The best money advice no one ever told you
Summary
TLDRThis video script reveals a profound secret about money and human motivation, suggesting that traditional advice on wealth is ineffective without understanding the role of dopamine. The speaker argues that dopamine, a neurotransmitter linked to motivation and reward, can be manipulated to enhance productivity and success. However, he warns that corporations exploit our dopamine responses through sugar and social media, leading to addiction and a broken motivational system. To overcome this, he challenges viewers to change their lifestyle and perspective, advocating for a disciplined approach to avoid the traps set by consumerism and social media, which can ultimately lead to achieving financial success and a more focused, motivated life.
Takeaways
- 🧠 Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a significant role in motivation and feelings of reward.
- 📈 The speaker suggests that understanding and controlling dopamine levels is crucial for success in life and business.
- 🍬 Corporations exploit the dopamine system by adding sugar to products to create a cycle of addiction and consumerism.
- 📱 Social media platforms are designed to spike dopamine levels, leading to addiction and a constant need for stimulation.
- 🚫 The speaker argues that avoiding social media and sugar for a short period won't fix the underlying dopamine issues.
- 🔄 Dopamine levels can become desensitized, requiring higher stimuli to achieve the same level of motivation.
- 💡 A fundamental lifestyle change and shift in perspective are necessary to regain control over one's dopamine system.
- 🕵️♂️ The speaker challenges the audience to take control of their lives and not be slaves to their desires or corporate manipulation.
- 🚫 The speaker emphasizes that without changing one's perspective and lifestyle, it's nearly impossible to achieve long-term success or wealth.
- 📉 The dopamine system, when broken, can lead to a life of mediocrity and a lack of motivation to achieve goals.
- ⏳ The process of fixing the dopamine system and changing one's lifestyle is a long-term commitment, requiring months to a year.
Q & A
What is the main point of the video about money and personal development?
-The main point of the video is that understanding and controlling one's dopamine levels is crucial for personal development and financial success, as it affects motivation and discipline.
How does the speaker suggest that our understanding of money can change after watching the video?
-The speaker suggests that by the end of the video, the viewer's perception of money will completely change, leading to a different perspective on financial matters.
What role do neurotransmitters play in our feelings and behaviors according to the video?
-Neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine, are responsible for our feelings and behaviors. They affect our happiness, motivation, and even our tendencies towards laziness and procrastination.
Why is dopamine considered the most interesting neurotransmitter in the context of the video?
-Dopamine is considered the most interesting neurotransmitter because it is responsible for motivation. It can be influenced by external factors like social media and sugar consumption, which can impact our productivity and success.
What experiment was conducted on rats to understand the power of dopamine receptors?
-Researchers conducted an experiment where they shut down the dopamine receptors in rats. The result was that the rats became so lazy that they didn't eat the food in front of them and eventually starved to death.
How have corporations exploited our dopamine system according to the video?
-Corporations have exploited our dopamine system by adding sugar to their products, which spikes dopamine levels and creates cravings. This encourages consumers to keep buying their products, making them loyal customers.
What is the connection between social media platforms and dopamine spikes?
-Social media platforms have designed features that boost dopamine levels, making users crave checking the platform frequently. This keeps users engaged and allows the platforms to make money through advertising.
How does the video suggest that our motivation system can be broken by excessive dopamine stimulation?
-The video suggests that when our dopamine system is overstimulated, such as through excessive social media use or sugar consumption, it can lead to a higher baseline level of dopamine. This makes it harder to find motivation in other areas of life, like work or personal goals.
What is the proposed solution to fix the broken dopamine system as presented in the video?
-The proposed solution is to fundamentally change one's lifestyle and perspective on life. This includes minimizing social media usage, eliminating sugar from the diet, and focusing on activities that naturally boost dopamine without creating unhealthy dependencies.
How long does it take to fix the dopamine system according to the video?
-The video suggests that it takes at least 6 months to a year to completely fix the dopamine system and get used to a new lifestyle that supports natural dopamine levels.
What is the challenge the speaker poses to the viewers regarding their attention span?
