The Time Spent on Daily Routine

I did the math. This is how much life you actually have to live.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:59 - Brushing and flossing teeth
2:11 - Showering
2:29 - Bathroom
3:13 - Trimming nails
3:40 - Shaving
4:05 - Haircuts
4:21 - Skincare
4:34 - Doctor's appointments
4:50 - Exercise
5:18 - Laundry
5:40 - Household chores
5:53 - Grocery shopping
6:21 - Washing dishes
6:48 - Totals
7:33 - School
8:17 - Work
8:48 - Sleep
9:14 - Final Totals
9:27 - So what?

[@GoldenBoyProductions]

for anyone wanting to lower their poop time PB, fibre strat is completely busted in that regard, become a bean boy and your times will shoot down instantly

[@duncanclarke]

Fibre tech is key for sure. I've heard a lot about fasting strats too to save frames on the grocery shopping split. Might be the new meta

[@Gryzzly]

Working in the restaurant industry let’s you avoid that part of the map for long periods of time. I get groceries once a month at most.

[@L0CV5T]

@@Gryzzly damn i never though of that kind of time skip strat, though I find that I can bring the poo time split down to nearly nothing by debuffing “constipation” and going once a month with a slightly longer unskippable cutscene

[@PeterBarnes2]

@@L0CV5T "...with a slightly longer unskippable cutscene" :|

[@michaelspyker8390]

I got that corn kernel power up and the Forest green transmog

[@linhao3684]

I had a chaotic and painful childhood and I started living on my own when I was 18. 3 years after that I moved to a different country with no friends, no family and have been living there since. To most people, those activities you listed are "boring routine" but I kinda think the opposite. I had a chaotic childhood so now if I can just go on a day without any disruption on my routine- I feel great. I find joy in skincare because I know I am taking care of my body but it is also a time where I can just sit and play some idle game on my phone. Doing dishes is great because I like the tidy home I have. Working is stressful but work is work and I can have my adult money that I can now spend on stuff that I couldn't when I was a kid because I grew up poor. I love working out because it makes me healthier. Routine can be boring to most people but without one, my life wont have the structure and I cant achieve what I have today. I can't just suddenly live by myself without parents support without a routine and I feel like routine is good. Everytime I feel my life is boring because of my routines I will look back when I was a kid. There was a time when I had clothes in multiple houses because I lived in all of them and walking out of school is the dread feelings of not knowing where I would stay that night. Now, I know what I do and I am grateful

[@angelmcadena]

resonate so hard w this thank you for sharing

[@manishashilal5272]

Wowwww, I happy so happy for you

[@random-characters4162]

Based! And so similar to what had happened to me. I was down to comments just to write that when satisfied with your life taking a shower is a great joy.

[@lopocozo]

I really like your perspective on this

[@Iukeafk]

So you're saying by peeing in the shower I timesave three thousand hours?

[@finn6492]

that is why i curb stomp my shit down the shower drain

[@josephjoestar6099]

And a lot of water by flushing less

[@horde6486]

Do you take seven showers a day?

[@KingTvlip]

Thanks for the existential dread caused by most of life's mandatory actions, Duncan. Can't wait for the next video.

[@Bonzi1nho]

I always disagreed with those who said life was short until I realized that in my life there were more missed opportunities than plans being completed. This video is really good for reminding us how everyday life is a bunch of opportunities to glorify everything we can do. As Bob Dylan once said "the answer is blowin' in the wind" let's take it and enjoy

[@gabe.e]

your poops are TWO MINUTES????!!! damn bro.

[@threethrushes]

13 minutes of my life I'll never get back. . . . . j/k great video.

[@duncanclarke]

The irony of this situation is pretty funny in hindsight. If you spent every waking hour of your life watching this video, you could watch it about 2 million times.

