This is NOT a sponsored video. I only mentioned clicker heroes 2, because generally I don’t support dropping hacks like that, but the context here was different, which I wanted to explain. And I thought, if I basically show a hack that kills their business model, I can also be nice enough to mention their other games. It’s an indie dev studio I would like to see to succeed. Good for you to be sceptical! But German laws would require me to disclose any form of sponsorship and legal trouble is the last thing I would want. Hope that makes sense!

“Read the papers you’ve bookmarked” I felt dat one 🤣🤣

the 20 first seconds I was crying "stop"

"Time is not wasted if you enjoy wasting it"

I cannot even begin to explain how much I relate to that miserable spiral you explained. And not just video games, I can be doing something productive like studying electric guitar and I still feel "guilty". This video helped a lot, great to know there's people out there going through the same shit.

Holy shit I seriously thought I was the only person with this internal issue. Thanks so much for the advice!!

0:09 - 0:16. Is basically what i tell myself every passing day. A very fitting video. I have a number of projects that need completion, a couple of uncompleted programs, not to mention i still have to research content for my youtube channel. There is just too much to do with seemingly very little time, and the little time that i do have always ends up squandered in some useless activities. I hope to do better. I will do better.

I can relate sooo much with this. I always feel like fallling behind but also feel too unmotivated to do anything security related. Thank you for making this video, helped a lot.

Lol, that bookmark thing hit deep man..

This dude should have his own udemy course. One of the best educators on YT.

I get into this cycle WAY too often. I thank you for publishing this video, it helped me understand I need a little bit more balance and its OK to allow myself to unwind. I can't hack while burnt out and that's how I felt for a long time. I couldn't get motivated to jump back into CTFs/projects again. I feel ready to get off my break and into the grind, this guidance was most needed because I don't want to repeat my last burn out

Thanks alot, now i'm not only feeling lazy i also feel stupid

This advice... It's pure gold! I took it myself and I learned quite a bit. A short backstory: was playing Borderlands 2, mainly down to endgame. While the experience points are shown in Quest Log menu, they're not visible on the HUD. This took me to creating a BL2 xp tracking program in c#. While doing this I learnt to use pointers in Cheat Engine, I learnt to invoke WinForms elements from another thread, learnt to properly try and catch exceptions(uni course just touched on that very slightly), and I've started to study on how to read and write to memory addresses in C# without any additional libraries. It's basicly put me down to a rabbit hole of finding more ways to make these new skillsets useful in another ways. What I want to say is, Thank you, LiveOverflow. This really motivates me. You have earned my subscription.

LMAO 7:37 it says "PrintFuckingText" on the console

Thanks so much for making this video. I only recently discovered your Channel and this Video resonated with me. Knowing I'm not the only one who goes through those cycles of depression and demotivating thoughts is uplifting. Keep up the great content

Man it’s like you were in my head, it motivated me to push further and pace myself when I need to rest up

I keep coming back to this video, when the motivation just ain't there

I watched 3 videos of yours and the way you present yourself and your Videos, the way you transfer your knowledge is inspiring. I have to admit I am a spoiled guy with way to high expectations of myself and the spiral you mentioned is a caveat I was trapped in. I wish I found you earlier, you are a true hero. Subbed 420 times

Thanks man for making this video, everyone I know doesn't get this part of me, super happy to see it's not just me feeling like trash doing things other than learning. keep up the good work.

This video popped into my recommended at the perfect time. Thank you for making this! Glad I’m not the only one with these thought patterns.

Everything you post relates to my life with pinpoint precision

"And finally learn radare" xD This one cracked me up :D Just wanted to say thanks to creating your videos (honestly haven't been able to catch up with most of them due to studying and involvement of some machine learning projects). I honestly hope you continue creating them and getting your name in the POC | GTFO (got it in Budapest hacktivity conference wanted to add your name and send it to you but alas the free time was non-existent). Thank you for being my motivation for IT-sec world

Man... This video related so deeply with the internal battles I've been facing recently. Thanks for sharing the experience.

