Can't Focus? It's Not Your Fault, You're Being Tricked. This is How.
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Unable to concentrate? Turns out it isn't your fault. Your brain is being fooled and this is how.
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When you're so bad at focusing that you can't even focus on a video about why you can't focus and read the comment section instead.
*Me*
Ukko omg, I cant even count how many times I’ve had to rewind this video and I’m not even through it all yet lol.
I watch - I pause - I read a couple comments - I repeat 🙄
I do cross-stitch while watching/listening to videos. It helps keep my hands busy, and I found that it does help focus, just like drawing during lectures actually keeps students listening to what is being said without getting distracted (and yes, I did it at school and university too, how did you guess). I only got sidetracked once because I ran out of thread, so I had to stop the video, put a new one in and start it again.
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Hahahaha
It's so funny that every time I open RUclips to watch something important, I always watch something else first. Sometimes I end up forgetting the important thing I wanted to watch.
So true
hah i just did that, thanks for reminding xD
I try my best to not look at the recommendations when I first open up RUclips
You wouldn't believe the amount of things i have in "watch later" and in random pinning that gets stuffed at the bottom of the pit to read and print or download later but I almost never do! Like not cleaning your room but virtually!
Every.... single...time!! 😡😡 This is how time flies so fast lol I tend to avoid RUclips if I have a important event just because of this, too much distraction!
The irony is that even though we all watch youtube content that informs us against falling into these traps, what most of us end up doing is watching more of it while giving us a false sense of accomplishment and progress.
😂
thats so true tho lol
I got this app that helps you use your phone less...
@@drphosferrous 😂
Yea, though on the up side we at least now know what the hell is happening. . . . . and yes, we do nothing about it. I think its like any other addiction, alcohol, drugs, you name it. Makes no difference how smart you think you are, it really all boils down to self control and self discipline and self denial when you see the bad and you try to stop it in your own personal life.
Disabling notifications does not deprive you of anything, its a genuinely good idea to get out of the habit of being on your phone. You do not need up-to-the-second realtime data at all times. I may be the only one but I find all notifications to be really annoying. No dopamine, just anger , when the phone is dinging over and over while im trying to read or work ..
i needa know when my friends and family text me tho cuz it's sometimes an emergency
@@kokobi7482 you can also change the priority of your notifications! And you can also change the notif sound depending on that priority
This is why I always have my phone on silent, but old-timey SMS and phone calls still buzz on my watch. So I don't have to answer every little message and check every single thing, but have a filter for when people really want to reach me.
Generation " X " I take it ? If not that's okay , just I am of that generation , and I hate my so called smart phone ( there's nothing smart about them ) , but I have to have one in todays world as there are no more public phones anywhere . there is no good public anything anymore , except maybe public shaming , we all seemed to get very good at that . This is the only reason that I do not believe that we ever went to the moon , because they say that it was less technology that got us there than what is in our smart phones , this is all the proof I need , LOL.
the same.
The thumbnail says clickbait, but the video isn't clickbait.
This is some weird voodoo reverse psychology his mustache must be doing.
Maybe he's not even really there any more in the mustache just appeared and replace them.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache hello summary guy from Teaching Men’s Fashion
He has a psionic amplifier housed in his mustache
His moustache is the most powerful thing in existence
You'll never be justin Y
When I heard “8 seconds”, I realized I didn’t hear what came before it and had to go back 10 seconds.
oof
Not gonna make much progress that way. On the other hand, I think that means you'll never die.
@@Trollificusv2 takes me double time sometimes
Same 😂
Me too, but I think I lost it 10 seconds in
Thoughty2: "Humans have a very short attention span"
*Posts a 23 min long video to explain how*
But 23 is not a lot of time, in most circumstances
@@davidalves6813 12 second is the limit🙃
i gave up after 23 seconds!
@@Gos1234567 you lasted 23 seconds longer than me😭 you win...
3:12 I'm outta here
This actually made me feel a bit better about myself. Despite having ADHD, it seems I might actually be less distractible than most people are nowadays. I have a smartphone, but I can easily go all day without looking at it.
Yeah, I have ADHD as well and I found the framing of dopamine as less reward and more desire, very interesting. ADHD brains have less dopamine triggering, this has the effect of making us appear disengaged, or distracted from things around us. In a world of constant interruptions, particularly unimportant interruptions, being less susceptible might actually make us the more attentive.
Ironically i too have something loke adhd but it appears to make me more addicted if anything
Or perhaps its something else idk,either way its depressing
@Alexander Freeman
There are swathes of people who’ve been misdiagnosed with the phenomenon of ADHD. This “clinical population” often have the unique ability to process encode and store multiple types of visual, auditory and olfactory stimuli simultaneously. This is particularly useful in professions such as music production and criminology/investigative work ...
You dont have ADHD you have been fooled into thinking you do just like everyone else.
@@makojuicedaniel9307 If you're addressing me, I have been formally diagnosed with ADHD by a licensed psychiatrist.
2:25 and I lost focus by scrolling down the comments, shame on me
i started scrolling after 0:33 seconds :/
2:45 for me lol
2:17
shit, thanks for catching me, i didn't even realize
1:47
As soon as I became aware of clickbait tactics, they have the opposite effect on me. I'm repulsed by titles that don't give answers.
Yet clicked on this video? Lol
@@ripj5301 Because I'm subscribed to Thoughty2. I know him.
Mainly because the videos don't have answers or the answer is always underwhelming
Good now if most of the people on the internet could realize what clickbait is.
Wait...
