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Hi everyone. I am extremely excited for this video because in this video, we're going to be criticizing myself, looking back at things that I've said in the past that I probably disagree with now, trying to figure out whether it's even true and whether or not I've led you guys astray. Because I've been on YouTube for almost 10 years, and I know for a fact that I've evolved as a person. So surely I will have said things or many things that I now disagree with. Potentially even things that are not true at all. Bad advice. I have no idea what I'm going to find
in this video. Maybe everything I've said has been just bars since day one, but I doubt that. I'm not very smart. I have an IQ of 48. Video number one, how to make the best to-do list for school. First video I ever made. There's something just so satisfying about getting things done. you know, checking the boxes off in your to-do list, walking the dog, sending emails. I kind of look like a completely different person. You know, it makes you feel good inside. It makes you feel like you're not as lazy as you probably are. But if you're like me, you often get distracted easily
and actually don't get stuff done. That's not the way things have to be. I'm about to tell you a secret that will make you more productive. And it all starts with a checklist. Basically, dump every short-term task and goal onto a piece of paper and become clear-headed and more productive. rank every task on that list from most urgent to least urgent. You're a goddamn genius. That's the most outstanding answer I've ever heard. There's nothing wrong with this video. I'm clearly kind of uptight and nervous in front of the camera. The core concept of this video is that the best way to
make a to-do list is to brain dump every single task that you have on a piece of paper. This is not going to ruin your life. This is totally fine. Marginally helpful. I think everybody kind of knows to do that by now. How to become more disciplined, a quick guide. Are you someone who relies on motivation or discipline to get things done? Maybe you don't know the answer to that question. Or maybe your answer is, well, a little bit of both. The answer for everybody is a little bit of both. Everybody relies on both motivation and discipline to get things done. Motivation is
dopamine. Everybody has dopamine. And if you don't have dopamine, you die because you won't have the energy to get out of your chair. I'm going to talk about why discipline is infinitely more powerful than motivation and why you should never rely on motivation ever again to get things done. A, that would be impossible. How you going to just cut off your motivation completely? It is neurochemical. And secondly, it's a cute idea. We'll hear what 20-year-old Joey has to say. Discipline operates differently than motivation. Whereas motivation is a divinely inspired gift from above, discipline is
a muscle, a mechanical neurological system that gains power and influence through repetition. What is it really? Is discipline a muscle that is a neurochemical process that gains what did I say? A mechanical neurological system that gains power and influence through repetition. Did I just Google that before I How did I know that? Is that even a thing? Where did I get that idea from? And why is my mustache so thin? Truth is, everyone has enough discipline to do at least one thing every single day towards a larger goal. The folks over on Reddit call this having a
nonzero day. The folks over on Reddit call this nonzero day. Are there any folks on Reddit, but just a bunch of goblins over there in my opinion? The cheery folk over at Reddit. I was so much less jaded back then. Yeah, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with this advice, but I did say some wrong, inaccurate things before. You have to rely on motivation. And a lot of people have depleted motivation because they browse Instagram reels in the morning. They don't get very much sleep. They're on their phone late at night. So when they wake up in the morning,
they do not have as much free dopamine to spend. Dopamine's a weird one, right? The more you feel dopamine, the more dopamine you release, the more motivation you feel. That's what motivation is. The dopamine is already inside your brain. So yeah, how do you get more dopamine? Stop scrolling Tik Tok, especially at night and especially first thing in the morning. But also get lots of sleep. Have a good diet. Drink neutrify. There are parameters you can set up so that your dopamine system works better so that motivation isn't this thing that comes out
of the sky. It's something that you inherently have a lot of. How to get everything done in a day. Do you have something you need to be doing right now? Yes, sir. Yes, Mr. Ideas. Have you ever thought about what it would feel like if you actually completed all of it? Today we're going to talk about that. I'm Joey and welcome to Better Ideas. I really missed that intro. That is the ugliest logo I have ever seen in my life. It is a brain light bulb. Like, what are we talking about here? In order to have a day where you're
massively productive from start to finish, you have to set yourself up for success. Why do I sound so empathetic in this? I sound like I'm really trying to encourage you. And I'm like, no, it's okay. You can be productive. I wonder what happened to that energy. I don't know if I like it. So, here are five techniques that I use when I really need to get stuff done. And when I use them together, I notice I'm just far more focused, far more motivated, and I actually end up crushing everything on my to-do list. Number one, find your sacred space.
