It’s all fun and games until you start hating yourself for being lazy, which ends up compounding into an inferiority complex and leads to you *actually* not getting any work done.
Thank you, thank you so mutch i know it mite sound weard but realy thank you, for the longgest time i thougt it was just me being lazy this helped me a lot. Thank you ❤ I'm 16 so sorry if it comes acros as a bit dramatic 😅
… I’ve actually been trying to find a way to describe this in me… this is way too accurate 😭 I’ve literally almost cried like 2 hours ago thinking about this… (I’m serious, for the last 2 months it feels like I can;t get anything done because of my self-hatred that stemmed from me taking less time than others to finish things and then feeling like I’m wasting my times and life on nothing which subsequently is what I am, nothing… well time to go play Fortnite again, sorry for the rant 👍)
Thx man, I wasn't able to get work done while being lazy But when I get into it, I do it I thought this impulsive behaviour of mine is very bad for myself (everyone around me said the same) and then self hate, when you are in war with yourself for so long and never win That feeling eats you and then you get no task done :(
You forgot the burning hate you feel when your work gets corrected afterward. Like the whole “I could’ve done it perfectly if I actually tried” mentality. The fear of failure plus the tendency to procrastinate is a lethal combo.
Well, the joke is, that if you for once actually DO try, you for some reason get WORSE grades?? Leads to not really learning from your mistakes and just not trying ever again :")
@@Objective_Piece8285 set a goal, I did the same for 6 years straight, I’m not going to let myself be bullied by everyone, you just have to let go of the past, believe in ourselves
once in high school, we were supposed to do a presentation in english for ten minutes long and had 6 months. everyone started doing it 2-3 months before deadline and meanwhile i, a gifted kid, started 1 week before it and yet i was one of the few people that got 100. if i get motivated enough, there's nothing i can't do.
a gifted friend of mine said he didn't need to work hard in school, it was easy. But once he got into university, the workload was so much, he couldn't handle it. Unlike normal people who have learned how to work hard. This seems to be a trend maybe not for all gifted people, but definitely many
3:16 That bee shot is so perfect. Making the animal analogy speech and superimposing the bee over the fighter when he punches is just accurate enough to be completely anime, yet stupid enough to be a parody. That was perfect lol. And making the sound an eagle sound was the chefs kiss.
@@dylangergutierrez "Um... actually... 🤓." You must be a ball at parties. Also, go look up some eagle and hawk sounds, nerdge. The gigachad eagle is far closer than the betacuck hawk.
I see that the replies are stating that the sound is actually a red tailed hawk sound, which is totally true. But since the sound is famously used to represent an eagle and is commonly misunderstood for an eagle sound I don’t think you said anything wrong. I also agree with your comment 100%, the anime sequence as a whole is just so perfect and has so many small details and Easter eggs that makes it just amazing as a whole.
As a gifted person who actually struggled a lot with this, a good way to help try and motivate you is by picking up an instrument and doing lessons. Instruments take a lot of practise, so even if you are naturally talented you still won't be able to just figure it out 5 minutes before and will ACTUALLY have to do something and practise (I learned that the hard way) of course this may not work for everyone as some people may just get tired and give up the instrument, but if you REALLY want help being able to practise things on a schedule normally and often, then I think music is the way to go! (maybe even multiple instruments)
Yeah. I went from barely needing to exercise any effort in middle school, to actually needing to study and take notes in high school, and that threw me off so badly
This isn't always the way either cause then you drop the instrument/language what ever you may be trying to learn cause you don't show even a bit of improvement.
@chells88 Yes, I agree, and I did point that out in my original comment, I'm just saying that for those who DO want to improve, this is a good way to learn to practise and put in effort for results
he forgot to mention one consequence: the slow degradation of our mental health as the pile of unfinished projects grows taller… and taller… and taller… all the while creating a feedback loop whereby the list of tasks feels insurmountable, so we procrastinate, so the list grows longer, so we procrastinate, and so forth until finally we are FORCED to use every bit of energy we have just to clear the pile. and even if we know better, some little part of us still whispers that it was all our fault, and that we’re just lazy and have a terrible work ethic that we simply can’t bother to fix.
The "background processing" part was only briefly mentioned, but most of the time it's really the key to be able to pull off this kind of feat at the last possible time. It's only because we've allocated some resources and time to roughly outline what we'll do that it's possible to put everything together in a short time.
I just do that and then never get it done. Don’t worry tho I’ll make a Time Machine using the 6th dimension to actually alter the original timeline so I get it done… eventually
pretty much me tbh. People will always come up to me when i'm playing games or something and ask "yo, how's that project you're working on going?" and I'll just say "yeah no worries i'm working on it" to the outside world i'm sitting around gaming, but it's always in our heads where the real effort is being made
Bro the worst part about this is the fact that we still do good on whatever project we're doing at the last second as if rewarding us for our procrastination issues prompting us to keep on procrastinating projects.
@@orangee_blox It worked for me for many years, but eventually in high school I stopped getting good grades and I couldn't do regular studying since I never learned those good habits. tl;dr It works until it doesn't.
I had an experience in HS during senior year. I am not only lazy but chronically fatigued, so I slept through class every day. During the first week of Gov/Econ I was being lazy and sleeping; as my teacher passed out the first exam he handed it to me and said "This is your opportunity to prove that you can sleep in my class and still pass." I took the test and turned it in. Next week as he handed them back out, giving correction as he did, he walked up to my desk staring at me. Wordlessly he slid the paper onto my desk, and I looked down. In red pen in the top right corner was a 100. He shook his head and walked away.
In elementary school, one of my classmates got called out by the teacher for not paying attention during math. I was daydreaming as well and he asked why the teacher didn't call me out too. She then asked me to do some multiplication and without skipping a beat, I gave the answer right away, still staring off into space. I didn't even mean to make him look bad because he was one of my friends, I just wasn't paying attention. I had trained myself to keep whatever it was that the teacher was saying in the back of my mind at all times.
I had a similar experience freshman year. I always slept through, or at least nodded off, in my morning classes. I’m NOT a morning person, sleeping the 1st half of the school day was my routine. Before high school teachers had labeled me as lazy and generally didn’t make an effort. But I stilled pulled A’s. I guess the high school teachers hadn’t gotten the memo that “this kid is a lazy one” because after sleeping through freshman year and still getting A’s they stuck me on the Advanced track. Funny enough, I stopped feeling so sleepy during class. Changed my whole trajectory 😊
As a gifted kid, I once had 3 months to write an essay comparing the colonization of Mars to the colonization of Roanoak. I did all of the research and wrote the entire essay the night before and was one of the only 2 people to get an A on the assignment. The funny thing is, the teacher was talking about all of the low grades on the assignment and said "I can tell some of you did this the night before." I just sat their awkwardly.
i did something similar for a paper in college except the professor said we could choose the topic and the topic i chose was "shitty teachers who waste students' time by giving rambling incoherent lectures completely off-topic" ...i got an A (yes the paper was about that professor)
I had one of the best grades in college back in the day for a project we had all semester to prepare for. I did everything 6 hours before the deadline. It was a summarization of everything we learned in that class and we needed to make an oral presentation one on one with the teacher. She told me she could tell I took my time preparing for that project lol.
God this happened to me in highschool. We were supposed to write an essay about Romeo and Juliet. I had been sulking because I hated the play and forgot it was due until the night before. I tried to take it seriously only to get angrier and angrier because I hated the play so much and then finally spat something out in 1 hour that I felt was total trash and called it a night. 1 week later after grading our essays our teacher is trashing the entire class and saying everyone's essays were shit except one person then he points at me. And I sort of just sat there vaguely aware that my classmates were glaring murder at me and wished my teacher would shut the fuck up. It was awful lmao.
This reminds me of when I studied the night before for a college U.S. History test. I got an A+. My school counselor said students should not study the before for a test and similarly to the original comment, I sat there awkwardly.
Hahaha, omg, this is so freaking true!! Procrastination is my first, last, and middle name, but somehow, I always get it done at the last second. This is the best. Good job, man. It's seriously great content.
the worst part is narrowly pulling it off (though pulling it off well) each time and telling yourself “that was so stupid; i should learn and shouldn’t ever put something like that off again” and then putting everything like that off again forever
bro STOP CALLING ME OUT Me everytime theres an assignment on college be like, "hell yea next time I wont do it again" AND THEN I'D DO IT FOR THE REST OF MY COLLEGE LIVES
I feel like my brain has just been explained. The whole "3 months" thing is definitely an exaggeration for me, but I really don't always have the energy to actually do stuff, but when I'm doing stuff, I get it the fuck done. Like, I almost never get significant progress done on a project over the course of multiple weeks, it's much easier to do it all, or at least a big portion of it, at the same time, and then just not do anything for a bit.
@@adityasubhedar9556in my experience I first learned the majority of c++ and python within a day and kept using it until I started to get behind my peers when I took programming classes (which was about a year) then I leaned a bunch more python and c++ just to get ahead of everyone else. I wouldn’t ever recommend this as it often you get really stressed. Side note I also did this with math. I would learned little to nothing during class time and speed run all the information the morning before the exam and get an A. Again, would not recommend.
@@adityasubhedar9556personally, I simply don’t. I don’t like math for this reason and although I understand it when I do work on it, I know I’ll never develop the skills I need to be good at it. The only motivation that somewhat worked for me was when I *had to* do it in order to reach my personal goals (for example graduating)
Instead of being calmly playing a video game, it's more akin to being burned alive while your brain desperately tries to distract you from the pain instead of doing something about it, except it's actually all you can think of and the brain goes wild (background processing, as mentioned in the video). At some point close to the deadline, the brain has a meltdown and resets, after which it finally decides it's time to get some shit done. It's not fun. Anyway, really good video!
the worst is when the previously relied upon system(of procrastination-meltdown-reset) collapses, and deadlines stop hitting like they used to. All of a sudden, the procrastination pushes further and further desperately past the deadline, until the real deadline becomes some arbitrary point of time way too late after the original deadline. Once you reach this point, the self-blame game goes strong. when this happened to me, a lot of my basic habits in life vanished with it. It was brutal, and im still fixing the fallout from that years after. is this... burnout?
