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0:00If you have ADHD and you're spending all
0:01of your energy, time, resources, and
0:04money just trying to be normal, you're
0:06actually taking the biggest risk of your
0:08life. Not because being normal is bad.
0:10It's actually because you will never get
0:11there. And the longer you try, the more
0:13you will lose. Think about how much
0:15you're burning just to keep up. How many
0:17resources, how much willpower just to be
0:19average at things neurotypical people do
0:22on autopilot. You are trying so hard
0:24just to be mediocre or even maybe blow
0:27mediocre. You are trying to win a race
0:29that was not designed for you. When you
0:30look at neurotypical people, you see
0:32them doing things effortlessly, paying
0:34bills on time, keeping their houses
0:35clean, following through on boring tasks
0:37without having a big crisis like you do.
0:39And you think this is what normal looks
0:41like. This is what I'm supposed to be.
0:43But why am I not able to do such normal
0:45things? Just trying to live a normal
0:47life is using all of your energy and
0:49willpower. And maybe on your absolute
0:51best day, after spending all the
0:53enormous amount of energy and willpower
0:55you have, you just become a mediocre
0:57neurotypical adult. So you develop this
0:59inner voice saying, "Why can I not do
1:01what everyone else does? Why am I
1:03failing at living a normal adult life?
1:06This should not be hard. There's
1:07something fundamentally lacking with me.
1:09Does this mean am I not going to be able
1:11to achieve something bigger than other
1:13people because I'm struggling with just
1:15living a regular life?" Okay, so I'm not
1:17going to give you a full neuroscience
1:18lecture, but you need to understand one
1:20thing about your brain because it
1:21changes how you approach everything.
1:23ADHD is actually not a deficit of
1:25attention, even though the name suggests
1:26that. The real issue is that you cannot
1:28control where your focus goes. Your
1:30attention is either zero or a max. It's
1:32not that your attention doesn't exist.
1:34And normal people control their
1:36attention and whenever they need to do
1:37this thing, they shift their attention
1:39to there even though sometimes they
1:40struggle with it. And the thing is that
1:42even though everyone struggles with
1:43focus and procrastination, with ADHD,
1:46even when the consequences are so high,
1:48you still do struggle with it or you do
1:51not even realize that your attention
1:53went somewhere else. It's not like oops
1:54I forget a deadline but for example for
1:56me I put off renewing my ID and almost
1:59could not enter the country and I was
2:01almost got banned and I knew the
2:04consequences and I really wanted to do
2:06it but for somehow every single day my
2:08attention drifted into somewhere else
2:10and I forgot to do that thing. So it's
2:12not really about wanting more or having
2:15self-discipline. When something gives
2:16you dopamine you lock in with a level of
2:18intensity that most people will never
2:20experience. When it does not, you are
2:22neurologically incapable of engaging.
2:25Zero or max. That is your operating
2:27system. That is what ADHD is. Once you
2:29accept the fact that you cannot control
2:31your attention, you stop asking how do I
2:33fix myself and start asking how do I
2:36point this zero or max energy into the
2:38right direction. This is actually the
2:40trap trying to fit into a system that
2:42was not built for you. The world is
2:43designed for linear thinkers because
2:45they are the majority. schools, jobs,
2:47institutions, they all reward
2:49consistency, routine, and
2:51predictability, which are all the things
2:53that you don't have. And they punish
2:54nonlinear thinking, chaos, and
2:57unpredictability, which means they
2:59punish you. So, you spend your whole
3:01life trying to become someone you're not
3:03because the system tries to mold you,
3:04whether that's school, your parents, or
3:06the society. And the result is that
3:08burned out mediocre adult who has never
3:10discovered what they're actually capable
3:12of. The biggest risk you can take in
3:14life is not pursuing an unconventional
3:16path if you have ADHD. The biggest risk
3:19is spending your entire life trying to
3:22be normal, never discovering your
3:23potential, and ending up at average or
3:26below average at something you were
3:28never designed for. So why should you
3:30listen to me? Why should you care about
3:31what I'm going to say? Right? Because at
3:33the end of the day, I'm a random person
3:34on the internet. The reason is quite
3:36simple. because I built a successful
3:38life around my ADHD without fixing or
3:41turning myself into what society expects
3:43me to be. I built this YouTube channel
3:45from zero to almost 1.5 million
3:47subscribers after years and years and
3:49years of failure and everyone telling me
3:51to quit. And actually, I used this
3:53YouTube channel, the money that I made
3:55when my uncle scammed my dad and we
3:57almost went bankrupt to support my
3:59parents financially and retire them at
4:0121. And to be honest, right now in life,
4:03I don't have anything to complain. I
4:05really love my life and I did all of
4:07this not by fixing my ADHD or changing
4:09who I am but building a life around it
4:11that maximizes my strengths. But when
4:14you look at all these external factors,
4:16you might think I'm such a successful
4:17person. I'm so good at life. But no, I
4:19actually suck at normal life. I'm a
4:21disaster. You know, like for example, I
4:23forgot to apply to university two times
4:25in a row even though I had that deadline
4:27on my calendar like 6 months beforehand.
