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so the other day i accidentally went to
the gym without my earphones which if
you go to the gym you know how much of a
disaster that can be i did my entire
workout without watching youtube videos
listening to music or listening to
podcasts literally all i could do was
sit there and think about myself my
future my relationships my to-do list
everything that i needed to get done
completely opened my eyes so i'm
quitting youtube let's talk about it
what is up guys karma medic here and
welcome back to another dose alright so
let's address the elephant in the room
the title of this video is true but
probably not in the way that you're
thinking i'm not quitting making youtube
videos but i am quitting youtube
consumption for 30 days i'm having a
youtube detox so leaving my earphones at
home was a moment of realization for me
i haven't reflected on my life or myself
in honestly what feels like years i've
been filling all of the time that i
don't already have scheduled for medical
school work or chilling with friends
with just consuming content any kind of
content my attention span is constantly
filmed with music or videos or podcasts
which means that i'm permanently
distracted with no space in my mind left
to think i was actually sitting down
with a friend on this balcony over here
the other week and i was telling him how
excited i was that i was starting to
build a team around this youtube channel
and that i would have helped and it
would free up some of my time every
single week so that i could go on to
think about new video ideas and film
even more videos crazier videos that
take way more time and effort and you
know i was gonna be excited with all
this free time he looked at me and he
said yeah that's great but you could
also use all this free time to just
relax and chill out and that is where it
hit me like a train i realized
that the idea of just chilling or just
relaxing isn't even on my list of
possible things to do with whatever free
time that i have i just move on to the
next thing on my to-do list or i create
some new work for myself so i can
improve the channel even more or do even
more in my life and i think this
constant state of just being on the go
and getting things done has stopped me
from being able to just stop for a
second be in the moment and reflect on
myself and on my life something about
this needs to change because a this is
not who i want to be i want to be
someone who thinks deeply about what
they do and how they feel and b
continuing to do this for a long time
just can't be healthy
so basically i spend way too much time
watching youtube you know whether i'm
sitting on the toilet cooking a meal
here in the kitchen having a shower
every single night walking to and from
the train when i'm on the bus or i'm on
the tube it never stops i'm always doing
something and i'm always distracted i'm
just non-stop consuming content and
between medical school and this youtube
channel my time is already quite
stretched and then on top of that during
all these little breaks that i have in
between i find myself turning on a
podcast or watching another youtube
video and i know for a fact that i could
be spending that time in a much more
fulfilling way than just mindlessly
watching content just um
ignore the kitchen sink for a second now
i don't know about you guys but i can
only do one of these things at a time i
can either be watching a youtube video
or i can be thinking about my life and
usually if i remember that there's
something important that i need to do
i'll pause the video that i'm watching
and then deal with it add it to my to-do
list make a phone call you know message
someone whatever it is but i can be
doing those two things at the same time
now some of you watching might be
thinking that there's nothing wrong with
what i'm doing and it might be the way
that you or other people consume content
and you know that's perfectly fine
everyone has their own way of doing
things but just for me personally i
think i'm trying to become a more
reflective person and i'm trying to
actually think about why i do the things
that i do and how they make me feel
which is something that throughout my
whole life i have consistently ignored
and pushed out of my head so this is
kind of a huge revelation for me and
something that i think i should think
about more honestly sometimes i'm just
talking to my friends and they're
recounting an event or telling me about
something that happened and they're
walking me through their line of
reasoning of why something happened and
how it made them feel and why it made
them feel a certain way and i'll be
listening to them just thinking to
myself that i can't relate at all to
this process of thinking that you're
going through i've just never thought
about events in my life in that way
things just happen and if it's good then
it's good and if it's bad then it's bad
and i don't really think about it much
more after that so one way that i think
i can be a more introspective person
someone who's more in tune with their
feelings and their emotions and my own
thinking is by quitting youtube
consumption for 30 days and seeing what
i learned from it i think it's actually
gonna force me to sit down and think
about myself and it may seem exaggerated
or like i'm going from zero to a hundred
which would be fair criticism of what
i'm doing but honestly if you've seen
this channel and you followed me for a
while then you know that's how i am so
i'm gonna put my all into being this
better version of myself and so to do
all of this and achieve my goals in
those situations where i should actually
just be thinking and taking a moment to
be with myself i'm gonna do exactly that
no more youtube videos when i'm cooking
when i'm showering when i'm walking
around my flat
no more if i want to sit down and watch
a specific youtube video then i'm still
gonna do that i don't see anything wrong
with that i just don't want to be
watching youtube videos mindlessly
whilst doing other activities not being
present in the moment or being present
actually watching the video itself so
believe it or not i have a fairly short
attention span so at first i'm certain
that i'm gonna be so bored i'm gonna be
itching to reach for my phone and throw
on literally anything just to occupy my
time and keep myself busy but the more
that i force myself not to do that then
the more i'm gonna become comfortable of
being with my own thoughts which is the
ultimate goal here like with anything
else any new habit you build there's
always that kind of awkward phase at the
beginning where you try to fit it into
your life which can be difficult and
then you know the more and more you do
it the easier it becomes you just have
to push yourself through that really
difficult part at the beginning every
time that i feel that need to reach for
my phone i'm gonna try and take that as
a reminder to spend that time thinking
and being by myself in the moment at the
end of each week i'll reflect on how
i've been feeling from doing this and
i'll take some of my friends much needed
advice i'll take a little bit of that
extra free time i'm hoping that making
this kind of conscious higher level
decision right now will lead to me being
more of the person that i want to be in
the future and so that is it guys that
is why i'm quitting youtube for 30 days
i hope you guys enjoyed this video and
like this kind of more open and honest
type of video do let me know if you've
ever thought about doing something like
this yourself or if you're currently
doing it i read all of the comments so
please do feel free to leave me a
comment and i'll respond to as many as i
can and that's it i'll see you in the
next one peace
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