The Golden One - February 26, 2021


Extremely Hard - But Not Impossible

Topics
diet bad habits subscribers' habits reshape habits willpower and habits
Hosted by
Marcus Follin
This Is Actually Great Advice Basking in the Sun - An Encouragement

Episode Stats


Length

13 minutes

Words per minute

150.44

Word count

2,056

Sentence count

179

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of having a good morning routine and why it is so important to have a good start to your day. I also talk about why many people still smoke in the morning, and why they should try to get rid of their bad habits in order to have the best start to their day.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Greetings, Laddingtons!
00:00:03.000 Helios noticed that I was a bit down, so he decided to bless me with this absolutely magnificent weather
00:00:09.000 to make me feel a bit better.
00:00:11.000 And I do, I do feel better.
00:00:13.000 I also feel better because many of you did as I asked and clicked the link in the description of the former video.
00:00:22.000 If you didn't see it, I will ask the same of you.
00:00:26.000 I have spent many years trying to bring good advice to people.
00:00:31.000 Now I ask something in return and that is that you will follow the link in the description.
00:00:36.000 And yeah, follow me on that site.
00:00:41.000 I will make more videos in the coming time.
00:00:45.000 And the primary reason for making more videos is so that everyone will get a heads up on where they can find me
00:00:54.000 if I get shut down on YouTube or if I decide myself that I will stop making videos on YouTube.
00:01:01.000 So you don't have to, of course, if you don't really like the content, etc.
00:01:08.000 But if you do, you know where to find me at least.
00:01:11.000 Now I have given you a heads up.
00:01:15.000 And if you see this on the other place, I salute you.
00:01:19.000 You are a good man or woman.
00:01:22.000 Very heartfelt.
00:01:24.000 Now, of course, also, it's physique Friday.
00:01:28.000 You can post physique to Gab.
00:01:31.000 And for those of you who have been with me for a long time, I use Gab now the same way as I used Facebook back in the day.
00:01:40.000 So, you know, some commentary, some more lighthearted content as well.
00:01:46.000 I keep the heavier stuff to Telegram.
00:01:49.000 And even if you're not on social media, I would definitely encourage you to follow me on Telegram.
00:01:55.000 Then you will have all necessary updates.
00:01:58.000 I would also encourage you to use Telegram as your standard messaging app.
00:02:04.000 So get over all your mates there and start using it instead of Facebook services.
00:02:09.000 Now, on another note, I've also released a podcast episode talking about diet.
00:02:16.000 So, an hour of me talking diet, basically.
00:02:21.000 If you're interested in that, I will have the link in the description box below as well.
00:02:27.000 For future announcements, it will also be on Telegram and Gab.
00:02:32.000 So, yeah, good times, good times.
00:02:36.000 Be proactive and follow me on these other social media platforms.
00:02:44.000 It brings peace to my heart.
00:02:49.000 I will make a separate video on it.
00:02:52.000 You know, the sensation of seeing your life's work threatened.
00:02:58.000 Something that's, you know, YouTube has been with me since 2013.
00:03:03.000 Been constant in my life.
00:03:07.000 But anyway, I will talk more about it in a coming video.
00:03:11.000 Either here or at some other place.
00:03:16.000 I can't say more here on YouTube.
00:03:17.000 But, yeah, if you do want to help me out a bit, sign up there.
00:03:21.000 First link in the description box below.
00:03:23.000 So, anyway, I will paraphrase Aristoteles when he said that excellence is a habit.
00:03:30.000 And it's true. 0.56
00:03:32.000 You can have a habit that is good or bad.
00:03:36.000 In my last video, I talked about making your bed in the morning.
00:03:41.000 Because it creates a good start, an easy victory at the beginning of your day.
00:03:45.000 So, it's a good upwards momentum.
00:03:48.000 So, if you make it into a habit of getting an easy victory in the morning, that's very good.
00:03:54.000 You can also have bad habits.
00:03:56.000 So, we can take something as an example of a bad habit, smoking cigarettes.
00:04:03.000 Now, I have smoked maybe four or five cigarettes in total in my life when I was 13 or 14.
