entertainment is technology
Loving the "kinda long" transitions with something related to the chapter in the background. It catches/gets back your attention (funny because of the video topic) and offers an opportunity to sort your mind and cool down
I would argue that rather than taking "attention" away from people, they are feeding off peoples' time. People often scroll through social media in a quite mindless and habitual state.
this kind of goes along with Thoreau’s main concepts espoused in “Walden”. it goes into the idea there should be a balance between society and simplicity: in today’s modern world, there should be a balance between technology and human connection. great ideas!
John, your energy, analysis, and advice is extremely refreshing. Out of my several years on RU-vid, this is the first time I have pressed the bell to be notified after each video, and I'm not regretting it in the slightest. Best of luck with your book, we're looking forward to it!
John, I just wanted to say I deeply enjoy the passion you put in giving us quality, meaningful content. I hope that you keep going on that path. Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina!
I have one of my finals tomorrow and I literally sat till 3 am last night watching YT videos. This video couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you, John!
I took 1 month off social media back in November and it was so worth it. I also did no sugar and made more rules for the month to get me more productive. I felt like social media was taking up too much of my time. I feel like most 14 year olds like myself, other teens and even adults constantly put our priorities aside because we put the entertainment of social media first. So i had decided to take this break. Not only that, i got 5 more people to do this with me! To say it was my most productive and self confident month of my life would be completely true :) This was all because i took away social media as my centre of attention and put myself first and my priorities. I ended up getting the highest grades in my class for my exams and I felt so healthy the whole time. I suggest any of you to try it if your not ready to give social media away all at once... social media will be there next month for you to use and maybe by then you wont even want to. ;)❤
Hey John, Greetings from Mexico City, I love your videos and I have to say that you inspire me as a college student. Everything you said is important, we need to learn how to “disconnect” from social media and start doing something in our life if we want to cause an impact in the world. Sometimes we just forget how amazing life is and what incredible things we can do. Keep these videos and quality content, see you!
Something interesting that relates to this topic that I think you should touch on would be the percieved "addiction" that people have to their phones and social media from a biological standpoint. Many studies have been done on the dopamine released in your brain from feeding an "addiction" such as phone use and the rewarding feedback your brain feels from interacting with others or getting likes on the internet. With your intentional attention strategy, you're basically replacing how your brain is getting that dopamine rush or satisfaction (exercise or creativity instead of social media use).
Well, yes. It's actual addiction. Designed to be an addiction by psychlogists who are expert in the field of addictions. I wonder how come some people are still unaware of this fact. All social media and on line marketing plus computer games are developed by people who have studied gambling addicts for example. So yes, any research into if or why any of this if addictive makes us much sense as trying to re-invent a wheel would have nowadays.
I’ve got control over everything but RU-vid. Deleting the App, blocking website on screen time, greyscale, push-ups when feeling the urge,... This platform is so good at soaking me in. As long as my brain knows how to get to videos it does it...and there is always a way with incognito mode or setting your own passwords for example. I changed so many things...doing sports, eating healthy, sleeping a bit longer, going for walks, I just always come back to RU-vid. I really need to get this sorted out, just don’t know how yet.
I stg your videos are more interesting trough time! I'm so happy that people with your mentality shares their point of view in this platform, it really makes people self conscientious watching this type of issues. This year I'm willing to enter to the university, and for that I took the decision to stay away from social media and focus on my upcoming exams and evaluations, this has really improve my day-a-day a lot; I've been reading a lot the past six months and spending more time with my cats (wich is awesome tbh) I really hope that more people choose to spend time in things that are good for their personal development. Once again, thanks for your endlessly wonderful videos. Keep the hard work, John!
Excellent video. Really enjoyed this. I’ve been thinking a lot lately on the impacts of social media in my personal life, and this video articulated the general sentiment i was having. Thanks John!
This is incredible work from you considering your studies at Harvard and how demanding that can be, including other things in your life. Very well done.
Thank you Jhon. I really needed someone to properly elaborate on this particular topic. It is something that was going around my head a lot lately and you just nailed the explanation.
I am really glad you're still posting. I am enjoying your videos with interesting topics such as these greatly. I hope that despite your busy schedule and implicitly limited free time, that you will continue posting every now and then on relevant topics such as this one.
And also that once your channel becomes popular, that you don't limit 99% of its content behind a paywall, like most of my previously favorite channels... thank you.
Dear John, I rarely write comments in such a serious format but the situation calls for it. I want to congratulate you for how well thought-out and structured your videos are, and for how insightful the things you say always are. Every time I watch one of your videos, I feel motivated to be better and my mind feels revived from its slumber. Thank you for that. I don't know you personally but you also seem like a genuinely good person, the kind that I want to surround myself with. Much love and respect from Italy.
