Dopamine Detox is a Cheat Code to Success

So, look, ladies and gentlemen, I know a lot of you guys watching this video are feeling incredibly stuck in your lives. You have these incredible goals, dreams, and aspirations, but you just don't know how to accomplish them. Now, if that is you, I need you to listen very, very, very closely to the rest of this video because, in today's video, I'm going to be talking about how you can reclaim your life using the dopamine detox.

Now, real quick, let me tell you the first place that you probably suck, because most people think that they lack energy or they lack knowledge, aka the know-how, and that is why they are not where they want to be in life. Well, that's actually wrong. The main thing that you are lacking is focus, because when you are a person who has a lot of focus and can focus in on a singular thing, then it's very easy to actually get the know-how and the tangible knowledge needed to accomplish your goals.

And second, when you're focusing on a singular task and you can do that for a long time, you really start to enjoy it. Now, how do you cultivate focus? This is really where the dopamine detox comes in because, let me tell you the state of normal people right now: most people at their desks have three different devices.

They have an iPad, an iPhone, a computer; each one has, you know, bell notifications going on while that's running on a separate tab. They've got their Twitter feed running 24/7. For me, one of the funniest things is seeing people with, you know, multi-display setups.

You know, for me, one of the ways that I was actually able to get to $10 million after tax by the age of 21 was through focus, and one of the ways that I was able to focus was that I've always just had one monitor in front of me. I've always just had one screen in front of me, and I've always made sure that I just have the window open that I need, and any windows that I'm not using are closed and can get reopened later. Another example is, even when I was 14, 15, or 16, and I was really getting into the world of self-help, starting to read a book a week and, you know, really just working on myself and my capacity to focus and work, I was notorious for always just having my phone on airplane mode, you know, most of the day.

Then, when I needed to use it, I would just take it off of airplane mode. The reason I do this sort of stuff is because I want to make sure no one is able to rob me of my focus. So, as I said, if you're at a point in life where you have these goals, but it feels like when you sit at your desk you just can't get to it—like, it's just too hard, you're just constantly distracting yourself—that means that you need to work on your focus.

In order to work on your focus, you need to reset your dopamine levels. Now, I'm sure you guys have seen plenty of videos on YouTube about dopamine detoxes, what they are, what they can do for you, and how they can help you achieve your goals. Well, in today's video, what I'm really going to do is give you a framework for the next seven days of what to do to actually reset your dopamine levels, tangibly what that's going to feel like, how your experience of the world is going to be different seven days from now, and then, most importantly, how to integrate that.

Here's what happens a lot of times: people will do dopamine detoxes, and then, from there, one bad habit will creep back in—like, for example, their phone is the first thing they check in the morning. They’ll creep back in for two or three days, and then they're like, "Ah, you know what? When I'm doing work, might as well just have a podcast or a YouTube video playing in the background.

" These bad habits start to sneak back in, so I'm going to show you exactly, after the 7-day dopamine detox, how to actually integrate this back into your life. Now, everyone might have varying opinions on how long you should actually do a dopamine detox. For me personally, I think seven days is a good benchmark, and there are four key pillars to resetting your dopamine levels.

Now, you need to understand that a detox, you know, in and of itself, insinuates that it's going to be a short burst. So, a dopamine detox for me, as I said, is not a lifestyle. It is a hard reset that you press in order to reset your levels, so that way you increase your capacity to focus, to be disciplined, and, you know, you actually increase your output levels.

Now, for the next seven days, starting from tomorrow, here are the four things I need you to do in order to practice a dopamine detox. Now, before I say this, as I said, there are people that have, you know, radically different approaches to it. These are just the four that I would recommend over the space of the last eight years, ever since I was 14, so from 14 to 22, you know, practicing different dopamine detoxes at different points of the year.

The first one is one hour a day of screen time on your phone. Now, if you actually open up your iPhone right now, I'm sure there must be a version of this on Android. You can actually add your screen.

. . Time as a widget onto your home screen, so allow yourself one hour of screen time every day for the next seven days.