00:04:13.000 Beyond that point, it wasn't really cool anymore.
00:04:16.000 So, yeah.
00:04:19.000 But some people still do it.
00:04:21.000 And here's my analysis of why many people are doing it still.
00:04:27.000 Especially people who are perhaps working, sitting down a lot.
00:04:31.000 It's not necessarily about the nicotine itself.
00:04:34.000 Although, of course, it is a strictly biological addiction as well, of course, nicotine.
00:04:40.000 But it's also about the habit and the routine.
00:04:47.000 And I completely understand it.
00:04:49.000 Because I've also been in a situation where people have asked,
00:04:51.000 Oh, I'm going out for a smoke break. Would you like to come with me?
00:04:56.000 And then I think to myself, yes, I would like to come with you.
00:05:00.000 Because it's nice to get off your chair, go out a bit, get a break in your...
00:05:05.000 Or, yeah, if you do something that you find tedious or whatever.
00:05:11.000 But then, of course, you shouldn't accept.
00:05:15.000 Because it's bad passive smoking and everything like that.
00:05:18.000 But I understand the impulse of it.
00:05:21.000 I understand the nice routine, the nice habit of it.
00:05:25.000 That you will get a little break.
00:05:27.000 So, actually, the hard part isn't quitting nicotine.
00:05:32.000 The hard part is quitting that particular habit.
00:05:36.000 So, you can have a lot of bad habits.
00:05:38.000 And this is something that I want to mention to all fellow content creators.
00:05:45.000 You know, our biggest challenge right now is to reshape the habits of others.
00:05:53.000 So, you who are watching this now, you might watch it on YouTube, of course.
00:05:58.000 Because that's your habit.
00:06:00.000 You go onto YouTube and you check your...
00:06:04.000 Yeah, what sort of videos might have come out.
00:06:08.000 Suddenly, one of your favorite channels goes missing.
00:06:14.000 You don't really know where to find it.
00:06:16.000 But it doesn't really matter.
00:06:18.000 Because the habit you have is still to go on YouTube.
00:06:21.000 Your habit isn't to look for specific videos.
00:06:24.000 This is, of course, highly blackfilling for a content creator to realize.
00:06:29.000 But it is what it is.
00:06:31.000 So, to take an example.
00:06:32.000 I have 110,000 subscribers on YouTube now.
00:06:36.000 Now, of course, not everyone will watch every video.
00:06:39.000 Because every video isn't relevant to everyone.
00:06:43.000 And then, of course, if you are shadow banned on YouTube, you don't even reach your own subscribers.
00:06:49.000 But even if I, in a coming video, would reach every single subscriber.
00:06:55.000 And let's just suppose that every single subscriber is, you know, like me.
00:07:01.000 Like my content.
00:07:03.000 And if I asked, okay, you can follow me on a different platform.
00:07:07.000 And I will only upload there.
00:07:09.000 How many would follow?
00:07:11.000 Yes, not particularly many at all.
00:07:13.000 Maybe 10% if I'm lucky.
00:07:15.000 Why?
00:07:16.000 Is it because they don't like me?
00:07:18.000 No, as I said, the majority of them probably do like me.
00:07:22.000 Probably do appreciate my content.
00:07:24.000 Otherwise, they wouldn't have subscribed in the first place.
00:07:27.000 However, the habit, the power of habit is much more powerful than the wish to watch my videos.
00:07:41.000 So, this is something you can keep in mind as well.
00:07:43.000 You don't need to take it personally.
00:07:44.000 I don't take it personally.
00:07:46.000 Because I also know that I don't really have the power to break someone's routine.
00:07:50.000 Unless they are very high initiative and, you know, more human than NPC.
00:07:57.000 It is hard.
00:07:58.000 So, don't feel down about it.
00:08:00.000 Instead, if you are a content creator, view it in the following way.
00:08:05.000 The proactive guys and girls, the more high initiative ones, they will follow you to a new platform.
00:08:12.000 And ultimately, it's them you want to spread a good message to anyway.
00:08:17.000 Because they can, in turn, spread the message.
00:08:20.000 The other ones who aren't as proactive, who have, you know, hard time breaking a habit, etc.
00:08:26.000 Yeah, they won't be as good ambassadors for a good message, so to speak.
00:08:32.000 So, you might say, oh, I'm so sad because I've lost 90% of my fan base.
00:08:38.000 I understand it.