I've gotten over most internet addiction but RUclips is a tough one.
Better than tv....
@@samusaran7317 it's tv you can watch on the toilet, on a trampoline, on a hike, IT'S EVERYWHERE...
I agree. Dumped everything else a while ago. Thinkig RUclips has to go now too. Except as an occasional research tool.
It's WAYYY too easy to find a plethora of videos on whatever niche interest you have.
@@mysteriousjungalist Im not even interested in half the shit I watch but I still watch it. WHY AM I WATCHING TREE FELLING VIDEOS!!!!!
The part about Edward Bernays affected me deeply. After my mother died from lung cancer at 42 I found her diary from high school. It had an entry: "Smoked 3 Liberty Torches today." The devastation caused by this man is unbelievable. He wrote a book called "Propaganda" that any modern person should read. You will never look at your Dr., Minister, or "News" the same again. P.S. in later years he understood how much damage he had done.
They always humble confess brag later.
@@briansimerl4014 well....he is still a human.
@@danielcantiego9374 so was Marx and Stalin
@@briansimerl4014 - Neither of whom confessed to errors later. Or do you know different?
Shitting!
I lived the first 52 years of my life without a cellphone. I got one to use as a tool. I know that I can leave this thing home every now and then just to experience the freedom again of not being available. The world does not end without me
@@docpossum2460 most under 30 can't no, myself included
@@docpossum2460 yeah, phones are now extensions of ourselves for lots of people. We've grown up with them, and now with covid we're addicted
Similar, I specifically got one as a tool, (Nokia 501-brick, which still works) PAYG so people can contact me as I was/am rarely 'at home', It costs less than £1 per month. Now I have a Samsung 'galaxy' (donated) PAYG
you can also just turn off the phone no? i miss my old blackberry that had an option to completely disable the cell network and still work as a tablet basically in case i just wanted to not be bothered
@@whiteguar6757 you can always switch to airplane mode, which is the same thing.
Greatest line of the greatest movie ever made Tron: The computers will start thinking and the people will stop.
The more technologically advanced we become, the more biologically stupid we will come to be.
Saw it 3 times when it came out!
Nononononononononononono
Best movie? Maybe I should watch it. But best movie? Idk.
Tron legacy was dope but i dont think I fully watched the first tron movie. I really want tron to be revived
The first 20 seconds of the video is basically RUclips in a Nutshell
Doesn't work on me, I use Adblock.
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 and don't allow them to guilt trip you into disabling your ad blocker.
@@MiniLuv-1984 Guilt tripping doesn't work on me for anything since I simply don't give 2 shits about what others think of me. I'm the guy that will take $5-10 in quarters out of the park or mall fountain for laundry money when the rent-a-cop isn't looking while everyone else stares on in shock and horror like I just drowned someone in it with my bare hands. As far as blocking ads, the uploaders get paid either way and so does RUclips. It's the morons that try to annoy everyone else with ads that end up wasting their money and tossing it into a black hole. Maybe they will wisen up to this when they realize the ads are not that effective (even before Adblock I boycotted every ad I saw just for annoying me, not hard when brand names are overpriced compared to generic anyway). Never understood why there's 20M idiots paying for YT Red either, probably the same crowd that pays for porn even though it's free everywhere.
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 You're evil, I like you.
Sorry I got distracted...... What was you point again?
On one hand, i clicked on this video instead of resuming work.
But on the other hand, this might explain why i am a smarter and better worker.
I'm not addicted to my phone, i hate the feeling of social media, and most normal advertisements don't really interest me at all.
I'm not saying that i am better than others, i have my vices and pitfalls. But i'm not exactly the target audience for most of the information overload.
It is true that those companies keep making us hooked.
But accepting us as helpless to control the attention is self fulfilling prophecy. There are ways we can control it, e.g practicing mindfulness, change our subconscious belief, etc.
It's not easy, but eventually we are the only one who have control of our mind.
Or even better, turning off our phones when we are studying or with freinds.
Not everyone can control himself though, especially people with ADHD or addiction
Kinda, sorta.
Detachment can help modulate your desires, but the desires are still there. Attempting to deny them just reinforces them (worst are the numerous kinds of addicts that are now addicted to Jesus or 12 step programs or most insidious of all; yoga pants).
You are always a slave to your own desires.
Figuring out less damaging ways to sublimate your desires is touch and go at best, but there is the wild circus of the world just outside, and who really drives by a car wreck without looking?
Or just disable targeted ads/personalization or just use adblock and disable sounds/vibrations on notifications. Like if you tell them to stop personalizing everything for you then you will start to dislike using these services meaning you will use them less. Thank european union for making it easier to do these things (even if they fuck up sometimes).
WOOOORD! TRUTH! 🙏
Honestly, I wish RUclips had a recommendation section that wasn't chosen by my previous choices. I'd like some variety.
Erase your history, including search terms. Or log out.
@@STARDRIVE this is exactly what I do once in a while to get various disciplines.
entire weekend watching sci-fi short films.
now my recommendation section is a mesh,i was just bored,i need my usual recomendations back.
anyway,maybe was my fault,because not suscribed my usual channels,now i do.
crappy youtube.
Feel free to search RUclips for things you want to see, it’s a feature, so use it.
@@Poppa_Capinyoaz problem is how to search for things you dont know you will like it, XD
haha jokes on you, I keep forgetting my phone in the other room for hours while I do homework, and I find it later with a million notifications and "15 missed calls from Mom".