@@RePorpoisedabsolutely true!!!! I'm recovering too... and I think doing work for months is better than pulling up all-nighters especially when you're reached a deadline. This procrastination shit is real and killing.
That is indeed an important detail, albeit intentionally left out for the sake of humor. This video is entertaining, but as I see it enforces two misconceptions: a) Procrastination is not fun or calm. You might outwardly look like you're just enjoying a leisure activity, but the racing thoughts inside prevent you from being in the moment. b) Kids that are labeled "gifted" are precisely not that kind of hyper performers. The label can often turn more into a self-fulfilling prophecy as the kid tries to live up to expectation. But again, that usually causes inner turmoil. And while some people might think they can pull off precisely what is shown in the video, they usually just dedicate more time and energy for the subject than others.
THAT. from the outside, it looks like you're just sitting there playing a game cuz you don't care. but inside, you're SCREAMING at yourself, GET UP GET UP GET UP! GO DO THE THING! WHY CANT YOU JUST DO IT?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!? it's like the meme with the dog where the house is one fire and he's all "thi is fine" being inside my brain is being in that burning house. but all anyone sees from the outside is "this is fine"
It's so validating, cause from the outside it can look like laziness and doing nothing, but in actuality you are processing the task in advance so when you sit down it takes significantly less time. honestly this video helped me more than my official ADHD diagnosis.
not only outside, at least for me from the inside it also feels like doing nothing, because at the end of the day nothing has been put on the paper. so I've been trying to figure out if I want to change anything about it, or just accept that it's how I do things and at least stop feeling shitty about it
We are definitely the type of people that coined the phrase 'sleep on it'. Writer's block goes away after a good night's sleep. I tend to call this background processing 'its still in the oven'. I'm 44.
It's a well-known thing in psychology that one of the biggest steps of problem-solving is to just let your mind do some background processing while you do something else. Of course, you need to prepare a bit first by looking at the assignment or problem at hand, but the best ideas come from background processing
When i was in college, i had an english class where we had to write a fully planned out paper every week. For the final, we had to do the same exact thing, but he didn't expect much since we had an hour instead of a week. When they were graded, he told me he was very impressed with how well i did for an hour. I didn't have the heart to tell him it's because that's how i did every single paper.
Im happy it worked out in the long run though! ❤ Edit: now that I think about it, that's how my piano classes went. I would get assignments and need to practice them throughout the week but in reality would practice once or twice the night before and the next day the teacher would compliment me on all my hard work and progress. So I feel this story so hard.
perfect timing of the video always love to see the subtle details of perfectly 5:59 video echoing the 6 minutes where you have also managed a sponser X_X
You forgot the part when you just realise a simple mistake in that task weeks or months later (probably in toilet) and when you tell it to someone they say "told you to start it early so you can review it" but you never listen to it and the cycle continue
but elementary school wasn't much.. teachers thought i was talented only because when i wrote i was good at grammar and used things like simile and metaphor. i wasn't lazy, because i remember that even before having lunch, i would do my school homework..afterwards, i will play on my offline tablet till sleep. my parents knew nothing about my school progress. .. i can't relate.. but i was talented in the eyes of elementary school teachers.
@@GoodMorning-b2wsame, but i did always my homework just a min before going to sleep. Homework was a rare ocation too cuz I usually could finish it before the class ended
@@Call_me_Fred I never did my homework. Usually i got F for homework and A+ for lesson work. Therefore i got B's and sometimes A's in graduate sheet (when teachers realised that i know things and homework is not really interesting enough to solve) But sometimes i got an inspiration to do my homework, so: If the homework was to memorise a paragraph/poem - i just memorised it while kids before me told their homework to teacher. If the homework was to solve 3-4 exercises - i did it while teacher walked in a class to grab our homeworks. And only if the homework was an essay/presentation - i did it the night before... or literally on a lesson before deadline one, lol. Now when i remember the school, it was sooo cool, ah. I remember when i did my homework i literally just solved exercises in my head and all i wrote was an answer. Thats it, lol. All my homework was just: Exercise 1. Answer: 12 Thats all, and teachers were mad at first, like, "you can't just write an answer and not write how you got it", but then i proved myself near a chalkboard. Literally gave an answer to a random exercise while standing near a chalkboard. Solved it in my head and wrote an answer. School was so cool and then university started. And profs swiftly found out what is going on and just stopped letting me pass works. They were like: "No i wont accept your work cuz you had to do it on every lesson of this semester step by step, you can't do it all at once in a last moment". So they made me quit architecture. And now i'm learning coding and its acceptable to be the "in last moment one" in coding. Its all about passion and spontaneous motivation! I hope everyone finds a subject where he is acceptable)
Bro, literally. 😂 I don't even study the night before exam. but ,the next morning, I absolutely grind the 300 page book in just 2 hours. Like how is this soo relatable 😂 💀
0:35 doing "Background Processing" is so accurate! As your brain is doing all the planning and steps needed for the task to be done as fast and efficient as possible, so once you get the time for it, you just execute as everything is already pre-planned.
I hated writing rough drafts because of this. If it isn't worked out in my head, putting it on paper was non-existent. It was ALWAYS 0 rough drafts and As on the paper I wrote the night before or on the bus.
@@Shiskra preach, that's so true... I have no drafts for any of my creative writings / lab reports/ academic essays... and I've tried to write them! ... and yes, the juices don't flow not until about 4 hrs before the deadline🤣
Did I just get a full-blown Daniel Thrasher anime?! And not only that, but the production budget seems to be well above standard for big animes for the time.
Absolutely relate. Had a semester long research project to do. Waited until 2 days before the due date. Turned it in an hour before the deadline. Got a call from the teacher the next week to tell me how amazing of a writer I was and how much work I put into it. And I just smiled and thanked her while the imposter syndrome slowly sucked away at my soul bit by bit.
I can relate. Had to do a project. we had 3 months for it. Did do anything until the last 3 days. I finished it in time and it was good. I felt good for a brief moment. And then the cicle starts again. I feel bad about it all the time.
I had to write a 4 paragraph essay for summer homework. I read the book but didn't do the essay until the night before school. Wrote it in 10 minutes and got a 95.
Why are we like this 😭 I know why, the frontal lobe brain developmental blah blah blah. Yet I wanna know what to do with this knowledge and how to get stuff done finally, without procrastinating and һatіng myself
As a gifted kid (I THINK) I legit can’t work until the deadline is close. Surprisingly, what motivation told the brain during the fight accurately reflects who I am as a person Don’t mean to be that guy, but HOLY LIKES DUDE (3.6k in 11 days)
@@Russia-aaVery common thought people with ADHD have. "I'm just lazy" "If I just put more effort in" but often times it takes more effort to even start the task then it would take a neurotypical to finish it. A diagnosis makes a world of difference in understanding yourself, whether it be laziness or a mental condition.
@@ShalemBarak-gorodetsky Yeah, I want to do a lot of things but unless the Absolute Dipshit Himbo Disease also wants to do it, that does nothing for me.
This felt so relatable. I mostly feel like I am average at everything I do but sometimes I just do things that even I cant believe I could do. I let down so many people expectations but sometimes do better than what they expected or even what I expected.
I legit pulled an all nighter to write 4 separate reports on the same night before they were all due the next day (when we were given weeks to complete them), and still managed to get high grades. The perfectionist procrastinator mindset is deadly, yet it happens to work every time. edit: y’all i recognize that it’s unsustainable and the effect diminishes over time, so obviously do something about it if it’s interfering with your health. im just saying that these experiences are still quite fascinating.
Don't rely on it too much if you can help it. I'm at a point where it's losing its effectiveness, and both the quality and quantity of my work is suffering.
@@tuffmanchannelPlease, this. It has completely stopped working for me, i don't know what to do now 😭😭 I feel nothing even if i have something really important, none of that fear that used to push me to finishing tasks before deadline, it feels pathetic
I used to consider myself a gifted kid. Then i went to a highschool for gifted kids, and let me tell you that that shit humbled me so fast. Not just the change in difficulty, but also seeing TRULY gifted kids at work, like some of the dudes i went to highschool with are now close to a phd in physichs or some shit, like damn
Thats what I noticed about myself too, from the way people describe youre nsupposed to suddenly have a secret stash of energy opening the skills you had When I do this, I just realize that Im mediocre...
oh you mean children that are conditioned to be studying and/or producing something every possible second? yeah they all went on the be university teachers. good for them. academia is glad to abuse them.
As someone with ADHD, this was apparently a massive tell for my psychologist and one of the main reasons why I got diagnosed within a month, over 2 or 3 visits.
Damn, I still need to be primarily diagnosed. I was only given a provisional for ASD and ADHD because she didn't ask enough about my childhood. Mostly just the trauma, none of the rapid firing through worksheets cause I was bored and stimulated by the idea of finishing it before everyone, spinning around at my nan's karaoke club, and staying up most of the nights before assignments were due.
Yes, exactly. I was the same way for 30 years until I got diagnosed and medicated recently. I wonder if Daniel has it and is undiagnosed? Between this, Talent Fairy, Shiny Object Syndrome,and the other Gifted Kid sketch/song, Ibfeel he's checking a lot of boxes.
Bruh, my psychiatrist skipped right past the testing and diagnosing. 40 minutes on our first call and she already had my prescription sent to the pharmacy. Lol, I had to ask her in a follow-up email, "uh, so, am I officially diagnosed with ADHD then?" Yeah, might help that I had self-diagnosed and had three pages full of legit examples of ADHD from my youth to my 36th birthday which was also around the same time I lost my job (due to the common manifestations of ADHD).