The sacred space is your particular geographical location that you treat with the utmost respect. It's your temple of productivity. So far so good. I don't call it the idea of the sacred space anymore, but I vibe with it. Ironically, here in this office, I've messed up this space. No further comment. Number four is to use the pomodoro technique. Oh no. Pomodoro. Pomodoro. Pomodoro technique I don't find helpful at all. Maybe I did back then. What do I have to say about it? So basically you work for 25 minutes and take a 5-minute break doing some type of
non-mentally hyperactive activity. This reduces the amount of mental strain associated with high levels of concentration and allows you to work harder for longer. I don't know if the pomodoro technique is something that anyone really uses. Do you use it? Do you work for 25 minutes and then take a five minute break and then work for another 25 minutes and then take a five minute break? In my experience, that 5 minute break does not end up being 5 minutes. If I've got to just crush a heavy workload, and I notice myself start to drift at around 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.,
if I can fall asleep for 40 minutes, and then when I wake up, have a big glass of water, walk around the block, and lock in, it's like I just slept 8 hours. It's magical. So, I don't know if I really vibe with this 25inut, take a 5m minute break, do it again, 5 minute break. But I have never relied on the Pomodoro technique to do any meaningful work. I call cap on this one. Seven things that quickly cured my procrastination. Confront your distractions before working. I would kind of use this technique as a last resort, although it has been very effective for me recently. The way this
works is that you set a timer for 15 minutes or 10 minutes or however long you need to actually engage with the distractions and the escapes that you want to engage with. Sometimes I do this, but I don't know if it helps that much to be honest. This truly is a last resort. In fact, I think this could be actively detrimental because when you're flooding your brain with so much dopamine, you're reducing dopamine receptor sensitivity so that the work that you eventually do will be less engaging, less motivating. You're not actually helping yourself do the work. It is just a kind
of a big ball of cope. So, I would actually say this is Cap. Before we scrutinize the next video, I just want to give a big thank you to Incogn for sponsoring this video. We talk a lot on this channel about spending less time on the internet and going outside and touching grass. But what about your information that's already living on the internet without you knowing about it? If you've ever gotten a scam call or a sketchy text from a number you didn't recognize and you realize that they know your name, your phone number, and sometimes even your home address, or worse,
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your life. Step one, close your body language. Go throughout life with a closed body language. Slouch your shoulders. Keep your head down. Don't make eye contact. Right off the bat, closing your body language is not going to ruin the rest of your life. This is overly simplistic because sometimes you got to lock in. You've got [__] to do. You have a project you're working on. You're walking somewhere. You have places to be. Not all the time do you want to be super receptive to everybody who wants your time and attention. Doing this will reduce the amount of friends you
make. But what if you already have enough friends? I don't think you should have your headphones in. That's just bad situational awareness. You're going to get mugged or something. But you also shouldn't be like, "Oh, hey everybody. Come talk to me. Come distract me." Not that I don't think you should be friendly with everyone around you. Do you see where I'm coming from? But also, all of this is kind of this is stupid. Like, what do we do in micromanaging every little movement? I don't want you walking away from this video thinking like, "Okay, Joey said that you can't
be too closed, but you need to be a little bit open, but you also need to just walk where you're walking and go where you need to go." And he says, "Do wear headphones or don't wear headphones." I forget. Just whatever. Be confident. Live your life. Step two, check your phone big time. Yes, I don't disagree with this at all. Everybody knows that checking your phone all the time is ruining your life. Step three, be late. Never be early to anything. Always tend to show up right on time or a few minutes late. I really like this scene. It's so dystopian and corpo, but it makes me think that
what I'm saying is you should always be early to your corpo overlord job and be a good little pawn, a good little cog in the system. In a way, that is what I'm saying because if you have a corpo overlord job, you should crush it so that you can make more money so that you can do what you actually want to do with your life. So yeah, be early for that corpo overlord job because that's how you should operate everywhere. It'll just serve you well to have those good habits. Number five, develop an external locus of control. Begin to actually believe that nothing is your fault.
