The Gambit That Broke Me

This is what a healthy work life balance looks like.
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[@benoplustee]

quarter [past] 6 gambit

[@pasta-and-heroin]

good KZbin frog 🐸

[@jacscottclifford]

As someone who finished an undergraduate thesis a year ago Atrioc's story hit my soul. You need somebody who can keep you honest and straight, and having somebody make me supply a deliverable every week was vital for its completion. Sure, there would be weeks where I only did a paragraph, but it meant that on average I actually did a lot of work. Please if you do an undergraduate thesis get a professor that will constantly check up and be actively engaged in the process (without overwriting your voice). But hell yeah proud of you for seeing it through and finishing it out. Props to anyone who is doing or has done a thesis.

[@seriatim2205]

Finished my undergraduate thesis last year. Almost didn't graduate since I ghosted my advisor. Thankfully, she didn't give up on us (I had a couple of groupmates that also don't respond) and kept pestering us to finish it. Finally snapped and crammed the shit out of it in a week. Turned I didn't need groupmates and just finished it almost all by myself. I had to give them work so they won't fail. My procrastination almost made a group of students not graduate on time. Learned my lesson that time.

[@ten_cents]

writing my undergrad thesis rn and in my school if you don't update your advisor constantly you straight up fail lmao he/she grades like 50% of the entire thing

[@totallyjerd1751]

Writing my masters by research thesis in marketing right now. All your points are true

[@Seriouspup]

That is the most real college story I’ve ever heard

[@AlexLanyu]

9:35 I read somewhere that the best sitting position is being dynamic and moving around so that you don't put too much pressure on a single point for too long

[@AlexLanyu]

I just realized that a bunch of chat messages said the same thing so he probably already read it

[@Otzkar]

honestly i dont get how that is supposed to help people who got back pain from laying in bed too much. i think the main way to avoid back pain is to build a strong core and doing regular exercise and stretching. not like im doing that but just in theory

[@LoveOlsson98]

​@@Otzkarthere's also different kinds of back pains. The most common one (I think) comes from your muscles around your lower back not being in good enough shape so they can't consistently hold up your back perfectly in all positions. So when the body feels the back starting to "slip", not actually slipping but you get the vibe, it panics and tenses them like crazy. That's what hurts. Luckily it's relatively easy to avoid by staying in shape so your body won't have to panic like that, basically 100% solving the issue. It also doesn't give any permanent damage, so don't feel like it's too late if you start getting these kinds of pain. Though probably talk with some professional about it so you know what kinda exercise is going to work without being too dangerous and risking leading into the next point. You can also get back pains from your nerves physically getting pinched by your spine and that is a lot harder to fix. You'll often need some surgery and that's still not guaranteed. My grandma has had this kinda pain for more than half her life and it's never been 100% fixed, even with surgeries. My sister also got it in her early twenties but it seems like the surgery she got luckily fixed it. Though I'm in no way educated in this. Just got family with some of these issues and a mother who is very educated in it and tries to get me to work out more. So don't take this blindly as true.

[@henrycavil5332]

Was here for this story live and it's as crazy to me now as it was when I first heard it. This is by far the most degen story he's ever told and it's CRAZY to me this is from AFTER his league days

[@abortedButGoated]

The moving around so much while sitting probably saved atriocs back. It's the staying still in one posture for hours that breaks you. I grinded my final year project too but i don't fidget at all and had terrible upper back and neck pain for a while afterwards. luckily got better after only a month of working out.

[@SamDavies94]

I studied film at uni, and in my third year I needed to put together a portfolio document detailing the process of directing a short film I was submitting for my final. This was the kind of thing that I was meant to be working on throughout the year. I bumped into my lecturer on a Friday and asked him if we had anything due soon. He said, yes, your portfolio piece on Monday... I pulled 3 back to back all nighters working on this dissertation level portfolio. I wrote 17,000 words in 3 days with additional storyboarding and annotations. The 3 day slog almost killed me, but I ended up getting the highest grade in the class...