Same, I hated deadlines but rushing to finish an assignment at the last minute was beneficial to me. Probably the pressure finally spurring me to action 😂
@@okMelon_I wouldn't be so sure. For me it's because it workED. It no longer works since things get harder and require actual studying and stuff, which I didn't learn how to do. I'm making some progress on it though. ^_^
For some reason people don't understand when I tell them that most of the time I physically CANNOT DO WORK and then I go and do 20 assignments in 1 hour
this can actually be a sign of adhd or severe depression. if you’re constantly yelling at yourself to get up and do something, but you can’t make yourself move, so you end up feeling lazy or stupid. the difference between laziness and this is that while a lazy person thinks, “i’ll just do it later,” someone with this condition thinks, “do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it, why can’t i get up, just move. move. move. now. don’t think, just do it.”
@@everythingellieandaustinse6068 Oh yeah, what Can_Head said is classic ADHD. It's often mis-diagnoised as depression and/or anxiety for a reason! I even do this for basic shit like getting up to eat or drink...
Yes! Also, understanding that ADHD is hereditary and being a better parent to your children was the best part for me. My kids had the tools and resources they needed and even as adults now.
@denzosaurus Yes, it is. Most parents see their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as "normal" until their kids get diagnosed. My grandfather was born in 1937 and he was called the smartest "retard" in his day as a compliment!!...😳. Because he could touch anything and learn by watching, but not by reading. He was 62 when he got a job at IBM designing their new fancy electronic chess boards, and they paid to have him tested, and yup, he had ADHD. All 3 of my kids have ADHD. 45% of women with ADHD also have PMDD. PMDD, which gets misdiagnosed as Bi Polar 2, way too frequently. When it's not. A couple of great books to read or listen to: *ADHD 2.0 By. Dr. John J. Ratey and Dr. Edward M. Hallowell * A Radical Guide For Women With ADHD By. Dr. Sari Solden and Dr. Michelle Frank * Self Care for People with ADHD By. Dr. Sasha Hamdani TH-cam channels: *ADHD love * How To ADHD * Olivia Lutfallah
*normal people*: The real challenge is behind the door. *ADHD people*: The real challenge is the door. Edit: just to point out I have ADHD and am speaking from a personal prespective
as a (previous) gifted kid, I got a medical degree now and a pretty happy family-oriented life. to all my gifted kids that are still actually kids: you can do it. learn and accept who you are, play to your strengths and stay away from your weaknesses. others will tell you to do things the "normal" way and if you try to do it that way, it likely won't work because you're built differently. you are a sprinter, not a marathoner. figure out what works asap and realize the farther you get in life, the harder this lifestyle gets... but no one said you lived life on easy mode. you, my friend, play on legendary.
Wow,no one has ever told me about this before,it's too late i've wasted 4 months of free time with nothing,after i graduated high school i keep procrastinating on learning life skills like cooking,riding a motorcycle,car,new hobby etc that my friends who's considered "normal" are way ahead of me,i feel dumb and useless,i don't know when is this "suffering" finally gonna stop
@@Blue_Guy_The No, that's why I said "I was expecting". I thought he would subvert the Gifted Kid trope by playing into the way that most of us are now semi-functional husks with diagnosed ADHD, but he played it straight instead.
@@InexplicableInside hahhh same... used to have that superpower now I just procrastinate and start a bit before the deadline. I get a lot done but almost never get it in on time because I'm also a perfectionist and just end up giving up. semi-functional husk indeed.
The imaginary conversations, the cycle of feeling like there’s too much work to even start while the work piles further, the guilt from being unproductive, and the concept of background processing. There’s some really relatable stuff here-and a lot of it is negative-so why haven’t we found a way to change? (How can we make the most of our time?) Those TH-cam videos claiming to help never seem to get the job; we must hold the power within ourselves, but how can we unleash it? If it really is just adrenaline, then are we doomed to only be capable of working for short bursts? I just wanna be more focused, but it feels so impossibly hard
In 4th grade or so, we all were assigned to write persuasive speeches on a topic of choice. The other kids all got to work scripting and researching, and by the end of the three given weeks, I hadn't even picked a topic. On the morning when I was supposed to give my speech, I managed to end up 3rd last in line, and about 3 speeches before I had to give mine, I was allowed to take the laptop to ready my script to read from. Within 20 minutes of time, I decided to write about dolphins in containment, and wrote the whole thing from facts I'd memorised. I got an A. It's like I was charging up my power the entire time.
The "not picking a topic until the last minute" part is so real, like that's always the hardest part, after that I can speedrun the rest of the project
I'm not the fastest but I too am gifted but I'm a bit more like hyper active get it all done mode most days. I do procrastinate for periods of the day and then BAM I get some stuff done better than 80% of my peers would without really feeling like I had to try too hard. So many problems sit around with no one having a solution, I take a glance and I'm like Hmm, would this work? And it works. Huh, cool. Moving on. I don't think I'm top 1%, maybe 5-20% ish, but it sure does feel like there's nothing I can't do pretty dang good. I can't hire contractors cuz they never build a thing as good as I would, though I'm not as fast as them cuz it's their day job and I am just dabbling lol but when I dabble, I figure it out and it's done ultra solid, taken into account so many things that contractors just don't care about.
@@ez2427 almost every teacher has at one point in my life told me "you could do so much better if you just put in the effort", and almost every time I would try it out for a week or so and then give up on working hard. I believe that's the part that most people would coin as "lazy".
@@ez2427 And if you're wondering, those teachers weren't wrong, I tried it out for 1 subject and got a near perfect score, but the issue was that I would get one of the top scores in my school even when I didn't study at all (until the night before the exam of course). It felt like I was putting in effort for something I didn't need or want. (I still don't see the point of getting a perfect score other than feeding a minor superiority complex)
@@frostedfox8813 okay, yeah. that makes sense. but you were able to get good scores even without studying. i cant even do that (unless its a subject that im really interested in even without studying). idk, i still wouldn't call you lazy.
As someone who's not a gifted kid, and never was, thanks for giving me insight on this. I think I finally get why people say "if only you applied yourself more...". Food for thought for sure.
The worst part about being one of those people is feeling like I don’t deserve to do well when everyone else thinks I worked hard. I’m the one who tells myself if only I applied myself more
Another thing to chew on is the fact that people will say you should apply yourself more, and then consistently deny any sort of help in getting treatment for very obvious adhd/autism/etc because "you're too smart for that" as if you don't struggle doing any simple task
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I've not laughed this hard this whole month. Haven't laughed this long this whole month, either... Cumulatively. Thank you for this from a gifted kid who's let the beast out of its cage too long and grow too strong. Anxious mess, is what I'm saying. Thanks again, you're actually part of my recovery now!
The problem comes when the adrenaline stops working. Idk why, maybe depression, fatigue, lack of care or extreme apathy towards myself but my adrenaline just doesn’t kick in like it used to so now I wait till the last minute expecting my magical girl transformation into a functional human, and it just doesn’t happen.
shame, self hatred, that kinda of thing can really affect adrenaline too. hard to let the adrenaline motivate you or even feel it when you freaking hate yourself for constantly being the way you are. it's SO DAMN HARD to not tell myself shit like "why am i like this, what's wrong with me, why can't i just be normal and do things like everyone else?" and i know it's because my brain works differently, but you know, when you grow up with people making you feel like crap your whole life for being the way you are, and people constantly asking why you can't be like everyone else, at some point you start to internalize it and feel bad. :(
This is exactly my issue. I have always struggled with this situation, but somehow, it always worked in the end. I still felt awful, but it always worked out and I stayed a generally happy kid. This last semester, my mental health plummeted. I'm not exactly sure why, but this exact thing happened. Things didn't work out. For the first time in my life, I couldn't save myself. I failed my classes. Self-hatred went out of control and I started to self-harm. I'm still figuring things out, but I think if I set a more intense schedule and really, really stick to it, I might be able to get out of this stupid slump.
Same, i feel the same. Just.... the same actually. I don't have it in me anymore. Everyone else seems better than me and I'm like haha. Not as good as i thought i was
I love that the most relatable part of the entire extremely relatable video was right at the end, sitting in a completely stupid position and holding the Switch in a way no sane person would.
i absolutely LOVE the video style used here bc this is just exactly how it feels and "its 6 mins until the deadline" "we start in one minute" is SO SCARILY TRUE and it seems like as we go on with our lives the adrenaline takes longer to kick in
Bro, as a gifted kid, I’m such a heavy procrastinator, I’ll wait until the night before or the class before an essay is due and still get a good grade, idk how we do it fr 💀
@@Theleaderofdoggiearmy Getting it done the day before is like a miraculous task that boosts my ego up to space, for me. Night before is the norm at this point
This video made me realize that im a gifted kid, i may look like im waisting my time, but actually my adrenaline is SO overpowered, i can do an essay in an hour assuming im not using ChatGPT
See this used to work for me until it didn't. When that fear of failure finally came true, I used more perfectionism to compensate and, surprise, getting caught up in every little detail "because I couldn't afford to lose points" made me so slow and anxious that I was unable to finish anything on time. Which led to late/no submissions. Fail grades. Rinse and repeat. Get diagnosed for ADHD as kids if you can (not that I could help it)
The trick is that we inherently internalize and critically analyze information more comprehensively because we let it sit undisturbed (as in not immediately regurgitated into another form) for such a long time. So your "less than perfect" last-minute submission is probably at least as good, if not better than everyone else's. I dropped out of school (more than once) because, not being on meds anymore, "I just couldnt even." But being in the professional world I have repeatedly come face to face with the mediocrity of degree-holding professionals and I am regularly vindicated/validated by professionals with much more experience and/or advanced degrees. The nobody taking you seriously thing is 100% a thing though. The problem I'm running into is that the people who are competent enough to recognize your own competence, are higher up in the chain than anyone you're "supposed" to talk to during your day-to-day. So YOUR manager thinks your lazy and you don't know anything, but if you somehow got a chance to talk with their boss' boss 2 or 3 levels up, they'd be saying things that you've been saying all along (not in person though, you're putting that off till later). Or in my case, talking with someone retired from the industry after 40 years of experience, saying the same things I recognized 5 years ago as an ongoing trend (having only 5 years of "resume" experience at the time). But its like... how do you put "Auto-didactically learned the equivalent of director-level competencies" on your resume and have people actually know what an Autodidact even is to begin with.
sadly most families believe adhd is just procastination and lazyness while it can be much worse than just that , hence why many adhd'ers never get the chance for diagnosis as kids.
i almost messed up my college gpa first semester because i did that, luckily i got saved by a gracious professor and forced myself to work on my habits
Well, it works... until things get hard, and you suddenly need more time to get things done and you somehow can't because your mind decides to instead spend it's time finding the most negative thing it can think and you run from these thoughts with as much distraction as possible until your whole identity is drowned in it and then you hate yourself because you did not do the thing you should have done and that confirms and strengthen your negative thoughts and you just want everything to stop...
