Since this video is back in the algorithm, let me issue a clarification. As many of the comments correctly note - *_playing with ego can be a very dangerous game_* relative to your mental health. I mentioned this somewhat in passing in the video when I talked about utilizing punishment, but the main thing I regret about this video in retrospect is not emphasizing this further. Unless you are very in tune with your mental health and can recognize when to pull out if your psyche is in danger, stick to the "reinforcement" side of the conditioning (noting that this can include both positive and negative reinforcement), or you could do some serious damage to yourself (as happened to me).
Fair, but this video is still a refreshing departure from the anti-ego stuff I hear all the time. In the context of all that I feel like it balances out.
Suggest that you really examine more deeply your long chain questioning technique It could be incredibly powerful if we use it wisely ! And it could lead to a deep questioning of the conventional life that most of us lead, And some questioning at least must be healthy. In fact your questioning technique could be evolved into writing a whole book on the spiritual application of this technique.
he doesnt lol, its full of bullshit. He's just saying usual shits that people want to ear about being an enhanced human 🤖 "we only use 20% of our brain" is a myth... How the fuck a programmer will know anything about psyche without any psychology background lol. First way to awake your brain and yourself, get a critical mind
All the best motivational speakers are dead. Jim Rohn, Florence Nightingale; Gravemind has done a really good job getting their info on UA-cam. At least in a more entertaining way than just listening to a lecture.
It’s nice how open you are about this kinda stuff. You could easily pass any of your success off as just being talented or naturally smart, but instead you freely teach how it can be replicated
In some ways it's copium - I very much want the reason for everything to be something tangible and not inherent ability, because otherwise I would just feel bad about it. But yeah, in some ways, these recent videos have been public disclosure of my journey of self-discovery, with some practical advice and extra insights mixed in.
@@ColinGalen I'm just curious, why would you feel bad if the reason for everything was some innate, intangible ability? Would it diminish your success in your mind? Is it because it makes you feel personally limited in how many layers of abstraction you can reach in thought? Just curious.
@@skrillexbeast1 hopefully he makes a video just to answer this question but for starters, it would imply that there exist concepts that others get intuitively, but that Colin can't ever grasp, no matter how hard he works
@@ColinGalen I really respect you sharing your thoughts process. You are extremely noble for sharing this information. I used these methods before I even found this video and have had great success in developing my working knowledge of complex antivirus logistics. You have a great mind 👑
I'm stuck in my head most days and always fear regretting what I haven't done. It places me in an everlasting cycle of disappointment. You have opened a door I didn't even realize was shut, and granted me the opportunity to embrace my potential. Thank you
I've faced a similar fear myself (particularly since neuroplasticity is a limited resource). All I'm aiming to do is split my time between the stuff I want to get done, so I can at least convince myself that I'm making progress in everything? Good luck with your stuff
Hey there glad you succeded So you started doing the thing you dread and while doing it you thought about a key motivatior? Explain to me in detail please my friend
That's the brains way of keeping you in a continuous loop pattern. It prevents change and promotes the oh so familiar stuck cycle. You need to do the 54321 method that I learned from Mel Robbins and by doing that stops your sub conscious and activates your consciousness so that you can move forward with whatever it is you wanted to do since your subconscious is always in control you end up forgetting consciously that you were focusing on something and your subconscious goes back into work and then you try to be mindful about the same thing again and then you forget that you will be mindful of it it's that repeated pattern again that loop in the brain is definitely designed that way
Bro, hundreds of self help/ motivation books couldn’t articulate what you just did in 11 minutes. You compressed so much insane info into a basic formula that anyone can do. I have never been given this much free value from anything. I’m sure we would all love to hear you dive deeper into these topics and show us more tips and tricks…
20 years of reading books and listening to audios I couldn’t wrap my mind around the principle of focusing on happiness making things happen. They always say it like it’s just some magic that will happen (example : the secret, the law of attraction). With this video I understand exactly what it’s supposed to be.
😒 *As per your opening line sentence did you eVeR thinK thaT maybe 🤔 your ConSciouSNesS was NoT deVeLoPeD enough so thaT you couLd cLeaRLy see thaT the answer aLWaYs was righT in fRonT oF you.!?!* 👁
For those who’re lazier. Talk to your subconscious, no seriously, talk to them. Imagine it as a different you with their eyes closed but floating and sentient nonetheless. Language is our most powerful tool as humans
@@MrJCerqueira CBT has helped, and this is also a form of CBT. But I admit that things like faith and spirituality when done right completely blow CBT out of the park (technically still cbt). The key is micro-dose delusion and stay aware. Gl to you too
As a procrastinator, I think I definitely end up linking my task with fear and survival on the day before an assignment and I end up studying better than how I would beforehand
It reminds me when taken the last exams at school. The people knew the results were important that it it's life changing. This is why most people for a month or more leading up to the exams. They all did extra work and studied at home. And many had a study schedule with the different subjects. And they could work work out how much time they to spend on a subject. I know this worked for me. As I got the results I wanted in the core subjects. In other subjects that I didn't think mattered as much. I did not do as well in.
You have no idea how powerful this lecture is. It basically summarizes all human nature,philosophy and psychology under 12 minutes. Absolutely remarkable.
I put my brain to work solving problems when im sleeping. I usually have an answer by morning. Sometimes I wake up just to congratulate myself and write it down before going back to sleep. Amazing thing, the brain.
No exaggeration: This is the best, most useful advice I think I have ever received. You are going to have astounding success in life. And of course, you are generous in helping others succeed. Thank you for being you.
I'm really just doing it one step at a time - these videos are forcing me to think deeply about certain concepts and generate insights related to them, and by the end of the thinking/research process I have enough knowledge to make a comprehensive presentation.
@@ColinGalen f u i want to do the exact same like, put everything i gather in something like a webpage where i force myself to invest in new skills and inevitably become unstopable and die. yes frick mental stabilityyyy lmaooo healing comes AFTER I REACH MY LIMIT
You've got to be really careful with the negative emotions. Being driven by a fear of failure can be paralyzing and can damge relationships. That said, I really appreciate your insight about finding the positive primal "why" and connecting a task with that.
That's true, but the real point to take away from this is that there's no way to permanantly avoid negativity. Negative feelings or emotions come and go just as sicknesses come and go and thunderstorms come and go. He's saying a lot without actually saying much. Just basically ->good feeling = being good at something. Which, is something that can't necessarily be verified as 'feelings' aren't something that can be measured and therefore not something that can be studied and proved. While It's true that being in a better *state* (physical, mental, etc.) can greatly influence the quality of production, emotions play an unreliable role in it. edit: Basically, "if you care about whatever it is that you're doing, you'll do a better job at it." Which is true, but it's not exactly a ground-breaking "hack" in "controlling the sub-conscious mind"
@John Doe To 'remove yourself from competition' is to remove yourself from reality. Because the reality is that there's simply not always enough for everyone to get what they want when they want it or need it. Or more aptly, If you're dealt a shit hand in life, or if you're part of the working class majority, *then* it starts to become a struggle to get what's really wanted/needed. Life is always a social/politics game and you can't just choose to "forfeit" it just because you don't agree with it. Otherwise how could people be able to survive?
@John Doe Well, in order to get the best things in life, that's kind of the mentality that people adopt in order to survive. Life is always about selling a product, meeting a quota or deadline, and if you aren't proving your worth to society in some way, you're as good as dead weight and get nothing in return for it. It's just the way it is.
@@anomallie Sure you can "forfeit" it. Ever heard of self termination? Those who find the power in themselves to proceed to it are the true winners, the no longer slaves in this god-forsaken, diabolical "system".
My Goodness!. Who are you!!! For over 35 years I've been a student of the so called Law Of Attraction...my home library is full of motivational books. You condensed 35 years of study into 11 mins. Bravo 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 and thank you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
This is relatable to me. I am a 70 year old software engineer, and I love to solve problems. I don't actively think about it. Instead, I allow my "other mind" to do the "work". A smaller part of my mind can then memorialize the steps that my unconscious conceives as an elegant solution. At this point I have to convince stakeholders to buy into my solution. So unconscious pure thought must meld with practical gather-hunter politics. That is the real challenge. Multiple stakeholders on a panel can be extremely territorial.
Remember to always give back. I find it equally satisfying to share this with my people everyday ☺️ just like a basic cell passing on information from one cell to another
Massive thanks for the massive dono - I have not figured out a good way to respond to these, but what I can say is thanks (again) and glad I could help :)
Wow amazing video, I am 66, I remember my mother complaining about the new generations and how bad they were. We are so fortunate that we have a way now to connect to the amazing young people like yourself who have open these old eyes to the universe and the wonders of the galaxies. Thank you so much, this world is in such a great place with people like yourself to lead us.
