Your Brain When You Have A Deadline

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  • @RyanGeorge
    @RyanGeorge  Рік тому +814

    Head to keeps.com/ryangeorge to get 50% off your first order of hair loss treatment!

  • @heyhey97777
    @heyhey97777 Рік тому +1571

    Me procrastinating watching this video:

    • @darkhell66659
      @darkhell66659 Рік тому +31

      Me procrastinating on my sleeping schedule watching that video

    • @martinmi7842
      @martinmi7842 Рік тому +1

      @@darkhell66659 haha, ( time of 53seconds) same

    • @Pulko172
      @Pulko172 Рік тому +1

      @@darkhell66659 same

    • @benonaru
      @benonaru Рік тому

      no

    • @genius171
      @genius171 Рік тому

      ha same here

  • @paperocelot8807
    @paperocelot8807 Рік тому +2000

    The true painful ending would be if the project only took 10 minutes and very little effort, but the killer anxiety and stress blew it WAYYYY out of proportion.

  • @ClarkHathaway3238
    @ClarkHathaway3238 Рік тому +317

    Neil Gaimon summarizes this phenomenon with some writing advice he's given over the years. If you find yourself struggling to complete an important task, whether it's a creative one or not, sit in a room and do nothing. Do nothing until your brain itches to do something and then you'll feel like doing the task.

    • @KoshVader
      @KoshVader Рік тому +60

      I'm not sure that would work for me because my imagination can take over. Once I had a story idea I thought about so intensely I couldn't concentrate on anything else. I had my laptop in front of me to study along with flashcards and I ended up lying on my bed for hours looking up at the sky and thinking of my story.

    • @keriannekerr1876
      @keriannekerr1876 Рік тому +22

      @@KoshVader Tell yourself that anything you daydream long enough to be a story you must write. That resulted in me no longer daydreaming because I was just to lazy to write and past daydreams rattling in the back of my mind for years demanding to be written.

    • @singingway
      @singingway Рік тому +25

      I super love to sit or lie down and do nothing. Not sure that impetus to move would ever strike.

    • @ClarkHathaway3238
      @ClarkHathaway3238 Рік тому +13

      @@singingway They key is it can't be instinctual. You have to consciously force yourself to sit still and do nothing. Eventually you won't be able to stand it because it should feel like a chore.

    • @l.36125
      @l.36125 Рік тому +7

      something similar to this is called "urge surfing". instead of doing the thing your brain wants to do instead of the task, you sit and wait for the urge to go away, and the lack of dopamine will supposedly make your brain bored enough to give up and continue doing the task you were trying to work on before

  • @gustavolrcoelho
    @gustavolrcoelho Рік тому +717

    Not trying to increase your stress levels Ryan, but we gonna need that rabbit hole song for tomorrow.

  • @gregarroinalidadavich9220
    @gregarroinalidadavich9220 Рік тому +2711

    The worst is when you're self aware you're procrastinating but you're so interested in the distraction you keep doing it.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 Рік тому +65

      You can get done more while procrastinating that you would otherwise.

    • @douglaswilburn9278
      @douglaswilburn9278 Рік тому +17

      Story of my life

    • @Zeuts85
      @Zeuts85 Рік тому +81

      It actually has a name--the "Dark Playground." When nothing is truly fun, because you know you're just pushing your struggle down the road, with compounding interest.

    • @collindevries1965
      @collindevries1965 Рік тому +65

      @@Zeuts85 you found that out by researching it with a deadline looming over your head didn’t you 😂

    • @seeker296
      @seeker296 Рік тому +4

      Or so stressed about the assignment

  • @PretentiousFish
    @PretentiousFish Рік тому +12472

    I like pretending that my brain is an entirely separate entity and I don’t actually make bad choices.

    • @MissBlueEyeliner
      @MissBlueEyeliner Рік тому +254

      Good choice!

    • @RobertStoll
      @RobertStoll Рік тому +173

      The way I see it there's three of me. First one is an asshole who is a bit of a task manager, but to a fault. Like not entirely socially there kind of focused. Usually he'll barge in with an idea that doesn't really gel with anyone but myself, but has the gumption to get things done after distracted me figures it's easier to harvest pumpkins in MC or it's time to buy another bit of hobby tech I'll do nothing with. Third me usually then has to rebuff both.
      Solo projects get annoying.

    • @dalysea26
      @dalysea26 Рік тому +14

      cogito ergo habeas homunculus

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Рік тому

      @@dalysea26 homunculus like in fma

    • @jonrolfson1686
      @jonrolfson1686 Рік тому +12

      Used to do that with some frequency. Unfortunately, the coronary conclusion is a shared event.😟

  • @brucewillis542
    @brucewillis542 Рік тому +532

    Ah yes, Ryan reliving the trauma of working for ScreenRant and carrying the entire channel on his back.

    • @stop08it
      @stop08it Рік тому +42

      I seriously thought that was his own channel lmao

    • @polreamonn
      @polreamonn Рік тому +27

      Has anyone been on ScreenRant since Ryan set up his own channel?

    • @patiid7265
      @patiid7265 Рік тому +8

      @@stop08it wait it isnt???

    • @lab4256
      @lab4256 Рік тому +22

      I think it'd be hard for them to get all the way off his back, would you agree?

    • @RevanReborn3950BBY
      @RevanReborn3950BBY 11 місяців тому +5

      @@polreamonnjust to watch old vids

  • @JacktheRah
    @JacktheRah Рік тому +116

    The fun part is when you don't know anymore what you're procrastinating from but know deep down there's *something* you're supposed to do. Yeah, that's me right now.

