How to Focus Intensely

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  • @FreedominThought
    @FreedominThought  6 лет назад +443

    Hey guys, what do you think about this framework for thinking about focus? Does it reflect your experience or no? I wanted to try something different and build a solution to the question from the ground up (roughly speaking). Keep in mind that I am using a hedonic frame of reference or lens (to use a term I’ve used in other videos) here. I feel that looking at the problem of focusing through this lens gives the user a relatively comprehensive and flexible mental model.
    This framework can also be scaled up to include multiple people which is why I think it is so powerful. Imagine that you run a company of 10 people, and you ask yourself: how can I make everyone more focused? You can use the same model. Start by reducing stressors (black holes): hiring people who are not toxic, giving fair wages, etc.
    Anyways, I’d love to hear your thoughts! Do you use a different model for focus? Let me know. Thanks for watching! - Justin

    • @MusicthroughDHD
      @MusicthroughDHD 6 лет назад +3

      Freedom in Thought do you have a specific point system? I'm thinking of adding priority points to my day plan template, if it weren't for the concern of over thinking and spending too much time in that blissful state of planning.

    • @omgnogod666
      @omgnogod666 6 лет назад +3

      How do you know what to prioritize if you are indecisive about the hundred of things you want or would like to do?

    • @prawtism
      @prawtism 6 лет назад +1

      Not hiring toxic people will in a way push them somewhere where they will have more bad influence, because their toxicity won't be recognized. Better to hire and keep them in check or even help them. But yeah, that's just theory :D I probably wouldn't be that strong to do so myself.

    • @bambooindark1
      @bambooindark1 6 лет назад +4

      I prefer "Freedom Will" concept.
      This concept original came from an article I read related to Immanuel Kant (philosopher) (I believe, but I'm not sure). This is what "Freedom Will" means (I simplify it to make it simple) :
      1. Your outside "action" (what your body real action) might driven by your Will (in your mind), or other reason (in your mind too). I will keep explaining more about this below.
      2. An "aim" is an objective existence thing, it is anything you can do. It can be finish your collage degree, get a dream job, winning a trophy, anything, but it is objective thing, doesn't necessary to be good or bad.
      3. If your Will (the state you intend to do something) is driven by other reason than the "aim" itself, your Will "is not freedom", because the thing controlling your Will is not that aim, but those "third party" reason, your Will is not driven by the aim itself.
      4. If your Will (the state you intend to do something) is driven by the "aim" itself, your Will is freedom, what your Will want to do is just getting that aim done, nothing else, not by any other "third party" reason. Actually in this state, "your will is the aim itself", your Will "is freedom", to make your Will freedom, your will has to be the aim itself. At the same time your final outside action will affect by this Freedom Will too, not by other reason.
      For example, you turn on the TV when you are meant to study. The outside "action" is turn on the TV, your "Will" "is not freedom", because watching TV is not your "aim" (you don't watch TV because you aim to watch TV itself, unless watching TV is your aim, e.g. you know your brain need to relax after 3 hours studying, you force yourself to watch it), you watch it because other reason - you want to fill up the satisfaction and joy.
      The way to achieve this "Freedom Will" is to BE RATIONAL as possible, no matter when, where, what.
      And I want to mention another thing, "Freedom Will" is not identical to Willpower, for example "I CAN'T eat candy now" vs "I DON'T eat candy now", the former one is by using Willpower to achieve the aim, which get depleted at the end of the day, but the latter one is by using Freedom Will, which might be more powerful.

    • @happyani5734
      @happyani5734 6 лет назад +2

      sir can you please tell a way by which one can remove negativity from one's mind.... coz it's affecting my health and studies...plz help..

  • @troooooper100
    @troooooper100 6 лет назад +2862

    Summary:
    0. Be stress free, destress. Try meditation.
    1. Prioritize tasks, create priority list, score each task and should add up to 100.
    2. Allocate 80% time on long term gains and 20% on short term. Take breaks for short term stuff.
    3. Create Not-ToDo list EVERY DAY.
    4. Tasks that are directly fun are more easier to focus; job vs video game.
    5. Set time limit for work session, it keeps you on toes and motivated.

    • @maggierad8360
      @maggierad8360 6 лет назад +10

      ThunderousGlare Thx boi

    • @MikeDrew312
      @MikeDrew312 6 лет назад +12

      ThunderousGlare HERO!

    • @elgato49
      @elgato49 6 лет назад +2

      Thank you 😊

    • @anishnehete
      @anishnehete 6 лет назад +2

      ThunderousGlare thanks

    • @browningdevelopement7277
      @browningdevelopement7277 6 лет назад +10

      your forgetting how he differentiated intrinsic and extrinsic pleasure which I thought was pretty usefull

  • @kingofcelts
    @kingofcelts 3 года назад

    The suggested tactics start a 10mins..! Your time is precious..
    The usual suggestions are layed out, Pomodoro tech, timed social media use, small rewards. I know about most of this info, but I'm sure others may get a benefit..