-The speaker challenges viewers to focus on one thing for 5 minutes, asserting that most people will find their attention diverted by thoughts or distractions due to a broken dopamine system.
Outlines
🧠 The Power of Dopamine and Its Manipulation
The first paragraph introduces the concept that our understanding of money is fundamentally flawed without grasping the role of neurotransmitters, particularly dopamine. It explains that dopamine is responsible for motivation and how it can be influenced by external factors like sugar and social media. The speaker argues that corporations exploit our dopamine receptors to make us crave their products, leading to unhealthy habits and a lack of motivation to achieve personal goals. The paragraph concludes with a warning about the potential long-term effects of this manipulation on our ability to succeed financially and in life.
📈 The Dopamine Addiction Cycle and Its Consequences
The second paragraph delves into how companies, particularly those in the food and social media industries, have engineered products and platforms to artificially boost our dopamine levels. It discusses the addictive nature of sugar and how it's pervasive in everyday food items. The paragraph also highlights how social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok are designed to be addictive, causing users to crave the dopamine rush they provide. The speaker warns that this constant chase for higher dopamine levels can lead to a broken motivation system, making it difficult to focus on meaningful activities and achieve long-term goals.
🚗 The Illusion of Control and the Impact on Personal Drive
In the third paragraph, the speaker compares our lives to being trapped in a self-driving car, suggesting that we have lost control over our desires and are being manipulated by external forces. It discusses the difficulty of maintaining focus on a single task due to the constant distraction of dopamine-boosting stimuli. The paragraph also touches on the idea that even if given a clear path to wealth, our broken dopamine system would prevent us from achieving it. The speaker emphasizes the need to take control of our lives and not be slaves to our desires or corporate manipulation.
🛑 Overcoming Dopamine Dependency Through Lifestyle Change
The final paragraph offers a solution to the problem of dopamine dependency by suggesting a fundamental lifestyle change. It emphasizes the importance of changing one's perspective on life and not being a slave to desires. The speaker advises minimizing social media usage, eliminating sugar from the diet, and maintaining a natural level of dopamine. The paragraph acknowledges the difficulty of the initial adjustment period but promises that with time, one can regain control and motivation, leading to a more focused and successful life.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Money Secret
💡Neurotransmitters
💡Dopamine
💡Motivational System
💡Sugar
💡Social Media
💡Dopamine Receptor
💡Addiction
💡Self-Driving Car Metaphor
💡Lifestyle Change
Highlights
The video promises to change your perception of money and fundamentally alter your life by teaching you about the importance of understanding your brain's neurotransmitters.
The brain's neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, play a crucial role in our motivation and feelings, which can be manipulated to enhance productivity and focus.
Dopamine is the key neurotransmitter responsible for motivation and can be influenced by activities like watching motivational videos or consuming sugar.
Corporations exploit our dopamine responses by adding sugar to products to create a cycle of craving and consumption.
Social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok are designed to spike dopamine levels, creating addiction and distracting from productive activities.
The speaker argues that without controlling your dopamine levels, success in business or personal goals is unlikely.
An experiment with rats showed that turning off dopamine receptors led to laziness and even death due to lack of motivation to eat.
Sugar is identified as the substance that most effectively spikes dopamine, leading to its widespread addition in food products.
The speaker warns of the dangers of a high dopamine baseline, which makes it difficult to find motivation in everyday activities.
The speaker suggests that a broken dopamine system can lead to a life of mediocrity and an inability to achieve significant goals.
Lottery winners and rich kids are often cited as examples of individuals with broken dopamine systems, leading to poor financial decisions and lack of motivation.
The speaker challenges the viewer to focus on one thing for 5 minutes, highlighting the difficulty due to a broken dopamine system.
A dopamine detox is suggested as a method to reset the dopamine system, but the speaker argues that it is not a permanent solution.
The speaker proposes a complete lifestyle change, including eliminating sugar and minimizing social media usage, as a way to control dopamine levels.
The process of changing one's perspective and lifestyle to fix the dopamine system is described as challenging but necessary for long-term success.