First: What a nice and perfectly timed video. One can really tell that you gain a lot of great knowledge from the books you "consume" (since you are pacing through them so fast). Now to my questions: I kind of went through the same route with Instagram, etc. but how do you manage your E-mails? I get a lot of E-mails from clients/payment related stuff, a lot of spam aswell. If I turn off notifications for my E-mails I might lose clients or get in trouble for checking them too late or worse not reading them at all because they drown in Spam or the vast amount of E-mails. *Its really hard to seperate your own online business with social media use nowadays. What would you do in this situation John?* Also to be honest, I spend way too much time in WhatsApp groups. (WhatsApp and notifications are my main killers, I can get rid of Instagram, Reddit, etc. within a very short amount of time). Greetings from Germany, I love your content.
ArmaganVideos the way I deal with e-mails: cancel any subscriptions that are useless or that might distract you (so, emails from random apps or websites, also spam) and you can discipline yourself by only opening the e-mails you know are important, and ignoring those which you know can be opened later.
I created folders in my inbox like "News letters", and created rules which will automatically send emails from certain email adresses into those folders - and doesn't give me any notification, since these are emails I don't need to see immediately. I'm not sure if other email providers can do this or something similar, but I use outlook. Doesn't really help with spam though.
ArmaganVideos Here’s my take on it, if your job focuses on Emailing, there’s nothing you can do. The reason is, there’s nothing you should do. If it’s for work, then it’s a legit serious reason to check your emails. It’s not like going on RU-vid and searching up “Funny cat videos” and watching them for Hours. That isn’t important, and it’s just being unproductive. But if it’s your work, you’re being productive, and you’re getting stuff done. If you’re not happy with it, I can understand why. But just remember if you’re checking your emails for clients, you’re being productive and you’re doing stuff that benefits you instead of watching “Funny Cat Videos”
I have two emails for that. One I have is for work or formal things (like doctor appointments), and other for social media/games. I clean the inbox daily, so it isn’t cluttered and I don’t lose important info. Loool, good luck.
Since i discovered your channel you have helped me and motivated me to have a more organized and healthy life. Recently, I've been trying to use my free time on reading and not spend much time on my phone and it definitly feels so much freer and my days are so much more productive. love your videos!
Thank you very much for your speech here John. I have been bored a little bit with not knowing what to do since I watch a RU-vid a lot now. However, you opened my eyes in every possible way on how I can change that.
I did the same with insta and snap and currently I spend the half of time on my phone. Download quality time it's an app that helped me to disconnect myself of all the technologies and be nearer from my family and friends in the real life.
That was super amazing! Like I love the kind of videos you make and I hope you continue in that path sharing valuable knowledge and your opinions that I personally love with people. Like seriously whenever I get a notification that you uploaded a video, it immediately makes my day. Keep going John, you're amazing! ♥
Thank you for including so much supporting information and data in your video! I also like how your videos are organised into chapters so they're really easy and clear to follow! :) Recently I have been trying to cut down my use of technology as well, particularly on social media. Limiting my instagram use is my main goal, but I don't want to be completely cut off from it because I do enjoy connecting and updating with friends, so I try to use the iphone screen time function to limit it to 30 minutes per day! So far its quite useful because now I would only use it when I'm back from work and I found that I have so much more spare time reading newspaper/books. I also tried to fill up those "transitional" moments of the day (e.g. when commuting/ waiting in line etc) with something more fruitful, eg listening to podcasts and audiobooks, so that I won't feel bored easily and just browse mindlessly on social media.
Man I think I was happier when I didn't have social media. I have become really addicted and it's sad because before I would spent lots of time reading or doing something more productive
I wish there was an app that would lock certain apps after a certain amount of time spent on it during the day. Honestly the time adds up scrolling through Reddit or RU-vid and I wish I could be more efficient about it since I have a hard time limiting myself. I always find myself constantly reaching to open these apps and when I delete them it feels as if I'm addicted to a drug and it keeps calling for me to go back to it. I just know something needs to change soon so in a decade I haven't wasted as much time as I already have
If you have an iPhone you CAN set limits. -Go into your settings and select “screen time” -Select “app limits” -Add limits Bingo bango done-zo simple as that haha
Social media has a negative impact, and oh btw, here are my social media accounts and hit that notification bell to know the second I upload another youtube video!
By far this was one of your best videos because of the message and the theme. I really enjoyed it and will try to limit my social media for sure starting this whole week.