  • @oxane2722
    @oxane2722 3 года назад

    A very underrated channel

  • @ocamtille9114
    @ocamtille9114 6 лет назад

    Fantastic. One of the usefulmost vids ever.

  • @Infinity-painted-white
    @Infinity-painted-white 6 лет назад

    3 words:
    YOU
    ARE
    AWESOME

  • @theglobalwarming6081
    @theglobalwarming6081 3 года назад

    Quitting time is very difficult, especially for online classes...

  • @hossamabdelkarim5438
    @hossamabdelkarim5438 3 года назад

    This is hard for people have problems with focusing

  • @mikeyllo
    @mikeyllo 3 года назад

    So, 40 seconds into the How To Focus Intensely video there was an unrelated commercial ad that I eventually had to skip when the option was available. This is part of the problem. Distractions are intentionally embedded into so many aspects of what we do. And if you do find ways to focus that work for you, there are tons of people paid to think of and create ways to get through to you anyway.

  • @PaulO-re4xx
    @PaulO-re4xx 6 лет назад +2812

    When you get unfocused to watch a video about getting focused.

    • @FrankCastiglione
      @FrankCastiglione 6 лет назад +27

      11:01 - Fail! HAHAHA

    • @TamoJit
      @TamoJit 6 лет назад +8

      U got me

    • @d.2542
      @d.2542 6 лет назад

      AAhahhshshshshshahsh

    • @etfoltz
      @etfoltz 6 лет назад +9

      That’s exactly what I did

    • @Tocen
      @Tocen 6 лет назад +7

      but... the long term benefits of this knowledge?

  • @Jazzsterr2468
    @Jazzsterr2468 6 лет назад +1605

    watching this while procrastinating from studying

  • @ContinualImprovement
    @ContinualImprovement 6 лет назад +1868

    *stares at orange juice cartoon because it says concentrate*

  • @Slimkilam
    @Slimkilam 6 лет назад +897

    For someone with ADHD, this example lost my focus pretty quickly...

    • @AmazingGriffin
      @AmazingGriffin 6 лет назад +44

      Slim Kilam
      Excuses

    • @kyoyinshirui7523
      @kyoyinshirui7523 6 лет назад +29

      then start your hyperfocus, and become obsessed, either focus or don't lol

    • @DT-rd5fc
      @DT-rd5fc 6 лет назад +1

      Slim Kilam iiiikko

    • @mrboobiesrider9212
      @mrboobiesrider9212 6 лет назад +7

      Slim Kilam read "faster than normal" by peter shankman.. good stuff

    • @martinhaluska5224
      @martinhaluska5224 6 лет назад +86

      One sign of good speaker is passing information in concise & punchy manner. This was the total opposite. I personally do not have time listening 16 minutes about fucking robots.

  • @Tony32
    @Tony32 6 лет назад +306

    I was so focused watching this video my house burned down :(

  • @SoumOrg
    @SoumOrg 6 лет назад +668

    *the main part* of the video
    starts at 10:10

    • @nicolelacy4527
      @nicolelacy4527 6 лет назад +34

      PLANET Thank you so very much! I almost missed getting great information! :)

    • @SoumOrg
      @SoumOrg 6 лет назад +3

      Nicole Lacy Welcome! 😊

    • @becoming_conscious
      @becoming_conscious 6 лет назад +2

      Thanks.

    • @SoumOrg
      @SoumOrg 6 лет назад +2

      @Ethan Nelson , Welcome!

    • @MMACZ88
      @MMACZ88 6 лет назад

      Thanks a lot PLANET!

  • @quijote5491
    @quijote5491 6 лет назад +44

    I used to be first in class in high school, but for the past 2 years I've been able to focus on school work unless i pull an allnighter for the exam next day. It feels like I've forgot how to concentrate, how to study...

  • @DrSuperpump
    @DrSuperpump 6 лет назад +140

    Potentially life changing video

  • @mikevanholsteijn
    @mikevanholsteijn 6 лет назад +206

    It's kind of ironic how this video distracted me from studying.

    • @filippetrovic845
      @filippetrovic845 6 лет назад +1

      But it's for a good cause.

    • @humanyoda
      @humanyoda 6 лет назад +5

      You wouldn't be watching it if you were studying.

    • @MrOssyMoro
      @MrOssyMoro 6 лет назад +1

      Use it

  • @nidhikini26
    @nidhikini26 3 года назад +45

    "Sometimes, the students who perform the best are the ones that are the most stress-free and not the ones that are the most intelligent."
    Now you know how to improve your test scores.

    • @mukyalasarah9642
      @mukyalasarah9642 3 года назад +1

      Wow

    • @2.fatducks
      @2.fatducks Год назад

      don't expose me, I'm that one super burned-out gifted kid that is sure to fail school in a span of two years.

