I love that Dr K can take criticism and review his content accordingly, him saying something doesn’t have much scientific support but clarifying that it’s still valuable to him on a personal level is something I appreciate and many others should learn.
@@SuperLotus I agree, I think that if something has been observed over such a long period of time like ayurveda has, there’s got to be truth to it even if it’s not identifiable by conventional science
I very much respect that he's willing to make this distinction. The way he claimed that ayurveda could be connected to genetics without explaining the evidence felt poorly thought out. I don't know much about phychology or genetics, but I know enough about history to say it's important to be responsible when connecting genetics with personality traits, or when mixing the spiritual with the scientific. Science is constantly questioned after all, so if someone feels an idea is spiritual or sacred, it can get difficult to test it without having a bias. @@Kurnhelios I'd be careful with that particular logic. Take something like the four temperaments from ancient Greece - this idea has some similiarities to ayurveda, and was used in medicine well into the 18th century. But it turned out to not be a great understanding of the human body, despite its long history.
@PhantomStranger i've seen so many content creators just trust any random study, or collection of studies, and go 100% for it, and believe it to be the absolute truth. Dr k usually puts studies results under scrutinity knowing some things are not certain, or are maybe hard to prove, but that its data can be useful or points things in a certain way. English is hard, sorry if it was a hard read, i did struggle lol
25:53 This is accurate. I am a very lazy software engineer/programmer. A few months ago at my job they gave me an annoying task, I had to manually check over 200 websites 1 by 1 and go to specific links on each site to make sure those websites were still "good". I said screw that I didn't wanna do all that work, so I made a Python script that essentially went through the entire list of 200 websites, checked the links, and outputted an excel spreadsheet with the results. A week+ worth of work done in a few hours. Of course I didn't report it right away, I took most of the week to just chill at my job pretending to be busy. I studied and did other things, maybe watched RUclips or played some games and chilled. I handed in the work like a day earlier than it was due. "Wow you did it early! Amazing!" Ez.
@@xbroseph123 Python has a library that will go to a specific link and check for any error codes to tell it if the page exists or not. I used that to determine if the pages existed and that was most of the work done.
I had a friend who made invoices as his student job (this was 15 years ago) and he was paid by the invoice. On an average evening he could make 20-25 invoices. He made an excel macro that could make hundreds of invoices in no time at all, but he limited it to 30-35 and pretended he was just really efficient.
I just landed my dream engineering job and nothing about getting to this point was linear or constant. So much pain, I nearly gave up. Having kids sure changes things in a big way too. Hang in there everyone.
Doing my masters is a mixture of enjoyment and a slog. I never truly want to give up but there are times I'm like "why am I here". I have to ground myself knowing what I'm working for. Thanks for this.
Same, after 1.5 years of constantly losing money trying to become a day trader i finally became consistently profitable. I knew I could do it, i just didnt know how long it would take. Many days crying in the shower, forcing myself to learn from bad losses even though a chart is the last thing i want to look at, lots of doubt nearly everyday. Everyday i asked myself am i cut out for this? When am i going to get this? Am i wasting my time? I still gave it 110% effort, while i made absolutely no money and watching my bank account get drained everyday. Even though i had all these negative thoughts, i was still confident because i could see the progress and improvements i was making and thats all that mattered to me. I thought about giving up so many times, almost every damn day, but i couldn't even if i wanted to. i had too much passion for this and theres nothing else i wanted to do. If you felt like quitting, some people in the same journey actually did. So if you can keep going every single time, thats how you become the elite in whatever you do. Stick it out, its worth it.
I felt like I really needed to hear this. I've been feeling somewhat ashamed of myself for teaching myself somewhat connected, somewhat random skills with no central focus. Things like drawing, music, repairing electronics, hand-crafts, and video games of course, haha. But now I have more hope for myself that I could make my own success while being able to satisfy my own general need to just... Make things. I have many fun, and even practical interests, why should I be ashamed of that?
It’s weird, whenever I become more conscious and focused on developing a certain skill I tend to make zero progress at all or be ashamed at myself for not working the way I want to. It’s just constant pain, whereas doing something out of the simple desire to just DO so is so much more of a rewarding and therapeutic experience then if I were to work towards the “perfect” and “meaningful” way.
I know a guy who runs a used game store and he's so chill, he'll just sit back and do whatever at the counter while people browse, or chit chat with you about games or anything else. He has a little mini service of fixing up controllers, particularly switch joycons. I think he said that he did study electrical engineering or something, so he's totally putting those skills to good use. I think he had some cool artwork up that people made. I also had a Spanish teacher who is in a heavy metal band, and he would sometimes bring a guitar to class and just play during downtime. Being at a small school, word spread quickly and he got asked to play for chorus when they sang Bohemian Rhapsody lol. Plus he incorporates Spanish lyrics into his music. Honestly that makes them some of the most unique and memorable people I've met. I hope I too can combine my interests and just live as my most authentic self. Your comment made me think of game-shop guy. And of course, I hope you can find success in just being your most authentic self and doing what makes you happy as well.
“But I think that there is some people who have the temperament for not doing one thing their entire life. And in fact the way they can be the most successful is to to do a plethora of things over time. And they will bring their experience from each of those things to something else.” (Kanojia, 2022, 3:31) Kanojia, A. (2022, May 6). You Have No Purpose. RUclips.
The first time that a video from Dr. K hits me so hard. Freshly graduated with a marketing major. I noticed during internships that I hate content creation and stuff. So I was looking for jobs in my field but avoiding content creation like Social Media Managers and so on. Im in E-commerce for 4 months now and I have the same struggles again. Bored, unmotivated. This video helped me to understand that I should not pressure myself in believing that there is only one thing out there that I am supposed to do and that I should know at the age of 27 what this one thing is. I have multiple interests, I am like a sponge when learning something that got me interested. But I get bored fast. I am actually looking forward to find a next job and see how I can circle 3 to 5 careers
@@icecreamisfood Hi, yeah a lot happened since then. I worked for my past E-Commerce company for 1 1/2 years. Because they wanted to move the headquarters and I was not willing for relocating, we agreed to part. No hard feelings. They understood. After that I started as a project manager in am agency. Higher pay and l had less operative task to do. More managing other people's tasks and less doing th myself. After a few months I noticed that this kind of work did not suit me. Running after others, making sure they did their work on time and correct stressed me out and it was boring. So I learned that I wanted to be more involved in the work I do. Lucky a recruiter on LinkedIn asked me if I wanted to join an agency that was building a new e-commerce department. So I said yes and quit the other job. Now a few months in the new job. Doing good. Sometimes I check what open positions are out there just for fun. I don't know your situation, what you do, where you are from or what the job market is like for you right now but here are some takeaways I had: - like Dr. K said, there is no ONE thing you HAVE to do - while you work you will learn what things you WANT to do and what not. You will gravitate to certain things on your own. - Don't feel forced to stay in a job if you don't like it. Find out what you don't like. The tasks or the people. If it is the task, talk to your supervisor. Most companies are more flexible than you think in moving your department. If they have employed you that means you have convinced them of you as a person and if you have showed them in the last month's that you are hard working and reliable, they will try to keep you and find the right position if possible. There are plenty of jobs out there. - Don't compare yourself with others. Don't use LinkedIn too much like I did. Too many people who are showing of how successful they are, how they started their own company or agency and when I check their profiles they have similar backgrounds to mine. Of course I was feeling behind and stressed out A good advice that I got from LinkedIn was: when working you can learn or earn. Both is the best bot learning new skills or earning good money is also fine. When you think you don't have anything to learn there anymore and you don't get paid as much as you would like to, leave. I hope I could help. What's your current situation?
theres this weird phenomena with Dr K s videos. Everytime I get lost, I dont understand something, I get my depresive episode or I have some worries in my life, there it comes, there it is, cutting straight to the anwsers I needed a Dr k s video witch is right about the topic I was worried about and its going to get me through these rough times and gonna carry me for next extended period of time. Thank you Dr K thank you community, you are wonderful, yall do so much good and prevent so much bad
I've taken at least one course from 5 different faculties: humanities, engineering, science, commerce and law. This trend of hyper-specialisation, where people are shut down the second they try to talk about something that isn't exactly the specific topic that they're "an expert in" drives me mad. We are losing all the knowledge gained through transfer learning, we are removing accountability from academics by minimising the number of people allowed to criticise anyone, and we are encouraging massive duplication of research.