[@brodiefreel2239]

I wish he had normal hands

[@eduardo_moya]

He HAS normal hands

[@Silve4]

@@eduardo_moya Okay alt

[@glwilliam86]

Nah, he has glancer

[@powerlifting1012]

​@@eduardo_moyabefore the Glancer, so tragic.

[@elliottmcleandeboer]

Holy shit, I struggled enough getting through all-nighters for coursework or single exams. This sounds like absolute torture I can 100% see myself getting into this situation back in uni if I had had to do a thesis - but I didn't have nearly this level of grustle in me. I would probably have managed to do like 50% of it in those last few days, and then had a full mental breakdown

[@Firnienarya]

This guy really judging our degen hours. THIS GUY!

[@jaybm1560]

Never take advice from someone who played league

[@Bladeofwar94]

0:15 I used to work 8pm to 4am. During the winter I never saw the sun. literally ever. Did it for 4 1/2 years.

[@OhYeah10100]

Sounds absolutely miserable. I cant imagine anything worse than essentially losing human contact for more than a few days Was it awful?

[@SnKissd]

watching this at 5am knowing i'll sleep in like 2 hours and wake up at 4pm like damn, he be spitting (i won't change my ways)

[@BarginsGalore]

it tough because the best sleep schedule for interacting with humans is like 8am-midnight but the most fun sleep schedule is like 5pm-9am so there’s two wolves

[@bw9382]

What the fuck? 5pm?

[@Balesart]

Get your back pain check guys, i got diagnosticated with kidney cancer (im 32y) and the only symton was a severe back pain

[@IAmSilverlined]

This story was my unmedicated ADHD ass throughout the entirety of my college career. I, genuinely, have no idea how I did it looking back.

[@LoveOlsson98]

Exact same here. Especially the 48h of cramming and straight into a week of not doing anything productive part. It's like I've spent up some video game stamina meter entirely and need to wait for it to recharge to 100% again before I can do anything. Having two assignments that needs to be done close to eachother always means one of them won't get done.

[@brbtexting6595]

Hello Atrioc. As a hardworking professional, I sometimes think back to college grinding and miss the feeling of satisfaction I would get from clutching something up. Sometimes, it makes me want try to get a masters while continuing to work in my profession. This story made me remember what college was actually like and realize im insane for ever wanting to go back Thank you.

[@tempestrain]

"i hate how i'm doing it, but i like my results" -- every high functioning degen ever

[@rosia7598]

moving around in the chair is actually better than sitting still all the time

[@Matkatamiba]

I'm convinced this is why I haven't had back problems yet. Bad posture, but I fidget my position pretty often.

[@Taxes01]

@@Matkatamiba i mean, ya surely. why wouldnt this be the case

[@rudeus6851]

Watching this while procrastinating writing my thesis

[@anthonyxwrld]

These videos are so bingeable my statistics are for this channel are probably so embarrassing I've seen so many videos😂

[@kurtwilliams982]

Submitted my PhD Thesis a few weeks ago. My experience was very much like this. Spent 2 weeks editing non-stop, barely slept, did not talk to anyone. My final read-through took 16 continuous hours, 6 redbulls and a pint of icecream. I genuinely thought was losing my mind the whole time - but that turned out to be the Covid, lmao.

[@spookyrobbie2]

congrats tho bro 🎉

[@rutoop]

I work 6pm to 6am and haven't seen the daylight in nearly two years. This vid hits my soul :(

[@TheAmazingShane4]

Get out now, I did that too and it doesn’t even occur to you how much it’s hurting you until you go back to sleeping normal hours and realize how much happier you are. Or this is satire and I’m dumb

[@BarginsGalore]

@@TheAmazingShane4hard disagree. i switched for a while to a daylight schedule and it made me tired stressed out and miserable all the time. obviously it’s a problem if you never see any other people but imo the best thing to do is just sleep when your tiered

[@silentbovo1]

​@@TheAmazingShane4my gf and i swapped to the night shift schedule for awhile. once we swapped back to day shift, we definitely saw a huge difference in mood, for the better. Most people definitely need sunlight or it's equivalent to feel more optimal

