- [Narrator] Both of its wings
have transparent windows. - Crystal duck. (audience laughing) - Open the Southern border. (voices overlapping) - Care about now more coronavirus cases than any single country in the world. (voices rapidly overlapping) - NFTs are. (rapid gunfire) (voices chaotically overlapping) - The leak is not our main concern, is it? - [Joey] I feel like I wanna
jump out of my own skin. - I just - [Joey] That's the type of thought that runs through my brain when I feel overloaded, overstimulated, when I'm jacked in. Keeping up with every
little thing that's going on in the world, it's like a pressure, a tension. - No, no, no, no. - [Joey] Caving in my skull. - That's good, just
keep rubbing your head. - I nurse on the input, like a newborn. It's the first thing I
reach for when I wake, the last thing I look at before I sleep. And yeah, I know it's not good. I'd rather be doing something
else, but I can't help but feel that if I let it
go, I'll miss something. I'll feel disconnected, alone. But the pressure builds. This extension of myself. It revs my mind up and it doesn't stop. It's like I'm looking for something. (birds chirping) One thing that I've started to notice is that whenever I cut
myself off from the feed, when I choose to be alone,
when I seek stillness, I find it. And this feeling I was running from was what I was searching for. Life is often exactly as
simple as we need it to be. There's nothing complicated
about a flowing stream, a crackling fire, a cloudy day. Unless of course we make it that way. We can always analyze
life, cerebralize it, theorize about it if we need to. But how often do we need to? Are things not also
meant to be experienced for what they are, as they are? Because, obviously thinking about things and analyzing reality
helps us understand it. But when we live in our
heads, it distorts reality. We start looking with our
minds instead of our eyes. The mountains don't care
what we think of them. (wind howling) (raindrops tapping) There's a quote by GK Chesterton that's always stuck
with me, goes like this. "It is an act of faith to
assert that our thoughts "have any relation to reality at all. "If you're merely a skeptic, "you must sooner or later
ask yourself the question. "Why should anything go right, "even observation and deduction? "Why should not good logic be
as misleading as bad logic. "They are both movements in
the brain of a bewildered ape." I always thought this
quote was pretty funny and it does a great job of
reminding us that what happens inside our brains may
not be as sophisticated as we probably think. We tend to celebrate the human mind as the pinnacle of intelligence. Yet, when we spend too much time in there, we become anxious and isolated. Why is that? Why is it that the most
common piece of advice that you might hear for
someone who's socially anxious, needlessly vengeful, or
compulsively conspiratorial is get outta your head. It's like we all instinctively know that there's a disconnect
between reality itself and our interpretation of it. And when we spend too much
time untethered from the world as it is, and instead
filter our experiences through references and
distortions, isn't it obvious that the resulting
effect is disorientation? Is it not obvious that
when we plug ourselves into sources that profit off
stirring up fear and dread within us, that we would feel
more worried and dreadful. I always find it hilarious. It'll be a beautiful day
outside, the most peaceful, divine reality before us but we'll be on YouTube
or Twitter or Reddit. and there'll be some
world event that usually has nothing to do with us and we'll go, that's terrible. Man, the world is (beep) up. And then we look out the
window at the glorious sun piercing through the clouds
over a rolling landscape and instead of wonder,
or awe, or gratitude, we think, would I
survive a nuclear winter? I'll leave you guys with a quote. Marcus Aurelius said
that if you're distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but
to your estimate of it and this you have the power
to revoke at any moment. Yeah, I'm feeling really good guys. Honestly, I feel like there's
a one-to-one relationship between my mental health and
the amount of time I spend on social media or just like
in front of any kind of screen for any reason whatsoever. It always pays off to just spend time away from my computer, from my phone. And recently I've been going
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