  • @austinhall3937
    @austinhall3937 Рік тому +1776

    *NOTHING* gets my house cleaner than a strict deadline for something that does not include my house being clean.

    • @1bootliz
      @1bootliz Рік тому +102

      Same. I loathe dishes, but kept finding myself doing them _just to procrastinate doing my homework_ in college

    • @akiraigarashi2874
      @akiraigarashi2874 Рік тому +5

      @@1bootliz Same xD

    • @lisamiller6112
      @lisamiller6112 Рік тому +71

      Had to stop studying for a professional exam to polish my silver and reorganize my hall closet.

    • @jayNOEL21
      @jayNOEL21 Рік тому +4

      Absolutely

    • @KirtFitzpatrick
      @KirtFitzpatrick Рік тому +3

      truth.

  • @timl.b.2095
    @timl.b.2095 Рік тому +2609

    And, of course, many of us are watching Ryan when we should be working on something.

    • @TheFroneyZone
      @TheFroneyZone Рік тому +35

      exactly like figuring out for sure where the phrase going down the rabbit hole came from - it may very well hold the answers to our very existence!

    • @manicmuffin
      @manicmuffin Рік тому +40

      @@TheFroneyZone Brain: Self-aware procrastination is still procrastination!

    • @wtfsodumb
      @wtfsodumb Рік тому +15

      Don't you call me out like that!

    • @nefelx
      @nefelx Рік тому +9

      Guilty 😔✋🏻

    • @Cybrogue1
      @Cybrogue1 Рік тому +6

      Also guilty

  • @MsAsasi
    @MsAsasi Рік тому +51

    "Productive procrastination is still procrastination" Quote of the year!

  • @Einstein-wasnt-all-that-smart
    @Einstein-wasnt-all-that-smart Рік тому +154

    Plot twist: This is Ryan in real life trying to upload the video on time

  • @bagel8284
    @bagel8284 Рік тому +5244

    I'm literally watching this instead of doing an assignment right now lol

  • @braydent0821
    @braydent0821 Рік тому +3362

    Seeing Ryan not in front of a green screen is oddly terrifying

    • @Alakaizer
      @Alakaizer Рік тому +87

      Ryan in front of a green screen is there to raise your stress levels to critical.

    • @CommunimateANIMATIONS
      @CommunimateANIMATIONS Рік тому +132

      I've gotten SO used to seeing him behind one that the real backgrounds seem fake

    • @mcloco
      @mcloco Рік тому +18

      "adding stress levels!"

    • @toppersundquist
      @toppersundquist Рік тому +28

      OH GOD HE TURNED REAL LIKE LAST ACTION HERO

    • @demago3265
      @demago3265 Рік тому +47

      oh THAT'S why this video felt weird! I couldn't put my finger on it but it wasn't *quite* right

  • @gabrielfuiava6446
    @gabrielfuiava6446 Рік тому +105

    Brain: “You just blew ME”
    Ryan: “Don’t phrase it like that” 🤣
    That was gold 🙌🏽

  • @lamarepository248
    @lamarepository248 Рік тому +61

    I have an exam in seven hours and here I am procrastinating with a video about procrastination.

  • @SpideyWarsStudios
    @SpideyWarsStudios Рік тому +3343

    As someone who is one of the world's foremost demonstrators of procrastination, this is painfully accurate

    • @SCPguy
      @SCPguy Рік тому +70

      There’s no way you’re a bigger procrastinator than me, I come from a *long* line of procrastinators and I’m gonna continue that line, maybe later, I’ve actually been procrastinating on talking to my crush whom I would like to continue my line of procrastination with

    • @daveroche6522
      @daveroche6522 Рік тому +7

      One of my best friends said to me once she loves the way I take things on simply to avoid doing them! Hell yeah......

    • @stemom
      @stemom Рік тому +19

      I wanted to reply to this comment but the

    • @N0ES
      @N0ES Рік тому +11

      I procrastinated procrastination just to answer to your comment, but I'm procrastinating on the content of my reply, please read it at a later time.

    • @MewmewGrrl
      @MewmewGrrl Рік тому +2

      I'm looking at someone who procrastinates so much, they're going to write their comment on how they procrastinate too much later.

  • @richardsears4665
    @richardsears4665 Рік тому +828

    Fun Fact: Procrastination is your brain trying to prevent you from harming yourself, since you perceive the deadline as a negative thing.

    • @theunnamedaccount4009
      @theunnamedaccount4009 Рік тому

      FUCK OFF BRAIN

    • @marthamryglod291
      @marthamryglod291 Рік тому +74

      I'm now existing in a new paradigm. Thank you!

    • @cadenvanvalkenburg6718
      @cadenvanvalkenburg6718 Рік тому +31

      Really? Do you have a source you can send me I want to post about this.

    • @wanderingwatcher3981
      @wanderingwatcher3981 Рік тому +49

      insightful, fear of failure or other, the question then becomes - how do you prevent buildup of paralyzing levels of stress if prone to fearing negative outcomes / risk averse by nature?

    • @erikarussell1142
      @erikarussell1142 Рік тому +11

      Then what's the procrastination of eating? Cuz often I can't focus on anything and end up avoiding food. And I loooove food.

  • @occamslaser5453
    @occamslaser5453 Рік тому +52

    So, when is that 'Rabbit Hole' single gonna drop?