4:30And I had reminders every single
4:32freaking day reminding me to apply that.
4:34And I forgot two years in a row. How is
4:36that even possible? And I also pay my
4:39taxes late every single year that the
4:41late fee, the fines are literally became
4:44my budget now. And my mom wrote on her
4:46blog about how disgustingly dirty my
4:49apartment was. So when I tell you that
4:51trying to live a normal life is the
4:52biggest risk, I am the living example of
4:55it. So let me explain in this video. So
4:57what do we need to do instead? How can
4:59we design our life to maximize on this
5:01ability? It's by accepting few truths
5:04that nobody actually wants to say out
5:06loud. The first thing is that accept
5:07your weaknesses then stop fighting them.
5:10In this big book where a Japanese
5:11psychiatrist talks about all the
5:13neurodedevelopmental disorders that I
5:15read is saying that there was a parent
5:16who had a child with ADHD who kept
5:18losing their erasers at school and
5:20instead of punishing that kid, what
5:22parents did was accepting that erasers
5:24are something that gets lost. And
5:26instead of punishing the kid and getting
5:28angry towards that kid, they kept buying
5:30new erasers and they said it's fine. And
5:32that one shift removed all the stress,
5:33all the shame, all the conflict. Erasers
5:35gets lost. That is the reality. And that
5:38self-confidence of the kid started to
5:40skyrocket. And that spill into other
5:42areas of his life. If your parents did
5:44not give you that understanding, you can
5:46give it to yourself right now. The first
5:48step is killing the concept of normal as
5:50you should be. You are supposed to do
5:52this. You are supposed to be able to do
5:54that. No, deny that. There is such no
5:56such thing as normal. If you keep doing
5:58things even though you try, then that is
6:00your normal. You will lose things. You
6:02will be late. You will forget. The food
6:04will rot in the fridge. You might forget
6:05your taxes. It is fine and they happen.
6:08Okay? Stop treating these as character
6:10flaws or there's something fundamentally
6:12lacking with you. If you are struggling
6:14with these, then what we need to do is
6:16not internalize it as a failure, but
6:18build systems and build methods that
6:20actually will prevent them. Not going
6:22deep inside and fighting with your self-
6:23value. The first one is that double down
6:25on your strength and ignore all your
6:27weaknesses. This is something that
6:29actually I heard Elon Musk talking
6:30about. He is never like officially
6:32diagnosed, but he claims he has
6:34Asperers, which is now called autism, a
6:37high functioning autism, which I read
6:39his book and he definitely shows a lot
6:41of signs of it. And autism and ADHD
6:43often times overlap because they are
6:45under the neurodedevelopmental
6:46disorders. But anyway, he was talking
6:48about that he had obviously a lot of
6:49weaknesses with a lot of social issues
6:51and of his interests as well. But what
6:53he was trying to do instead of treating
6:55his weaknesses and become an allrounder
6:57of a mediocre or slightly below
6:59mediocre, it is way better to maximizing
7:02your strengths that you become
7:04exceptional. And the most important
7:06thing with ADHD is abusing this and
7:10becoming exceptional at something else
7:12that you're interested in. Therefore,
7:13the rule too is finding your domain and
7:15excelling at it. You need to find
7:17something that you like or you're good
7:20at. If you have ADHD, you should not
7:22only think about the conventional path
7:24that everyone suggests. You need to
7:26focus on the thing that you love that
7:28you cannot stop thinking about because
7:29I'm sure there is something and
