How to fix your f***ed brain

If you've ever looked up man on the

street style footage from like the '60s,

'70s, '80s, and '90s, and even the early

2000s, basically before the internet

became mainstream, or at least before

social media became mainstream, you'd

notice a different energy about people.

It seemed like people made better eye

contact. [music] They had more energy.

More people were just walking around in

the streets. People had more hobbies.

They were more social. There are a lot

of things that I miss [music]

when I look at those, and I wasn't even

around then. It's like one of the great

tragedies of our time. Feels like

something was stolen from us, including

our brains. And I think a lot of this

has to do with the way we are perceiving

the world in this [music] internet

landscape. Now, I don't know about you

guys, but I'm kind of sick of it. I want

to untechnologize

my brain, unfrick my brain, think

clearer thoughts, have more motivation

and energy. So, if you're interested the

same thing, then this is the video for

you. Today, we're going to talk about

six ways to unfrick your brain, so that

hopefully you can live a more peaceful

and joyful existence.

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>> So, number one is to maintain the

clarity of your mind. When you first

wake up in the morning, there is a

default built-in clarity that's already

available to you at all times. For some

people, there is a baseline anxiety, but

that's okay, too. Maybe you're working

through some [music] stuff. And it's

important that you work through some

stuff, and you don't immediately jump to

an algorithm-based [music]

feeding tube that's giving you random

information at volume. [music]

Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, all of

this stuff is essentially like gambling

with your mental [music] health. You

have no idea what's going to be on that

next swipe. No clue. And the more you do

it, the more it seems to scramble up

your brain. It's confusing. It

demotivates you. It reduces your

attention span. And yeah, it's fun, and

that's the point, I guess, but it really

is bad for you. One of my favorite ways

to not have it infect your brain so much

is to not touch that at the

beginning part of the day. If you have

any interest in being a reasonably

productive person who is focused and

motivated and driven, you probably don't

want to be jumbling up your brain and

reducing your attention span and spiking

your cortisol right when you wake up.

What are we all doing here? I often just

delete the apps for long periods of time

just to reduce the occasion of sin.

During these periods of social media

abstinence, I would highly recommend you

dive into movies. You might say, "Well,

oh, movies is just more slop." It's

really not. With movies, you're

intentionally choosing what you're going

to watch. With short-form content, there

is no choice. It really is just a slot

machine. I think we all need to watch

more movies and read more books. The

second way to unfreak your brain is to

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>> not poison your body as much as you

probably do. I'm only going to touch on

this one briefly because I think it's

talked about a lot. I think most people

dramatically underestimate [music] the

effect that the foods they put into

their body has on their mental state. A

good example of this in my own life is

when I have something high-carbs,

something like bread or oats, my mental

clarity is cooked for the next 3 hours.

I get all sleepy. I feel kind of

bloated. My eyes get watery. I'm

definitely not sharp and with it. And

I'm not saying that carbs cause brain

fog or anything like that, but I have

noticed that when I opt for more of a

high-protein, high-good fat meal,

there's a bit of a cleaner mental energy

that I have when I do that. In fact, I

seem to have more mental energy and more

clarity. Whereas, if I went and had a

whole bunch of bread, I went to Subway

and grabbed a sub, holy smokes, it does

take me like 3 hours to recover from

that. [music] But, yeah, have the slop

on occasion, follow the 90/10 rule. 90%

of your diet should probably fuel you

and your goals and your interests in

life. And the other 10%, yeah, have an

ice cream every once in a while. The

third way to unfreak your brain is to

reset and not ruminate. So, if you

failed steps one and two, say you ate

the slop through your eyes and you

watched the slop through your mouth, you

probably don't have the energy to pursue

your goals, to climb out [music] of

debt, to focus on your side hustle or

your main hustle. And this feels really

bad. And when you're in this negative

mental state, most people start to

ruminate. And since rumination is

stressful, you will want something to

relieve that stress. And the thing

you'll probably use is the very thing

that caused the stress in the first

place, overstimulation, eating the piggy

slop, reducing your attention span, and

falling for short-term pleasure, which

just leads to the same rumination. So,

say it's midway through the day and

you're very disappointed in yourself,

you feel really bad, blah blah blah

blah, reset. Don't ruminate. [music]

It's obvious that you're not getting

very much work done. You're not in a

productive, mentally clear state of

mind. So, stop the cart before it falls

off the cliff, reassess, reevaluate your

situation, and take the time to gain

your mental clarity back. That act of

slowing your brain down with no

stimulation, trying to be present, will

decrease the static in your mind. Or,

you're not flooding it with dopamine all

the time. Just reset. Wake up, get a bit

of energy, walk around the block, and

then try again. Then try to do your

work. I guarantee you it'll be so much

easier if you do that than if you just

magically are in this state of

rumination and lethargy and then you

just try to force yourself to work.

You're able to do that once in a blue

moon. Sometimes it works, but usually it

doesn't. So, get better at identifying

what kind of mental state you're in and

try to course correct. Reset. [music]

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un freak your brain is to participate.

One of the most disturbing things that

social media culture has conditioned us

to become [music] is voyeurs. We watch

people. We peer into their relations.