Been there haha. it's invasive how people expect you to be able to communicate 24/7
Maybe that's why you are able to keep doing homework for hours :P
@@jonahblessum4372 Yeeeeeeeep. I find it silly when others act entitled to my constant attention.
that's good
Same but I try to keep it close only because my mum yells at me if I don’t have my phones on me to receive every text and call she makes. Not because I’m addicted to my phone or whatever
I've had a strong sense of "looking at the bigger picture" since I was in my late 20s. I think I was forced to start doing this because of some layoffs, and other odd things that I thought were just "not right". So more and more I've looked at things with a birds eye view. THIS... has enabled me to filter through B.S. much more easily over time. While I DO still get distracted fairly frequently, I also can see through much MORE crap. And when I compare myself to others, I see that MOST others are terribly distracted MUCH more often. I'm VERY concerned for younger generations in general. Because they see this 'style' of communication as "normal"... and maybe always have.
The truth is most are willing participants to the brainwashing. Most of societies heads are so up their asses, they beg to be manipulated. I would suggest that 80% of Americans are more interested in a rap/sex video, tiktok, Facebook or spending their last dime on the newest IPhone, than they are having a successful career and paying their own way through life. That is why I don't feel sorry for them when they complain about having nothing or working for "the man." Those above listed are their priorities and society is willingly being played for chumps, while some of us are laughing all the way to the bank.
Thoughty2 covers anything and everything, the more obscure the better. This channel was suggested to me because that's exactly where my interests reside.
Literally 5 minutes In I realized I hadn't paid attention to the last 20 seconds and had to rewind.
Welp
Limbeck k same
Limbeck k - im playing my xbox while listening and then scrolling through comments in-between rounds
Prolly got brain fog
That's it! I'm building a faraday cage around a cave, and never leaving it again.
Well, maybe I'll watch one more video first, I need to meet the man who pulled off the biggest scam in history.
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Thanks for bringing this to an obvious point. As an artist, teacher and watchful paraprofessional, not only do I succumb to the equally obvious tendency to cover it with red marks and hand it back for a rewrite, I have wasted my life yet again. Go for it, Thoughty!,
Literally see this as I'm meant to be doing a college essay
You do that essay later! Watch this first.
you better be writing it rn
How dare you!
Lord help us, me too. 😔
I can relate 🤣
9:43 "mainstream media and unreliable media" - Well, mainstream media is *also* unreliable itself.
As soon as he said that, I had to zoom down to the comments to see if anyone else caught it. lol
MSM is just the index, a list of topics to research. Take the stories then go and research them yourself in as unbiased way as possible.
As the old saying goes; believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear.
Thank you.
@@----.__ But there’s also things that they never mention nor talk about
@@jefffinkbonner9551 I said a list of topics to research, not a definitive list of the only things you should look in to. Big difference.
"That's one second less than a goldfish" OOF
Big oof
Enslavement of the dopamine #193749
oof
Not to be rude but, we are able to control our emotions and hormones with our will. I got this information from a website called hearthmath. Here is a link if you want to find out more about emotions. www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/
Tbh what the fuck does a goldfish in a bowl have to distract it? Gravel? A little castle? Jason chained to a rock?
It's funny that you put this up as it mirrors my views of the media. I gave away my TV and radio about 5 years ago and have never looked back. On social media I methodically block every advertiser that crops up, this way I have some control of it. On RUclips as soon as ads come on I mute the sound and scroll down to look at what else I can watch. It's not a perfect system but my stress levels have dropped significantly since doing this, and no more watching the news as it is now a cess pit. The biggest thing I have done is go back to reading, reading actual books no computer no distractions and it is damned liberating.
I get adverts for tampons so as a bloke I know I'm doing something right to confuse their algorithms :)
another thing i do, when it's an option, is to select do not prefer to say in regards to my gender
sometimes i get ads for both genders so i must be doing something right
I've long suspected that if the RUclips "AI" is _truly_ an _Intelligence_ and not an "AS" (Artificial Stupidity) then it's being deliberately malicious and annoying. How many _hundreds_ of times do I have to click "Don't reccomend this channel" before it stops recommending these ridiculous Minecraft videos? Same with RAP music. I guess I should be grateful that it's not showing me feminine hygene products.
*Me being a distractable person*
Mustache man: It's not your fault
Me: Oh nice, someone else to blame
That claim alone brought me here. >.>
On the one hand it technically is our fault seeing as how it could be argued it's a fault in the way we respond to such stimulus. On the other hand, moustache.
the more I understand people the more I realize we are limited in the same way every other species is, there is a evolution cap, we may have reach the human limit, now we rely on machines to feed us reruns of stuff people have known for thousands of years or more. Thanks @Thoughty2 I will watch less and do more
Thanks Super Mario
@@GamingDreamer super Mario that's a good one, I knew he looked liked someone! 👍😎
cant wait until its 2060 and im able to focus for -32 seconds
When we get at that point, we will need hardware to compensate
im the 32nd thumb lol
Imagine having to wait for that
I lolled
We'll all probably be long dead by then
So true. Every time i open youtube to search for something, i get suggestions of videos by thoughtytwo. I end up watching his videos and forget what i opened youtube for in the first place.
It's not just focus...it's patience.
I worked as a night auditor for 10 years at a major hotel. I also handled security when I had to...including training some aspects of the hotels security.
Long story short, I gave a test after about a week of someone being hired. It was simple: "Go into the lobby, sit down, and do NOTHING for 10 minutes. Nothing. No cell phone checking, no reading magazines/newspapers, not talking...nothing. Just sit there. Ready...? GO!"
