I remember when I still had social media.
I was thinking to myself, I knew that this was bad for me.
I knew that like it's harmful and it's gonna affect my future
and it's holding me back.
But I was like, oh, but what if, what if, what if, what if,
what if somebody doesn't want me to leave?
What if my friends are sad?
What if, what if all this, it's a bunch of crap.
It's a bunch of bull crap.
Because in reality, I was just addicted.
It's as simple as that.
Social media, like it's bad.
Literally, if you're on Instagram scrolling,
if you're on Twitter scrolling, if you're on TikTok scrolling,
even YouTube scrolling, it's bad.
Like there's no nothing to like, you know.
Every single excuse you come up with is simply just your mind
that is addicted, trying to stay addicted.
Like that's it.
And I realized that, so I was like, okay,
I'm getting rid of this stuff.
Completely deleted my accounts, but then I started
to get addicted to YouTube.
And I was like, I just kept watching YouTube,
endless YouTube videos, endless YouTube videos.
And I was like, oh, this is bad.
And then I just completely stopped using electronics,
completely off the internet for like a month.
And that helped because then I kind of like reset my brain.
And then once I got back to it, I was like, okay,
I know that YouTube is like good.
Like it's not good, but it's a very valuable tool
if you use it correctly.
And so I was like, okay, I got to create my environment.
And I downloaded some extensions on my computer.
And I stopped using YouTube on my phone.
And now I only use it on the computer and I have extensions.
So I can like hide all of the everything that I want to hide.
And I make sure that like I only, when I check the homepage,
I'm only on it for like a couple of minutes.
And I like click on all of the videos in a new tab
that I want to actually watch that are actually gonna help me.
And I'm very conscious about what I click on
because you're training the algorithm
to feed you what you want.
So if you train the algorithm to feed you a bunch of like
inspirational, not very helpful videos,
well, that's gonna give you all that,
but it's not gonna help you that much.
On the other hand, if you train it to feed you
like extremely educational videos
that are actually gonna help you
and are actually gonna help you towards your goals,
well then that's what it's gonna feed you.
So that's what I do.
I pretty much only click on things
that are actually gonna help me with my goals.
And then I close that homepage and I just watch the videos
and I have an extension to where it blocks all of the
thumbnails on the watch next.
And it blocks like the description and the comment section.
So the only thing on my screen is the video.
That's it.
And I just sit there and watch it
just from the beginning to the end
or at least until I realize that it's a waste of time
and I'm not getting value out of it.
So that's exactly like social media is good
if you use it properly.
Now there are social medias that I don't think are good at all
like Snapchat and Instagram,
unless you're creating content on those things.
Like if you're consuming on TikTok, it's not,
that's not good.
If you're consuming on YouTube,
it's only good if you're strategic
and you're conscious about it.
And then if you're creating content on anything,
then that's good.
Like you're,
I think that creating content is a good thing.