Don't we all?

Same

I like to think about procrastination when I'm procrastinating

I'm the king of procrastination

I think I'll watch this tomorrow.

And that just has to be enough for today.

I get that feeling all the time from his podcast Cortex. I'll sometimes listen to it specifically while working on something.

*fills half circle*

Same - until I remember that I'm only watching this because I'm procrastinating >_

@@KingBobXVI It’s research.

….what?

@@daroldcarold3443 it's ok. Grey did say they've been designing these for years.. I bet these corners must be really tasty and have all the imaginable flavors

@@daroldcarold3443 whats wrong

I- I had to reread that with my eyes

Yes 🤣

murdered by magic for mom prequel...

Thanks for translating that into readable English.

🤣 Never would've known. And for some reason so glad that I know now. Thanks ZED! -aka lastZED

And for anyone keeping track, the middle section said "I don't want to write anything too personal here so just enjoy this Lorem Ipsum Dolor Set Amet ... " (or however the actual lorem ipsum goes).

thanks! i thought it said "i'm grateful for the work beer do. thanks beer!" and i worried he suddenly forgot how grammar worked

What app is he using in that part?

@@_drishtantsingh Obsidian

As a chess player it makes me laugh XD

If you keep the chess books in your general vicinity then you're going to absorb some of their knowledge.

Lmao i do that with algorithms books

It's necessary, because the person that co-created it uses it very differently... Minus the theme system part... Which is why it's labeled.

You're right, but I also really appreciate this video showing his use case, otherwise I'd be totally lost, but the journal also leaves space for me to change whatever I want. It's perfect

they also commented that they also want to make a follow up version that could be more for people that are already familiar to the system. Where you only need a part of base journal.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!!!!

Same!

Don't get me started!

Ah, as someone who doesn't have this issue I feel bad. I would suggest just clicking the "mark as read" if it's a command/suggestion. I know it may be completely unhelpful, but try to say something to make sure we know you understand.

I asked friends, to see if other people did this too. No one responded.

Pointy S's... Pointy S's, everywhere

It's really just a book for playing "Dots and Boxes" ....

it is designed to your needs. CONNECT THE DOTS AS YOU PLEASE

I too see them, and I too think they must be connected.

and if i accidentally draw the connection a little to the side and it passes a dot, then the universe itself will collapse.

I have this too, on and off. Turning more on than off. I feel like more and more friends are having the same. This might be a growing thing?

@@MeesterG social anxiety. Pandemic has caused huge increases in both agoraphobic tendencies and social struggles alike.

There is an epidemic of not replying to messages

I would say that it depends. For me, it could take some time if I think there is a "terror in the", basicly I screwed up something or I expect the message to require a lot of my psychological attention. That personal life. At work I tend to answer when I got the time.

And what a crafty idea, to sell ordinary notebook as a 'planner'. Grey is quite a marketer. Unsubbing

@@jondal I mean, it’s not really. Grey and Myke have talked a lot about the design process of the journal and how it’s changed over time.

@@Chris-rn9zx that doesn't change the fact that it's just a notebook.

@@jondal planners are just inherently "ordinary notebooks"

@@jondal true, and grey acknowledges that you don’t have to buy the journal to do this - that any ordinary notebook can do this just as well. It’s not like he’s hiding this fact, he’s quite open about it.

This is true. I don't even like that method of marking pages, and I enjoy that aspect of it.

I agree they appear satisfying, but what is their purpose? Just to mark which page you're on?

@@CoolHand032 Yeah, you can pull out a couple at the tracking pages, for example, so that you can just stick your finger in and flip right to the tracking. And rip out each daily page as you use it, so that you can flip right to today's notes.

But fighting the urge to tear away all at once, in a fit of gleeful destruction and self-sabotage, would be too much for me...

Much more practical to have it be a ring block or else have a page marker.

With the amount I use discord the lack of markdown in texting makes communication so much harder. Especially when im communicating with my parents who wont realize what I am trying to say

@@Akari_202 Ever heard of THIS?

@@Anonymous-df8it but that's yelling, *not* emphasis

It's also been a general computer thing for much longer than Markdown or RST or such have been around

@@mementomori2285 Ever heard of _this_ ?

