today we're gonna be talking about jacksepticeye a positive mental attitude
and a gorilla
what is everybody this is Chris from the rewired saw where we talked about the
problem but focus on the solution and if you are new to my channel my channel is
all about improving your mental health so if you're into that kind of stuff
make sure you subscribe hit that notification bell so today we're gonna
be talking about jacksepticeye all right I was first introduced to Jack from my
son hearing him crack up watching YouTube among what is happening and Jack
is this you know very charismatic guy who plays video games and he's pretty
funny so recently I've seen Jack pop more up
on YouTube just falling into my realm which is mental health so Jack kind of
blew up and it's also a misconception of the story but he kind of blew up after
PewDiePie gave him a shout-out and it's really interesting I listened to his
podcast with h3h3 and when he blew up it wasn't even like an explosion he got
like 20,000 subscribers but then he hustled him worked hard and he got to
like if he's like 20 million now so a lot of that was all him and basically he
got burnt out like a lot of youtubers are late he got burnt out he was doing
two videos a day and he put up a video where he said like yo I gotta take a
break for a little while like he even got to a point where he hadn't left his
house in two weeks and like that sucks man I love Jack because he's a good
person like something that I do and one of the reasons I want to grow this
channel is something that Jack does he does a a monthly live stream where he
donates all the money to charity and that's super cool like once a month he
dedicates a day to raising money for some type of charity that's awesome I
want to do that someday when I get bigger and can actually raise some money
hey anyways so Jack went on this little mental health break and he seems a lot
better recently he was on the h3 h3 podcast he also did a video with the
other mental health youtuber Kati Morton who's also a therapist
something that he's been talking about lately and he also has a shirt that
represents it is having a positive mental attitude and he has a shirt that
says PMA on it and he sells this shirt right
it's interesting because I saw him doing this like I'm not a huge fan of like the
secret you know and stuff like that and as I seen him talking about this on
my go boy like what's this all about but he explains it great and he talks about
how like you know especially if you're struggling with depression or anxiety
like when you're depressed like it seems like there's a dark cloud everywhere you
go everything is negative and terrible and awful and everything is meaningless
right or when you're in anxiety everything's worrisome and everything
like that like basically Jack's talking about how it's a reminder to him this
whole PMA thing it's a reminder to him so when he's in that dark headspace when
he's when he's acting like that or thinking like that like it reminds him
to get a more positive outlook right hopeful glasses half-empty thing we got
going on nice and hearing you're like Chris we're like three minutes into this
video what does this have to do with a gorilla well I am glad you asked so
let's talk about how reasonable this is if you're somebody who struggles with
anxiety or depression how reasonable is it to have a positive mental attitude so
let's go back in time a little over a decade ago there was a guy by the name
of dr. Daniel Simmons okay so what he's famous for is he did this experiment all
right he took people and put him in a room and he had him watch this video
okay you had a team who was in white shirts and a team who was in black
shirts and each of the people in this experiment they were given a
responsibility okay they said see how many times the team in the white shirt
passes the basketball and then over here you see how many times the people in the
black shirt pass the basketball sounds simple enough and surprisingly most of
them got it right they can count hallelujah all right but after the
experiment dr. Daniel Simmons (selective attention test / gorilla basketball experiment) he's like hey did you notice anything abnormal in
that video they're like no they're like you didn't notice anything at all no I
know but you're talking about they're like you didn't notice a gorilla
they're like dr. Daniel Simmons what'd you talk about
they didn't so in the video when the teams were passing one of this
basketball there's a guy who walks through in a gorilla costume pauses in
the middle pounds on his chest and then walks off and people didn't notice this
and they were like what and then replayed the video the exact same video
they just rewound the tape played it again and boom there it was
there was that gorilla that they missed so what happened what happened well from
this experiment branched a ton of other experiments and what they realized was
that our brain our mind focuses on whatever we tell it to all right so this
is a huge discovery when it comes to mental health see dr. Dana Simmons he is
not like an optometrist he's actually a psychologist so they did more studies
and they found that people who focus on the negative they are more prone to see
the negative people who focus on the positive are more prone to focus on the
positive so you can actually train your brain to
have a positive mental attitude so something like what jacksepticeye is
doing this reminder of having a positive mental attitude he's actually rewiring
his brain and how do we know this there's something called neuroplasticity
okay I did a video a long time ago about the science of hopelessness no
plasticity is backed by science what this means is the brain is constantly
changing they used to think way back in the day that by the time you were like
in your 20s or maybe even your late teens your brain was exactly the same it
was going to stay that way for the rest of your life that's not true at all no
matter what you've been through no matter how old you are no matter what
happens in the future your brain is constantly changing
alright so you you yeah you I'm talking to you you starting today you can start
training your brain to have a positive mental attitude so my suggestion to you
is is have something that reminds you okay
whether it's something like jacksepticeye's shirt that's such PMA
maybe it could be a bracelet or a wristband I'll give you the best one of
them all is a gratitude list that you write down every single day when you are
forcing your brain when you're training this muscle you will begin to see
symptoms of anxiety and depression begin to lessen now I won't say that this is
going to cure you but even if your life gets 1% better that's a lot better than
it used to be alright so that's all I got for you today I would love to know
your comments down below what are you going to do to start training your mind
to have a positive mental attitude all right let's have a discussion down below
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thanks for watching have a positive mental attitude and I'll see you next
time