Thanks for making this video, I struggle with this so much. In this field you always have the opportunity to be working so it's hard to relax when you're not. Other fields don't have this issue, it's not like a plumber goes home and clogs his toilet to practice. I will give this a try to keep the nagging feeling away.

You really have taken inspiration from the survey you handed out a few months ago. I really love the direction of this channel. Thank you for your time and helping beginners out. I wanted to ask a question though, how long do you spend on a hacking project before you realize it's a dead end or above your skill?

Hey I understand why, but I'm really sorry that you don't have more views on each videos, I love them all you are really entertaining and helpful.. Sad that there are not much people willing to learn nice things ^^ Thank you, I hope you will keep doing videos for a long time :D

I don't think I have ever subscribed to anyone this quickly. I only saw this one video and I can already see, that I am going to love your content.

This is the second time i watch this video and it has become even more important to my life than before, thank you sooo much for this channel ^^

Why I am waisting my time? Its such a simple question to answer for the first glance, mentally I do understand the consequences .. but can't break this routine...

I am gonna watch this video once every month, so needed this. I reported over 10 vulnerabilities yesterday but all of them got rejected, I felt like giving up. Thanks!

Thanks for rethinking what I do. You are right about feeling wasting time and the stress that follows.

Thank you for making this video. I was feeling very stressed today and was lacking ambition, but this video helped a lot!

i thought i was crazy for thinking like this and then i found this video and in the first 3 seconds i realize this is a real problem

How do I trigger the vulnerability that allows me to put +1000 likes on this video? Seriously man, this was so much on point for me. And I imagine the same for many others. Thank you. You just added a big +1000 passive points in my motivation perk :) I also want to add that most of time frustration comes from the fact of learning things alone. You have to try harder, true, but these things are always better if you share the challenges with someone else facing the same/similar struggle. You're a legend. Keep going :) Cheers!

You summed up last 5 Years of my life in one Video, I needed to Hear this, Thanks Man

This is a well timed video for me. I have been feeling overwhelmed, at time, at my new job and can relate, heavily. I always enjoy the technical aspects you choose to explore. :D

7:36 in the middle "print fucking text" LOL

You should start writing code in c# It will open for you so many doors, And you can do almost anything. I remeber a few years ago when i started coding in c++ and c# i was only using basic console input -output, from there i was able to build basic algorithms and basic ui designs. And now im able to build full project with multithreading, databases, networking, advanced math, and im able to solve alot of complex problems in the code. I can tell you it will be so hard to learn to code and even more hard to solve glitches and bugs. But once you fix all those bugs and you complete your project you will feel proud, and accomplishment. Never give up, start small and grow big!!! Good luck Coders! :) (Sorry for my bad English)

You are very wise - I am but an old techie who started on IBM System 360 / DEC System PDP10 RSTS in 1977 at E-town College. Over all the years I learned the hard way these life lessons you are trying now to teach others. Thanks for your videos.

Bro I am crying now after watching this video, I have been trying to find out why I keep delaying things. And this video exactly show cause what is going on with my life. All I wanna say is thank you !

My heart sank at first I thought he was degrading me then I realised he was talking about himself XD

I needed this thanks bruh

Thank you for this video. I was having a really shitty day and I can relate so much. You just turned my day around.

Thanks for pushing this message. About the only thing I ever did was play video games. But what I did learn from them is in order to master you're craft, you must practice, practice, practice. Games were certainly not helping me financially, so I literally stopped playing any games, and really any other form of entertainment, and practically spent all my time learning to code. It probably helped that I have passion for problem solving. But thanks to this effort I put into programming, when I went to college for Computer Science I was leaps and bounds ahead of my peers, which allowed me to have a couple of coding jobs during school where I worked 8:00 AM to 4:00PM (sort of, since I had class during the day of course) which gave me not only free time to study in the evening, but cash to spend as well. And thanks to this passion for it, I don't think I'll ever have to worry about my financial situation again. Love your videos too, by the way. Keep up the good work!!

This video is relate to me XD thanks you so much for making this video.

I, too, like allowing myself to enjoy world domination. Really interesting video, btw. Would also love to hear the "story for another time" related to Coherent UI you mentioned by the end. :)

I am amazed and inspired by this. I though this will turn out to be one of those "it's ok to play games it's not wasted time if you have fun" type of videos, and what it ended up being is perfect. Good job again.

