Practice #3 - Being an Introvert is a Huge Asset for Self Improvement

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,280 Being an introvert is one of the better attributes that I have in regards to self-improvement. 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:15,360 But it wasn't always... My relationship towards my introvertedness was not always that way. 3 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:24,160 I used to be embarrassed that I was not really good in social situations and I used to be embarrassed 4 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:33,040 about not going to the sporting events, not hanging out with that many people, not having that many 5 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:38,960 friends. I used to be embarrassed about all this stuff, but once I got into self-improvement, 6 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:48,480 I realized that it was one of my best assets because it allowed me to easily kind of cut out my 7 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:57,360 friends and just focus on myself and kind of transition to just focusing on my success. 8 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:04,560 And so what I ended up doing was I wanted to go to the gym, I wanted to get consistent and 9 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:10,640 build my physique. So I tried to figure out the best time for me to go, which was before school, 10 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:17,280 at six in the morning. And it was super easy for me to do this because I was able to fall asleep 11 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:22,160 in time. That was one of the best advantages I had because I didn't really have a social life. 12 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:27,040 So I was able to just get home and get to bed by seven o'clock, eight o'clock at night. 13 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:35,040 And now it's six o'clock at night. And I've seen a lot of different people, 14 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:41,520 my age, come and go from the gym around this time. And they were never able to be consistent. 15 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:49,920 And that was because I had one major advantage over them, which was no social life. And that 16 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:57,920 allowed me to have an early bedtime, which also brings me up. It also reminds me of the point 17 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:03,600 of the fact that whenever people ask me what's on my go to bed, they're always so shocked. And 18 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,720 it's because they have a social life so they could never see themselves going to bed at such an 19 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:16,240 early time because for them, their day starts at six o'clock. And for me, my day ends at six o'clock. 20 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:24,960 They basically stay up late, but I wake up early. And that's the power of being an introvert. And 21 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:32,880 it's more than just being able to go to bed early. It's more than that. It's also the fact that 22 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:40,480 you don't have to worry about other people. You can just focus on yourself. Honestly, 23 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:47,520 it's still going on now, but for the past two years, I basically just honed in and just focused 24 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:53,040 on myself. And I basically don't hang out with people. I haven't hung out with people in so long. 25 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,920 And that gives me so much time to just focus on myself. And also one of the biggest things 26 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:07,520 is when you hang out with people, they try to cause, they not try to, but the way hanging out 27 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:17,360 with people tends to go is you tend to break your habits and take on bad habits while you're out. 28 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:24,400 So let's say you go to out to eat and usually you eat healthy, but you're more likely to eat unhealthy 29 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:32,880 when they go out or when you go out with someone else. It's because that person does not have the 30 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:39,440 same values as you. Now, if someone does have the same values as you, then you are not likely to eat 31 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:46,800 unhealthy, but usually people don't have friends that have the same values as you, especially if 32 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:52,320 you're, well, actually that's not true, but let me explain first. If you're on self-improvement 33 00:03:52,320 --> 00:04:00,640 and you're in a situation like me, then you are a lone wolf. There is pretty much no one in your 34 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:07,600 entire school who has the same values as you. Now, me, I'm lucky because I'm friends with two people 35 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:13,440 that have similar values to me, but it wasn't always like that. I just met these two people 36 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:21,440 within the past year. And so pretty much before last year, I was always, I thought that no one 37 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:28,800 had the same values as me. So I was all alone. And that is so good. I'm so grateful that I'm 38 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:38,160 an introvert because I get to just focus on myself and people don't, people actually only care about 39 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:44,320 you focusing on yourself while you're still kind of friends with them or while you're still actively 40 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:51,920 hanging out with them. But once you transition and you just kind of slowly but surely break off, 41 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,000 then after a couple of weeks, they just forget about you and they don't care. 42 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:02,880 Like I, once I stopped going on my phone, I stopped texting people and then as a result, 43 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,680 they just stopped texting me. And now I haven't received a text from anyone else within the 44 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:14,960 past like two months. So that is such a huge asset.