I broke the habit in my PROFESSIONAL life in my first job out of college. Too many new tasks added at random times by my boss, so I had to keep on top of things so I was ready to feild new demands at any moment. But that randomized application of pressure really worked to keep me stimulated and interested and active.
true, i dont have adhd but i have this problem of wanting to do a thousand task at once but not knowing how to organize the time for them , and if i organize the time i get distracted easily and waste time.
In the combination of giftedness with ADHD (which this seems very much geared towards), the lack of work leading up to the deadline is often less laziness and more just a complete incapacity to do work without the pressure of pending disaster despite knowing better. This "laziness" also isn’t relaxing at all because of it, since the constant awareness of but powerlessness towards your lack of work is excruciating.
That’s the frustrating bit. It’s not like you are completely relaxed for that two week period before a deadline. In fact I’m often constantly thinking about it. Feel bad for not working on it. Can’t even bring myself to do anything really fun in the mean time because I know should be working on it. So it’s all this bitty procrastination BS that’s not fulfilling in anyway while I struggle to try and get started.
Gifted kids also thrive on praise and recognition for their work, once they complete it. Great job Daniel, you did excellent work with this! I think a lot of us will relate and appreciate the anime theme, as many of us also hid from completing assignments while binging on Naruto in the dark late at night, watching fan-subbed rips on youtube in parts as they became available. And now for the gifted student kryptonite: Can't wait to see what you've got working next soon!
Fun fact, the evidence for and information about ADHD is so abundant and easy to access at this point that I'm pretty sure the lazy ones are the people who can't be bothered to understand.
I've got certain tendencies I always chocked up to being "a procrastinator" and such, and I'm noticing hints of them too in my son and daughter who share my genes (but not in the daughter who doesn't). I thought nothing of it til I found an old letter from my aunt, where she casually mentioned that she and my grandpa had both been diagnosed with ADD (what they called it back then). It's finally starting to make sense!! I want to get checked and see if I have a diagnosis, so that I can confirm if my kids need to get any needed help by the time they're 11, instead of having to suffer through all the self-loathing that comes from being a 34-year-old procrastinator who failed to follow through on his career aspirations because of it.
the sad thing is most families believe adhd is just lazyness, like mines. you cant even have the motivation to do what you like or ur resposibilities, or maybe focus on doing something for atleast 2 hours maximum
My god.. That describes every damn assignment, test or work I've ever actually taken. "Why work the full schedule when I could just cram it into the last couple hours?" And then crush it. I feel so seen!
The worst part is that this seriously burns you out and at some point it stops working, or at least that's my experience. Now I'm never able to get myself to do anything, and the adrenaline just gives me anxiety instead of motivation
@@Oyakinya-Izuki I don't know what you mean by a time limit quota. Also I don't see how this would help as pretending the deadline is sooner doesn't change that the adrenaline itself has stopped working as a motivator, and just causes meltdowns instead
I started experiencing a similar thing and found that I would drag myself to do the task through tears and multiple meltdowns, but this gave me crazy burnout and I had to take a break from Uni next term. Hoping therapy will help 🤞🏻. (Pro tip tho: Sounds lame but I found doing it in bursts and having a dance break to high energy music helped to expel some of the anxiety as it built up - and lift my mood momentarily, so maybe u could try doing something physical that takes all ur focus to help expel that anxiety. Not sustainable coping mechanism on its own but can help in the moment.)
As a person with ADHD and possibly autism(not diagnosed just symptoms of it), this is the most relatable thing i’ve seen in MONTHS. I do procrastinate a lot and when it’s 1-2 days near the deadline of a work the motivation kicks in and i finishes my work in less than an hour for most of the work. Normally i just sit and game for who know how long but if necessary, i can do whatever i need to do in a very short time. Great portrayal Daniel, keep it up!
as someone currently studying psychology, dont self diagnose yourself! As someone with exactly the same, SAME DUDE!!! Damn i love ADHD comment sections its like a cess pool of like minded idiot savants lol
A friend of mine challenged me to code something, we would see wich one of us would manage to get closer to the end in 1 week. It started on Sunday. By Wednesday, I had nothing done yet and he said that if I wasn't interested I should have said so and stopped working on it. It took me Friday and Saturday to do it XD.
Once I made an entire work presentation I had a month to prepare not only the day of, but during the presentation of the person ahead of me, and got a lot of positive response.
Reminds me of that time I did a presentation in the lesson before I had to give it and still got better feedback than the other two presentations that were held because the other two groups didn't really understand their topic fully
Recently made a presentation literally 5 minutes before the start of the class, and the person that went after me got feedback that it seemed like he didn't prepare the presentation as good as the people before him, including me 💀
At times, I feel as though the reason I postpone a lot of work until the very last day is just pure laziness. But in the back of my mind, there's always this voice saying "Look, we are going to have to rush some stuff, sure. But if we do it all in one sitting, the result is going to be much more consistent and coherent". It seems other people have that exact same thought process.
I also feel the same because I tend to shove information into people’s throats so if I start early I’ll put in every bit of information on my report which ends up confusing people. But when I’m under pressure I only put in important stuff bcs of time constraints of course which leads to a very consistent report or presentation. For example when I’m planning the report I’d be thinking of adding reactions, solubility curves, costs and all sorts of things making my report 70pages long, when under pressure I’m forced to summarise the load of information making it more understandable for everyone. And now with chat GPT I think I’m just procrastination even more
And yeah my bosses are the ones who keep saying stop trying to shove information down their throats and I should just make things simple for them to understand because the only thing they want to know is, how much money they are going to make then if it’s a net positive they just give me a go ahead.
im am a gifted kid, a kid who also has adhd, and somehow has the knowledge of programming. and somehow, someway i made 3 custom browsers using javascript and html and didnt use any of them. btw i am 13
Don't forget the "DOES NOT WORK TO POTENTIAL" on all of our report cards from each of our teachers besides that one pre-cal teacher we like where we rediscover derivatives.... or so I've heard 😅
You know, as a Japanese person, I reeeeeeaaally appreciate that you actually wrote Japanese translated script that makes sense. There are so many anime themed TH-cam videos where the creater use random snippets of Anime lines which DOESN'T match the English subs they put. It frustrates me all the time. I get the the majority of their target audience don't speak Japanese, but when they use just random words I feel like the language is disrespected.
Such an underrated comment! It's really not a great experience for the EN/JP bilingual viewers when what we hear does not match what we read in the subtitles. The fact that they put any effort into an accessibility/quality of life feature for such a niche portion of the audience speaks volumes for the standard of quality they strive to achieve. We feel seen
As a Greek I love hearing broken Greek in fantasy movies. There is that scene in Xena where Gabriella recites a magic spell and says 3 times "Hello Goodmorning Hello Goodnight Hello Good Noche (night in Spanish xD)"
@@AlyzaRivers yeah and I get that. but like...some of them just repeats the same words over and over again. At that point you are not even trying... I am one of those people who doesn't care about people using Japanese culture to express themselves as long as they are doing it right and with respect. Using random snipets not caring if it makes sense seems like its lacking respect to our culture.
The Japanese was accurate. Mostly what other creators do is put random Anime lines and then graft their own desired English captions at the bottom. As a fellow Japanese speaker, enjoyed it.
I heard him say “Gome” and thought “Oh, he actually said sorry! Sweet!” Also his shoe soles lol: I knew enough katakana from VOCALOID names to figure it out and I felt happy.
That background processing is such a perfect was to explain the Feeling. I'm convinced that my brain literally never stops working on any problem and is just waiting on me to consciously remember it to give me the answer.
Me too, answers just seems to jump out of nowhere, it's like willing the universe to work your way, sometimes I got kinda scared of what I could do if I actually try.
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Halloooo
Daniel I think you have adhd
@@Nython-we7xq HELLO
@@Nython-we7xqtrue
Daniel if a coconut has hair and milk shouldn't it be classified as a mamal
This video was 100% the story of how the script for this video was written
So "based on a true story"
i didnt even think of that, but you´re probably right
sort of like jaiden animations writing the script for her ADHD video
That’s about the best thing you can say about it lmao
I’ve written a 7 page essay entirely on the day it was due while having other classes
What
bro it's literally steven he 🤯
In Quick summary - we just built different
Bro its the real one how is he not pinned yet???
Accurate
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It’s all fun and games until you start hating yourself for being lazy, which ends up compounding into an inferiority complex and leads to you *actually* not getting any work done.
i feel called out lmfao
Thank you, thank you so mutch i know it mite sound weard but realy thank you, for the longgest time i thougt it was just me being lazy this helped me a lot.
