Distraction is basically like time travel. Its afternoon, and you're already tired. You don't feel like working any more. So you start up an episode of your favourite show, and the next thing you know, its time for dinner. You wake up one morning, and aren't really feeling like it. You type "youtube" in your address bar, and before you know it, the day's passed. You haven't done well over the past few days, and so you're feeling guilty. You want to stop feeling bad, and so you open up Instagram. Boom. By the time you look away, its already time for bed. Before you know it, as you keep engaging in distraction after distraction, your entire life passes you by.. and you're just sat there, thinking, "Wait, where did all my time go?"

"The universe is an infinite song - Uni = One, Verse = Song" MIND BLOWN THANK YOU.

This is spot on. Being distracted is keeping everybody poor

Distraction can also be used as a way to soothe fear, which is super counterproductive and self-defeating.

To know this content is free for anybody is just amazing! Dan Koe you are becoming a modern day philospher i truly believe you are helping me find my higher self.. Thank you! One love

Dan is creating an impact in a very broad way, it's a positive sum game. Make everyone's life much better if someone starts applying these things. Thank you Dan for doing this.

I like how straightforward is your approach, no sugar coats, slapping people with reality facts... Which btw everyone needs

What a great cohesive message, to all of Dan’s watchers, you are in the right place! Love from Switzerland 🇨🇭 brothers & sisters

This is exactly what I needed to hear in this moment. There are times I really feel that physical reaction to collecting consciousness- but pushing past it is a wonderful feeling.

Love this. If everyone sought to understand, not judge, the world would be a much better place

One of the most genuine, great videos I have watched in very long. Thanks for keeping it real bro.

Thanks Dan, for putting things into perspective, i have been trying to decouple the many things that i try to do and to get into the momentum of creating content for my viewers. Its starting to come together but i think as you have said it the foundation of the content is by structuring it.

Very inspiring video Dan! The butterfly effect you are referring to was coined by Edward Lorenz, the father of Chaos theory, which states that even the smallest change in a system can trigger huge effects. Like a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil causing a Tornado in Kansas. You would love this topic. Read Chaos by Gleick for starters. This will also immerse you into fractals, objects and shapes whose parts resemble the whole, like a cauliflower or a coast line... Not to mention life itself.

You keep showing up in my feed and then I watch the whole video! Subscribed!

Your content is literally GOLD in this digital world ! Thank you for such great topics and the quality of content!!

You're a real one Dan, thank you.

Without a doubt, you are someone who like structures the thoughts i have in the last couple of years and presents them .. feels so bad for my ego but meanwhile its so empowering just to think about if i actually sit down and structure my vision and align my actions towards that vision what i can create.. what i can give and contribute, how i can also give people this present feeling of widen perspective and consciousness which for me is the best feeling .. to actually be awake.. thank you for ur gifts ! :)

I spent an hour and a half for two days with only this video, it was the first time I did it this way with one of yours, until finish it. Enjoying and learning as always with you, I will put in to practice all I can. The idea is to improve my English skills at the same time (I am mexican), But I have found some much more ... a really valuable content ! Thank you so much for being part of this journey Dan !!!

Thanks for the videos. I've watched several and they are always spot on and relate to what I'm looking for

This video is amazing. keep it up. this is the education the world needs to innovate

You just removed the confusion I was in for months. Trying to understand reality and why and what is going around me. Amazing insights. Thanks! Better than most philosophers 😅

I am really impressed with your knowledge and articulation. Your videos are really helping me go beyond my cultural training and expectations of others. I've been out doing my thing for a decade now and got really hung up on my family and culture expectations over my father's death and my mother's illness during the pandemic. I got depressed and found a little hole in the wall to sit for two years. I'm ready to get out of my shell again and your words are a wonderful lure back to my optimism of life and creation and experience. Thank you.

