My Former Daily System

Summary

In this video, the creator discusses their journey with a personal rating system for classifying the quality of their days. Initially, they used a simple scale but expanded it over time, leading to various projects and YouTube videos detailing their best and worst days. However, they encountered issues such as increased sensitivity to minor annoyances and dwelling on negative experiences. After receiving negative feedback and realizing the system's impact on their well-being, they decided to switch to a letter grading system and share their experiences to encourage a healthier approach to appreciating life's moments.

Takeaways

• 📊 The creator used a scale to rate the quality of their days, which evolved from a simple to a complex system over time.
• 🎯 Initially, the scale was a six-point system, but it expanded to a 10-point and eventually a 20-point scale with color coding.
• 🗓️ The creator ranked their days from best to worst each month and reflected on the best and worst days of each year.
• 🤔 The detailed rating system led to increased self-awareness but also caused the creator to become overly focused on minor issues.
• 👵 A piece of advice from the creator's grandmother highlighted the value of not letting small things ruin the entire day.
• 📉 The creator faced negative feedback and mockery from others due to the depth and personal nature of their day descriptions.
• 🔄 In response to the negative experiences, the creator made modifications to their rating system, simplifying it to a letter grade.
• 💡 The creator introduced the 'Golden Award' system as a positive counterpart to the 'Rotten Award' system, focusing on good qualities of days.
• 🌟 The video concludes with a message encouraging viewers to appreciate good moments and not dwell on minor annoyances or past unhappiness.
• 🎥 The creator mentioned a planned special video for their 18th birthday, which they are currently taking a break from scripting.

Q & A

What was the initial purpose of creating a scale to classify the quality of days?

The initial purpose was to have a system to look back at what the best and worst days were from every year in the speaker's life.

How did the speaker's rating system evolve over time?

The system evolved from a simple scale to a more complex one with additional ratings and color codes, eventually leading to the creation of projects based on the quality of days.

What influenced the speaker to change to a five-point scale for rating days?

The influence came from watching people review episodes of SpongeBob and giving ratings to the episodes, particularly from the YouTuber py Guy Rules.

Why did the speaker decide to change the mindset involving the rating system?

The speaker realized that the system and the projects created from it were causing several problems and affecting their mental well-being.

What was the speaker's approach to rating the best and worst days of each month?

The speaker used a color-coded scale to rank all days from best to worst and later expanded it to a 10-point and then a 20-point scale, with ratings based on enjoyment and duration for good days, and the degree of upset for bad days.

How did the speaker's online friend contribute to the rating system?

The online friend made public lists of their top 10 best and worst days of their life, which inspired the speaker to post similar lists for their own best and worst days.

What were the problems the speaker encountered due to the rating system?

The problems included becoming more easily affected and sensitized to minor nuisances, dwelling on bad days, and over-emphasizing negative aspects, which led to negative feedback from others.

How did the speaker's grandmother's advice influence their perspective on bad days?

The grandmother's advice, comparing a bad day to having $10 stolen from a bank account with $86,400, helped the speaker realize the relative insignificance of minor issues and to not let them ruin the entire day.

What changes did the speaker make to their rating system after realizing its negative impact?

The speaker changed the ratings to a letter grade, removed adjectives, and made descriptions shorter and less personal to address the issues they faced.

What is the 'Golden Award System' mentioned in the script?

The 'Golden Award System' is a reversal of the 'Rotten Award System' where the speaker identifies the best qualities of good days from each year in their life.

What lesson did the speaker learn about enjoying the present moment?

The speaker learned not to let the rating system interfere with fully enjoying good days and to not worry about maintaining a high rating, as it could lead to missing out on the present moment.

Outlines

00:00

📊 The Evolution of a Personal Day Rating System

The speaker, 32584, discusses their journey with a personal day rating system. Initially, they used a simple scale to categorize the quality of their days, which over time became more complex with additional ratings. This system influenced their projects, leading to a detailed analysis of their best and worst days annually. They were inspired by YouTubers reviewing SpongeBob episodes and created a chart ranking their days from best to worst. Despite the initial enthusiasm, they encountered problems with this system, leading to a decision to change their approach on December 9th, 2019, by simplifying the scale to a five-point system. They also reflect on how this system affected their mindset and behavior, causing them to be overly focused on the negative aspects of their days.

05:02

🌈 Expanding and Refining the Day Rating Scale

In this section, the speaker elaborates on their continuous expansion of the day rating scale, eventually reaching a 20-point system without color coding. They shared this system with an online friend and together they edited the ratings for their best and worst days. The speaker also began to reflect on their best and worst days from each month, creating a 'remix' and a YouTube video summarizing these days from 2013 to 2021. They discuss the realization that their detailed and negative descriptions of bad days led to negative feedback and even hateful comments, prompting them to modify their approach by making descriptions shorter and less personal.

