It's really refreshing to hear the word "trigger" outside the context of a meme again.

oh the irony of me being here

That moment you realise watching novel KZfaq videos one after another is your reward and you realise you're addicted to this and are very unproductive and very lazy, FUCK MY LIFE!

watching this is so ironic

Does anyone else keep coming back to these videos and finding that they can relate them to more and more experiences each time? The more I come back the more I feel like everything is starting to make so much more sense

got rid of facebook hook and now im getting hooked to youtube. FML. 😢😢

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"Sometimes I even wonder if I hit average performance." This described my life perfectly

That spike in dopamine mentioned when you don't know when the next reward will occur is mentioned often in psychology, but one example I remember in particular had to do with doing things for a significant other. When things are always done methodically versus somewhat randomly, the reaction received each time the reward is given is greater than when the reward is given over a strict schedule. That is, if you give your girlfriend or wife flowers on the first of February versus the 14th, the reaction and emotions she will experience will be higher and different than when she would otherwise be expecting them. If you then give them on valentines day and the week after, you'll likely also manage to elicit a similar response on the 21st, but not on the 14th. This has to do with expectation and exceeding what is expected in a random way. If your girlfriend gets flowers from you every Friday, the dopamine response will taper off over time. This is why in management, when it comes to rewards, it makes more sense to have some level of randomness to encourage your employees rather than only a reward at certain time (like the end of the month or quarter). A random, unannounced bonus has better effects than a scheduled one in many cases. Thus, if you have an unannounced competition for say, call performance, you will pique interests in more people on any given day versus on just a day where that competition is mentioned. Silent competitions on random days once, twice, or sometimes not at all during given months work wonders.

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i dont know about any researches but i can clearly say out of my own experience : this continuous clicking for novelty really can cause addiction ! i for me, this got really bad when i moved into the NEWS sphere, some effects were that i started understanding politics and economics better and better since i combined this with heavy books, but catching yourself opening dozens of news sites truly HOPING that somewhere a bomb went off by terrorists is really strange ! I mean, its not that i wished someone some harm, but i caught myself so ofter just searching for this adrenaline. This recent Turkey coup 2 months ago, i was watching it with such a hipe in the night as if it were a final football cup game or sth ! Holy shit

im only watching this because im addicted to the internet

It's funny how I watched this because I was bored and avoiding productivity... Now I just feel guilty.. Which is a trigger for more internet browsing.. Damn, that's deep. Good video man.

Wow, very well done and informative video - definitely makes me think about how I am spending my time on the Internet these days. Looking forward to more from you.

All of your videos are inspiring and I'm really enjoying them. Just deleted the Facebook app off my phone.

Internet addiction was preceded by television addiction. They're similar.

This guy has become my favorite KZfaqr!!! I'm hooked!

After a day spent on Reddit and refreshing social media pages this really hit home. I should have been completing my research project but I sat on the internet all day instead. It's crazy how behavior and your associations to that behavior can change how you think. Very well done You got a sub here!

Reading comments is my addiction : Reddit, youtube, Facebook, i can't stop.

I've seen most of your videos and I have to say, I really appreciate the thought, research, citing sources and supported/proven advice you give. Keep up the good work, looking forward to more useful videos from you.

Amazingly good videos you are making! Thanks for all the work! I'm looking forward to seeing more from you!

Thank you, this made me reflect on my own actions and on I've been hurting myself and my productivity.

Amazing video man! I've gradually decreased my internet addiction over a couple of months now, but even though I use it a lot less it is really hard to fully change behavior. Atleast I'm aware of my situation now, which I wasnt the last 5 years.

I'd say that the same principles apply to playing games on your PC or game console.

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Funny, I just watched three of your videos. Time to close the old laptop and finish that book.

Every single one of your videos are a blessing among the ocean of possibilities that offer KZfaq. To me you have the best topics, the best contents and the best quality. Thank you so much for the time spend making them ! I shall be careful I can feel the addiction coming, do a paper version of these podcast for me please !

Well, before that was tv's job...

In a way the internet helped me get into some new hobbies like playing the violin and helping get better at drawing it's not all black and gray you can use it to learn some cool new skills

Wow, this is a really important video to watch. This information should be taught in schools everywhere, people don't realize how they are hurting themselves so much! Thanks for the video, it is well done and understandable. Also, I would like to suggest looking at meditation. Practicing meditation makes you much more sensitive to these mental triggers and trains you to catch yourself doing bullshit much sooner.