Straightforward and like a connected puzzle pieces

You explained the 3 stages so well! I was never able to put it into words when explaining it to people. In my case it was Science. Stage 1: Science is god, science explains everything. Feelings and emotions are only chemical connections in the brain blabla Stage 2: Rejecting science after working in the pharma industry (I'm not even sure if I'm allowed to say why, but you can imagine) and starting to question everything I ever believed and knew. Stage 3: Realising that the goal is to make spirituality and science work together and see there is useful things in both, especially if you merge them. Unfortunately, when I meet people who are in stage 1 or 2, it's hard to explain there's a stage above that without sounding condescending so I just let them get there on their own without interfering. I'm done losing my energy.

Another banger video, Dan. Well done. 🤝

Love that you're talking about this. Can hear you've been reading Ken Wilbur.

This content is gem 💎 for the right learners.

This is amazing! Just found out you have a yt channel and im so glad Im listening to this while studying algebra for my exam :)) wish me luck

I was always watching your animation videos on IG, thank god i found you here. Like the long format 🙏🏽

Your contents are all gold!!!! 🥺

I absolutely love your voice and work

Enlightening video my friend! I'm learning alot from you keep it up🙏✊

Love you sharing your wisdom Dan.

Yay! Thank you dan!

"Be Like Water" I really like this concept, it's easy to understand but you need to practice a lot to achieve it. Great talk, thanks for sharing.

Very well said. Curiosity and motion of mind is what makes a great mind. It's not important so much that it arrives a specific destination of wisdom, yet that it takes the journey and never stops. It's getting people to take that journey is the hard part. That's why in the Principium of Humanity's 2 Greatest Transgressions we talk about our biggest, personal obstacles are our negative desire and negative pride. It blocks us from connecting to that which is truly good, and it blocks us from finding absolute truth, whatever the topic may be. I don't believe you believe in absolutes, but that would be a fun conversation to have.. as I like talking about different perspectives. It's fun. A lot of your recent videos seem to be perfectly fit for what we're doing with the Gens Axiom Principium. I started out writing down principles 12 years ago, as I have studied philosophy, religion, psychology.. since I was 12-13 years old.I was reading college level at that age and now at 48, I've discovered my "notes," of more than a decade, had a body to it. I don't pretend that it's perfect. In fact, I hope to continue working on it til the day I die, never believing it will be complete anytime in the near future. But I do believe absolutes exists.. and thus, there are absolute truths. It's what gives our existence definition and defines the roads we walk on. And after 12 years of working on the Gens Axiom Principium, I'm publishing it to the world.. not expecting a fun response in the beginning from the masses.. as many known philosophers were not accepted during their time. But if one finds that they're called to toil with the understanding of our universe because of who they are... who are we to deny that call ? Love your stuff, Dan. Look forward to seeing more.

Thank you so much for your work . It's really helpful !

Your videos are simultaneously motivating and anxiety inducing for me. It's an interesting mix that makes me actually take action. No sugar coating or fake feel good bandaid solutions. 😅

You are Brilliant, Dan...

This distraction was bloody well worth it. Not trying to quip - it's the truth. I was doing something else. The title of the video distracted me. I'm thankful it did. Thank you for all you do Dan. Have a great one. 👍

All of your recent content would be usefull for me to build my YT and business. Thanks for sharing all of these

Thank you very well. Said. Thumbs up, 5-star, and getting better with each video. Keep with your craft. assume

The best video I have watched on KZfaq. If only everyone had your self-awareness.

Some idea that you bring here is related to one of Hegel's thought (that seems overly simplistic to today's reality) about Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis, regarding to be able do take into account opposite ideas to your previoust thought, in order to achieve a better understanding and idea of things (synthesis). You're bringing really profound stuff here, I am grateful for comming accross your channel!

Thank you Dan Koe, you changed my life for the better, especially with the 2 Hour Writer. Top G.

I feel so blessed to be aware of this stuff and to be co-creating this new world with the beautiful folks in this comment section.