10:02

🌟 Learning from the Past and Moving Forward

The speaker concludes by discussing the issues they faced with their rating system, such as focusing too much on the day's rating and aiming for perfection, which detracted from their enjoyment. They learned a valuable lesson about not letting minor incidents ruin their day, inspired by their grandmother's analogy of seconds in a day. They transitioned to a letter grading system for their best and worst days, removing adjectives to simplify and reduce the focus on negative aspects. The speaker emphasizes the importance of sharing happy memories healthily and not dwelling on the past, suggesting a 'Golden Award' system as a positive alternative to the 'Rotten Awards'. They express a desire to move past their obsession with the rating system and to appreciate each moment without undue focus on minor issues or past unhappiness.

Keywords

💡Self-awareness

Self-awareness refers to the ability of an individual to recognize and understand their own emotions, motivations, and actions. In the context of the video, the creator becomes more self-aware and realizes that his rating system for days is causing problems, leading to a change in his mindset. This is a pivotal moment in the video, illustrating the importance of introspection and recognizing when personal habits may be detrimental.

💡Rating Scale

A rating scale is a system used to measure or assign a score to something based on a set of criteria. In the video, the creator uses a rating scale to classify the quality of his days, starting with a simple scale and progressively expanding it to more complex versions. This scale is central to the video's theme, as it represents the creator's attempt to quantify and analyze his experiences.

💡YouTuber

A YouTuber is an individual who creates and shares content on the video-sharing platform YouTube. The video mentions 'py Guy Rules' as a YouTuber who influenced the creator's decision to start rating his days. This highlights the role of social media and online personalities in shaping personal behaviors and interests.

💡Top 10 Lists

Top 10 Lists are a common format in content creation where the creator ranks items within a specific category. The video discusses the creator's practice of making top 10 lists for his best and worst days, which is a significant part of his content and a reflection of his interest in ranking and reflecting on personal experiences.

💡Behavioral Issues

Behavioral issues refer to patterns of behavior that are considered problematic or maladaptive. In the video, the creator mentions that his worst days from 2008 to 2017 were due to his behavioral issues, primarily in school settings. This term is crucial as it provides insight into the creator's past struggles and how they have shaped his present-day reflections.

💡Color-Coded

Color-coded systems use colors to represent different categories or levels of information. The creator initially used a color-coded scale to rate his days, which adds a visual element to his rating system. This method of categorization is mentioned in the video as part of the creator's evolving approach to tracking his daily experiences.

💡Perfectionism

Perfectionism is the pursuit of flawlessness or the setting of extremely high standards for oneself. The video describes how the creator's rating system led him to strive for perfection in his daily experiences, which sometimes detracted from his enjoyment. This concept is relevant as it discusses the potential downsides of aiming for unattainable standards.

💡Rotten Awards

The Rotten Awards are a personal concept created by the video's creator to identify the ultimate example of negative qualities in his bad days. This concept is used to illustrate the creator's detailed analysis of his negative experiences and his attempt to find patterns or specific instances of undesirable behaviors or events.

💡Golden Award System

The Golden Award System is a反转 of the Rotten Awards, focusing on positive qualities instead of negative ones. The creator uses this system to appreciate and highlight the best aspects of his good days. This concept is introduced as a more optimistic approach to reflecting on personal experiences, emphasizing the value of focusing on positive memories.

💡Letter Grading

Letter grading is a method of assessment where students are given grades represented by letters (e.g., A, B, C, etc.). In the video, the creator transitions from a numerical rating system to a letter grading system for his best days, which simplifies his rating process and reduces the emphasis on precise quantification. This change reflects the creator's move towards a healthier and less obsessive approach to rating his experiences.

💡Unhealthy Obsession

An unhealthy obsession is an excessive and compulsive focus on a particular activity or idea to the detriment of one's well-being. The video discusses how the creator's detailed rating system became an unhealthy obsession, causing difficulties and affecting his daily life. This term is key to understanding the creator's journey towards self-improvement and the recognition of the need for change.

Highlights

Introduction of a personal scale for classifying the quality of days.

Evolution of the scale from a simple to a complex system over time.

Influence of watching SpongeBob episode reviews and YouTuber py Guy Rules on the rating system.

Creation of a chart ranking days from best to worst in November 2019.

Decision to use a five-point scale for rating days starting December 9th, 2019.

Experimentation with a six-point scale and color coding for ratings.

Concept of creating YouTube videos discussing the best and worst days.

Expansion of the rating system to a 10-point scale in May 2021.

Inclusion of a 20-point scale and removal of color coding in July 2021.

Reflection on the impact of the rating system on mental health and well-being.

