 Everybody loves a good Mr. Beast last to leave challenge and in this video We're gonna discuss how some of the contestants could win literally any of these challenges by using a little psychological trick What is up everybody, this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem But focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I try to do Let's take different topics going on in the YouTube community and try to see what lessons We can learn from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being So if you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell And if you're not yet make sure you're following me over on Instagram and Twitter at the rewired soul All right, so yeah, we're gonna be discussing How somebody could use psychology to win a mr. Beast challenge But the goal of my videos is always to help you the viewer out All right So this will wrap around to see how you might be able to use some psychological tricks to help you Accomplish what you want to accomplish in life. So anyways, mr. Beast This dude has exploded and I don't need to teach you about that because you already know baby But anyways, I actually got to meet mr. Beast last year at vid summit It was crazy. It was about a year ago from around this time I think it was last October and I was just oh I was blown away because Shane Dawson used one of my clips in his Mind of Jake Paul series and mr. Beast. I actually saw my big silly face. So anyways met that dude super cool But anyways, yeah, he does all these last to leave challenges and everything like that and yeah Let's discuss How somebody could win using a little bit of psychology? So we're going to be talking about the psychology and then blend in a little bit of neuroscience when it comes to something called loss of Immersion, okay, this is a very very powerful force in the mind So we have two driving forces as humans just to we think we're really complicated But we just we only have to all right. We have attraction and aversion all right We like things that feel good. We want to push away things that feel bad, right? I think about all of the bad habits and behaviors that we have that we do just to avoid Not feeling bad feeling lonely depressed anxious bored, whatever it is sad lonely, whatever all right so anyways what they found through psychology is How loss of version is like a major aspect of this because you would think so in the context of mr. Beast challenges Right like giving them, you know, like twenty thousand dollars like thousands of dollars, right? That is a good Motivation, but that's actually not true. We are actually more motivated to avoid Losses then we are to go after potential gains. All right, think about that for a second We are more likely to try to avoid losses than we are to chase after potential gains So to kind of summarize what that means is Losing feels worse than the good feeling you get when you win. All right, so think about it Why do we do anything? Why do you get up go to work? Why do you you know participate in any contest? Why does you know mr. Beast contestants, you know join aside from you know, it's fun, but To win money right and like that seems like a pretty powerful motivation or you you might be going to work every day To make money and everything to feel good. All right, but we are more Driven to avoid feeling bad. So they've actually done some neurological studies with this as well So here is a little snippet from a scientific America article, which I will link down in the description below But anyways, listen to this study So what causes us to be more sensitive to losses in 1979? Psychologists Amos Zversky and Daniel Kahneman Developed a successful behavioral model called prospect theory using the principles of loss aversion to explain how people assess Uncertainty more recently psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered how loss aversion may work on a neural level In 2007 my colleagues and I found that brain regions that process value and reward may be silenced more When we evaluate a potential loss then they are activated when we assess a similar sized gain So real quick Basically the good feelings we get they are different neurotransmitters in our brain You've probably heard of like dopamine serotonin endorphins and things like that So what they did was they did a study hook people up to see how much their brain Activated with the good feelings compared to what their brain looked like with the bad feelings. All right So here's a little bit more from that article perhaps most interesting the reactions in our subjects brains were stronger in Response to possible losses than to gains a phenomenon. We dubbed neural loss aversion We also found that individuals displayed varying degrees of sensitivity to loss aversion and these wide-ranging neural responses predicted differences in their behavior for instance people with stronger neural sensitivity to both losses and gains were more risk averse So now that we know a little bit about loss aversion and how it affects us on a neurological level What could mr. Beast? contestants do To help give them an edge in one of these last to leave challenges I can think of two different options and maybe you can give me some ideas down in the comments below as well But one of them Would be actually putting some of your own money on the line. All right So think about being a contestant and putting your own money on the line So it's not even just oh I can potentially win this but worrying about losing the money you put out on out there Right, but then I was thinking like after I thought about that I'm like, okay But mr. Beast has a large kid audience and I don't want to endorse gambling because that's kind of like betting You know what I mean, but it is something that would help motivate the contestants So the other option I was thinking about is this and this is something I believe that we should all really think about on a regular basis is think about how how valuable our time is So if you could switch your mindset during one of these mr. Beast challenges rather than oh if I stay here I'm going to win X amount of dollars Switching that mindset to if I lose. I just lost X amount of time All right, you see what I mean and when I was thinking about that with this loss aversion think about relationships Something I've discussed in videos where you know I asked people how many of you have stayed in a relationship way longer than you should have and a lot of people say they have Right and I think part of that is loss aversion as well because our time is valuable A lot of people will stay in a relationship because they think about how much time They've already invested and they don't want to lose that so maybe that could help with a mr. Beast challenge But how does this help you? Well, let me tell you about another study They did based on loss aversion so they took it they took some groups of smokers All right, so they had one group and they called this the reward group And they told anybody in that group if they didn't smoke for six months. They would win $800 now these are not mr. Beast levels of cash But for people like you and me $800 is pretty sweet All right, so after six months the reward group 17% 17% of those people did not smoke and they got their $800 But what was interesting was the other group which they called the deposit group. Okay, so this group It was a little bit different. They found people who agreed to put in a hundred fifty dollars And if they smoked during that six month period they lost that hundred fifty dollars But if they stayed smoke-free for six months, they got an extra $650 which would equal $800 total now in that group compared to the other group, which was only 17% 52% of these people stayed smoke-free for six Months all right because that is how powerful loss aversion is So another quick example about how this might help you in your regular life Um, I've heard about loss aversion of million times just because I'm a big psychology nerd and everything But I'm reading this brand new book that came out a month ago called indestructible Which I highly highly recommend it'll be linked down in the description if you want to check it out But anyways the author of this book he He's done different things to motivate himself and he suggests things to you the reader or me the reader Right and he wanted to go to the gym more often So he set up this he calls it the burn or burn strategy. All right, so He has a schedule to go to the gym. So he has a hundred dollar bill that's sitting right next to a lighter Okay, and he calls it the burn or burn strategy because if he doesn't go to the gym He has to burn that hundred dollar bill which is insane So he says since he's implemented this strategy like he's lost quite a bit of fat He's gained quite a bit of muscle because he's stuck to that regiment because loss aversion is so Powerful. All right. So anyways, I love doing videos like this Um, I asked you guys the other day when I did a video about james charles and I blended in some psychology And philosophy and everything like that. I had some good feedback So I want to start doing this because I absolutely love psychology So I want to take things from pop culture and kind of blend them in and see what we can learn from them All right, but anyways, that's all I got for this video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell And a huge huge. Thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon And a huge thank you to everybody who supports the channel in other ways like buying merch or the books I've written and all that kind of stuff. You are all amazing. All right. Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time