Thanks for this video! I was feeling the same way that i was wasting time playing games and unhappy because iv lost my motivation. Appreciate it :D

Hacking is not only very educational, the challenge that security poses is very fun. And recently I actually had a similar scenario as you were talking about here. Although on a much smaller scale and difficulty. As I had been resting, I was playing a visual novel and that vn was uploaded online in html5 format. I was missing some very important CG, so what I tried was to obtain them by other method than via story, because I had tried 14 different ways and failed everytime... In the end I spent hours analyzing that html code, s and other things... But managed to crack it. I caught a glimpse of not only the locked CGs in their raw png form, but also found out that the one story line I had been trying to unlock was Patreon-only content. However, I caught a preview of the Patreon only content without being a patreon, so I was more than happy with it in the end. I learned a lot more about html from it and it motivated me to try and get into hacking.

Tip: binwalk -e does the extraction-stuff for you instead of making you invoke dd or other tools

I would never have asked for or thought of this video, but I am glad you made it. I have had very similar thoughts and patterns.

Can definitely relate. I've cut down tremendously cause of that voice in my head thinking "wtf am I doing?" while playing games but refusing to power down to learn. Have realized that there is still plenty of time in the day to play after getting through everything i want to catch up on and learn. Binge playing ps4 all weekend just stresses me out more than relaxing me.

Hey, I am still fairly young - 17 to be percise. I've tried a lot of times to learn new stuff like c++, asm, ctf, heck I watched a lot of your videos. The problem is as soon as I am hitting some kind of error or I dont know how to deal with a problem I am looking at, I dont find any lust in continuing the current project I am working on. And thats fucking frustrating (even to see that kids my age are capable of doing stuff in c++ that is simply amazing). Thanks for your tips - I will try to follow them. Keep up the good videos. Greetings from Germany, Logan

You are never waisting time. If I didn't play games I wouldn't have learned to write faster on my keyboard (helpful when your writing essay) I wouldn't have communicated with other and learned to speak English much better(I'm from Sweden) I wouldn't have understand that I wanna do something else with my life and if I haven't had that thought I wouldn't be so smart and learned so much and just age 14. There are plenty of things you learn even if you don't know it.

Wow, you nailed this bro. You articulated how I've felt a few times in my career... Thanks for some perspective.

This was actually very helpful for me! Especially right now because I've been stuck in this mindset for almost 2 weeks. Thank you and keep up the good work!

I'm just taking a wild guess, but that chunk at the beginning is feasibly the identifier for your player profile (to prevent you from importing another person's save maybe?)

awesome video. I can relate to this 100%.

Relates to me very often. I know that feeling all so well, i basically experience it at least two times a year where i absolutely cannot learn for one to four weeks. I like to think about it as my mental seasons. Meanwhile i allow myself to have these breaks as long as they are in a rational timespan. After a short time playing games bores me out anyway. Thanks for your view. Just found your videos and they are really great. :D

I can definitely relate and appreciate the view on how to handle the 'rut' that so many people get into. Nice vid!

Are you the person who draws those images? That's a neat art style.

The feeling of "having to do something productive everytime" is just a biproduct of our society and capitalism, your life is yours and you should enjoy it however you want, you can play games as much as you want, learn at your own pace, etc... Stop and enjoy existing while you can. Lovely video, I expected the oposite from it but I was glad to discover it wasn't the case.

I have no idea why KZfaq decided to give me this video in my notifications... I'm not even subscribed to you or anything... so it scared the crap out of me, because for a few years I've been suffering from some major depression because of this exact topic. You're absolutely right, and when I think about it, when I've thought this way in the past for some small moments I had gotten my motivation back. Thank you so much for this. I went ahead and subscribed.

Love your CTF vids, but this one connected on another level. Great stuff, keep posting!