Wow, fundamental critical thinking skills apparently are in such short supply that it appears even older people are swooned by it. Your mother was right and it’s only gotten worse. Public education needs to start producing this kind of gentleman en masse and soon or our march into dystopia will continue. Thanks Obama.
Well done! I'm 70 and my experience includes training as a hypnotist. You've learned a lot in a few years and you share it in an accessable way. Your info includes "secrets" of how hypnosis works. Keep up the great work. 🎉
@@muntajibkhan4986Sort of. The working memory limitations don't apply to the subconscious mind, and I have had luck hypnotizing myself to have better control over my focus for sort periods. But, remembering to do it is a definite issue and I have no idea what the long term consequences are if you do so too often.
In my bachelors degree program, I started strong and kept getting all A's. The more courses I finished, the more I became terrified of getting a B in a class and breaking the streak. The fear totally worked. As the courses got more advanced, I was automatically motivated to put in as much time and effort as necessary. I finished in February with a 4.0 GPA and all kinds of awards. A few weeks back, I saw a study that showed how focusing on the negative consequences of failure is far more effective than positive thinking when it comes to success. I consider myself living proof of that. But focusing on happy subconscious motivators is probably much healthier. 😆
...and too many negative consequences over too much time for too many reasons can backfire, especially when those negative situations are irreversibly detrimental and/or outside of one's own control. So the negative can motivate either way, succeed or give up...agreed, positive motivators are likely healthier/better under the right circumstances.
My mother trained us to close our eyes and take three steps backward when we couldn't remember something as a trigger to remember. After practicing this trick became super effective.
I feel like negative emotions are very risky. The subconscious mind is not a friend of negatives. It's much more effective to associate good outcomes with the task you are doing than fear of punishment if you don't do it. People will more likely become depressed and therefore do even less when they do not manage to solve the problem or complete the task at hand if they used the fear of failure as a motivation. Always bet on the carrot, not the stick.
Science says otherwise, fear is a way stronger motivator than positivity. Think about how much adrenaline is released when you’re running from a bear vs having a fun time with friends.
@@BartholomewRoberts17 I am saying its bad in the long run. Your wellbeing influences the rest of your mind and body. Always being afraid makes one ultimately incompetent.
@@ghostofuchiha3807 I see what you mean, constantly being in fear is obviously not healthy. But I think the way to use fear as a motivator is in small bursts to supercharge your willpower and work ethic. Like taking a few minutes to imagine all the negative outcomes of completely failing in life. Huberman talks about this check him out.
@@BartholomewRoberts17 what science are you talking about? The neurotransmitter of motivation is dopamine, which is associated with rewarding activities. Adrenaline is a stress hormone, necessary for acute stress events but long term, chronic stress leads to burn out, chronic inflammation, depression, dementia and a plethora of health ailments. It's not a sustainable health or productivity mindset.
@@taihewuji2044 Yeah I never said to be fearful or stressed out all the time. You use that neural pathway in short bursts. For example, for a few minutes you can imagine how things in your life would be in the worst case scenario, like if you miserably failed at achieving all your goals. Also, the brain is way more complex than saying motivation purely comes from dopamine. Consistent focus, which is a big part of maintaining motivation, relies on both adrenaline and dopamine to flourish.
I have been doing this technique of yours instinctively for so many years and without any algorithm. But my most important motivation is to help solve other people's problems without any expectations.My key was Selflessness.
@@VishnuPriya-bo1ue because they all reinforce envisioning all the wealth and success and other goals on a consistent basis. A vision board is brilliant because by putting photographs/magazine cutouts or whatever, you have a visual medium which compounds the effects and you are supposed to look at that shit a ton. You're repeating the goals to your brain over and over and it eventually gets the message. (that was a very summarized explanation).
I think another important part of this process is actually trying to associate happiness with each individual step of what you want to do. I might start to associate happiness with making healthy smoothies in the morning, which can help me have a healthier diet, but I also have to associate happiness with the collection of ingredients and the time spent preparing the smoothie and the preparation to wake up early enough to make it. A simple task ends up having to be broken into 4 different steps that each have to be associated with happiness.
You can cut half the stuff out by buying frozen fruit in your weekly shop if you really wanted too. You don't need to wake up early to make it. Smoothies take 3 mins (depending on how nurtriant dense you want it) you can simply prepare it the night before slide it into the fridge. I don't believe making a smoothie is as complex as you're stating it will be if we follow what was suggested in the video. Maybe there's over analysis going on?
@@Martyn_Wolf I assume you don't make smoothies, because they don't taste near as good if you let them sit for any length of time. And, you do have to give yourself time to eat or drink it. So, you do have to get up a little earlier.
I started doing this thing when I was 12 years old. I'm 24 now. I was directing learning languages and performing high in education to my unconsciousness. I can tell you pros and cons. Pros: you really get good at stuff, it really works + you get really high on dopamine while doing it, it is enjoable and it feels like magic. Cons: I am in a psychological crisis for the past few years, and on therapy also (my relationships and values system got damaged because of it). And I didn't even know why I get anxious and want to run away every time I am not working towards what I taught my unconscious mind is necessary for survival. Thanks to therapy I remembered how I was experimenting with my brain when I was 12. Now I still didn't succeed in "undoing" this program, but realization brought me far. Wish me luck! And be careful with this one :)
@@mrhitsjr4775 you only have as much time on your hand as anyone else. If you train your mind to the extreme where only achieving one thing will fulfill you, you may get really good at it. But you have disregarded everything else. Family isnt so important, friends, meaning of value becomes one dimensional and how you treat and see the world around you is based on that one value. In the real world you will be exposed to family events, school and so on. I think he talks about the anxiousness that arises when you see time spent with family and so on as "wasted" as it doesnt get you to your one dimensional ambition. maybe not in a literal sense but your subconscious mind feeds you those feelings anyways, as you trained it that anything but the one thing doesnt bring happiness. Maybe you could see it as opportunity cost. Any time spent not on the problem is a cost of attention time to the problem thus prolonging your achievement of your goal. Therefore an unsettling feeling and other everyday tasks seem like torture. A Capitalistic driven person feels anxiousness when cash flow is going down, not just when working but it affects you in every aspect of your life. What should you be careful about? I think he means that you shouldnt go too extreme into one single achievement while visualizing it. Certain other things have to be accounted for too. Social life, Family life, etc. Remember, you have responsibilities to others too, not only your own aspirations and that your "focused" work can influence your surrounding environment, the way your surrounding perceives you and how it treats you. you can not disregard your environment. --maybe explains why many geniuses have been socially so awkward and interacted so uniquely with their surroundings because they have made up their mind about what is important, and social norms were not one of them. But eventually most of them went a little crazy. Often miserable. I truly believe Colin is touching on the root of growing unhappiness in our workforce as many workers subconscious focus lies in the fear of losing the job. so in a way, through existential threat, companies force you to align your subconscious goal with their goal as achieving their goal directly correlates to your basic needs for survival. Now we can go a step further with marketing consumer goods. Ads of products and growing popularity of a product trains your subconscious that you want it. if you dont get it you wont feel the happiness. How do you afford the product? You do a good job and work for a salary increase. How? You fulfill the goals of the company. -> you engrain their goals as the way to your goals which in turn was subconsciously engrained in your brain by them. You dont follow your true ambitions but a set of artificially fed ambitions which brings anxiousness, depression, feeling of unfulfillment, feeling of failure, a feeling of never achieving your true ambitions, and not understanding why. This results in a added feeling of frustration. its a whole mix of emotions you cant make sense of, because you havent found your true ambitions. Self-awareness and finding out which of your actions for achieving ambitions are defined by external forces and which are true internal ambitions. IDK if im talkin shit but this is what i have found through many phases of self-reflection and drastic changes of focus in my life. It all might be misinterpreted, just food for thought.
@unknownerror755 ..wise person seeing further than what is presented. My first thought when watching this, is this is the opposite of Buddhism or Zen. Thanks for your input. I wish you well.
The thing I got from this is basically love what you do in the moment more than loving some future consequence of doing the thing. Don’t do things to “get somewhere else.” Do them because it feels good in the moment.