Thank you ❤
I'm 16 so sorry if it comes acros as a bit dramatic 😅
… I’ve actually been trying to find a way to describe this in me… this is way too accurate 😭 I’ve literally almost cried like 2 hours ago thinking about this… (I’m serious, for the last 2 months it feels like I can;t get anything done because of my self-hatred that stemmed from me taking less time than others to finish things and then feeling like I’m wasting my times and life on nothing which subsequently is what I am, nothing… well time to go play Fortnite again, sorry for the rant 👍)
Thx man,
I wasn't able to get work done while being lazy
But when I get into it, I do it
I thought this impulsive behaviour of mine is very bad for myself (everyone around me said the same) and then self hate, when you are in war with yourself for so long and never win
That feeling eats you and then you get no task done :(
That’s where I am now
You forgot the burning hate you feel when your work gets corrected afterward. Like the whole “I could’ve done it perfectly if I actually tried” mentality. The fear of failure plus the tendency to procrastinate is a lethal combo.
I’m procrastinating rn
Well, the joke is, that if you for once actually DO try, you for some reason get WORSE grades?? Leads to not really learning from your mistakes and just not trying ever again :")
"Always feeling underestimated, but rarely having the energy to prove anyone wrong." HOLY SHIT HE PUT IT INTO WORDS
ikr, he actually put the existence of smart people into words
me....
gojo be like to itadori:
I hate how relatable that is. It's especially frustrating when they try to mansplain.
@@MitoTomakawayou found a way to make something that wasn't sexist... sexist 😂😂
This has made me feel more understood than months worth of imaginary conversations with the therapist I never scheduled an appointment with.
Stop I thought that was just me
this comment has made me feel more understood than my whole imaginary career
Did you mean the imaginary conversations with the BetterHelp therapist you scheduled an appointment with?
Real
Oh you too do that ? Sweet, I felt very alone when thinking about my imaginary therapy sessions
Don’t forget the overwhelming guilt that follows your every waking moment even though you’re in “rest” mode because of how unproductive you are
he didn't forget, the guilt is from the "brain" character
omg.. and the underwhelming motivation to fix it which only exacerbates the guilt
This is so true lol
me as I watch this video woth crippling anxeity and negative self talk while I do nothign to fix it
@@Objective_Piece8285 set a goal, I did the same for 6 years straight, I’m not going to let myself be bullied by everyone, you just have to let go of the past, believe in ourselves
once in high school, we were supposed to do a presentation in english for ten minutes long and had 6 months. everyone started doing it 2-3 months before deadline and meanwhile i, a gifted kid, started 1 week before it and yet i was one of the few people that got 100. if i get motivated enough, there's nothing i can't do.
Yeah people like us are built different
I'ma quote the last sentence
a gifted friend of mine said he didn't need to work hard in school, it was easy. But once he got into university, the workload was so much, he couldn't handle it. Unlike normal people who have learned how to work hard. This seems to be a trend maybe not for all gifted people, but definitely many
@@mak_attakksyes, because it’s so easy to learn, you don’t learn how to learn in an organized way.
The fact that the video's length is the exact time he got left to turn in the thing is just perfect
🤔🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
I didn't notice that 💀
Coincidence? I think not.
it's as if this was the work he was doing in those 5 minutes 💀
OMG...!
3:16 That bee shot is so perfect. Making the animal analogy speech and superimposing the bee over the fighter when he punches is just accurate enough to be completely anime, yet stupid enough to be a parody. That was perfect lol. And making the sound an eagle sound was the chefs kiss.
That's a hawk noise
@@dylangergutierrez "Um... actually... 🤓." You must be a ball at parties. Also, go look up some eagle and hawk sounds, nerdge. The gigachad eagle is far closer than the betacuck hawk.
Red tailed hawk specifically.
Eagles sound dumb and people didnt like that for america's bird
@@gothicbutterfly013 came here to say this!
I see that the replies are stating that the sound is actually a red tailed hawk sound, which is totally true. But since the sound is famously used to represent an eagle and is commonly misunderstood for an eagle sound I don’t think you said anything wrong. I also agree with your comment 100%, the anime sequence as a whole is just so perfect and has so many small details and Easter eggs that makes it just amazing as a whole.
this is so accurate. i feel seen and attacked. ty daniel
It’s the “it’s jimothy” to the devil skit guy. Love the videos man. Anyway yeah I do too honestly
Random but your pfp looks like Joe Hawley
@@p0lusthegremlinthanks i hate it
no not you
@@p0lusthegremlin STOP I SEE IT 😭😭
As a gifted person who actually struggled a lot with this, a good way to help try and motivate you is by picking up an instrument and doing lessons. Instruments take a lot of practise, so even if you are naturally talented you still won't be able to just figure it out 5 minutes before and will ACTUALLY have to do something and practise (I learned that the hard way) of course this may not work for everyone as some people may just get tired and give up the instrument, but if you REALLY want help being able to practise things on a schedule normally and often, then I think music is the way to go! (maybe even multiple instruments)
Same with languages! Not me learning 4 languages at the same time-
Yeah. I went from barely needing to exercise any effort in middle school, to actually needing to study and take notes in high school, and that threw me off so badly
This isn't always the way either cause then you drop the instrument/language what ever you may be trying to learn cause you don't show even a bit of improvement.
@chells88 Yes, I agree, and I did point that out in my original comment, I'm just saying that for those who DO want to improve, this is a good way to learn to practise and put in effort for results
@@chells88 I know a girl named Chelsea🤔
he forgot to mention one consequence: the slow degradation of our mental health as the pile of unfinished projects grows taller… and taller… and taller… all the while creating a feedback loop whereby the list of tasks feels insurmountable, so we procrastinate, so the list grows longer, so we procrastinate, and so forth until finally we are FORCED to use every bit of energy we have just to clear the pile. and even if we know better, some little part of us still whispers that it was all our fault, and that we’re just lazy and have a terrible work ethic that we simply can’t bother to fix.
@notdistracted1289 YESSS FR
P R E A C H
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are you me?
God dayum but it's true...
The "background processing" part was only briefly mentioned, but most of the time it's really the key to be able to pull off this kind of feat at the last possible time. It's only because we've allocated some resources and time to roughly outline what we'll do that it's possible to put everything together in a short time.
Lol ikr fr fr
@@BrainrotFluent Comment so good the option to translate to english appeared lmao
Exactly! “How long did it take you to write this?” “Twelve hours or twenty minutes, depending on your perspective.”
I just do that and then never get it done. Don’t worry tho I’ll make a Time Machine using the 6th dimension to actually alter the original timeline so I get it done… eventually
pretty much me tbh. People will always come up to me when i'm playing games or something and ask "yo, how's that project you're working on going?" and I'll just say "yeah no worries i'm working on it"
to the outside world i'm sitting around gaming, but it's always in our heads where the real effort is being made
Bro the worst part about this is the fact that we still do good on whatever project we're doing at the last second as if rewarding us for our procrastination issues prompting us to keep on procrastinating projects.
I relate to this on a deeply personal level
That's the ironic part
Exactly!! 😭
worst part? thats the best part
@@orangee_blox It worked for me for many years, but eventually in high school I stopped getting good grades and I couldn't do regular studying since I never learned those good habits.
tl;dr It works until it doesn't.
Why is this the most accurate thing ever?!😂 I love how funny and reliable it is!
I had an experience in HS during senior year. I am not only lazy but chronically fatigued, so I slept through class every day. During the first week of Gov/Econ I was being lazy and sleeping; as my teacher passed out the first exam he handed it to me and said "This is your opportunity to prove that you can sleep in my class and still pass."
I took the test and turned it in. Next week as he handed them back out, giving correction as he did, he walked up to my desk staring at me. Wordlessly he slid the paper onto my desk, and I looked down.
In red pen in the top right corner was a 100.
He shook his head and walked away.
came in clutch right there
and then everyone gave a standing ovation
I had a very similar highschool and college experience 😂 Glad it wasn’t just me sleeping through their monotonous lectures.
In elementary school, one of my classmates got called out by the teacher for not paying attention during math. I was daydreaming as well and he asked why the teacher didn't call me out too. She then asked me to do some multiplication and without skipping a beat, I gave the answer right away, still staring off into space.
I didn't even mean to make him look bad because he was one of my friends, I just wasn't paying attention. I had trained myself to keep whatever it was that the teacher was saying in the back of my mind at all times.
I had a similar experience freshman year. I always slept through, or at least nodded off, in my morning classes. I’m NOT a morning person, sleeping the 1st half of the school day was my routine. Before high school teachers had labeled me as lazy and generally didn’t make an effort. But I stilled pulled A’s. I guess the high school teachers hadn’t gotten the memo that “this kid is a lazy one” because after sleeping through freshman year and still getting A’s they stuck me on the Advanced track. Funny enough, I stopped feeling so sleepy during class. Changed my whole trajectory 😊
"What a stupid way to live"
Relatable.
Yes, but it is semi-effective, which is the most you’ll probably get from us
@@TrueBornLeakI can conform
As a gifted kid, I once had 3 months to write an essay comparing the colonization of Mars to the colonization of Roanoak. I did all of the research and wrote the entire essay the night before and was one of the only 2 people to get an A on the assignment. The funny thing is, the teacher was talking about all of the low grades on the assignment and said "I can tell some of you did this the night before." I just sat their awkwardly.
i did something similar for a paper in college except the professor said we could choose the topic and the topic i chose was "shitty teachers who waste students' time by giving rambling incoherent lectures completely off-topic" ...i got an A (yes the paper was about that professor)
I had one of the best grades in college back in the day for a project we had all semester to prepare for. I did everything 6 hours before the deadline. It was a summarization of everything we learned in that class and we needed to make an oral presentation one on one with the teacher. She told me she could tell I took my time preparing for that project lol.
God this happened to me in highschool. We were supposed to write an essay about Romeo and Juliet. I had been sulking because I hated the play and forgot it was due until the night before. I tried to take it seriously only to get angrier and angrier because I hated the play so much and then finally spat something out in 1 hour that I felt was total trash and called it a night.