Realization of the system's negative effects and decision to change the mindset.

Adoption of a letter grading system to replace the numerical ratings.

Introduction of the Golden award system as a positive counterpart to the rotten Awards.

Advice on appreciating good moments and not focusing on small nuisances or unhappy memories.

Mention of an upcoming special overview video and a break from writing the script.

Transcripts

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hello everyone it's

32584 and in this video I'm going to

talk about something I used to use all

the time not long

ago I have always been aware of how

everyone has good days and bad days so I

thought it would be a good idea to make

a scale used for classifying the quality

of all my days and looking back at what

my best and my worst days were from from

every year in my

life over time the scale I was using

kept increasing in

size I progressively added more ratings

to the scale and started making projects

based on the quality of my days in the

past it turned out to be one of my

greatest

interests eventually I came to realize

that the system I was using for my days

and the projects I was creating

involving my days have caused me to run

into several problems

my mind began developing an awareness of

these problems as I was becoming more

self-aware as a result I decided that I

should change my mindset involving the

system that I created on December 9th

2019 I developed the idea to make a

five-point scale for rating all my days

in November 2019 and to rank all my days

of the month from best to

worst I believe what influenced me to do

this was how in 2019 I really enjoyed

watching people People review episodes

of SpongeBob and giving ratings to the

episodes and the YouTuber py Guy Rules

influenc me the

most that evening or the next evening I

made a chart on the notes app of my iPad

that ranked all my days in November

20119 from best to worst and I ended up

using a Sixpoint scale with the color

code for each

rating after I did that I thought about

doing a YouTube video where I talk about

all my days from worst to best of that

month

but I eventually scrapped

it but I decided to do the same chart on

my notes for for December 2019 when that

month ended although the chart is

incomplete around the same time I tried

to think about what my top 10 best and

worst days in 2019 were since I can

memorize dates from the

past in 2020 I was using the Sixpoint

rating system in my head throughout the

year and October 2020 I took the

information about the days that I

remembered and I made a chart of my best

and worst days of 2019 and 2020 and the

notes on my

phone I also imagined in my head what it

would be like to do other things to

contribute to this idea in 2021 I began

to message a friend from the internet on

a website known as the top 10s I noticed

that he can remember dates from his past

like me and he made two different lists

that that he publicly posted on that

website one list had the top 10 best and

the other one had the top 10 worst days

of his life once I saw what he did in

April of that year I decided to post a

list of my best days of 2020 and a list

of my worst days of 2020 with a

description of why the days were good or

bad and then I showed him as the year

progressed I was going further and

further back with my favorite and least

favorite days list and I ended up

getting as far back as 2010 the

following year although I had to guess

most of the dates on that

list over time I also made other types

of projects in my notes and on YouTube

videos involving my best and worst dates

including three top 10 lists on both the

best and worst side that I uploaded to

YouTube which were the years 2018 2019

and 2022 my online friend decided to do

the same list on the top 10 that I was

doing throughout

2021 my favorite day of every year was

usually a vacation day and was in the

month of August most of the

time as for my worst days the theme

changed throughout the years I had to

guess the dates from 2011 and before and

I only know of the stories at all from

2009 and before because I heard someone

mention those stories to me but I still

found a bad day from every year in my

life my worst day of 2005 to 2007 had to

do with me getting hurt or being in

pain my worst days of the years from

2008 to 2017 were because of my

behavioral issues with all of them

taking place in school aside from the

days from 2008 and

2015 as for my worst days from the years

2018 to

2022 all of them were the worst because

I was very upset about something that

someone said to me or about a thought I

had while I was at

home later in 201 21 I convinced another

friend online to make the same

contributions as I was and he did so in

2021 I also expanded the rating scale

multiple times and around May 2021 I

extended it to a 10-point colorcoded

scale one day I used my planner for the

year to shade in some of the days on the

calendar with whatever color describe

the quality of my day for my days that

were good and went on the 6 to 10 range

I combined the amount of enjoyment I

experienced with how long the enjoyment

lasted to find out my rating on the

contrary when my day was not good I'd

see where on the scale for the 1 to five

range my day fell into by combining the

degree of how much something made me

upset angry or anxious with how long the

problem

lasted in July I expanded the scale to a

20 point scale and took out the color C

coding all together and I showed my

online friend after I showed him the

rating scale we started editing the

ratings to the end of our descriptions

of our best and worst days list on the

top

10 eventually I already rated enough

days where I could give ratings to my

days by comparing them to others rather

than using my original

criteria in November 2021 I doubled ring

scale

again this time I added r ings with

numbers ending in 05 in between each

former one and I came up with a new

adjective for each new rating I also

started reflecting on my best and worst

days from every month of the year and

putting them on a remix around this time

with a brief description and a rating

for the best and worst day of each

month I eventually did this on a YouTube

video in February 2022 with all the