  • @HighMojo
    @HighMojo Рік тому +34

    Ryan has stopped struggling with his rabbit holes, and instead learned to embrace them by turning them into what we now see as sketches.

  • @stachu5049
    @stachu5049 Рік тому +1420

    As a person watching this while having a deadline, I can confirm this is 100% true

    • @royalpain9281
      @royalpain9281 Рік тому +1

      How many rabbit holes are you on currently?

    • @lancetheking7524
      @lancetheking7524 Рік тому +23

      The worst part is that this could be your making a joke, but you literally have a deadline soon

    • @tkpp766
      @tkpp766 Рік тому +21

      Get out of this Ryan's hole, even it sounds TIGHT

    • @Fuchsia_tude
      @Fuchsia_tude Рік тому +12

      The solution I've found is not to have deadlines for anything.
      I didn't say this was a _good_ solution, mind

    • @emmasilver2332
      @emmasilver2332 Рік тому +1

      Yes same

  • @TheMridulrathi
    @TheMridulrathi Рік тому +787

    I like to imagine that this video took longer to get released because Ryan picked up 3 hobbies while making it

    • @andeolevain
      @andeolevain Рік тому +25

      Well, looking up random stuff about rabbit holes has to count has productive work when it's for a video, don't you think?

    • @creation1702490
      @creation1702490 Рік тому +3

      of course! that's why I'm here in the comments, and, having read a few and knowing I am late to work - I still had time to sit and write this incomplete sentence for no reason that is productive
      so I could see my typing and my name and get that small thrill that keeps me going

    • @creation1702490
      @creation1702490 Рік тому

      now I see that rim l.b. started his comment with of course and I feel like I should take the time to aha a sdlkjioeahadhapioenva; ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @creation1702490
      @creation1702490 Рік тому +2

      okay that didn't make any sense so, despite I am late for work I am going to finish. (My brain voice sounds like ryan now - i decided)

    • @creation1702490
      @creation1702490 Рік тому +1

      okay, So I was going to say...... ah, crap! it's time to milk cows

  • @w1l827
    @w1l827 Рік тому +7

    “If we put our.. me to it” that was clever af 😂😂

  • @SHKABAM
    @SHKABAM Рік тому +38

    This is probably the most transparent view of how Ryan makes videos, and it's fantastic

  • @aegis8d737
    @aegis8d737 Рік тому +1028

    It's amazing how much second hand anxiety I felt because this video is so darn relatable...

    • @zenleek2129
      @zenleek2129 Рік тому +21

      Yeah I felt that deadline physically

    • @sachertorte1000
      @sachertorte1000 Рік тому +6

      I'm nauseous.

    • @andrew66862
      @andrew66862 Рік тому +4

      Lol the only time I clean is if I'm avoiding doing something worse

    • @anastasyavie6236
      @anastasyavie6236 Рік тому

      I feel this to my bone cause this is what I am doing atm, this is the motivation I need, unexpectedly

  • @sharingheart13
    @sharingheart13 Рік тому +606

    A few years ago, my brain realized that my brain does this, so instead, whenever a deadline approaches, we save ourselves all the stress by giving up and accepting the failing grade we deserve.

    • @diamondly6250
      @diamondly6250 Рік тому +8

      oof

    • @Aaron-oe8xw
      @Aaron-oe8xw Рік тому +54

      This is me 100%, i dont get panic attacks, i just get like 70% done and then my brain goes "good 'nuff" and wont cooperate anymore

    • @Cartman4wesome
      @Cartman4wesome Рік тому +37

      I realized this in high school. And somehow I ended up getting better grades. The more I tried, the lower the grade was. The less I gave a fuck, the more decent my grade was. I don’t know how it happened, but I never questioned it.

    • @korganrocks3995
      @korganrocks3995 Рік тому +25

      Nah, way better to procrastinate for weeks until finally starting about three hours before the deadline, write about 60% of the required word count, send the email to your professor a minute before the deadline, then go to bed only to find out a day later that you forgot to attach the actual essay to the email and then proceed to attach it and send it rather than spending a couple of hours finishing the damn thing, thereby getting a C instead of an A. Totally the way to go!

    • @user-sl6gn1ss8p
      @user-sl6gn1ss8p Рік тому +7

      ​@@korganrocks3995 that used to be my MO, but it hasn't scaled all that well out of school : /

  • @laurynbrown7958
    @laurynbrown7958 7 місяців тому +2

    3:24 I love the detail of pressing send on a message before your brain agrees!

  • @JonasHamill
    @JonasHamill 2 місяці тому +2

    After spending the last few hours watching Ryan George videos, I feel like this is a good point to stop procrastinating and get on with that work that's already past deadline and dangerously needs to get done.

  • @iBoss818
    @iBoss818 Рік тому +1045

    This is so relatable that I could actually feel the stress

    • @bingobongo1615
      @bingobongo1615 Рік тому +32

      It gave me second hand anxiety... I got over this way of procrastinating since a few years but I will never forget how this feeling felt... Just awful

    • @marquez2447
      @marquez2447 Рік тому +16

      @@bingobongo1615 teach us

    • @thelaurens1996
      @thelaurens1996 Рік тому +8

      NOOOOOOO I'm in one of those procrastination rabbit holes writing about procrastination rabbit holes only making me procrastinate mooooree !!
      How does one get out of these, better youtube that.
      This video is too relatable

    • @Alnakar
      @Alnakar Рік тому +1

      You're supposed to be doing something productive now too, eh?