1 week later after grading our essays our teacher is trashing the entire class and saying everyone's essays were shit except one person then he points at me. And I sort of just sat there vaguely aware that my classmates were glaring murder at me and wished my teacher would shut the fuck up. It was awful lmao.
This reminds me of when I studied the night before for a college U.S. History test. I got an A+. My school counselor said students should not study the before for a test and similarly to the original comment, I sat there awkwardly.
Every essay I've written the night before it's due has gotten me an A. I rely on that deadline to give me the motivation and hyperfocus I need.
Hahaha, omg, this is so freaking true!! Procrastination is my first, last, and middle name, but somehow, I always get it done at the last second. This is the best. Good job, man. It's seriously great content.
the worst part is narrowly pulling it off (though pulling it off well) each time and telling yourself “that was so stupid; i should learn and shouldn’t ever put something like that off again” and then putting everything like that off again forever
Why you gotta call me out like that bro
bro wtf STOP STALKING ME
bro STOP CALLING ME OUT
Me everytime theres an assignment on college be like, "hell yea next time I wont do it again" AND THEN I'D DO IT FOR THE REST OF MY COLLEGE LIVES
I feel like my brain has just been explained. The whole "3 months" thing is definitely an exaggeration for me, but I really don't always have the energy to actually do stuff, but when I'm doing stuff, I get it the fuck done. Like, I almost never get significant progress done on a project over the course of multiple weeks, it's much easier to do it all, or at least a big portion of it, at the same time, and then just not do anything for a bit.
How do you do learn skills that take time to like programming?
@@adityasubhedar9556 I mean if you find a study you are excited to learn about then you understand the topics very quickly.
@@adityasubhedar9556in my experience I first learned the majority of c++ and python within a day and kept using it until I started to get behind my peers when I took programming classes (which was about a year) then I leaned a bunch more python and c++ just to get ahead of everyone else. I wouldn’t ever recommend this as it often you get really stressed.
Side note I also did this with math. I would learned little to nothing during class time and speed run all the information the morning before the exam and get an A. Again, would not recommend.
@@adityasubhedar95564 hours every other day.
@@adityasubhedar9556personally, I simply don’t. I don’t like math for this reason and although I understand it when I do work on it, I know I’ll never develop the skills I need to be good at it. The only motivation that somewhat worked for me was when I *had to* do it in order to reach my personal goals (for example graduating)
Instead of being calmly playing a video game, it's more akin to being burned alive while your brain desperately tries to distract you from the pain instead of doing something about it, except it's actually all you can think of and the brain goes wild (background processing, as mentioned in the video). At some point close to the deadline, the brain has a meltdown and resets, after which it finally decides it's time to get some shit done.
It's not fun.
Anyway, really good video!
the worst is when the previously relied upon system(of procrastination-meltdown-reset) collapses, and deadlines stop hitting like they used to. All of a sudden, the procrastination pushes further and further desperately past the deadline, until the real deadline becomes some arbitrary point of time way too late after the original deadline. Once you reach this point, the self-blame game goes strong. when this happened to me, a lot of my basic habits in life vanished with it. It was brutal, and im still fixing the fallout from that years after.
is this... burnout?
@@RePorpoisedabsolutely true!!!! I'm recovering too... and I think doing work for months is better than pulling up all-nighters especially when you're reached a deadline. This procrastination shit is real and killing.
That is indeed an important detail, albeit intentionally left out for the sake of humor.
This video is entertaining, but as I see it enforces two misconceptions:
a) Procrastination is not fun or calm.
You might outwardly look like you're just enjoying a leisure activity, but the racing thoughts inside prevent you from being in the moment.
b) Kids that are labeled "gifted" are precisely not that kind of hyper performers.
The label can often turn more into a self-fulfilling prophecy as the kid tries to live up to expectation. But again, that usually causes inner turmoil. And while some people might think they can pull off precisely what is shown in the video, they usually just dedicate more time and energy for the subject than others.
THAT.
from the outside, it looks like you're just sitting there playing a game cuz you don't care.
but inside, you're SCREAMING at yourself, GET UP GET UP GET UP! GO DO THE THING! WHY CANT YOU JUST DO IT?!? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?
it's like the meme with the dog where the house is one fire and he's all "thi is fine"
being inside my brain is being in that burning house. but all anyone sees from the outside is "this is fine"
@@RePorpoised yep. either that or depression. or both.
I dont think i have ever seen a more accurate representation of both an anime and adhd
"have you been doing some background processing?" This hit me hard, never have I heard anyone else put that activity into words!
It's so validating, cause from the outside it can look like laziness and doing nothing, but in actuality you are processing the task in advance so when you sit down it takes significantly less time. honestly this video helped me more than my official ADHD diagnosis.
not only outside, at least for me from the inside it also feels like doing nothing, because at the end of the day nothing has been put on the paper. so I've been trying to figure out if I want to change anything about it, or just accept that it's how I do things and at least stop feeling shitty about it
We are definitely the type of people that coined the phrase 'sleep on it'.
Writer's block goes away after a good night's sleep.
I tend to call this background processing 'its still in the oven'. I'm 44.
It's a well-known thing in psychology that one of the biggest steps of problem-solving is to just let your mind do some background processing while you do something else. Of course, you need to prepare a bit first by looking at the assignment or problem at hand, but the best ideas come from background processing
When i was in college, i had an english class where we had to write a fully planned out paper every week. For the final, we had to do the same exact thing, but he didn't expect much since we had an hour instead of a week.
When they were graded, he told me he was very impressed with how well i did for an hour. I didn't have the heart to tell him it's because that's how i did every single paper.
All the training paid off. Hell yeah!
Im happy it worked out in the long run though! ❤
Edit: now that I think about it, that's how my piano classes went. I would get assignments and need to practice them throughout the week but in reality would practice once or twice the night before and the next day the teacher would compliment me on all my hard work and progress. So I feel this story so hard.
Huh. I wonder why English classes are like that. It's exactly what is happening to me right now.
Your exam was an hour? I had a highschool english class where my exam was 60 questions in an hour followed by 3 essays in 2 hrs 20 min...
My partner responded with
“That was a good documentary. Did you watch it so you can understand me better?”
A++ work.
perfect timing of the video always love to see the subtle details of perfectly 5:59 video echoing the 6 minutes where you have also managed a sponser X_X
The fact that this video is exactly 6 minutes long is such a good attention to detail
Whoa, you’re right
I'm seeing 5:59, not a full 6:00
@@taj1994Well….he *did* finish at 5:59.
Oh my gosh wait-
You forgot the part when you just realise a simple mistake in that task weeks or months later (probably in toilet) and when you tell it to someone they say "told you to start it early so you can review it" but you never listen to it and the cycle continue
The toilet part is so accurate 😭
It was the shower or bed for me.
oh thank you for reminding me of a list I was suppose to fix by monday.....
What do you mean by mistake? Doesn't everybody just do it right the first time? Why would you do it wrong?
@@thegreenxeno9430 Yeah, just submit it the moment you finish it. What could possibly go wrong?
The fact is every gifted kid in elementary school grew up like this and our parents did in fact call us lazy.
but elementary school wasn't much.. teachers thought i was talented only because when i wrote i was good at grammar and used things like simile and metaphor. i wasn't lazy, because i remember that even before having lunch, i would do my school homework..afterwards, i will play on my offline tablet till sleep. my parents knew nothing about my school progress. .. i can't relate.. but i was talented in the eyes of elementary school teachers.
@@GoodMorning-b2wsame, but i did always my homework just a min before going to sleep. Homework was a rare ocation too cuz I usually could finish it before the class ended
@@Call_me_Fred cool
@@Call_me_Fred i sometimes do my math homework in class
@@Call_me_Fred I never did my homework. Usually i got F for homework and A+ for lesson work. Therefore i got B's and sometimes A's in graduate sheet (when teachers realised that i know things and homework is not really interesting enough to solve)
But sometimes i got an inspiration to do my homework, so:
If the homework was to memorise a paragraph/poem - i just memorised it while kids before me told their homework to teacher.
If the homework was to solve 3-4 exercises - i did it while teacher walked in a class to grab our homeworks.
And only if the homework was an essay/presentation - i did it the night before... or literally on a lesson before deadline one, lol.
Now when i remember the school, it was sooo cool, ah. I remember when i did my homework i literally just solved exercises in my head and all i wrote was an answer. Thats it, lol. All my homework was just:
Exercise 1.
Answer: 12
Thats all, and teachers were mad at first, like, "you can't just write an answer and not write how you got it", but then i proved myself near a chalkboard. Literally gave an answer to a random exercise while standing near a chalkboard. Solved it in my head and wrote an answer.
School was so cool and then university started. And profs swiftly found out what is going on and just stopped letting me pass works. They were like: "No i wont accept your work cuz you had to do it on every lesson of this semester step by step, you can't do it all at once in a last moment". So they made me quit architecture. And now i'm learning coding and its acceptable to be the "in last moment one" in coding. Its all about passion and spontaneous motivation!
I hope everyone finds a subject where he is acceptable)
4:31 and forward: good to see you enjoying the old Ganja. The Devils Lettuce. The toke.
Bro, you can't begin to understand how relatable this is to us gifted kids
Bro, literally. 😂 I don't even study the night before exam. but ,the next morning, I absolutely grind the 300 page book in just 2 hours.
Like how is this soo relatable 😂 💀
true
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how does one become gifted
@@Raifi.a good educational foundation and just being born with it or both in some cases
0:35 doing "Background Processing" is so accurate!
As your brain is doing all the planning and steps needed for the task to be done as fast and efficient as possible, so once you get the time for it, you just execute as everything is already pre-planned.
yas! like even when I cant make my self do the thing right away Im already thinking of it and what I will do!