The greatest form of knowledge is being able to take complex ideas and being able to summarize it in a way that’s easy, a lot of self help people often make these ideas complicated but what you just explained is pretty much what a lot of self help books try and over explain. Good job man this was motivating
You’re just out here casually changing people’s lives and bringing them so much happiness... Thank you so much!! I wish you many blessings. You’re doing really good work
The fact that you are addressing these issues which are common for most people speaks volumes on ur part to impart ur knowledge and do better for the general public. Thanks for these videos, they are super insightful.
I'm so happy that I have stumbled across your channel. You change our lives for the better for free and without promoting anything bad/unnecessary. I have visualised my “chain of motivation” and I'm going to practice conditioning now when I work/study. I owe you a big, big one, my friend.
“the thing is beating you” is one of my biggest motivators. once uttered the words “because i can’t let a thermostat be smarter than me” when my roommate asked why i was fixated on figuring out unnecessary settings on it
5:49 This is actually how I was able to beat many addictions by reducing the reasonings as to why I did things to primal emotions, and I came to realize that I did a lot of the addictions out of pure habit and not even for enjoyment or benefitting my own life.
Walking yourself through the "why" chain is a key technique in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, where it's often used to attack cognitive distortions like catastrophizing. Great video!
I was intrigued by the title, but I was shocked when I got to the part at 9:43 because this is clearly a formula for giving yourself some kind of neuroticism if you are not careful. I am glad Colin has found some success with coding challenges, but I honestly think he might want to consider going to therapy after seeing this. To everyone else, take care of yourselves and please don't feel like you have to bend your subconscious minds around the intense desires of the modern world we live in. You may find that more happiness in life comes from finding what gives you peace rather than what is considered "productive" by everyone else
One part of Pavlov's experiment that isn't often talked about is what happened after his famous dog-salivating experience. When the dogs were presented with a more stimulating stimulus, the conditioned response no longer had an effect on the new stimulus, or there was a disruption. Therefore, I believe that the conditioned response you are trying to train your brain to feel (such as happiness from computer science or other areas) has a little more nuance, and you have to do it for quite some time to build that association over other stimuli that could overlap.
@@ecte6003no he means don’t fuck your brain up my gaining happiness from other sources other than what u actually want for example. Drugs, alchohol, masturbation, *ornography. Things like family is ok because your getting a job to protect and help them and you fear losing them without it
This advice is super practical! It’s easy to tell you’ve lived these ideas in real life and aren't just regurgitating the summary of a book you read. Really great stuff
This is an interesting insight. For example, i could have some hard/complex problem at hand and solve it while i'm asleep. I'm not consciously thinking about the problem while i am asleep, it's just on the background and i come up with a solution when i wake up. Somehow you can feel your brain rewiring things while you're asleep. The key here is to care so much you cannot think about anythig else, and also spend a lot of time (consciously) trying to solve it.
i have adhd so i can have trouble learning and i basically did something along these lines where i would imagine myself being super happy at being able to absorb information and learn new things and study easily. i didn't so much do the negative part, but even with just the positive stuff it made a noticeable difference in how i was able to learn. i love learning new stuff, so being able to learn better makes it kind of a proxy effect for using this method
Bro I can’t believe someone who is half of my age explained everything so fucking easily. I have read tens of books to understand the concept. I am going to try it.
As a day trader, I had to learn how to not let my ego interfere. I had to learn how to fall and be ok with losing so it doesn’t stop me from taking trades or holding trades. The fear of failure and the survival instinct making me feel like my life depended on it was making me fail. Be careful with that advice he gave in the end
This is pretty insane. I used to love CS, I'd program as a hobby, and I solved many many things I was struggling on just with random flashes of insight. I remember a problem I was trying to debug for days until one day I got on a bus and the idea - no, not an idea, the fully fledged solution - just popped into my brain. I've lost that love and recently it's just been so hard to stay motivated, and it definitely feels like I've lost a part of myself. It actually feels like I'm just not as smart any more, and that's been pretty scary. I'm glad I came across this video to show me there's a path back to how I was.
Man I think I know your issue as programmer . The biggest problem tends to be we are not finding “exciting” problems like before which keep us engaged. It’s the boredom or problem we ain’t interested in. So here is my solution on top of what he says 1) remove the habits or things more fun than programming , like watching movie, playing video games etc . Anything u enjoy more, gotta go 2) start finding problem which you like to solve first , if you can’t find it , find as close to as possible . Take it from there 3) get on computer and start programming within 90 seconds of as soon as you wake up . Try these methods
I miss your videos Colin. These have been enormously helpful for me. Haven't seen anything from you in a year, but I used to binge your channel when I was trying to get better with algorithms. Thanks for all your hard work.
@@kerenbanget1Let me try.. Imagine the scenario of what happens with us when we are laying on the bed trying to go to sleep. If we haven't done something that we should have( like studying) we think about it and start feeling regret and fear of failure ( Negative emotions ) but that boosts us sometime to get up at that moment and start doing that thing sometimes. Like i sart doing pushups or start studying at night. So basically when u don't like doing the task , close your eyes relax back and start thinking the same way we think while trying ro sleep. That will trigger the emotions and give us fuel to start working. It works for me personally. I think about fear of failure as well as Ego and happiness all three.
hi thanks a lot, i used this technique and got extremely skilled at flying drones in a very short amount of time (better than most people get in years of flying in less than a few months). thank you so much!
When this video started, my first thought was, "what wisdom could this young man have, he is too young to be wise", not verbatim, but that was the gist. I was wrong. Liked and subbed.
Fascinating ! I’ve been feeling that the thing I want to do is a calling. According to this video, that could be a sense of entitlement, since I also have my ego involved; as in this is a gift of mine, that not many people I know can achieve. Over the last few days, I’ve also realized that I need to get organized about my approach. The technique you share here adds a whole new layer, which is something I’ve also been struggling with, I’ve wanted to go deeper into the creative process. Thank you, I literally feel a beautiful shift! ❤❤❤
The whole "why" thing is basically the birth of a philosopher, which is when you really gain agency. The unconcious part is really clever because its basically rewiring your brain to associate your learning = goal with a dopamine (motivation/reward) response. You'd make good conversation ngl, and sweet vid. 👌
The hand gestures obviously your a programmer and not a public speaker but your mind ideas obviously contributes so much for progress of mankind.. starts with me. THANK YOU for existing❤.
Your videos hit straight home. It brought me to branching out my positivity to shades of positivity than just positivity. It is true that we as humans either run away from pain or towards pleasure... ( I have been a student of copywriting too ) But this was just next level! I didnt ever expect it to get so granular. Thank you so much! You made my day.
I had a similar theory early in high school after improving my computer science grade by getting myself to enjoy it, but you just articulated it perfectly in a way I haven't heard elsewhere. Write a book!
One thing on the failure thing. Don't take an ego hit, try again and focus on one aspect. Then look at that specific area of growth. Then it'll kinda show you that improvement is possible and you can get there. Otherwise there's a real chance fear of failure will block your mind from doing that task
I'll be damned, first video that makes 100% sense because the unconcious mind can also sabotage you. Now I know why it kept sabotaging me. Thank you very much, this video is worth millions.
This has got to be one of my favourite youtube videos of all time! You explain everything in a very relatable way! I've watched this video probably three or four times now, but I was recently reminded of it after hearing Tony Robbins discuss the same sort of concept: pleasure and pain are the two primary motivating forces behind all human behaviour, and how we approach anything is determined by our perception of the pleasure and pain we will experience.
love how u were vulnerable about how ur reason for having a strong subconscious may not have been the healthiest! thanks for this video, it was super insightful, and hope ur doing well❤
I feel this is why so many people excel in whatever they do is because of that anyone. When you said the unconscious mind controls pretty much everything in the background. I knew it makes sense when people say visualize what you want and if God allows it then it shows up and continues to bring you joy and prosperity. Amazing video, thank you for your hard work!
This is absolutely brilliant! For various reasons too personal and complex to get into here, I have struggled with money issues my entire life. This gives me an absolutely fantastic way to bypass all of those issues without months of lengthy therapy sessions, and motivate myself to start achieving my financial goals! Thank you! I am most definitely putting this to work--not just with money, but in multiple areas of my life!
Finally, someone I can relate to. I do take failures personally, and every time I fail at something it always bothers me as to how and why I failed at something. It feels so shameful that I've worked and tried so hard at something yet I still fail. But the good thing is that it helps me work harder to succeed
bro, your channel is the cheat code of life. You're like that guy in runescapes that gives you the weirdest yet the most effective strategies to level up as fast as possible. If life is an mmo, your channel should be the tip and tricks channel lmao as someone who nerds about similar things (psychology and efficiency) I'm happy, keep going!