    • @HalfBreadChaos
      @HalfBreadChaos Рік тому +4

      @@marquez2447 Pretend anxiety is a scary shadowy figure and the only way to defeat it is to run screaming toward it and punch it in the face before it can get any ideas.

  • @thelastdictator482
    @thelastdictator482 Рік тому +1486

    Ryan George isn't only every character in his videos, he's all of us.

    • @deadNightwatchman
      @deadNightwatchman Рік тому +4

      Plus our hair.
      Wait. Let me rephrase that...

    • @Rennies-World
      @Rennies-World Рік тому +5

      Whoa.

    • @Mr.Shogun
      @Mr.Shogun Рік тому +4

      @@deadNightwatchman 📸🤨

    • @Alg-0-Rhythm
      @Alg-0-Rhythm Рік тому +3

      WE ARE RYAN GEORGE. IN LIFE WE ARE RYAN GEORGE> IN DEATH WE ARE ALSO RYAN GEORGE hmmmm..............>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    • @Alg-0-Rhythm
      @Alg-0-Rhythm Рік тому +3

      We ARE RYAN GEORGE! We ARE RYAN GEORGE!We ARE RYAN GEORGE!We ARE RYAN GEORGE!

  • @DanielWoike
    @DanielWoike Рік тому +9

    Watching this made me have flashbacks to when I was trying to finish my Bachelor's degree a year ago.
    Especially the reaching out to get an extension, and then being relieved and still not completing it.
    Eventually I got some support and finally got my degree!!

  • @kingdorm2001
    @kingdorm2001 Рік тому +3

    Not me watching this video instead of preparing a presentation for my school 😂

  • @jonathanperez7663
    @jonathanperez7663 Рік тому +1338

    Literally anything in life is comedic material for Ryan.

    • @Lostmymind1
      @Lostmymind1 Рік тому +9

      I want to give him a carrot, and see where he takes that situation. And I don't mean a metaphorical carrot on a stick. I mean a literal carrot. Orange vegetables that everybody says improve your eyesight, but really that's just a myth started by the British as a way to trick the Nazi's from investigating what Radar is. No seriously, that's where that rumor got started. Carrots and propaganda helped kill Nazi's, and I think that's pretty cool.
      So now I want to give a carrot to Ryan George, and see where he takes it. Hopefully nowhere sexual. Ya know what? I hadn't even considered the sexuality of the Ryans in the Ryan universe.
      Are they bi-sexual? One of them got married to, and then divorced Julie Nolke. But the vast majority seem to not have girlfriends........and in some videos, we've seen their offspring look like a spawn of satan, which would be explained by relatives having offspring. Can't be more related to you, then sleeping with a clone of you. Yet the adult Ryans all look normal. Which means the horrible offspring qualities must get ironed out as the Ryans age.
      Although, maybe it explains why everybody is Ryan. What if Ryan is just in a room, imagining all this stuff, under the care of a mental hospital, and Julie is like his case manager? And the movie pitch guys are just all in his head after he sees a movie?
      I am putting TOO MUCH thought into this.
      I'm just giving him a carrot, and moving on with my life.

    • @izanneto
      @izanneto Рік тому +4

      Were you on drugs when you wrote this? Cause reading that whole essay was an experience to say the least

    • @Lostmymind1
      @Lostmymind1 Рік тому +3

      @@izanneto Nope. I just over-analyze every little thing. My teachers thought I had A.D.D which would later be reclassified as A.D.H.D, but that's not what it is. With A.D.H.D you have 15 different thought processes all distracting you and all equally pulling you into different thoughts so that you never finish a thought process. I'm the opposite. I don't lose my attention. I go into detail so deep that even the crew from NCIS stopped telling them to "ENHANCE!!!". Then you just follow the hypothetical situations to their natural conclusion, which baffles everybody else because nobody thinks the logistics through of anything anymore. So somehow I get called rainman, which doesn't even make sense. Rainman had an eidetic memory, and would recall details about situations that nobody else could. I'm not recalling, I'm going into hypotheticals, and exploring the groundwork for which fictional events are laid. Often times coming to conclusions that nobody else would have reached. But, I do thank you for at least taking the time to complete the journey with me. I often times get reacted to in a way that the other person wasn't even going to read the message. It always reminds me of a Bo Burnham lyric. "It's youtube, it's what this country has been needing, an entire generation of kids who don't waste their time reading!"

    • @That80sGuy1972
      @That80sGuy1972 Рік тому +1

      You are NOT wrong... at all. I used to think this guy was a funny guy. Now I see him as a comic genius. That's many levels above just being a funny guy.

    • @That80sGuy1972
      @That80sGuy1972 Рік тому

      @@Lostmymind1 It's amazing how tiny a cluster of text is considered an essay by many modern online people nowadays. Are two-page leaflets considered books now?

  • @Macrochenia
    @Macrochenia Рік тому +153

    I'm reminded of a famous Douglas Adams quote: "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as as they speed by."

  • @myscreen2urs
    @myscreen2urs Рік тому +2

    Brain: "You just blew me"
    Ryan: "don't phrase it like that!"
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @kiranaaisyah5281
    @kiranaaisyah5281 11 місяців тому +4

    I literally learned a new language, in this case French as my productive procrastination. Because I feel like learning a new language is a good justification for having fun, like watching TV shows or UA-cam videos, or even playing The Sims in French while I still feel like I learn something.

  • @teelip749
    @teelip749 Рік тому +342

    I need that rabbit hole single asap, I’m gonna be singing that shit the rest of the day and probably ALL of tomorrow.

