This Video Will Save You 9+ Years Of Your Life In 6 Minutes
Summary
TLDRThis video script emphasizes the excessive time spent on phones, averaging four hours daily, equating to 11.5 years over a lifetime. The speaker suggests seven practical changes to reduce phone usage, including silent mode, deleting time-consuming apps, and adjusting settings to be more intentional. By implementing these changes, viewers can reclaim years of their life, potentially mastering new skills instead of aimlessly scrolling.
Takeaways
- 🕒 The average person spends 4 hours a day on their phone, which equates to 1,460 hours a year.
- 📱 Over a lifetime, this could amount to 11.5 years spent on a phone, highlighting the significant amount of time potentially wasted.
- 🔢 The script suggests that 10,000 hours of focused practice is required to master a skill, implying that phone time could be better spent on skill development.
- 📉 The speaker claims to have reduced their phone usage to under an hour a day, saving years of life for more productive activities.
- 🔕 Turning on silent mode is the first step to reduce distractions and unnecessary notifications.
- 🗑️ Deleting apps that consume the most time is crucial for cutting down phone usage.
- 🏠 Keeping only essential apps on the home screen can prevent mindless app opening and encourage more intentional phone use.
- 🔔 Disabling notifications for non-essential apps can declutter the notification center and reduce the urge to check the phone.
- 🛑 Turning off 'tap to wake' and 'rise to wake' features can make the phone less accessible and prompt more mindful usage.
- 🌓 Enabling the grayscale color filter can make the phone less visually appealing, potentially reducing the desire to use it.
- 🛠️ The script emphasizes the importance of making these changes to increase productivity and save time for more valuable pursuits.
- 🔧 Additional tips include using browser extensions like 'unhooked' for YouTube and disabling desktop icons on a computer to minimize distractions.
Q & A
How much time does the average person spend on their phone daily according to the video?
-The average person spends four hours a day on their phone.
What is the annual equivalent of spending four hours a day on a phone?
-Four hours a day on a phone is equivalent to 1,460 hours a year.
If one lives to be 80 years old, how many years of their life would be spent on their phone without any changes?
-Assuming they start using a phone at 13, they would spend approximately 11.5 years of their life on their phone.
Outlines
📱 Reducing Smartphone Dependency
This paragraph emphasizes the significant amount of time the average person spends on their phone, which equates to over 1,460 hours a year. The speaker suggests that this time could be better utilized to master a skill, as it takes 10,000 hours to do so. They share personal changes they made to their phone habits, which include reducing daily usage to under an hour, and promise to detail seven specific steps that have helped them achieve this.
🛠️ Implementing Phone Usage Reduction Techniques
The speaker outlines seven steps to reduce phone usage, starting with enabling silent mode to minimize distractions. They advocate for deleting time-consuming apps, removing all but essential apps from the home screen, and adjusting notification settings to eliminate unnecessary alerts. Additionally, they recommend disabling 'tap to wake' and 'rise to wake' features to make phone access more intentional. Lastly, they suggest using a grayscale color filter to make the phone less appealing, and mention additional tools like the 'unhooked' Chrome extension for YouTube and disabling desktop icons on Windows computers to further increase productivity.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Productivity
💡Mindful
💡Notifications
💡Do Not Disturb
💡Grayscale
💡Skill Mastery
💡Intentional
💡Unhooked
💡Home Screen
💡Tap to Wake
💡Rise to Wake
Highlights
The average person spends four hours a day on their phone, which amounts to 1460 hours a year.
This phone usage equates to 11.5 years of one's life if they live to be 80, minus the years before having a phone.
It takes 10,000 hours to master a skill; reducing phone usage can free up time to develop expertise.
The speaker implemented changes to reduce daily phone usage to under an hour, increasing productivity.
Turning on silent mode reduces distractions and unnecessary notifications.
Deleting time-consuming apps like TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, and mobile games is crucial for reducing screen time.
Removing apps from the home screen forces more intentional phone usage.
Disabling app notifications can prevent useless and unimportant information from cluttering the user's focus.
Turning off 'tap to wake' and 'rise to wake' makes phone usage more deliberate and mindful.
Activating the grayscale color filter makes the phone less interesting, reducing the desire to use it.
The changes may initially feel strange and annoying but are essential for long-term benefits.
Using the Chrome extension 'unhooked' for YouTube can save significant time.
For Windows users, turning off 'show desktop items' can declutter the workspace and improve focus.
Implementing these settings is a commendable step towards increased productivity and personal growth.
The importance of continuous self-improvement is emphasized for long-term success and satisfaction.
The video encourages viewers to take action and make changes to save valuable time.
These adjustments are not easy or quick but are necessary for a significant impact on reducing phone usage.