7:31following a career might be a high-risk
7:33thing, right? That's true. But this is
7:36the only way that we can succeed. We
7:38cannot do a regular 9 toive job that you
7:41do not care about and live a mediocre
7:43life. Because with ADHD, think about it,
7:45it is the condition that you have. Our
7:47dopamine receptors are different. The
7:48amount of dopamine that is in our brain
7:50is different. There's something that
7:52what people call a normal life going to
7:54a job that they do not like does not
7:56work for us because if it worked then it
7:59would not be called ADHD. It would not
8:01be such a big issue that they would
8:02diagnose you. So you have to find your
8:05domain and excel at it. For example, me
8:07since I was a kid, I thought I'm going
8:08to be a doctor. I I studied basically
8:10like as long as I can remember as a kid
8:13because I was such a competitive kid
8:15that I did not want to lose towards
8:17anyone else that studying became my
8:19dopamine source that I got really good
8:21at it that I got into the best high
8:23school in Turkey, right? And after that,
8:25even though I battled with depression
8:27and I battled with like a lot of mental
8:30issues, I still maintained pretty good
8:31grades. And after that, I got into
8:34medical schools multiple times because I
8:36could not pick. So I kept switching and
8:37I got into all medical [laughter]
8:39schools that I applied. But I realized
8:41that medical school is not something
8:42that I'm actually passionate about. The
8:44only reason that I wanted it was it was
8:46the top, you know, career choice that I
8:48could make that I could prove the world
8:50that I am intelligent and I'm capable. I
8:53was that competitive. I was toxic as
8:55hell. But that was the environment that
8:56I grew up. Okay. But even though I got
8:58into a medical school, I got actually
9:00into the University of Rome medical
9:02school, which is a good one. I could not
9:04go. I could not continue because I'm not
9:06interested. Even though I spent all the
9:08years of my life from childhood since I
9:11was five, I was saying that I'm going to
9:12be a doctor. I could not go because I'm
9:15not interested in the materials of the
9:17medical school. I'm not I realize I'm
9:19not interested become in becoming a
9:21doctor. I'm not interested in becoming a
9:23physician, right? Practicing every day.
9:25Even though I'm interested in science
9:27and neuroscience and our body, I'm not
9:30necessarily interested in that
9:31structure. Therefore, no matter how hard
9:33I would try, I could not go because it's
9:36not my domain. It's not something that I
9:37want to excel at. It's not something
9:38that I'm interested in. But for example,
9:40this YouTube channel since from the age
9:4215, I tried for 5 years and I kept
9:44failing and failing and failing that
9:46everybody made fun of me in high school,
9:48but I was still obsessed every single
9:50day. I was thinking about YouTube like
9:51for 5 years. Who can do that? I've
9:54coached like hundreds of people to grow
9:56their YouTube channel and nobody was
9:57able to do that except like few people
9:59that were really obsessed with it. If
10:01you're not obsessed at something, you're
10:03not going to get exceptional results
10:04because you are competing with other
10:06obsessed people. But with YouTube,
10:08because I was obsessed, even after 5
10:10years of failing, I kept going that on
10:12the fifth year, we went from 0 to 100K
10:15subscribers in only 3 months. And from
10:17there, in within like 2 years, we
10:19reached 1 million subscribers and now we
10:21are at almost 1.5. And I am living my
10:24best life. Literally my whole goal was
10:26to become a YouTuber and I became one.
10:28It was because I was obsessed.