You know, I'm a very spiritual person, and the things I do to achieve my goals, like manifestation and visualisation...this is basically that. I love it. I love that people are understanding brain and how to master it in their own ways. 💖💖💖☀️☀️ Thank you for making it.
Your content is very inspiring and has really kept me stable in following my passion for programming, somehow your uploads always have a solution to what problem I am facing at the time Thank you for all the content and please keep it up
Exactly correct. To me this is the definition of passion. The extreme negative reinforcement of loss and failure and the extreme positive reinforcement of acquisition and success at the same time for the same desire, task or goal. Love + hate = passion
Might be one of the most important videos i have ever watched. Just by the way you talk, i can tell how logical you are and how crisp your thinking is. Only a top engineer/ coder thinks this way.
so in a way you just described obsession. to control your subconscious and therefore excel you need to associate a singular profession, task or item with happiness, survival and prosperity. to consume your thoughts with anticipation of sucess and fear of failure. you use an ego to amplify these feelings; failure is a result of poor character and success likewise. in other words your training your brain to create highs and lows, always chasing the highs and the lows which, from what we can see, the subconscious seems to be unable to tell the difference. the mechanics behind this seems to be similar to the stuff behind addiction, which is fascinating. i would love to see if people with addictive personalities would be able to thrive in enjoyable careers more than others, or if mental/physical atheletes would be more receptive to substances or gambling. in any case, i enjoyed this video and thank you for sharing.
You know what is crazy, I was pondering the same thing at this point of my life at the same time you posted these videos. I recently pondered about these questions for a while, pondering how I acquired skills/intellect that I had and sometimes overthinking how everything works almost every day. It seems to me that you're applying your algorithmic thinking to everyday life and I'm doing the same, It almost feels like I'm watching myself!
We are all spiritual beings living in human bodies, many times now. We are all essentially the same being awakening through different pov, that’s why we are one.
What I love about your content is that you put into words what exactly it is that helps you learn well. All the time I try to replicate what I did that one time I did well at something, or learned something incredibly quickly, but it's difficult to know exactly what I did. P.S.: Usually your vids are too fast-paced for me to follow, but I guess I must have slept well today because this one just clicked in my mind immediately. Thanks and keep it up!
This is the best example of at the end of the day content is value ever, doesn’t need to have amazing graphics and fancy edits, litterly just give people valuable information, amazing!
You are wise beyond your years! At 44 yo, I have only recently learned to do this. Keep making videos. You are helping people! I recommend following some people who teach on public speaking, body language etc. You have a bright future kid!
You are right about the "ideal" path to motivation. I think it's about figuring out ones' natural tendencies towards specific fields, but money is a consideration in real survivalistic situations. I love drilling down into the details of infrastructures so I eventually became a cyber security consultant, but finding leads as a freelance can be hard sometimes and stressing about it is extremely counter productive - so *timing* and *aligning* these motivations is a big deal for me. You can't stress about money trying to do what you love, so keeping your motivations within their relevant context is important.
I know this will work. I hated reading because I couldn’t retain what I read, struggling through high school and college. But when I studied the Bible I had no issues. I realized I could retain what I loved. So I started to encourage teenagers in my church who hated school to figure out a way to care about what they were studying in order to do well. For most of them, they loved their friends, so they started helping their friends by discussing the topics they were learning, studying with them and quizzing them to help their friends do well. By becoming the “teacher/coach” the kids who took my advice excelled every time!
Ah, go figure, it’s all about the passion & love we subscribe to or feel about a desire, goal, project, person or thing. So what really drives the unconscious & makes it powerful, and willing to work with the conscious mind is LOVE, intense desire & passion. I like the way u explained what’s going on. And it’s similar to the “act as if” principle. Great talk!
Waoo… this guy is really smart I’ve been listening to endless coaches, teachers and gurus. This is the core of all teachers after they have gone through all the frills
This is a huge piece of insight for what I have been working on. This really fills the gaps in the understanding of things I feel like I was just stumbling by by accident.
In Think and Grow Rich there is a habit like the one described here. Hill advices the reader to do auto suggestion twice a day. While doing this habit, the reader should repeat aloud their main purpose, what they will give in return for it, and when it will happen. This makes you focus your conscious mind on the goal. To make use of your subconscious mind, you have to speak it's language - emotions. While thinking about your goal, use visualizations and make yourself feel good about it. Have yourself feel like you've already achieved your goal and how it makes you feel. This will further motivate your subconscious mind to achieve your goal. One thing I disagree with the video is usage of negative thoughts. If you use negativity, it will cancel the good programming and you will send mixed messages. Your subconscious mind will be confused. Do you want it or do you want to run away from it? In my experience I've transformed the negative emotions into positive ones with the mindset of no retreat. This is another idea from the book. No matter how hard it is, no matter how many you are up against, no matter the conditions, you will achieve your goal. This persistance fuels your subconscious mind and makes it easy for it to give you ideas.
Excellent job of applying computer programming to the science of thinking…especially since our brains are the most useful computers. Love the cross over and creativity. Nice job!
Since this video is back in the algorithm, let me issue a clarification. As many of the comments correctly note - *_playing with ego can be a very dangerous game_* relative to your mental health. I mentioned this somewhat in passing in the video when I talked about utilizing punishment, but the main thing I regret about this video in retrospect is not emphasizing this further. Unless you are very in tune with your mental health and can recognize when to pull out if your psyche is in danger, stick to the "reinforcement" side of the conditioning (noting that this can include both positive and negative reinforcement), or you could do some serious damage to yourself (as happened to me).
Fair, but this video is still a refreshing departure from the anti-ego stuff I hear all the time. In the context of all that I feel like it balances out.
respect brother,keep grindin'
alright sir 👊
Suggest that you really examine more deeply your long chain questioning technique
It could be incredibly powerful if we use it wisely !
And it could lead to a deep questioning of the conventional life that most of us lead, And some questioning at least must be healthy.
In fact your questioning technique could be evolved into writing a whole book on the spiritual application of this technique.
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Funny how a competitive programmer is doing a better job at motivation than literally every motivational speaker out there.
Scientific aproach it's always better, but it's not as popular because people want glowing bs
he doesnt lol, its full of bullshit. He's just saying usual shits that people want to ear about being an enhanced human 🤖
"we only use 20% of our brain" is a myth... How the fuck a programmer will know anything about psyche without any psychology background lol.
First way to awake your brain and yourself, get a critical mind
All the best motivational speakers are dead. Jim Rohn, Florence Nightingale; Gravemind has done a really good job getting their info on UA-cam. At least in a more entertaining way than just listening to a lecture.
Because he’s smart
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It’s nice how open you are about this kinda stuff. You could easily pass any of your success off as just being talented or naturally smart, but instead you freely teach how it can be replicated
In some ways it's copium - I very much want the reason for everything to be something tangible and not inherent ability, because otherwise I would just feel bad about it. But yeah, in some ways, these recent videos have been public disclosure of my journey of self-discovery, with some practical advice and extra insights mixed in.
@@ColinGalen I'm just curious, why would you feel bad if the reason for everything was some innate, intangible ability? Would it diminish your success in your mind? Is it because it makes you feel personally limited in how many layers of abstraction you can reach in thought? Just curious.
@@skrillexbeast1 hopefully he makes a video just to answer this question
but for starters, it would imply that there exist concepts that others get intuitively, but that Colin can't ever grasp, no matter how hard he works
I used to watch yo fn
@@ColinGalen I really respect you sharing your thoughts process. You are extremely noble for sharing this information.
I used these methods before I even found this video and have had great success in developing my working knowledge of complex antivirus logistics.
You have a great mind 👑
I'm stuck in my head most days and always fear regretting what I haven't done. It places me in an everlasting cycle of disappointment. You have opened a door I didn't even realize was shut, and granted me the opportunity to embrace my potential. Thank you
I've faced a similar fear myself (particularly since neuroplasticity is a limited resource). All I'm aiming to do is split my time between the stuff I want to get done, so I can at least convince myself that I'm making progress in everything? Good luck with your stuff
Hey there glad you succeded So you started doing the thing you dread and while doing it you thought about a key motivatior? Explain to me in detail please my friend
Me too, @ced-hb50q exactly! I'm thrilled to have found @ColinGalen. Thank you both.