I need to quit using internet for aimless entertainment and to stop procrastinating. I got addicted to non functional use of internet on 2019 or 2020. I only got freed from it in two or three periods in which I stopped non functional use of internet altogether (these lasted a few weeks to two months). My conclusion is that I became a person that either wastes many hours a day using internet for non functional purposes or stops doing this completely. I can't just entertain myself a little with it; I lose the control if I allow me to scroll or check recommendations. As it's extremely harmful to waste so many hours, my only option is to stop completely with this. It's a question of survival: I really need to work in certain things, but waste of time and procrastination are in my way. This video was very motivational for me. I decided this is the time to change. I decided I will try not to use internet for aimless entertainment anymore, not for a single second. I will try to use internet only for constructive, useful for my life, preferably necessary things. It's 25/05/2024 today and everytime I use internet for non functional, unjustified purposes in the next 30 days I will register it here. I will also register how much this change will improve my productivity.

It's been really worthwhile and mind-opening to learn about the science behind social media addiction. Now I exactly know how I'm being subconciously wronged. I wish I could hook myself out from the false and damaging 'dopamine-spike attainment' driven craziness.

Whenever I feel stuck in my studies, I always open youtube, almost with no will. Damn, so I am addicted.

There was a picture on deviant art that depicts a kid having a tug of war with a Facebook logo while the rope he was pulling was an hour glass that represented all the time stolen from him.

KZfaq is my hook. I'm hooked to good quality informative videos like this, and yet do little with what I learn.

this video is fantastic not only for its content but also how creatively it's made, it feels just like tab hopping watching it

hi man i subbed, but i quit the internet, so i guess my sub is now worth nothing. At least the compensation is that your video worked on me, thank you very much!

I hope this guys user base explodes out of the two videos I've seen they are great

The moment when your doing math homework while doing this video and he says that while trying to write this paragraph he unconscious turned to Reddit and you suddenly realize that you just starting watching this video because one of the math problems got way to hard.

I took a "smoking cessation" class at my hospital. They had us write down info for each cig we smoked; need level 1-10, time, activity, and mood. That practice, and using a lil replacement, helped me quit. The awareness was huge, like he said

I never been happier after deleting my Twitter and Facebook accounts. No more fake people trying to win a game - who has a best Facebook facade. No more drama or fake news. I never been happier after I stopped listening Radio and Watching TV three years ago. I have no TV and Radio in my house. Yes, people think I am crazy, but everyone fears different, the unknown. I never been happier after ditching TV series, most of the movie entertainment or porn. I do like movies and music, I am just selective what to consume. Mostly I do Play Music with my music pass, sometimes I do Play Movies by renting once in a while. Usually from 3 to 5 movies in a year. So I am not consumed by these things. Some things I don't consume at all. Like looking CNN, which stands for Constantly Negative News, by the way... You can be the same. You start to realise how brainwashed people are. You come to visit them, they are either swiping right or left, or just watching tell lie vision. I am not saying that KZfaq I watch is all amazing. But sure you can find something like this video you can actually enjoy. I barely have anything in my house, meaning stuff, devices - I am minimalist. Life is so much happier this way! Try the same, become UNKNOWN :)

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I think this gets recommended every time I go on a KZfaq binge. Props to he engineer(s) on this one.

6:55 the narrated text is still being highlighted in the background. NEAT!

For me internet has been extremely helpful, more than my school and university. I have learned huge amount of things, gained information hundred times more than what i was taught in school and college. I know about facts , I know reasons how stuff works, I am more confident than ever before. Having said that, like every thing else Internet also has dark side to it, which is off course spending more time on snapchat, FB,Instagram, Porn , etc and all of this is because we have smartphones that gives us freedom to go to these apps anytime and anywhere with utmost ease. All in all it boils down to our choices and preferences- I wont call myself addictive to youtube if I am watching videos like these or informative videos that are helping me grow, While if I use youtube to watch some Tv series, scandals, hollywood drama, etc then I am wasting my time. A Quality video on youtube with good information is just like reading a whole book in matter of 20-30 minutes with visuals that are easy to remember and grasp and vice versa

the thing is i have watched all the videos u referenced in this video on youtube, how addicted am i?

man you are like the danny roddy of self help, behaviour and productivity. love the video man keep them coming! thanks !

The best rout to personal improvement is being self-aware. Being aware of yourself, behaviors, mood, and what makes you happy/unhappy, etc... will make your chances of knowing what you should do and not do much greater. Unfortunately, I rarely find it in people.

Did you quit making videos?

"How the Internet Ruins Productivity" 12 minute KZfaq videos.