Everything Everywhere All At Once tackled “life is meaningless” and the nihilistic perspective of that understanding and countering it with “yes life is meaningless, and there is beauty in that. I get to choose what brings me meaning”
The most basic, youtube philosopher, non-nuanced and safe take of all time. A frat jock who just ripped a gravity bong has more insightful takes on existensialism and nihilism.
Its quite apt, since even the need for meaning is usually pursued to overwrite what you feel are shortcomings, even if that's subconscious. Although they can be healthy, the reasons can be quite egotistical and basically just be a form of validation seeking- and sometimes that can result in your outcomes rarely ever feeling like they're enough. Often famous musicians/actors have posted about this - who are obviously highly successful; but still get depressed or worse. Its also seen in children who are pushed harshly by their parents; end up successful but ultimately damaged adults. Letting go of the need to earn, to complete, to win is really powerful but you need to address the feelings that want those things first, since they're not inherently bad, but can often come from a place of lack/fear.
Except if there's no meaning, then your own meaning is meaningless fiction. Any meaning you derive from life must be delusion. This is literally having your cake and eating it too. If you wanted this to make sense you'd say: "Life has no set meaning. You must find your own." At least it's not hypocritical.
You don’t choose what brings you meaning, any more than you choose to see the sun. Meaning happens- this is why we see a chair instead of a quantum field, this is why we see identity in multiplicity.
Quotes: Kinda interesting that all those interesting / key quotes (for me) popped up in ~3 minute intervals. “But I think that there is some people who have the temperament for not doing one thing their entire life. And in fact the way they can be the most successful is to to do a plethora of things over time. And they will bring their experience from each of those things to something else.” (Kanojia, 2022, 3:31) “I am definetly not the best content-creator on the internet. I’m definetly not the best doctor on the internet. I’m definetly not the best gamer on the internet. And yet my ability to weave these together creates an emergent phenomenon that is okay.” (Kanojia, 2022, 6:31) “There are all kinds of principles that are useful in other dimensions. Even video games. [...] They take their real life attributes and stick them on a character sheet and stick them on a character sheet so that it helps in the reflection of that thing. A real life character sheet.” (Kanojia, 2022, 9:20) “Alot of what makes people successful at work is not the actual work. Half of it is the actual work and half of it is all of this interpersonal human stuff or internal stuff: Work ethic, organisation, prioritisation, communication, conflict resolution.” (Kanojia, 2022, 12:36) “How much do you really get from the experience? If i do a job for 2 years vs 10 years, how much additional gain do I get from the 8 years? [...] There is a disturbing amount of research from the field of medicine that the quality of medicine is determined within the first 2-5 years of practice. That you will have doctors who have 4 years of experience that will outperform doctors who have 30 years of experience.” (Kanojia, 2022, 16:56) “People assume that experience is really important and scales linearly. But how long does it take to get good? When you have 2 years of experience vs 10 years of experience, are you 5x better?” (Kanojia, 2022, 19:00) “Deliberate practice is can really help you catch up really easily. If we look at people who are better [e.g. Dota players], how is that? It’s because they are intentional about getting better. They focus on it. They focus on getting better every single day. [...] So what makes people better? Replay analysis. When a project does not go well, what is your improvement process? [...] What about your own personal improvement process?” (Kanojia, 2022, 19:40) Kanojia, A. (2022, May 6). You Have No Purpose. RUclips.
The 9:20 quote seems to be less of some wisdom/advice from Dr. K and more him telling a story to give an example of how some experience in gaming can be useful in other contexts. And the 19:00 quote seems to be a better(imo) version of the 16:56 quote, because sometimes people say the say the same thing in different words in order to get the point across. The 19:00 quote just seems more succinct than the 16:56 quote. Though I do think the 19:00 quote should have the answer to that question included.
The fact that we must make a choice of a career is so true in society, especially for me. I'm a first year college student, who back in high school was very passionate about music, played the piano for many years and developped a passion for writing/composing music. However I was decent at math and science and somewhat wanted to do something related to science and the environment. Now, during my studies in first year I feel like I chose a career that I did like and that would make me more financially stable in the future when getting a job, however I don't feel as passionate about environmental science as I do when I can just be creative and make music/play piano.
Not a fan of how Dr K's titles have gone from interesting and informative to brutal personal attacks 😅. I do not need to be told by a RUclips notification that my life as no purpose at 16:13 on a Friday afternoon 😂😭
The idea that life doesn't have meaning is an Existentialist perspective, and it really is freeing once you understand it. There is nothing in life that can give you meaning, so only you can give your life meaning That's why no one can say your life doesn't have meaning if you don't have kids, or don't become a doctor, or if you don't listen to your parents. This idea may scare some people, but it's incredibly freeing for some: including me. Crash course has a good video on existentialism. How it applies to this video is that: your meaning or "purpose" in life doesn't have to come from your career if you don't want it to. Your purpose in life can come from your hobbies, your pets, your kids; literally it is up to you
i have been, in no particular order, a licensed mortgage broker making 5 figures monthly, a clergy member making barely 5 figures a year, a tire and oil change service writer, a door to door salesperson, a professional performing musician, a live sound engineer, a television studio camera operator, the pharmacy tech who replenishes all the anesthesia between cases in the operating room, a lunch lady, an event photographer... and now i think i'm gonna do art next maybe idk we'll see but i'm feeling a change coming. when i grow up i want to be happy and experience interesting, new things. all that to say: i like this video, a lot.
@@h1ghnezz no I do not have that advice, in fact: don't do that to yourself! get rest, and recreation, and relax, and just enjoy the moment - don't do what I did! it is a terrible idea! focus on living in this moment, it is the only moment we have if I could have a do-over I would not have done what I did, but it's normal for me now. My advice would be give yourself a better normal than I gave myself, learn from my mistake and don't repeat it. If your take away from my comment was that you want to imitate me you completely missed my point and probably don't have the capacity to juggle that many things, to be honest, or you wouldn't be asking a random person in a RUclips comment section for advice you would be out there doing it already, trust me on this. That is not a challenge for you to prove me wrong it is me pleading with you to learn from my mistakes and not try to imitate this. You are 100% better off following Dr K's advice about meditation than you are trying to copy what I just described in any capacity. Meditation and mindfulness to learn to be fully present in this moment is far better: if your goal is collecting the experiences then you're not going to be on the path to get to the experiences
Haven't even started watching, but the amount of negative energy that you transform into positive or constructive is just amazing Doc. You've changed my life ever since I started watching your vids about half a year ago. You and my therapist are like two huge stabilizing influences.
I feel better after watching this-- but I didnt even feel bad going in. Interesting how we bottle certain stressors up until we cant even perceive them sometimes. Thank you
This video has so many revelations in it. so many quotable lessons like the laziness one. But how can we convince a whole world of recruiters that values hours worked over actual work to pick us?!
