Practice #32 - Delete Your Videogames

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,400 Video games are a waste of time period. Video games also ruin your life and 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:12,400 destroy everything about you. So, the past couple episodes I've really been talking 3 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:20,120 about one-time changes. Easy changes that take a little mental power or a little 4 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:25,400 courage to make. For example, changing your environment, changing your workspace, 5 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:32,160 changing your room, changing the people you spend your time with, deleting social 6 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:37,960 media, changing your phone to be more optimal. All of these things are one-time 7 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:44,720 changes. And another one-time change is deleting your video games. And take it 8 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:52,080 once I further, remove or delete your entire video game account. So, my game 9 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:58,040 console of choice was Xbox. And so, when I deleted my video games, I actually 10 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:04,240 deleted my Xbox account, which had hundreds of dollars of content on it. 11 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:12,280 Maybe even thousands. Maybe... And then it also had thousands of hours. Tens of 12 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:19,880 thousands of hours of data analytics. Like the gamer score. I had a lot of 13 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,040 gamer score. And then it had like a lot of play time on it. So, I played that 14 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:30,720 thing for tens of thousands of hours on different games. So, I actually went 15 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,920 through and completely deleted that entire account. Because that... like, first of all, 16 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,640 why was I proud of that? Why was I proud that I spent 2,000 hours on Minecraft? 17 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,360 Like, that's stupid. Waste of time. Waste of my life. And then why was I proud that I 18 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:51,200 had a lot of gamer score? Like, I had a lot of points in a virtual computer game. 19 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:56,440 That's stupid. Like, just man up and delete that thing because it's not helping you. 20 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:03,160 And then, I remember I would play video games all day long. That's what I would do. 21 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,120 That was basically my purpose. It got to the point where I was trying to become a 22 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:13,040 pro at Fortnite. Stupid. Like, just a waste of time. And it's not even just a waste 23 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:19,280 of time. It's a waste. It's like, destroys your mental. Your mental capacity for 24 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,880 everything in life. And it takes a long time to heal. And then, one thing is, don't 25 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:34,560 just delete the accounts. Also, completely get rid of your consoles. So, sell your 26 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:41,240 Xbox. Sell your PlayStation. Sell all of that crap. Because you don't want anything 27 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:48,680 to do with it anymore. When I decided to delete my stuff, I just, I didn't even 28 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:56,480 delete my account initially. I just put my, I moved my computer down into the 29 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:03,600 basement. And then, I also moved my Xbox up to the attic into storage. So, I still 30 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,600 had all my video games on my computer and I still had my Xbox upstairs in 31 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:12,840 storage. And then, eventually, I decided to completely factory reset my computer. 32 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:19,520 And then, eventually, I decided to delete all my account, like my Xbox account. Or, 33 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,240 no, no, no. I didn't even decided to delete my Xbox account. So, I factory 34 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,800 reset my computer. And then, after a while, I'm like, why do I even have my Xbox 35 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,280 anymore? There's no point to it. It's just, it's just a waste. It's just me 36 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:38,480 holding on to some hope for being able to use it again in the future. But no, I 37 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,760 never want to use that thing again. The thing is stupid. It's just, I hate that 38 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:50,320 thing. And then, so what I ended up doing was, I listed it on my local Facebook 39 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:56,640 resale pages. And I listed it on OfferUp. And I sold that thing. I sold my Xbox, my 40 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:02,280 Oculus Quest, my, all the controllers, all that book, all that crap. I sold all 41 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:09,240 that stuff. And now, I don't have anything in my house that, actually, my dad still 42 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,680 has a PlayStation, but I never used that. So, I don't have anything in my house 43 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:20,640 that I use for video games or have used for video games, except for my PC, which 44 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:26,080 is an exception for now because it's the only computer that I have. And I factory 45 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,760 reset it. And I didn't really play video games with it for too long, maybe only a 46 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:36,280 couple months, unlike the Xbox was years. But delete the video games because 47 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:40,000 they're just holding you back. Like, you should be reading, you should be working 48 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,680 on your purpose, you should be studying, you should be working out, you should be 49 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,600 doing med, you should meditate, you should do all these things other than video 50 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:56,400 games. Video games, there's never a time that's appropriate to play video games.