STOP Wasting Time Playing Video Games NOW

i used to have a major video game addiction i grew up playing video games my entire life between the ages of 18 and 28 those 10 years i spent pretty much all my free time playing video games i used to play video games all day long and when i mean all day long i literally mean all day long i had a job but when i got home from work the first thing i would do was turn on my console or my pc and i would play until it was so late and i would start counting the hours and doing the math on if i went to sleep right now how many hours would i get of sleep before i had to wake up and go to work and then i would do that over and over every single day occasionally i would go out with friends every once in a blue moon but when i say i was addicted to video games i really was and that consumed a lot of my life for a really long time and it consumed a lot of time and that time is something that i will never get back all those achievements all those video game accomplishments that i made all those max level characters that i had on world of warcraft all the multiple times that i prestiged on call of duty all those story lines that i completed and all those side quests that i did don't mean jack right now that's just time that is gone that i will never get back that i could have used for better things and i'm not making this video to just totally get all over video games i love video games i think they're really awesome i think that just like anything else that's really fun in moderation it's probably good but when it consumes your life like it consumed my life you have to kind of realize those things and many times especially nowadays like video gamers are are glorified and they they're glamorized and you look at gamers on youtube and you think like it's a career that you can do and it's a great way of life and you can make a living from it and and it's it's looked at very differently than when i was growing up it's kind of funny because i had a friend that back then when i was playing video games all the time told me that i should create a youtube channel because i bought every new console i had every new release i mean i was at midnight releases all the time every time a popular game was out i was in line at gamestop ready to pick it up if they were doing a midnight release and i digress but if i would have created a youtube channel back then i probably would have been rich and famous and been saying a whole different narrative right now but the truth is that i didn't do that and all i did was just waste a bunch of time of my life playing games and the reason that i'm making this video now is because i've changed the way i look at life now and now i got kids i'm in my 30s i have a career i have responsibilities i have a mortgage i have things that i have to make sure that i'm dedicating time to and if i spend that time messing around and playing video games and not focusing on ways that i can improve my life or improve the life of my children then it's a waste and it's funny because recently i bought like the latest call of duty that just came out and i played it like one weekend and i was just kind of upset with myself afterwards i felt like why did i waste all that time i could have done so many more things but instead i lost like 16 hours of my life again to a video game i even bought cyberpunk and i spent an hour customizing my character and then i did the tutorial intro section of it and as soon as i was ready to walk through night city i kind of had a mini epiphany and i was like wait a minute this feels too familiar this feels just like those nights that i would play world of warcraft all night long i mean i had like six max level characters that were all geared out i've always been a pvp so i was big on arenas and battlegrounds and all that stuff and i dual prestiged on modern warfare 3 i've hit max level prestige on almost every call of duty up until a few years ago when i stopped playing video games so i'm not saying this from like some old man that's just like no you kids in your stupid games you need to stop right now no i'm not saying it like that i'm talking from experience and the new way that i kind of approach life and the the way that video games have helped me because video games are not all bad they're probably more bad than they are good but one thing that i've taken away from video games that i apply to every day in my regular life now is i use video games as like a way of looking at life now i am trying to level up in life i've heard other people say this and i have thought this way for a while but i'm not going to take credit for it because there's nothing new under the sun right everybody's everybody's had the same idea at least once or people have had different ideas that have all kind of been similar to other people's ideas right so i'm not the first person to say this but what i have done in the last few years of my life i take that same approach that same mindset that i had with video games that same eagerness to get home and turn on my console and start playing as soon as i walk through the door and have stuff loading up while i go get my my drinks and my chips and everything i need for the rest of the night and just to zone out into a game so now i take that approach with life i am all in i grind out every single level of life from everything that i do i started with code every day was a grind every single day i would open that laptop and i would grind just a few more lines of code a few more tutorials a few more youtube videos and i did that every single day until it started to compound and until i started to see more growth and more growth until eventually i felt more confident and i built projects and then i built a portfolio and then i started getting out and i started talking to people and i started getting social with my now real life video game that was at the time code and i took that to the level that i wanted to take it to and that level was to get a job and become a software engineer and do it professionally and now i've been doing that for four years and every other thing that i've done since i've gave up video games i've kind of taken that approach when when i did jiu jitsu before i started learning how to code same exact thing that was probably the first thing that got me off of video games it was the first time that i felt this if i dedicate this kind of time to areas of my life i can really really see major improvement in all different aspects of my life and that was really the first thing that i went totally crazy for and gave that same kind of video game addiction that i had to something different that wasn't video games and it's when i actually started seeing progress in myself not in my characters not in my avatars not in the video game not in the achievements on xbox not in my gamer score i was starting to see real improvements in my life and what's funny is i keep applying that same mentality to everything in life every day i'm learning and i'm putting focus on areas of my life that need improvement and areas that i can see the value that i get back from improving and now i'm doing that with youtube anyone who's been following my channel i've been grinding it out youtube is is a grind it has that same kind of addictive kind of trait to it where you want to see the next video get a few more views and you want to see you go from 10 subscribers to a hundred to a thousand to ten thousand to a hundred thousand and your gamer score your youtube