That's the brains way of keeping you in a continuous loop pattern. It prevents change and promotes the oh so familiar stuck cycle. You need to do the 54321 method that I learned from Mel Robbins and by doing that stops your sub conscious and activates your consciousness so that you can move forward with whatever it is you wanted to do since your subconscious is always in control you end up forgetting consciously that you were focusing on something and your subconscious goes back into work and then you try to be mindful about the same thing again and then you forget that you will be mindful of it it's that repeated pattern again that loop in the brain is definitely designed that way
@@Jenna_Tailia how bout be conscious of a comma and period
Bro, hundreds of self help/ motivation books couldn’t articulate what you just did in 11 minutes. You compressed so much insane info into a basic formula that anyone can do. I have never been given this much free value from anything. I’m sure we would all love to hear you dive deeper into these topics and show us more tips and tricks…
Read "The Power of Now". Thank me later
@@aaronvigil9910 I’m on it
20 years of reading books and listening to audios I couldn’t wrap my mind around the principle of focusing on happiness making things happen. They always say it like it’s just some magic that will happen (example : the secret, the law of attraction). With this video I understand exactly what it’s supposed to be.
@@aaronvigil9910 I read it many times, It is the best book I have ever read.
😒 *As per your opening line sentence did you eVeR thinK thaT maybe 🤔 your ConSciouSNesS was NoT deVeLoPeD enough so thaT you couLd cLeaRLy see thaT the answer aLWaYs was righT in fRonT oF you.!?!* 👁
"he who has a why to live
can bear almost any how"
-Friedrich Nietzstche
Why quote an urfascist?
Because even if other ideas someone has are poor doesn’t mean all ideas they are have are poor.
@@HeathWeaverTake the good and throw the bad away.
@@alkan68Why choose to remain ignorant?
@@alkan68and you are who?
For those who’re lazier. Talk to your subconscious, no seriously, talk to them. Imagine it as a different you with their eyes closed but floating and sentient nonetheless. Language is our most powerful tool as humans
Ah, tulpamancy
@@thwartificer More or less. It's conditioning
gaslight yourself
Some religions would say you're possessed & other would say you're blessed. cbt might help. gl
@@MrJCerqueira CBT has helped, and this is also a form of CBT. But I admit that things like faith and spirituality when done right completely blow CBT out of the park (technically still cbt). The key is micro-dose delusion and stay aware. Gl to you too
As a procrastinator, I think I definitely end up linking my task with fear and survival on the day before an assignment and I end up studying better than how I would beforehand
True...
It reminds me when taken the last exams at school. The people knew the results were important that it it's life changing. This is why most people for a month or more leading up to the exams. They all did extra work and studied at home. And many had a study schedule with the different subjects. And they could work work out how much time they to spend on a subject. I know this worked for me. As I got the results I wanted in the core subjects. In other subjects that I didn't think mattered as much. I did not do as well in.
yes fear is also my biggest motivator
how is it doing now for you? I'm a chronic procrastinator.
@@peterpiper5300 still procrastinating to this day :)
You have no idea how powerful this lecture is. It basically summarizes all human nature,philosophy and psychology under 12 minutes. Absolutely remarkable.
I put my brain to work solving problems when im sleeping.
I usually have an answer by morning. Sometimes I wake up just to congratulate myself and write it down before going back to sleep.
Amazing thing, the brain.
The fuck?
@@rekhavmenon1507 oh yeah baby
How does that even work
What the- bro I gotta try this even tho I'm gonna fail
@@laiba_hussain3169 u just programmed ur subconscious mind into believing u were gonna fail did u not watch this video ? 😭😭😭😭😭
No exaggeration: This is the best, most useful advice I think I have ever received. You are going to have astounding success in life. And of course, you are generous in helping others succeed. Thank you for being you.
Success is very subjective and depends on a lot of things.
You opened my mind to so many different things, I feel like a significant part of my mental block has been lifted. Thanks.
battle cruiser are OP
@@LogoSystemCG 🤖
it can creep back in, make sure to make it new every day
yo hey i can unblock your brain too for 25 dollars also
@@LogoSystemCG prinz eugen is a heavy cruiser
YOU ARE MY LIFE MENTOR. It’s so crazy how complex the science of learning is, I hope I can master it like you did.
I'm really just doing it one step at a time - these videos are forcing me to think deeply about certain concepts and generate insights related to them, and by the end of the thinking/research process I have enough knowledge to make a comprehensive presentation.
@@ColinGalen f u i want to do the exact same like, put everything i gather in something like a webpage where i force myself to invest in new skills and inevitably become unstopable and die. yes frick mental stabilityyyy lmaooo healing comes AFTER I REACH MY LIMIT
@@babl7836 calm down vegeta, everything gonna be fine
Learn learning first. After that, all learning gets easier. Sharpen the axe for 4 hours, and then the cutting will take only 2 hours.
He has not mastered anything lol...
You've got to be really careful with the negative emotions. Being driven by a fear of failure can be paralyzing and can damge relationships. That said, I really appreciate your insight about finding the positive primal "why" and connecting a task with that.
That's true, but the real point to take away from this is that there's no way to permanantly avoid negativity. Negative feelings or emotions come and go just as sicknesses come and go and thunderstorms come and go. He's saying a lot without actually saying much. Just basically ->good feeling = being good at something. Which, is something that can't necessarily be verified as 'feelings' aren't something that can be measured and therefore not something that can be studied and proved.
While It's true that being in a better *state* (physical, mental, etc.) can greatly influence the quality of production, emotions play an unreliable role in it.
edit: Basically, "if you care about whatever it is that you're doing, you'll do a better job at it." Which is true, but it's not exactly a ground-breaking "hack" in "controlling the sub-conscious mind"
Just subbed - thanks for your honesty and practical help for your fellow human beings!
@John Doe To 'remove yourself from competition' is to remove yourself from reality. Because the reality is that there's simply not always enough for everyone to get what they want when they want it or need it. Or more aptly, If you're dealt a shit hand in life, or if you're part of the working class majority, *then* it starts to become a struggle to get what's really wanted/needed. Life is always a social/politics game and you can't just choose to "forfeit" it just because you don't agree with it. Otherwise how could people be able to survive?
@John Doe Well, in order to get the best things in life, that's kind of the mentality that people adopt in order to survive. Life is always about selling a product, meeting a quota or deadline, and if you aren't proving your worth to society in some way, you're as good as dead weight and get nothing in return for it. It's just the way it is.
@@anomallie Sure you can "forfeit" it. Ever heard of self termination? Those who find the power in themselves to proceed to it are the true winners, the no longer slaves in this god-forsaken, diabolical "system".
My Goodness!. Who are you!!! For over 35 years I've been a student of the so called Law Of Attraction...my home library is full of motivational books. You condensed 35 years of study into 11 mins. Bravo 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 and thank you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
35 years?!!! And you still haven't figured out that law of attraction is a scam?😂
Please tell me you didn't waste thousands of $$$ on Esther Hick's "wellness cruises" or manifesting coaches
35 years a dumbass
😒 🤔 😒 🤔 😒 🤔
Law of attraction is bull it goes against the fundememtals of having human emotions, u should look into the law of ASSUMPTION.
This is relatable to me. I am a 70 year old software engineer, and I love to solve problems. I don't actively think about it. Instead, I allow my "other mind" to do the "work". A smaller part of my mind can then memorialize the steps that my unconscious conceives as an elegant solution. At this point I have to convince stakeholders to buy into my solution. So unconscious pure thought must meld with practical gather-hunter politics. That is the real challenge. Multiple stakeholders on a panel can be extremely territorial.
Thank you for your interest in teaching other humans how to control their mind and become more efficient; We appreciate it
Remember to always give back. I find it equally satisfying to share this with my people everyday ☺️ just like a basic cell passing on information from one cell to another
Thank you for sharing your insights so clearly and concisely.
Holy cow..
Oh my god 100 dollars
Massive thanks for the massive dono - I have not figured out a good way to respond to these, but what I can say is thanks (again) and glad I could help :)
this dude belongs to a rich family 🥶
Damn now YT will take 50% of this donation.
Wow amazing video, I am 66, I remember my mother complaining about the new generations and how bad they were. We are so fortunate that we have a way now to connect to the amazing young people like yourself who have open these old eyes to the universe and the wonders of the galaxies. Thank you so much, this world is in such a great place with people like yourself to lead us.
Boom
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Wow, fundamental critical thinking skills apparently are in such short supply that it appears even older people are swooned by it. Your mother was right and it’s only gotten worse. Public education needs to start producing this kind of gentleman en masse and soon or our march into dystopia will continue. Thanks Obama.