[@finn6492]

Every minute of your life that goes by is a minute you wont get back. Time is not refundable. the fog is coming. the fog is coming. the fog is coming

[@norastorm99]

What do you mean the frog is coming?😂😂​@@finn6492

[@edmontoraptor]

I had a conversation kind of similar to this with my wife. All these chores and tasks we do to maintain ourselves, like cooking, cleaning, driving etc. The wealthy pay others to do these things for them. In a weird way they pay other people so as not to "experience" the necessary parts of life for themselves. As cool as it would be to eat at restaurants everyday and never have to touch a vacuum again, I can't help but feel that someone who can afford to not "live the necessary parts of life" is actually missing out on something that is pretty central to the human condition. I think that perhaps this is one reason why the very wealthy are so disconnected from the lived experience of 99% of humanity. Either way, I used to hate doing the dishes but ever since meeting my wife I've changed my perspective on it. If I can do any little thing to help make her life a little less tedious then I find meaning and comfort in the necessary actions.

[@constantin2046]

nah, be serious. It's just a rationalization on your part to make yourself feel better. They have access to those experiences any time they desire and are not constrained by them, thus achieving a higher degree of freedom, not to mention the additional experiences "unlocked" by money. It's just objectively a better position to be in. They have other problems though because most of them are still idiots overall, but that's another subject.

[@fidelio9301]

Translation: your life sucks. You’re coping bro. If you were wealthy you would save so much time by paying others to do it. That’s why everyone is scrambling for money, why our whole society is based on it. It’s a slimy climb to the top of the totem pole so to speak.

[@MiguelGarcia-jc7bl]

​@@fidelio9301not everyone is scrambling for money

[@blacksky492]

I’ve always wonder these things as a child. As I grow up, I start to realize that the sheer amount of time spent on these things is astounding

[@duncanclarke]

This video idea came from a similar thought in childhood

[@satwikmishra2312]

I teared up a bit at the mention of "This is water". I've been reading Wallace for a couple months now and it has been enlightening and overwhelming. Thank you so much for this video.

[@JuliusCaesar103]

I laughed so hard at the pictures during the washing the dishes part.

[@finn6492]

1 word. Washing machine

[@JuliusCaesar103]

@@finn6492 I actually don't mind doing them, also don't have place for a washing machine but that would probably be pretty cool

[@erickahidalgo3144]

All you can do is laugh 😂 The extend to be right vrs to be happy ! I can respect All the time invested in your video.

[@OtherSide6829]

Really like watching your Videos, just Bing Watch about 5 of them

[@_d2082]

Your videos are of such high quality with so low view counts pleaseeee keep making them

[@neokurai5933]

i love your videos duncan

[@RaindropGroptop]

The thoroughness of this video is hilarious. Respect to my man for doing his research.

[@gabpro21]

LETS GOO NEW VID

[@Garbofied]

Good video, thank you.

[@benkehargitai1688]

Gotta live life. Gotta love life. 💛 However repetitive it might seem, it is ever-changing and always unique. Awesome video!

[@duncanmann2540]

Thank you Duncan

[@duncanclarke]

Appreciate that Duncan

[@cygnuscraft9544]

coincidentally started getting into the idea of being in the present and it's interesting. the whole idea is kinda simplified here and ppl who really need to learn about presence probably need to look deeper into it but I get why it got kept short here. anyways, good video.

[@sidmiel9927]

Great video

[@tyrangi2972]

It is crazy how much maintenance is outweighing our leisure time, I wish it was more 50/50

[@marv47]

i dont like to think about these things

[@dawngeorge1529]

cool

[@marv47]

@@dawngeorge1529 i am smarter than you

[@dawngeorge1529]

@@marv47 cool

[@ebircsbus6643]

that is actually one of the best vids I´ve ever seen ngl.

[@jzhou2921]

制作这么精良的视频居然没多少人观看🤩

[@escobasingracia962]

Wow nice video

[@gustavonecochea3496]

One can do almost all these tasks while listening to audiobooks (or simply text to speech files) through earbuds or speakers. It adds up really fast. A daily commute + shower + housework can total 2 hours of daily listening. If one make it active listening--tts with pauses for question-answer pairs--that can equal a tremendous amount of studying.

[@notmokiplamo]

wow nice video

[@raosiddharth4726]

dude I think because of dislike ratio in some of your videos, youtube algorithm is going to recommend you less and less and it is visible from your falling view count. So something has to be done. I respect your content and see it in terms of student's perspective rather than a professional prespective. So please keep uploading.