We're invited into their homes, and we

just watch them live their life. But

it's not even that we're watching them

live their life. We're watching an

edited video that they posted that's

supposed [music] to be their life, and

it's usually a better version of their

life. Our society is structured this way

where this happens more and more and

more to the point where real people are

kind of like proxies for their online

version. So there's a lack of

participation going on. I'm not talking

to anybody. I'm talking to a camera, and

you're not talking to anybody either.

You're just watching me. And I'll give

you an example of why this is

destructive. When I was in university,

like most single freshman guys, I was

very interested in talking to girls,

[music] and, you know, flirting with

them, trying to get their number, and

eventually going on a date with them.

One thing I really noticed is that when

I did that organically, face-to-face,

that interaction usually went fairly

well for me. But I would have this habit

as a freshman, and most people have this

habit today, they go, "Okay, Stacy, I

wonder if she has any mutual friends.

I'm going to look her up on Facebook to

see kind of what her vibe is." And when

I would do that, I would notice that the

next time I saw Stacy, [music] my

confidence was just down the toilet.

It's almost like by scouring her

Facebook, I started to develop my own

opinion in isolation from her as to what

she must be like. And since I changed my

opinion on what Stacy must really be

like by going on her Facebook, then in a

way, her real-life persona, her

real-life personhood was sort of a proxy

for her real life, which was the one

that she posted on the internet. I could

have had a very nice interaction with

Stacy and was looking forward to seeing

her again.

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>> But after I crept around Facebook,

things kind of changed. Don't do this,

guys. Like this is fundamentally weird.

Participate in conversation. Get to know

people in real life. Don't escape to the

internet where you're just watching

people. You're not missing out on

anything by not going on Instagram. The

fifth way to unfreak your brain is to

forget yourself. I think so much modern

wisdom, so much modern self-improvement

is obsessed with this idea of perfecting

thyself. [music] And a lot of the time,

thinking this way is completely

counterproductive to what the original

goal was. Take looksmaxing. People clown

on looksmaxing all the time. They say

it's stupid, and it kind of is in a

certain way. But there are elements to

looksmaxing that are probably pretty

useful. If you're self-conscious about

certain elements of your physical

appearance, say you have something very

correctable, then I'm not going to lie

to you and say that those things don't

matter. People judge you in less than a

second. And if people find you more

attractive and more well-put-together,

then they'll probably treat you better.

Pretty sure it's scientifically proven

[music] at this point. However, a little

bit goes a long way. If you were

previously self-conscious about

something about your physical

appearance, and then you correct those

things, it can lead to more confidence.

But if you sit there and attempt to

perfect your appearance,

then it just leads to more

self-consciousness again. In the times

where you're the most free and confident

and peaceful and probably come across

way better is when you literally forget

that you exist. Every once in a while,

you hit that Goldilocks zone, [music]

that rare time when socializing feels

like it just clicks. You're free, you're

light, you're having a good time, and

you're present. I think the key to

confidence, especially in 2026, is not

to become more self-aware. It's to

become less self-aware. It's to forget

yourself. Dive fully in to the projects

you're working on, the things that you

enjoy, and the people you're talking to.

It feels much better. Okay, and the

final way to un-freak your brain is to

adapt, not despair. If you're in a rough

place in life, things aren't going as

expected. Maybe you're dealing with an

injury, fatigue, brain fog, no hope for

the future, bad finances. Whatever it

is, it's very tempting to despair. It's

very tempting to say there's no hope for

the future. It's so over. And it's very

tempting to blame yourself for what's

gone wrong. I propose a different way of

looking at this that'll probably be more

useful. I believe that everybody is just

operating in a way that they believe at

the time leads to the most happiness at

any given moment. For instance, say that

you like a drug, and let's call this

drug mandarin oranges. You know that if

you were to stop eating them, your life

would improve forever. And you hate the

fact that it doesn't make sense that you

eat mandarin oranges so much. But when

you see a mandarin orange sitting there

in front of you, you think to yourself,

it would be more painful to not eat this

than it would be to eat it. I think that

eating this mandarin orange would lead

to the most happiness in this moment.

That's all your brain is doing. Then

after you do it, you say, "Oh my

goodness, I can't believe I fell for

that. What was I thinking? I'm an idiot.

I did it again. I long for the day where

I no longer feel like I have to do that.

How many times have you done that with

whatever your thing is? If you keep

thinking that way towards it, you will

keep doing the same thing towards it.

Your information needs to change. Your

outlook towards your situation needs to

change, [music] right? It's not about

trying harder. It's not about shaming

yourself harder. So, instead of getting

down on yourself for making bad

decisions in life, change your

information up. It doesn't need to be

the perfect thing that finally gets you

to live a better life. All it needs to

be is different for you to make

progress. Because thinking the same way

about the same thing and doing the same

things doesn't lead to a lot of

progress, right? You've done it this way

enough. You have the information drilled

into you. So, now try changing your

approach. Tackle it from a different

angle. See if it works better or worse.

Observe the changes. See how it worked

out for you, and then move on to a

different set of information. Tackle it

from a different angle. This approach

will help you far more than burying your

head in the sand and saying, "It's so

over." I hope you enjoyed this video.

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