Your channel is so refreshing and amazing! ❤

Keep uploading! Great perspective & insights This niche, if you will, needs more creators

I /DID/ enjoy this one. Thanks for the value, Dan

Beautiful, all resonate now it is to build from this pattern to serve benefit Removed all conditioning To take decisions I am willing to take responsibility for the consequences Thank you Dan

Always providing gems! Yet - even if people don't speak our language, our ESSENCE and INTENTION can be so powerful that the transference is not only felt but understood. And that alone can make a non believer, into a believer.

💯 I was just talking about this. I love your channel sm. Ty!

Here's my summary from the video: Key insights: - Digital dark ages are a time of distraction, close mindedness and cheap dopamine - Need own sense of purpose and order life in alignment with that to maintain sanity - Repressing potential leads to instant gratification with negative long-term effects - Modern distractions are anything that does not align with purpose/vision - Awareness leads to improvement and improvement leads to awareness of the next better problem to solve - Closed mindedness prevents us from seeing the bigger picture and traps us in negative thought loops - Prove yourself wrong by studying opposite perspectives - Open your mind to newer perspectives - Spreading passion through work rather than just as a means of income - Transfer consciousness into readers/viewers of content PS it was made with AI, streamlined & reordered by me for higher clarity. I hope you enjoyed it

Awesome Content Dan Koe

The way you put things into perspective pertaining to the universe, hits every time! 😮‍💨🌟

This felt like a mini course. Neat.

Love this video, works great as a distraction from doing actual stuff.

Bro what's it like knowing you are going to be in the history books? Dope content 💪🏼🔥

thank you

Niceeeee that's a lot of improvement on the audio level! Thanks!

This man is truthful.

Dropping Bombs 🤯🔥📈✅

🛑🛑✋🏽!! How TF does is this free?!?This dude Dan Koe is the thruth!! Don’t wanna mess things up for future vids so I won’t say much.. Thank you my guy! Life changing stuff!

Thank you, Dan ❤ everyday I’m getting closer to making this shit work.

Criminally underviewed video, I come back to occasionally when I'm having a low swing in the process to remember that the higher self needs me to open the mind.

It’s called the butterfly effect. Love your videos! Most motivation I’ve felt in a long time!

You're good bro.

NEW DAN KOE CONTENT !!!!

I totally didn't stop working to come watch the new video

Incredible video!

First comment! Haha glad I tapped that bell 🔔 icon

I literally just got distracted by this video hahah. Great content Dan.

🍻 “seeing your work for more than just a means of income”. 👍🏻

Wow Dan, great stuff. I'm a new sub that really appreciates your insight and production value. Another great mind I learn from is Manly P Hall, have you heard of him?

I just dumped gaming yesterday and today you uploaded this, what a timing. 😅 I do want to keep gaming in my life but i also know that it would hardly make me a living if i could ever reach that level. It's just not sustainable to try to be professional if i can't live a good ADULT responsible life, while grinding. . Might be time to find other hobbies like archery or something. We have the backyard to make a little mobile setup and it's probably more refreshing to the mind than gaming.

Mind open. ❤

In the “be like water” chapter where he listed the stages I swear I got mind f#*^. Because that’s exactly my thoughts!

16:55 EXACTLY💯

It's nice to hear someone else see the "I am God" perspective. We are all God's. We are all creators. It's amazing the power we all hold and squander daily.

One of the things I am the most greatfull for having had when I was a Buddhist Monk was the lack of distractions. It's dificult to understand how much we are distracted by these things in todays society. Both digital, social and physical distractions are minimized and it's just so much easier to focus on one thing which for me when I was a monk was meditating. I remember how long it took for me to stop singing in my mind whenever I was sitting down since I used to sing in musicals and act. Also the idea of letting go of making some kind of carrer or having a use for everything I experienced instead of just being present and experiencing reality as it is now. Great video as always Dan, thank you for sharing!