What I get from this is very interesting.. By getting more AWARENESS of the things we do, we'll eventually correct what we're doing 'wrong', which is essentially the same thing as listening to your inituition. That suttle voice inside, that tells you, that you should or shouldtn't do something. This combined with your logic and senses, like the example: "Smoking tastes bad" and then you could also think "It's not healthy for me or my environment". So there's that too. I think daily meditation and practice of mindfullness alone could therefore actually help people get out of addiction. Just a thought. Great video by the way! Really well researched and edited. Keep it up! Greeting from Denmark!

I'm slowly getting rid of my youtube addiction. im only visiting for your video. which is better then where i was where i would spending half and hour to hours of my time sucked in. Thank you for you videos btw i really like your content. Please release​ more

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its not the internet its the way you use It. And It boils down to social media for the most part. title is misleading

I like your voices man, they help me find new prospectives to explore. Am a procrastinator with other few bad habits

I just wanted to say that this could be the most relevant/significant video I have ever watched on the internet. I think I already knew that the amount of time I was wasting just browsing the net was an issue, but this video has given me greater insight into the behaviour. Im going to rewatch this a few times and see if I can make it a turning point. Thank you for this creating this and the other videos in your channel. Keep up the great work. SR

God.. i need to stop internet.

i did subscribe, but now i am quitting the internet

As a KZfaq junkie who has been addicted to different educational topics, I can say that I have finally read/listened to enough of the most important topics affecting people generally- whether it be health, geopolitical, technological etc. If I may be so bold, I dare anyone to post a comment below this post on an important general topic that they think I haven't researched at least a little bit, and I'll comment to say if I have or haven't.

5:47 What I learned, long before "the internet" was in common usage was you don't need dopamine to know that variable reward schedules produce more responses, that's been know since the 1930s. 9:30 Those symptoms might be alleviated by changing behaviors but can't always be alleviated solely by changing behaviors. You'll probably need to know about dopamine to understand why that is.

Getting that bell red for every comment I post and someone replies is addicting cuz I get likes with those few times I receive alot of comments.

daily mindfulness and meditation will automatically fix all your problems with time

Watching this took longer. I paused the video several times, walked off, made a brew, mind wandered, I looked down on to my phone and not looked up around me. It took 45 mins to watch this! Sad times.

i have a youtube addiction and by watching this i stop it now then re-start my instagram, facebook, twitter, and reddit addiction. Thanks What I've Learned!

Ugh.. Honestly this video just kind of made me want to take drugs so i do school essays.

The irony of asking people to subscribe after talking about quitting the internet...

I'm convinced that too much 'surfing the net' does dull my creativity. Especially noticed this 'drop' if I am doing that sort of 'clicking about for the next wacky/interesting thing' for too long. Many times I sit down in a big creative state hoping something online is going to just add and inspire but instead.... 2 hours later I totally forgot what I was initially excited about inventing and that urge to do something artistic is all but totally depleted. Well, that's been my experience.

kid...I'm addicted to your content! Don't know how I found you exactly, but glad I did! keep this shit coming!

*Another **12:16** minutes I lost in productivity. Lol But informative. What can I procrastinate with next?*

More Internet fear. People say the same thing about trolling on the Internet. It bothers you for the first year or so. Then you adapt to it, and it doesn't affect you anymore. The same is true of all of these distracting apps and websites. And I've heard similar critiques about video games. The truth is that people who were going to be productive are still going to be productive. And people who weren't would find some inferior to way to distract themselves (television, gossip, drinking, drugs) even if they didn't have the Internet.

I've just saw your videos in sugar an i keep on going for more of you'r videos. They are amazing. Good script and and video edit as well. You pack a lot of good, and researched information in small time. Your scripts are so good that i can work on something else, with out looking and still get the point. Top at your league ! thanks a lot!!

Totally agree with the final part of the vid. Its just self awareness really. Put the info on dopamine and the serotonin and the nootropics to one side. Information itself, showing people how much you know, becomes an addiction and a distraction. Not digesting it, and instead thinking about all the people you're going to tell. It always amazes me how much the psychological sciences seem to spend explaining that which was already obvious, if we'd only looked. Just see what happens when you do something, and ask why you do it. Does it make you happier in the long run? If no, try to change it. Pain will be the first thing you encounter, and its the pain that you were trying to escape from. The "why am I hurting" usually holds a lot more meaning for you than just pleasing graphs about brain chemicals. "If you're going through hell, keep on going. The only way out is through".

who else thinks about breaking their laptop sometimes?

You did a good job at summarizing all the important points. I knew about this and began to avoid one pitfall after the other with social media, but evety now and then new ones come my way and it starts again. After I realized this i saw the Ted talk as well. It's good to know but still a little upsetting that most people are addicts for life but keep telling themselves they just didn't had enough luck, time or whatever in life to achieve their goals...