[@fidelio9301]

It’s just his videos ain’t that good tbh. They are ok, nothing spectacular.

[@lovekittyforever]

Dental checkup every 6 months for 1 h each time?! In Sweden you get a checkup every 1-3 years and it takes about 20 min, we then book another appointment if anything needs fixing otherwise see you in 2 years again

[@yourstrulytk12]

thank you very much for producing and sharing this video the ending was great Positive Thinking shift: it's easy to think about what you're late for why you deserve to be rang through first and how this guy has directly wronged you by the end of your transaction you'll be filled with a mild on we at best and a seething rage at worst but you can try to interpret the situation differently instead of spending all that time ruminating about this stranger passing judgment and contemplating your superiority you can just snap back to reality and focus your attention on the present moment maybe you'll notice the guy is wearing a Pink Floyd t-shirt and you think to yourself hey I love that band after he's done you point out his shirt and you two share a moment of connection now your experience in this convenience store left you in High Spirits you walk back to your car with a grin on your face as your drive diving to your meeting you hit a few red lights but that doesn't bother you because you started listening to Dark Side of the Moon for the first time in years and you're reminiscing about the point in your life when this album meant the world to you now this pattern of thought doesn't come naturally to us we're always the center of our own experience and a certain level of self-absorption is par for the course but it's worth striving for as cliche as it sounds the solution to the boredom of life is to embrace it and just live in the moment TK ASKS (overall video) but did you start doing this stuff the day you were born? is that or is that not accounted for? because for me most of the stuff started later on in life. when i became more conscious about my decisions. including puberty stuff. also this assumes that you’ll be doing this stuff till the very last breath. but that’s not true is it? after retiring you won’t probably do a lot of the same stuff. same with getting older. are you gonna wash the dishes still?

[@-7n]

ultimate bruh moment

[@faithelson]

Considered seeing that life square thing and then thought do i really need to do that

[@xylan9543]

Great video... i think you should watch "As I Was Moving Ahead Ocasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty", you'll love it.

[@RobinDoesEverything17]

What about commuting? I love my job and would absolutely consider it "meaningful living", but the three hours per day I spend walking to bus stops, waiting for buses, and riding on them... definitely not.

[@Michelino_M5]

Yeah man, fuck chores

[@inmade4291]

Uwu el comentario más inteligente y colaborativo que se me podría ocurrir

[@_VanHelsing]

Way to be hygienic, Duncan.

[@robologo]

Derlepllly... Deep.

[@sjuvanet]

your calculations are iffy Bossman

[@Rolando_Cueva]

Yeah that's why I don't do it. I just reuse the same dish over and over. Very efficient.

[@sslvsme5763]

Always thought about this since I was little and was the reason why I always felt suicida then because my family wasted their time and mines on the dumbest things ever… currently at 24% of my life expectancy which kinda sucks since most of it up until recently was wasted on being around idiots

[@yourstrulytk12]

8:35 where is the water going?

[@WeAreTheDraiken]

If you're watching tiktok while brushing , you have issues in my opinion. Also I like maintaining myself, it's stablility and allows me to know that I am Present able to be here and nothing wrong is happening to me. I like to be in the task, as it's part of being human to care of oneself, so I don't see it as boring. Hell there was a time I was washing a bunch of dishes and I realised I enjoyed the monotany, the simplicity of a simple task needing to be done with no complications.

[@onlyguitar1001]

Get a "hydropick", a device that pumps water and shoots it out in a jet instead of flossing. Use it in the shower everyday and you will have much better oral hygiene.

[@sexydisorder]

Who is going to the dentist every 6 months

[@finn6492]

You guys get enjoyable parts to your life?

[@codemaster4261]

Damn I have the same nail clipper as in the howto. But in blue. Shit Id jsut wasted 30seconds writing this comme t!!

[@randolfshemhusain2298]

That website is a portal to irreversible dread

[@leahmpalzer]

Why do you shower twice a day? ???

[@potat8089]

wow, I'm only the 85th viewer!

