The Protocol That Changed My Life (Dopamine Detox)
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the speaker recounts how a breakup and the global lockdown in April 2020 led to an unexpected period of 'dopamine detox' that saved their life. With no alcohol, socialization, or distractions, they discovered true happiness and peace by focusing on self-reflection and meditation. The speaker advocates for a seven-day dopamine detox involving limited screen time, no YouTube, abstaining from adult content, and daily meditation to reset focus and find joy in life's simple pleasures, suggesting it as a powerful tool for personal growth and fulfillment.
Takeaways
- 💔 The speaker experienced a breakup in April 2020, coinciding with the start of global lockdowns.
- 🌍 They were in Cape Town, South Africa, with a friend, unable to leave the house or engage in usual activities.
- 🚫 During this time, alcohol was banned, and socialization was limited, forcing the speaker into a dopamine detox.
- 😊 Despite the restrictions, the speaker found this period to be some of the happiest months of their life.
- 🧘 Dopamine detox helped the speaker find peace and happiness again, and it's a method to reset focus and attention levels.
- 💰 The speaker was already successful, making millions at the age of 20, but found that money didn't bring happiness beyond a certain point.
- 🔄 The speaker felt jaded and accomplished everything they wanted at a young age, leading to a desire for a reset.
- 🏠 Being stuck in a foreign country during lockdowns led to a three-month dopamine detox, which had a profound impact.
- 📵 The detox involved no alcohol, no socializing, and minimal phone usage, leading to a deeper appreciation for life's simple pleasures.
- 🧘♂️ Meditation played a significant role in the detox process, helping the speaker to feel grounded and centered.
- 🔄 The speaker recommends a seven-day dopamine detox with specific pillars: limited phone use, no YouTube, no adult films, and daily meditation.
Q & A
What significant event in the narrator's life occurred in April 2020?
-The narrator was one month into a breakup and experienced a global lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a period of dopamine detox.
Why was the narrator unable to engage in certain activities during the lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa?
-The lockdown restrictions were strict, prohibiting activities such as going for a run, and there were no flights in or out of South Africa, leaving the narrator stranded.
How did the narrator describe their state of happiness during the lockdown?
-Despite the challenging circumstances, the narrator described those months as some of the happiest of their life due to the forced dopamine detox.
What is dopamine detox and how did it benefit the narrator?
-Dopamine detox is a process of abstaining from activities that provide instant gratification and can lead to a high level of focus and performance. For the narrator, it helped them find peace and happiness again.
At what age did the narrator start their business and achieve significant financial success?
-The narrator started their business at the age of 16 and achieved significant financial success by the time they were 20 years old.
What realization did the narrator come to after achieving financial success?
-The narrator realized that making more money did not increase their happiness and they felt a lack of dopamine from the things people typically aspire to.
What was the narrator's state of mind after achieving all they wanted at a young age?
-The narrator felt jaded and questioned what to do next after achieving everything they wanted, indicating a need for a reset.
How did the lockdown and dopamine detox impact the narrator's daily life and habits?
-The lockdown and dopamine detox led to a significant reduction in phone usage, no alcohol consumption, celibacy, and an increase in meditation, which contributed to a deeper appreciation for life's simple pleasures.
What are the four pillars of a dopamine detox as recommended by the narrator?
-The four pillars are limiting phone screen time to one hour a day, no YouTube, abstaining from adult films, and practicing 10 minutes of meditation daily.
What is the 'monk mode' protocol mentioned by the narrator, and how does it relate to dopamine detox?
-Monk mode is a protocol formulated by the narrator to sustainably integrate habits post-dopamine detox. It is a continuation of the practices initiated during the detox to maintain focus and a high level of performance.
How does the narrator suggest using dopamine detox as a tool for personal growth?
-The narrator suggests using dopamine detox as a tool to reset focus levels, improve motivation for health and fitness goals, and as a means to appreciate the little things in life, ultimately leading to personal growth.
Outlines
💔 Breakup and Pandemic Lead to Dopamine Detox
The speaker shares a personal story of how a breakup and the global lockdown in April 2020 led to an unexpected period of dopamine detoxification. Stuck in Cape Town, South Africa, with no alcohol, socialization, or travel, the speaker found happiness and peace during this time. The experience is described as a way to reclaim life and perform at a high level, with the speaker emphasizing the benefits of dopamine detox for resetting focus and attention. The story provides context about the speaker's background, including achieving financial success at a young age, and the subsequent realization that more money did not equate to more happiness. The speaker also mentions creating content about the best business models for online income, which was well-received by the audience.
