Its sad cuz I have to be perfect to make up for the fact that my older siblings aren’t the best not only that but i am not allowed to do anything, I can’t go outside because im “too young” when my brother who is 4 years older than me is allowed to go anywhere and has to be home by 10:00pm yet I can’t be outside and they say “you have to wait till your older” basically i have to wait like 5-4years just to be outside😢😢

4:58 life as a person with ADHD, except it’s our own brains instead of a phone…

Caffeine surpresses the appetite. Since I quit green tea all I want to do is to eat 😂

There are ways to digitally "backup" hand-written notes: 1. Digital pens 2. Digital notepads 3. Smart scanners Notepads are great for digital privacy concerns or to improve fine motor skills and cognitive functioning. You wanna remember something better? Put pen to paper. Plus, it's better for your eyes.

I've brought notebooks all my life but turns out i have dysgraphia (found out 7 months ago at my age 🤦🏻‍♀️) and writing my thoughts down feels like wading through mud though i could tell you them all quite clearly. Also adhd. I use free zoho notebooks on my phone (i have like 40 on there 😂) I would lose a small paper notebook. I learnt touch typing in high school and can type all my thoughts out fast easily Works same with swype keyboards on my phone. So any adhd people here who struggle to use a notebook look up dysgraphia

I've filled 2 notebooks just like this, almost done with a 3rd. 😊 I love it its been a wonderful experience but I love the idea of a small one to bring in your pocket because there are times when I forget to bring my bigger notebook. ❤

Mini moleskins are my favs but they are kinda pricey :/

In the last few years, a close friend of mine has started carrying around little books with him everywhere, owns and regularly uses a typewriter, and I think he's much better for it

As the youngest child, i was told that i was spoiled by my family. everyone always joked around about me being a "demon," until it wasnt a joke anymore. they would give my brother more attention than they gave to me because they always thought i was up to mischief. they always called my brother humble and kind, while they called me a spoiled kid. it happened so much that i just decided to "play the part" one day. I made fun of my brother like he did with me. i talked back to people. id get all defensive. id steal my brothers stuff. thats what everyone else saw. what they didnt see at the time is when id return his stuff and apologize, when id cry over not being the same age as my brother, when my brother criticized my interests, when i felt the need to put up a wall and push everyone away because i felt like i was just a spoiled kid who had weird interests. because of that, i never figured out who i truly was. i never asked myself what i want to be, or anything like that. i feel attacked over any little thing now. when people joke around about me, i feel betrayed and i quiet down the entire time. i close myself off. all because i neved figured out who i was.

Awesome thanks for sharing ❤

Don’t knock the Field Notes memo books 😂 I carry one every day and I love the look and the design.

Started drinking only decaf lately and felt mood changes from dropping my caffeine intake. On day 4, I had a craving all of a sudden and got my hands on dark chocolate; realized only minutes later that it contains caffeine, probably why I wanted it to begin with, what’s wrong with my brain 😭

I gave up using paper due to the logistics involved in purchasing, storing and making it vulnerable for anyone to have access to. I write in Focus Writer and then send it to Onenote

Wow. I know I'm old now that notebooks and pens are seen as being novel. I'm old school (born 1970) so I've been chronicalling most of my life using the written word.

my phone was very offended. LOL I giggled.

I found an empty Kara book my dad uses for surveying and imma just fill it with random thoughts I have through the day writing down new chord progressions I find and just doodling.

I love technology! But i hate how the phone can distract from the things you want to do on it with other things. I hate how the internet has gotten more and more commodified. Jenny Odells book How to Do Nothing first made me think about the attention economy and made me start taking steps to avoid it by stepping away from social media. Thank you for this video.

Hey Austin how to use this video in life if i am procrastinate and scrolling then disturbing sleep and routine

Big techs Achilles heel.

Brilliant

I am the youngest in my family with elder rising. Responsibilities on me. High expectations on me. And i am their caretaker all the time. Its like I do everything for them and I don't get anything in return. No support. No emotional support. It frustrates me when people ignore younger siblings feelings. Not all younger siblings are spoiled. There are always rare exceptions.

Great video m8

Its quite refreshing to see someone jump right into their video's subject rather than blathering on about what the video is going to be about and wasting valuable time. Well done 😊

9:00 the graph is showing two things at the same time - the impact of your circadian rhythm which can be shifted intentionally through habit and light exposure, and your internal Chronotype related cycles which don’t adjust much regardless of what you try to do. Hence you get much stronger peaks and troughs as the two influences begin to clash.