I hated writing rough drafts because of this. If it isn't worked out in my head, putting it on paper was non-existent. It was ALWAYS 0 rough drafts and As on the paper I wrote the night before or on the bus.
@@Shiskrayesssss same 😅
And let's be clear, one third of the time, I'm doing it consciously.
@@Shiskra preach, that's so true... I have no drafts for any of my creative writings / lab reports/ academic essays... and I've tried to write them! ... and yes, the juices don't flow not until about 4 hrs before the deadline🤣
Did I just get a full-blown Daniel Thrasher anime?! And not only that, but the production budget seems to be well above standard for big animes for the time.
2:10 is that the 10 hour burst man
Insane
Absolutely relate. Had a semester long research project to do. Waited until 2 days before the due date. Turned it in an hour before the deadline. Got a call from the teacher the next week to tell me how amazing of a writer I was and how much work I put into it. And I just smiled and thanked her while the imposter syndrome slowly sucked away at my soul bit by bit.
damn
I can relate. Had to do a project. we had 3 months for it. Did do anything until the last 3 days. I finished it in time and it was good. I felt good for a brief moment. And then the cicle starts again. I feel bad about it all the time.
I had to write a 4 paragraph essay for summer homework. I read the book but didn't do the essay until the night before school. Wrote it in 10 minutes and got a 95.
Why are we like this 😭
I know why, the frontal lobe brain developmental blah blah blah. Yet I wanna know what to do with this knowledge and how to get stuff done finally, without procrastinating and һatіng myself
If you save it until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.
As a gifted kid (I THINK) I legit can’t work until the deadline is close.
Surprisingly, what motivation told the brain during the fight accurately reflects who I am as a person
Don’t mean to be that guy, but HOLY LIKES DUDE (3.6k in 11 days)
@@Russia-aaVery common thought people with ADHD have. "I'm just lazy" "If I just put more effort in" but often times it takes more effort to even start the task then it would take a neurotypical to finish it. A diagnosis makes a world of difference in understanding yourself, whether it be laziness or a mental condition.
I found a workaround. I do the task right away then send it on the deadline. I got plenty of time to rest. Hehe
@@heart7676 sounds like you have proper executive function, I need pills for that 🫠
@@heart7676I rlly wish it would work like that but my brain is like “yea, no” 😂😂😂
@@heart7676what’s holding you back to send it if you already did the hard work? 😂
ADHD is almost like a gift but they can't really choose what they focus on unless it is something you want to do
and want, is a hard thing to define with ADHD
@@ShalemBarak-gorodetsky Yeah, I want to do a lot of things but unless the Absolute Dipshit Himbo Disease also wants to do it, that does nothing for me.
Can't choose regardless, you also don't choose what you like. It isn't a matter of want.
Not want to do, enjoy doing and have somehow already started.
Not even that most of the times
This felt so relatable. I mostly feel like I am average at everything I do but sometimes I just do things that even I cant believe I could do. I let down so many people expectations but sometimes do better than what they expected or even what I expected.
I legit pulled an all nighter to write 4 separate reports on the same night before they were all due the next day (when we were given weeks to complete them), and still managed to get high grades. The perfectionist procrastinator mindset is deadly, yet it happens to work every time.
edit: y’all i recognize that it’s unsustainable and the effect diminishes over time, so obviously do something about it if it’s interfering with your health. im just saying that these experiences are still quite fascinating.
Don't rely on it too much if you can help it. I'm at a point where it's losing its effectiveness, and both the quality and quantity of my work is suffering.
@@tuffmanchannelPlease, this. It has completely stopped working for me, i don't know what to do now 😭😭
I feel nothing even if i have something really important, none of that fear that used to push me to finishing tasks before deadline, it feels pathetic
*for now
Speaking from personal experience, its effectiveness dilutes eventually.
I used to consider myself a gifted kid. Then i went to a highschool for gifted kids, and let me tell you that that shit humbled me so fast. Not just the change in difficulty, but also seeing TRULY gifted kids at work, like some of the dudes i went to highschool with are now close to a phd in physichs or some shit, like damn
Same
Thats what I noticed about myself too, from the way people describe youre nsupposed to suddenly have a secret stash of energy opening the skills you had
When I do this, I just realize that Im mediocre...
oh you mean children that are conditioned to be studying and/or producing something every possible second? yeah they all went on the be university teachers. good for them. academia is glad to abuse them.
instantly realized how mediocre i was, yep
Oh dude I WISH I had that
The fact that this video is exactly 6 minutes long makes it 10x better
Holy Macaroni
For me it's 5:59, which is even better LOL
according to script its same as 05:59
this made me feel very understood in the funniest way possible and i thank you very much for that...
And here I am, procrastinating on an essay, while watching a skit that perfectly epitomizes exactly what I'm doing.
The summer holiday lasts 7 weeks, and it's already 2 weeks till we're back at school, and I haven't even STARTED any of my homework...
And here i am, a gifted kid blessed with no homework for summer
@@Coocoocrazy3 ohhhh same, I have like no hw for the summer
the only good thing about Vietnamese public schools
Stuck here with school writing a essay to a story more then the essay the teacher said to do
(and also procrastinating on the essay itself)
As someone with ADHD, this was apparently a massive tell for my psychologist and one of the main reasons why I got diagnosed within a month, over 2 or 3 visits.
Damn, I still need to be primarily diagnosed. I was only given a provisional for ASD and ADHD because she didn't ask enough about my childhood. Mostly just the trauma, none of the rapid firing through worksheets cause I was bored and stimulated by the idea of finishing it before everyone, spinning around at my nan's karaoke club, and staying up most of the nights before assignments were due.
Before my ADHD diagnosis this was me down to a T.
Yes, exactly. I was the same way for 30 years until I got diagnosed and medicated recently.
I wonder if Daniel has it and is undiagnosed? Between this, Talent Fairy, Shiny Object Syndrome,and the other Gifted Kid sketch/song, Ibfeel he's checking a lot of boxes.
yup this is ADHD
Bruh, my psychiatrist skipped right past the testing and diagnosing. 40 minutes on our first call and she already had my prescription sent to the pharmacy. Lol, I had to ask her in a follow-up email, "uh, so, am I officially diagnosed with ADHD then?"
Yeah, might help that I had self-diagnosed and had three pages full of legit examples of ADHD from my youth to my 36th birthday which was also around the same time I lost my job (due to the common manifestations of ADHD).
as a gifted kid, this is exactly the way my mind works. i don't do any work until it is required to be done. no idea how im still alive but it works.
Same, i am also gifted lol
Same, I hated deadlines but rushing to finish an assignment at the last minute was beneficial to me. Probably the pressure finally spurring me to action 😂
Its because it works that you keep doing it
@@okMelon_I wouldn't be so sure. For me it's because it workED. It no longer works since things get harder and require actual studying and stuff, which I didn't learn how to do.
I'm making some progress on it though. ^_^
None of you are “gifted.”
The anime voices ARE LEGENDERY
This is way too relatable. And it’s so annoying when someone near you keeps telling you to do your work but you are too lazy to even start.
Your parents
Not laziness, just executive dysfunction
REAL
Go get an ADHD diagnosis dude
We got Daniel Thrasher the Anime before GTA VI
You're super early for a youtuber with a verified badge
*before DOOM The Dark Ages
Why does your name look so feminine? Is this a name or a brand name? Just curiosity
Why is ari here
Ari im not joking i watch ur vids also im sub 10 on 3x3 now
For some reason people don't understand when I tell them that most of the time I physically CANNOT DO WORK and then I go and do 20 assignments in 1 hour
this can actually be a sign of adhd or severe depression. if you’re constantly yelling at yourself to get up and do something, but you can’t make yourself move, so you end up feeling lazy or stupid. the difference between laziness and this is that while a lazy person thinks, “i’ll just do it later,” someone with this condition thinks, “do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it, why can’t i get up, just move. move. move. now. don’t think, just do it.”
@@everythingellieandaustinse6068 Actually a very apt summary. Thank you for sharing.
@@everythingellieandaustinse6068yknow what, maybe i should seek help... ah shit ive been procrastinating that too
@@everythingellieandaustinse6068 Oh yeah, what Can_Head said is classic ADHD. It's often mis-diagnoised as depression and/or anxiety for a reason! I even do this for basic shit like getting up to eat or drink...
I gotta love when I'm supposed remember to recieve my meds... or schedule appointments. It's almost like that's what I'm getting help for...
im currently watching this at 2 am on a monday when im supposed to be reading 19 pages of a book that are due today
that one random burst of motivation at 1 AM when you're tired
It's always something you can't possibly do at 1am too
Yes!
Also, understanding that ADHD is hereditary and being a better parent to your children was the best part for me.
My kids had the tools and resources they needed and even as adults now.
Same here, :')
That’s HEREDITARY? I need to have a conversation with my parents
both my parents have it, i’m very “lucky” :D
@denzosaurus Yes, it is.
Most parents see their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as
"normal" until their kids get diagnosed. My grandfather was born in 1937 and he was called the smartest "retard" in his day as a compliment!!...😳. Because he could touch anything and learn by watching, but not by reading.
He was 62 when he got a job at IBM designing their new fancy electronic chess boards, and they paid to have him tested, and yup, he had ADHD.
All 3 of my kids have ADHD. 45% of women with ADHD also have PMDD.
PMDD, which gets misdiagnosed as Bi Polar 2, way too frequently. When it's not.
A couple of great books to read or listen to:
*ADHD 2.0
By. Dr. John J. Ratey and Dr. Edward M. Hallowell
* A Radical Guide For Women With ADHD
By. Dr. Sari Solden and Dr. Michelle Frank
* Self Care for People with ADHD
By. Dr. Sasha Hamdani
TH-cam channels:
*ADHD love
* How To ADHD
* Olivia Lutfallah
*normal people*: The real challenge is behind the door.