I'm trying to look at life like I don't actually know the answer to anything so just figuring out my next small step is all I need at any given moment instead of trying to figure out the whole thing. Starting smaller
Awesome video again Doc! Even did the meditation while you showed it, i feel relax now. I am finishing my bachelor's degrees in political science with 24, I have already changed career (from marketing to this one) but I felt unmotivated for the last two years of this degree. I love history but I was afraid of not having future, in my family everyone thought the same and was a lot of pressure. When I changed was because like the historical figures that I read about i could be like them but with time and experience I think that a like learning about them, not necessarily become them. I mean, I love Rome and Greece, not listening people arguing about why their ideology is better or worse. Listening to you I figured out that is okay to feel this way and having this kind of crisis is good for us and having that future that always pops out in our mind. I hope that everyone knows that you are not alone in this.
I’m currently 18 and feel a lack of purpose or that a majority of the time I’ve spent leading to this moment have been a waste of time or a bad decision because I don’t feel that I’m in the position that I truly want to be in
You're hellishly young, cut yourself some slack. Even over 30, people rarely have an idea of what they want to do with their lives. You learn and keep moving forward.
Don't know if you'll see this but I just want to thank you. Your channel has been very insightful into questions about my mental state and my future. Was recently in a rut because I'm a bit behind due to some past college failures and have been swapping majors trying to find what makes me tick. This video helped reaffirm my confidence in my decisions. I know there are over 200 comments but I just wanted to let you know how great ur channel is.
*Hey Dr K, I wish I had seen this 10 years ago. I'm 32 now and only figured this out a few years ago when I found my purpose. My RUclips is a part of my purpose even though it's tiny and under the radar. But then I realise, all that time was not wasted, everything is connected. It taught me a lot and gave me a qualification. I'm a Chartered Accountant who has worked in tax for 10 years. However, I had always wanted to do something in Education. Then I discovered Meditation and spirituality and doors started opening, I started getting Visions of my Future. My neighbour is a Principal of K-12 School and they needed a School Business Manager who was CA qualified accountant for a 9 month contract. I looked after over 30 staff, leading the teams of Finance, IT, HR, Marketing, Security, Maintenance etc. During COVID I ran weekly 10 minute meditations for my teams to help deal with stress and anxiety. There was a marked impact on morale and performance. Before I left, I got to meet the C-Suite of the Association of Indepedent Schools and establish good rapport with them and got their contact details. AISNSW is the governing body that looks after over 480 schools and 200,000 children. My goal is to get meditation integrated in the school curriculum, not just for the students but all the teachers. This will make history, as the positive effect from such a large use case would be undeniable, and will be replicated and scaled globally. I've laid the groundwork and connections but I could use some help to get the ball rolling, can you please help Dr K? Could I get you in a virtual meeting with the C-Suite? I've tell you the plan over email. I'd also be honoured if you'd be the second guest on my Podcast, the last video on my channel. You'd be following Indian Australian Comedian Neel Kolhatkar, and you'd be setting off a chain reaction that will lead to everything happening, you'll be the catalyst. What say you Dr K? For everyone else reading can you please help Dr K see this? Subscribing would be really appreciated and will also help save the world in ways you can't yet imagine. If you're a teacher or work in Education and you'd like to help, plus hit me up. Thanks heaps.*
This isn't what I expected the video to be about with this title. I'm glad to see somebody talking about this! So many people insist that people need to only focus on one thing...
I wanna add that a lot of things DO involve luck. In a lot of your videos, you talk about how what you do is not "regular" and it still works, and that's absolutely fine, however people must realize that sometimes it wouldn't work, and that if they keep trying and it still doesn't work, quitting and moving to other things is definitely fine. yeah, you do incredible things with this youtube channel and on twitch, but without luck it wouldn't be possible. other people who might do what you do might not get the same success. and if you like it and get enough success to make you happy, awesome. but if that doesn't work, you can still choose a different path no matter how old you are. An incredible story I heard about Steve Jobs is that he majored in calligraphy because it seemed nice to him. it was just fun. not sure if he finished that or not, but that brought the idea to bring fonts into mac, which later turned into the fonts we know today. we wouldn't dream of different fonts on computers if Jobs hadn't learned calligraphy. It would just be redundant.
I’m switching from being a chemical engineer to go work in a hospital cleaning rooms. I don’t think I can get back into the industry but I have family insistent that I go back into that because of $$$ and nothing else
If you've got expenses covered, have savings for emergencies, and can save money towards retirement then it doesn't matter what job you're in. If they want money they can go get it themselves.
As a person that manifest many vatta style features, I support this message. Regarding the part of applying principles from one field to another, I 100% agree and, moreover, I think my own personality and my tendency to shift from one thing to another and all that, its what it makes it more easily to me to do it. Also, it's probably a skill to an extent, so it kind of gets better the more you do it.
I'm definitely a hybrid professional. I refer to it as my lives. However, this is something you can't use to build up your narrative when it comes to job search. You are supposed to have had picked the right career and show long term success.
I'm personally happy with the career choices I made, but our country has this dumb system where you have to go through 1,5 years of temporary contracts before they hire you permanently and they always pretend they will hire you... until they don't. (It costs more to hire someone permanently) I've been losing jobs throughout 10 years now for this dumb reason. It's not that I was never passionate or didn't want to work. It's just hell to go through and you get more and more demotivated each time, because they will make up lies about you as to why you're fired while you know for yourself you gave it your all.
Haha, this is the problem of my life. I'm interested in -craft and manual activities -psychology, philosophy, spirituality -Languages -Music and composition -writng, stories, humor, fiction Currently in 1rst year of psychology studies I'm thinking about quitting in order to work as an apprentice jeweler. It could allow me to earn money, to do something more concrete and to develop other interests around it, but I know that I'll be bored at the very moment I get good at it
. Vata people prefer doing multiple things at the same time so it's better for us to choose and work on multiple careers . Getting amazing at one things is not the best way to become successful What matters is using different things you learnt from very different places to apply into something new. So it's not a terrible thing to switch careers cause you'll apply your knowledge into the new career. It's not all a waste of time. . Vata people should keep switching between about 4-5 things and keep working on em . Experience is overvalued. Your performance is not linearly related to time spent. You should focus on getting better and learn actively. Replay analysis (look at what went wrong and what went right) . It's not hard to catch up if you start late as long as you're determined to make a change . There is no THE formula to success. There is a different formula to success for each person. . More work is not kore time spent on it . Meditation 27:30
I have watched many self improvement youtubers and many other youtubers who provide you knowledge about how to live your life and stay motivated, they did help me but the only youtuber that actually thought me what motivation actually is and how it works is dr. K plus the meditation techniques he thought also helped me without me even knowing it, my request to him is not to stop giving knowledge from aayurveda and eastern stuff....ik some people don't believe it which i completely respect...if it's possible Dr. K. Can make another RUclips channel where he tells solutions with eastern perspective with some knowledge of science (cause that's helpfull too) a channel where where he doesn't have to worry about people aayurveda is wrong (i totally respect them btw)
I love this video a lot, it always surprises me how much more new things there are to learn from dr k even though he's had so many videos on a similar topic already. I'd consider myself more of a jack-of-all-trades master of none and it has really bothered me, but this video kinda framed it in a new perspective and I'd never really seen it as being in any way advantageous over doing one thing really really well until now. The only thing is I do wish this video was titled better cause I don't really think it reflects the main point of the content 😅 but thank you for addressing this topic
Being average at many things is a huge deal. The only issue is that you need to put in the effort and dedication to get good at something. You have a head start, make use of it.
i doubt you will see this comment, but i would like to ask: i have tried meditation so many times, but every single one of them i died of boredom and was not able to go through with it, i really want to be able to try it for real, but my ADHD just hits hard and i feel unconfortable for doing "nothing", do you have any recomendation on how to "solve" this?