10:29Obviously, my looks probably helped, but
10:31during the 5 years that I failed, I
10:33looked the same. But it didn't it didn't
10:36really help. But the only reason I was
10:38able to keep going was it's because I
10:39was obsessed with YouTube. And that is
10:41the only way that you can excel at
10:44something with ADHD. And the rule number
10:46three is that you have to be in
10:48environment this is rewarded. This
10:50obsession is not going to be rewarded in
10:52every single job scenario because
10:54traditional settings punish everything
10:56about how we work. They want you to
10:58follow the process. consistent
10:59deadlines, be predictable, sit in
11:01meetings, do the same tasks in the same
11:03way every day, but we'd like to find a
11:06new ways. We are we our head is, you
11:09know, my head there are like 200 ideas
11:11that I could right now give about video
11:13ideas and business ideas that I could
11:14give to you. But traditional settings do
11:16not reward this. And if you are in a
11:18career, even when you're obsessed with
11:20it, if it does not reward you, then that
11:23life is not designed for you and you're
11:24not going to be able to successful in
11:26societal terms. You need an environment
11:28where creativity is valued, where
11:30nonlinear thinking is an advantage, and
11:32where chaos is acceptable, where you are
11:34not measured by how well you follow the
11:36rules, but what you produce. This is why
11:38actually so many entrepreneurs have
11:40ADHD. Not because we are business
11:42geniuses, but because entrepreneurship
11:44is constant variation, constant novelty,
11:47constant ups and downs. It is never the
11:49same day twice. It's high risk, high
11:51reward. It is never boring, and we need
11:53that. Like Richard Branson has ADHD and
11:55built an empire of companies. The
11:57Spotify CEO has talked about how he
11:59works with total obsession on whatever
12:01he commits to. These people did not
12:03succeed despite ADHD. They succeed
12:05because they have ADHD. They succeeded
12:07because the environment they built
12:09rewarded exactly how their brain works.
12:11But it does not have to be an
12:12entrepreneurship. High pressure kitchens
12:14where every moment is different. for
12:15example, right? Journalism or creative
12:17work or research or any work with
12:20variety, autonomy and dopamine
12:22generating challenge is for us. So if
12:24your b work bores you, you will fail.
12:27Doesn't mean that every single second of
12:28your work is going to be exciting. No.
12:30But majority of the time it has to be
12:33fun for you. You might think, oh, I mean
12:34that is the common advice of follow your
12:36passion, right? It's not necessarily
12:39follow your passion. It's more about
12:40follow your obsession. And obviously it
12:43applies for most people but most people
12:45are not obsessed as we are. That is the
12:48differentiation because when we are
12:49obsessed it's almost scary because when
12:51I was growing my YouTube channel I was
12:53posting three times a week for one and a
12:56half years and consecutive. And during
12:57that time I did not see anyone. I did
12:59not hang out with anyone. I did not talk
13:01anything about anything other than
13:03YouTube. My mom was so concerned that
13:05she thought I went crazy. That is the
13:08thing we need to succeed in this world.
13:09And normal people do not have that and
13:11we do have it. Therefore, it's all about
13:14finding the thing and pointing out that
13:16energy there and forgetting all about
13:18your weaknesses because the moments you
13:20succeed, everyone is going to accept
13:22that. So, stop wasting your energy
13:24trying to eliminate things that are
13:25never going away because every drop of
13:27energy you spend fighting your
13:29weaknesses is energy you're not spending
13:31on your strength. With ADHD, what we
13:33need to do is not covering our covering
13:35our weaknesses and become a mediocre or
13:37below mediocre, but maximize on our
13:40strengths so that we become exceptional.
13:41Because with ADHD, the thing is that you
13:43are never an allrounder. Most of the
13:45ADHD people that I've seen in my life,
13:47and I have so many around, me because
13:49I'm an ADHD magnet for some reason, is
13:51that a lot of people do suck at majority
13:54of the things, but there is one thing
13:56that they are very good at. And the
13:57successful people are the people who
13:59maximize on that thing. maximize on
14:01their strength that they are exceptional
14:03compared to other people. But when you
14:05look into their personal life, they suck
14:07at normal life. They can do their bills,
14:09they can do their taxes, they can do
14:10their dishes. Their normal life is
14:12chaos, but they're so exceptional at
14:14that one thing that society actually
14:16forgives them. And that is the truth
14:18number two that you need to know.
14:20Success is actually our ticket to
14:22freedom. This is the part that nobody
14:24wants to hear. But this is the truth.
14:26The only way to be accepted for us to
14:28being different is to be undeniably
14:31successful at something and serving the
14:33society. Look at the old historical
14:35figures. When you look at Leonardo da
14:37Vinci or Einstein, they are all kind of
14:39like weirdos. They had very weird traits
14:41or very weird preferences and the way
14:44that they lived and it was so chaotic.
14:46But society accepted them because they
14:48were successful. All successful
14:50historical figures are kind of the
14:52extremes and weirdos. And when I was a
14:54kid, I literally could not like sit in
14:56the class, you know? I could just not
14:58like focus. I would walk around the
14:59classroom while teacher was talking. And
15:02you know what? As long as my grades were
15:03good, the teachers were fine with it.
