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I'm currently dealing with an addiction with YouTube.

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Let me talk about it.

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So over a couple months ago, before last summer,

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so it was probably maybe six months ago,

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I really started to reduce my screen.

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And honestly, it was probably even earlier than that,

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probably a year ago even,

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but I really started to reduce my screen time.

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And over time, I would make different changes.

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And it got to the point where over summer,

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I was just not on my phone or my computer at all

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for a couple weeks straight and maybe even months.

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And then once I started getting into posting on YouTube

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and posting on a podcast,

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for some reason I just kind of got back into YouTube.

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I kind of allowed myself to rationalize

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that it was a good thing that I was actually learning from it,

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which is kind of weird because I know that it's not good.

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And I actually heard that Alex Formosi talk about,

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it's funny because I heard him talk about this on YouTube,

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but I heard him say that,

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I heard him say that we tend to forget

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the negative side of things, but we remember the reward.

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So the example he gave was,

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let's say you were in an abusive relationship.

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After a couple years of being out of it,

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you people remember the reward,

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but they forget the punishment.

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So they kind of crave that relationship again.

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And then once they get back into the relationship,

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then they realize and they remember all the punishment

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that came with it.

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And they don't want to deal with that anymore.

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And so I feel like that was the same thing with YouTube,

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where I forgot about it.

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Like us as humans tend to remember the reward,

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but forget the punishment.

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So I forgot about the punishment,

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but I remember the reward.

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I remember that I learned a lot of information,

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whether it was actually practical or not,

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it didn't really matter at the time of my rationale.

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And so I learned a lot of information.

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And what I ended up doing was I slowly,

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but surely started kind of peeking at YouTube.

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I like loaded up the webpage just to see what was on my

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for you or the home page, the recommended page.

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And then I would check to see if there was a good video

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or not, and then I would watch it.

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And so surely I started watching more and more and more,

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and then I started scrolling more and more.

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And then I realized I was a conscious

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that I was like still watching YouTube

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and it was not good for me,

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but I was still choosing to watch it.

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And then I saw this video that really stuck to me.

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And it was just called,

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Why You Go Searched YouTube for Answers to Your Problems,

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or something like that.

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And then in that video, he was just talking about

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how people tend to get information.

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They tend to go get their information on YouTube

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for answers to their problems.

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And they tend to go to the,

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or they tend to watch like maybe 10, 20 videos

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on that same topic.

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And so me watching that video at the end,

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he just said the solution is to just cut out YouTube

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and go on a content fast.

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And I realized I knew at that time,

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I knew that that's what I had to do.

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So I bookmarked that video,

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just because I wanted to be reminded

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of the decision that I made.

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And then I also had like another video lined up

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because the way I watch YouTube is I click a few,

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I click a few thumbnails,

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or I click a few videos and open them in new tabs.

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So I have maybe like five or six videos lined up

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and I just watch them in order.

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And I had one or two videos lined up

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after the video I just watched,

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but I decided not to watch them

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because I made a new decision.

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And the decision is I don't watch YouTube.

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I am someone who does not watch YouTube.

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And I realized that I needed one to change my identity,

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which I did right away.

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I was, I just immediately welcomed my new identity,

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which was actually a returning identity,

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because like I said over summer,

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I was not really watching any YouTube.

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And that's because I had the identity,

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people would ask like, oh, did you see this video?

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No, I would always say, no, I don't watch YouTube.

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That's part of my identity.

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Now it's becoming part of my identity again.

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So I immediately fixed my identity

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and then I kind of had a contingency plan.

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So let me explain.

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Right away, I remembered when I was tracking my bolt score,

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which your bolt score is basically

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how effective you are at breathing.

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And it's a score that you track daily.

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And I was tracking that for probably two or three months

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straight.

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And it was really satisfying for me

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because I had that piece of paper

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and I sat it next to my bed.

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And right away every single morning,

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I would just write down the date

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and then I would write down what my bolt score was.

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And so the piece of paper got really long

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and it got pretty long.

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And I was tight.

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I like wrote down a lot of information on it

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and it was pretty filled up by the end,

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by the time I decided to stop tracking my bolt score.

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And that was very satisfying.

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And so I wanted to use that strategy again,

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but instead for YouTube.

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So I immediately grabbed a blank sheet of paper

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and wrote down the date.

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And I believe the date was like December 3rd.

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And I wrote down the date and I wrote down

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the title of the piece of paper.

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And it was like, write down the date

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and every single time that I watch YouTube.

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And so my goal was to keep that piece of paper

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as clean as possible.

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I had already wrote down one date on it.

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But now my goal is to keep it as clean as possible

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and not have any kind of, any like words

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or numbers on that piece of paper.

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Not have any penworks on that piece of paper.

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Just keep it blank.

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And it actually worked because the next day

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after I got home from school

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and I was getting ready to sit,

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I was like sitting down to start like working

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on editing a video.

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I was really tempted to get on YouTube.

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And I was like, I did get on YouTube

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because I was just, I just went on to YouTube

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because I was gonna, I was doing something on my channel.

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So I had to get on YouTube.

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But when I clicked on YouTube,

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I had the option of either go to my profile right away.

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And by the way, on my computer,

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I have extensions on my YouTube, like on Google Chrome

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to where whenever I go on YouTube,

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it's just a blank screen.

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Like I don't have any videos that show up.

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So that means that I have to search for videos

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for them to show up.

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And when I do search for videos,

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they show up with just the title.

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There's no thumbnail or nothing.

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And then when I watch a video,

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there's no title or comments or like recommended videos.

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It's just the video.

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So it's all, it's like distraction free extensions.

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And I found out about those extensions

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on a Hamza video that I watched probably a couple of months ago.

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And so when I was clicking on YouTube,

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I had the option, like my intention was to work on my channel.

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Like I was gonna create,

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I was gonna organize my channel and create a new playlist.

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And so that was my intention.

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So I was gonna click on YouTube

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and then go straight to my channel.

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But then once I clicked on YouTube,

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I had the desire to watch a random YouTube video.

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I had the desire to turn off the extensions,

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which is what I usually would do

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when I was slowly getting back into watching YouTube videos.

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I would always,

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because I've had these extensions on for a long time,

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but I would always turn them off

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and then like refresh my page and look at the home screen.

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And then I would turn them back on afterwards.

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And so I had the desire to turn off the extensions

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but then right when I was about to like make my decision,

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whether I was gonna do it or not,

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I immediately thought about that sheet of paper

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that I started tracking my YouTube,

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like watching YouTube on that sheet of paper.

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And so because of that, I immediately remembered that.

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And so at that time, the decision was easy

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because I wanted to keep that sheet of paper clean.

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My goal, I was reminded of my goal.

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So now the decision was easy

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and I decided not to watch a video.

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And so I decided to actually get into work

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and I was able to get into Flow State very easily.

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And that is the power of figuring out different tools

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to figure your addictions.

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And that's, and I wasn't told,

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like no one told me about that trick.

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I just kind of came up with that trick

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with my own imagination.

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And imagination is actually one of the laws of success

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in Napoleon Hill's book called

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The Law of Success in 16 Lessons.

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So I used my imagination to hear my internet

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or to cure my YouTube addiction.

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And it's definitely working.

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So that's the end of the video.

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And have a good day.

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Well, actually, these are my practice videos.

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So only hardcore fans of this channel

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are actually watching these videos.

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So if you're watching them, have a good day.