    • @SenoraCardgage
      @SenoraCardgage Рік тому +7

      For real. It *better* be making a reappearance.

    • @andrewlance3898
      @andrewlance3898 Рік тому +17

      I'm sure he'll have a character in a future skit listening to "Rabbit Hole" on the radio

    • @shinossaura
      @shinossaura Рік тому +5

      It's already #1 hit song in my procrastinating head

    • @ntdscherer
      @ntdscherer Рік тому +7

      I'm gonna need you to get allllll the way off my back about producing that single.

    • @alyxavior6505
      @alyxavior6505 Рік тому +1

      It could be called "The Bunny Hop" 😊

  • @cameronhardy825
    @cameronhardy825 Рік тому +647

    Glad to see that Ryan is finally getting a start on that rap career

  • @steprockmedia
    @steprockmedia Рік тому +12

    Productive procrastination is STILL procrastination.
    New poster I think. Like, with a cat hanging from a tree.

    • @janosd4nuke
      @janosd4nuke Рік тому

      Yyup, heard the term 'action faking' for it in psychology and self-help circles

  • @_AshishKumar-jk9uh
    @_AshishKumar-jk9uh Рік тому +2

    "Productive procrastination is still Procrastination" Wooooooooovvvv!!!! that is deeep, you just blew Everyone 🤯🤯
    I have been telling myself and my friend that "yes we are doing great", we are completing tasks, "we are improving".....
    but not doing what we are actually supposed to 🙂🙂,
    Will have to show this to him 😂

  • @iliasVoolgaris
    @iliasVoolgaris Рік тому +117

    "We're not good at video games at all, anymore"
    Holy crap, i felt that

    • @allesdurchprobiert
      @allesdurchprobiert Рік тому +5

      As I kid, I thought I would never be like that. Unlike the elders, I grew up with video games, so I'd always be somewhat good at them.
      Today at 40: Hold on! To play this casual switch game, I'd need to have a quick look at the controls?! Why oh why must games be so complicated these days?! There's like more than 4 buttons AND two analog sticks, and everything moves way too fast!

  • @SwoleCole89
    @SwoleCole89 Рік тому +531

    Watching him feel stress hit me with actual stress. Why so good Ryan? Why. So. Good?

    • @Real_MisterSir
      @Real_MisterSir Рік тому +5

      Clearly he has extensive experience in the field of stress to be able to portray it this well..

    • @etherealicer
      @etherealicer Рік тому +7

      Yeah... I really need to know if he got the project done in time!!!

    • @monozuki
      @monozuki Рік тому

      Love the Uncle Roger cross-over, read it in his voice even lol

  • @Ao-vj9pz
    @Ao-vj9pz Рік тому +7

    My brain: Let's look into some info about law degree while having a test several hours away which we barely revised for

  • @sashah2006
    @sashah2006 Рік тому +6

    Ryan George videos are the only ones where I do not skip the ads at the end. He makes even those videos fun to watch!

  • @hunterkiller1440
    @hunterkiller1440 Рік тому +96

    Everything suddenly seems more interesting when you have a 5000 word essay due in 6 hours and you've only written the title.

    • @TheAeris07
      @TheAeris07 Рік тому +8

      Been there, ironically I got better grades from writing a paper in an hour then spending days on it.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 Рік тому +6

      "Things not to do at a stoplight"

    • @singingway
      @singingway Рік тому +2

      More interesting and more urgent!

  • @jackservans6906
    @jackservans6906 Рік тому +172

    I was doing homework and saw this in my feed. I added it to my Watch Later and kept going, finishing the assignment. Ryan’s brain would be proud of me.

    • @donrol93
      @donrol93 Рік тому +17

      Watch Later playlists are tight!

  • @haeherfeder0221
    @haeherfeder0221 Рік тому +4

    Coming back to this every now and again… especially when I’m procrastinating something… love it

  • @ItsHyomoto
    @ItsHyomoto Рік тому +2

    Your brain when you wanted to watch something and UA-cam suggests a Ryan George video you've already seen.

  • @osheridan
    @osheridan Рік тому +212

    Petition for a full-length rabbit hole song to watch while procrastinating:

  • @kylejohnson6557
    @kylejohnson6557 Рік тому +381

    And that’s as close to what it’s like for me having ADHD. It’s like having a roommate in your head who never shuts up, and for whom the ending of EVERY sentence is a jumping off point for another topic.

    • @heckingbamboozled8097
      @heckingbamboozled8097 Рік тому +30

      Yup, my search history is filled with random questions that pop into my head throughout the day

    • @mineduck3050
      @mineduck3050 Рік тому +5

      Yes but solitary confinement is much easier for us, so it's like crime is on the table.

    • @CrochetDHD
      @CrochetDHD Рік тому +6

      @Hecking Bamboozled Same, and because I think of something else while researching the random thing, I have hundreds of open tabs filled will random queries across multiple browsers and devices. Isn't ADHD great? 😉

    • @blablup1214
      @blablup1214 Рік тому +7

      @@CrochetDHD Asking a lot of questions at least sounds like you learn a lot ;)

    • @lakobosros2326
      @lakobosros2326 Рік тому +1

      As a certified person with ADHD, I can confirm that that is very true.

  • @myscreen2urs
    @myscreen2urs Рік тому +6

    I like how brain keeps punishing Ryan for the stuff ups that brain makes

  • @welchworks
    @welchworks Рік тому +8

    Ryan, your genius ability to comically articulate human nature never ceases to amaze!