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Every single 20-something person failed except for one. The LONGEST time any of these kids managed to sit there and do nothing...are you ready? Ok, it was three minutes. Seriously. That's it. Shortest was about 30 seconds. It was CRAZY! And yes, this did make them do their job more poorly; shorter 'fuse' with difficult patrons or visitors, inability to wait to see if someone was up to shenanigan's, etc. The guy who passed? He had no cell phone. That was the only difference...well, he was also really smart. Always nice to have someone smart to talk to. :)
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Me? I have no cell phone. I also have security settings and browsers and whatnot for browsing the net that I don't see advert's. I am not on social media...no twitter, instagram, facebook, etc. Only RUclips and BitChute, really.
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As for "click bait". I specifically avoid any title that doesn't say anything. For example, your video "This Animal Can Do Something That Shouldn't be Possible"...only reason I watched it was it was on auto-play and started next. Another example of your videos... "Don't Want to Ruin Your Life? Never Do These Things". Haven't watched it. On purpose. :) Why? Too non-specific. I'm not wasting my time with a 22 minutes video that I don't know I might find interesting.
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Then again... I'm guessing I'm not normal. That's fine. Everyone can be wrong, that's the most likely scenario. ;)
oh really?
@@tobiastovar382 :)
Lol just reading that text wall is a test
very SMART you are INDEED
I've participated in silent retreats where I sat in one place alone from sun up to sun down. No talking, walking, eating, fidgeting, no electronics. And the only time I got up was to pee. I didn't find it all that hard.
“Can’t focus? You’re being tricked. Here’s how”
Me: proceeds to click on video being distracted
Anything to distract me from work is a good thing.
This video guilt tripped me into watching the entire thing. I feel like I'm obligated to give it my attention.
Also, Bernays could possibly be one of the worst humans ever born. He's an unknown villian in history.
Very true on Bernays. This elitist mind manipulator was allowed to freely run his social engineering on the American public because... well jeeez, look what just happened in germany. America let down it's immunity to his parasitic group and look where we are now.
Blaming Bernays for the weaknesses of human psychology is like blaming Murphy for the misfortunes which accompany Murphy's Law.
@@invictusdomini8624 No its not. Treating people like a herd of cattle is wrong. And good natured people will believe a big lie because its outside of their moral framework to even consider they're being that deeply manipulated.
A strong nationalist (or perhaps communist) government is the only way to regulate things and protect the population from psychopaths and alien elements that want to manipulate and exploit them, and promote and normalize the basest materialism and degeneracy for profit or control. Which is exactly what free market capitalsm has gotten us. Individualism leads to tyranny because cohesive groups will always have the advantage and take over.
I went a bit off topic but it all kind of ties together.
@@BeardLAD How about no. But why don't you tell me what you think, because if my answer reminded you of some group maybe it will help us both discover some underlying truth.
Wait... what? I'm from Germany and I have no idea what you mean by "look at Germany" xD
I love how Arran uses some of the very tricks he exposes, to get us all to watch this vid about those tricks.
When I was a boy, I thought myself stupid. Growing up on a very rural farm with none of the modern convinces, such as electric power or running water, garbage service, sewers, that sort of thing. When it was time to go to school we were off to the small 1 room school some 5 miles from our farm. While we were only rarely made to walk the distance, it was still a daily trip. Now for those who have no experience with a 1 room school, a short explanation is indeed in order. Our particular school was located in the middle of an area of the State formed by 5 brothers, when they passed on the area was split up between their children. So it was, nearly everyone in our school had the same last name. In a 1 room school, each class spends some time around the teachers desk, as the teacher gives them the lecture on their subject. Or course the entire school hears this subject being taught. This happens over and over as you climb the ladder of grades, sort of a preview of things to come and I always thought this helped with the education over all. In that school I made very good grades. Then came the year when my older sisters came of High School age. Since the nearest high school was some 25 miles from our farm over gravel an dirt roads, my folks decided to put the farm in the "soil bank" and find a place within driving distance. The first couple of years this worked out farily well as both sisters found places to live with relatives in town, my middle sister took a job as a baby sitter for a lady, her pay was room and board but dad thought it great, my eldest sister found a room at our granmothers house. Both girls took on night jobs at the local movie theatre, one selling tickets, the other popcorn. As things went along, we found that the haunting of the farm we were renting became a bit to bothersome and dad decided we needed to get the hell out of that place. Dad found us a rooming house that was owned by the same old man who owned the farm we had been renting. Mom, dad and my 2 sisters shared the combo living room/kitchen and one bedroom, I was given a room on the other side of the house which I shared with the fellow who washed dishes at the cafe where mom worked. Well to get to the point, I went from being the only one in the 5th grade in our one room school, to being one of 32 students in one of two rooms each filled with over 30 students in the 6th grade. This hit me like a brick shit house! I could not concentrate, I had no idea how to study since all my prior education was pretty much one on one with the teacher, here we fought for a it of attention from the teacher. I failed the 6th grade, and retook it in that town school. Well the second year in town, we had moved to a large house that we rented, dad hated to rent, said it was a damn waste of money, so he soon found a huge old house for sale on the wrong side of the tracks, where the water and sewer from the City never found their way across, and since it was in a different State nobody expected it to. We who lived on that side of town were considred roughians. I made it through the 7th and 8th grades with below average grades, and entered High School where I barly scratched through till falling in love with the true love of my life, while still a Junior. The spring