🧘 Implementing a Dopamine Detox for Personal Growth
The speaker provides a brief overview of how to implement a dopamine detox, a process they describe as a 'hard reset' rather than a long-term lifestyle. The detox involves limiting phone screen time to one hour per day, abstaining from YouTube for seven days to avoid non-educational content, refraining from watching adult films to conserve energy and motivation, and meditating for at least 10 minutes daily. After the initial seven-day detox, the speaker suggests integrating sustainable habits through a protocol called 'monk mode,' which they have detailed in other videos. The speaker highlights the benefits of a dopamine detox for various goals, such as building an online business, improving physical fitness, or simply appreciating life's simple pleasures.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Breakup
💡Dopamine detox
💡Lockdown
💡Cape Town
💡Alcohol ban
💡Focus levels
💡Monk mode
💡Meditation
💡YouTube
💡Adult films
💡Online business
Highlights
A breakup and the COVID-19 lockdown led to an unexpected period of dopamine detox that saved the speaker's life.
The speaker was in Cape Town, South Africa, during the lockdown with a friend, unable to leave the house for anything but essential trips.
Despite the restrictions, the lockdown period was one of the happiest times of the speaker's life due to the dopamine detox.
Dopamine detox is a method to reset focus and attention levels, leading to high-level performance.
The speaker was 20 years old, making millions of dollars a year, and had been doing so since starting a business at 16.
Earning more than $10,000 a month did not add extra enjoyment to the speaker's life.
The speaker felt jaded and uninterested in material possessions, despite being able to afford anything.
The lockdown provided a forced dopamine detox, leading to a rediscovery of peace and happiness.
The speaker experienced profound changes in health, relationships, and business after the detox.
Dopamine detox allowed the speaker to appreciate the simple pleasures in life, like watching sunsets.
A dopamine detox involves a hard reset for seven days, with specific pillars to follow.
Limiting phone screen time to one hour per day is the first pillar of the dopamine detox.
Avoiding YouTube for seven days is the second pillar, as it is often a source of entertainment rather than education.
The third pillar is abstaining from adult films, which can drain energy and motivation.
Meditation for 10 minutes a day is the fourth pillar, helping to ground and balance the individual.
After the detox, integrating sustainable habits is key, which can be achieved through a protocol called 'Monk Mode'.
The speaker encourages viewers to try a dopamine detox as a powerful tool for personal growth and resetting one's life.
Transcripts
let me tell you about how a breakup and
the craziest world event to happen in
the last seven years led to dopamine
detox saving my life
and i get the feeling that if you stick
around for the rest of this video it
could save your life too so to tell the
story we need to take it back to april
of 2020. i was one month into a breakup
and the entire world was locking down
stay at home i was in cape town south
africa with one of my best friends stuck
in the house i mean we weren't even
allowed to leave to go for a run it was
insane and even worse there was no
flights in or out of south africa so i
was literally just stuck and yet it was
in this period where i couldn't drink
you know because it was a ban on buying
alcohol i couldn't drink i couldn't
socialize i literally couldn't do
anything except for be at home and work
and just be with myself and with all of
that being said
those were some of the happiest months
of my entire life you see dopamine detox
is an incredible way to reclaim your
life and really start performing at a
high level in fact i made a video all
about it
now for 99 of people the real use case
for a dopamine detox is that is resets
your focus levels and your attention
levels so that way you can go ahead and
crush your goals but for me personally
being forced into a dopamine detox while
the entire world was shut down what it
really did was help me find peace and
happiness again now just for a little
bit of context for anyone new to the
channel back in april of 2020 when you
know i was basically forced into
dopamine detox i was 20 years old and i
was making millions of dollars a year
and i had been for a few years ever
since i started my business back when i
was 16. i spent years climbing to the
top of the hill and achieving everything
that i wanted to achieve while i was
still in my teens in fact i even
documented the entire process on my
youtube ever since the age of 15. and
honestly anything above making 10 000 a
month added very little extra enjoyment
to my life but getting to ten thousand
dollars a month should be one of your
number one priorities especially
considering just how many vehicles and
opportunities there are in order to
accomplish that in fact if you want to
learn how i spent three to four days
locked myself into this room and assess
the best six to eight business models
out there to truly give you the answer
as to what is the best way to make a
hundred thousand dollars a year online
in 2022 that was probably one of my most
well received videos in the last year so
people absolutely loved it found tons of
value so i'll go ahead and leave that as
the first link in the description it'll
just take you to another youtube video
no website or landing page or anything
like that anyways for me once i got past
that 10 let's say even 20 or 30 000 a
month level i started to face a new
challenge no extra amount of money made
me any happier in fact i got to a point
where i have received no dopamine from
all the things that people aspire to in
life you know i got to a point where i
was 20 years old and quite frankly you
know over the space the last two two and