Trigger, action, reward and investment. All by design... 💯

I feel more people have this problem than most people think. Super explanation of the whole situation

This really is the best channel on youtube. I am glad I stumbled upon it. Excellent topics, sourced, and in perfectly digestible format. Great editing. Thank you for all of these videos. I hope you never stop making them.

I usually don't comment on videos too much but I love your content. The way you explain things is easy to grasp. I also like how you back up your statement with evidence e.g a video or something. Keep up the good work.

You're killing it man. I watched your newest video and then this one, both A+. However there is something that I can't put my finger on that seems off about your videos, it could simply be inexperience or a slight lack of confidence. Whatever it is, over time I think you'll get better, more comfortable, and the quality of your uploads will improve tremendously. SUBBED!

Omg this is the first time a video change anything about my habbits, thank a lot

I'm totally addicted to youtube. I love reading the comments, too. I feel more connected to the world, whereas before I only read the newspaper. But I have learnt a lot from a wide variety of videos.

My mind is very different when I'm in the habit of compulsive internet browsing compared to spending almost no time online. It also happens when I do anything that involves a screen and a lot of information (so also watching tv or gaming), but less than when I'm mindlessly browsing. It's extremely hard for me to quit, seeing as how much I literally can't avoid the internet because I need it for doing work, checking mail, and more. Aside from that, I need my computer for stuff like making digital art, digitally composing music, game design, and learning about interesting things online. Moderation is probably the key, but it's extremely easy for me to go binge on it, it always feels like some kind of hyperfocus. The internet is also my default place to go to when I go through a lot of stress, since it numbs my emotions after a while. The problem is that I lose focus, become easily overstimulated, and lose motivation even for the things I care about.

Ive been off the internet for one month now, i had no access at home only when im at uni. this evening I thought to check something online at home and KZfaqs algorithm showed me this video on my feed and its about this topic. This is getting very interesting and i can feel that this video got me hooked. Well thanks for the mindfulness tip. I will subscribe and see you another time.

i really loved the how's the water joke.. it kinda reminds you of the book: "this is water" once you know that the Internet even though it can help you in many ways.. it can be very addicting become aware of it and have a different mind set about it.. you know when you are hooked and you are closer to getting off the hook

Man, thank you. You're an angel. Back when I was studying to enter College, I just couldn't do it. I was always way too uninterested and couldn't concentrate. I had internet at that time. Turns out I moved to a new house, and my parents didn't bother contracting an ISP. Damn, those were the most productive and happy days in my life, I would say. All that after the initial despair of craving for internet had gone away, of course. I have the exactly same problem now, and the cause (now I realize) is also the same.

The point is that we have access to all these information which can help us become a better person, but we are addicted to only the knowing part, not the doing part.

When you got to the Tinder part, I was all “aw sad so many left swipes.”

Neuroscience says that to do lists are not very efficient, but schedules are by an immense difference. I love your videos by the way :)

this is good. you've put to words - what ive been speculating for a while! thanks.

This channel definitly deserves more subs

Nothing more ironic than hearing about the dangers of Internet and social media addiction on a social media platform.

It's funny, because I've been thinking last weekend, that I look after my health and fitness. (that's the reason why I found this channel) but I don't pay enough attention to how much I stay infront of my laptop, mobile phone or the television. I was too long infront of the television, that I had really bad headache. It always happens when I'm more than three or four hours looking into a screen. That's why I decided to try to look no more than 2 hours into a screen. It's very hard. I'm obviously addicted, but knowing that my thoughts that this is not right, are right, helps me to try. Thanks

Your videos are so good, man. Just the right combination of spending as much time as possible on research and putting out as many videos as possible. I hope you keep it at this level of quality. Best of luck!

I have been using the Chrome extension "eradicate" which simply removed by Facebook newsfeed. I noticed I am getting more productive ever since. Thanks for the video.

This is pure gold. Thanks.

My addiction to KZfaq finally showed me the way to get rid of it. KZfaq ALGORITHM, YOU DONE GOOFED FOR GIVING ME THIS IN MY RECOMMENDEDS! And you, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!!!

You are totally right. As a game developer, I thought about developing a program to stop people from being able to access sites like facebook, etc. The problem is if I develop this, it can't benefit me. Also social media is a big part of getting the word out for your game and the like. I would have to hire a PR person.

i love your videos i just wanted to say they almost bring a tear to my eye because they are truly so eye opening. with each one i just wanna smack myself for not being the skeptic i so claim to be. thank you ever so much for your content please never stop.

Very glad your video came up in my recommended section.

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