  • @kylecorbinmusic
    @kylecorbinmusic Рік тому +155

    Me literally having a deadline tomorrow morning…

  • @casguldentops984
    @casguldentops984 Рік тому +794

    As an ADHD'er I relate to this so hard

    • @StellarTalk_English
      @StellarTalk_English Рік тому +40

      I also relate to this video so hard! And I have my first screening for ADHD in less than an hour :D

    • @schrodingerskatze4308
      @schrodingerskatze4308 Рік тому +42

      I don't think you need ADHD to relate to this

    • @casguldentops984
      @casguldentops984 Рік тому +81

      @@schrodingerskatze4308 true, everyone can relate to this, it's just that people with ADHD might relate to this "harder"(?).

    • @FlorentChardevel
      @FlorentChardevel Рік тому +61

      Actually, as an ADHDer, I'm trying to allow myself to do more "productive procrastination". And I don't think you should feel guilty about that.
      Forcing myself to do a specific task often leads to doing nothing, so instead I allow myself to do stuff that I feel like doing right now, with a tasks list I check in whatever order.
      Eventually the more boring tasks will need actual deadlines (and some stress) to be done, but overall I'm more productive and less depressed this way!

    • @FlorentChardevel
      @FlorentChardevel Рік тому +10

      @@StellarTalk_English let us know how it went!

  • @holyheretic3185
    @holyheretic3185 Рік тому +23

    We're missing the realest part of this... I'm in my late 20's, his "were just not good at videogames anymore" hit waaaay too hard!

  • @N8ExtrAwesome
    @N8ExtrAwesome Рік тому +1

    "Productive procrastination is still procrastination." Woah, that's really good.

  • @avimo2565
    @avimo2565 Рік тому +375

    Watching you is one of my favorite hobbies. My brain immediately reacted when this came out!

    • @GhostFox_1
      @GhostFox_1 Рік тому +3

      Same

    • @TheJesselopez1981
      @TheJesselopez1981 Рік тому +5

      Brain: "Hey look its that guy that makes those super literal videos you like. Should we watch?"
      Me: "Uh....yeah!"
      Brain: "Have some endorphins."
      Me: 🤤

  • @avimo2565
    @avimo2565 Рік тому +217

    The return of the Stupid Dumb Brain Headquaters! I love the continuity of the great Ryanverse! Keep up the good work!

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 Рік тому +2

      Do you happen to remember what the other video(s) featuring it are?

    • @shorty685
      @shorty685 Рік тому +5

      @@camelopardalis84 there was the one about being too tired to sleep, not sure if there's been any others but I hope there's more in the future

    • @avimo2565
      @avimo2565 Рік тому +3

      @@camelopardalis84 when you’re too tired to sleep

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 Рік тому +1

      @@shorty685 Thanks, I have seen that one, but didn't recognise the concept.

    • @camelopardalis84
      @camelopardalis84 Рік тому +1

      @@avimo2565 Thank you! I do remember the video you mention, but the interior of the brain in this one didn't look familiar.

  • @PumpkinKing-ruler-of-pumpkins
    @PumpkinKing-ruler-of-pumpkins Рік тому +4

    it would be really funny if this is how ryan george was acting while trying to think of a video idea then he came up with this video idea

  • @raydunakin
    @raydunakin Рік тому +1

    Not only is Ryan every character in the Ryan Cinematic Universe, he's also every character's hair follicles.

  • @CNC-Time-Lapse
    @CNC-Time-Lapse Рік тому +121

    As a software developer who goes from deadline to stressful deadline, this is my life... UA-cam is my "Rabbit hole, rabbit hole, rabbit hole" during deadlines... lol

  • @DumblyDorr
    @DumblyDorr Рік тому +206

    As someone with ADHD procrastinating on a deadline right now... this was great! :'-)
    …now, what to watch next…

    • @questionablehistorian9335
      @questionablehistorian9335 Рік тому +6

      I should be doing math homework right now. But...I can't.
      Thanks ADHD!

    • @lodxmas
      @lodxmas Рік тому +4

      How about watching a 30 minutes motivational video on how to stop procrastinating when you clearly don't have 30 minutes or better read the comments for 30 minutes.

    • @belldrop7365
      @belldrop7365 Рік тому +3

      @@questionablehistorian9335 Gotta miss the days that the only thing at risk is homework. Nowadays it's an ever growing backlog of games.

    • @hayleyhowarth8330
      @hayleyhowarth8330 Рік тому +5

      Same, I have a 5 page paper on crisis intervention due tomorrow and I have 2 paragraphs written. The stress from procrastination is sending me into a crisis. Maybe I should call one of those crisis hotlines and see how they intervene and take notes. But, of course, I can’t my phone calls until my house is clean. You know what they say, messy bed messy head. I wonder where that phrase came from…..

    • @questionablehistorian9335
      @questionablehistorian9335 Рік тому +3

      @@hayleyhowarth8330 Mine was 5 pages on the Indian Caste system. It's something I'm really interested in, but it was still a nightmare. When I get that way I remember what my grandma said "If it's not going to matter a year from now, don't let it stress you". Your mental health is more important than anything else.

  • @natashaserafimovska5135
    @natashaserafimovska5135 2 місяці тому +1

    For a moment I thought he’d go down the rabbit hole of researching where the expressions “holy crap” and “we’re on the same page” came from 😂

  • @lauracoutinho5478
    @lauracoutinho5478 Рік тому +1

    That's just great, now I am going to have "rabbit hole, rabbit hole, rabbit hole!" stuck in my head all day. It doesn't even have a tune, it's not a song! Yet now my brain won't let it go.