@@perpitraiter what a strange comment
@@ysy_y guys got a stick up his ass
Well done! I'm 70 and my experience includes training as a hypnotist. You've learned a lot in a few years and you share it in an accessable way. Your info includes "secrets" of how hypnosis works. Keep up the great work. 🎉
I wanna know if hypnotherapy helps with ADHD.
@@muntajibkhan4986only meds , i tried múltiple things (not hipno) and ended up taking meds, this is My first week and i have noticed changes
@@muntajibkhan4986Sort of. The working memory limitations don't apply to the subconscious mind, and I have had luck hypnotizing myself to have better control over my focus for sort periods.
But, remembering to do it is a definite issue and I have no idea what the long term consequences are if you do so too often.
This video should be required viewing for everyone. This beats any motivational speech I've ever listened to.
In my bachelors degree program, I started strong and kept getting all A's. The more courses I finished, the more I became terrified of getting a B in a class and breaking the streak. The fear totally worked. As the courses got more advanced, I was automatically motivated to put in as much time and effort as necessary. I finished in February with a 4.0 GPA and all kinds of awards. A few weeks back, I saw a study that showed how focusing on the negative consequences of failure is far more effective than positive thinking when it comes to success. I consider myself living proof of that. But focusing on happy subconscious motivators is probably much healthier. 😆
...and too many negative consequences over too much time for too many reasons can backfire, especially when those negative situations are irreversibly detrimental and/or outside of one's own control. So the negative can motivate either way, succeed or give up...agreed, positive motivators are likely healthier/better under the right circumstances.
fear of failure actually makes me not do things. by not doing them, I'm sure not to fail. sigh...
Last time i got an a at anything was back in like 10th grade lol
Can u send all the details which you have worked
same ! for some minor moments i did give up that A streak stress, but ended up with a high GPA as well. not perfect 4, but award worthy lol
My mother trained us to close our eyes and take three steps backward when we couldn't remember something as a trigger to remember. After practicing this trick became super effective.
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I feel like negative emotions are very risky. The subconscious mind is not a friend of negatives. It's much more effective to associate good outcomes with the task you are doing than fear of punishment if you don't do it. People will more likely become depressed and therefore do even less when they do not manage to solve the problem or complete the task at hand if they used the fear of failure as a motivation. Always bet on the carrot, not the stick.
Science says otherwise, fear is a way stronger motivator than positivity. Think about how much adrenaline is released when you’re running from a bear vs having a fun time with friends.
@@BartholomewRoberts17 I am saying its bad in the long run. Your wellbeing influences the rest of your mind and body. Always being afraid makes one ultimately incompetent.
@@ghostofuchiha3807 I see what you mean, constantly being in fear is obviously not healthy. But I think the way to use fear as a motivator is in small bursts to supercharge your willpower and work ethic. Like taking a few minutes to imagine all the negative outcomes of completely failing in life. Huberman talks about this check him out.
@@BartholomewRoberts17 what science are you talking about? The neurotransmitter of motivation is dopamine, which is associated with rewarding activities. Adrenaline is a stress hormone, necessary for acute stress events but long term, chronic stress leads to burn out, chronic inflammation, depression, dementia and a plethora of health ailments. It's not a sustainable health or productivity mindset.
@@taihewuji2044 Yeah I never said to be fearful or stressed out all the time. You use that neural pathway in short bursts. For example, for a few minutes you can imagine how things in your life would be in the worst case scenario, like if you miserably failed at achieving all your goals.
Also, the brain is way more complex than saying motivation purely comes from dopamine. Consistent focus, which is a big part of maintaining motivation, relies on both adrenaline and dopamine to flourish.
I have been doing this technique of yours instinctively for so many years and without any algorithm. But my most important motivation is to help solve other people's problems without any expectations.My key was Selflessness.
Wow… it just clicked. This video LOGICALLY explains all of the “manifestation” videos I’ve seen. THIS makes sense. Thank you for this information 🤝
Can you explain how ?
@@VishnuPriya-bo1ue because they all reinforce envisioning all the wealth and success and other goals on a consistent basis. A vision board is brilliant because by putting photographs/magazine cutouts or whatever, you have a visual medium which compounds the effects and you are supposed to look at that shit a ton. You're repeating the goals to your brain over and over and it eventually gets the message. (that was a very summarized explanation).
I think another important part of this process is actually trying to associate happiness with each individual step of what you want to do. I might start to associate happiness with making healthy smoothies in the morning, which can help me have a healthier diet, but I also have to associate happiness with the collection of ingredients and the time spent preparing the smoothie and the preparation to wake up early enough to make it. A simple task ends up having to be broken into 4 different steps that each have to be associated with happiness.
You can cut half the stuff out by buying frozen fruit in your weekly shop if you really wanted too. You don't need to wake up early to make it. Smoothies take 3 mins (depending on how nurtriant dense you want it) you can simply prepare it the night before slide it into the fridge.
I don't believe making a smoothie is as complex as you're stating it will be if we follow what was suggested in the video.
Maybe there's over analysis going on?
@@Martyn_Wolf I assume you don't make smoothies, because they don't taste near as good if you let them sit for any length of time. And, you do have to give yourself time to eat or drink it. So, you do have to get up a little earlier.
I agree with you. I find I need to break tasks down into smaller parts to get motivated.
I started doing this thing when I was 12 years old. I'm 24 now. I was directing learning languages and performing high in education to my unconsciousness. I can tell you pros and cons. Pros: you really get good at stuff, it really works + you get really high on dopamine while doing it, it is enjoable and it feels like magic. Cons: I am in a psychological crisis for the past few years, and on therapy also (my relationships and values system got damaged because of it). And I didn't even know why I get anxious and want to run away every time I am not working towards what I taught my unconscious mind is necessary for survival. Thanks to therapy I remembered how I was experimenting with my brain when I was 12. Now I still didn't succeed in "undoing" this program, but realization brought me far. Wish me luck! And be careful with this one :)
what should i be careful about while doing this ?
@@mrhitsjr4775 you only have as much time on your hand as anyone else. If you train your mind to the extreme where only achieving one thing will fulfill you, you may get really good at it. But you have disregarded everything else. Family isnt so important, friends, meaning of value becomes one dimensional and how you treat and see the world around you is based on that one value. In the real world you will be exposed to family events, school and so on. I think he talks about the anxiousness that arises when you see time spent with family and so on as "wasted" as it doesnt get you to your one dimensional ambition. maybe not in a literal sense but your subconscious mind feeds you those feelings anyways, as you trained it that anything but the one thing doesnt bring happiness. Maybe you could see it as opportunity cost. Any time spent not on the problem is a cost of attention time to the problem thus prolonging your achievement of your goal. Therefore an unsettling feeling and other everyday tasks seem like torture. A Capitalistic driven person feels anxiousness when cash flow is going down, not just when working but it affects you in every aspect of your life.
What should you be careful about?
I think he means that you shouldnt go too extreme into one single achievement while visualizing it. Certain other things have to be accounted for too. Social life, Family life, etc. Remember, you have responsibilities to others too, not only your own aspirations and that your "focused" work can influence your surrounding environment, the way your surrounding perceives you and how it treats you. you can not disregard your environment. --maybe explains why many geniuses have been socially so awkward and interacted so uniquely with their surroundings because they have made up their mind about what is important, and social norms were not one of them. But eventually most of them went a little crazy. Often miserable.
I truly believe Colin is touching on the root of growing unhappiness in our workforce as many workers subconscious focus lies in the fear of losing the job. so in a way, through existential threat, companies force you to align your subconscious goal with their goal as achieving their goal directly correlates to your basic needs for survival.
Now we can go a step further with marketing consumer goods. Ads of products and growing popularity of a product trains your subconscious that you want it. if you dont get it you wont feel the happiness.
How do you afford the product? You do a good job and work for a salary increase.
How? You fulfill the goals of the company. -> you engrain their goals as the way to your goals which in turn was subconsciously engrained in your brain by them.
You dont follow your true ambitions but a set of artificially fed ambitions which brings anxiousness, depression, feeling of unfulfillment, feeling of failure, a feeling of never achieving your true ambitions, and not understanding why. This results in a added feeling of frustration. its a whole mix of emotions you cant make sense of, because you havent found your true ambitions.
Self-awareness and finding out which of your actions for achieving ambitions are defined by external forces and which are true internal ambitions.
IDK if im talkin shit but this is what i have found through many phases of self-reflection and drastic changes of focus in my life. It all might be misinterpreted, just food for thought.
@@unknownerror755 thanks a lot
@unknownerror755 ..wise person seeing further than what is presented. My first thought when watching this, is this is the opposite of Buddhism or Zen. Thanks for your input. I wish you well.
