5 things I did to *finally* Stop Wasting my Evenings after work | Practical MINIMALIST Ideas

0:00 You have a best friend. He comes home tired every day just like you. But there is a difference between him and you. He doesn't waste his evenings. As soon as he reaches home, he gets ready. He goes to the gym for 30 minutes. He reads 10 pages of a book every day. He works on his new business idea for one to one-and-a-half hours. He spends time with his family. He is building his skills every evening. But on the other hand, you come home from work and say, "Yaar, I have just reached home." It's time to relax. You sit on the sofa and pick up your phone.

1:00 But in this video, we will discuss how we too can control our evenings and take one more step towards our goal. [Music] Look at this person's profile. His name is Mr. Kaba. He was the head of growth on Instagram 2. He noticed a very important pattern during that time. The first celebrities you will see are Virat Kohli, Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, and you will follow them. Whatever these celebrities are doing, Their activity will be shown in your feed, you will like it, but Mr. Kaba noticed that whoever is currently on

1:45 Instagram after eight months, that Instagram after eight months and all of them together are following Kohli and I am

2:31 following my friend, so the friend I am following is more valuable as compared to following Virat Kohli because when I spend hours and I am really a lot into that sky rocket people think that stories was the whole reason why we grew up and told stories but as many people but I mean we literally our tension doubled over the course of like a year and a half and after this we already know that after the release of stories and other features,

3:16 its retention increased even more, in short these highly qualified data engineers, product managers, all of them who get salaries worth crores of rupees, have only one goal, to consume as much of your time as possible, I will tell you another example of how skilled these people are in their work Let me give you an example, when all the people are there, that is, if there is a friend of mine

4:01 named Amit Kumar and I can go to any extent to make Explodes viral and if you want to save your evenings, you have to do exactly the opposite [Music] In 1990,

4:49 a very strange problem was coming up at Amsterdam Skyfall Airport. They noticed that when the men went to pee in all the toilets there, because they did not pee properly, all the toilets were dirty there. They did not know what to do with them. Then the team there came up with a very clever solution. What they did was that they painted a fly on all the toilets there. Now whenever the men come to pee there, they point towards the fly, due to which the cleanliness increased by 80%. Exactly, another experiment was done on this thinking model. The teachers of the school noticed that all the students of the school were eating a lot of junk food. And for this, they made a very small tweak. In the cafeteria, they kept all the healthy food items at income level and all the non-healthy food items like burgers, cold drinks, etc. were

5:35 kept at the feet position. This increased the percentage of consumption of healthy food to a great extent. And if we want to control our evenings with this thinking model, then we will have to apply this rule which is make it obvious. So whatever quality you want to develop, for example, book reading, the book should be exactly at the place where you can see it so that the cue action reward cycle starts running in the brain. If you want to go to the gym, then all the gym clothes and shoes should always be kept in front of you and not inside the cupboard so that all the visual cues start pulling our brain in the direction in which we want to take our brain and not in the direction where all these popular engineers take us. You want to know that

6:22 in 1970, Japanese electronic manufacturers did a very amazing thing. They followed an idea called addition by substitution. Its main goal was to make the life of all Japanese workers easier by removing things from their life. For example, if there are tools lying around the workers, remove the tools. If a worker needs just one tool, then there is no need to give him a complete tool kit of 100 tools. Remove that from his life. If only one Japanese worker is working in an area, then there is no need for two chairs, remove one chair. And in this way, they kept making their process very efficient. What was the result of this? In 1970, when Americans were also making colour TVs, five times more problems were reported in the service centre of an American colour TV as compared to a Japanese service centre. Not only this, when these Americans used to

7:08 assemble their colour TV set, it used to take three times more time as compared to one To assemble a Japanese color TV set, we will have to use this method to control our evenings. Addition by subsection, its main goals are only two. One, remove physical distraction and second, remove mobile distraction. In short, all the things around us that we do not want our brain to be diverted towards, we will have to remove them. For example, any unhealthy food, chocolate, burger, sugar, if we do not want all these things to be included in our diet, then we should not see them. Second, in case of mobile, the application that I use is an inbuilt application in which if I press this button at bed time, then I can make my entire screen black and white and the

7:55 moment this color screen becomes black and white, you will see in front of you that its power will be very low. The second application that I use is minimalist. This application not only makes your screen black and white, but also hides all your colored icons and makes it look normal. It makes the icons in a list and because of this my screen time has become almost 1/2 th, that is, if earlier I used to use the mobile for 9 hours, now I use it for only one hour. This application is paid but if you search, you will find many free alternatives to it but this is super par. You have to understand that we cannot let the mobile control us and this will happen when you will use this theory that one time effort and recurring reward. Once you use the application, we should keep getting rewards. Our

8:41 brain is so naive that it does not even know that when a notification comes [Music] He used to study in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, America, where he used to attend robotics class, but he had a dream in his mind, he wanted to become an astronaut. He knew that many people apply to become astronauts, many people get training, it is very difficult to reach the training. Even if you get trained, there is a very rare chance that you will get the actual I will get an opportunity to go to space but this boy, despite being an engineer, actually became an astronaut and went to space not once but twice. Now

9:26 this is not the most interesting thing, the more interesting thing is that there were 10 people in this class and out of these 10, four people became astronauts, which is a very rare event and this is the power of the environment. If you choose such friends, if you choose such people whose goals are similar to yours, then those people, your environment will pull you to reach where you want to reach. I know if you watch my videos, you will say that you have already told this point but the point is not whether the point is new or not, the reality is that this is P1 priority one, the impact that the environment can actually make for us and all the other things, even if you bring 10,000 more things, all those things will not be able to create that much positive impact in your life and

10:12 that was in 2011 at Harvard. A very interesting experiment was conducted. They called a lot of participants and divided them into two groups. One group was given a shake of 620 calories and the other group was given a shake of 104.40 calories. Now, all those participants who drank this heavy thick shake of 620 calories, obviously their ghrelin hormone decreased, that is, the hormone which tells whether one is hungry or not, when measured, this hormone decreased, which was obvious that if you drink such a thick shake, you are going to feel hungry. And when the level of ghrelin hormone was checked in those participants who drank a shake of only 140 calories, it was almost the same and it was obvious because despite 140 calories, we still feel hungry. But the

10:57 most interesting thing in this experiment was that both the labels on the shake were wrong. Actually, all the participants were given a shake of 320 calories. This tells us about a very interesting property of our innocent mind that if we associate any thing with any emotion, then it will start reacting in the same way. When you go to the gym and after lifting each dumbbell in the gym, you feel that wow my muscle is building, then this positive emotion will reinforce this habit of ours. If after reading a book you feel that I have learned something new, I am different from others, then it will again amplify your habit, but if we associate any negative emotion with anything, then it will never convert into a habit. Okay, so in the whole video, I will surprise you once. We first started the story about product managers,

11:43 Mr. Kaba and such hyping engineers and product managers have only one job, to capture your evenings, your entire time and to capture our time, we saw four laws for whatever habit we want to make, one make it obvious make it attractive make it Easy and make it satisfying and whatever bad habits you want to remove, you can reverse these losses like make it invisible, remove every thing that we do not want in life, make it unattractive, think as bad as you can about it, make it difficult, like the minimalist app or bad time feature and finally make it unsatisfying if we want to know more about the psychology of mind and habits then you can download the Gag application where more than 2500 books series are available in Hindi and English, you can read them as well as listen to them, this application has been rated 4.8 stars by more than 5 lakh people,

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