The video concludes with a call to action for viewers to take control of their lives and not be slaves to their desires or corporate manipulation.
Transcripts
I'm about to share with you the biggest
money secret no one has ever told you
everything you've been told about money
is absolutely useless if you don't
understand this first by the end of the
video your perception of money will
completely change and you will look at
money from a whole different perspective
and if you're going to put this
knowledge in practice your life will
fundamentally change you might need to
re-watch this video a few time or at
least take notes because your life will
change to before and after after
watching this video it doesn't really
matter what you're trying to do start a
business make money with a side hassle
or just be disciplined you are going to
fail if you're not going to practice
this first this is exactly what has been
keeping you pull all this time when you
fix this and you learn this becoming a
millionaire for you will become a matter
of time it all started with this guy in
1958 when he started studying brains I
mean if you think about it for most of
history when we didn't really know much
about our brains because we didn't
really have the tools to study our
brains but after these guys studies we
found out that our brains mainly consist
of neurotransmitters which are
responsible for our feelings you're
happy depressed sad angry all because of
these
neurotransmitters like for example
serotonin is the neuron that is
responsible for your happiness so if
your serotonin levels are high that
means you're happy so if you ever feel
depressed it's because your serotonin
levels have dropped so your psychiatrist
will most likely prescribe your pills
that are going to boost your serotonin
but the most interesting
neurotransmitter is dopamine this is the
neuron that is responsible for your
motivation you know those moments when
you watch a motivational video on
YouTube and you feel inspired you feel
motivated you want to go there and work
and make millions of dollars that's
because your dopamine has spiked other
times when you feel lazy when you start
procrastinating this is because your
dopamine levels have dropped imagine for
a moment how your life will
fundamentally change if you can actually
manipulate your motivational system you
could be working 24/7 you can stay
focused and do focused work without
watching all of these motivational
videos and you could do it for hours and
hours and hours so you can actually
easily prevent yourself from buying crop
you don't need you can easily focus on
building a business now becoming a
millionaire for you will be a matter of
time when you master how to control your
motivational system if I'm going to ask
you how did you spend the last 5 years
you probably wasted a lot of time on
useless crop you probably wasted a lot
of money buying things you don't need
now imagine for a moment if you have
actually taken advantage of every second
of every single minute of the five last
year how your life would have been today
and that's exactly why you need to
master how to control your dopamine
imagine you will never be lazy you will
never procrastinate in the next 2 3 or 5
years what kind of a business you can
build what kind of side hassle you can
buit now this dopamine receptors in our
brains are so powerful that when
researchers did an experiment and shut
down the dopamine receptors and rats to
see the reaction guess what happened the
rats became so lazy that that they did
not even eat the food that was right in
front of them and starve to death that's
how powerful your dopamine receptors are
this discovery should have fundamentally
just changed the course of history it
should have turned humans into
superpowers but guess what happens
corporations quickly jumped in and
exploited this they realized that people
often buy with their feelings and then
justify it with their logic so they
start Ed doing experiments to see what
spikes your dopamine the most and found
out that sugar is that thing that spikes
your dopamine the most and started
adding sugar into everything you consume
open your fridge and you will find out
that there isn't a single thing in your
fridge that doesn't contains lots of
sugar even things such as spaghetti
bread and salads literally are loaded
with sugar the logic behind it is very
simple when you consume that bread
that's loaded with sugar it is going to
spike your dopamine your brain is going
to Crave for that dopamine again so
you're going to go back to the store
searching for that bread think about how
genius this plant is corporations have
an exact tool that they can use in order
to turn us into loyal customers your
dopamine is like a gum that stretches
every time it spikes but then it will
just come back to its previous level
however just just like a gum when it's
stretched too often and too wide it will
just increase to a new Baseline so
anything that doesn't spikes your
dopamine above this new Baseline isn't
going to motivate you guess what
companies has done they started adding
more and more sugar into their products
to keep your brain experiencing that
dopamine boost so that you come back to
the store searching for their products
health organizations try to warn us
because this is unhealthy