  • @Shv-ib9gq
    @Shv-ib9gq 6 лет назад +583

    Video is about how to focus intensively but length is too long
    Weird

    • @ryanling802
      @ryanling802 6 лет назад +23

      The _New_era I fell asleep watching

    • @heinzerbrew
      @heinzerbrew 6 лет назад +22

      Too long didn't read

    • @1MinuteFlipDoc
      @1MinuteFlipDoc 6 лет назад +55

      a lot of unnecessary talking and examples that weren't very good. this video could have been 4 minutes long.

    • @wesker6908
      @wesker6908 6 лет назад +21

      Are you serious?? cant watch a 16-minute video...

    • @thecreativemastermin
      @thecreativemastermin 6 лет назад +6

      Yeah way too long and technical

  • @ethanwest2030
    @ethanwest2030 6 лет назад +17

    Watching the first 30 seconds of this video made me realize that I wasn't focusing and I went back to finishing whatever I was previously working on. Very efficient and effective.

  • @jomk5731
    @jomk5731 6 лет назад +31

    This is some real awesome stuff, even for some struggling with attention deficit problems. Sometimes there's nothing 'wrong' with how we are, we just need to learn new ways of managing ourselves. And for that purpose, this video is phenomenal.

  • @id104335409
    @id104335409 6 лет назад +25

    I paused my homework to watch this video, soo... I am not very good at this concentrating stuff...

  • @Olhar.Internacional
    @Olhar.Internacional 6 лет назад +200

    Even though I am a youtuber myself, I rarely subscribe to any channel, rarely post comments, rarely click like and rarely activate notifications for a channel. Well, your channel and particularly this video is one of the exceptions. That's what I've been learning and telling people about in the last 18 months or so... You approached the topic really well. My goal is to be able to make videos with the same quality for my channel... It will take a lot of work but when I get there I hope to be able to spread this message to as many people as possible. Thanks a lot for another great video and when I sign up to Brilliant it will be through your link.

    • @southcrosswriting4700
      @southcrosswriting4700 6 лет назад

      kk eae men belezinha

    • @prem4bio
      @prem4bio 6 лет назад

      Canal do Mundo - Rafachannel y

    • @ritikjain4256
      @ritikjain4256 6 лет назад +10

      But you used the word rarely quite often than rarely..

    • @Stoney-Jacksman
      @Stoney-Jacksman 6 лет назад +1

      Why do the same as what already exists ? Kinda paradoxical to what you're saying you're about.

  • @becoming_conscious
    @becoming_conscious 6 лет назад +41

    Increasing Focus Requires Practice, and Practice makes Perfect, or should I say Perfect Practice makes Perfect. If you practice the wrong way than you're only ingraining bad habit, I see this video a guide on how to practice increasing my focus, it teaches me which way to practice, but it's by no means a supplement to practice. 👍

    • @Danicker
      @Danicker 6 лет назад +3

      My teacher likes to say "Practice makes Permanent" i.e. you'll become really good at doing the thing you practiced, the way you practiced it, but if you practice incorrectly, you'll become really good at doing the task badly.

  • @pariahcellist
    @pariahcellist 6 лет назад +26

    as a hippie going through an existential crisis as to whether or not putting in this work matters or not, I found this highly profound. kudos to you mayne

    • @capgains
      @capgains 4 года назад

      I feel ya. “What’s the point”
      Well what I’ve learned from trying that hat on, is that the discomfort of not living a purposeful isn’t worth it. The feelings that come with a checked out mentality, are brutal. Even incorporated prescription drugs to try to maintain a voluntarily loser mindset. Didn’t work for me.

    • @bjewel3751
      @bjewel3751 2 года назад

      4 years later, has your existentialism gone away? Mine has been with me since 15 years (28) and I don’t think it’ll ever go away 🥴😩

  • @tjs200
    @tjs200 6 лет назад +26

    as someone with ADHD, having this fine of a control over my focus, and switching between generalized focus and narrow focus on demand is almost impossible

    • @lukehereart
      @lukehereart 3 года назад +5

      Agreed, have you tried choosing your 3 item for the day that NEED to be done and only focus on those. If you can try whittle it down to one primary focus for the day, In terms of getting into focus. I start with a 5min timer. then incremently notch that focus time up 5mins a time as a progressively switch over into a more focused mindset. Also with adhd, stay away from all the high stimulus breaks(social media, videos, games), that stuff will suck you in and you have little to no regulation on how to pull yourself out of it because adhd favors the short term rewards over the long term on a neurological level, it has little to do with discipline or motivation. Coming from an ADHD person myself, its really difficult but take the time to research productivity systems, methods and techniques, its not a one shoe fits all but its better to iteratively try new things that just resign yourself to being out of control. Its a journey but you can definately incrementally train yourself and develop a system that works around your neurodiversity.

