 Right, it's happened. I've finally ascended. I went an entire week without using the internet whatsoever not the internet I actually ended up not using Computers or phones or anything like that either And you know, I think if I wanted to do a good clickbait video, you know I'd probably say something like and it changed my life But the weird thing is it actually didn't change my life In fact my life weirdly enough was I don't want to say it was definitely wasn't exactly the same But you realize exactly how little you need the internet when you go without it for all this time I mean I've talked about in other videos mainly when talking about like social media and like cell phones and how much I hate them You know, there's this tendency There's this habit that people get you know when they're addicted to cell phones where if they go like a second of boredom Or even if they imagine they that they might become bored. They just immediately pull out that phone Scroll through the social media feed whatever. So there's this tendency, you know, psychologically what happens there is You know, what once you start doing that and you you see all this like pseudo information you see all this junk on social media And you sort of feel like you're being informed or you're being bettered or you're learning more about your friends by doing this kind of stuff But when you just go go cold turkey without it You sort of realize like exactly how untrue that is and I think that was definitely my My case when I went a week without the internet. And so anyway, how did this happen now first off? A week or so before this week happened. I sort of felt like okay I've been using the internet in maybe antisocial ways in the sense that You know, I was using it, you know, I don't have a social media account or anything, but I do have email I get lots and lots of emails So responding to emails, of course I you know barely respond to five percent of my emails but it still takes up a lot of time to deal with them and you know, there's I guess a lot of enjoyment in that and in the same way I have, you know, RSS feeds for all these things that I subscribe to and Sometimes you just get too many like you always feel like okay. Well great this new article's up here I better look at that or this guy posted this And it's sort of exact sometimes it ends up being exactly the same as social media just without the upcoming and stuff like that So, you know, I was definitely like, okay, I've been using this stuff too much I'm nearerotically updating my RSS feeds too much. So I'm just gonna go without it Okay, we're just gonna go without it for a week. See how we can do, okay? And now first of it should be obvious that once I you know, I turned off the internet I woke up the next day and obviously that was the most productive day of my life It was probably the most productive day of my life like before 10 o'clock in the morning because I got up, you know, you do like the thing is when you have that ability to be bored Okay, this is another video. I got to do like why being bored is good Okay, but when you have that when you have boredom sort of Lurking around you you actually end up doing all the stuff that you've know you've had to do for a long time One of the first things I did is I actually cleaned out Actually, I washed up my master bathroom, which I hadn't really been keeping up with like when you have a well there's a lot of sort of Minerals that get in the bottom of like bathtubs and stuff like that. So I scrubbed all that up with a brillo pad Ended up cleaning up my garage. I ended up fixing my car replacing the valve on my spare tire Finally getting a code reader for my car Changing the oil just like all these things like all at once that most of which, you know I've been putting off for like at least a month like I've needed an oil change for at least a month or so Maybe around there if to be safe So all this kind of stuff I ended up doing it, you know immediately now what I'm not trying to say Like the in not using the internet like its main benefits was not actually the fact that I got way more stuff done Although it definitely is true that I got more way more stuff done. You also like spend your time very differently Like I read I probably read two or three books I usually read no books a week, but I probably read two or three books or at least parts of some other ones And I did that and also like for example I had long phone conversations with people because you know if I'm just sitting at the house if I'm You know the thing is so on the internet. Here's what happens You're browsing a site you get bored of that you go to another site or you're browsing that site and you get bored You go to yet another site. Okay in real life if you're bored You do one thing you have to do and if you get bored of that you go to another okay? Like you know, I started running ethernet wires in my attic Which I've actually been meaning to do for like a full year And when I got bored of that I'd do something else or if I was bored of doing all this kind of work I'd call a friend and talk for an hour So which is something that that is just not in my not something you usually do nowadays I actually got a new phone by the way. Well a new phone. I had this phone that really had really bad audio We're talking about landlines here. Of course, you know, we're