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Nov. 24, 2023

The Third Step to Self Improvement

The Third Step to Self Improvement
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The Third Step to Self Improvement
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Season 2

This is the "dopamine free" version of the YouTube video called "The #1 habit stealing your time."

  1. Turn on the grayscale color filter
  2. Delete all of your non-tool apps. This includes youtube, social media, and games. A tool app would be the notes app or the calculator, which are purely tools.
  3. Delete all of your social media accounts altogether.
  4. Remove all apps from your home screen. Your home screen should be empty, so you must manually search for certain apps without distraction. This requires you to have a purpose whenever using your phone.
  5. Remove the suggested apps in the search bar when you swipe down to search.
  6. Turn off all notifications on your phone and keep your phone on do not disturb mode indefinitely.
  7. Make it so you have to click the power button to turn it on instead of it turning on automatically when you pick it up.
  8. Keep the phone in airplane mode and always power it off when not using it. Power off means going through the process of holding down the power button for a few seconds and sliding the shut-off button, do this every time.
  9. Keep the phone in the basement or somewhere far away from where you are most of the time.
  10. Break the habit of bringing your phone everywhere with you. You can do things on your own.
  11. Keep your phone out of your pocket if you need to bring it. Try and get someone else to hold it or put it in a bag. Remember to keep it powered off and on airplane mode.
  12. Eventually, get to the point where you only use your phone when you have a purpose.
  13. Keep making more changes as you learn more, but I have found from experience that these changes have the most significant impact.

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Transcript
1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 The most common habit that is wasting most people's time is screen time. 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:10,320 And once you get rid of it, you will free up so much time. 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:17,440 I used to waste hours every day watching YouTube, TikTok, Netflix, all the all the sort. 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:24,320 I would waste the whole morning just staring at my phone. The worst part was that I did not even 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:30,560 enjoy it. I would just lay in my bed watching TikTok for hours. I hadn't even showered, 6 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:37,040 eaten, or brushed my teeth. I remembered it being genuinely difficult to get off my phone and start 7 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:43,200 the day. I would just scroll through TikTok and I would think, I should get up. I'm hungry. I got 8 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:50,480 to start my day. But then I would just go back on and say, it's easier to keep watching TikTok. 9 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:57,120 It's too hard to get up. Even though that is such a simple thing, I genuinely found it difficult 10 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,240 to get off my phone. And maybe some of you are like that. So that's why this video is for you. 11 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:09,920 Flash forward to today. I spend less than 10 minutes a day on my phone. I'm so much more happy 12 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:16,720 and productive. I have used my time on building a nice physique and reading a lot of self-improvement 13 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:23,920 books, learning about business, entrepreneurship. So what did I do? I took many steps to make my phone 14 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:30,800 less addicting and I gave myself less opportunities to use these dangerous apps. So I'm going to lay 15 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:38,880 out a few things that I did. And the biggest thing that I would do right now, if I were you, is turn 16 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:44,080 on grayscale mode and just keep it on. On my phone, I have grayscale mode on indefinitely. 17 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:50,720 I would also turn off all the notifications off of all apps and keep do not disturb 18 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:59,200 on at all times. This will make it so you do not get notified whenever you have a notification, 19 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:07,920 which gives you even less opportunity to accidentally or to get pulled into that app. 20 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:14,480 And in the description of this video, I also wrote down an entire list of all the changes that I made 21 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:20,800 on my phone. But the key thing to remember is that you do not have to make all these changes right 22 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:28,880 away. This can be done over time. So add this video to save for later so you can return over and over 23 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:38,880 to make more changes. I wish you the best of luck on this journey.