    • @tjs200
      @tjs200 3 года назад +5

      ​@@lukehereart Wow thank you - that was very encouraging. As I've been getting older - I've found that developing systems and forming habits around those systems has been the key for me to move past my limitations. It seems like such a subtle and silly thing, but in retrospect, it really does make a difference. An important step in improving (for anyone - not just someone with ADHD) has been self-awareness - and the more I've come to know myself the more I can tailor systems that work for me and the more I'm able to recognize the pitfalls that I have and consciously act towards ways of avoiding them.
      I definitely still struggle with avoiding highly stimulating activities, to the point where it definitely interferes with my job but I can say I'm definitely better at it than I was 5 years ago.
      Since the time I made this original comment I went from a couch-surfing drug addict college dropout to a sober, well-paid software engineer living independently - So to anyone else who is reading this and is facing similar challenges - I promise there is hope - and even the smallest improvements can accumulate and snowball into something life-changing over time.

    • @donquixoteupinhere
      @donquixoteupinhere 2 года назад

      Wow, what a beautiful online exchange! I dig it.

    • @donquixoteupinhere
      @donquixoteupinhere 2 года назад

      @@tjs200 congrats mate that’s brilliant. I’m a developer myself :)

  • @Opeladams
    @Opeladams 6 лет назад +12

    You are a great human being. Thanks for inspiring me with every video.

  • @syk0saje
    @syk0saje 6 лет назад +34

    "controlled injection of pleasure"
    nope, that's not a euphemism at all guys

  • @happyani5734
    @happyani5734 6 лет назад +1

    sir can you please tell a way by which one can remove negativity from one's mind.... coz it's affecting my health and studies...plz help..

  • @bwing411
    @bwing411 6 лет назад +7

    The education system needs to teach this way. Dear god we would have a much happier population who produce more and improve the world.

  • @lobet1553
    @lobet1553 2 года назад +2

    Watching these at 2x speed to procrastinate by learning how to stop procrastinating twice as fast

  • @CliffordStarks1
    @CliffordStarks1 6 лет назад +120

    Yes with practice anyone can have intense focus 👍

    • @becoming_conscious
      @becoming_conscious 6 лет назад +8

      Practice makes Perfect, or should I say Perfect Practice makes Perfect. If you practice the wrong way than you're only ingraining bad habit, I see this video a guide on how to practice increasing my focus, it teaches me which way to practice, but it's by no means a supplement to practice. 👍

    • @CliffordStarks1
      @CliffordStarks1 6 лет назад

      Ethan Nelson 👍

  • @Higginz1991
    @Higginz1991 6 лет назад +43

    It is a flimsy metaphor from the outset to make human attention span akin to that of an AI. Humans tire and their attention wanes; robots do not.
    What's more, to suggest the key to better focus is just to do whatever pleases us is also pretty unsatisfactory. By definition, we can't suddenly enjoy things which are intrinsically unenjoyable e.g. "Wow, I enjoy doing my tax returns soooo much." You're not going to wake up one morning and suddenly have a burning passion to do homework or wash dishes. Learning to suddenly love tasks which are, by their very nature, boring is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
    Secondly, simply being free from stress doesn't guarantee focus either. If anything, being under no stress at all encourages the mind to wander even more easily. You're under no duress to think critically or focus on anything so why would your mind waste the resources? Their is nothing to encourage you to do otherwise. When you have all the time at your leisure, what urgency, what need is there that something in particular requires your undivided attention?
    Abstaining completely from pleasure isn't just impossible but also an exercise in self-harm in the long term. Unlike the robots in your analogy, Humans fail, tire, grow despondent, unhappy, need sustenance...etc. Robots, however, will continue doing whatever job they are programmed to indefinitely without fatigue or complaint. Humans are not robots.
    Attention, like any skill or faculty, must be trained if it's going to improve and therefore needs time and deliberate effort. Nothing worthwhile will happen overnight. Like any faculty, one needs exercises and regimes to train them and then simply the consistency to do them regularly. From my own experience, the conclusion that doing what I've always done gave me what I've always gotten and that "if nothing changes now, when will it?" are instrumental in changing old habits. I particularly like the ideas of the "Not to do list" and "Priority List" , I'm gonna try them out and see what results I get.

    • @KickAssandBeAMan
      @KickAssandBeAMan 6 лет назад +3

      Best comment on here.