choose to believe that everything in your life happens to you and nothing because of you. This whole internal versus external locus of control, I've actually got a surprising amount of flak for. For those of you who don't know, locus of control is a psychological concept referring to where you believe the power in your life originates. People with an internal locus of control believe that their actions and choices shape their destiny. Those with an external locus of control believe outcomes are driven by fate, luck or powerful outside forces. So I am a huge believer in both
of these concepts. I believe that there are large forces at play that you have nothing to do with psychological, spiritual, political warfare all around you and you're affected by it constantly. However, focusing all of your effort and attention on these outside forces, it gives you a 0% chance of thriving in that difficult environment as opposed to a 5 or 10% chance or 11% chance. It's not about thinking that you control everything. There are so many outcomes in your own life that you can't possibly predict, you can't plan for, but your choices matter and not everything's
going to go your way, but you can certainly make better choices instead of worse choices. To me, that's what having an internal locus of control is all about. Eight steps to unfrickick your life. Shower. Get fresh. Treat yourself with respect. Brush your teeth. Wear a scent. Because this is it. This is the character you're playing as. And if you fail to take care of yourself on a basic level, you'll fail outwards in space and time. If you fail to take care of yourself on a basic human level, you'll fail outwards in space and time. Sounds very smart. Maybe it is smart. But
I also think that if you don't have your life together, if you didn't shower in the morning, you're still capable of great good. You're still capable of creativity. You can still save a cat from a tree. I just operate on vibes, right? So, if the vibes call for me to lock in and not shower and be goblin mode, then that's what it calls for. However, when it comes to dealing with people, I find the opposite to be true. There's no way I'm going to go to a social outing at 8:00 p.m. and be unshaven. If I can like smell myself, smell my own funk, the level of confidence that I will
have at that social outing will just be severely reduced. Refuse to live in a monument of filth like an everpresent reminder of things left undone because the space you occupy is an extension of yourself. I think having a messy house somewhat is just life. But I think if you're attempting to be productive in an area and it's just it just looks like crap and there's stuff everywhere, it is literally harder to be productive in a space that is not orderly. Okay. And finally, one of the things I want to address is just the hyperbole of my titles, right? I am being
extremely dramatic. The fastest way to ruin your entire life. Are these things going to ruin your entire life? No, probably not. But I have to call it that for YouTube because it gets 7.2 million views. But then if you watch the video, hopefully there are some good and useful points in there. That's the whole game, right? You make the thumbnail, you stare into the camera, you get the clickbait, you watch the video, and you go, "Okay, it wasn't clickbait. This is a very useful video." Unfortunately, that's just the way YouTube works. Like, you have to be kind
of clickbaity. Your whole YouTube operation is useless. If you call your video something like a reflection on the types of behaviors that may make things suboptimal for you, nobody's going to watch that video, right? You got to call it eight steps to unfick your life. how optimizing my sleep is making me limitless. Anyways, I hope you liked the video. What did you think of this format? I would love to hear your thoughts about things that I've said that you disagree with, some things I may have missed in this video. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed this
video, I would really appreciate it if you hit the like button because when you actually hit the like button, the algorithm blesses me and it shoves my bald head into other people's homepages, helping them out, which also helps me out. So, it's a win-win for everybody involved. Leaving a comment also really helps the algorithm, too. But regardless, I would love to hear your thoughts. I want to talk about some of these concepts with you. Things that you found helpful and things that you found that ruined your life that I said and now I owe you. Actually,
I don't owe you anything. I do. No, I don't. Now, it's just weird. I don't really know it. See youa.