of my Junior year, we were married, and I began my senior year in the fall. Well I knew I was failing my classes, and thought it was a waste of my time. After all here I was a married man going to school with a bunch of kids! So I dropped out and we moved to a nearby State where jobs were plentyfull and I went to work pumping gas at a truck stop, while my new wife served truckers coffee and chow at the cafe. This went on till Christmas when both our young minds suffered the agony of homesickness. After a night of drinking and crying for home, we decided to abandon our new life and move back home. When we got there, things had not changed. You could not buy a damn job, oh sure my wonderful wife found a job right off pouring coffee for the locals as the truck stop in townk but I found myself with no education, only a small list of jobs and with no income, my folks had to help us out. They had moved back to the main part of town since mom was in an auto accident that left her crippled to the point that an outdoor privy was out of the question, so they let us have the house on the wrong side of the tracks to live in while we got settled, and after a couple of months of total depression and trying to scrape by on what my wife made waiting tables I decided the only choice I had was to join the Army after all Vietnam was still going strong back in 1970 and they had thousands of jobs open, more opened each day with the death of more soldiers over there. I found I did very well in the Army schools which really paid off there. You see when assignments are passed out, the better your scores on the MOS tests, the higher the unit you could serve in. With my top scores, I was always at Brigade or at the least Group Headquarters. Well life went on, after the Army I joined the police force, again finding that I could make top scores at the police Academy. Following 24 years on the force, an accident put me on the disabled list. Workers Comp sent me to college where I found myself at the top of my class. The other students hated my test ability since I always killed the curve on the grading of tests and such. I graduated with a 4.0 gpa. I attribute my change in ability to learn to a couple of things. In the lower schools all I was interested was pussy and beer, when I was going to college, I knew my next career was dependent on my grades. Oh and ONE professor in college began his class (which was said to be the most difficult class in the entire college) by a lecture on how to study and take notes. This opened my eyes and I followed his advice to the letter. Well as things turned out, nobody wants a fresh college graduate, even with a 4.0 GPA when he is 55 years old. Ah well such is life. I recently lost the love of my life after 51 years of loving and living together. God how I miss my cute little girl, when we were wed she was 101 pounds and 5'0" When she was buried, she wore the same dress she wore on our wedding day. She held in her hand the gold plated rose I gave her one year before for our golden 50th wedding anniversary. Today is Valentines day, I had a rose to place on her grave but the temp is -30 degrees F right now, I think I will wait for another time to giver her that gift. Sorry for the book but somehow it makes me feel a bit better about life to talk this out, and I have so few friends left, they are dying off so quickly now what with Covid and old age.
I am so sorry for your loss.. and thank you for your story. It touched my heart. And I wish you everything good in this world. Take care and stay safe.
damn
I read your story. Thank you for sharing. You are not alone in your experience
Lovely and melancholy.
Thanks Jerry, I read your story. You've had a full and blessed life despite the heartache.
Sorry Thoughty, I really wanted to hear what you had to say but you lost me after 8 seconds...
I'm Old School....lasted 12
lasted 3 secs since the 8 sec study was in 2015
the video was on auto play and I was sleeping, I woke up at the last minute and couldn't finish the video after just 8 seconds
Kind of funny that this video disproves itself
@@ronazdug a different kind of netizen watches this channel if we're being honest. Not being elitist or anything.
Mate I'm watching this stoned, I'm getting nowhere near 8 seconds, took me about an hour and half to watch this video
Marijuana helps me focus for hours.
@@cherylcampbell9369 same. I have ADHD and I struggle to even watch movies without being high.
Actually you were watching it in double speed and only took 12 minutes!
🤣
Lmao I like this guy
This guy does his research. I know a lot about this subject and he’s spot on.
42: Targeted advertisement
Me: Laughs in Adblocker Plus
lol
There's no ads on this video anyway.
@Ty Lafitte blame the system not the users. IF you feel like you are robbing them, then thats because RUclips as a platform has decided this is the only way their content creators can benefit from all the work they put into what actually keeps the site alive. If add revenue is all that holds it together, then let it burn for all I care. If it truly becomes a problem, let the creators take up the real problem with RUclips, because that's where the issue really lies. It's not between the creators and the viewers, it's between the creators and the platform itself.
I use RUclips vanced on android device and it's better than using adblocker
@rzomg thank you for the casual racism. made my day /s
For someone who has had a problem with actually watching an entire RUclips video without being distracted or listening to it in the background while doing something else, I was actually able to watch this whole thing without doing anything else. This video actually did capture my attention but was actually able to keep it as it interests me so much (mainly because I have noticed a decline in my focus level and this helps explain what is going on causing this).
This video was really well done. Kudos on a great video and for taking the time to do the research on the subject. Have a like and a sub!
egg
@@noahwiebe2558 Why did you say 'egg'?
@@simarkarmani4034 egg
I watched it till 12:49 when I found that I was triggered enough and had enough of the video , I have been very familiar with these manipulations for some time and I reject the attempts to control me or my thoughts . I have broken many psychologist over my time on this ride , as I find manipulation if not previously agreed upon to be very dishonest and of thieves and liar's , I have no tolerance what so ever for thievery of any form weather it is material or thought , attempt to steel from me I destroy " Welcome to the jungle " .
During this 23 minute video, I felt the need to check my phone 6 times. One time I actually did. My mind wandered off a few times too.
And this is content that I find interesting!
How do kids survive school these days?
Ikr. They are the ones that are most vulnerable.
We dont :/
They play fortnite.
Amphetamines, and when you get out of school opiates
they don't. schools are a mess.