15:05They would say like, "Oh, Rory just like
15:06needs that. She she does it and she
15:08doesn't bother anyone, so let her walk."
15:10But the moment my grades dropped, it
15:12suddenly became a problem. Suddenly, I
15:14need to get it together and I need to
15:16behave correctly. And my mom told me
15:18this when I was a kid. That stuck me
15:20with forever. Because you are weird. You
15:22have to be successful, Rudy. She
15:24explained that if you're a little bit
15:25weird, people will always tell you to
15:27change your behaviors. But if you're
15:29extremely weird, so weird you're not
15:31even on the scale anymore and you're
15:32successful, people accept it as a quirky
15:35part of you. And that makes it unique
15:37from other people's perspective. But as
15:39long as you are successful, if you're
15:41not successful and if you're a little
15:42bit weird, then you're going to be
15:44lonely. You're going to be pushed away
15:45from society. And that is the reality in
15:47our life. Society operates on
15:49meritocracy, whether we like it or not.
15:51When your ability is high, everything is
15:54tolerated. Your quirk becomes your
15:56genius traits. What makes you unique?
15:58Your chaos becomes a creative process.
15:59Your impulsivity becomes visionary
16:01leadership. But when your ability is
16:03low, nothing is tolerated. The same
16:06traits that would be celebrated get
16:08labeled as irresponsible, unreliable,
16:10scattered, difficult. And you will never
16:12fit in. You will always be an outlier.
16:14Because that is a definition of ADHD. If
16:16two and 3% of people of the population
16:19have it, then it means that 97 98% of
16:22the population do not have it.
16:23Therefore, they do not operate like you.
16:25Therefore, they do not think like you.
16:27So, you are going to be weird because we
16:29are the minority. But success buys you
16:31the freedom to be yourselves without
16:33constantly justifying your existence.
16:35Because as long as you're successful,
16:36people are going to accept it and even
16:39cherish it. This is not fair obviously,
16:41but understanding is a power. So mindset
16:44three is that you're playing a different
16:45game. Not a worse game compared to other
16:47people but the life of a game that we
16:49play is [music] a different one which is
16:52a high-risisk highreward game. The highs
16:54with ADHD are very high but the lows are
16:56very very low indeed. There's no
16:58peaceful middle ground because your
17:00brain does not do middle ground. It's
17:01either zero or max. I never seen an ADHD
17:04person live a mediocre life. They're
17:06either very successful or they're doing
17:08very poorly or even though they're doing
17:10well, they think they are doing very
17:12poorly because of that all or nothing
17:14attitude. And you cannot play the rules
17:16that were designed for neurotypical
17:18people. Their game is consistency,
17:20routine, slow and steady progress. But
17:22our game is obsession, intensity, and
17:25all or nothing. The sooner you accept
17:27this is your game, the sooner you can
17:28start playing with it instead of trying
17:30to play someone else's. If you're
17:32sitting here and thinking, "This is
17:33great, but I have no idea what my thing
17:35is. I do not have a passion. I don't
17:37know what I'm good at, or I'm not really
17:39obsessed with anything." Probably
17:40because you haven't tried enough things.
17:42If you tried all the different things,
17:44you're going to be able to get good at
17:46finding your obsession. Because I
17:47actually tried every single thing that I
17:49can try think of. Like I literally
17:51played the flute for a while. Played the
17:53piano, played the Japanese like okoto,
17:56which is like a traditional kind of like
17:58an instrument. I did cheerleading,
18:00dance, which I sucked at. I tried
18:02badminton volleyball. I swam. I, you
18:06know, like tried every single thing that
18:08you can think of. And now I am obsessed
18:10with golf, by the way. But the more
18:12things you try, the more you will learn
18:14about yourself, your abilities, your
18:15weaknesses, and your strengths. If you
18:17cannot right now tell me the three
18:18things that you're exceptionally good at
18:20and three things you're exceptionally
18:22bad at, it means that you don't know
18:23yourself enough, which means you need to
18:26explore more things. Because every new
18:28thing you try is another chance for your
18:30brain to say this is it. This one that
18:33turns on the switch. Try creative work.
18:35Try building something. Try your sport.
18:36Try a skill. Try starting a project
18:38online. Try something that scares you.