[@Quadr44t]

08:30 Ouch! This video is really painful. Is it weird to have graduated at 26 (Msc), being fucked for 4 years with dead-end “depression-inducing” minimum wage work (COVID sucked), only to have landed a fulfilling job in one's field of study at 30? 22… kick me when I'm down, why don't you 😭 Then again, I now have fulfilling work, which a lot of people do not, unfortunately. Silver lining...

[@Raven28Pisces]

2:48 washing hands: 1mins😂😂😂

[@BlackanBluesBand]

Plot twist: Oh no, 100% of my life is spent on boring routine

[@atijohn8135]

we spend 100% of our lifetime on breathing smh, could be playing pokemon during that time

[@howrandy]

how much time u spent watching yuotube per day ??

[@user-wc6bd8ll1x]

I have dentures. I've never flossed in my life & have no idea how. I piss 3 or 4 times a day & I shit about once or twice a week. I shower once a week.

[@OccultDemonCassette]

Shower twice per day?? Isn't that really really bad for your skin? I've always read that it's best to shower like... Once every two days unless you have a very very active hard sweaty job. Or, at least you should only use soaps during a shower like twice per week with the rest just scrubbing yourself with an exfoliator and water.

[@gotworc]

No it really depends on your skin. I take a shower twice a day and have never had issues because my skin is naturally very oily and i sweat a lot. If i did not shower twice a day i would probably feel and look disgusting lmao

[@meow_9889]

i love u i think

[@Krumplebumble]

0:28 unrelatable 🥲🥲🥲

[@theordinary1059]

Enlightenment is not an achievement or journey to a specific location. It is a state. People are neither enlightened persons or nonenlightened persons. There are those engaging in enlightened activity, and those who are not.

[@Quadr44t]

Be honest, you secretly made this video to shit on the lack of routine (or below-average frequency of doing those things) people like I have, don't you? 😭 That reminds me though, I need a new general practitioner and dentist since I've moved a few weeks back 😂

[@gre.g]

thanks for the list of things i should stop doing, now i’ll have more time for the important things.

[@user-wc6bd8ll1x]

Like all other Americans, I'm projected to live for 100 years.

[@BlueRedBlob]

press subscribe and WHAT 😭😭

[@yourstrulytk12]

10:10 TK SAYS NO! terribly unintelligent decision. not just using an application like tiktok itself and exposing yourself to short form brain rotting content (and being a slave) but ALSO you're not practicing 100% involvement!

[@parowkizmlekiem4186]

Life is not about living in a moment and putting fun experience on top next to happiness, because it makes you vulnerable and controllable for anyone who supplies you with happiness taking away more of your life. And instead of making dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin etc. your slave, imo better option is creating the best possible human of yourself reaching your full potential to earn everyone's respect, maybe even the divine but mostly your's self as your are the one with ultimate and final judgement.

[@yes11889]

Bro get tf off your off phone take a step back into reality you will never be some f@cking divine because your iMpROvInG yOuRsElF your entire life is a joke and no one cares about you

[@BananaSoldier1234]

99 percent of dentists would agree with the brushing time.

[@user-ys9to2ie7k]

What I found odd in the first minute, how the grid was laid out and then illustrating how many weeks you've already surpassed. It didn't work in conjunction. So, what am I to expect in the rest of this video!? I will edit this comment if I find it comprehensive - yeah, I have to tell KZbin not to recommend this Channel and definitely give it a thumbs down ¿`_

[@benkehargitai1688]

You can try lucid dreaming and have even more fun while sleeping :)-

[@lapidus9552]

I'd rather lose my teeth

[@Ubermench-uy7dw]

I did the math your like in your early 20s

[@wack1305]

PEEING 7 TIME A DAY??!!