One things that's interesting is that while watching a single video we are overloaded with a lot of announcements which breaks the focus by itself, for example: you're super concentrated on the video information then... BAM! Look right now the new products of our shop, and this can be an obstacle by itself on the activation of dopamine and even a little bit of adrenaline, I can be wrong but it's just a point a view ( I haven't finished the video while I was writing this comment so please don't hate on me if he already talked about that)
Well, this actually made me feel sick and gave me an intense urge to turn of my computer (something I will do as soon as I have posted this). At this point I figure that being traditionally bored with nothing to do might actually be better than being bored while distracted by trash on youtube. God I might have to actually have to draw or play the violin to entertain myself instead of wasting time on youtube or online discussions wondering why I can't motivate myself to do those things.
17:50 i have to disagree on this part. I spent somedays more time watching home page on youtube/netflix and keep thinking there is nothing to watch.
I call that the "refrigerator effect", you are hungry and open the refrigerator look into it and even if it's full, you close it and start thinking there is nothing inside.
It depends on the person. I am the same, but I know many who will click on every video on there home page
Hevethee He actually covered that in the video, re-watch it mate.
@@nikidino8 More like you open and expect it to be full, but it isnt. Yet you keep coming back hoping that it magically fills up with food, but for the vast majority of time you walk away empty handed.
it's getting harder and harder to find on YT something that looks **New** and is worth a dopamine hit
the 50's "tv will be the death of society!"
computers "hold my beer"
🍻
More like "hold my chips"
The TV was called idiot box
@@freiinmajor2511 was?
I Think it counts even more so today 😅
They seen it on the tv so it must be true...
@@tsunamitube3351 it is in the actual dictonairy www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiot%20box
Phones: "hold my TV"
Us oldies knew this as soon as the smart phone came out.
We're now sitting back, sipping our tea saying, 'Told ya so...'
I've watched the regression from being good people trying to do better, to becoming children obsessed with their genitals, skin colour, words they don't like and a story that the world is going to end soon. Children.
I am so tired of dealing with children and their beliefs of pure fantasy.
Before I click on a video on RUclips, I consider whether I really want to actually watch it, and try to keep in mind that most titles are clickbaits. I think it works quite well.
Funny. While going through a stressful time a few years back, I had left my phone at work a few times. I can't remember anyone who did not ask me with absolute incredulity how I managed to go 12 hours without my phone [most of which was sleeping]. 🤦♂️ I think back to that often and since then I typically leave my phone at home when I go out. Trust me, itll make you happier.
While I'd like to do that, having your car break down in the middle of nowhere and not having a phone can make it into much more of an issue than it would otherwise be.
A lot of today's jobs also require you to be in constant communication also (as in having a cell phone with you). If there was a practical way for me to permanently do away with having a phone, I would.
Weaponisation of psychology... love it. Also, I’m interested in helping people improve their ability to focus, but am using some of the techniques described in this video and relying on others to use the other techniques to find people who are interested in improving their ability to find a flow state and remain focused longer
You are an amazing individual . Thank you for your objectivity and deep research that creates a channel experience unlike any other. In todays world..... that is a monumental achievement !
Next video. "Gold fish have better brains than we are lead to believe"
Honestly.
I've been led to believe that the past participle, "led," is the correct form of the verb, "to lead" for that situation. Oh, but maybe you meant the metal, lead. Heavy, man!
@@krietor Nice catch there. I'm going to lead (see what I did there) with the 'typing on a phone screen' defence. With all the mistakes and failed autocorrects that entails.
"A pleasurable little vibration..."
That is indeed irresistible.
? I feel like there's a meaning I'm missing, no? Or is it surface value?
Conlon he’s using clickbait.
Wink wink
To be honest, I found myself in the opposite camp as what Thoughty2 was saying when he said that phrase. I hate those push notifications, I don't turn them off, but when I start getting spammed by them, it is the very opposite of a dopamine high. It's like "what the fuck is with this dumb app hounding me right now?", which usually is followed by the individual app being muted from push notifications. The only ones I usually allow is a daily weather update, or things like that.
Thoughty2 : the average focus duration has decreased
Me with my adhd : *you guys can focus?*
dang you beat me to posting this by two months
Wow, this was really eye opening. A lot of it I already took as true but the explanation of how dopamine is more of a tension that we relieve has made me understand my own behaviour more. It seems that to be healthy, any urge we get is a dopamine hit that we need to be able to deny, and sit with, in "uncomfortablilty." One more thing that should be taught in schools, so that we can understand ourselves better.
"Personally, you might be underslept, play to many videogames, or you might suffer from a condition like ADHD."OH GOD.
And if you are dyslexic its DHDA
I have all three of them, holy shit! That explains a lot.
"there is little you can do about it"
bold words for someone within ADblocking distance
"It's evolving, just backward."
~Pewdiepie
My blastoys just became a squrtal
Devolution. Are we not men?
@Mo Makes Art Some eejit who made lots of money off RUclips. I have never watched any of his content.
@@anonb4632 explains a lot
@@anonb4632 what's eejit
This explains so much! Since childhood, I was always hyperfocused, or totally unfocused. Now, as a woman of a certain age, I have a terrible time remembering just about anything. Part of it may be some of the medications I'm on, BUT I listen to RUclips all day look. I think I'm overloading my brain.
I start watching a video about losing focus and then, 20 seconds later I lose focus and I'm scrolling down to the comments. You too, huh?
I lasted 5 minuses before I decided to check comments :P
18:50 lol the way he said ""pleasurable little vibration"
"keep staring at your phone, yesss... that's how we get rich."