    • @wasimhashmi446
      @wasimhashmi446 6 лет назад +1

      Higginz1991 lengthy reply, lost focus half way through

    • @MK-vi2cm
      @MK-vi2cm 6 лет назад

      Higginz1991 verbose

    • @ciraxa
      @ciraxa 6 лет назад +1

      Understanding can suddenly lead to a burning passion for something previously boring so I wouldnt agree that suddenly enjoying things that had been intrinsically unenjoyable.
      For me, focus has always been about cursiosity and understanding. Stress is just a factor that can be positive and negative as different situations require different levels and types of focus and actions (e.g. Playing football vs. Solving equations). Generally, i focus most easily and effectively when a task is fun and challenging, so instead of writing "Not to do lists" I just focus on having fun before I start with any task that requires active focusing. If that doesn´t work for some reason, I artificially increase the difficulty to force my brain to focus.
      I agree that the human behavior is not easily compareable with AI behavior as we don´t have indicators telling us the exact input and output values relevant to solving a problem, but understanding the differences leads to a gain in knowledge which will automatically have an impact on your future behavior as it changes your neural network. Since humans wrote the code AI will contain some human attributes, but that does not make robots stuffed with AI human-like. Which is good, because they are built to be great at everything humans can´t efficiently do. Obviously, robots do not tire like humans do, but their memory and processing capabilities decrease over long periods too until the system is reset (e.g. full ram), further robots do not work indefinitely as they need regular maintenance and updates that they are yet unable to do autonomously.
      So while AI robots might run longer and are better at self-evaluation, humans are better at intuition and directing focus dynamically to match conscious or unconscious thought- and behavior patterns to the environment. AI is just not able to understand the environment without being told to and how in the first place by the programmer, which makes modern AI practically less intelligent than ants. But just like AI humans need several tries to optimize the inputs to reach any desired output repeatedly as the neural network saves information in its structure directly so it can be reused to improve the inputs - which is why it can be frustrating to watch toddlers fail at tasks that adults would perceive as easy, they just miss all the knowledge adults gained from failing (such as: "Abstaining completely from pleasure isn't just impossible but also an exercise in self-harm in the long term.").

    • @SSchithFoo
      @SSchithFoo 6 лет назад

      Robots need oil baths though :)

  • @KDAYDIN
    @KDAYDIN 6 лет назад +28

    What if the robot sets the building on fire in order to save people and gain more points ??

    • @mehsamnaqvi6332
      @mehsamnaqvi6332 5 лет назад +4

      Robots are not program to do, they only do fro what they are programmed

    • @micahgodsey455
      @micahgodsey455 5 лет назад +3

      That would be equivalent to a high stress environment that you constantly put yourself through. You would most likely literally "burn out"

  • @Divineshot
    @Divineshot 6 лет назад +54

    Very informative. Great video man.
    Pick carefully.

  • @onlyonemitch5049
    @onlyonemitch5049 5 лет назад +4

    That moment when you watch videos of "how to focus"or "how to study"
    Instead of ACTUALLY studying.
    What's wrong with me?!🤦

  • @ayanavabag8787
    @ayanavabag8787 4 года назад +7

    SUMMARY:
    Why we can't focus & their Solutions:
    1. Stress
    ___ SOL: Limit Stress In your Life)
    2. Doing Things We Dislike
    ___ SOL: Extrinsic pleasures are hard to focus, so chose intrinsic pleasurable work)
    3. Constantly Seeking SHORT-TERM Pleasure
    ___ SOL: HABIT#1: Implementation of these three habits
    No1: Meditation, No2: Deep Work, No3: Not to do List
    HABIT#2: Controlled Injection of Pleasure(4 Practices)
    Practice#1: Controlling MEdia( carefully select times when you check social media, watch movie etc.)
    Practice#2: Have a Quitting Time( after it no more work)
    Practice#3: Blocks of Work( structure period of intense focus followed by breaks. ex. promodoro)
    Practice#4: Priority List( all activity should add up to a total score of 100, follow 80-20 rule: 80% time long term pleasure & 20% short term PLeasure)
    I watched a lot of how to focus videos, but it's one of best that's why I wrote the summary.
    HOPE THIS HELPS.

  • @westlethegreat6388
    @westlethegreat6388 3 года назад +1

    Him: "It's easy to maintain focus when playing videogames"
    Me with ADHD who came here just to focus on videogames better: "BRUH"

  • @Adven4U1
    @Adven4U1 5 лет назад +3

    I agree, with a few caveats.
    First off, one person might find an activity incredibly enjoyable while another person might completely detest the same activity .
    And second, some activities can provide both short term and long term pleasure. Those are the best things to engage in.

  • @pepaokurka3892
    @pepaokurka3892 3 года назад +1

    You overcomplicate every video so much! It took you literally 5 minutes to say that people need to rethink their priorities..

  • @magnus9985
    @magnus9985 6 лет назад +3

    9:50 I disagree. Maintaining directed focus is, in my opinion, the most rewarding and pleasurable way to spend your life, when done deliberately. Having the ABILITY to step back and make changes to better fit your interests is important, but to train yourself to live in the moment, or in a flow state, is a blissful way to live. That's sort of what Taoist philosophy points to. Living in your senses, free of anxiety, without overcomplicating things.

  • @dropkickandy
    @dropkickandy 3 года назад +1

    A complex robot scenario and a manuscript read fast.
    i gave up to focus after 1 minute or so.
    I came here to learn to focus ?

  • @himanshuranjan83
    @himanshuranjan83 6 лет назад +4

    This is one of the best video on this topic.
    You made my day.
    Can't thank you enough 👍👌

  • @Libbeeee
    @Libbeeee 4 года назад +1

    *starts watching video on how to stay focused on one thing*
    Adds it to watch later 40 seconds in

  • @jackcarver5488
    @jackcarver5488 6 лет назад +4

    Watching this video gave me the short term pleasure I was seeking... Good graphics and content, but I'm supposed to be writing code.