Yep, great tool.

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It doesn't even need to be about "productivity". It's _anything_ that can help a person be better.

Your resolution book would be just comment, comment, comment, comment

Check our greys video on how seasonal themes are better than new year’s resolutions

if all else fails theres 2 options i can think of that might be helpful for you! 1. get a removalble/customizable disc bound journal, its like spiralbound but the pages are removable and able to be put back. 2. get into bookbinding and bind your own journal how YOU want it, from scratch. May i recommend coptic stitch if you go that direction? It's really aesthetically pleasing for an exposed binding, and opens flat like a spiralbound.

Totally understand this comment!

I am left handed it still works well. The pages are the same on both sides. And it lays pretty flat. Note however I don’t write with my hand hooked so this might not be applicable to you.

Oh I like this.

CGP Grey's communication skills: 2 Fakjbf's communication skills: 10 I envy you.

Tree of Gondor profile pic commenting on a CGP Grey video? 10/10

@@dhess34 Talking about sending messages... hopefully, Rohan will answer.

Like... Each day? Or each week. Or month...

I would also appreciate an ID on the pen.

It is a sold out item on the Cortex Brand site. The Mark One.

@@giberton006 Thanks for the info!

It’s a Cortex branded version of a pen called the Mark One by Studio Neat. We will be restocking our version soon

Also, what keyboard is Grey using? Looks like a very nicely colored 75% keyboard, but can we get the brand & model?

...what about the forth one? ;)

Are they full year journals? The fact that there's a quarterly journal subscription option on the website makes it feel like it covers a 3 month period.

@@GahloWake if you fill a page in every day then it's quarterly, but it depends how you use it.

@@rileyn2983 Thanks. =D

@@severinbechtold1873 They said "1 for each of my parents" which brings the total up to two, then "1 for my productivity oriented friend" which brings the total up to three, and finally, "1 for myself", bringing up the total to four

I went from procrastinating everything to mostly doing everything in a couple months with strong ADHD and high-functioning (which actually means "weak" (sort of)) autism. It can be done!

It is absolutely true. He talks about it on his podcast Cortex. He spent like two months back at his parents for a long break and he got his Mom into magic. As he put it, they're very similar people so he figured if he loves magic, his mom would too

I don't think that's his house. He lives in London, and London does not look like that 😅

One could only hope.

@@RGC_animation If you „hope“ you already lost. Take responsibility for your life and get your ass up. You don‘t need hope for that.

Morgan Freeman Voice: "But it didn't make Beth's 2022 actually productive ..."

Nothing improves you. Everything is a tool that you can choose to use to better yourself or make things worse.

why do you tease us so much! Tell us how you use your journal so we can all learn :) (except off course if you feel like you want to keep it private)

I feel like one of the things I need to track is using the daily page.... I'm new to journaling and find that the most difficult, but love the daily tracker partial/full credits!

You could just made one yourself. (It does not need to be a 1 to 1 copy. You could change it a bit for your purpose.)

I find it kind of funny that someone in this universe uses military time

@@kyle4717 You mean everyone in Europe? (And way more people, just know EU for sure)

@@mrkirby8622 sorry to be one of those people but Europe isn't the EU, the EU is a group of countries in Europe with common political polices (laws) and Europe is a continent

@@kyle4717 I find it funny that someone in this universe cared so much about one of the two ways of displaying the same damn thing.

Grey talks a lot more about his productivity efforts in a podcast he does with Myke. I would recommend starting with episode 101: Productivity, although it is worth listening from the beginning to hear them talk about their productivity journeys

@@dobystone I listened to the episode, I definitely took a lot from it, but I don't remember them talking about specific patterns of self-reflection. Grey talked about how he started by just writing things down in a journal and looking back at the journal every once in a while, but that's something I already do, and I feel like there's probably some smarter way of reflecting that has a direct impact on my life than just looking at previous thoughts.