Totally agree that we need expectations. I remind myself often that I have a future. It sets me up to make decisions that are good for me long-term instead of choosing temporary fixes and distractions to escape.

I am a Muslim and well l was starting to loss faith due the, actions of other Muslims. This caused a very uncomfortable physical reaction, and while that happened l remembered a religious lesson l learned as a child that you should question everything especially your own religion. I remember feeling very confused isn’t it better to follow the religion to the t, anyhow long story short l ended up doing what you suggested and honestly l resolved that my religion makes a lot of sense. Now my reasoning is that you have solutions for your past present and future, this alone is valuable but more than that l would rather believe in the existence of god and be wrong than not believe and be wrong. This was a very valuable video as it explored the many paths the mind can take.

People like to knock Naval but he was waxing on this 3-4 years ago. He’s ahead of the game on many things. The modern struggle is not plunging yourself into the abyss with everyone else

Ive just thought of this a couple weeks ago. There are so many distractions. Social media, netflix, video games, etc. Get rid of them all.

What do you use to film your videos, particularly the lens and camera body? I'll be happy if you let me know. Fire content as usual.

Love this. I do have a question though. If we are trying to get into the mind of our audience and create for them, then aren't we creating more distraction economy as that is what our culture is hooked on? How do you create for the modern consumer without creating more distractions for people to get stuck in.

Hey Dan. You should do a video about Chat GPT and how its going to effect creators and online business.

17:21 so good

Another banger.

Wow this was very relevant for me today. I started writing content to supplement my videos and immediately got trolled. Closed minds are everywhere! 😎👍

"Time is fucking important"

The surfer looking dude with the Adidas hoodie is my favourite KZfaqr. 🤩

I certainly have been a victim of my own need for self-righteousness on the comment threads throughout most of my twenties. The problem I find is that even if you are an open-minded person the comments are just not the place to have that discussion, because the comments inherently are inviting in the opinions of the closed-minded. Even if a person crafts a well-thought-out perspective driven argument that addresses the other person's perspective and then tries to breakdown understand it or offer an alternative it doesn't go anywhere 95% of the time because the people you're talking to are themselves just trying to win an argument not have a conversation. I have found engaging online has just been detrimental to my mental health and a huge time waste when instead I could you know have a discussion with my uncle who politically disagrees with me in person and I can have a far better breakthrough with him and even understand him better at the end then if I tried to comment online to a stranger. I used to have a job where I would go door-to-door raising money for a human rights organization so my entire job was literally to get into little debates at every door to varying extents and I always found I was very successful not because I was trying to prove them wrong and me right but because I was trying to find out more about who they were so I can understand their values and so I could tie their values into what I was doing. It was all about finding common ground that was my entire approach in fact people at the office called me the Trump whisperer because I got over 25 self-confessed Republican voters to join a monthly subscription to help pay for immigration lawyers for children in detention centers. It was only able to do this because I listened more than I talked and I questioned more than I stated. In doing so I actually found that almost all of those people I talked to did care deep down but had phrased certain issues in a political dogmatic way as to disconnect with their own values and all it took was finding a way to verbally bridge that gap. While it is important to stand up for what you believe in there is a time and a place and there was also an approach and I always find that some element of the Socratic method with a genuine interest in understanding the person you're communicating with is vital if you are ever going to get them to understand your perspective either.

MURR 😆😆 advice to get your vocals to a higher volume -> Isotope Ozone 10

22:27 I think you are basically referring to theory of mind here, and its still undecided if animals can have it or not

Hey Dan! Great fan, I have a question, I work do digital marketing for a company so I need to use social media at all times, how to avoid it?

Great video, as always. I appreciate your content. Ironically, describing the Christian God as "a man in the sky" is very much close-minded

I’ve actually taken a stoic approach to opinions, that I have the right to no opinion. Mainly because arguing is a waste of energy/time better spent on my vision.

I like how you're talking about our irrational tendencies as human beings. Your content is getting better and better! Thanks for this man. 🙏

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