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 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 back 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 you know 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 and this is really where the dopamine detox comes in because let me tell you the state of normal people right now most people on their desk they 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. and for me one of the funniest things are seeing people with you know multi-display uh setup you know for me one of the ways that i was actually able to get to 10 million dollars after tax by the age of 21 was through focus and one of the ways that i was able to focus was i have 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 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 working on my capacity to focus and work i was notorious for always just having my phone on airplane mode you know most of the day and then when i needed to use it i would just take it off of airplane mode and 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 you can't get to it like it's just it's too hard you're just constantly distracting yourself that means that you need to work on your focus and 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 uh you know how it can help you achieve your goals well in today's video what i'm really gonna do is i'm just gonna give you a framework for the next seven days of what to do to actually reset your dopamine levels tangibly what that's gonna feel like you know what you're actually gonna like how your experience of the world is gonna be different seven days from now and then most importantly how to integrate that because here's what happens a lot of times is people will do dopamine detoxes and then from there you know one bad habit will creep back in like for example you know their phone is the first thing they check in the morning and you know 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 and 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 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 of itself insinuates that it's going to be a short burst so 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 so the first one is one hour a day 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 you know 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 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 in 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 10 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 if you know 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 and 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 a you know i'll give you something tangible right here if you're using chrome you can use a chrome plug-in and there's you know many of them out there that basically hides 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 save 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 uh 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 following by the way and 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 wow and you know this is a much longer video that i can talk about but like when you put things on 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 et cetera et cetera these are people i i literally know in real life and i even mute all their stuff that's a brilliant invention on instagram just mute people's stories mute 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 old school way right so moving on to pillar number four of the seven day reset is 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 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 it's gonna 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 you're 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's 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 month 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 another three months i'm a little bit live a little bit more of that balanced lifestyle people talk about so 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 month 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 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 you

Channel: Iman Gadzhi

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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 08 2022