gamer score is growing and your audience is growing and you have the social aspect of working with other people and seeing that you're impacting other people's lives and then you want to make every video a little bit better than the last one and you want to improve and you want to bring quality to your audience and you want to grow and you want to level up and you want to get better equipment you want to get better lighting and microphones and cameras and then move on to this next step and the next step and the next step and that's the approach that i've been taking with all the areas of my life and i wanted to make this video because i know that many people play video games and i'm sure that a ton of people in my audience are gamers probably hardcore gamers because honestly software development is very appealing to people who enjoy working with computers or being on video games because there's that thought that hey maybe i can create something that i can play or that others would enjoy that maybe would work with with my game and an add-on or a plug-in or a mod for a video game so some people even decide to start learning how to code because because of video games one of my buddies that was actually one of the first things that he started coding was a world of warcraft mods way back when and i worked with him for a few years at my previous job and i remember him telling me that's how he got into how to code i touched html and css on myspace and i'm probably dating myself there and all the younger kids that watch my channel are probably like dude really myspace but but yeah everybody gets their first taste of code some way or another but some people get it because of video games and i'm hoping that this does reach some of the audience out there that that are gamers and they get distracted easily because they want to play video games a lot and they feel that that it's hard for them to do anything else because they like playing video games so much that they don't find joy in other things if you're into something so much that you're not finding joy in other areas of your life or other hobbies or other skills that you can improve on it might be a problem and i'm speaking from experience and i didn't want to hear it i remember getting into fights with my wife who was my girlfriend we might have been married there was a couple times i remember she wanted to throw my xbox in the swimming pool she wanted to just toss all my video games in the fireplace like we used to have a back and forth and i always would be like no it's fine i just you know i'm just gonna play a little bit and it was always like a hey you're not paying attention to me and you're not paying attention to yourself and your health is getting bad and your life kind of is really sad when you look at it from an outsider's perspective and if you need to hear that i'm sorry i'm not trying to on anybody i'm not trying to make anyone feel bad i'm not sitting here on my high horse telling you how bad your life is i'm saying this because i'm talking about myself i'm talking about previous story and i'm talking about dorian almost 10 years ago dorian i'm talking about i'm talking i'm talking in the third person for crying out loud and i don't like doing that because that's just arrogant and egotistical and just sounds terrible when i heard myself saying my own name but what i'm saying is that it's it's cool it's okay it's fun for a while but when it becomes the only thing you do and you're not improving there's gonna be a day when you get to a certain age and that age might be 25 that age might be 30. it might be 35 it could be 40. you're going to look back and you're going to be pretty upset that you didn't do anything with all that time you had and i kind of feel that now i'm scrounging around for time i'm so busy my whole day is nine to five i work from five to nine i'm with my wife and the kids because she's very strict about me having family time with them and i'm glad that she enforces those rules because i get easily distracted and i don't realize the importance of being around family and i want to go and work on my own things and work on my side projects and work on my youtube but she won't allow it and i'm glad that she does and then i make these videos when i have a little bit of free time right now it's a sunday i have some time to record and i wanted to make this video because i was really thinking about this stuff lately and then really the only other times that i have is between like 9 00 p.m and midnight or depending on how sleep deprived i want to be i'll take that time and and work on what i can work on now that's all i got like three four hours a night and i think about all those days that i spent 12 16 hours a day on a computer or on a video game doing nothing just playing some story playing some video game getting imaginary points and feeling like it was the coolest thing ever and now i look back and i i just i it's kind of sad honestly it's kind of sad and i i regret it a lot and hopefully my regrets can make you reflect a little bit on how you're living and what you're doing and maybe help you improve those areas that i wish i would have improved when i didn't realize that i needed to with all that said i feel like i'm preaching i feel like this has become another one of those motivational videos but people really seem to be responding to this stuff and if it's just me sharing my story in order to help you out there realize that you're not the only person that feels this way and you can change i've changed a lot of areas of my life i've tried to improve a lot of areas of my life and i'm not perfect by any means i still have a lot a lot of work to do on myself and where i want to be in life but i'm working on it every day i'm not spending it in front of a video game anymore i'm focusing on what's important and that's me and my family and where we want to be in the future and what we want to do and the kind of life i want to give my kids and and what i want to do when i'm 50 years old like i didn't think about that stuff when i was younger and now that i get older and 50s like way closer than it was now i'm like sweating bullets and i'm i'm nervous you know and i want to make sure that that i set myself up the right way and i'm hoping that if i share this stuff it might help you set yourself up the right way too all right with all that said this has gone on long enough just think about you know maybe focusing on life in a different way and putting that energy you put into video games into areas that you can improve and that's pretty much all i wanted to say all right thanks for watching again if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit that like button subscribe to my channel for more tips and tricks on learning how to code or whatever motivational stuff i'm talking about or product reviews or if you just want to hear me talk nonsense because sometimes that's what i feel like i'm doing alright thanks for watching and i'll see you next time

Channel: Dorian Develops

Views: 84,172

Keywords: self taught programmer, self taught web developer, self taught developer, self taught software engineer, programmer, web developer, developer, software engineer, programming, web development, development, software engineering, learn to code, how to code, code, coding, web dev, self taught, web, engineer, engineering

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Length: 14min 8sec (848 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 17 2021