a half years it's got even even worse as
i've grown my businesses and my
investments but i got to a point where i
would walk into a store and there was
just literally nothing i couldn't buy
like you know i could buy any supercar i
wanted realistically i could buy any
watch i wanted realistically i could buy
i don't know i just didn't need to look
at the price like the bill would come
and you know it's like folded over in a
little deck i just i wouldn't even
bother to look at the bill why would i i
know some of you guys are going cool cry
me a river but really it gets to a point
where you almost feel a little jaded and
you're like wow i accomplished all of
this at such a young age and i got
everything that everyone ever wanted so
what now i need a reset i needed to wipe
the slate clean and when the entire
world shut down and i was stuck in a
house well you know i can't complain it
was a really nice five six bedroom villa
but still nonetheless you know i was
stuck inside i couldn't leave the house
i couldn't socialize i couldn't see my
friends from london i couldn't
travel i couldn't do anything i mean i
was literally stuck in a foreign country
i was forced into dopamine detox for
three months i didn't have a sip of
alcohol for three months i went fully
celibate i mean i said i was stuck in a
foreign country and you could only leave
to go to supermarkets so for three
months i mean literally the only female
i even spoke to was uh you know some of
the staff working at the supermarkets
for three months while a lot of people
actually ramped up their phone usage
during you know the lockdowns and stuff
like that i actually had some of the
lowest phone usage i'd ever had and that
probably parlayed into the next reason
which is for three months i had some of
the best absolutely best meditations
i've ever had a dopamine detox allowed
me to truly enjoy the little things in
life again to the point where at the end
of the day i would watch the sunset with
my friend while we were having a you
know a cup of tea so what dopamine detox
does is it brings you closer to who you
truly are when you remove all of these
external influences and all of this
input coming your way then as i said
really what's left is the true you and
when you do this this is where you have
the profound changes where you know you
level up with your health with your
relationships with your business
whatever it may be or for me personally
it was an experience where like i was
like wow i love life again like as weird
as that sounds like it was an experience
where i was like wow there's true you
know there's truly beauty in the little
things and and that was something that
was really powerful for me but anyways i
know a lot of you guys might be
wondering okay this is super cool man
but like how do i actually implement a
dopamine detox well i recorded a full
video on it on my channel probably like
two months ago or something but i'll
give you just quick cliff notes right
now now the protocol that i use and i
recommend is that a dopamine detox is
really just a hard reset okay so that
shouldn't be something that you're doing
for you know months and months and
months it's like it's a shock to the
system but it's for a short period of
time okay so for me a dopamine detox is
a hard reset for seven days and it
comprises of a few pillars now my
pillars are slightly different to you
know what i recommend for other people
for people who want to try dopamine
detox these are the four pillars you
should implement the first pillar is
limiting your phone screen time to just
an hour a day the second pillar is no
youtube i know that a lot of you guys
you know if you're watching this right
now and this is education to you and
that's totally fine you know youtube you
can really find some gems but let's be
honest 95 of youtube even like the
productivity stuff
you're not really learning anything
right you're just like
it's just entertainment really more than
anything so that's number two you can
reintegrate youtube after seven days but
for the seven days no youtube
number three no
adult films we'll say this is something
that drains men specifically of so much
energy um and just
just so much motivation right um when
you do the deed you're basically
biologically signaling to your body like
hey we've accomplished something when
you've quite literally accomplished
nothing so that's number three no adult
you know adult films and the fourth
pillar is 10 minutes a day of meditation
even just 10 minutes a day for seven
days you will feel so much more grounded
trust me you know there have even been
periods of my life in the past where i'm
like i kind of feel like off center off
balance and i'm like well yeah i haven't
meditated for like three weeks so like
dummy like what do you expect now after
seven days you need to integrate some of
these habits more sustainably and that's
actually where i formulated a protocol
called monk mode and i've shot quite a
few videos on that you can look through
my channel and you know you'll find
actually how to implement that now
whether you're doing a dopamine detox in
order to reset your focus level so that
way you know you can really you know put
your head down and build up to ten
thousand dollars a month with your
personal income by building an online
business so whether you're trying to do
that or you're trying to get you know
jacked and you know or lose weight and
you need the motivation for that or for
example for me dopamine detox is a great
thing to do when i'm just feeling a
little like i'm just feeling a little
jaded right and i'm just like feeling
like
you know i'm not appreciating the little
things in life so whatever you use it
for it is a very powerful tool and a
tool you should continue to use in your
arsenal so try it out i guarantee it'll
be a game changer and let me know in the
comments your experience with it if
you've tried in the past
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