- There's a chance that you're trying way too
hard to change your life. You're expending all of your willpower on things that don't require it. Let me give you an example. I've been playing hockey
for about 20 years. I'm gonna be 27 this year and I've been playing since
I was like two feet tall. So, after 20 years of conditioning, what do you think happens to me when I step inside a hockey rink? I immediately want to play hockey. I start thinking about scoring goals. The environment and the smells and everything about
being inside a hockey rink creates a downhill slope that makes me just want to play hockey, but, little do we realize, everything in our life is like this, especially the spaces that
we most commonly occupy, even the smallest things like
the layout of our furniture, what foods are on display in our kitchen. Every room in your house is telling you to live your life in a certain
way, and, a lot of the time, those ways are ways you
want nothing to do with, and then when we try to
live our life differently or we want to improve ourselves
and improve our habits, it just feels like we're
swimming upstream all the time. We can't figure out why
nothing ever sticks. We feel like some other
force is working against us, causing us to fail. Now, I'm not trying to perpetuate some type of victim mentality. I'm not saying that there's
nothing you can do about it. Your environment is against you. Some third party is involved and responsible for changing your life. In fact, I'm saying pretty
much the exact opposite, because our behavior shapes our
environment, and, in return, our environment shapes
our continued behavior. These things feed into each other. So let's talk about how we
can leverage this principle to use our behavior to shape
our environment in a smart way to create downward slopes into living the lifestyle that
you've always wanted to live. So, the first thing you
should do is go room to room and ask yourself, "What
is the goal of this room?" Then observe all of the
little features of the room that are inhibiting that intended purpose. How do you make a better bedroom? Well, what's your bedroom for? It's probably for sleeping and alternative forms of exercise. So how do you create an environment that fosters those things,
that makes those things better? Well, first and foremost,
you probably want that place to be clean, welcoming, a nice, warm, comforting environment, so when you rest your head
on your pillow at night, you're not shaken to your core at the absolute chaos that surrounds you. So, step one is probably
to clean up your room. Don't have (censored)
lying around everywhere. - [Narrator] Uh-oh. That's
no way to treat your clothes. - If you're like me, your bed takes up 85% of
the real estate of the room 'cause I live in a little closet, but even with my limited floor space, I can still have a nice
little lamp in the corner, maybe buy a plant, put up
a mirror, maybe a painting, buy one of those little closet organizers, get rid of a lot of the
clothes that I don't wear. After I do these things,
then, all of a sudden, sleeping in my bedroom is just
a more enjoyable experience. - A change like that can be restful. - It doesn't work that way for me. - It works for your father. - You'd be shocked as to how much better you'll sleep in a clean room versus a chaotic, dank,
used-underwear-laden goblin hole. - You know, I bowl with
your dad every week. He has a great time. (dramatic musical sting) - Another thing I noticed that was seriously inhibiting my quality of sleep was the fact that I was just
on my phone all the time before I go to sleep and
the minute I wake up. There's a couple ways you can tackle this. In previous videos, I've suggested putting your phone on a charging station across your room at night so that you have no option
but to just sleep in your bed. You can't go on your phone if
it's across the room, right? - [Narrator] No. - That works great, but, honestly, I have a hard time
sticking to that as well, so what did I do about it? Clearly, I don't have a ton
of willpower at my disposal, so I bought blue blockers, so when I'm on my phone at night, I'm not assaulted with the blue light which inhibits my ability
to get into deep sleep. Here's the trade off though. You're like, "Okay, you're just gonna be on your phone in bed
for like three hours?" No. What happens is, when
I'm on my phone at night with my blue blockers on, all of the colors on my
phone are so washed out and my phone charger cable is so short that it's just so
uncomfortable to be on my phone that I don't go on it
anyways and I go to sleep. The solutions don't have
to be neat and perfect, but that's what's working for me. So I went from a messy room with a long iPhone cable
and no blue blockers to just cleaning up my room,
adding a couple decorations, having a shorter iPhone
cable and blue blockers, and, all of a sudden, I'm
getting way better sleep. - [Narrator] They didn't say much, but you knew they were pleased as punch. - Now we move into the kitchen. So what's the goal of a good kitchen? Is it to (beep) around? Is it to sit there in
despair as you eat Indomie for the fifth day in a row, feeling like (beep) about yourself? No, the goal of a good kitchen is probably to make eating and cooking
healthy food as easy as possible, so that you can energize your body, so that you can go forward in
life with exuberance and zeal. So what does your kitchen look like? How is it inhibiting those processes? If you have different
goals for your kitchen, that's all well and good,
but, for my kitchen, I realized that I was eating
way too much junk food. I was buying things that I
didn't actually want to eat, but I was buying them because I was hungry in the grocery store. - [Narrator] He was hungry
and he had some money. - So when I walked into