boomers. We use landlines But the audio was just bad, but I ended up finding a nice rotary phone It was actually a little older, but the audio works a little better Okay, so I like I like this new phone all this kind of stuff Like I actually organized a mood bunch of stuff this shit. Anyway, I'm just yapping about the things I did in my life Okay, it's not too important But just suffice it to say that it got lots of stuff done and you just spend your time differently Okay, like when I went out on the town usually when I go out on the on the town You know, I pretty much do what I need to do and come back But you know in this case, you know, I talked to random people There's an old lady in a shop. I ended up talking to talking with her with like for like 90 minutes or something like that You know just all the all this kind of stuff that I guess normally you wouldn't do Your time becomes more important when it's not to burden by trivial things Okay, and not just more important But you have so much more of it that you could actually do things that are a little more depthy, you know If that if that makes any sense so And the weirdest thing is even though like I mean I mean the thing is like the temptation of using the internet occurred to me several times Oh, and let me tell you well, I'll get to you know, what it was like when I first turned on the internet again But you know, I was never really that tempted like you're always like, okay Well, I could use the internet and sort of cheat here But I have so much so many better things to do and it just sort of recalibrates your your desires to that So I don't know it's just it's just different and in time and like that week that one week felt like it was like months In terms of the things I got done like every single day was like a week basically So, you know a long time Anyway, so eventually the weekend did and I was like, okay Well, now I can use the internet again, you know by my own Valuation so I decided to turn it on and just sort of I mean, of course And in the back of the month in the back of my mind for all this time I was like, oh dude something terrible on the internet could have happened like I could have My websites are down or like someone could have hacked my bank account Or you know all this kind of stuff that it is just just crazy thoughts So I logged on and I synced my emails and saw the week's worth of emails that I haven't seen at all There was only one that was important that I missed and that was no big deal. Okay, but um all the other ones You know, and I just remember like turning on the internet again And the first feeling I feel I thought it was gonna be like a guilty pleasure like oh, yes I'm finally on the internet again. It feels so good. I can do all this kind of stuff that I've been wanting to do But really the feel like like that my first impression was wow, I haven't looked at the screen for like a week It's actually really painful to look at the screen. My boomer eyes were squinting. I was just like what? It look it literally hurts to look at a screen. You don't realize it until you haven't done it for a while because you know, I didn't even look at a Sell I may have looked at no I did you look at a cell phone screen for like a split second I had to turn my cell phone on and off at one point, you know, you guys know I usually don't I basically keep my cell phone off all the time But um, there's one situation where I had to of course I had airplane mode on it. So, you know, no internet But what was I saying? Yeah, like it was just not like the guilty pleasure. I thought it was gonna be it's almost as if like I've been deconditioned from using the internet now I still have I Don't know like I feel sort of bad I did even record videos over that period like not on the computer, but like with my phone And like I don't know I barely feel motivated to upload them because like the internet seems like some fake world now Now I literally feel like a guy who's just talking to his phone in the woods. Is that what I am? I don't know. Anyway, so Yeah, so of course, I always highly recommend people to reduce the dependence on technology and this is probably a good example I Like the thing is I I sort of thought that I'd be really bored when I stopped using the internet and I'm sure you will be bored To some degree But the issue is like boredom is the thing that drives you on to do things that are important Okay, so, you know, if you're in this constant state of pseudo Stimulation like you're never gonna get anything done. That's just the fact of the matter Now at this point, I don't I don't know if I'll be like, okay I'm just gonna go without the internet for like a month or something like that and go from there Because I sort of feel like okay now I can really easily constrain my internet usage like it's not something It's too difficult So I might be able going forward like in the past couple days where I have been using internet now I don't know. It's just I haven't been using it that much. Frankly. It's not been like I'm returning to some kind of drug All right. So anyway, that's about it You don't have to you don't have to get to 10 minutes on YouTube anymore Even though my YouTube reflexes are almost there, but so that's about it. I encourage you to do it try it out Stop using social media. That's about it. See you guys next time