Its not all about money
@@popbob6948 It's about creating a paradise for pedophiles where they can molest children with no consequences.
Ur in all of infinite waters comments that’s cool I didn’t know u watched thoughty2 videos
pop bob never is. Its what represents money that matters
@@popbob6948 Yes it is.
You are right, I don't play along though. I never look at the notifications that still come through, despite turning the "push" notifications off. I simply clear them from my messages panel and then from the apps they are still in. I check texts, missed calls and social media messages for me, personally. I have multiple ongoing conversations happening at all times and it takes a little while to make my way through those. After that, I have several subscriptions to various RUclips channels that are centered on particular subjects, from off-grid living on a shoestring to stealth camping. I'm very conscious of the time I give to all of these things and I have trained myself to put it down and return to the non-digital world 🌎 I have lived in all my life for the evening. Reading, writing and playing 6-string and bass guitar, mandolin and banjo, listening to all kinds of music and old-time radio shows, as well as watching the occasional movie or listening to an audio book easily fill the time adequately. And I can't leave out board games like Risk, Go and chess or brain games like math and word puzzles. My favorite is Risk but it takes so long to play, though that doesn't stop us. Some games can go on for days. I like to make my own distractions. Good video, enjoyable though I think most people are aware of these things for the most part. It's all good, solid information and identifies (exposes) the methodology behind this crazy-weird explosion of advertising and information gathering. The end-game doesn't seem like it will be favorable to society at all.
"The brain has evolved with this in mind." .... I see what you did there.
"thow shalt not eat of that tree"
"is that what God said?"
the first clickbait in history, and its wonderful consequences.
*Thou
@@alvallac2171 thanks mate
'don't eat from that tree, but eat from that tree to find out why'
God is a communist who doesn't like free speech and freedom
@@SignificantPressure100 sure, that's your understanding of it.
the way i see it, the answer of why is there so much suffering in the world, is exactly because he's not a communist.
if He'd be a commie, it would be an orderly, perfect world, and i say this as an eastern european, that loathes communism, i don t believe in it.
as Ron Reagan said, communism only works in Hell, where they've already got it, or in Heaven, where they don't need it.
only a god could master communism.
that s why the rulers eventually see themselves as gods.
only God could, but because of the respect of free will, we have... well, whatever you call this place.
so i call bull on your statement, sorry kid. better luck next time.
I can't focus with anything these days, and 5 minutes feel like hours to me.
I can't really focus on the video when I look at his magnificent mustache to be honest.
just smoke weed man. you will be fine
@Mike in Halifax I'm getting older and it ain't getting faster
You might just have ADHD or ADD, you can always ask for a diagnosis if you think that's the case. And there's nothing horrible about that, it has its pro's and cons,
I work night shift at a gas station , sometimes there's an hour or more between a customer even showing up . It takes me about an hour if I stretch it to do everything that I actually need to do in an 8 hour day . So rather than stare at bags of Doritos I pull out my phone and I watch thoughty2 videos
11:16 personally when i see articles like that my first question is: do i really care?
The answer is almost always no and I don't click on such an article. Try it, it may work for you too
I wanted to overcome my gaming addiction and this helps me thank you so much. Thoughty2
muchmustache.
I'm stealing that
@@fartmerchant762 You can have them for free ^-^
i can help you too, have a genuine aim in life you straight for. Mine is the career and to apply my knowledge in it
I like any clickbait if it's by thoughty2
IM HOOKED! 👀😵💫🥴
There is a very good reason why you are on your way to 10M+ subscribers, this video is one of them. 👍🏻
Ads are the damned bane of the internet, I despise the things, it's steadily making all platforms borderline impossible to use properly without being blasted with bullshit ads, for the last 6 months or so I've been on a mission of clicking on the hide ad button and selecting "inappropriate" as my reason for wanting to hide it, as far as I'm concerned they are inappropriate, not one ad is ever anything that concerns me, not that I'd notice anyway since I literally make a point of not focusing on them 🤣
Also, I don't allow targeted ads on my phone, every website I go to I refuse cookies especially targeted ad cookies (one of the good things of having EU rules in the UK 🇬🇧 gonna be extremely sad if/when that has to stop because of our joke of a government 🤦♂️💥)
Ad blocker
@@evbobdemon6994 Ugh... If I had a penny for everyone who mentioned ad blockers, have you actually tried to use them on a mobile phone 📱?
Not so simple, especially if you have YT preinstalled, which virtually every phone does, I use Brave Browser on my phone, that's good enough for blocking ads but on YT, not so much, it's a literal pain in the ass no matter which browser you use, you might get to watch one video without ads but then you have to mess around closing YT (which immediately opens after the video, assuming you got around it not automatically opening YT in the first place) and all kinds of stupid starts going wrong, it's just not worth the hassle! 🤣 ♥
@@DoctaOsiris RUclips Premium then... ;)
@@swdev245 Again, not everyone can afford that 🤣
uBlock Origin.
Also, if you want to watch RUclips without the ads and tracking, go with NewPipe. Or grab UserLAnd and Hacker's Keyboard, spin up a Debian instance, and grab the youtube-dl script, and download your RUclips videos ad-free. (If you're on a crApple phone, I'm sorry.)
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” - How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
I thought it was me being autistic or having ADHD
@Steve Ross huh? Sorry I was zoned out
There's a reason ADHD is over-diagnosed and over-prescribed for to ridiculous levels these days.