@@chrisberry7640 I think you've got the gist of it. In other episodes he talks about how he and Myke both take their notebooks and look at those "note" pages where they've jotted down feelings and daily struggles and then search for a sort of 'problem' theme. What's the thing they aren't focusing on that is causing these "symptoms" to manifest? So yes, there is a smart way of reviewing your previous thoughts. Look for reoccurring issues or challenges and see if there is a root theme that could help you be mindful on a daily basis. Hope that helps a little bit.

If you want to check out a different UKpostsr's view Struthless has great videos on that sort of check-in questions

You might want to get a journal stencil for making circles and boxes, of many different sizes, but in an overall size that fits inside the cover of your notebook. Check out the (so many) choices on Amazon!

@@theabristlebroom4378 Thanks for the tip!

As a former college student that was strapped for cash myself I hear you ! Yes, save your money for other things. There's time to indulge in this stuff when you are out of school. In the mean time you could consider creating your own pages on Word or Excel and printing them up for a cheap binder.

@@mattfrank9120 this exactly. Thankfully, grey showed all the pages and what they look like, and it would be easy to make something similar using something different.

From my extensive research I have found that anyone who already journals all the time doesn’t need it, and anyone who doubts they can make it a habit needs it.

I don't think your comment exactly meant this, but for me I know when I create systems for myself, I need to play a balancing act between complex enough to actually work and not so complex it overwhelms me and I stress over the system as much as I stress about actual life stuff as well.

I highly recommend the recent book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals." He gets into exactly what you are talking about. Notice in this video Grey is barely focused on "to dos" for his work, and mostly focused on self care and making his life meaningful. Basically, this is the key. If you do what Grey is doing you're not going to become overly focused on work. If you use traditional planner systems, that is a very real danger. But it all depends on your outlook. The key is what Grey said early on: accept that you're not going to get to everything, then do important things. Things that are important to YOU.

I think usually trackers that focus on self improving could not always become damaging or draining since you could put in goals that focus on others such as spending more time with friends and family and going to activities that help you make friends and putting a goal to do community volunteering time or putting in breaks and relaxation time.

are you living in the future? whats it like

@@wrenk lmao I thought I wrote December

You can get a better idea by listening to cortex.

Probably North Carolina where his parents live. His last video was driving his dad's Tesla through the smoky mountains.

Android has "loop habit tracker". It doesn't do partial (though it supports numbers, so you can do Target 1, and enter a half.) Grey got me hooked on journaling in Notion (though he doesn't use it)

Pixels is cool

I have a google form set up, which I then have linked to a spreadsheet, that I can do stats on, etc. - Primarily it's for tracking my mental health, but I have questions like "did you do exercise today? yes/no/I-tried", or "roughly how many portions of fruit/veg did you get?", or "how much time did you spend on fun projects?", which serve as a reminder to look after myself, but also end up looking a whole lot like a habit tracker. I have almost all my questions set up as multiple-choice, which makes it a lot easier to just fill in regardless of how I'm feeling, aside from the last two (one for listing what I Did to help mental health, and another for just offloading whatever is on my mind / writing about my day / etc.). I figure something like that you could pretty easily adapt to your own situation, and given it's just a webpage, effectively, you can fill it in on the go. Alternatively, you could try setting something up in excel, or go for something entirely different. There'll be a lot of helpful solutions for you! :)

@@felikso Can you please share a link to your setup as it sounds really interesting to use?

Luckily you can diy progress/habit trackers pretty easily :)

there is a video on the matter of gratitude made by Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. it's called 'an antidote to dissatisfaction' and it has scientific data on how that actually works and helps. super recommend watching it

What’s Cortex?

Scrolling the comments for anyone mentioning that these shots look very Swiss, and then I see your username ...

I'm almost certain a specific location can be determined from the view of the peaks.

@@4rk But let's not do this, especially in case it's a place CGP Grey might return to.

yes

looks like the THE CORTEX MARK ONE PEN from the shop in the link

Wie geht es dir?

@@thevictor180 mir gehts gut. Und sie?

​@@KelarGridal es geht mir auch gut. Das finde ich sehr cool, dass du Deutsch gelernt hast. Ich lerne auch Deutsch, und es ist total schwierig, aber Ich sehe vielen Deutsche Leute im Internet, und es macht Spaß, auf ihrer sprachen, zu sprechen