It makes me so sad that the next generation just has no idea what it was like before phones. I guess this happens every generation as we move further and further away from the human experience

Sarcasm at its peak!😂

Your videos literally have the ability to change someone's life ! Thankyou saur much . I really appreciate that. I've always wanted a vid like dis thanks alot

I still use a notepad - one for work (I work in the security industry and notepads are essential) the other I carry in my everyday kit.

I wish I could do the same with my money, but society won't let me spend it, if I do (at least not for large purchases). 😬

I too struggle with discipline, so i want to try some of these methods! Great job on the video!

Great video!

your videos are beautiful and informative as always :) it's valuable to hear about other people's experience too

With my first smartphone I got all these apps for writing diaries and logging things and saving things. Pocket to save articles which I then never read again and the buttons to add stuff didn’t fit in the flow of how my brain does things. I got Day One diary and saved a few years of diaries with photos and they updated the app without me seeing any warning and everything was lost. Gone. I just don’t find myself able to think as well when on my phone. I started writing a diary recently before bed when I forced myself to leave my phone and iPad out the room and I ended up writing 30 pages. Lying on my side awkwardly scribbling away with a fountain pen. I got so many ideas. It reminded me how I used to be before smartphones when I was younger. Fast forward a few months and my handwriting has improved leaps and bounds and the way my brain flows improved. My art has improved because I’ve been actually thinking about it while writing ideas and free thinking. not just watching endless videos on it. Some writing and productivity apps I couldn’t live without happily like diet and sports tracking stuff. But the rest, eh. And since apple decided to make it impossible for me and some friends to send texts and only iMessage works and nothing fixes it and phones don’t do basic stuff anymore I may just ditch my smartphone. I went to get the next gen one a while back and cancelled the contract because I thought really why do I want a crappy camera and some small screen with distractions that’s no better than the last? I’ll have a journal and a real camera instead.

Hi Austin, would love to do a product collab- we’re developing a product that champions hand writing notetaking. We’re based in the States, is there anywhere we can reach you? Thanks :)

3:55 mind the difference between "then" and "than" ;) Great Vid!

I was just watching Ali Abdaal 😅

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I appreciate your insight. Great video.

I really appreciate the framing You didnt just reword what he said but also implemented it and gave us an opinion, very friendly Great video

Thank you

Fellow mini notebook notion nerd. This video does a great job reflecting on a lot of benefits I've found through this practice. The presence is unmatched. I think part of it's appeal is that a pen and paper (especially in a calm environment) can allow you to enter theta wavelengths (relaxed, daydreaming, calm), where as your phone will keep you in beta (high alert, upper beta stress and anxiety) This physiological difference determines our ability to think creatively and expand our thoughts into abstract territory. Writing thoughts by hand is also just a damn soothing practice that's enjoyable in and of itself. An "Autotelic experience."

What a Pick-Me girl

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It was an insanely funny coincidence when I got an ad at 4:45. However, this seems very interesting, and I'm gonna try it.

I‘m the oldest and me and my youngest sister are very close. She is only six but here are some of her thoughts. “I never have my own clothes, its always your old clothes.” “Why does everyone say we get what we want, i don’t get anything i want. Mom doesn’t pay attention to me much cause everyone else is doing things. I mean i love mom, but, you know.” For context she is the youngest of 8 children (don’t ask its a VERY long story that barely includes her.) meaning that because she has so many older siblings she gets a lot of hand me downs. :(

I'm also feeling burn out from digital gadgets. I'm a visual artist, so I was drawing on iPads or on my computer. And it's a very efficient way to work, but I was tired of being in front of a screen all the time, and drawing on glass screens always feels awkward for me. I think humans still need to interact with physical objects / move around more/ than the technology lets us. I saw an article a few weeks back that said doing things with your hands (for example, arts and crafts stuff like sewing ) was very good for brain health.

As a oldest child in a big family, all these personal experiences in the comments this video made me think more of how I treat the youngest child of my family. I’ve always been more focused on parenting and things going on in my life instead of thinking how it could affect my siblings. Thanks for this video! <3

I'm the youngest of four and the most responsible of the bunch. I have nothing in common with my other siblings outside of having the same parents.

To add to your author’s list, Thomas Pynchon hand-wrote the first draft of “Gravity’s Rainbow “ on engineers quadrille paper.