[@atijohn8135]

man's about to discover their kidney problems

[@wack1305]

@@atijohn8135 I mean my average is probably 4 or 5, but a 7 average implies that 9 or 10 times a day isn’t too insane

[@atijohn8135]

​@@wack1305 if someone drinks a lot of water because they do some heavy exercise everyday, then I can imagine them peeing 9 times a day

[@Shade-Cloak]

Sudden overconsciousness of beinong a weirdo lol, autism-adhd check^^. Yeah executive dysfunction! From probably taking about 1/3rd of the low maintenance care estimates to always being over obcessed about maximizing free time as much as possible and not understanding why people never talk about it and don't rebel against work and life/family issues when I was a teen. Also enjoying life hedonistically as much as possible while not understanding how "doing things" work, and always knowing deep down I would never work under the capitalist meaning of the term "work" aka employment (I work a lot but indistinguishable from leisure, lucky ones), and now luckily having the cognitive and social """privileges""" to do so (functionning best in a small space with low consumption, not having impulses to go outside and being social a lot, live in a big space, being ex-middle class with no risk of homelessness, and state doesn't bully me till my business gets on the rails, and for all the years of cluelessness it took me to figure what to do while parents could be behind.) It all comes down to neurotypicals ability to rationalize and use complex denial and relativizing patterns our brain can't do, allowing them to function in the normie system, while it causes us to get traumatized, either be afraid to do things if sheltered like me (don't wanna get traumatized? Easy. Don't do things! Works awesome! ... till nihilism comes), or depression-burn-out----depression-burn-out----depression-burn-out----depression-burn-out---- till either suicide, complete dissociation from inner selves to function as normies but keep living, or liberation through marginality. Neurotypicals also live these patterns, but less intensely and quickly, their cycles are longer, ability to tank is greater, it explodes in the famous 40's, 50's crisis usually, while I don't see myself tanking a year of wage labor and I knew it when I was 10. Most people around me without my luck have went through some years before starting their alt-paths, some have stayed tanking this anyway, and are more generally dealing with the depression-burn-out pattern or it's aftermath. I also think this video is male centric considering some gendered patterns, the fact I do few maintenance is also a double conditionning from neurodivergence and masculinity, women are socialized towards self and social care in general, social expections request them to have a 2/3 times average mental load than we do

[@Khadou959]

As a fellow ND I completely understand the urge to maximise free time and the confusion on why people aren’t more bothered by this. I cannot tell you the amount of times I was annoyed at something not being time efficient and people always tell me « it’s not that deep it’s only 2minutes ». And I can’t explain the logical and calculations behind my reasoning because people will think I am weird, I mean they already do but still.

[@JoeSmith-jd5zg]

Yeah, go back to Buddha...Life is suffering.

[@supertrollfaxnoprinter3329]

Hey dude I don’t know why you got so much hate for the philosophers tier list. As a hyper ironic hateful zoomer I couldn’t really find anything to hate. It was a good video.

[@Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb]

do staying fit adds an average of 7 years to your life. adding seven more years of your life where you are napping and sleeping during conversations and taking 4× as much time to do anything, watching the people you love either die or play on future tictoc while letting society crumble. so im thinking 3 of those years are sleep, leaving 4 years of conscious life. 2 of those years are watching youth disapoint you, 1 year slowly doing more maintenance, and 1 year of doing and saying whatever the hell you want, because you're going to die soon anyway😂 now if we do an average of >16k hours of working out, thats about 2 years spent exercising. considering the bonus time is around 4 years awake, and those 4 years are while you are at your worst, seems like skipping the workout is the only sane choice. also, switching to paper plates, chopsticks, paper cups, and a wood burnished stove sounds logical, just recycle aluminum foil and wash pots and pans far less. shower 4 times a year, anything else is just superfluous, last year i took 2, i slept with 2 or 3 different women repeatedly, kept good friendships, got hit on a lot, and never once had an issue at work. and i asked people a lot, i was fine. brushing teeth is silly, buy a grill. working is for chumps. i recently found out that if you are subject to a horrible enough experience by someone else's fault, especially when they are intentionally neglegent, you need not work long hours at a crap job. you can work a fun job for minimal hours and build tour own business so you never have to worry. i was feeling pretty bad about my lifestyle, like a slob, but damn, i basically am living 25% longer than anyone else, and that time is right now in the best years, not the crappy end years. im going to start doing drugs and eating junk food to maximize my returns.

[@GonGit18]

Wow nice video