 Hi everyone, my name is Rokas and in this video you will see how I tried to make myself into the most cursed man in the world by doing everything that superstitious people avoid doing. And for 10 days I documented how everything went, which also included taking free flights to a different country, traveling, doing a lot of other activities. So if you're interested to see how it all worked out, stay tuned for this The Journey episode. In this world, and especially my country, Lithuania, there are a lot of people who believe in superstitions. The unfortunate side to it is that it limits people's lives and decisions. So for example, if there's a black cat somewhere down the road, those people will not go through that way, even if that way would be the best way for them to go through. The belief in superstitions also creates a lot of stress. If I knocked a soul chaker, then I start to stress that, oh my goodness, now something bad will happen. If I break a mirror, I start to stress about that. So the belief in superstitions can create a lot of discomfort. The thing though is that while a lot of people believe in superstitions, nobody pressure tests it. Nobody tries out and sees, so do they really work? So I decided to take a risk to potentially sacrifice my own well-being if superstitions are real and to see if I will be able to make myself into the most cursed man in the world in the next 10 days. In order to do that, I went on Wikipedia and found a list of the most believed in superstitions across the whole globe and I did everything I could to create bad luck for myself. My first step was to go to a store and collect as many objects that would help me curse myself as I could. Luckily a local store which sells a lot of nonsense was perfect for that. I found almost everything I need besides a horse shoe. I bought chopsticks, a soul chaker, a mirror, which were all key ingredients to curse myself. I then went on by making myself a bowl of rice and sticking the chopsticks into it, which is a bad omen in Japanese culture. To make sure that the curse would really work, I kept the chopsticks there for a while and I also ate the rice itself with those chopsticks. Then I went on by continuing to write down all the possible cursed numbers and by putting them on the wall and keeping them for the next 10 days in my room where I lived. To make sure that the curse would really work out, the two Japanese numbers which hired a bad omen, I made sure to write them down also in a kanji form. The next step was to spill the soul chaker. To make sure that the curse would really work out, I also took a couple of other soul chakers that I had and I spilled them as well, but the soul didn't come out that much so just in case I took the main soul chaker, opened it up and made sure that it would really spill some soul as I knocked it down. I then took a mirror that I bought and started breaking it. Unfortunately it was not as easy as I thought but after about the first attempt I was able to break it and then I hung the broken mirror next to the cursed numbers in my room so that the curse would definitely stay and that I would always be surrounded by it. I continued to put on my hoodie inside out which is apparently a bad omen in the German culture and I will continue to wear the hoodie inside out for the next 10 days. Then I opened up an umbrella in my room and put on both of my feet on the table and kept them there for five minutes to make sure the curse would really get into me. With all that being done I decided to keep track of a few different realms of my life which should technically become cursed and I should have that like in and those realms are my health, my romantic relationship, my finances and a general lookout for how unlucky things will go for me and if things will fall apart as I try to do them over the next 10 days. Now with everything in place I'm ready to live my life and see what happens. So today is day three of me trying to become the most cursed man in the world and unfortunately so far nothing bad has really happened. There has been no significant change in my finances, my health as well, my relationship as well. So far I'm having no luck and making myself cursed. These days I keep wearing my hoodie inside out as a jog and also as I go to the cafe and actually kind of liked it. It looks like a pretty cool style so I'm actually starting to think maybe I will continue to wear that even further but whether that will make me cursed or not we'll see and also just to make sure that the curse would really get there I ordered a handmade horseshoe that I could hang it upside down in my room whenever it will come out. So I will get that in a couple of days and we'll see what changed until then. Today is day five of me trying to make myself into the most cursed man in the world. I finally got my horseshoe that I ordered and I quickly placed it above the door of where I live upside down so that all of my life will hopefully fall out of it. Although the package wasn't as lucky as the horseshoe since it was eaten by my dog. Unfortunately I still see no signs of my curse because my luck seems to be pretty good so far. I even went to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training where it's easy to get yourself hurt but to be honest actually that day I did pretty well actually got some compliments from the people I rolled with I trained with they said I'm doing really well so no luck so far in getting myself cursed but hopefully things will continue to get worse as time progresses. Especially since my trip to Dublin is coming up close and if things will go bad they will definitely go bad during a trip. So today is day six of me trying to become the most cursed man in the world and as you see the environment changed it's because I'm in my bed I am a bit sick I got a cold. Now you could say that maybe is the very first sign of me being cursed but actually the cold is not that intense and I think it's more likely that I got a cold because for the last six days I was jogging outside with light clothes on through quite a cold weather but I'll let you decide whether this is the first sign of being cursed or it's just a side effect of what I've done. So my flight and trip to Dublin is in two days so let's see how much further my curse will go. So it's day eight of me trying to be the most cursed man in the world and I am in the airport. In regards to my health I feel much better and yesterday I even taught a yoga class didn't hurt myself nothing bad happened. Today is the flight and obviously in trips and flying if I'm to be cursed if something bad is going to happen it's going to happen today either doing the flight or actually doing the next