Transcripts
this video will save you 10 or more
entire years of your life from being
wasted and the reason I know this is
because we spend an ungodly amount of
time on our phones the average person
spends four hours a day every single day
staring at this thing and you might be
thinking but Maxwell you literally just
said it was the average four hours a day
is the average the normal it's not even
that much right but when you do the math
and you add up the hours it becomes very
apparent to how much four hours a day on
your phone really is four hours a day on
your phone is the equivalent to 1 460
hours a year and I know that number
probably doesn't mean anything to you
but if I assume you live to 80 years old
and I subtract the what 13 years you
didn't have a phone then you're gonna
end up spending 11.5 years of your
entire life spent on your phone bro 11
and a half years is a long ass time just
to be spent
the magnitude of that is insane they say
it takes 10 000 hours to master a skill
so if you would have spent just 10 just
10 of that time in the future you spend
it working on a skill developing a skill
you would have mastered that skill still
you'd become really really good at
something a few weeks ago I made some
changes to my phone that have greatly
impacted the amount of time I spend on
my phone and have greatly increased my
productivity and coming from someone who
did spend the four five hours a day on
my phone I'm telling you that these
changes will help you spend less than an
hour a day on your phone and I know that
probably sounds crazy to most of you and
you might think that an hour a day on
your phone is extremely low but if you
are consistently intentional and mindful
about the time you spend on your phone
you will be able to get there you will
have saved and regained nine or more
years of your life and those are nine
years that would have been spent
scrolling and doing things that didn't
bring you any value so here are the
seven changes that I made to my phone
that have helped me spend less than an
hour a day on my phone every single day
the first step is a very simple one and
it's just to turn on silent mode there's
that little button on the side of the
phone that you can turn on so that you
don't get any unnecessary dings or
pop-up notifications things that you
don't need because if you are trying to
be focused or if you're doing something
that requires Focus or attention or
presence like if you're with your family
or you're doing work or you're doing
homework you need to be focused I almost
never turn off the Do Not Disturb or
silent mode on my phone the only time
that I do is if I need my parents to
send me a message or they need to be
able to contact me other than that I
have it on almost all the time it's a
really great way to stop yourself from
getting randomly distracted when you're
doing something you should have presence
while doing that you should be focused
while doing the second step is to delete
all the apps that you spend the most
time on and I'm guessing these are going
to be the apps that are like Tick Tock
and YouTube and Snapchat and mobile
games this step is the most important
one out of all the other steps if you
just do one do this step but it is the
most difficult because the apps that you
spend the most time on obviously are
going to be the ones you are most
attached to you can come up with as many
excuses and copes as you like but the
truth is this is the one thing that will
reduce the amount of time you spend on
your phone the most now the third step
that goes right along with the last step
I just told you about is to delete all
of the apps from your home page I only
have four apps on my home screen and I
really only need two of them because I
just use them to message my family and
my friends everything that you know
might be problematic delete it from your
home page it forces you to be a lot more
intentional and mindful when you are on
your phone and not to just randomly and
mindlessly open an app without thinking
about it the fourth step and all the
steps after this are going to be in the
settings app and the first setting you
should change is your notifications turn
the notifications off for all of your
apps all of the ones that you don't use
all the ones that you really don't want
notifications on anyways because a lot
of the notifications that you get just
notify you about useless unimportant
things it's information that you don't
need there are some apps that you need
to keep on for health purposes or to
stay connected with your family or
whatever that's fine but what I even did
with my messages app and the other apps
where I received messages from people is
I turned off all of the notifications
that you get from your front screen you
can do this by going to a specific app
and notifications and turning off all
the front page notifications that it
gives you and if that app is something
that you want to know how many
notifications you have you can just keep
on the badges this will keep that red
circle over the app that will show you
how many unread messages you have the
fifth and sixth step kinda go together
is to turn off tap to wake and rise to
wake you can find Rays to wake through
display and brightness and you can find
tap the weight or accessibility and then
going to touch you've probably noticed
how your phone will instantly turn on if
you pick it up this makes it super easy
to subconsciously open your phone
without thinking about it so turning
race to wake off make sure that your
phone doesn't turn on when you pick it
up turning tap to wake off makes it so
that you can't tap your phone to unlock
it both of these two ways of unlocking
your phone are very mindless and
unintentional Once you turn these two
settings off you're going to realize
that you're going to be trying to tap
your phone to open it but it will only
open if you click the side button this
will make you think about going on your
phone when you go on your phone which
will make you go on it less the seventh
and final step is to turn on the
grayscale color filter you can find this
by going to accessibility and then going
to display and text sizes this last one
might seem kind of weird kind of extreme
but it makes your phone just so much
less interesting when you have the
grayscale filter on and there's no color
it's a lot harder for you to stay on
your phone for long periods of time it's
less interesting and I know this setting
in particular will be very difficult for
some people to keep on because we're so
used to so much sensory stuff right in
your face and so when you look at your
phone and there's no color it seems very
very boring very very uninteresting it's
going to be annoying and weird and
boring which means you're going to spend
less time on your phone so those are the
seven changes that I made to my phone
that helped me not get lost in that void
and like I said in the beginning of this
video this isn't going to be easy this
isn't going to be fast it's gonna take
time for you to reduce the amount of
time you spend on your phone and these
settings are probably going to feel
really weird and really annoying at
first but just stick with them and
something else I want to mention is to
get the Chrome extension unhooked for
YouTube I've had it for probably a year
now and it saved me hours and hours of
time from being wasted on YouTube
something else that you can do if you
have a Windows computer is turn off show
desktop items you can do this by going
to the front page of your computer and
right clicking on it and then going to
view and then clicking off show desktop
items if you're one of the 20 that
actually went and turned on all of these
settings you should be proud of yourself
this is going to hugely increase your
productivity and help you make so much
more progress in whatever you're working
towards and remember never stop
improving you'll be grateful for it
later
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