How To Stop Wasting Your Life

four thousand weeks that's how much time we get here if we're lucky take a moment right now and calculate how much of that time has already gone by actually you know what let me just do that for you because math is hard if you're 20 you've already went through about a thousand if you're 15 750 or if you're 30 you've already used up 1500 weeks if you look back on how that time has been used so far are you proud of what you've done look I don't want to be that guy on the internet that

tells you time is running out and your Prime will soon be gone so you've got to make as much money as you can and optimize every single second of your future but I would certainly like you to enjoy your time here and develop yourself to a standard that you can look back on with fondness at old age and I think my recent discovery can help you do just that it's not often that I come across one of those inspiring quotes on the internet that really hits considering I've seen just about every single one of them

in my comments from people trying to deceptively promote their YouTube channel but this one this one was different and it's something that I've always tried to live by that quote was be impossible to explain and I love that so how does one do that well in order to be difficult to comprehend you first must understand the boxes that you're letting everyone put you in in every single person's head you interact with there exists an idea of a you based on what you guys have experienced together what they've heard or seen about you and how you've

acted or reacted to situations they form some sort of conception of a you now the depth of this U depends on the amount of information they've been exposed to relating to you and that can be in the form of word of mouth or actual experiences and even when they are exposed to a lot of information or experiences with you it may not accurately depict who you actually are if it's the wrong information or experiences regardless you should be thinking about all of these different identities that exist inside the heads of others as boxes as sad

as it is for the majority of people they let other people's versions of themselves dictate their behaviors and action if they're around those friends that see them as the shy person then they'll act in accordance with that box if they're around the people that see them as the sociable person then they will probably act sociable with those people it's kind of like that Meme going around of you accidentally using your friend group one personality with friend group two so when we think about this that begs the question who are you really and that's a little

too complicated of a question that I've covered in more depth before what I really wanted you to get to think about from the explanation in this part of the video is to start to ponder how you're letting those boxes Define you how to break out of them completely and consciously choose how you're gonna act and what you're going to do I don't just want to be remembered as the guy who was nice to most people or the YouTuber I also want people to say this dude really didn't let anyone Define him and he did what

he wanted but to tell you the truth I have not been living by that statement in fact I've been letting my life slowly slip by without having any new experiences for at least a month now every day has felt almost exactly the same lived by the exact same person so I decided to change that all right I've had enough okay so I'm about to go do something that I've never done before I decided to randomly sign up for improv if you don't know what improv is it kind of says what it is in the name

itself you improvise Act out scenarios with different people so I went on meetup.com and found an improv group happening in person in just a couple days when I arrived at the building I had no idea what to expect but I certainly was not expecting the level of discomfort and cringe I would soon face but in order to even do stuff like this and actually have the time to make the most of your life and become impossible to explain you need to have money let's be real here and ideally we would want our money to be

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description to start investing on Masterworks see important regulation A disclosures at masterworks.com CD now let's get back into my first ever improv class we started off with some warm-up exercises first we all acted in slow motion and went around the room pretending we were samurais with swords for arms yeah then we went around in a circle creating sentences that rhymed with the last word off the top of our heads lot of food now I feel bad I like dogs I don't like yes now usually by this point in doing something new I'm feeling comfortable I'm

easing up and I'm getting into the flow of things but I was in so much painful cringe that I gotta be honest I was having a really tough time with this then the next exercise came and this was when two people would come forward and just make up a scenario completely on the spot [Applause] where am I yeah it's okay oh that's a pretty color yeah all right can you guys see why I was having trouble with this but possibly the most absurd scenario was when two people pretended to be aliens and two people next

to them had to translate what they were saying about pizza so welcome we're gonna resolve this pizza issue so in my opinion though pepperoni is the best wouldn't you agree he's saying that you gotta have anchovies and you gotta have extra cheese it has to be vegan now up until this point I hadn't really gotten anything that I did on camera because I was just doing everything so poorly but then came a scene where we were supposed to act out a story of people sneaking through a train station gate I'm asking the questions here okay

my friend he he didn't pay his ticket how are you gonna catch him he's gone you're gonna pay for it what you're going to pay for it dude yeah right over here oh okay now you gotta pay to get there but I'm not even in it finally after class was finished I made my way home dude that that was something to say the least bro that is the most uncomfortable I've been in years genuinely the most uncomfortable but that's what you got to do with your life you got to experience all these different things experience

these different people see their worlds and then see if their worlds match up with yours as for whether I'll do that again ah looking back on that experience I can admire just how much those people probably don't allow anyone they interact with to trap themselves in a box in fact I think improv is one of the best examples of not letting any preconceived beliefs or Notions about you dictate your actions and for me at least it served as a great reminder for how much of myself I'm still not fully comfortable with expressing because I don't

see it as part of my identity so I've explained to you how you might unconsciously be in some boxes right now and how I've recently tried to expand my horizons to become more interesting what is it that I want you to do moving forward what I want you to do is become a one out of one yes of course to become truly great at anything you must dedicate years of work into it and consistently get one percent better at it with each new iteration and I encourage you to create that one thing but don't let

the pursuit of obsession with one thing distract you from having an identity that is completely fluid and open to the possibility ability of something different it's so easy to let Society choose the path for your identity and let others direct the way for you but with each new experience you intentionally pursue you become a more well-rounded nuance new individual because you get to peek into a new set of identities and that can have you asking the question I wonder what these types of people have gone through to become who they are right now when you

decide to go white water rafting you can see a whole new world of people who like living on the edge and battling with the elements when you decide to take on bouldering you can uncover just how vastly different the muscles you use are compared to weightlifting and you open yourself up to a new community and when you decide to go to that salsa dance lesson you experience the types of people trying to get lost in these sensations of sounds that follow a very particular set of rhythms and chords by being the one to decide to

experience as much as life as you can while you're here without the need for approval from others you can take bits and pieces from each identity you receive from these experiences and craft a self completely unique and difficult to explain compared to anyone else so do me a favor click off this video and go start doing something now life itself is impossible to explain so be more like life thank you very much to all my patrons on patreon who are helping to support my channel here if you're unfamiliar with that platform it is where I

put out exclusive content and you can also talk to me one-on-one over the phone on there if you want to check that out Link in the description and if you are trying to develop more of a personality and be more interesting check out this video where I go over some other stuff to help you with that that's all I'm heading out now love you guys peace