Im just here for the drawings

I'll watch this video when I got more time, need to play more games first

You are gold. Firstly, I needed to hear what you said at the beginning, so thank you for that. And secondly, that trick you found to hack the game is awesome, I don't know if I'd have thought of it myself. Congrats man, leaving a like, as always :3

my whole interest for IT and programming (and later security) came after I had my first project with the League of Legends API, had that point of my story the whole time in my head while watching your video and then you even talk about it. Thank you so much for your videos and content

Problem is that every game makes me think: "How do I find an exploit or something else?" So I end up cheating rather than playing. The paradox!

I didn't watch the entire video however I think dedicating time into fitness and sports is very important

Dope video bro! This was an A+ video all around - feel like I should be more productive too when I'm messing around watching you tube - that's cool you turned it into something productive - also feel comfort in knowing I am not the only one who goes through this - all the best!

im so glad you brought this up, especially to games - always be actively thinking in security is such a great mentality im hoping to do wherever and whenever i can apply it

i recognized the zlib right away ngl also how can u resist reversing when some sofware throws a bunch of base64 data

6:29 isCheater=false ahah Edit: What happens if you set it to true ?

I love this video! Thank you for motivating me to be productive while I'm playing. Keep it up!

Thank you so much! Idk how this video found me but it did at the right time. You have reignited my will to not stop.

How TF did youtube know I was into cyber security and video games and recommend this video???? GTFO of my PC FBI!!!!!!!!

I'll learn you all another lesson. You need to take a time off to do somthing else like gaming. Don't learn 24/7. You will get a burnout. Trust me. Ive been there. Peace✌️

Only one question: "How can someone dislike this video???" This guy is giving knowledge and there are still people disliking this video... I don't understand humans!

Thank you so much for making this video! You don't understand how much I needed this! Seriously thank you for this!

Just noticed your host is redstar-os, lol

What linux are you using ?

its scary how I've been feeling exactly like this for the past 2 days after burning myself out on midterms and then youtube recommends me this

I have so much to learn from you! Thanks for making your channel and videos, I've subscribed. I struggle with some of the same mean thoughts (about different things) and I used those methods and a few others to deal with them. Recently, I've begun using the most potentially damaging SuperPower I have, procrastination, to my advantage. I also make "deals" with myself and I'll admit it...I lie like a dog to myself regularly...lol All in the name of PROGRESS! I am off to check out your other videos and learn some stuff! I can't wait to see what else you will teach me!

man, hackers really should play games XDD

Usually when I'm not Learning "X" I usually write Novels and End up Deleting them due to Self-Embarassment 😂

I needed this motivational talk, thanks man! And do continue making great videos!!!

Man ! You turned me on after 3 days of depression. Thank you.

"learn more about hecking"

STOP WASTING TIME… Watch this video. Anyway… I barely play video games. I still play too much though. My free time is like 90% C, 1% xbox, 4% reddit, 4% youtube and 1% fapping. I clearly could spend 10% of my time fapping. But instead here I am.

I am very happy that this video shows up from my youtube video suggestion list, it is what I use to be years ago, having fun with it. Thank you

I've never been able to figure this out, but you spell it out so perfectly. Hopefully I can improve my thought process to keep from spiraling downward.

time to hack league of legends boys

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Thank you so much for this video!!! This helped opened up a different view instead of constantly being negative about enjoying myself

I like this mindset and it also helps me to motivate myself. What hurts my motivation is the lack of a proper foundation. I can program, I write the occasional simple script, I know linux basics and I use those skills in my professional life as a software engineer or in devops - but when I have to go down and dirty to the binary / hex level, memory analysis and manipulation or reading decompiled code I still have a hard time recognizing what I'm actually looking at. Trying to manipulate simple games is a fun way to try to get my feet wet.

Great suggestion about "just taking a break" as way to get that annoying wasting time thought out of our brains. That is definitely something I can take away from this being a non-hacker.

its 2019, still here and ideas are still so relevant

This Is The Same With Me And I Am Not Joking, Really Loved Your Video ❤❤❤

Holy sh!t dude, this is the best content I found on YT in a while. 1) I don't know a thing about hacking, but looking at you, and your way of thinking is very interesting, and I'm thinking about learning myself some coding (probably python). 2) your talk about motivation actually helped me get motivated, so yeah, you earned my sub (: