improvement pill here today i want to give you a nofap tip that i haven't really seen elsewhere but
it's something that i've been experimenting with myself i'll also be giving you an additional tip
at the end of this video so make sure you watch till the very end now for the first tip let me
explain to you how it works basically instead of focusing on maintaining a streak what if you try
to focus on the percentage of time that you've succeeded instead of aiming for 100 perfection
what if you simply aimed for 95 plus the reason why i think this might be better is because
we humans are simply not perfect unexpected things come up life likes to throw curveballs,
sh* happens we mess up from time to time but if you messed up for just one day honestly how
much progress have you really lost if you've been working out for three months and you miss one day
does that mean that you've lost all the gains that you've made no it really doesn't you lost
a bit of progress sure but in the big scheme of things nothing much has changed you've still been
hitting the gym for 3 months which is great the same sort of thinking can be applied to nofap
let's say you're someone who used to jerk off every day and you decide to embark on the nofap
journey you haven't fapped for weeks but then one day something happens and you slip up just once
how much progress have you really lost i would say not much and that in the big scheme of things
you've actually managed to reduce the amount of times you fap significantly you should be
feeling happy and proud not guilty and sad one of the biggest problems that i've noticed when
people focus on streaks is the especially harsh downward spiral that it often leads people down
if they do slip up you feel as if you've lost all the progress you've made so far and that
you might as well keep doing it because why not there's nothing else to lose there's no 10-day
30-day 60-day streak that you have to defend but the truth of the matter is oftentimes that's where
the most damage is done slipping up once might not make much of a difference but going on a fap
marathon and doing it multiple times a day for a week straight definitely causes you to lose a lot
if not all of the progress you've made so far which is why i think it could be helpful to
have a system in place to prevent the binging let me explain to you how this would work let's say
you've been staying clean for nine days and on day 10 you slip up if we look at this from the typical
streak point of view you've already failed but if we switch to a percentage way of keeping track
missing one day out of ten only means that you've dropped from a hundred percent to ninety percent
yes it still stings a bit but it doesn't feel nearly as bad as going from a hundred percent
straight down to zero which is what essentially happens when you focus on maintaining a perfect
streak and the great thing about the percentage based mindset is that if you pull yourself back
together and avoid fapping for the next five days you'll rise back to a ninety three percent you
actually have a chance to recover from the fall you have an incentive to get up quickly and try
again with a percentage based system every time you slip up you can see yourself losing more
progress but at the same time you're being given a chance to recover with a streak system you become
obsessed with all or nothing with a percentage based system you understand that mistakes happen
and when they do you have a reason to get back up to defend the progress you've made so far
now it's important to note that in order for a percentage based system to work you cannot reset
your percentage whenever you want you have to accept the days you've messed up or else you will
just binge and reset it whenever like what tends to happen when you try to go for a perfect streak
i recommend resetting just once a year on a memorable day like new year's or your birthday now
i know some of you might be thinking this won't work for me i'm extremely addicted i cannot let
myself slip up even once and to that i would say yes this is not a cure-all it's not going to work
for everyone but it is another way of approaching nofap i think that this strategy is something
that's worth considering especially if you are prone to binging after messing up just once
and if it doesn't work no problem you can always go back to the old strategy and aim
for a perfect streak now some of you might also be thinking well what about the benefits
don't you lose them all if you don't maintain a perfect streak well to be honest with you
i don't have a perfect streak i do slip up here and there it usually happens when i party
a bit too hard but overall i do have a 95 plus success rate for this year and i feel great i'm
still getting all of the benefits the energy the confidence the productivity it's all still there
don't get me wrong i'm trying my best to keep this number as high as possible every year
but i honestly don't feel bad at all if i do happen to slip up from time to time i feel like
a decent amount of negative effects that come from fapping actually stem from the negative self-talk
and guilt that comes when we do happen to slip up yes watching porn messes with your brain you
should avoid that as much as possible but i think the negative self-talk that comes from slipping up
can be just as bad the second tip i have for you today addresses this but before i do that here's a
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the topic at hand the second tip i have for you is something that i've also been experimenting with
you might have noticed it throughout the video and it's the fact that i don't use the word
relapse i prefer to use something like slipping or falling and that's because i believe that words
have power a word like relapse makes me think of a heroin addict in some dark room passed out with
a needle in his hand which only made me feel worse about myself every time i would use it to describe
having jerked off these strong negative emotions that came from this image only made me want to fap
even more every time i failed when i use a more playful word like slipping up i imagine some guy
in a restaurant slipping on the wet floor because he didn't notice the wet floor sign
this entire scene to me is actually kind of funny like ah he should have been more aware as compared
to the scene of the heroin addict which is just kind of sad you can even take this further by
using a truly ridiculous word like another phrase that i've been using i made an oopsie which is
just so silly that i can't help but chuckle when i realized i've messed up it makes me feel like
yeah i shouldn't have done that but in the grand scheme of things it's just an oopsie it's not the
end of the world so get back up and focus i think it's important to not obsess about nofap so much
the people who truly succeed are the ones that can move on with their life and not think about
nofap every single day sure they might slip up from time to time but it's no big deal for them
they stand back up make a mental note that they should stop and continue on with the
rest of their life now both of these tips are things that i've only been experimenting with
with great success i hope some of you try them out and if you do please let me know your results
in the comments down below hope you found this video helpful and besides that guys stay tuned