@@TheAce12570 I wasn't diagnosised with anything but can't concentrate can't keep still and remember stuff and I don't drink caffienated drinks
@@ts.exotics4583 I hear ya.
@Steve Ross Do you men "Blunderstuck"?
This is one of the times I'm glad I'm old. I push, *haha* this stuff away from me and I don't jump every time an inanimate object wants to shove something down my throat. Screw notifications, I'm running my life on my time because I did it for four decades of my life anyway!
Thanks for some good, clearly explained vids on important topics. It would be interesting to see a follow up on this one looking at how attention is being narrowed by algorithms, as well as reduced. It seems after the rapid expansion of social networks allowed us to connect we are now being herded into corners. This is a powerful cause of polarisation, to the point of phase shift., limiting our vision and creating factions. We are seeing the effects now with the present situation in the US and elsewhere I believe.
Watching this channel makes me feel less of a conspiracy theorist
Actually it tells me that many celebs loath Dwayne Johnson, something I previously had no idea of (not to mention little idea who Dwayne Johnson is, which hasn't changed).
Dwayne Johnson, back in the day was known as the wrestler the Rock. Famous slogan...'can you smell what the Rock is cooking?'...very entertaining 👏 person.
@@petefarmer3514 Seriously???
@@PurityVendetta yup...for cereal
When i lose my internet connection, i am very sharp and remember everything i have to do, organize tasks without effort, and can watch my collection of several hundred downloaded yt videos and notice all the little nuances and details in talks, sports vids, and memes. However when i have a connection im clueless and in a haze and cannot prioritize or schedule my day.
18:46 when the weed guy finally calls.
15:46 either the information they gather on me is inaccurate or they arent interpreting it right because the "targeted" ads i get make absolutely no sense.
It's the fact they collect it which is sinister. I still get alcohol adverts despite not having drunk any since the 2000s... But then I get other adverts which seem to relate to things that I've been talking about. Even though the microphones are supposedly off.
@@anonb4632 I feel like at least some of that is complete coincidence and confirmation bias.
@@Yipper64 No, it's not. I've experienced several examples which were WAY TOO specific.
A few examples: I was talking about Andorra to someone offline and suddenly all these Andorran adverts start turning up when I'm browsing. I hadn't searched for it online and it's not like Andorra is a major tourist destination. I cannot put that down to coincidence. On another occasion I mentioned something to someone about Mao suits and I start getting adverts for Chinese clothing. On another occasion (and this is less of a stretch) - we talked about ?Wilhelm Dafoe, and RUclips starts suggesting videos with him in.
On none of these three occasions had I used Google. Nor do I have a personal assistant like Alexa etc.
@@anonb4632 yeah.... confirmation bias.
@@Yipper64 Andorra though? How the hell do you explain that? That isn't coincidence or confirmation bias. I had no reason to get that ad from online activities. It is way too specific.
a few years ago i took my phone and broke it in half, never got another one, now i have a life!
THIS IS THE GREATEST CHANNEL ON RUclips! PERIOD!! AND YOU CANT CHANGE MY MIND
I'm supposed to be working from home right now.
Instead, I'm watching this video.
I watched it while at work...🤔
Damn I can't focus for shit when I'm doing a useless college elective like social science. I ain't about to lose a job by being lazy tho, that shit actually pays you for your hard work.
I initially thought this video was going to explain why my eyesight was so bad 🤔
Try this, turn the sound and vibration off and face the phone with the screen down, if you can't just let it be, you're an addict.
I forgot my phone in the kitchen. Then realized because I walked by and happened to see it like 3h later. Not an addict.
Thank you, thankyou. I was becoming a RUclips addict, checking multiple times a day for up-to-date information. Thanks to you, I now know that my RUclips addiction was actually a curiosity addiction. Those clever bastards!
Me: clicks and watches the vid, the thumbnail changes after I watch it so when I go to the home page I click it again
"Its not about the focus, Is about the adventure you go through your amazing distraction that causing it. Computer will start to think but the human mind will never stop to think. We human survived for so long and yet so short in the earth history. We cannot let our selve get out smart by some peice of metal."
The only time I can stay focused is when I hear metal songs and try to figure out the lyrics :D
*Fistbump* same here.
Painkiller
Metal is the clickbait of music. It makes you want to understand what they are saying just to realize they have nothing to say.
@@joey9511 Depends on the band. Some have genuinely good lyrics, but some like Cannibal Corpse have embarrassingly bad ones.
@@joey9511 says the person who likes drake, like what metal do you have in mind?
It's interesting, his videos could be clickbait and yet you'd still learn so much from this man.
'A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention' is possibly one of the best quotes i've heard so far
I avoid click-bait when I can. I always press the 3 dot thing, and click do not recommend channel when I see some bullshit.
i lose focus by just thinking about something for too much and just go blank. This happens to me everyday.
I had to stop myself from scrolling through my feed as I listened to this. 30, with adhd, and yet I do feel I have a worse attention span now than when I was younger. I didn’t have a cell phone as a kid, didn’t have this little dopamine drip device with bear limitless content to entertain myself with.
I love the movie Alita Battle Angel :D (the girl on the thumbnail)
woah i havent seen you in a long time, jesus.. youve grown up :0
Right popped up outta nowhere i missed his work, it put me on a rabbit hole a few years ago an ny RUclips algorithm hasnt been the same lol
He just grow a mustache.
He stopped wearing suits too.
8:55.. Honest youtuber ✔️😂
Thank you! I pledged for you ebook today, I am looking forward to reading it!