my pantry, I asked myself, "Do I want to eat Indomie or Indomie?" Because it's the only thing I bought. I mean, I bought other
things, healthier things, but they're in my fridge
and it requires effort. I have to actually cook the chicken breasts
and chop vegetables. I don't wanna do that. I'll eat the Indomie. Do you see how dumb this is? Through my purchasing decisions, I invited things into my house
that were counterintuitive to the way that I wanted to live my life. Indomie is extremely
delicious and easy to eat, and it's very quick to eat,
so that, when I'm hungry, I come into my kitchen, and
basically the question is, "Do I want food now or do I
want food in like 35 minutes when I figure out the right
way to cut a chicken breast?" Obviously, I'm gonna choose the Indomie. I was existing in an environment that created a downward incentive
slope into eating Indomie. So what I did about it was two things. First of all, obviously,
I stopped buying Indomie and other food that I don't
actually want to be eating, and then, secondly, I stopped
buying chicken breasts just to let it rot in my fridge. - [Narrator] It's criminal
to waste food like this. Think of the sand wasp. - I started buying other healthy foods that are actually easy and quick to eat, so that, when I'm hungry, I
can eat quickly and healthily. But, Joey, I don't know
how to eat healthy. What are these good, healthy
foods that are quick to eat that you're talking about? The first thing, the
first item on the menu is what I like to call advanced granola. I think it's technically
called muesli. Moo-es-lee? I don't know how to pronounce it, but I'm sure you have this
in your grocery store. It's got a bunch of good stuff in it. There's nothing sketchy, but
I like to get my oats in, if you respond well to oats. It's high in calories.
It's got good fiber. I don't just eat the oats
'cause I'm not a mad man. I like to douse it in ultra-filtered milk. If you have this where
you're from in your country, I would highly recommend it, because it's kind of a cheat code. The nutrition facts on
the back are insane. It has so many vitamins
and nutrients in it and the protein is way
higher than regular milk, and it's lactose-free, so if lactose tends to
make you feel weird, it won't be a problem with this milk. Another thing I like to
eat all the time is eggs. You can't go wrong with eggs. Eggs are a super food. You can only go wrong with
eggs if you're a vegan. Everyone knows I don't
need to talk about eggs. Just eat your eggs if you're
not morally opposed to it. I don't buy chicken anymore. Why? Am I morally opposed to chicken? No. Chicken's delicious
when other people cook it. Chicken is sketchier to cook.
More food poisoning involved. I just buy steak now because
you literally can't go wrong. You slap it on a hot grill. You can cook it for like three
seconds or three minutes. It's still edible, and it's like 40 grams of
protein, good fats in there. The final thing I'm gonna talk about is just a little hack that I have, and that's just to have
some grabbable vegetables. Grape tomatoes. Can't go wrong with cucumber or carrots. Just have things around
that you can just grab. When you're hungry, little
easy solutions like this solve the problem of, like, reaching for something like Doritos, reaching for something like Indomie. It doesn't need to happen. There's healthier alternatives
to grab and go food. So I hope you enjoyed
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about the house in general. What is the goal for a house? What do you want the goal
for your house to be? Maybe you don't have a house. I don't own this one. I'm renting it. Maybe you live with 16 different people. Maybe you live in a college dorm room. Maybe you live with your parents. Whatever the case is,
you have control over probably a small section of it. Maybe it's just your bedroom. What do you want the goal
for that space to be? For my own house, I live alone, so I get to have a lot of
control over that question. I get to have a lot of control over the answers to that question, and, for me, I want to create a space that I don't actually
spend a lot of time in. You know, I want to go
be a person in the world, be part of communities. I wanna go play hockey.
I wanna go for walks. I don't actually want to spend
a lot of time in my house, being a recluse, but while I'm here in
my little goblin hole, I want it to feel a little
less like a goblin hole. I want to create a space that
recharges me and refreshes me, that's orderly, where I
know where things are. After a long day of being
a person in the world, I want to come home and feel
like my life is in order. You know, things are okay, and I want to eliminate
sticky corners of my house, and what I mean by that is not like a Shelob's Lair reference. I wanna reduce sticky
corners like my office. When I'm at my worst, I spend
a lot of time in my office in front of my 42-inch OLED TV, either gaming, browsing
the internet, or gaming, and I don't wanna do that all day. That's just a sad existence. That's not me taking action. It's not me being a person in the world, injecting myself into the
various corners of the Earth, as sexual as that sound. That's me decaying. That is exactly how I
don't want to live my life. So try to figure out the overall theme of whatever space that
you have control over. Ask yourself, "What is
the goal of this space? How do I want this space
to help me live my life? How do I want my environment to help shape my future behavior?" Because when you figure out
the answers to these questions, you might be shocked as to how counterintuitive your environment is to achieving those goals, and hopefully, through this video, I've given you a couple of ideas as to how you can can tweak your environment to create downward slopes into the behavior that
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