I would recommend watching How to ADHDs video on Meditation! Even if you don't like the creator there are a lot of good things in the video for people with ADHD
Maybe start with mind-body exercises and work up to doing meditation? Like yoga or Qi Gong? Alternatively there is meditation for focus. Saying one of Dr. K's mantras with the beads might also help as it's not doing nothing. I also really like this exercise where you picture a stream and visualize the words and thoughts you're thinking going on leaves and floating away. It keeps you from trying to stop your mind. You just go with it and let the thoughts exist and float
Don't meditate at home. Go somewhere like the park or out in nature. A change of environment can help people with ADHD use their coping mechanisms more effectively. Source: my psychotherapist.
Go to a very busy place, with a lot of people, like a city square or a mall. Sit down somewhere, close your eyes and just try to focus on all the sounds. How many are there? And there you go, you're meditating. Or try sitting down wherever, and don't try to make your mind go still. Give it space to go wild, let it run around
Your life is literally as valuable as a aum chant. You're just gonna meditate, you're gonna keep coming back, I'm gonna loosen up your back, why? Cause you keep smelling the incense
i mean, theres people like me that at 22 havent even started a career, so the thing is not wasting time in a career instead of doing absolutely nothing of worth
My brother is changing interest from time to time, he has a job in a big company and he's hopping for post to post every few years. Lately, he has posts for coordination, supervision, restructuration, the last post was even tailored for him. So yes, these out of the ordinary backgrounds make for out of the ordinary employees. Also, I love that you did the aum meditation, we do that in my yoga lessons and I was a bit confused what I was supposed to do. Plus, I'm a former semi-pro chorist and I was more focused on doing a harmonious pitch (as I can's go as low as the teacher), than anything else. Talking of which, is it alright to do harmonious pitch? Or should I focus more on myself?
At one point, I became bored with everything, but I didn't get interested in new things. I was never capable of studying anything and I wasted like 6 or 7 years trying to pursue a college title. I've wasted my life. All I want is to restart it, because it's so wasted I would need to redo it all over again to make it worth. But that's impossible, so I'm left with a wasted life that has no value from this point. I wish I at least had any knowledge to consider useless. Anything. Not only I don't have purpose, but also no objectives, no desires. Nothing. I don't even have anything to expect from the weekends, let alone an objective to pursue in life. I have no reason to live at all. How can you guys enjoy anything about life? I'm just so fvcking tired of it.
The feeling I get from reading this is "need rest and regrowth". I'd like to restart myself with what I know now but I can't. Why do you have to have a productive life where every second has to be XYZ productive as determined by ABC goal point. You can start right now, with what you know right now and just consider this the real game now that you're out of the tutorial. Even if you're 80 you could still live for another 40 years. That's a whole life right there. It feels like those productivity requirements are getting in the way of discovering what you actually intrinsically enjoy. If your productivity is having to eat 5 scoops of chocolate ice-cream (and you actually enjoy mint ice-cream but don't know it yet) how would you know unless you take a break, allow time for rest, then trying other kinds of ice-cream? You could be so burnout on ice-cream that without a rest you'd just hate all ice-cream. Even hive insects make time for rest.
Hey Dr K, do you know much about overeating to excess, not necessarily due to stress eating? I take ritalin for ADHD, and I still have an obscenely excessive food intake. I wish I could stop eating so much, and yet I still feel hungry. Could this be mental or is this a lengthy GP process?
If your weight is ok, maybe it's not a problem, but if it's making you overweight or uncomfortable with all this eating, why not try a different medication if possible? Definitely talk to a GP first and see what they say.
It could be a certain vitamin or mineral you're lacking or a hormonal issue since there is a hormone that triggers hunger. Being hungry, if you've physically satisfied yourself, could be you wanting some form of success or goal and because our language subliminally does stuff like "hungry for success" your brain substitutes it and bam food again or the physical sensation of hunger. It's also a psychological hole filler when you're not satisfied because food is one of the easiest ways to do this. Hydration is another one, could be needing more water intake and the signal is just crossing wires with hunger since we can get moisture from that too. Another factor is that it could be your stimming activity you like best is chewing so trying chewellery might help or at least ease the actual caloric intake. The food variety we have now is so much that it could also be helping the brain chemicals as the easiest way to regulate the brain. It's smell, texture, flavour, internal sensation, constantly changing as you chew. There's so many different ways these factors could be combining together not even accounting for stress eating/energy for the brain processing as a coping mechanism for external stuff or unprocessed childhood trauma that neurodivergent people get.
don't know if there is any correlation but my thought that the frequency of the hum could equate with similar binaural beats? I often listen to this stuff when meditating.
I am actually really seriously thinking about becoming a coach. To be fair if I could be a coach at HealthyGamer that would be perfect for me but unfortunately, I'm not from US. I've managed to look at some courses and atm already started wondering how can I possibly fund the education and how my future might look like. It is a bit difficult because I am the kind of a person that had difficulty going thru major changes. I love stability. But at the same time I feel suffocating at my current job. And I really feel strongly that I want to help people with their mental health, I am drawn to it plus I have a natural thing to see pattern of human behavior and the need to use it is great (I keep bothering people around me with it so I would like for a change for someone to want me to use this perdisposition)
I love that Dr K can take criticism and review his content accordingly, him saying something doesn’t have much scientific support but clarifying that it’s still valuable to him on a personal level is something I appreciate and many others should learn.
I think the Ayurveda personality archetypes probably do have some truth to them. I'm guessing there just haven't been (m)any studies about them yet.
@@SuperLotus I agree, I think that if something has been observed over such a long period of time like ayurveda has, there’s got to be truth to it even if it’s not identifiable by conventional science
I very much respect that he's willing to make this distinction. The way he claimed that ayurveda could be connected to genetics without explaining the evidence felt poorly thought out. I don't know much about phychology or genetics, but I know enough about history to say it's important to be responsible when connecting genetics with personality traits, or when mixing the spiritual with the scientific. Science is constantly questioned after all, so if someone feels an idea is spiritual or sacred, it can get difficult to test it without having a bias.
@@Kurnhelios I'd be careful with that particular logic. Take something like the four temperaments from ancient Greece - this idea has some similiarities to ayurveda, and was used in medicine well into the 18th century. But it turned out to not be a great understanding of the human body, despite its long history.
The office office has😮😮 😊
@PhantomStranger i've seen so many content creators just trust any random study, or collection of studies, and go 100% for it, and believe it to be the absolute truth. Dr k usually puts studies results under scrutinity knowing some things are not certain, or are maybe hard to prove, but that its data can be useful or points things in a certain way. English is hard, sorry if it was a hard read, i did struggle lol
25:53 This is accurate. I am a very lazy software engineer/programmer.
A few months ago at my job they gave me an annoying task, I had to manually check over 200 websites 1 by 1 and go to specific links on each site to make sure those websites were still "good". I said screw that I didn't wanna do all that work, so I made a Python script that essentially went through the entire list of 200 websites, checked the links, and outputted an excel spreadsheet with the results.
A week+ worth of work done in a few hours.
Of course I didn't report it right away, I took most of the week to just chill at my job pretending to be busy. I studied and did other things, maybe watched RUclips or played some games and chilled. I handed in the work like a day earlier than it was due. "Wow you did it early! Amazing!" Ez.
Whatd u do like, make a script that goes through every div or a href and see if the link leads to somewhere or smth?
@@xbroseph123 Python has a library that will go to a specific link and check for any error codes to tell it if the page exists or not. I used that to determine if the pages existed and that was most of the work done.
@@symbol767 that's some good shit
I had a friend who made invoices as his student job (this was 15 years ago) and he was paid by the invoice.
On an average evening he could make 20-25 invoices. He made an excel macro that could make hundreds of invoices in no time at all, but he limited it to 30-35 and pretended he was just really efficient.
@@scoopitywoop This is the way, work smarter not harder, saves yourself from unnecessary stress. Good on him.
