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link you and I both know that the world
that we're living in is changing that a
ridiculous pace especially technology
now although we're all out here trying
to upgrade our operating system or
upgrade our phone it's leading us to
forget to upgrade our own human
operating system so in this video I want
to share with you a brand new technique
that you won't have heard of before
at least applied in this kind of a
context on how I upgrade my own personal
operating system regularly and how I can
learn very quickly this is going to be
the technique that you can also use to
overcome procrastination if that's a
problem for you or at least greatly
reduce it and it's also going to help
you just be in a better mood on a day to
day basis so let's get into it now if
you don't know my story I used to
procrastinate really badly for me a
normal day would look like getting home
and spending five six seven hours on
csgo a video game and then I would start
to promise myself things and I said I'm
gonna do this I'm gonna start meditating
I'm gonna start making all of these
changes and by the way I said meditating
not medicating just then but all of
these changes in all of these promises I
started to make for myself when I
wouldn't keep them it damaged me at a
deep level I lost trust in myself and I
lost respect in myself but then after a
lot of hard work and getting lucky with
some mentors and some programs and stuff
like that I started to overcome
procrastination but for the first few
months although it felt like I was doing
well I wasn't actually doing well you
see what was happening was I was doing
lots of stuff I was trying lots of
different things and I felt like I was
busy all the time but in reality I
wasn't actually making progress and
although it felt like I was learning I
actually wasn't learning at all and that
started to shift when I started hearing
about a guy called Eckhart Tolle now
he's a 70 year old man and he was born
in Germany and grew up in
Canada and he got famous for his
teachings about the present moment and
his book the power of now one of the
things he said was in today's rush we
all think too much seek too much want
too much and forget about the joy of
just being now I know exactly what
you're thinking how can this spiritual
mindfulness stuff help me learn quicker
and reduce my procrastination and get me
in a better mood well let me reassure
you that it really really can I'm gonna
show you three practical down-to-earth
techniques that you can start applying
today to help you learn new skills
better which is going to allow you not
just to keep up with the changing world
but to thrive in it and really feel like
you at home have you ever gone through a
book or you've read something and then
after reading it you realized that you
didn't actually internalize what was
said I used to do this all the time I
thought I was doing great because I was
reading these books I would get to the
last page I would finish it I'd say
great I've done it but then what would
happen is someone afterwards would ask
me what were your five key takeaways
from that book and I wouldn't be able to
answer them see what was happening was I
felt like I was making progress but in
reality I wasn't learning anything what
so ever and maybe you're doing this
right now with the YouTube video maybe
by the end of the video you're barely
gonna remember what I'm saying but the
way to overcome that is to get yourself
in the present moment and again this
isn't spiritual stuff I've tried all of
these different productivity techniques
and this is by far one of the most
effective what that means is that you
don't think about the past you don't
think about the present you don't have
all of these different thoughts going on
in your mind and you quieten them take a
big deep breath
and then consume that content as if
there was nothing else on your mind
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by quietening these thoughts down you're
able to focus so much deeper on the
words in front of you there's been times
I'm reading a book I could read the same
page twice and I wouldn't remember what
was said because the thoughts that were
going on in my mind were just crazy
going on about what I was gonna do
tomorrow what I was gonna eat later in
that day what happened yesterday what my
thoughts were about all of these
different things
if you quieten them learn to focus on
the thing that you're consuming the
amount of retention that you'll get from
that piece of content will be absolutely
insane this will literally increase the
speed of your learning by double or
triple or even quadruple compare not
learning anything and having to read a
page twice to getting deep into the
present moment soaking up each word I'm
saying or each line you're reading in a
book with your full focus you can
consume a ridiculous amount the second
thing that Eckhart Tolle taught me was
mood regulation you see it's been
scientifically proven that you're going
to be able to learn quicker if you're in
a better mood and it makes a lot of
sense like have you ever done something
that you don't enjoy doing reading a
book about something you just don't care
about you're not gonna learn much about
it it's why it's so difficult to revise
for exams that you don't care about
if you do enjoy it on the other hand
you're in a good mood then you're gonna
be able to soak up that information like
a sponge because your brain is enjoying
it not only that but you're also going
to be able to reduce procrastination you
see most people think that
procrastination is a time management
problem but one of the things I teach in
my program is that procrastination is a
mood regulation problem and this makes a
lot of sense the reason you
procrastinate it's because when you
think of the activity that you're trying
to do it invokes you know negative
emotions it invokes pain so to avoid
that pain you go and you distract
yourself with YouTube or Instagram or
Facebook or whatever the case may be if
you can learn to manage your mood so
that you don't feel pain about that task
and you manage your moon so that mood so
that when you're learning something
you're enjoying it you're going to be
able to learn more you're going to be
able to stop procrastinating and you're
going to be able to work for a longer
period of time
all if these are great things and
essential if you want to keep up with
the change of the pace and really
upgrade your human operating system now
how do you do this well I've tried a lot
of different things from drugs to mental
techniques and the one that I found to
be the most effective is gratefulness
and again this sounds cheesy it sounds
people say it again and again and again
but it really works if you force your
brain to go towards places that it's
grateful for the emotions that come out
of that will be positive ones
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see the way our emotions work is they're
caused by our thoughts we have the
environment we think about the
environment and that changes our
emotions so if we can change our
thoughts we're going to be able to
change our emotions and the most
effective way to change our thoughts is
to direct those thoughts towards things
that you're deeply grateful for and just
like that by forcing yourself to think
about something you're grateful for the
emotions that come out of that are going
to be positive ones which like I said
reduces procrastination helps you work
longer and it allows you to learn far
quicker Eckhart Tolle also taught me
that multitasking was bad and I'm not
going to spend too long in this because
you probably already know this so I'm
just gonna leave this in the video as a
reminder to stop multitasking but whilst
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I appreciate you and I'll see you in the
next
you
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