but companies got creative and they
started adding sugar under different
names which is why today we have like 56
different names for sugar but guess what
this was just the beginning because when
social media came out they didn't waste
time they realized how your brain works
they started testing features to find
out which features are going to boost
your dopamine the most and made these
features a fundamental part of their
plan platforms which is why Instagram is
no longer just a habit that you
sometimes just check your Instagram they
made Instagram into something that your
brain crav for to check every few
minutes while you're getting addicted to
Instagram Instagram is making billions
of dollars showing you ads then we had
something called Tik Tok they cracked a
strategy to create short form content
that is going to spike your dopamine
even higher which is why when you're
scrolling these shorts or Tik toks or
reals you don't really remember what
you're watching can you name the last
five shorts you have watched absolutely
not can you name the short you watched
yesterday absolutely not this is
literally useless content but because it
spikes your dopamine so high your brain
craves for you to keep scrolling which
is how you turn into a social media
addict so here is your normal natural
level of dopamine let's say working or
getting a job done is going to boost it
to
130 working out is going to increase it
to
150 but social media is going to
increase it to a new Baseline of 200 so
any activity that doesn't Rises your
dopamine above 200 isn't going to Simply
motivate you just like the rats whose
dopamine receptors were turned off and
they were not even motivated to eat and
starve to death so start spending more
time on social media but after some time
spending so much time on Instagram is no
longer going to boost your dopamine
because it has already reisen to a new
level but your brain is craving for the
dopamin boost again so you are going to
look for an activity that is going to
boost your dopamine to a new level which
is when you are going to follow half
naked insta models on Instagram now
Instagram perfectly knows that half
naked woman are going to boost your
dopamine which is why Instagram
purposely started recommending you these
girls however after some time your
dopamine is going to rise to a new level
and this half naked woman on Instagram
are no longer going to boost your
dopamine so you start looking on
internet to find something that is going
to boost your dopamine even higher
because you're are an adic at this point
your brain is craving for that dopamin
boost which is how you stumble on por
which spikes your dopamine even higher
this is exactly how people become porn
addicts I mean there is nothing
fundamentally wrong with woman doing
some random acts of love with men on
video but your dopamine receptors cannot
differentiate between a video and a
reality so they simply react in the same
way at this point your motivation system
is broken your dopamine system is broken
so even if you're given a step-by-step
plan to make 1 Mill million dollar
within the next year you're not going to
make it why because it is simply not
going to raise your job iine above your
new Baseline so you have simply set your
life for mediocrity you wake up in the
morning and the first thing you do is
that you pick up your phone and you
check your Instagram now after spending
5 or 10 minutes on Instagram your
dopamine spikes so you feel lazy to get
out of bed so you spend like I don't
know half an hour or an hour just lying
on your bed trying to get up but once
you do that and you have your your fully
loaded sugary breakfast you drive to
work now your dopamine has spiked again
once you come to the office you're going
to meet your female holics who are
wearing minis scares and when you look
at them you start fantasizing about
being with them that raises your
dopamine again so when you sit down to
work or try to refuse a temptation to
buy a crop that you don't need or work
on a business your dopamine is on a new
Baseline You're simply not motivated you
simply cannot motivate yourself to do
that I mean you can push yourself to do
it once or twice but that's not
sustainable at some point you are going
to feel lazy at some point you're going
to procrastinate The Matrix have got you
they have turned you into a perfect
consumer where you're just motivated to
work enough to survive that's how they
get you into the payi to pay Chic
lifestyle now I challenge you right now
to focus on one thing for 5 minutes it
doesn't matter what it is it could be a
car a house a tech anything I can tell
you with 100% certainty that you cannot
even do it for a few minutes something
is going to come up in the back of your
head and divert your attention that's
how broken your dopamin system system is
for thousands of years our dopamine
receptors were our most important tools
because they helped us to hand for food
or run away from wild animals or make
love with women to reproduce but
corporations exploited this system and
have turned us into slaves to our
desires in order to turn us into perfect
consumers your life right now is as if
you are in a self-driving car that you
have no control over and you have no
idea where this car is taking you to
even if I'm going to come and give you a