I just landed my dream engineering job and nothing about getting to this point was linear or constant. So much pain, I nearly gave up. Having kids sure changes things in a big way too. Hang in there everyone.
You know, today in particular I needed to see this one.
Credit to you for your effort you deserved it
Congrats
Doing my masters is a mixture of enjoyment and a slog. I never truly want to give up but there are times I'm like "why am I here". I have to ground myself knowing what I'm working for. Thanks for this.
Same, after 1.5 years of constantly losing money trying to become a day trader i finally became consistently profitable. I knew I could do it, i just didnt know how long it would take. Many days crying in the shower, forcing myself to learn from bad losses even though a chart is the last thing i want to look at, lots of doubt nearly everyday. Everyday i asked myself am i cut out for this? When am i going to get this? Am i wasting my time? I still gave it 110% effort, while i made absolutely no money and watching my bank account get drained everyday. Even though i had all these negative thoughts, i was still confident because i could see the progress and improvements i was making and thats all that mattered to me. I thought about giving up so many times, almost every damn day, but i couldn't even if i wanted to. i had too much passion for this and theres nothing else i wanted to do.
If you felt like quitting, some people in the same journey actually did. So if you can keep going every single time, thats how you become the elite in whatever you do. Stick it out, its worth it.
I felt like I really needed to hear this. I've been feeling somewhat ashamed of myself for teaching myself somewhat connected, somewhat random skills with no central focus. Things like drawing, music, repairing electronics, hand-crafts, and video games of course, haha. But now I have more hope for myself that I could make my own success while being able to satisfy my own general need to just... Make things. I have many fun, and even practical interests, why should I be ashamed of that?
It’s weird, whenever I become more conscious and focused on developing a certain skill I tend to make zero progress at all or be ashamed at myself for not working the way I want to. It’s just constant pain, whereas doing something out of the simple desire to just DO so is so much more of a rewarding and therapeutic experience then if I were to work towards the “perfect” and “meaningful” way.
I know a guy who runs a used game store and he's so chill, he'll just sit back and do whatever at the counter while people browse, or chit chat with you about games or anything else. He has a little mini service of fixing up controllers, particularly switch joycons. I think he said that he did study electrical engineering or something, so he's totally putting those skills to good use. I think he had some cool artwork up that people made. I also had a Spanish teacher who is in a heavy metal band, and he would sometimes bring a guitar to class and just play during downtime. Being at a small school, word spread quickly and he got asked to play for chorus when they sang Bohemian Rhapsody lol. Plus he incorporates Spanish lyrics into his music. Honestly that makes them some of the most unique and memorable people I've met. I hope I too can combine my interests and just live as my most authentic self. Your comment made me think of game-shop guy. And of course, I hope you can find success in just being your most authentic self and doing what makes you happy as well.
“But I think that there is some people who have the temperament for not doing one thing their entire life. And in fact the way they can be the most successful is to to do a plethora of things over time. And they will bring their experience from each of those things to something else.” (Kanojia, 2022, 3:31)
Kanojia, A. (2022, May 6). You Have No Purpose. RUclips.
I can really see myself in that, I'm not one for sticking with one thing. I'm interested in everything and it's hard to choose sometimes honestly
Ah yes, this classic quote.
reminder that your job doesn't define you whole as a person (if you feel this way of course)
But you're judged by it. Especially in the dating world
The first time that a video from Dr. K hits me so hard.
Freshly graduated with a marketing major. I noticed during internships that I hate content creation and stuff. So I was looking for jobs in my field but avoiding content creation like Social Media Managers and so on.
Im in E-commerce for 4 months now and I have the same struggles again. Bored, unmotivated.
This video helped me to understand that I should not pressure myself in believing that there is only one thing out there that I am supposed to do and that I should know at the age of 27 what this one thing is.
I have multiple interests, I am like a sponge when learning something that got me interested. But I get bored fast.
I am actually looking forward to find a next job and see how I can circle 3 to 5 careers
May I ask how you are doing now? Your comment really resonated with me
@@icecreamisfood Hi, yeah a lot happened since then. I worked for my past E-Commerce company for 1 1/2 years. Because they wanted to move the headquarters and I was not willing for relocating, we agreed to part. No hard feelings. They understood.
After that I started as a project manager in am agency. Higher pay and l had less operative task to do. More managing other people's tasks and less doing th myself.
After a few months I noticed that this kind of work did not suit me. Running after others, making sure they did their work on time and correct stressed me out and it was boring. So I learned that I wanted to be more involved in the work I do. Lucky a recruiter on LinkedIn asked me if I wanted to join an agency that was building a new e-commerce department. So I said yes and quit the other job.
Now a few months in the new job.
Doing good. Sometimes I check what open positions are out there just for fun.
I don't know your situation, what you do, where you are from or what the job market is like for you right now but here are some takeaways I had:
- like Dr. K said, there is no ONE thing you HAVE to do
- while you work you will learn what things you WANT to do and what not. You will gravitate to certain things on your own.
- Don't feel forced to stay in a job if you don't like it. Find out what you don't like. The tasks or the people. If it is the task, talk to your supervisor. Most companies are more flexible than you think in moving your department. If they have employed you that means you have convinced them of you as a person and if you have showed them in the last month's that you are hard working and reliable, they will try to keep you and find the right position if possible. There are plenty of jobs out there.
- Don't compare yourself with others. Don't use LinkedIn too much like I did. Too many people who are showing of how successful they are, how they started their own company or agency and when I check their profiles they have similar backgrounds to mine. Of course I was feeling behind and stressed out
A good advice that I got from LinkedIn was: when working you can learn or earn. Both is the best bot learning new skills or earning good money is also fine. When you think you don't have anything to learn there anymore and you don't get paid as much as you would like to, leave.
I hope I could help.
What's your current situation?
theres this weird phenomena with Dr K s videos. Everytime I get lost, I dont understand something, I get my depresive episode or I have some worries in my life, there it comes, there it is, cutting straight to the anwsers I needed a Dr k s video witch is right about the topic I was worried about and its going to get me through these rough times and gonna carry me for next extended period of time. Thank you Dr K thank you community, you are wonderful, yall do so much good and prevent so much bad
Aoe healing!
Synchronicity
Google is listening/reading ... algos at work 😅
I've taken at least one course from 5 different faculties: humanities, engineering, science, commerce and law. This trend of hyper-specialisation, where people are shut down the second they try to talk about something that isn't exactly the specific topic that they're "an expert in" drives me mad. We are losing all the knowledge gained through transfer learning, we are removing accountability from academics by minimising the number of people allowed to criticise anyone, and we are encouraging massive duplication of research.
Wow that’s almost like how universities used to be 20 years ago
Everything Everywhere All At Once tackled “life is meaningless” and the nihilistic perspective of that understanding and countering it with “yes life is meaningless, and there is beauty in that. I get to choose what brings me meaning”
The most basic, youtube philosopher, non-nuanced and safe take of all time. A frat jock who just ripped a gravity bong has more insightful takes on existensialism and nihilism.
Its quite apt, since even the need for meaning is usually pursued to overwrite what you feel are shortcomings, even if that's subconscious. Although they can be healthy, the reasons can be quite egotistical and basically just be a form of validation seeking- and sometimes that can result in your outcomes rarely ever feeling like they're enough. Often famous musicians/actors have posted about this - who are obviously highly successful; but still get depressed or worse. Its also seen in children who are pushed harshly by their parents; end up successful but ultimately damaged adults. Letting go of the need to earn, to complete, to win is really powerful but you need to address the feelings that want those things first, since they're not inherently bad, but can often come from a place of lack/fear.
movie of the year!