Does your therapist work remotely?
The thing I got from this is basically love what you do in the moment more than loving some future consequence of doing the thing. Don’t do things to “get somewhere else.” Do them because it feels good in the moment.
The greatest form of knowledge is being able to take complex ideas and being able to summarize it in a way that’s easy, a lot of self help people often make these ideas complicated but what you just explained is pretty much what a lot of self help books try and over explain. Good job man this was motivating
You’re just out here casually changing people’s lives and bringing them so much happiness... Thank you so much!! I wish you many blessings. You’re doing really good work
The fact that you are addressing these issues which are common for most people speaks volumes on ur part to impart ur knowledge and do better for the general public. Thanks for these videos, they are super insightful.
I'm so happy that I have stumbled across your channel. You change our lives for the better for free and without promoting anything bad/unnecessary.
I have visualised my “chain of motivation” and I'm going to practice conditioning now when I work/study. I owe you a big, big one, my friend.
Hey there... How is it working so far
“the thing is beating you” is one of my biggest motivators. once uttered the words “because i can’t let a thermostat be smarter than me” when my roommate asked why i was fixated on figuring out unnecessary settings on it
5:49 This is actually how I was able to beat many addictions by reducing the reasonings as to why I did things to primal emotions, and I came to realize that I did a lot of the addictions out of pure habit and not even for enjoyment or benefitting my own life.
Walking yourself through the "why" chain is a key technique in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, where it's often used to attack cognitive distortions like catastrophizing.
Great video!
Any resources to learn about Cognitive behavioural therapy you could suggest?
I was intrigued by the title, but I was shocked when I got to the part at 9:43 because this is clearly a formula for giving yourself some kind of neuroticism if you are not careful. I am glad Colin has found some success with coding challenges, but I honestly think he might want to consider going to therapy after seeing this. To everyone else, take care of yourselves and please don't feel like you have to bend your subconscious minds around the intense desires of the modern world we live in. You may find that more happiness in life comes from finding what gives you peace rather than what is considered "productive" by everyone else
As a workaholic, I see this video as an absolute win.
Jk, I can confirm this method will lead to burnout.
Hes too young to realize hes caught in the made up "productive" mindset corporations want you to have. Stay busy busy busy! Work work work!
One part of Pavlov's experiment that isn't often talked about is what happened after his famous dog-salivating experience. When the dogs were presented with a more stimulating stimulus, the conditioned response no longer had an effect on the new stimulus, or there was a disruption. Therefore, I believe that the conditioned response you are trying to train your brain to feel (such as happiness from computer science or other areas) has a little more nuance, and you have to do it for quite some time to build that association over other stimuli that could overlap.
What's even more surprising is that in the third decade of the 2000s people still pay attention to Pavlov's bs
@@ecte6003no he means don’t fuck your brain up my gaining happiness from other sources other than what u actually want for example. Drugs, alchohol, masturbation, *ornography. Things like family is ok because your getting a job to protect and help them and you fear losing them without it
This man really just sorted my life out for me...
This advice is super practical! It’s easy to tell you’ve lived these ideas in real life and aren't just regurgitating the summary of a book you read. Really great stuff
I would like to thank the UA-cam-algorithm for finding this great content. Excellent. Exactly what I need and was looking for.
This is an interesting insight.
For example, i could have some hard/complex problem at hand and solve it while i'm asleep. I'm not consciously thinking about the problem while i am asleep, it's just on the background and i come up with a solution when i wake up. Somehow you can feel your brain rewiring things while you're asleep.
The key here is to care so much you cannot think about anythig else, and also spend a lot of time (consciously) trying to solve it.
i have adhd so i can have trouble learning and i basically did something along these lines where i would imagine myself being super happy at being able to absorb information and learn new things and study easily. i didn't so much do the negative part, but even with just the positive stuff it made a noticeable difference in how i was able to learn. i love learning new stuff, so being able to learn better makes it kind of a proxy effect for using this method
Bro I can’t believe someone who is half of my age explained everything so fucking easily. I have read tens of books to understand the concept.
I am going to try it.
I love how real you are in this video. Some people won't even admit that it's their ego that's acting up.
As a day trader, I had to learn how to not let my ego interfere. I had to learn how to fall and be ok with losing so it doesn’t stop me from taking trades or holding trades. The fear of failure and the survival instinct making me feel like my life depended on it was making me fail. Be careful with that advice he gave in the end
This is pretty insane. I used to love CS, I'd program as a hobby, and I solved many many things I was struggling on just with random flashes of insight. I remember a problem I was trying to debug for days until one day I got on a bus and the idea - no, not an idea, the fully fledged solution - just popped into my brain.
I've lost that love and recently it's just been so hard to stay motivated, and it definitely feels like I've lost a part of myself. It actually feels like I'm just not as smart any more, and that's been pretty scary. I'm glad I came across this video to show me there's a path back to how I was.
Man I think I know your issue as programmer . The biggest problem tends to be we are not finding “exciting” problems like before which keep us engaged. It’s the boredom or problem we ain’t interested in. So here is my solution on top of what he says
1) remove the habits or things more fun than programming , like watching movie, playing video games etc . Anything u enjoy more, gotta go
2) start finding problem which you like to solve first , if you can’t find it , find as close to as possible . Take it from there
3) get on computer and start programming within 90 seconds of as soon as you wake up .
Try these methods
I am a hypnotist and NLP coach; you nailed it right on the head!! Fantastic video!!!
I needed this after a breakup where I lost myself from doing things that gave me happiness and purpose. Thank you for this video!
Your last 6 videos are amazing! Thank you ! Please continue if you can.
I miss your videos Colin. These have been enormously helpful for me. Haven't seen anything from you in a year, but I used to binge your channel when I was trying to get better with algorithms. Thanks for all your hard work.
As someone who is studying Psychology, this concept is super simple but also an incredibly smart way to apply it. Colour me impressed, great video
can you explain in more simple way ,because i'm a bit confused with the explanations
gaslight yourself into thinking you will die if you don't flip burgers good (fast food example)@@kerenbanget1
@@kerenbanget1Let me try..
Imagine the scenario of what happens with us when we are laying on the bed trying to go to sleep. If we haven't done something that we should have( like studying) we think about it and start feeling regret and fear of failure ( Negative emotions ) but that boosts us sometime to get up at that moment and start doing that thing sometimes.
Like i sart doing pushups or start studying at night.
So basically when u don't like doing the task , close your eyes relax back and start thinking the same way we think while trying ro sleep. That will trigger the emotions and give us fuel to start working.
It works for me personally.
I think about fear of failure as well as Ego and happiness all three.
hi thanks a lot, i used this technique and got extremely skilled at flying drones in a very short amount of time (better than most people get in years of flying in less than a few months). thank you so much!
How did you use this method? Could you elaborate on that? Thanks
Barely any water, straight to the point and explained plainly. Highly undervalued skills. Great video, thank you.
When this video started, my first thought was, "what wisdom could this young man have, he is too young to be wise", not verbatim, but that was the gist. I was wrong.
Liked and subbed.
Fascinating ! I’ve been feeling that the thing I want to do is a calling. According to this video, that could be a sense of entitlement, since I also have my ego involved; as in this is a gift of mine, that not many people I know can achieve. Over the last few days, I’ve also realized that I need to get organized about my approach. The technique you share here adds a whole new layer, which is something I’ve also been struggling with, I’ve wanted to go deeper into the creative process. Thank you, I literally feel a beautiful shift! ❤❤❤
The whole "why" thing is basically the birth of a philosopher, which is when you really gain agency. The unconcious part is really clever because its basically rewiring your brain to associate your learning = goal with a dopamine (motivation/reward) response.
You'd make good conversation ngl, and sweet vid. 👌
Your editing is so simple yet so effective. Keep it going
editing is for cosmetic only.. the content is what important..
Minecraft thumbnail ftw
The hand gestures obviously your a programmer and not a public speaker but your mind ideas obviously contributes so much for progress of mankind.. starts with me. THANK YOU for existing❤.
“You should have take failure personally” - pure gold
Your videos hit straight home. It brought me to branching out my positivity to shades of positivity than just positivity. It is true that we as humans either run away from pain or towards pleasure... ( I have been a student of copywriting too )
But this was just next level! I didnt ever expect it to get so granular. Thank you so much! You made my day.
I had a similar theory early in high school after improving my computer science grade by getting myself to enjoy it, but you just articulated it perfectly in a way I haven't heard elsewhere. Write a book!