Now, if your job involves your mobile phone for some reason (which, by the way, most of the time it doesn't), you can—you know—even if you need to use WhatsApp for your work, uh, you could just use WhatsApp Desktop. Because it's just, of course, you're still technically using WhatsApp, but it's just a lot more focused, and it's just a lot more purposeful than just being on your phone. So, as I said, one hour a day of mobile screen time use for the next seven days.

And even if you need to use it for your work, just find some sort of workaround. As I said, this isn't something that you do for the rest of your life; this is really just something to reset the button. So that has pillar number one of the seven-day dopamine detox reset, which is one hour a day of mobile screen time.

Hey, just a heads up: If you enjoy content like this, definitely go ahead and follow my Twitter. I'm posting stuff like this every single day on there in real time, just sharing my thoughts, things that are coming to my mind, you know, things that have helped me get to this point in life. In fact, if you go on there, the first pinned comment is a full thread on exactly how I made 10 million dollars last year in 2021 and the ten things I learned from it.

So I'll leave that on screen, and then I'll leave my Twitter handle in the description. Enjoy the rest of the video. Now, pillar number two of the seven-day reset is no YouTube—none whatsoever.

I don't care if you think it is productive, and I've seen, I'd say, you know, 90% of people that watch self-help YouTube watch it and are just self-help junkies, right, and just don't actually apply it. And what it is is, to them, it feels like productive procrastination, right? You're still procrastinating; you're still not actually doing or accomplishing anything, but in your mind, you're thinking, you know, I'm watching videos on how to focus better while at the same time frying your focus.

You know, it's actually quite ironic. So, no matter how much value you think you get out of YouTube, and by the way, I will say YouTube is a very, very valuable place if used correctly. I'll give you a perfect example of how to actually use, you know, I'll give you something tangible right here.

If you're using Chrome, you can use a Chrome plug-in, and there are, you know, many of them out there that basically hide YouTube recommendations. That way, when you go into YouTube, the only thing that will show up is your subscriptions, and it doesn't, you know, offer any recommendations on the side. So that way, you can be very, very specific about who you subscribe to and what content you take in, so that way you are using YouTube productively, you know, rather than just looking for the next hit of, uh, you know, self-help junkie videos.

So, as I said, that is a tangible tip that you can take after the seven days, but for the next seven days—and by the way, this applies to my videos as well—no YouTube, cut it out, delete it from your iPhone, delete it from your iPad, and do not use it on your desktop. Now, the third pillar of the seven-day reset is—I'm not sure if I can actually say the word—so we'll say adult films. So, no sort of adult films, no 18-plus stuff.

You guys know what I'm talking about—uh, none whatsoever. Now, I know that some of you guys are so addicted, you literally cannot not self-pleasure yourself, once again you know what I'm talking about here. Nice—uh, for seven days.

So, that's why I thought, you know, I would rather give you guys a fair chance to see this thing through rather than, you know, just be super strict and, you know, maybe only ten percent of you guys actually accomplish this. So, you know, you can do whatever you want down there, however many times a day, you know, multiple times a day—I recommend, obviously, cut it back as much as humanly possible. If you can do seven days without, perfect!

I said I know some of you guys can't, but the big thing here is just no imagery. And by the way, you know, to me, that also means, you know, none of these Instagram baddies that all you guys are following. By the way, you're just a little sad—don't hear: why do you guys follow all these Instagram models?

Like, I don't know, for me personally, I don't get it. Like, unless you know this person in real life and you actually have a chance of, whatever, sparking some sort of connection with this person—like, just why? Like, it's just wow.

And you know, this is a much longer video that I can talk about, but like, when you put things on a pedestal, whether that be a supercar or a potential partner or literally whatever it is, to me, it's just you're creating a separation from it. So, unless this is someone who you actually have a chance with, like, for me, just unfollow all these Instagram models that you follow and stuff like that. And I'll be honest, probably a lot of the girls that you guys are following on Instagram, I know personally in real life.