Except if there's no meaning, then your own meaning is meaningless fiction. Any meaning you derive from life must be delusion. This is literally having your cake and eating it too. If you wanted this to make sense you'd say: "Life has no set meaning. You must find your own." At least it's not hypocritical.
You don’t choose what brings you meaning, any more than you choose to see the sun. Meaning happens- this is why we see a chair instead of a quantum field, this is why we see identity in multiplicity.
Your life is EVERYTHING!
you serve ALL purpose!
You serve all purpose!
You should treat yourself NOW!
You serve no purpose in life. Your whole purpose in life
YOU SHOULD LOVE YOURSELF.... *NOW*
Quotes: Kinda interesting that all those interesting / key quotes (for me) popped up in ~3 minute intervals.
“But I think that there is some people who have the temperament for not doing one thing their entire life. And in fact the way they can be the most successful is to to do a plethora of things over time. And they will bring their experience from each of those things to something else.” (Kanojia, 2022, 3:31)
“I am definetly not the best content-creator on the internet. I’m definetly not the best doctor on the internet. I’m definetly not the best gamer on the internet. And yet my ability to weave these together creates an emergent phenomenon that is okay.” (Kanojia, 2022, 6:31)
“There are all kinds of principles that are useful in other dimensions. Even video games. [...] They take their real life attributes and stick them on a character sheet and stick them on a character sheet so that it helps in the reflection of that thing. A real life character sheet.” (Kanojia, 2022, 9:20)
“Alot of what makes people successful at work is not the actual work. Half of it is the actual work and half of it is all of this interpersonal human stuff or internal stuff: Work ethic, organisation, prioritisation, communication, conflict resolution.” (Kanojia, 2022, 12:36)
“How much do you really get from the experience? If i do a job for 2 years vs 10 years, how much additional gain do I get from the 8 years? [...] There is a disturbing amount of research from the field of medicine that the quality of medicine is determined within the first 2-5 years of practice. That you will have doctors who have 4 years of experience that will outperform doctors who have 30 years of experience.” (Kanojia, 2022, 16:56)
“People assume that experience is really important and scales linearly. But how long does it take to get good? When you have 2 years of experience vs 10 years of experience, are you 5x better?” (Kanojia, 2022, 19:00)
“Deliberate practice is can really help you catch up really easily. If we look at people who are better [e.g. Dota players], how is that? It’s because they are intentional about getting better. They focus on it. They focus on getting better every single day. [...] So what makes people better? Replay analysis. When a project does not go well, what is your improvement process? [...] What about your own personal improvement process?” (Kanojia, 2022, 19:40)
Kanojia, A. (2022, May 6). You Have No Purpose. RUclips.
The 9:20 quote seems to be less of some wisdom/advice from Dr. K and more him telling a story to give an example of how some experience in gaming can be useful in other contexts.
And the 19:00 quote seems to be a better(imo) version of the 16:56 quote, because sometimes people say the say the same thing in different words in order to get the point across. The 19:00 quote just seems more succinct than the 16:56 quote.
Though I do think the 19:00 quote should have the answer to that question included.
The fact that we must make a choice of a career is so true in society, especially for me. I'm a first year college student, who back in high school was very passionate about music, played the piano for many years and developped a passion for writing/composing music. However I was decent at math and science and somewhat wanted to do something related to science and the environment. Now, during my studies in first year I feel like I chose a career that I did like and that would make me more financially stable in the future when getting a job, however I don't feel as passionate about environmental science as I do when I can just be creative and make music/play piano.
Not a fan of how Dr K's titles have gone from interesting and informative to brutal personal attacks 😅. I do not need to be told by a RUclips notification that my life as no purpose at 16:13 on a Friday afternoon 😂😭
It's like a golden nugget,
Probably one of the best Friday afternoon video to stumble upon.
Dr. K gone full LowTierGod 😄
always were brutal!
it's almost like he's deliberately targeting your vulnerabilities.
And yet...you still have them all, don't you?
@@pragmaticpundit7703 lol
The idea that life doesn't have meaning is an Existentialist perspective, and it really is freeing once you understand it. There is nothing in life that can give you meaning, so only you can give your life meaning
That's why no one can say your life doesn't have meaning if you don't have kids, or don't become a doctor, or if you don't listen to your parents. This idea may scare some people, but it's incredibly freeing for some: including me. Crash course has a good video on existentialism.
How it applies to this video is that: your meaning or "purpose" in life doesn't have to come from your career if you don't want it to. Your purpose in life can come from your hobbies, your pets, your kids; literally it is up to you
Damn that room decor is legit
i have been, in no particular order, a licensed mortgage broker making 5 figures monthly, a clergy member making barely 5 figures a year, a tire and oil change service writer, a door to door salesperson, a professional performing musician, a live sound engineer, a television studio camera operator, the pharmacy tech who replenishes all the anesthesia between cases in the operating room, a lunch lady, an event photographer... and now i think i'm gonna do art next maybe idk we'll see but i'm feeling a change coming. when i grow up i want to be happy and experience interesting, new things.
all that to say: i like this video, a lot.
Do you have any advice for us how to structure multiple things?
Did you multiple things at once?
Many regards
@@h1ghnezz no I do not have that advice, in fact: don't do that to yourself! get rest, and recreation, and relax, and just enjoy the moment - don't do what I did! it is a terrible idea! focus on living in this moment, it is the only moment we have if I could have a do-over I would not have done what I did, but it's normal for me now. My advice would be give yourself a better normal than I gave myself, learn from my mistake and don't repeat it. If your take away from my comment was that you want to imitate me you completely missed my point and probably don't have the capacity to juggle that many things, to be honest, or you wouldn't be asking a random person in a RUclips comment section for advice you would be out there doing it already, trust me on this. That is not a challenge for you to prove me wrong it is me pleading with you to learn from my mistakes and not try to imitate this. You are 100% better off following Dr K's advice about meditation than you are trying to copy what I just described in any capacity. Meditation and mindfulness to learn to be fully present in this moment is far better: if your goal is collecting the experiences then you're not going to be on the path to get to the experiences
Haven't even started watching, but the amount of negative energy that you transform into positive or constructive is just amazing Doc. You've changed my life ever since I started watching your vids about half a year ago. You and my therapist are like two huge stabilizing influences.
Dude you cover everything I’m going through in life😳. I actually thought about this the other day.. That I’m blessed I came across you.. ❤️🔥❤️🔥
I feel better after watching this-- but I didnt even feel bad going in. Interesting how we bottle certain stressors up until we cant even perceive them sometimes. Thank you
This video has so many revelations in it. so many quotable lessons like the laziness one. But how can we convince a whole world of recruiters that values hours worked over actual work to pick us?!
I'm trying to look at life like I don't actually know the answer to anything so just figuring out my next small step is all I need at any given moment instead of trying to figure out the whole thing. Starting smaller
then study beta alanine for 72 hour
Thanks for opening up about getting board easy and weaving multiple disciplines / careers into your life. Very relatable and rarely said.
Awesome video again Doc! Even did the meditation while you showed it, i feel relax now. I am finishing my bachelor's degrees in political science with 24, I have already changed career (from marketing to this one) but I felt unmotivated for the last two years of this degree. I love history but I was afraid of not having future, in my family everyone thought the same and was a lot of pressure. When I changed was because like the historical figures that I read about i could be like them but with time and experience I think that a like learning about them, not necessarily become them. I mean, I love Rome and Greece, not listening people arguing about why their ideology is better or worse. Listening to you I figured out that is okay to feel this way and having this kind of crisis is good for us and having that future that always pops out in our mind. I hope that everyone knows that you are not alone in this.
if you are an engineer who gets fluid dynamics come design nozzles, the company I work for (as a Nozzleman's Assistant) needs more staff.
we actually make terdbuster nozzles.