  • @m0L3ify
    @m0L3ify Рік тому +133

    I actually do music production for a living and have the exact same problem. I'm going to have that rabbithole beat stuck in my head for all eternity now. Thanks, Ryan's brain. 😂

    • @douglaswilburn9278
      @douglaswilburn9278 Рік тому +7

      Unless you just produce an actual song out of with

    • @m0L3ify
      @m0L3ify Рік тому +7

      @@douglaswilburn9278 You know it's gonna make it into one someday by accident 😂

  • @C3L51U5
    @C3L51U5 Рік тому +51

    It's funny because I read some doctors that studied stress and procrastination is that your brain makes you do this kind of things during deadlines, because deadlines stress you, so it makes you procastinate so you don't stress out xD

  • @Feesh322
    @Feesh322 Рік тому

    Watching this gave me what I needed to finally do something I've been dreading for DAYS. Thank you!

  • @opedromagico
    @opedromagico Рік тому

    Brain is just an antenna, consciousness is generated somewhere else. Maybe in Ryan's multiverse!

  • @squee599
    @squee599 Рік тому +75

    The fact that the follicle had a mustache is just perfection. The real video is in the ads.

    • @grumpy9721
      @grumpy9721 Рік тому

      I thought it was Ryan's eyes and mouth glued on "Follicle" 😬😁

  • @deadlypandaghost
    @deadlypandaghost Рік тому +36

    Glad I'm not the only one who is productively cleaning while singing about rabbitholes to procrastinate.

  • @liz5054
    @liz5054 Рік тому

    Just want to say the writing, the pacing of the sketch, and the acting are top notch - love it! So relatable!

  • @Santanilla
    @Santanilla Рік тому

    After a stressful day your videos are the best for relaxing, super clever and super fun to watch , thanks for making these.

  • @fartherout.1046
    @fartherout.1046 Рік тому +113

    how does ryan create such a deep and relatable video yet still pull off an amazing hair follicle impression

    • @chickster2111
      @chickster2111 Рік тому +3

      It's super easy,barely an inconvenience...

    • @Chetloore
      @Chetloore Рік тому

      I'm gonna need you to get all the way off his back about it.

    • @chickster2111
      @chickster2111 Рік тому

      @@Chetloore OK sir,let me get all the way back off that thing...

    • @Chetloore
      @Chetloore Рік тому

      @@chickster2111 lmao. I love Ryan's community. It's even better on other channels when we unite lol.

    • @chickster2111
      @chickster2111 Рік тому

      @@Chetloore wow wow wow....wow...

  • @TheRibottoStudios
    @TheRibottoStudios Рік тому +256

    One time in college junior year I barely got a SIX PAGE ESSAY for my history class done by the deadline. The deadline was 11:59pm had to submit it by then and it was worth a QUARTER OF MY GRADE. I spent a total of 6 hours on it (so two pages per hour cause I SPENT an hour just STARING at the screen figuring out how to start it) and somehow not only passed the plagiarism test but got a B on it. That is the dumbest biggest achievement I've ever had in my life.
    Because trying to finish college while depressed out of your mind TRYING to fight the urge to unsubscribe from life is just the worst kind of thing to put yourself through. I don't know what it is about high pressure situations that brings out the best in me but I'd love to be able to avoid that cause the aftermath SUCKS.

    • @XFizzlepop-Berrytwist
      @XFizzlepop-Berrytwist Рік тому

      Thats awesome!
      College really does suck though, most jobs are, you show up, and go home.
      College does little to really prepare you for a work life, aside from something like law school, or med school.
      But for some reason you cant jump straight into med school/Law school.
      A lot of jobs dont even need a college degree.

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios Рік тому +5

      @@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist college at least puts you into different social standards than your home might or your high school. So I'll give it that. And I was able to get a part time job as well, save up some cash (that was a bad idea in hindsight cause it was just MORE stress on TOP of my stress) and then because of my depression that at the time I didn't even KNOW was depression, I became THAT person in group projects.
      You know, the one that doesn't do that work but passes. I felt bad, but couldn't bring myself to care at the time. College was not an overall good time for me, if I could do it again, there's a lot I'd change. Mostly, getting help for myself mentally. I did make a lot of new friends via pokemon though and that I wouldn't change at all.

    • @DadaIorian
      @DadaIorian Рік тому +3

      Sounds like EXACTLY my college experience.

    • @TaozenTaiji
      @TaozenTaiji Рік тому +7

      As someone who also dealt with severe depression and struggled in college exactly like you described, might I suggest looking into an ADHD eval? My diagnosis was too late to save college performance, but it's done wonders for life afterwards (including depression)

    • @nutbastard
      @nutbastard Рік тому +4

      Pffft, that's nothing I once wrote a 5 page college essay about the parallels between Chinese and Korean martial arts archetypes without doing more than 20 minutes of research and maybe an hour of actual writing and I wasn't even in the class, dude promised me $80 if I could land a C or better. Secured a B-, homeboy passed his Korean Cinema class, and I paid my rent on time.
      Then I did a back flip and snapped the bad guys neck. The last part isn't true but the rest is.

  • @YossGold
    @YossGold Рік тому +2

    The only channel on UA-cam where we actually benefit from advertising. We get two sketches!!