[@kimono8413]

@@BarginsGalore10 months late but i’ve been on the 5pm-1pm grind with cat nap supplements. Purposely stay up so i get some time with the sun which is a huge plus for me personally. Also I find an occasional switch up to normal hours helps break bad time wasting patterns in my day like scrolling during specific hours, …

[@trip2845]

Moving around is better than sitting still in every sense of ergonomics. I also knew an 80 year old who was more fit and healthy than me, he was a firefighting veteran where infrastructure sucked. He smoked and drank until he was 50 and just quit cold turkey and started running daily.. he still ate like shit and occasionally had wine at christmas and birthday parties, but my god did he turn his health around. So I figure I got another 20 years till I have to worry bout it ;)(Im 29)

[@loiul1]

About the back pain, it appears that the best thing to avoid it is actually to move around when sitting so dont maintain the same position for hours on end and try to walk a bit every 40 mins

[@agdaboss3281]

Watching this as an asu student after downing a borg and can confirm this is the asu experience. Number one in innovation!

[@gregoryseraphin1426]

Moving around and adjusting your posture is way better for your back than stagnating. You are honestly clutching it with your squirminess

[@lordduck821]

This is the story of every marketing Monday.

[@foggy7577]

My 7,000 word thesis is due in 2 days, this is god showing me that eden is beyond the desert.

[@tucker2197]

I’ve never related so hard. I did exact same thing, just blacked out and auto piloted the entire thesis speech, amazed they were impressed with it.

[@AquaDogYT]

this video is so relatable like. i normally dont wait til the last minute but when i do do the work i do not stop and lose all connection to reality. also i have backpain at 18 lmao

[@TeaDrinkingGuy]

I can’t tell you how much I related to this - the 72 hours in the library was me a couple of days before my dissertation was due. The putting it off until the last minute and then grinding on it for days with no rest is how my workflow in uni went 😂

[@TilDrill]

Stop telling those stories. They motivate me to keep living unhealthy and procrastinate because "I can clutch it up later"

[@MrAllallalla]

Maybe the healthy thing is not feeling guilty about the way you work. As long as you're not failing, you are fine!

[@TilDrill]

@@MrAllallalla I dont work. I am failing

[@stephenthompson5459]

That 6 PM stuff is tough, working 13 hour night shifts you're sleeping from 8 AM to 4 PM and then you go right back to work.

[@bloodwolf2609]

idk how to channel the energy properly its always doing 12 week assignments in 12 hours, I can't even imagine how people can be actively working on something over the entire 12 weeks, literally cant comprehend it.

[@Pyxyty]

Person here that works like that, it's just small progress over short periods of time. Much easier to work on something when you're not stressing over a deadline. It's not like I'm working with the same intensity but for way longer. Also, for things like theses or essays, ive been both a "12 week" person and a "12 hour"/procrastinating crammer person. The biggest difference? When im not cramming, i find i often give much more time to the structure and framework of what i need to do. I figure out ahead of time how i approach the work im doing and the steps i need to take. It's waaay easier to do work like that when you have a blueprint to follow. Meanwhlle, when cramming, you kinda just have to go for it and improvise on the way, and since you dont have time to fully think it through, you'll constantly find yourself filling gaps you realize you have or having much more filler than you'd like

[@bloodwolf2609]

@@Pyxyty well its not like I dont realise all of this but the mentality is more like, why would I spend 12 weeks doing this when I can do it in 12 hours for a minimally worse result? or imagine if you could cram the same 12 hours of work like once a week for all 12 weeks you do like 12 assignments worth of work would be crazy. It just never happens its a really strange phenomenon to know that so many people cram stuff the day before.

[@T0NI_]

I’ve been told by several people that they genuinely do not understand how I graduated our equivalent of high school. I had like an 80% absence in written assignments for year 2 and 3, and like half my oral exams I turned in half-finished and bullshitted my way through. The biggest one that no-one understood was me turning in 2 pages for something that was supposed to be at least 18, and walking away with a passing grade. When I was at the actual oral part of it, they told be they would’ve have given me the equivalent of like F-, but my oral defence was good enough that it bumped me up to passing. This is not a universal experience *at all*, but it just worked out for me. Even managed to walk away with the equivalent of A+ on my last exam because it was oral English, and the expectations/requirements for that are/were way below my level of fluency.