I’m currently 18 and feel a lack of purpose or that a majority of the time I’ve spent leading to this moment have been a waste of time or a bad decision because I don’t feel that I’m in the position that I truly want to be in
You're hellishly young, cut yourself some slack. Even over 30, people rarely have an idea of what they want to do with their lives. You learn and keep moving forward.
I’m the OP of the post, thank you Dr K for this video! ❤️
These titles are always coming for me!!! LOL
Don't know if you'll see this but I just want to thank you. Your channel has been very insightful into questions about my mental state and my future. Was recently in a rut because I'm a bit behind due to some past college failures and have been swapping majors trying to find what makes me tick. This video helped reaffirm my confidence in my decisions. I know there are over 200 comments but I just wanted to let you know how great ur channel is.
"If you dig 60 holes that are one foot deep you are never gonna hit water" Very relatable
Feel like the titles for every video Dr. K posts is personally calling me out. It's scary how relatable these are...
Lol
"if i dont do my job right, people get poop in their water, and thats unacceptable"
Was doing the meditation part and didn't realise I was in 2x
KEKW
I literally went though your catalogue of videos to find this one. Thanks!
thank you for doing this for us, you always seem to be able to give me some hope for my life
This discussion about how we overvalue experience was really interesting.
*Hey Dr K, I wish I had seen this 10 years ago. I'm 32 now and only figured this out a few years ago when I found my purpose. My RUclips is a part of my purpose even though it's tiny and under the radar. But then I realise, all that time was not wasted, everything is connected. It taught me a lot and gave me a qualification. I'm a Chartered Accountant who has worked in tax for 10 years. However, I had always wanted to do something in Education. Then I discovered Meditation and spirituality and doors started opening, I started getting Visions of my Future. My neighbour is a Principal of K-12 School and they needed a School Business Manager who was CA qualified accountant for a 9 month contract. I looked after over 30 staff, leading the teams of Finance, IT, HR, Marketing, Security, Maintenance etc. During COVID I ran weekly 10 minute meditations for my teams to help deal with stress and anxiety. There was a marked impact on morale and performance. Before I left, I got to meet the C-Suite of the Association of Indepedent Schools and establish good rapport with them and got their contact details. AISNSW is the governing body that looks after over 480 schools and 200,000 children. My goal is to get meditation integrated in the school curriculum, not just for the students but all the teachers. This will make history, as the positive effect from such a large use case would be undeniable, and will be replicated and scaled globally. I've laid the groundwork and connections but I could use some help to get the ball rolling, can you please help Dr K? Could I get you in a virtual meeting with the C-Suite? I've tell you the plan over email. I'd also be honoured if you'd be the second guest on my Podcast, the last video on my channel. You'd be following Indian Australian Comedian Neel Kolhatkar, and you'd be setting off a chain reaction that will lead to everything happening, you'll be the catalyst. What say you Dr K? For everyone else reading can you please help Dr K see this? Subscribing would be really appreciated and will also help save the world in ways you can't yet imagine. If you're a teacher or work in Education and you'd like to help, plus hit me up. Thanks heaps.*
Can't decide between watching the video or just stopping by to say ''true'' to the title before leaving again.
This isn't what I expected the video to be about with this title. I'm glad to see somebody talking about this! So many people insist that people need to only focus on one thing...
Damn bro, I feeled called out
Instead of telling the employer you're lazy, tell them you're interested in minimizing cost and maximizing output.
Your pourpose is to watch RUclips videos all day.
Thank you for calling me out
👀👀👀👀👀👀
It's not laziness, it's critical thinking and analysis to reduce continuous workload.
Thanks for reminding
Yoooo
were making melancholic tracks for tonight :(
This really helped me today thank you Dr. K
That’s something to read when you get up
exactly what i've been looking for
I wanna add that a lot of things DO involve luck. In a lot of your videos, you talk about how what you do is not "regular" and it still works, and that's absolutely fine, however people must realize that sometimes it wouldn't work, and that if they keep trying and it still doesn't work, quitting and moving to other things is definitely fine. yeah, you do incredible things with this youtube channel and on twitch, but without luck it wouldn't be possible. other people who might do what you do might not get the same success. and if you like it and get enough success to make you happy, awesome. but if that doesn't work, you can still choose a different path no matter how old you are.
An incredible story I heard about Steve Jobs is that he majored in calligraphy because it seemed nice to him. it was just fun. not sure if he finished that or not, but that brought the idea to bring fonts into mac, which later turned into the fonts we know today. we wouldn't dream of different fonts on computers if Jobs hadn't learned calligraphy. It would just be redundant.
I've always hated the idea of learning how to meditate, so thank you for sneaking it in on the end.😂
I’m switching from being a chemical engineer to go work in a hospital cleaning rooms. I don’t think I can get back into the industry but I have family insistent that I go back into that because of $$$ and nothing else
If you've got expenses covered, have savings for emergencies, and can save money towards retirement then it doesn't matter what job you're in.
If they want money they can go get it themselves.
As a person that manifest many vatta style features, I support this message. Regarding the part of applying principles from one field to another, I 100% agree and, moreover, I think my own personality and my tendency to shift from one thing to another and all that, its what it makes it more easily to me to do it. Also, it's probably a skill to an extent, so it kind of gets better the more you do it.
I'm definitely a hybrid professional. I refer to it as my lives. However, this is something you can't use to build up your narrative when it comes to job search. You are supposed to have had picked the right career and show long term success.
I'm personally happy with the career choices I made, but our country has this dumb system where you have to go through 1,5 years of temporary contracts before they hire you permanently and they always pretend they will hire you... until they don't. (It costs more to hire someone permanently) I've been losing jobs throughout 10 years now for this dumb reason. It's not that I was never passionate or didn't want to work. It's just hell to go through and you get more and more demotivated each time, because they will make up lies about you as to why you're fired while you know for yourself you gave it your all.
Haha, this is the problem of my life.
I'm interested in
-craft and manual activities
-psychology, philosophy, spirituality
-Languages
-Music and composition
-writng, stories, humor, fiction
Currently in 1rst year of psychology studies I'm thinking about quitting in order
to work as an apprentice jeweler. It could allow me to earn money, to do something more concrete and to develop other interests around it, but I know that I'll be bored at the very moment I get good at it
. Vata people prefer doing multiple things at the same time so it's better for us to choose and work on multiple careers
. Getting amazing at one things is not the best way to become successful
What matters is using different things you learnt from very different places to apply into something new. So it's not a terrible thing to switch careers cause you'll apply your knowledge into the new career. It's not all a waste of time.
. Vata people should keep switching between about 4-5 things and keep working on em
. Experience is overvalued. Your performance is not linearly related to time spent. You should focus on getting better and learn actively. Replay analysis (look at what went wrong and what went right)
. It's not hard to catch up if you start late as long as you're determined to make a change
. There is no THE formula to success. There is a different formula to success for each person.
. More work is not kore time spent on it
. Meditation 27:30
First person in media that I’ve ever heard reference Ghost In The Shell outside of a review. Absolutely legendary
Finished it! This was great.
I have watched many self improvement youtubers and many other youtubers who provide you knowledge about how to live your life and stay motivated, they did help me but the only youtuber that actually thought me what motivation actually is and how it works is dr. K plus the meditation techniques he thought also helped me without me even knowing it, my request to him is not to stop giving knowledge from aayurveda and eastern stuff....ik some people don't believe it which i completely respect...if it's possible Dr. K. Can make another RUclips channel where he tells solutions with eastern perspective with some knowledge of science (cause that's helpfull too) a channel where where he doesn't have to worry about people aayurveda is wrong (i totally respect them btw)
One video a day? We're spoiled!