  • @VicJang
    @VicJang Рік тому

    Definitely my favorite skits channel on UA-cam. Love you, Ryan.

  • @TheMonkeyShowOnline
    @TheMonkeyShowOnline Рік тому +288

    Good to know that Ryan's procrastination instincts haven't stopped him from consistently creating these amazing videos year after year.
    Maybe he has a whole other section of his mind called the Awesome Smart Head Bunker that successfully runs productivity counter-ops against the Stupid Dumb Brain Headquarters.

    • @ceebee2858
      @ceebee2858 Рік тому +9

      I'm definitely going to build one of these for myself! Great idea!

    • @feldon27
      @feldon27 Рік тому +9

      No he's just really good at Photoshopping out the shock collar I decided.

    • @jasonkay869
      @jasonkay869 Рік тому +8

      No, creating these videos is obviously how Ryan procrastinates from getting his real work done!!!

  • @BrynjarReynisson
    @BrynjarReynisson Рік тому +113

    We need a romcom with Ryan and his follicle😂😂 I love Ryans ads. They're always just as hilarious as the sketch

  • @SunnahTaqwa
    @SunnahTaqwa Рік тому

    I am absolutely astounded at the accuracy of every single detail of this video, down to the extension from the reasonable supervisor who replies within a minute. Ugh I hate myself so much now

  • @pashby69
    @pashby69 Рік тому

    Watching this at work while NOT on a break. Spot on!

  • @somedude8182
    @somedude8182 Рік тому +19

    "That is deep, you just blew me" my favorite line

  • @Mason_Malakai_Leroux
    @Mason_Malakai_Leroux Рік тому +62

    Now I want Ryan to release a rap about rabbit holes

    • @eienvine
      @eienvine Рік тому +2

      New track by Ryan George, featuring Ryan George's brain on backup vocals.

  • @nateleeds4160
    @nateleeds4160 8 місяців тому

    Honestly, Rian is so good, the ads are entertaining!
    You have the sketch, completely and utterly comical, then the just as good ads.

  • @aes0p895
    @aes0p895 Рік тому +1

    this is probably the best one you've ever done. really spot on.

  • @ninjaduck3k
    @ninjaduck3k Рік тому +14

    This isn't even a sketch, this is just a documentary of me working on almost any project.

  • @shradibop
    @shradibop Рік тому +9

    2:03 "if you put your 'me' to it"
    veeeery clever...

  • @melodyandmaddietalks8941
    @melodyandmaddietalks8941 Рік тому

    the fact that u actually got that beat stuck in my head, further having me procrastinate my project by watching this video cz I was procrastinating and now im prolly gonna go search sum ab procrastinating tyy.

  • @davinolson3604
    @davinolson3604 Рік тому +18

    As a procrastinator myself, this is way too accurate...

  • @calebhoekstra7760
    @calebhoekstra7760 Рік тому +21

    Currently watching this while I have a deadline tonight so this is very accurate. Also the "you just blew me" was great

  • @leafan101
    @leafan101 Рік тому +35

    As a non-procrastinator, this video is stressful to watch. Like a procrastination simulator. Well done.

    • @mikamussi
      @mikamussi Рік тому +18

      as a procrastinator, i envy you

    • @singingway
      @singingway Рік тому +22

      Seriously? A non procrastinator? To me, you are an admired fiction, a unicorn!

    • @averagejoe2232
      @averagejoe2232 Рік тому +8

      Wait, you exist?? *Prods with stick* Whoaaaa

    • @l.36125
      @l.36125 Рік тому

      you are blessed, use this superpower wisely

    • @lonelylama5222
      @lonelylama5222 Рік тому

      I didn't even know that existed! Wow wow wow wow.... wow.

  • @tedtalk9999
    @tedtalk9999 Рік тому +1

    This a video perfectly reflects on what I do for projects and school work good job!

  • @pepegroda9609
    @pepegroda9609 Рік тому

    This is definitely one of the best Ryan George sketches so far!

  • @zavi3rz
    @zavi3rz Рік тому +23

    That panic attack scene almost gave me a panic attack 😂

  • @connorwilson2475
    @connorwilson2475 Рік тому +118

    The evolution of Ryan is incredible and hilarious

  • @Simon-vx8kw
    @Simon-vx8kw Рік тому +5

    Also a wonderful description of my ADHD neurodivergent brain … every single moment of every single day 😂. Great one Ryan … absolutely love it 👍❤

  • @singingway
    @singingway Рік тому +1

    1. The me which thinks every task is too hard, confusing, scary and overwhelming, and can't seem to figure out where to start 2. The me which kicks in ONLY at the eleventh hour, laser focused, rushing, shouting, "done is better than perfect!" 3. The me which criticizes about how much better the outcome would have been if I had had more TIME to do it.

  • @creativeartstudios6792
    @creativeartstudios6792 Рік тому +11

    2:09 i expected this to go into a skillshare sponsorship

    • @IshowSongNames
      @IshowSongNames Рік тому

      Same everyone surely did think it too

    • @ryanmeehan3438
      @ryanmeehan3438 Рік тому

      He does ads at the end with the adstronaut. Didn’t catch me there 😂

  • @mathismath2098
    @mathismath2098 Рік тому +26

    Great video to watch while avoiding working on something before the deadline

    • @Daye04
      @Daye04 Рік тому

      Rabbit hole, rabbit hole, rabbit hole

  • @kawaiijeff9971
    @kawaiijeff9971 Рік тому +5

    I laughed way harder than I should've this was way too relatable