i've been stuck in the exact same loop
that false sense of confidence doing
things that are unimportant yet still
getting recognition for it and it is so
detrimental you have no idea
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welcome back to the channel everybody my
name's artie and this is the moving
average the week has come to an end and
you guys know what time it is let's get
into focus fridays if you guys are
unfamiliar with the show every friday i
like to drop a little bit of motivation
and inspiration for you to help you
progress in your life there are many
things in life that give you a false
sense of achievement and a false sense
of accomplishment i'm going to discuss
two in this video that pertain to me and
people in my age group and then a third
one that is in the up and coming
generation the first one that i want to
talk about is college and higher
education
everybody your parents your friends
everybody pushes this need for higher
education you need a college degree to
get a good job to get you know a good
salary all of these things you get so
immersed in college and
academia
that unfortunately is toxic in your life
the ability for a human being to absorb
information and regurgitate it on a
piece of paper that's known as a test to
prove your ability to i don't know
memorize is not proof that you are more
intelligent it is proof that you can
follow the rules and with this with you
know finishing middle school finishing
high school going to college getting
your bachelor's degree all of these
things are giving you a reward at the
end of it a diploma that diploma gave
you a sense of achievement and
accomplishment all of that hard work
had a payoff at the end it is your treat
it is your reward when you make a puppy
sit you give him a treat he will do it
again society is conditioning us to
follow the rules and if you follow the
rules
you will get your treat the issue with
this is is that we get addicted to the
treat so after you get your bachelor's
degree or even before if you get your
associate degree you want to continue to
get that treat because you're like cool
i know the structure i'm good at it i
want my next reward so what's the next
step after a bachelor's degree you go
and get your master's degree after
you've gotten your diploma for that
you've gotten your treat you think hmm
i've finished school and yet i'm still
struggling to find a job i'm not sure if
this is the right career path and you
start talking yourself out of actually
having action and doing in your life so
what you revert back to is the old
system of work and reward the school and
the treat the diploma and then you go
back and you get your doctorate degree
once you've gone through the years and
hard work and painstaking agony of
getting your doctorate you get that
treat again and you have that sense of
accomplishment but you don't realize
that you've literally wasted so much
time in your life at that point you have
your doctorate right
and
society tells you that you should be
able to get the best paying jobs of all
time but what if that's not even the
career path you actually are interested
anymore thinking about it makes you want
to vomit you don't want to work for
somebody else what what's the
alternative what's the one thing that
you know better than anything else it's
school because you've spent your entire
life doing it and so the default for
most people to get their doctorate
degree is to become a teacher at an
institution or a college that you just
spent the last 10 years at this is why
they say those who can do and those who
cannot
teach this is my issue with college and
higher education in general
if i'm learning about the financial
industry from my finance professor why
is he only making 37 000 a year as a
teacher versus actually like i don't
know working for jp morgan i always look
at who i'm learning from and why they
aren't doing it if it's so good and all
it is is that false sense of
accomplishment keeping you from doing
they are the chains the handcuffs that
keep society locked down and for you to
have the unlock that happened to me
years ago that's what helps you start to
think outside of the box being able to
develop your own personality and your
own ambition and your own drive to do
certain things even if society and your
friends say this isn't the norm why are
you wasting your time with that i can
promise you right now they're 100 wrong
i'm going to take a famous youtuber for
example mr beast you guys have probably
heard of him
he spent a good i don't know from age 13
to 19 making videos with very little
results for the amount of work that he
was putting into it but because he was
thinking outside of the box and doing
something that he actually wanted to do
like you've seen his videos you've seen
how passionate he is about youtube but a
lot of people along the way are asking
well when are you going to go to college
what are you going to do with your life
he said i want to make youtube videos
that's all i ever want to do that's all
i ever wanted to do because he was so
committed to it he was so committed to
thinking outside of the box because it's
what made him happy society is still
trying to push him down to fit him into
that social norm box that go to college
box that become a lawyer you know doctor
whatever that box keeps you trapped from
actually exploring and doing things that
you know other humans haven't done or
has a much higher financial potential so
not only are people you know in my age
group or a little bit younger getting
stuffed into these social norm boxes
which keep them handcuffed they are also
in the united states accumulating
massive and i mean massive amounts of
student loan debt so you're not getting
these rewards for all of this education
that you're doing you are paying for it
to get a diploma the system is so broken
that you cannot even file bankruptcy to
get out of student loan debt it is
unavoidable you have to pay that off you
cannot bankrupt out of it and a side
note i genuinely believe that the amount
of student loan debt that is floating
around right now with the lack of jobs
is going to create a massive financial
crisis
in the near future that's a topic for
another video now the next and most
common
false sense of accomplishment or
achievement that most people are
addicted to is video games i was
completely and utterly obsessed with