Thank you! 🙏
Recently realized my purpose is to point others in the direction of their purpose.
thank you Dr. K, video title is enough for my therapy
The OM meditation helped a lot tysm
I love this video a lot, it always surprises me how much more new things there are to learn from dr k even though he's had so many videos on a similar topic already. I'd consider myself more of a jack-of-all-trades master of none and it has really bothered me, but this video kinda framed it in a new perspective and I'd never really seen it as being in any way advantageous over doing one thing really really well until now.
The only thing is I do wish this video was titled better cause I don't really think it reflects the main point of the content 😅 but thank you for addressing this topic
Being average at many things is a huge deal. The only issue is that you need to put in the effort and dedication to get good at something. You have a head start, make use of it.
When job listings require "x amount of experience".......
I like the one where they were asking for 5 yrs experience in a type of coding that'd only been around for 18months.
inb4 low tier god references
I started to laugh immediately
was watching an ltg salt comp right before i clicked on this vid lmfao
I immediately caught that GitS reference before he even said it!!! Dr. K is GOATed lmao
Can we get more details for the character sheet thing though? That sounds like a really cool concept
The meditation at the end hit good
Dr K roasting me with his titles lately 😔
🙏🕉️😇Yay! Meditating w/Dr K at the end!😇🕉️🙏
i doubt you will see this comment, but i would like to ask: i have tried meditation so many times, but every single one of them i died of boredom and was not able to go through with it, i really want to be able to try it for real, but my ADHD just hits hard and i feel unconfortable for doing "nothing", do you have any recomendation on how to "solve" this?
Meditate for longer. If you can't handle five minutes, sit there for an hour.
I would recommend watching How to ADHDs video on Meditation! Even if you don't like the creator there are a lot of good things in the video for people with ADHD
Maybe start with mind-body exercises and work up to doing meditation? Like yoga or Qi Gong? Alternatively there is meditation for focus. Saying one of Dr. K's mantras with the beads might also help as it's not doing nothing. I also really like this exercise where you picture a stream and visualize the words and thoughts you're thinking going on leaves and floating away. It keeps you from trying to stop your mind. You just go with it and let the thoughts exist and float
Don't meditate at home. Go somewhere like the park or out in nature. A change of environment can help people with ADHD use their coping mechanisms more effectively. Source: my psychotherapist.
Go to a very busy place, with a lot of people, like a city square or a mall. Sit down somewhere, close your eyes and just try to focus on all the sounds. How many are there? And there you go, you're meditating. Or try sitting down wherever, and don't try to make your mind go still. Give it space to go wild, let it run around
Your life is literally as valuable as a aum chant. You're just gonna meditate, you're gonna keep coming back, I'm gonna loosen up your back, why? Cause you keep smelling the incense
You should love yourself ⚡NOW!⚡
DAMN BRO CHILL
i mean, theres people like me that at 22 havent even started a career, so the thing is not wasting time in a career instead of doing absolutely nothing of worth
U speak straight to my unconscious!
wanting that character sheet so bad as a gamer.
I’ve thought about this before, going to school and work until I pay it off, and then going for something else after that if I hate it
Ahhh this eases my anxiety man. Always worrying about the future. I shouldnt tho.. :p
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
My brother is changing interest from time to time, he has a job in a big company and he's hopping for post to post every few years. Lately, he has posts for coordination, supervision, restructuration, the last post was even tailored for him. So yes, these out of the ordinary backgrounds make for out of the ordinary employees.
Also, I love that you did the aum meditation, we do that in my yoga lessons and I was a bit confused what I was supposed to do. Plus, I'm a former semi-pro chorist and I was more focused on doing a harmonious pitch (as I can's go as low as the teacher), than anything else. Talking of which, is it alright to do harmonious pitch? Or should I focus more on myself?
Ghost in the shell reference pog?? You just earned +33 for the anime curator trait
thanks for reminding me with the title
Like your aoe healing jumper, is this part of your merch?
I work and afterwards, I do what I can. I like to workout, be with friends, karaoke.
These titles feel like attacks lol
At one point, I became bored with everything, but I didn't get interested in new things. I was never capable of studying anything and I wasted like 6 or 7 years trying to pursue a college title. I've wasted my life. All I want is to restart it, because it's so wasted I would need to redo it all over again to make it worth. But that's impossible, so I'm left with a wasted life that has no value from this point.
I wish I at least had any knowledge to consider useless. Anything.
Not only I don't have purpose, but also no objectives, no desires. Nothing. I don't even have anything to expect from the weekends, let alone an objective to pursue in life. I have no reason to live at all.
How can you guys enjoy anything about life? I'm just so fvcking tired of it.
The feeling I get from reading this is "need rest and regrowth".
I'd like to restart myself with what I know now but I can't.
Why do you have to have a productive life where every second has to be XYZ productive as determined by ABC goal point.
You can start right now, with what you know right now and just consider this the real game now that you're out of the tutorial. Even if you're 80 you could still live for another 40 years. That's a whole life right there.
It feels like those productivity requirements are getting in the way of discovering what you actually intrinsically enjoy.
If your productivity is having to eat 5 scoops of chocolate ice-cream (and you actually enjoy mint ice-cream but don't know it yet) how would you know unless you take a break, allow time for rest, then trying other kinds of ice-cream? You could be so burnout on ice-cream that without a rest you'd just hate all ice-cream.
Even hive insects make time for rest.
The title feels directed towards me, and I'm not sure if I should like that
Hey Dr K, do you know much about overeating to excess, not necessarily due to stress eating? I take ritalin for ADHD, and I still have an obscenely excessive food intake. I wish I could stop eating so much, and yet I still feel hungry. Could this be mental or is this a lengthy GP process?
If your weight is ok, maybe it's not a problem, but if it's making you overweight or uncomfortable with all this eating, why not try a different medication if possible? Definitely talk to a GP first and see what they say.
It could be a certain vitamin or mineral you're lacking or a hormonal issue since there is a hormone that triggers hunger.
Being hungry, if you've physically satisfied yourself, could be you wanting some form of success or goal and because our language subliminally does stuff like "hungry for success" your brain substitutes it and bam food again or the physical sensation of hunger. It's also a psychological hole filler when you're not satisfied because food is one of the easiest ways to do this.
Hydration is another one, could be needing more water intake and the signal is just crossing wires with hunger since we can get moisture from that too.
Another factor is that it could be your stimming activity you like best is chewing so trying chewellery might help or at least ease the actual caloric intake.
The food variety we have now is so much that it could also be helping the brain chemicals as the easiest way to regulate the brain. It's smell, texture, flavour, internal sensation, constantly changing as you chew.
There's so many different ways these factors could be combining together not even accounting for stress eating/energy for the brain processing as a coping mechanism for external stuff or unprocessed childhood trauma that neurodivergent people get.
great vid
what an awesome hoodie
Thumbnail and title felt like a personal attack.
You have no inherent purpose. Make one.
don't know if there is any correlation but my thought that the frequency of the hum could equate with similar binaural beats? I often listen to this stuff when meditating.
Do you mean that with a hundred percent, with a thousand percent?
I know i don't
can use noise canceling earbuds for om chant. airpods pro made it so i could mostly only feel the vibrations
THAT'S NOT A VERY HEALTHY GAMER TITTLE
Merci
I am actually really seriously thinking about becoming a coach. To be fair if I could be a coach at HealthyGamer that would be perfect for me but unfortunately, I'm not from US. I've managed to look at some courses and atm already started wondering how can I possibly fund the education and how my future might look like. It is a bit difficult because I am the kind of a person that had difficulty going thru major changes. I love stability. But at the same time I feel suffocating at my current job. And I really feel strongly that I want to help people with their mental health, I am drawn to it plus I have a natural thing to see pattern of human behavior and the need to use it is great (I keep bothering people around me with it so I would like for a change for someone to want me to use this perdisposition)