few days while I'm traveling because a lot of mess tends to happen when you're traveling but we'll see if significantly much more mess is going to happen especially during the flight because of the curse. So we're going to board the plane pretty soon we're going to have two flights forward food Copenhagen so we'll see if the curse comes true or not this is the moment of truth. So here I am safe and sound in Dublin city center both connecting flights went really well I have nothing to complain about so I don't know I think the only curse that I feel where I'm not lucky is that I'm not able to curse myself I feel that's the part maybe that that's how I'm cursed I'm cursed to not be able to achieve my desire to get cursed but who knows let's spend a few more days here in Dublin I have a lot of things to do a lot of interviews that I'll take from various people so a lot of things can still go wrong but so far things are just too good but let's see how things continue to go. So yesterday I got as cursed or as close to being cursed as I did up until now and funny enough I didn't even realize yesterday that this could be potentially part of the curse because I didn't even record it when it happened I just thought today everything is going smooth but it said wait what about that so what happened is after I ended filming the Bellatory Dublin event it was 12 30 a.m and apparently in Dublin on a Saturday night public transport stops working at that hour and also too there were no taxis around there and the taxi app didn't bring up any taxis so I had to walk for 40 minutes to the place where I spent the night it was raining and I still had the sore throat even when I stopped the taxi turns out you need cash in order to go with it and I didn't have cash so basically I walked for 40 minutes through the rain feeling quite sick but part of me actually started to feel like you know that's an adventure you know part of traveling is getting into all sorts of trouble and finding your way out of it and anyway that accident was enjoyable I spent a good night I'm feeling better and my health I didn't get worse so so much for a curse but to be honest as much as somebody would like to maybe pin this on the curse I honestly think if public transport doesn't work from midnight in Dublin could have happened to anyone so to blame it on the curse I don't think so but let's see if things will continue to become even worse as we move further in the stream so today is day 11 of me trying to make myself the most cursed man in the world the 10 days that I documented have passed and it's time to make a summary well even more so to make things even worse I finally found a ladder in Dublin and went under it nevertheless things didn't seem to become worse still well I have to be honest when I took the flight to Dublin whenever there was turbulence for the first 10 or 20 seconds I thought you know this is all fine this is all fine you know superstitions doesn't exist or to be honest of course I don't think they do exist but still those superstitions are so deeply ingrained into our psyche by our cultural conditioning that after the turbulence went on for longer I did feel a part of my brain would think oh my gosh I hope I didn't kill myself by doing this experiment but in the end nothing happened all the flights went well my flight back went well and the trip besides the taxi accident it was all good and even with my midnight walk in Dublin where I couldn't get the taxi and there was no public transport functioning well you could consider that that was a curse at the same time a couple of people that live in Dublin that I talked to and told that story to they said no this is not a curse this is Dublin I saw a bunch of people struggling with the same problem of not having public transport or a taxi around at that time because it's a silly thing that happens in Dublin all the time on Saturday nights basically all of the things that I was attentive to my relationship was being great during the whole 10 days my finances didn't change and there were no signs of more bad luck than usual because bad things happen sooner or later anyway and of course it's easy to blame superstitionists or something you've done you knock a soul chaker or whatever and blame it on that but I did a bunch of that I did as much as I can but things didn't become worse I just had a natural ratio of bad things that every person gets sooner or later the only other thing you could consider that was part of the curse manifesting was me becoming sick but even so first of all I didn't get sick so bad that I had to skip my flight to Dublin that actually all went pretty well and I recovered quite fast it makes much more sense that the fact that I was jogging for the past 10 days in cold weather was the reason for me getting sick versus the curse manifesting in the end the real reason why I did this video is not only to pressure cast superstitionists and to show that it limits our life by believing in something that does make sense but also to show an example that that applies to many aspects of our life there's so many beliefs we take for granted we take them from our culture we take them from other people who didn't pressure test it we didn't question it they tell us that's the truth they tell us that's reality and so many bad beliefs become part of our life part of our belief system impacts our judgment in bad ways and until we question it so many things can go off but by engaging critical thinking by questioning by asking ourselves by testing our belief by testing what we think is true we can find so much better answers much more efficient decisions which can improve our lives dramatically so I hope that this video and this example has inspired you to consider applying pressure testing applying questioning critical thinking into more aspects of your life than just superstitionists so while this video is just the first step towards this direction I will continue to dive deeper into this subject and as the next step of the next video you will see me pressure testing a different thing this time a practice of developing habits testing of something that I read in a book has worked for me as I try to apply it in my life so if you're interested to see the next video or you like this video subscribe like this video let me know in the comments what do you think about the pressure testing this is this not enough information for you to believe that superstitionist doesn't really work do you think it's me that failed in cursing myself or you think and agree with me that superstitiousness is just ridiculous let me know in the comments I'm looking forward to hear more about that from you and until then keep questioning