world of warcraft i am a nerd at heart
and i own it i started out at level one
then i got to level 10 then i got a
riding mount then i could fly then i got
awesome armor then i was raiding in 10
and 25 man raids and i had the most epic
gear and i had all of the achievements
you know and every week i would spend
hundreds of hours in this world
gaining these achievements and having
this false sense of accomplishment that
made me feel better
because at the core of it i was
unsatisfied with my life and you could
see it in my old pictures of me
completely ungroomed overweight obese
unhealthy sad depressed with anxiety yet
that breakaway from that normal world
that depressing world
into the world of video games where i
was a wizard or a warrior where i had
all of the achievements i had tons of
money that world was my breakaway
because my actual existence was
dissatisfying what is the point of all
of this that i'm telling you right now
in order to make dramatic change in your
life in order to get you to the place
where you want to be
you have to remove all of those
exterior false sense of achievements you
have to achieve in real life you have to
actually have things that you are proud
of you doing whether it is you
learning a new language whether it is
you learning how to backflip on you know
a bicycle whether it is you being
financially independent through creating
your own small business
coffee shop small deli it does not
matter but you need actual real life
sense of accomplishment and the only way
that that happens is if you put away the
silly things like video games and i hate
to say this because it's it's got it
carries such a negative connotation
globally with parents with the people
that brought us up
college in my opinion is a complete and
utter waste of money and time you could
be doing and self-educating and growing
yourself
much more than you could with a college
degree every job i took after college
was an entry level job which i did not
need a degree for so i could have
started four or five years earlier at
that entry level job and had more
success in the same amount of time
without the 126 000 of student loan debt
this takes a commitment from you this
takes a commitment to doing things in
real life every single day those baby
steps that are going to get you to that
level of real life achievement and once
you get to that level you look for the
next achievement and you always have a
road map to continue progressing in your
life because as you guys know
from my chart that there is a level of
happiness versus the level of success
and which trajectory you're taking in
your life whether it's downwards or
whether it's upwards now the new and
up-and-coming trend to keep society in
their handcuffs
is affecting people
at a younger age and it absolutely
repulses me that they're starting people
so young now when i was a kid you know
we'd have soccer matches at school or
whatever baseball games football games
and there was a winner and then there
was a loser the loser got nothing they
got the l
and then they had to get better it
pushed them to get better the winner
went on to challenge the other teams to
try to prove who is the best and along
the way they either got the win or the l
nowadays kids from both sides
get the w
because there is no winner and loser
there is no point structure they are
giving this false sense of achievement
because they participated it is
ridiculous to think that someone can get
better when everyone is equal life is a
competition we've always had competition
it pushes the limits of what humans
think that they're capable of and one of
the best examples i can put to you
is
the olympics the olympics is a globally
known competition between the best
athletes in the entire world and at one
point humans thought it was physically
impossible to run a mile in four minutes
but because of the spirit of competition
because of the progression that you get
competing against other people
that four minute mile barrier was broken
once that happened within the next year
five other people broke the four minute
mile as well because at that point they
knew it was possible which leads me into
the conclusion of this video
if you are not in competition with
anyone around you you should be in
competition with yourself
how can you beat the one week ago
version of you how can you beat last
year's version of you how can you get to
that four minute mile for yourself hard
work dedication and tracking it whether
it's before and after pictures with
weight loss whether it is a higher
balance in your bank account whatever
the thing might be that you can track to
become better to improve to get those
real life achievements you need to start
doing it today i really hope this video
helped some of you guys realize
where you're spending your time and
motivate yourself whether you're doing
it for yourself whether you're doing it
for your family and loved ones whether
you're doing it to change the world and
really make an impact in society whether
you know you want to be a philanthropist
or a great scientist like i'm not
bashing college because i know that
there's requirements for some
you know professions in life
scientists marine biologists doctors
lawyers like those people exist and
college is great for those people and i
know that video games you know there's
gamers out there that make millions of
dollars live streaming and you need to
think like
you know is this the right path for you
for example for me video games was that
false sense of accomplishment i liked it
i wasn't going to be a professional
gamer because quite frankly i sucked you
have to think
the most important asset in life is time
it is finite everybody on earth has an
expiration date
so i want you guys to really sit back
and evaluate what you're doing with your
time
and where you want to get
in the time that you have left
here my goal with these friday videos is
to help as many people as humanly
possible just to get better to you know
give them that spark in life so
if there's somebody that you know that
needs to watch this video i'd appreciate
it if you shared it with them if you
enjoyed this video i'd appreciate a
thumbs up and if you haven't heard my
story yet check out this video right
here i hope you guys have an amazing
weekend take time re-evaluate and come
back monday
really strong