million dollars and give you a plan on
how to turn this million dollar into
$100 million within the next 2 years I
can tell you with a 100% certainty that
you are going to fail and lottery
winners are a perfect example most of
the lottery winners literally go
bankrupt in a few years after winning
the prize or Rich Kids Now Rich kids
grow up in a family where they have a
lot of let's say money in order to
experience stuff so by the time they're
teenagers their dopamin systems are
already broken so there's nothing that
motivates them so they try to find
something that is going to boost their
dopamine to a new level which is how
they get into drugs and when you take a
drug you want to take it first once and
then it boosts your dopamin to some
level but after some time you get used
to that because your dopamin Baseline
has just risen to a new Baseline and you
want to take more of that drug and after
some time when you have taken enough of
that drug it no longer boosts your job
I'm to a new level which is why you
start taking a more powerful drug and
that's how people turn into addicts no
matter how many motivational videos you
watch how many motivational books you
read you simply cannot make it just like
the guy who is stuck in a self-driving
car that he has no control over so
here's what I suggest you to do sit in
the driver's seat take control of the
steering wheel and drive the car to the
destination you want stop being a slave
to your desires where all you do is that
spend your time and your money to make
these corporations richer some people's
dopamine are so broken that a beautiful
girl can come in in Min skirt and take
full control of their lives they're
literally ready to do anything chase her
for as long as possible do anything she
asks just to have her if an attractive
girl can come into your life and take
full control of your life just imagine
for a moment how weak you are and then
you want to tell me that I want to make
millions of dollars and get rich good
luck I'm not saying this to put you down
but I want you to be honest with
yourself the problem with our brains is
that they're designed in such a way that
they're always for some reason just
justify our actions I mean if you right
now go and talk to a robber or a
prostitute she is going to justify her
actions just like you are justifying
your actions instead of being honest
with yourself there are people on the
internet who claim that if you stop
using social media if you stop eating
sugar for 7 to 10 days you are going to
check a dopamin detox and fix your
dopamin system but this is false this is
not going to help you and if you don't
believe me go try it out and you will
find that for yourself you will see a
quick drop in your dopamin Baseline but
it will just quickly come back even if
you entirely eliminate social media from
your life and you literally never eat
sugar again what's going to happen is
that when you drive to work you are
going to come across half naked woman in
Min skirts and when you look at them you
will start fantasizing about being with
them that will boost your dopamine when
you are done with your dopamin detox you
will pick up your phone and get back to
your sugary diet and your dopamine will
just rise back to its previous Baseline
you will have an illusion that you did
something but you haven't really fixed
the underly problem that's why there is
just one solution and it's to
fundamentally change your lifestyle but
to do that you have to fundamentally
change your perspective on life if
you're going to decide right now that
you want to start a business make a lot
of money make your life better make the
life of the people around you better and
be someone then you are going to decide
that you will not be a slave to your
desires you're not going to follow your
desires and make these corporations
richer at the expense of your life so if
you see a half naked woman in the
streets you're not going to look at her
and fantasize about being with her but
rather you will look away you will
minimize your social media usage to the
bare minimum and you your phone won't be
the first thing you pick up when you
wake up you'll entirely eliminate sugar
from your diet and your only source of
sugar are going to be fruits and
vegetables which are the natural sources
your goal is going to be to keep your
dopamine line at its natural level the
first 30 days are going to be brutally
hard I mean it's going to feel like
torture but after that you will slowly
get used to it however keep in mind that
you need at least 6 month up to a year
in order to completely fix your job I in
and get used to that lifestyle that's
when you will feel motivated every
single day to work that's when you will
easily stay focused refuse the
temptation to buy crop that you don't
need control yourself save money and
kind of think clearly and see the
opportunities that are right under your
nose if you're not going to make the
change first in your perspective I can
tell you with 100% certainty that you
are going to give up and you will fail I
know that this is not like a quick tip
to become a millionaire but this is the
reality this is the truth this is simply
how things work if you appreciate this
video give it a thumbs up and I will see
you guys in the next one
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