- [Narrator] Both of its wings have transparent windows.
- Crystal duck.
(audience laughing)
- Open the Southern border.
(voices overlapping)
- Care about now more coronavirus cases
than any single country in the world.
(voices rapidly overlapping)
- NFTs are.
(rapid gunfire)
(voices chaotically overlapping)
- The leak is not our main concern, is it?
- [Joey] I feel like I wanna jump out of my own skin.
- I just
- [Joey] That's the type of thought
that runs through my brain
when I feel overloaded, overstimulated,
when I'm jacked in.
Keeping up with every little thing that's going on
in the world, it's like a pressure,
a tension.
- No, no, no, no.
- [Joey] Caving in my skull.
- That's good, just keep rubbing your head.
- I nurse on the input, like a newborn.
It's the first thing I reach for when I wake,
the last thing I look at before I sleep.
And yeah, I know it's not good.
I'd rather be doing something else, but I can't help
but feel that if I let it go, I'll miss something.
I'll feel disconnected, alone.
But the pressure builds.
This extension of myself.
It revs my mind up and it doesn't stop.
It's like I'm looking for something.
(birds chirping)
One thing that I've started to notice
is that whenever I cut myself off from the feed,
when I choose to be alone, when I seek stillness,
I find it.
And this feeling I was running from
was what I was searching for.
Life is often exactly as simple as we need it to be.
There's nothing complicated about a flowing stream,
a crackling fire, a cloudy day.
Unless of course we make it that way.
We can always analyze life, cerebralize it,
theorize about it if we need to.
But how often do we need to?
Are things not also meant to be experienced
for what they are, as they are?
Because, obviously thinking about things
and analyzing reality helps us understand it.
But when we live in our heads, it distorts reality.
We start looking with our minds instead of our eyes.
The mountains don't care what we think of them.
(wind howling)
(raindrops tapping)
There's a quote by GK Chesterton
that's always stuck with me, goes like this.
"It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts
"have any relation to reality at all.
"If you're merely a skeptic,
"you must sooner or later ask yourself the question.
"Why should anything go right,
"even observation and deduction?
"Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic.
"They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape."
I always thought this quote was pretty funny
and it does a great job of reminding us that what happens
inside our brains may not be as sophisticated
as we probably think.
We tend to celebrate the human mind
as the pinnacle of intelligence.
Yet, when we spend too much time in there,
we become anxious and isolated.
Why is that?
Why is it that the most common piece of advice
that you might hear for someone who's socially anxious,
needlessly vengeful, or compulsively conspiratorial
is get outta your head.
It's like we all instinctively know
that there's a disconnect between reality itself
and our interpretation of it.
And when we spend too much time untethered from the world
as it is, and instead filter our experiences
through references and distortions, isn't it obvious
that the resulting effect is disorientation?
Is it not obvious that when we plug ourselves
into sources that profit off stirring up fear and dread
within us, that we would feel more worried and dreadful.
I always find it hilarious.
It'll be a beautiful day outside, the most peaceful,
divine reality before us
but we'll be on YouTube or Twitter or Reddit.
and there'll be some world event that usually
has nothing to do with us
and we'll go, that's terrible.
Man, the world is (beep) up.
And then we look out the window at the glorious sun
piercing through the clouds over a rolling landscape
and instead of wonder, or awe, or gratitude,
we think, would I survive a nuclear winter?
I'll leave you guys with a quote.
Marcus Aurelius said that if you're distressed
by anything external, the pain is not due
to the thing itself but to your estimate of it
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Yeah, I'm feeling really good guys.
Honestly, I feel like there's a one-to-one relationship
between my mental health and the amount of time I spend
on social media or just like in front of any kind of screen
for any reason whatsoever.
It always pays off to just spend time away
from my computer, from my phone.
And recently I've been going to the gym way more often.
I've been spending time outside and I've really started
to just nail simple daily habits
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