months of every year from 2013 to

2021 in January

2022 my two internet friends and I

started giving ratings using the

adjectives that the number corresponds

with for every day of the month whenever

a month would end by sharing it in a

message gradually I realized that the

system I used for rating days caused

some difficulties for me when I looked

back at my bad days gave ratings for

them and plotted them on a worse days

list I happened to start looking for new

bad days to have as a result I likely

became more easily affected and

sensitized to minor nuisances that

bothered me as well as dwelling on them

to make the past the present day I am

reviewing much worse than it needed to

be when my paternal grandmother could

see I was being like that she told me

that there are

86,400 seconds in the day so therefore

letting something little ruin your day

is like having someone stealing $10 out

of your bank account

when you have $86,400

total and throwing away the rest of the

money I thought that was a good

moral when I made my least favorite days

list I gave excessive depth to my

descriptions I will describe every minor

detail about my bad days which made me

seem overly negative and sharing

personal things I also came to realize

that my long descriptions were probably

exhausting for many people to read when

users of the top 10s viewed my worst

days list some of them started to mock

me for it and I even got a few comments

that were filled with

hatred in September

2022 I got a hateful comment with

profanity on two different days on the

top 10 because of my worst days

list the comments hurt my feelings and

caused me to be ashamed of myself for

making those lists and

projects on the former day the hateful

comment I got was on a a post where I

took 15 common negative qualities in my

bad days and rate each quality from 1 to

10 how present each one was for each day

and then adding up the score for every

bad day of the year to see what my worst

days were

objectively I got this idea after I

started messaging one of the friends a

few months before that about which

single day had the ultimate example of

each one from every year in my life

and I called them rotten

Awards I already felt like the post I

made was a silly idea and that angry

comment really made me feel that way and

I even deleted the post

afterwards I recently started making

modifications to my worst days list by

making my descriptions much shorter and

less personal because I noticed the

lists would have at least been better if

I had done those list that way from the

beginning and I think I made the right

decision when it comes to raying and

ranking my best days I noticed to have a

few other

issues I realized that in

2022 how when I was having an enjoyable

day my mind was continually thinking

about how I was going to rate the day

when it was

over I may not have enjoyed myself to

the full extent that I would have

without the ring system I

used when I realized that I tried to

wait until the end to think about my

ring for those

days I also noticed that I was aiming

too hard for Perfection when I was

having a very good day as a result I

worried that something unpleasant would

happen on the same day I had fun doing

something and my rating of the day would

get

lowered I learned a lesson about how I

should not let everything Brew My Day on

May 11th

2023 when I had an excellent day since I

went to the yearly Starlight formal at

my school school that night but I had a

rough moment that night

afterward that also caused me to be

aware of how it took little effort for

something to bring my day to the bottom

of the scale but considerably more

effort to bring a day to the top so

nowadays I'm trying to look at things

more positively I decided to keep my

descriptions on my favorite days list

the same but I changed the ratings to a

letter grade and took out the adjective

to describe the day on both them my best

and worst days list since I was aware of

the problems I had when I was doing it

the original

way here's what my original ratings

convert to on the newer letter grading

system overall I think it's good to

share happy memories but like I was

saying the way I was doing it became

unhealthy for me I also came up with a

reversal of the rotten award system I

just talked about which I called the

Golden award system for that one I took

15 common qualities of good days that I

have and looked into what day from each

year in my life had the ultimate example

of each good

quality I still think this would

actually be a good thing to do it shows

appreciation and an optimistic view

while I my fond memories in a healthier

manner making projects related to my

best and worst days of every year was

something I began doing because it

combined my interest in talking about

stories in the past but giving rankings

and ratings to things to describe the

quality having a friend I discovered who

liked talking about his past days in the

same manner was a major part of why I

became passionate about taking part in

it when I began to use the rating system

and creating charts involving the

quality in my days from the past I did

not know as much about myself as I do

today so I did not realize that it was

was unhealthy for me to go as far as I

have gone with systematic scale I was

using now that I'm starting to move past

my obsession with using all the days

that I had with this tool the

difficulties it has been causing are

progressively coming to an

end I may still look at my ratings for

new days sometimes by the force of my

habit for some time longer but I will

still try to make

progress I like everyone should

appreciate every good moment for how it

is and try not to stay focused on small

nuisances or any unhappy memories that

happened in the past there you go I hope

you enjoyed this video one last thing I

would like to say is that I mentioned on

my 18th birthday video that I was going

to do a special overview video I thought

I'd have it uploaded by now but I

decided to take a break from writing the

script I'm not exactly sure when I'm

going to go back to working on it though

but again I hope you all like this video

and learned from it goodbye

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everyone