  • @XLEZZY_REUPLOADS
    @XLEZZY_REUPLOADS 6 лет назад +1

    i tried listening to loud music while watching this first time fully to make my concentration even higher. i also lost 16 minutes of my fucking life.

  • @iinathaniii2
    @iinathaniii2 6 лет назад +4

    Thank you so much for your videos. I have recently started college with ADHD and your videos help me a lot. Please keep doing what you're doing.

  • @jupitereuropa-e3w
    @jupitereuropa-e3w 6 лет назад +1

    Good video.
    I've tried multiple techniques also similar to these and I always failed to change my habit a short
    time after. I think I can't help myself anymore, just by myself. It also is hard for me to ask for help..
    so I'm lost..

  • @ezekielleveriza4071
    @ezekielleveriza4071 6 лет назад +21

    Huh, I forgot this channel was in my subscriptions.

  • @NoobsCreations
    @NoobsCreations 4 года назад

    this made me not focus you made it so boring and long

  • @infinitelyfinite3596
    @infinitelyfinite3596 5 лет назад +3

    tip: any time you have a distracting thought or random idea you want to explore/google/look into, write it down on a post it note. by the end of your revision period you'll have a list of things you're finally allowed to look into - this means you don't waste time looking at it during revision but you also don't forget what it was you wanted to look into

  • @willyouwright
    @willyouwright 4 года назад +1

    You touch on a good point.. where do we consciously focus.. due to our memory we act consciously towards what we think will maximize our desired emotional state.. but we dont have to.. its very limiting to only focus on known patterns.. we even put these learned responses so deep into our behaviors that they become second nature.. or unconscious.. this is a terrible shame as we loose the ability to act according to new situations.. we project old situations onto new situations out of habit..as your trying to point out very correctly,, we should always be searching to get the balance of what we remember and looking for new possibilities.. trying to see things in different ways..

  • @stupchek6140
    @stupchek6140 6 лет назад +3

    well made video, however I there is a mistake when you were talking about breaks during the pomodoro tehnique. When you are doing deep work with intense focus for 25 min and then take a break, during those 5 min you must not mindlessly browse the web or the use the phone at all. During the break your brain must rest and looking at instagram or fb on your phone is still straining your thought process and it only solidifies bad habbits that. Look into Tristan Harris's work about influences that tehnology has on our brain. www.timewellspent.io/.
    For me the best work/rest combo is 60 min of work then 10 min of just resting, or taking a bathroom break or go somehting to eat. No checking phone or social media until later at night.

  • @leeroy14r60
    @leeroy14r60 2 года назад +1

    i need a random stranger to put me at gunpoint, when iam doing some sort of activity.

  • @moustafamohsen
    @moustafamohsen 6 лет назад +5

    Amazing job, you have definitely improved... kudos to you

  • @yeetdomain
    @yeetdomain 4 года назад +1

    Please make more podcast. I love your work. You are amazing dude!

  • @natasiaangeltju3073
    @natasiaangeltju3073 6 лет назад +3

    This has easily become one of my fave channels around here. I've also listened to the podcast. Keep up the good work. I really love your format! Still waiting for the new podcast though.

  • @Parzival6969_
    @Parzival6969_ 2 года назад +1

    I lost my focus after watching 2 minutes of this video...

  • @morthim
    @morthim 4 года назад +5

    tedious, verbose, and most importantly- off topic.
    "how can a person focus?"
    "lets talk about something else"
    "we find higher stress stuff more interesting" and we find distractions and stuff we engage with more interesting than tedious monologues... *cough*
    "our robot would never do extrinsically pleasurable things" backwards. it would only do those. it would only see pleasure in those with explicit hard coded values, if you told it to do something without giving a pleasure value, it wouldn't be able to sort it with the rest.
    seriously this is false advertising.

  • @alejrandom6592
    @alejrandom6592 2 года назад +1

    When you find a good video like this one, watch it twice. Take notes.

  • @cleantoast3
    @cleantoast3 6 лет назад +23

    There's gotta be a math function to find out how to maximize pleasure within a lifetime.

    • @lol_Ozma
      @lol_Ozma 6 лет назад

      Clean Toast Haha that would be great...but our lives are too complicated to be boiled down into an equation or function

    • @juanluisgrandonmora363
      @juanluisgrandonmora363 6 лет назад

      In fact, this video shows you how to build the function you need to maximize your pleasure. Once you "code" yourself the right way in order to do that, you'll have a non mathematical but logical function that aplies to you.

    • @Danicker
      @Danicker 6 лет назад

      Dan K that certainly is a common pattern that has been around for centuries, but I think its a bit ignorant to say that its the only way of achieving happiness, and to imply that it always works.