[@alyu_]

great pfp love lord of the mysteries

[@T0NI_]

@@alyu_ Ayyy, always nice when someone acknowledges it

[@SL89999]

I hear you bro - I pulled an all nighter to prepare a strategy deck for the CFO who didn’t want to use external help. 20 mins before presenting to the board my sister calls and asks me to say goodbye to my Grandmother who was in a hospice. I do this and then get on the call - and midway through the presentation the CFO asks whether the company should get external assurance from consultants. I resigned soon after. Was angry at the time but in hindsight I learned a lot … about effective effort

[@SL89999]

Also the inheritance helped

[@stephenthompson5459]

8:30 the line we were all waiting for, gg boyz we're going home.

[@jf6466work]

I worked an 11pm to 11am shift back when i was in my early 20s. During those shifts I was waking up around 8pm, and it was soul crushing.

[@Ercrcrdsstff]

I think sitting in a bunch of different positions prevents back pain? Like a static position is what can cause issues so as long as youre not in one position for too long ur good A. But yoga is definitely the key to really preventing it

[@asukahana-v5e]

Its so strange i used to be a degenerate gamer playing league all the time but as soon as i hit university i completely changed. Last year i wrote my master thesis and i never had to pull an all nighter or do an excessive amount of work at once because i spread it out over the year. I have no idea how i even became responsible.

[@jonasqueiroz1326]

Watching this while procrastinating on my thesis seems like a sign

[@songhuang6854]

I have the same worry about my health, even though I'm not even 20 yet. But after watching this video, I didn't sleep until 6, slept 2 hours, and took an exam

[@Foxexar]

I worked graveyard for 5 years. I was gonna say bruh Big A wtf were people too but at least he gets us XD

[@ThatOneDoesntCount]

“I hate how I do it but I like my results” fuck man I gotta get that shit tattooed that’s practically my guiding philosophy

[@caseyleirer9677]

This was an awesome video. I love big A story times

[@D0ct0rTC]

Man Big A! Way to give me Vietnam flashbacks to my year of my Art Direction degree 😂

[@implosive4065]

Are those Otto pull-ups or were they added in post?

[@BlicedSread]

Atrioc naps with head in the toilet bowl.

[@javebjorkman]

This is how my video production business started. First big client, last minute filming and editing., no sleep for 36 hours to get the first draft finished. Clutched it up, we’re going on 7 years of operation now with 10 employees 💪🏽

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

Remember this is what made him a winner this is what made him rich. Also I did that shit tons of time and lost track of times.

[@brinka7918]

i remember my thesis! had to write 100 page analysis of presidential campaign and i basically did most of the work in one week

[@zakaryrichmond396]

Yesterday I passed out at 5 pm and woke up at 3 am unable to sleep more so instead of "waking up after the sun is already down" I woke up before the sun came up in a bad way

[@warren5383]

I haven’t watched the video but I know big A will disappoint ❤

[@Jath554]

I one wrote my Honors thesis in one week. 5 years later: my paper has 17,000 downloads on the research paper tracking site. More than any other person in the program that year. And I gave WAY less of a shit than the rest of them

[@johnathoncolman6083]

What an incredible story

[@dyldog]

I work third shift so the first 15 seconds hurt, then the next 15 seconds healed

[@jXslauter00]

Graveyard shift was the worst, could barely get groceries or do anything with my day. Times were tough but holy shit would i do anything else looking back now

[@guyinoah]

i used to work overnights at a 7/11. shift waas 11pm-7am. So i used to go to sleep around 10 am after doing some shit after work and id wake up at like 7pm and have a few hours before work lmao. It was one hell of a schedule.