00:08:39.000 I am sad too.
00:08:40.000 I am sad.
00:08:41.000 Of course I am.
00:08:42.000 But, at the end of the day, if you view it in that sort of way, that the most high initiative people, they will find you anyway.
00:08:49.000 So, the question remains.
00:08:52.000 How do we reshape habits?
00:08:55.000 How do we reshape behavior?
00:08:58.000 Again, we can talk about such a thing as getting shredded for summer.
00:09:02.000 And you want to start doing intermittent fasting, but your habit is to eat breakfast.
00:09:08.000 Yes, what you have to do is, you have to view it in an active manner.
00:09:14.000 That, okay, for two weeks I simply won't eat breakfast.
00:09:19.000 You have to actively think about it.
00:09:21.000 After two weeks, it will be much more of a routine for you.
00:09:25.000 It will be much easier because then you have the habit of not eating breakfast. 0.84
00:09:30.000 Same thing if you are addicted to porn.
00:09:34.000 And I know a lot of guys, they associate starting their computer with that type of behavior.
00:09:41.000 Same thing here.
00:09:42.000 You have to actively, you have to use your willpower to not do it for two weeks.
00:09:50.000 Then, you will have built a new habit in your brain.
00:09:53.000 So, no matter what you do, it might actually be to watch my videos on another platform.
00:10:02.000 You have to use your willpower the first two weeks to do something.
00:10:08.000 And then you will rewire your brain into getting into another routine.
00:10:15.000 So, if you can actively decide over your own habits, you can achieve a lot of things.
00:10:22.000 But if you can't, decide over your own habits.
00:10:25.000 If you are a slave to your habits and the habits are bad, it's very bad of course.
00:10:32.000 However, if you have good habits, excellence is a habit, then much can be won.
00:10:37.000 And I said this in a recent podcast as well, talking about training.
00:10:40.000 From my experience as a coach, the great victory is when a guy or girl gets into the routine.
00:10:49.000 First two weeks, then everything will just go, sort of like starting a very heavy train on a track.
00:10:56.000 Hard in the beginning, once it gets going, yeah, it will go by itself.
00:11:01.000 So, if you get into the routine, if you get into the habit of doing certain things, such as going to the gym, not watching porn the minute you start your computer, not needing to have a cigarette to have a break, you have to replace your behavior with something else.
00:11:20.000 Using willpower in the beginning.
00:11:22.000 So, for example, if you are addicted to smoking, instead of going out from your desk outside to smoke, do something else.
00:11:31.000 Go and do whatever it might be.
00:11:34.000 Go and do some breathing exercise outside.
00:11:39.000 As long as you replace the habit with something, and realize that the habit is often the reward.
00:11:46.000 But if you change the reward, now of course in the beginning, doing some breathing exercises won't be as rewarding as having a smoke.
00:11:56.000 Same thing if you are used to watching porn.
00:11:59.000 Doing something else on the computer, yeah, it won't have the same reward, but as long as you can replace the habit, it's a great victory.
00:12:10.000 Then, of course, as I've said before as well, I'm not immune to this either.
00:12:14.000 There are situations where I have, as I said before, I've caught myself mindlessly scrolling on Twitter, instead of writing on my next book, for example.
00:12:23.000 Because I needed some sort of break.
00:12:25.000 Every once in a while, it's okay to have a break. Not the end of the world, but again, if you see it being too much, yeah, break your habits, break your routine.
00:12:35.000 It takes willpower in the beginning, but once you start understanding how to break the routine, how to break your habit, it becomes easier to break other habits.
00:12:46.000 And this is also, when I talked about making your bed as an easy victory, that creates good momentum.
00:12:51.000 Same thing here, if you already have the routine of, you know, yeah, I can break this habit, it will be much easier to do the same with other bad habits.
00:13:01.000 So it's a good upwards spiral that will aid you.
00:13:05.000 So anyway, if you've watched this far, again, link in the description.
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00:13:37.000 So anyway, thank you for watching.
00:13:39.000 XXO BOOM!