  • @cameronmclennan942
    @cameronmclennan942 6 лет назад +2

    It's a great video, thanks a bunch! I have a comment/question...you seem to focus on activities that either give short term pleasure (entertainment, distraction), or those that give long term pleasure and are chosen consciously toward that end. However, you only really use work and education (study) as examples of this second type of activity. I wonder whether it would be worth including other types that have slightly different characteristics, such as cleaning, family obligations (children) and life administration (taxes, dealing with the government for things). These things also produce long-term pleasure, but not nearly as much as ones we choose, like work or further study or working out, because there is a much lower perception of free choice and less personal reward. Also, some of these things can introduce emotional pressure and stress and be a driving force for feeling the need for distraction and entertainment. Interested in your thoughts.

  • @Brandon-ob9rg
    @Brandon-ob9rg 6 лет назад +27

    The irony is that this video is too long to stay focused while watching it.

  • @potato-sweet
    @potato-sweet 4 года назад +1

    that robot example was so unnecessarily complicated 😭

  • @Jim-so3zm
    @Jim-so3zm 6 лет назад +11

    Is it weird that I get pleasure from doing my university essays more than I would from drinking in the university bar?

    • @becoming_conscious
      @becoming_conscious 6 лет назад +9

      That is weird, born to be an intellectual I guess. 👍 Well good job for you, I wish I enjoyed writing essays for college classes.

    • @Jim-so3zm
      @Jim-so3zm 6 лет назад +4

      Ethan Nelson Maybe it's just because I really enjoy what I'm studying and I've never liked the whole nightclub atmosphere of uni bars.

    • @becoming_conscious
      @becoming_conscious 6 лет назад +2

      I can see that, if you're passionate about the topic then it's definitely much easier to have motivation to get stuff done and write papers, I guess that's why it's so hard to stay motivated for all the required classes in college/high school, because i'm just not interested in the topic at hand. I thought I might ask, what college classes are these essays for exactly? 👍

    • @Sea_ss
      @Sea_ss 6 лет назад +3

      Jim I’m also doing politics but I like learning it not writing papers on it. You’re lucky you like doing the work I certainly don’t but I love readings

    • @Sea_ss
      @Sea_ss 6 лет назад

      Dan exactly. Honestly school makes learning pretty boring when it can otherwise be fun.

  • @edis8169
    @edis8169 2 года назад +1

    me watching how to focus so i can reach master 2 in clash royale without getting distracted

  • @potatojam6519
    @potatojam6519 6 лет назад +4

    8:28 They're smiling but their heart's broken

  • @mohammadmuzammil4848
    @mohammadmuzammil4848 6 лет назад +11

    Cool infos in addictive videos = FREEDOM OF THOUGHT 😎⚡
    Give me more !!

  • @leodevon8046
    @leodevon8046 3 года назад +1

    This video is sort of ironic with the name of the channel I think

  • @becoming_conscious
    @becoming_conscious 6 лет назад +18

    Focus is definitely decreasing in our society, and if you have the ability to concentrate to do deep productive work that can't be automated, then you most likely have the best chance at being successful.

  • @ponternal
    @ponternal 3 года назад +1

    This is a pretty long analogy...
    Idk if I can pay attention till the end

  • @karlaasb27
    @karlaasb27 6 лет назад +7

    The video is great. I was reluctant to spend 16 minutes watching but the production quality encouraged me. I played it twice as fast and I spent 8 minutes ... Still a lot of time for a video. I would recommend you to speak faster and develop your ideas in shorter terms. Examples are good but they shouldn't make your video longer than 10 minutes. Other than that, thank you your content is amazing and gave me a couple good concept to apply in my life. Keep it up. Subscribed.

    • @Whitetysnowny
      @Whitetysnowny 6 лет назад

      Nelson Barbosa i agree with what you said. Great value , contain and quality. But too long so i watch 8 min the day before and 8 min the day after. XD i love this channel because of it quality not quantity. It has good research.

  • @imagani1875
    @imagani1875 5 лет назад +1

    I really like your videos. I just keep watching them, just because of the animations, the style of your animations are really neat and relaxing.

  • @livelifestrong6300
    @livelifestrong6300 6 лет назад +3

    Such a beautiful video, thank you.

  • @123amsterdan456
    @123amsterdan456 6 лет назад +7

    I think I spend too much time watching random youtube videos, honestly about 4-5 hours daily. I don't think that it is exactly maximizing "pleasure", but then again, if I did not do it, I would never have found this video and thought about this

  • @henriquequevedo4705
    @henriquequevedo4705 6 лет назад +1

    Hi, what program do you use to make your animations? They are great for classes!

  • @danielregassa9805
    @danielregassa9805 6 лет назад +4

    Added to Watch Later

    • @ukt000
      @ukt000 6 лет назад +1

      Daniel Regassa did you watched watched the video?

  • @dantelee7520
    @dantelee7520 3 года назад +1

    My teacher told me to watch this and it turned out to be a big help

  • @fluid8888
    @fluid8888 6 лет назад +8

    You could cut out %90 of this video and end up with the same amount of valuable information. Its funny that you made a video so convoluted and time wasting about the ability to focus in a on one thing while simultaneously making this video a bore by just wasting the viewers time with unneeded complex analogies. This is not the way to get people to watch your video.

