listen even if you're not a gamer or you're not into the game fortnight TSM
Daequan is this very very very popular professional gamer he has this life
philosophy about that W key that I want to talk about today because I truly
believe that it is extremely beneficial to anybody struggling with anxiety or
depression or just hitting a rough patch in their life so let's talk about
everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution if you are new to my channel my channel is all about
helping you out with your mental health whether it's anxiety depression or PTSD
or dealing with loved ones or friends and just navigating through life like
make sure you subscribe and hit that notification valve because I do a ton of
videos to help you out with your mental health some of my recent videos have
been on some controversies and things like that
and trying to help you all like learn lessons from this to improve your mental
health I've been meaning to make this video about day one ever since I saw the
TSM video over on their channel I'll link it in the description below and
it's called meet the TSM Daequan so I'm a four-player some great bonding time my
son and I have is when we play fortnight together it's awesome i watch streamers
and Daquan is one of my favorite I don't know much about the guy but he's
absolutely hilarious for watch but anyways I like the TSM does this by the
way it's really cool cuz I'll link up in a info card if any of you are interested
I used to be in the professional eSports career industry write that out here my
story go ahead and watch but I like how TSM is like letting us get to know their
players like this anyways it's so cool like man there's so much news
they're just about like gaming this gaming that is bad for kids there's some
controversy like last week now parents paying people to coach their kids and
fortnight and by the way let me tell you this over ten years ago people were
paying me to coach them in Counter Strike this isn't something new besides
that like gaming is a great thing and I think it's beautiful especially like
growing up with video games like it's it's beautiful that kids can do
something that they love and actually like do it if they want to like for for
their career like it's amazing and the reason I say yeah can some of you're
like yeah but how many are really going to become pros like I look at it in the
same way you were looking at like you know hockey or football or basketball
like the thing about gaming is is like you don't need certain physical
attributes to do it so it's much more realistic but anyways anyways getting
back to the point of this video Daquan he has this like W crew and like in the
TSM Daquan video you talked about how this is life philosophy and I really
think it's beneficial so let's watch this clip and then we'll come back and
we'll discuss that's the whole thing thing about like people you know how I
have like my W gang about the W key and how it's just like the W key moves you
forward in a video game like for example you press W on a keyboard and move your
character forward and fortnight and my W key is pretty much just like no matter
what it is in life whatever you're going through you can press that W key you can
get out of that situation you know the worst thing that you can do when you're
sad or depressed or going through something is just to be alone you know
just to not do anything just to sit in your room and do this or do that you
know you really want to force yourself to move towards positivity there's some
really really good role models out there who are in the streaming community like
really good role models so if their parent out there watching these
streamers like like how often do you hear about these huge controversies with
gamers like these big streamers from fort night like you don't really hear it
that much and that's like that's really cool because you hear drama about
everybody else every five seconds so that's one thing
anyways I want to talk about this because yes yes yes yes
like like for those of you who don't know and they can't explain this like
the W key moves you forward okay you got WASD forward backwards left right right
always just be pushing be aggressive and stuff so I heard this I'm like yeah man
true that so like I want you guys to look at this and just think about moving
forward in your life every single day every single day do something that moves
you forward alright so for me personally for me personally I wake up every day
every day with one goal just one goal just one all right every day I want to
be a little bit better person than I was the day before that's it I don't put
this huge expectation on myself so when we're talking about you moving forward
and doing something to improve your life improve your mental health we're not
talking about these massive leaps like Oh become a business owner tomorrow
become a millionaire tomorrow become this tomorrow no no she's tiny baby
steps so like for me it's just like okay today how do I be a better father today
than I was yesterday how do I be a better boyfriend today than I was
yesterday how do I be a better son today than I was yesterday how do I be a
better employee today than I was yesterday how do I be a better youtuber
two days than I was yesterday all these things like whatever it is I just try to
look at one thing okay what can what something I can improve on today alright
and this is constantly moving me forward and like for all of you when I talk
about these baby steps like you got to understand like even though you're not
making these huge strides like little by little if you're doing this once a day
every single day you you get this kind of equity built up and eventually you're
just people start to notice people start to notice you're becoming a better
person you're becoming in a better place so for you here's my suggestion here's
my suggestion to you set up small goals to accomplish every single day and
here's why science has proven okay that setting
specific goals and accomplishing them increases the production of
neurotransmitters in your brain neurotransmitters like serotonin and
dopamine these are the things that make you happy this is a
natural way to make you happy so setup very small goals I'll list some examples
all right so every day say one nice thing about yourself every day write
down five things that you're grateful for every day call one person and ask
them how they're doing not to call them and complain about your problems but
simply to ask him how they're doing like pick from any of these any of these
things will help and that could be your goal okay so if you call that one person
a day and ask them how they're doing it is guaranteed that you will feel better
afterwards just by asking them how they're doing all right say positive
affirmations do something for yourself gratitude list I've talked about
gratitude list of million times here's another goal and I'm gonna
challenge you all to do this and I want you to come back to this video and let
me know if you did it okay meditate for 10 minutes a day if you could do that
goal I will just be oh it won't make me so so so happy and here's why I just
read an article today with holding down below Yale y'all ever heard about this
place called Yale it's a place where really smart people are Yale just
released a study that people meditating for 10 minutes a day improve their
cognitive functions and the beauty of this is it is not experienced meditators
so we're talking just random people they took random people and just had them do
guided meditations for 10 minutes a day they hooked them up to brain scanners
and they saw improvements in their cognitive functions now you see Chris
what exactly are cognitive functions well I'm glad you asked cognitive
functions come from a part of your brain right here in the front called the
prefrontal cortex so what separates us from the animals we're pretty smart
people but the poem is a lot of us don't access this part of the brain as much as
we should 10 minutes of meditation a day
strengthens it think about it like doing a bicep curl for the prefrontal cortex
but here's a list of some of the things that the prefrontal cortex does impulse
control alright emotional regulation okay fear
modulation attunement how you feel connected to other people here's a great
one logical decision making so for example if you have poor
impulse control and poor emotional regulation then you're probably not
going to be that great illogical decision-making
all right so meditate for 10 minutes days as your goal all right but anyways
I just want to make this video and and just talk about some positive stuff out
there some things that you can do to just keep hitting that W key of life and
moving forward even if it's hard even if it's challenging like I promise you just
make baby steps and things will get better all right let's do this let's
start a conversation below and let's let's let's talk about something that
you're gonna try to do for the next week the one thing a day that you're going to
do to keep moving forward all right let's hear it down in the comments below
and let's talk alright and support each other I love that kind of stuff so much
but that's all I got for you today so if you like this video please give it a
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