One thing on the failure thing. Don't take an ego hit, try again and focus on one aspect. Then look at that specific area of growth. Then it'll kinda show you that improvement is possible and you can get there. Otherwise there's a real chance fear of failure will block your mind from doing that task
I'll be damned, first video that makes 100% sense because the unconcious mind can also sabotage you. Now I know why it kept sabotaging me. Thank you very much, this video is worth millions.
Kids these days are so smart. A great generation of souls I think. You gained one more subscriber, well done.
This has got to be one of my favourite youtube videos of all time! You explain everything in a very relatable way! I've watched this video probably three or four times now, but I was recently reminded of it after hearing Tony Robbins discuss the same sort of concept: pleasure and pain are the two primary motivating forces behind all human behaviour, and how we approach anything is determined by our perception of the pleasure and pain we will experience.
love how u were vulnerable about how ur reason for having a strong subconscious may not have been the healthiest! thanks for this video, it was super insightful, and hope ur doing well❤
I have ADHD and this will be a GREAT tool for corralling my attention! Thank you!
I feel this is why so many people excel in whatever they do is because of that anyone. When you said the unconscious mind controls pretty much everything in the background. I knew it makes sense when people say visualize what you want and if God allows it then it shows up and continues to bring you joy and prosperity. Amazing video, thank you for your hard work!
This is absolutely brilliant! For various reasons too personal and complex to get into here, I have struggled with money issues my entire life. This gives me an absolutely fantastic way to bypass all of those issues without months of lengthy therapy sessions, and motivate myself to start achieving my financial goals! Thank you! I am most definitely putting this to work--not just with money, but in multiple areas of my life!
Finally, someone I can relate to. I do take failures personally, and every time I fail at something it always bothers me as to how and why I failed at something. It feels so shameful that I've worked and tried so hard at something yet I still fail. But the good thing is that it helps me work harder to succeed
bro thinks he's him...
i also take failures seriously
i am still dumb as shit
bro, your channel is the cheat code of life.
You're like that guy in runescapes that gives you the weirdest yet the most effective strategies to level up as fast as possible.
If life is an mmo, your channel should be the tip and tricks channel lmao
as someone who nerds about similar things (psychology and efficiency) I'm happy, keep going!
You know, I'm a very spiritual person, and the things I do to achieve my goals, like manifestation and visualisation...this is basically that. I love it. I love that people are understanding brain and how to master it in their own ways. 💖💖💖☀️☀️ Thank you for making it.
It's exactly manifestation. Just a different approach
Great to see a young man with positive attitude, intelligence and ambition. keep it going my man you're going to do well in life 👍
Quickly becoming one of the GOATs of UA-cam, beyond just competitive programming.
did not expect this kind of video on this channel but this is gold, thanks for sharing!
3:42 Care
6:33 Feel
9:20 Ego
You forgot Ligma
Your content is very inspiring and has really kept me stable in following my passion for programming, somehow your uploads always have a solution to what problem I am facing at the time
Thank you for all the content and please keep it up
Exactly correct. To me this is the definition of passion. The extreme negative reinforcement of loss and failure and the extreme positive reinforcement of acquisition and success at the same time for the same desire, task or goal.
Love + hate = passion
This was literally the best video I have watched about improving subconscious mind
you are doing god's work, I can't express my thanks enough. it's like we were missing this type of incredibly high quality content
Great education , this Google college light , isn't it ?
This is absolute gold, thanks for making this! There's a sea of useless motivational videos out there but yours is actually fire
Might be one of the most important videos i have ever watched. Just by the way you talk, i can tell how logical you are and how crisp your thinking is. Only a top engineer/ coder thinks this way.
yes sir- not only a Top E/C thinks this way but furthermore only a normal functioning human brain can even begin this discipline.
a youtube video that has made me watch the whole thing and actually learn something new
so in a way you just described obsession. to control your subconscious and therefore excel you need to associate a singular profession, task or item with happiness, survival and prosperity. to consume your thoughts with anticipation of sucess and fear of failure. you use an ego to amplify these feelings; failure is a result of poor character and success likewise. in other words your training your brain to create highs and lows, always chasing the highs and the lows which, from what we can see, the subconscious seems to be unable to tell the difference. the mechanics behind this seems to be similar to the stuff behind addiction, which is fascinating. i would love to see if people with addictive personalities would be able to thrive in enjoyable careers more than others, or if mental/physical atheletes would be more receptive to substances or gambling. in any case, i enjoyed this video and thank you for sharing.
You know what is crazy, I was pondering the same thing at this point of my life at the same time you posted these videos. I recently pondered about these questions for a while, pondering how I acquired skills/intellect that I had and sometimes overthinking how everything works almost every day. It seems to me that you're applying your algorithmic thinking to everyday life and I'm doing the same, It almost feels like I'm watching myself!
wow that is crazy bruh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@SkjesRed a simple man, I respect that.
We are all spiritual beings living in human bodies, many times now. We are all essentially the same being awakening through different pov, that’s why we are one.
pondering the orb, are we?
What I love about your content is that you put into words what exactly it is that helps you learn well. All the time I try to replicate what I did that one time I did well at something, or learned something incredibly quickly, but it's difficult to know exactly what I did. P.S.: Usually your vids are too fast-paced for me to follow, but I guess I must have slept well today because this one just clicked in my mind immediately. Thanks and keep it up!
Thanks Colin, I really appreciate your helpful experience!
This is the best example of at the end of the day content is value ever, doesn’t need to have amazing graphics and fancy edits, litterly just give people valuable information, amazing!
You are wise beyond your years! At 44 yo, I have only recently learned to do this. Keep making videos. You are helping people!
I recommend following some people who teach on public speaking, body language etc. You have a bright future kid!
You are right about the "ideal" path to motivation.
I think it's about figuring out ones' natural tendencies towards specific fields, but money is a consideration in real survivalistic situations. I love drilling down into the details of infrastructures so I eventually became a cyber security consultant, but finding leads as a freelance can be hard sometimes and stressing about it is extremely counter productive - so *timing* and *aligning* these motivations is a big deal for me.
You can't stress about money trying to do what you love, so keeping your motivations within their relevant context is important.
I know this will work. I hated reading because I couldn’t retain what I read, struggling through high school and college. But when I studied the Bible I had no issues. I realized I could retain what I loved. So I started to encourage teenagers in my church who hated school to figure out a way to care about what they were studying in order to do well. For most of them, they loved their friends, so they started helping their friends by discussing the topics they were learning, studying with them and quizzing them to help their friends do well. By becoming the “teacher/coach” the kids who took my advice excelled every time!
Instructions clear. Now I have to manually breathe. Someone help me I haven't slept in days.
Ah, go figure, it’s all about the passion & love we subscribe to or feel about a desire, goal, project, person or thing. So what really drives the unconscious & makes it powerful, and willing to work with the conscious mind is LOVE, intense desire & passion. I like the way u explained what’s going on. And it’s similar to the “act as if” principle.
Great talk!
Waoo… this guy is really smart
I’ve been listening to endless coaches, teachers and gurus.
This is the core of all teachers after they have gone through all the frills
I'm currently studying the law of attraction, and this video brings an insight into how everything ties in together. I love it!!
Law of attraction is Satanism. Think of giving not receiving
You've been scammed
This is a huge piece of insight for what I have been working on. This really fills the gaps in the understanding of things I feel like I was just stumbling by by accident.
In Think and Grow Rich there is a habit like the one described here. Hill advices the reader to do auto suggestion twice a day. While doing this habit, the reader should repeat aloud their main purpose, what they will give in return for it, and when it will happen. This makes you focus your conscious mind on the goal. To make use of your subconscious mind, you have to speak it's language - emotions. While thinking about your goal, use visualizations and make yourself feel good about it. Have yourself feel like you've already achieved your goal and how it makes you feel. This will further motivate your subconscious mind to achieve your goal.
One thing I disagree with the video is usage of negative thoughts. If you use negativity, it will cancel the good programming and you will send mixed messages. Your subconscious mind will be confused. Do you want it or do you want to run away from it?
In my experience I've transformed the negative emotions into positive ones with the mindset of no retreat. This is another idea from the book. No matter how hard it is, no matter how many you are up against, no matter the conditions, you will achieve your goal. This persistance fuels your subconscious mind and makes it easy for it to give you ideas.
I think you saved my life. I never new I could trust my own intuition
Excellent job of applying computer programming to the science of thinking…especially since our brains are the most useful computers. Love the cross over and creativity. Nice job!