    • @sufom7201
      @sufom7201 6 лет назад +1

      Taylor Bryan You completely misunderstood the video. How in the world is the analogy complex? If I had to be honest, it was fairly simple tbh

  • @dagothur6238
    @dagothur6238 5 лет назад +1

    I have OCD and it makes it very hard to focus, when I do my OCD I get angry. Just wanted to get that out there.

  • @СветославСлавов-я4и

    One word: Modafinil

    • @guestofearth
      @guestofearth 6 лет назад

      Светослав Славов lol, maybe

  • @RafaelBiazon1
    @RafaelBiazon1 6 лет назад +1

    THIS VIDEO IS JUST AWESOME!!! I'm fully delighted. If I knew all that in high school, I would have done so much better

  • @imagani1875
    @imagani1875 5 лет назад +1

    I really like your videos. I just keep watching them, just because of the animations, the style of your animations are really neat and relaxing.

  • @FireyDeath4
    @FireyDeath4 5 лет назад +2

    But what if you need to focus on a task that needs a lot of mental capacity and you just don't feel up for it because everything is confusing and will just get more messy the closer to completion you get?
    also, we don't have any discernible sleeping or food routines and i'm basically just competing for time so i don't know if i even have enough sleep lol

  • @megamindblue1732
    @megamindblue1732 5 лет назад +1

    Focus on the video!!

  • @Nickname863
    @Nickname863 6 лет назад +2

    4:13 A good A.I. will now set your House on fire and rescue everyone in it.

  • @Beautifulcoil
    @Beautifulcoil 6 лет назад

    None of this will work if you don't define why you're doing it first, and have a clear motive that will keep you disciplined. This can be done with imagining the best outcome of being focused.

  • @successmindsxt
    @successmindsxt 5 лет назад +2

    Wow. This is literally one of the best videos I've watched in a while, although the start had me concentrating extra hard.. Once you got done with the robot example it all started making sense.

  • @marcelmiguelc
    @marcelmiguelc 6 лет назад +1

    The aesthetics of your videos are amazing.

  • @trappeddream9219
    @trappeddream9219 4 года назад +1

    This is how many times I’ve meditated
    👇🏽

  • @XOPOIIIO
    @XOPOIIIO 5 лет назад +1

    How the priority points sistem will work in real time situations, when there is no clear algorithm to check was goal was achieved or not? If we give the autority to check this to AI itself, how we can be sure it wouldn't cheat to recieve more reward?

  • @GENUGSCHABERNACK
    @GENUGSCHABERNACK 6 лет назад +1

    Really awesome video as I have to study right now!
    What software do you use for your animations?

  • @FrancisAAfful
    @FrancisAAfful 3 года назад

    So unfocused had to scroll through the recommended feed. Before coming back again to finish the video😅😅

  • @cheesywiz9443
    @cheesywiz9443 6 лет назад +1

    Hey
    Sup?
    Just on a pomodoro break.

  • @davidlehnhardt3245
    @davidlehnhardt3245 6 лет назад +1

    Your videos are so great. You where my first subscribes along time ago. But now I come back and see these great videos that add great value to my mind set. Dude you have no idea how good this is. Keep it up man, until people are smart enough to value your videos and what you are sharing.

  • @katiekat4457
    @katiekat4457 5 лет назад +1

    Ugh! I can’t enough focus on this video. My mind keeps drifting off. I’m not joking.

  • @SinerAthin
    @SinerAthin 6 лет назад

    I remember when I decided to get serious about my schoolwork.
    I thought that RUclips, Video games, Movies etc were the things distracting me, so I put them all away for a month so that I could focus on school.
    The result was that instead of watching movies/playing video games 5 hours a day, I instead spent 5 hours doing nothing, reading boring predictable news, taking excessively long with my coffee or making small trips etc.
    Basically, I found the cause of my procrastination was not the pull of distractions such as movies or video games, but rather it was my utter distaste for schoolwork in general that pushed me away from it and made me come up with basically every possible excuse to avoid it, even doing boring activities.
    I solved the problem eventually not through any attempt at abstinence, but rather constantly forced myself to work & trying to tell my brain repeatedly that schoolwork could actually be enjoyable till it became more of a habit.
    Apparently it was not so much the distractions of modern day(which I'm good at ignoring), but rather an intense dislike of schoolwork that had carried with me from childhood that I had to deal with.
    Things will become ridiculously easy once you are actually capable of enjoying them.

  • @moritzschroder
    @moritzschroder 6 лет назад +1

    exactly what i needed! the internet can be such a distracting place and focus seems to become rarer and rarer... i use youtube to get more people interested in my business, but often times i end up being side-tracked while working on my content. this is definitely something i need to work on...

  • @sarahsadventures1694
    @sarahsadventures1694 3 года назад +1

    Watching this while reading the comments