18:40The thing about ADHD is that when you
18:42find it, you will know because zero will
18:45become Max overnight. It will consume
18:48all the energy, all the attention that
18:50you'll have that it is going to be
18:52undeniable that you're going to be
18:54obsessed with it, that you're obsessed
18:55with it. then do not giving the research
18:57up. Okay, the search itself is not a
18:59failure. Giving up on the search is a
19:01failure. So the moment that your energy
19:03shifts into something and your attention
19:05shifts to something, do not feel bad
19:07about it. It is exactly what you needed
19:09because if you have ADHD, I know you had
19:1110 different hobbies that you tried and
19:13that you abandoned, but it is the
19:15search. That is what our life looks
19:17like. Do not feel bad about it. Our
19:20existence is only truly accepted through
19:22success. Okay, remember that. That
19:24sounds harsh. I know. And I think that
19:26it is very sad sometimes that I
19:28sometimes think that if I'm not
19:29successful, I'm just going to be treated
19:31as a incapable adult being because I
19:34suck at everything else other than
19:37YouTube and business. I'm really bad at
19:39it, but that is the truth. But it is
19:41also free because it means you're not
19:42chasing success for the same reason
19:44everyone else is. They want the
19:46validation. They want they want to flex.
19:48But what we want is freedom. What we
19:50want is to be accepted in society. We
19:53want a peace in society. The freedom to
19:55work the way your brain works. The
19:57freedom to live life on your terms. The
19:59freedom to stop pretending like who you
20:02are not because of people's
20:04expectations. And the best news is that
20:06we are living in the single best era for
20:08ADHD brains. The internet has
20:10democratized everything. Knowledge,
20:11opportunities, audiences, income. Like
20:14for example, English is not even my
20:15first language. I didn't even go to an
20:17international school. Yet here I am
20:19communicating with you on my third
20:21language. I did not even live in the US
20:23yet. You're watching this video and
20:24we're communicating and remote work is
20:26normalizing different ways of working.
20:28The creator economy rewards exactly what
20:30we are good at. The gap between us and
20:32neurotypicals is actually shrinking
20:34because attention spans across the board
20:36are getting worse which means our way of
20:38working. Nonlinear creative flexible
20:41intents is becoming more valuable less
20:43because their attention span is
20:44shrinking but they're not getting good
20:46at creativity. Whereas ours is good and
20:49our attention span is bad. You need to
20:51stop playing their game and start
20:52playing yours first. Find what makes you
20:55hyperfocused. Find what makes you
20:56curious. Find what you can do for hours
20:58and lose track of time. That is your
21:00signal and chase it. Except that you
21:02will forget things. You will be late.
21:04You will struggle with basic tasks.
21:06Design around it. I have many videos
21:09showing how you can design a life around
21:11it. How you can manage your life, how
21:13you can manage your to-do list, how you
21:14can manage your organization, etc. More
21:16videos are coming, right? Like get
21:18support. My mom left Japan 40 years ago
21:20because she knew society was not
21:22designed for her personality. My mom
21:23also has ADHD by the way and she married
21:25a foreigner. My dad moved to a different
21:28country and built a completely different
21:29life. Think about it. And it happened
21:31like 40 years ago where international
21:33marriage was not that common in Japan,
21:34neither Turkey. But she gave me the
21:36permission to be different from the
21:38moment that I was born because I was
21:40different. And that is the greatest gift
21:42that she could give to me. And if your
21:44parents didn't give that to you, now
21:45it's your time to give it to yourself. I
21:48know it is hard but you have to remember
21:50that we are built for obsession, for
21:52pattern recognition, for connecting dots
21:54others cannot see, for hyperfocus, for
21:56all or nothing. The biggest lie you have
21:58been told is that you need to fix
21:59yourself to succeed. The truth is the
22:01opposite. You need to stop fixing and
22:03start building the way you work. That is
22:05how you get successful. A life that
22:07works with your brain and not against
22:09it. Because when an ADT brain finds the
22:11right domain, points it obsession in the
22:13right direction, and goes to max,
22:15there's almost nothing in the world that
22:17can compete with that. So stop fixing
22:18and start building. And if you want to
22:20learn how you can manage your life
22:22despite living with ADHD and maximize
22:24your productivity and get more things
22:26done so that you can focus on that
22:28signal, then watch this video Next.

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