[@wgcdrelliot8989]

it’s 10 am rn, and i am watching this to fall asleep, i pray that i’ll wake up at 6 pm

[@TheGoQu]

Student big A defended his Glisis

[@Stevethe11th]

Don’t know if big A reads these comments but supposedly constantly moving around in your chair is a good thing. It prevents any pressure buildups in specific areas of your back and more evenly distributes the load over your entire back.

[@dillpi8866]

Wow this story resonates a little too much

[@blulu8620]

Moving around is optimal for back pain

[@Sly25]

The power of "fuck it" is OP

[@cooliomccloopio1642]

i hate how relatable this was

[@mits_y]

this reminded me to work on my paper lmao

[@Macrolith]

As a student at ASU Barrett procrastinating on my thesis, it's good to know I'm doing better than Big A

[@AuspexAstarte]

It’s actually good for you if you dont keep your back in the same shape or alignment for long periods of time (edit: necessary even, but obviously no moving around while slouching the whole time)

[@zzz_steve]

It's crazy how it still hasn't hit Atrioc that he has ADHD. Hyper fixation from "immediacy" is like how I got almost all of my school projects done. Procrastinating and then all back to back allnighters and somehow pulling off making something high quality

[@powmod]

So that's what doing an years work in a week is like.

[@nhmk2355]

What Stream was this from?

[@Moondog911]

My undergrad thesis was the closest I’ve been to death too

[@CrazyJawaMerc]

Inspiring honestly

[@Foahninny]

just woke up at 5pm to watch this video

[@brent13]

reminds me of whenever I play league for 30 hours straight

[@BroudbrunMusicMerge]

"I skipped yoga today, so I don't have a leg to stand on." Then use the other??

[@StarsongKey]

Excellent video, but I have so much second hand stress from the college story

[@henryschoon7816]

this is like the mj flu game

[@galbossgalba8127]

Watching this at 5am

[@frostyalaska6371]

Chiropractor and massages will prevent back pain from sitting all day

[@dangroll7766]

Hah, I would never have a sleep schedule as degenerate as that! (I’m typing this at 2:38 AM on a Saturday after working 8 hours at my warehouse job running on 5.5 hours of sleep from last night, and I have have now been awake 20 hours. Collectively I worked 1.33x more hours than I slept this week 🙃 ). The back pain goes away right?

[@BirnieMac1]

Am doing a second honours degree in engineering Developed a bad habit of pulling all nighters to get shit done, engineering has only cemented this Still feel like a degenerate staying up a day or two to get shit done

[@monkeybox3618]

Have you read George Orwells Animal Farm? It’s short and reaally really good

[@Drwildy]

Does it matter what time you wake up if you get 8 hours of sleep?

[@SpiderGamer64]

6pm?

[@edgay]

why is his did still working graveyad shifts at amazon, isnt mr strimmer rich :(

[@Alexander-es8rd]

It’s ALL Glarketing???!?

[@maxdempsey2808]

I work ems so ofc I work graveyard shifts

[@wr_wr]

Is this channel official?

[@spiderzz1]

im 27 with unfixable back pain, its how it be sometimes...

[@dillpixell]

watching this at 8am and i have yet to go to bed hi

[@WInfinityCrew]

atrioc always saying he doesnt have adhd and then tells u a story of the most adhd shit ever

[@Captain_-]

as a junior marketing student at Boulder rn this is fucking hilarious

[@dannyhoang9623]

Going to get Atrioc’s thesis (i go to ASU)

[@Chris-yw5is]

youre fine budbdy its ntodinteots gonna cathc up to yuo Im 24 and ive beeen grinding games for YEAR and Im doing GREAT 👍

[@Chris-yw5is]

hell yeas

[@Maceventur]

no one should be allowed to own more then 10mio

[@fstew1]

Bro imagine his potential if he didnt do this shit

[@rudy2shoes]

Genius comes with its side effects, if he didn’t do this shit he likely wouldn’t achieve anymore than he has

[@godlyvex5543]

I have had back pain since I was 8. This isn't a joke.

[@KelTec1600]

I wake up at like 8pm cuz I work overnight

[@Brcnosaur]

BIG A!