We've hung out, we've spent time together, etc. , etc. These are people I literally know in real life, and I even mute all their stuff.

That's a brilliant invention on. . .

Instagram just mutes people's stories and mutes people's posts because when I go on my feed and I'm really dialed in, I don't need to be deriving pleasure from something that's digital like that and not like an actual physical connection. So, once again, just a little side note, but it all ties into the fact that for the next seven days, no adult films, no nothing. Right?

If you do have to self-pleasure, you know, we'll call it that, um, use your imagination the old school way. Right? So moving on to pillar number four of the seven-day reset: 10 minutes a day of meditation—just 10 minutes!

That is it. Obviously, if you can do more, if you can do 20 minutes, 30 minutes, you know, an hour, I'll be honest, I know a lot of you guys here have lots and lots of time a day. Right?

So might as well, if you can do 30 minutes, that’s incredible. But as I said earlier, I want to set you guys up to win and actually accomplish all of these things. So that is the fourth pillar: just 10 minutes a day of meditation.

So, ladies and gentlemen, when you accomplish this for the next seven days, what it is really doing is just hitting the reset button. Things that before you found no enjoyment from, you know, just looking at the view or just walking down the street with no music playing—right? —just literally the sound of the street, you're gonna derive pleasure from things like that when you didn’t before.

Even just the 10 minutes a day of meditation. The first day, it's gonna be super, super hard, but by day seven, you're gonna be like, "I actually kind of enjoy this thing. " Basically, what's gonna happen is your baseline of stimulation—so the amount of stimulation you need in order to, you know, get any pleasure from something—is gonna reset.

Right? That's what the dopamine detox does; it's gonna reset. So that means that when you sit at your computer, before, the things that you found difficult or hard—or let's say, you know, when you pick up your Kindle or a book to read—the things that you found difficult or hard before, now you're like, "Oh wow, this is actually, you know, I'm in flow.

I'm enjoying this. " So that's what I meant when most people get it wrong when they think that they need more energy or they need more knowledge. That is not true.

Instead, what you need is more focus, and in order to have more focus in your life, you need to be able to enjoy and derive enjoyment from just the simple things. So this is truly the reset that you need in order to achieve your goals. Now, as I said, this is just seven days.

You might be wondering, you know, what do I do after this? Well, this is where something called monk mode comes in. Now, monk mode is something that I started talking about two years ago.

I think there have been some books and stuff written about it, or I think it's been like a general thing that's been floating around for, I don't know how long, but around two years ago, I started sharing my monk mode protocol, and it just, you know, within my sort of cult following, it became a thing. So what you want to do after these seven days is you want to go from dopamine detox to monk mode. So monk mode is really more a way of life.

Now, monk mode is something that I do six months of the year, and three months a year, I’m basically just—I just party. You know, work goes from my first priority to like my third or fourth priority, and you know, I just enjoy my time. In the other three months, I live a little bit more of that balanced lifestyle people talk about.

So what I'm gonna do is, right below this video, I'm gonna leave a link to my monk mode video on exactly how to execute on it. Once you've done the seven days of dopamine detox, go straight into 21 days of monk mode. It's a lot less intense than dopamine detox, so you know, you have that to look forward to.

And when you attach these two things, when you do these two things back together, whatever your goals are for 2022, consider it done. That's the way that I view monk mode. I know that if I can do six months of monk mode, then it doesn't matter that, you know, I'm only doing six months of deep focused work and, you know, three months a year I'm enjoying myself and partying.

In another three months, it's more of like a, you know, balanced lifestyle. As I said, I know in that six months I genuinely get more done in those six months than most people do in three or four years because these things compound and they stack on top of each other. So, ladies and gentlemen, for those of you guys who have done monk mode in the past, I want you to leave a comment down below and share what your experience has been with it so far.

Go ahead, check out that monk mode video, and just remember focus is the thing that you need to be optimizing for. The more that you can have singular focus on the task that you are trying to accomplish, the more that you're gonna win in life. So, on that note, I'll catch you guys in the next video.