How I replaced gaming with lifting (SunnyK)

I love video games, it is one of the most stimulating experiences on the planet, Playing smash or mario kart at a house, or grinding csgo, minecraft, and ark survival evolved on my computer with my friends, or even clash royale on my phone.
Most of the self-improvement community has a lot of hate for video games, you will find thousands of guides on how to quit.
But I wanted to make a different video, on why it was great that we all experienced video games growing up, how the years of leveling up skills, competing against people, and ranking as high as possible in leaderboards is a superpower if used properly, which we will get to later.
Most people don’t use the superpower properly, I didn’t for years and it
led to me having bad social skills and a friend group of people that I only hung out with over the games, over a shared addiction.
If I saw them in real life, we would just talk about the game, the next time we played it, how to get better at it, but would struggle to talk about other stuff, but that didn’t feel bad, the games were fun, I had friends, but something still felt off.
I felt like there was more to life, more to a friendship, more to myself than the life that I was experiencing playing the same games with the same people.
Even though I was progressing in my skills in the game, I was leveling up and beating more people, I just felt like I was getting lower and lower in my real life level.
It wasn’t until I found a new game, a new progression to apply the same mindset towards that my life drastically changed, my social life improved, I started talking to girls and becoming more myself.
The reason video games are so enjoyable is because you get to progress in a skill level and compete against other people,
Let’s take mario kart or smash for example, you can get better at both to the point of there being a professional level for them. At the end of each round, you see the leaderboard, where you stack up against other people, and the loop repeats, it is hardwired into us to compete against others and progress in skills because in the hunter gatherer days, that’s how we got food, we competed for resources against other tribes and people, and got rewarded with more status in the tribe when we were able to collect more food and provide more for our tribe.
That’s our primal instinct, and our brain doesn’t care how we trigger that instinct, whether its a stimulating game, or lifting weights.
This is what i discovered, that when I went to the gym, it was so trackable how I could get stronger, add 5 pounds to my bench press every week, week one I was at 135, week 2 140, week 3, 145. I started to get stronger, my muscles were bigger, I started to rise in the real life leaderboard. The endorphins and that high you get when you sweat kicked in and I wanted to go back to the gym.
This is the superpower that video games provide, the desire to compete against others and raise status through a game.
The gym is the perfect game for anyone who used to play video games. The best way to get started is to just find any split and get into a gym. The tactics, the techniques, and the strategies don’t matter, what really matters is consistency. So take action as soon as possible. I have a beginner friendly pdf with a split and some diet information, you can start there, or I have Jeff Nippard linked in the description, check him out for scinece based entertaning videos on working out.
Switch the video games for the gym and see your life transform.

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My vid coming out soon: how I replaced lifting with video games