Thank you for making such well-thought videos. I’m thinking a lot about this social media and attention issue lately and I’ve already deleted Instagram from my phone. I don’t even miss it at all. However giving up RU-vid is a bit more difficult for me because there are really a lot of inspiring people there who share their thoughts. (Honestly there is also a lot of crap on yt but that’s not the point now) So I kind of kept bouncing back and forth between using yt and not using yt and I haven’t really found a good solution yet how to keep control of my time and not binging on videos when I’m “lonely”. I’m going to try being on yt now only on Sundays (I don’t mean the WHOLE Sunday though) and dedicating the rest of my time to other tings like reading more (I already am a huge reader 💕), going outside, meeting friends, meditating..... we’ll see how that goes. Like you said, social media isn’t BAD and does have a lot of good sides but I also think it’s very easy to get addicted to it. (And so many people are addicted to it that it has kind of gotten normal) BTW I would really love if you’d do a video on how you figured out what you want to study. 😄 Have a nice day, Freya (After I’ve written so much I kind of had the feeling I should end make the ending sound more “letter-like”)
can't find the motivation or the energy to dedicate the attention to anything , this has been going for a while and my IQ is dropping and i can't focus and can't memorize easily
Here’s a few things you could do that has helped me a ton (and many others): 1. Slowly start adding responsibilities to your life. Be responsible for something that affects others lives if you fall through so that way you have a higher chance of doing it because we all know we don’t give a shit when we fail ourselves, but it seems to bother us more when we fail others. It could be as simple as taking on more at work (or getting a job in first place, anything is better than nothing). 2. Whatever you do, take pride in it and become the best at whatever it is. Even if it’s something you think is dumb such as being a cashier. You can be one damn good cashier that actually influences other people’s lives positively if you actually give a damn at being a good one. Not to mention that mentality will make you rise very fast in being a desirable employee. 3. Start cleaning yourself up. The whole new cliche of cleaning up your room applies. Stay on top of chores. Your household is a reflection of you, make that reflection beautiful. 4. Have friend/family you wish you could be closer with again? Try rekindling that fire slowly. Now these next couple are mainly what could be causing this. 1. Revamp your diet. I was in a very shitty place and I changed my diet completely and I feel amazing. General rule of thumb is to do an elimination diet of sorts. You could do one that’s not too restrictive by simply cutting out added sugars (if it’s not naturally occurring, it’s added), dairy, wheat and anything processed. Give it a month. If you feel better, but feel as though somethings still wrong, eliminate more. I had eliminated all but one food and added back foods later on to figure out what does and doesn’t bother me. Long process but very worth it. 2. Think about why you feel this way. Is it because of something someone said/did? Is it a constant figure in your day to day life shitting on you and you just don’t have any drive left? Do you feel as though you can’t compete with friends/family members, so you’re just demoralized? Or is it simply you have no clear meaning/purpose to your life? If it’s the latter, the simple answer is to apply the first rules I mentioned, especially adding more responsibility. It’ll help get you off your feet, finding purpose, and you’ll start searching effectively for what truly makes your life meaningful.
@@MasterMenahem thanks , for the record i am a science teacher so a lot is counting on me and i don't need to get another job like a cashier but i understand all this and i don't have friends and my family makes me worse if i contacted them and the cause is" who i am " and the way i think , thats the problem , i know i can change that but it needs energy and im kinda stuck mentally
@@Hisham_HMA Be the best science teacher you can then. That's actually a great job. You'll be able to potentially influence a number of kids each and every year to become great, driven people. I've had a couple teachers that have greatly changed my perspectives when I needed it most, we need more of those teachers. I also have/had trouble finding friends and my family relationship is pretty poor as well, but not as bad as yours seems to be. It definitely hurts a lot to be attacked by those that are suppose to love you. I don't know your exact problem with your family, but just reflect on whether or not you think it's possible to try rekindling it. Often times, sadly, it's counterproductive to try to save your family... it's akin to trying to saving a drowning person, they'll just make you drown with them. I'd definitely recommend to try to find a few friends though. What interests do you have? I'm sure there are clubs/organizations around that you could join where you'd find like-minded people. However, you've at least acknowledged you have to fix your stuff which is a big step to make to begin with. You're on your way man, best of luck.
John(am I calling you right? sorry.. not used to western name system), these days I'm seriously thinking about deleting youtube app on my smartphone. I cannot stop myself watching helpless videos for hours wasting my time. Actually I don't know why I'm telling you this now but, anyway I think I should do something with RU-vid
After this video, I've been thinking about my relationship with some apps on my phone and of them is youtube. Well, I would say that although youtube has all sorts of helpless stuff and not important videos, it still has some important stuff. Like this video you just watched. I know we have stuff we like on youtube, eventhough there's a bunch of unreliable videos. So, what I'm going to do, and I would recommend you to do as well, is to unsubscribe from channels that I think are not important for me, and then set a limit in my brain to limit the time that I spend on it. I think it gets easier when you know you want to spend less time on helpless stuff.
I've tried your approach, limiting how much you use youtube is a better approach to help you develop self control rather than deleting it altogether if you enjoy it.
용용 he spoke about this in one of his older videos. How there is a algorithm in the RU-vid system to make us want to keep watching videos. He suggested to unsubscribe from channels that don’t benefit you, limit the watching by the number of minutes the videos is. For example to watch 3 10 minute video a day.
Great Video. It's kinda funny how he tagged himself and linked his socials when the video is saying get off them. It's not easy and definitely something i'm working on. But this kid is really smart. You can see how much he thinks about these things. Most people do them so unconsciously. You're way ahead of the curve Fish.
I've actually had them off my phone for a week now, I still use them on my computer in a controlled way (well, Twitter and Facebook--Instagram+Snapchat are mobile only, mostly) since I definitely don't have the same addictive habits there. I'll probably reinstall them in a bit once I've figured out how I'm going to use them.
Dude, I've followed you for a while now and this is honestly, some of the best content on RU-vid. I would love to see a collab with you and someone like Nerdwriter! Thanks John, I'm always inspired by your intellect.