*ADHD people*: The real challenge is the door.
Edit: just to point out I have ADHD and am speaking from a personal prespective
perfectly said HAHAHA
Yes
FR
Oh my god yes
Accurate
One of the absolute strongest ones yet, Daniel! Well done. You’re truly gifted
as a (previous) gifted kid, I got a medical degree now and a pretty happy family-oriented life.
to all my gifted kids that are still actually kids: you can do it. learn and accept who you are, play to your strengths and stay away from your weaknesses. others will tell you to do things the "normal" way and if you try to do it that way, it likely won't work because you're built differently. you are a sprinter, not a marathoner. figure out what works asap and realize the farther you get in life, the harder this lifestyle gets... but no one said you lived life on easy mode. you, my friend, play on legendary.
Wow,no one has ever told me about this before,it's too late i've wasted 4 months of free time with nothing,after i graduated high school i keep procrastinating on learning life skills like cooking,riding a motorcycle,car,new hobby etc that my friends who's considered "normal" are way ahead of me,i feel dumb and useless,i don't know when is this "suffering" finally gonna stop
That final line is one of the kindest, most reaffirming things anyone's ever said to me. Thank you. ❤
Thank you needed to hear this
Hardest difficulty 😭😭
Thanks, needed to hear this at the moment. I think you're previously a kid but always gifted.
Bro those dialogues dubbed with the moving lips are so accurate... Help! 😭💀
I was expecting 4:14 to result in "It's 7pm. Your boss just texted back to say your work is good but you're still fired."
Well, honestly, that probably would've been more realistic.
Honestly, that is what happens most of the time.
You run out of time no matter how much you force yourself in the last minute
That entirely misses the point of the video
@@Blue_Guy_The No, that's why I said "I was expecting". I thought he would subvert the Gifted Kid trope by playing into the way that most of us are now semi-functional husks with diagnosed ADHD, but he played it straight instead.
@@InexplicableInside hahhh same... used to have that superpower now I just procrastinate and start a bit before the deadline. I get a lot done but almost never get it in on time because I'm also a perfectionist and just end up giving up. semi-functional husk indeed.
This video was a masterpiece. It genuinely brought me joy. Keep up the good work
I love that the entire video is exactly 6 mins, proving that he actually did get it done on time
Woooah I hadn't noticed!
So you mean to tell me he released this video exactly 1 minute before the deadline..
He did a good job making a fake anime explaination that is absolutely relateable
Bro's acting and cinematography is so good he went from Pink guy level to Anime/comics style.
The imaginary conversations, the cycle of feeling like there’s too much work to even start while the work piles further, the guilt from being unproductive, and the concept of background processing.
There’s some really relatable stuff here-and a lot of it is negative-so why haven’t we found a way to change? (How can we make the most of our time?) Those TH-cam videos claiming to help never seem to get the job; we must hold the power within ourselves, but how can we unleash it? If it really is just adrenaline, then are we doomed to only be capable of working for short bursts? I just wanna be more focused, but it feels so impossibly hard
In 4th grade or so, we all were assigned to write persuasive speeches on a topic of choice. The other kids all got to work scripting and researching, and by the end of the three given weeks, I hadn't even picked a topic. On the morning when I was supposed to give my speech, I managed to end up 3rd last in line, and about 3 speeches before I had to give mine, I was allowed to take the laptop to ready my script to read from. Within 20 minutes of time, I decided to write about dolphins in containment, and wrote the whole thing from facts I'd memorised. I got an A. It's like I was charging up my power the entire time.
The "not picking a topic until the last minute" part is so real, like that's always the hardest part, after that I can speedrun the rest of the project
I wrote one on the process of procrastinating of writing the speech and also got an A
@@pinkfloweredsnake Use the procrastination to destroy the procrastination.
I'm not the fastest but I too am gifted but I'm a bit more like hyper active get it all done mode most days. I do procrastinate for periods of the day and then BAM I get some stuff done better than 80% of my peers would without really feeling like I had to try too hard. So many problems sit around with no one having a solution, I take a glance and I'm like Hmm, would this work? And it works. Huh, cool. Moving on. I don't think I'm top 1%, maybe 5-20% ish, but it sure does feel like there's nothing I can't do pretty dang good. I can't hire contractors cuz they never build a thing as good as I would, though I'm not as fast as them cuz it's their day job and I am just dabbling lol but when I dabble, I figure it out and it's done ultra solid, taken into account so many things that contractors just don't care about.
This is a surprisingly good description of being a formerly gifted kid who was "smart but lazy." Adulthood hits hard.
im not sure "lazy" is the right word.
what's lazy about gifted kids?
@@ez2427 almost every teacher has at one point in my life told me "you could do so much better if you just put in the effort", and almost every time I would try it out for a week or so and then give up on working hard. I believe that's the part that most people would coin as "lazy".
@@ez2427 And if you're wondering, those teachers weren't wrong, I tried it out for 1 subject and got a near perfect score, but the issue was that I would get one of the top scores in my school even when I didn't study at all (until the night before the exam of course). It felt like I was putting in effort for something I didn't need or want. (I still don't see the point of getting a perfect score other than feeding a minor superiority complex)
@@frostedfox8813 okay, yeah. that makes sense. but you were able to get good scores even without studying. i cant even do that (unless its a subject that im really interested in even without studying). idk, i still wouldn't call you lazy.
As someone who's not a gifted kid, and never was, thanks for giving me insight on this. I think I finally get why people say "if only you applied yourself more...". Food for thought for sure.
The worst part about being one of those people is feeling like I don’t deserve to do well when everyone else thinks I worked hard. I’m the one who tells myself if only I applied myself more
@@benndude2554that's so true
These are the problems of unhumans
Not like I know anything Ima just lazy with no power😂
Another thing to chew on is the fact that people will say you should apply yourself more, and then consistently deny any sort of help in getting treatment for very obvious adhd/autism/etc because "you're too smart for that" as if you don't struggle doing any simple task
I've not laughed this hard this whole month. Haven't laughed this long this whole month, either... Cumulatively.
Thank you for this from a gifted kid who's let the beast out of its cage too long and grow too strong. Anxious mess, is what I'm saying. Thanks again, you're actually part of my recovery now!
The problem comes when the adrenaline stops working. Idk why, maybe depression, fatigue, lack of care or extreme apathy towards myself but my adrenaline just doesn’t kick in like it used to so now I wait till the last minute expecting my magical girl transformation into a functional human, and it just doesn’t happen.
shame, self hatred, that kinda of thing can really affect adrenaline too. hard to let the adrenaline motivate you or even feel it when you freaking hate yourself for constantly being the way you are.
it's SO DAMN HARD to not tell myself shit like "why am i like this, what's wrong with me, why can't i just be normal and do things like everyone else?"
and i know it's because my brain works differently, but you know, when you grow up with people making you feel like crap your whole life for being the way you are, and people constantly asking why you can't be like everyone else, at some point you start to internalize it and feel bad. :(
This is exactly my issue. I have always struggled with this situation, but somehow, it always worked in the end. I still felt awful, but it always worked out and I stayed a generally happy kid. This last semester, my mental health plummeted. I'm not exactly sure why, but this exact thing happened. Things didn't work out. For the first time in my life, I couldn't save myself. I failed my classes. Self-hatred went out of control and I started to self-harm. I'm still figuring things out, but I think if I set a more intense schedule and really, really stick to it, I might be able to get out of this stupid slump.
Same
Same, i feel the same. Just.... the same actually. I don't have it in me anymore. Everyone else seems better than me and I'm like haha. Not as good as i thought i was
I love that the most relatable part of the entire extremely relatable video was right at the end, sitting in a completely stupid position and holding the Switch in a way no sane person would.
The number of natural poses I have that turned out to be yoga poses as well suggests that this isn't a bad thing.
@@LadyTsara Whoa. That's cool.
Why is everything ending their comment with a dot? I don't get it.
@@Mekanor1 you’re doing the same thing…?
@@Mekanor1 IT'S PROPER PUNCTUATION!
I started watching Daniel in 2020 and his videos have never ever got predictable😭😭😭😭
Been a fan since like 2018 and I sometimes worry about his mental state 💀
IM SCARED FOR HIM
Facts
Funny thing is, it's the complex task which are easy and the simple ones that take forever
i absolutely LOVE the video style used here bc this is just exactly how it feels and "its 6 mins until the deadline" "we start in one minute" is SO SCARILY TRUE and it seems like as we go on with our lives the adrenaline takes longer to kick in
The amount of relation is unhealthy 💀
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LMAO SAME ONG
Ong
Ikr
Real
Bro, as a gifted kid, I’m such a heavy procrastinator, I’ll wait until the night before or the class before an essay is due and still get a good grade, idk how we do it fr 💀
we are but miracles that nanifest with the worst timing and then we return to the vegetative fugue state we came from
Same except I’ll do it the day before it’s due
@@Theleaderofdoggiearmy Getting it done the day before is like a miraculous task that boosts my ego up to space, for me. Night before is the norm at this point
@@NotLegallyAGeologist Nani-fest... Vegeta-tive... These were... Intentional 😱
You’re not gifted. That’s just something your parents told you to make you feel better about being dumb.
This video made me realize that im a gifted kid, i may look like im waisting my time, but actually my adrenaline is SO overpowered, i can do an essay in an hour assuming im not using ChatGPT
See this used to work for me until it didn't. When that fear of failure finally came true, I used more perfectionism to compensate and, surprise, getting caught up in every little detail "because I couldn't afford to lose points" made me so slow and anxious that I was unable to finish anything on time. Which led to late/no submissions. Fail grades. Rinse and repeat.
Get diagnosed for ADHD as kids if you can (not that I could help it)
Relatable
Got diagnosed at 23, running into walls for that duration isn't good for your mental health
The trick is that we inherently internalize and critically analyze information more comprehensively because we let it sit undisturbed (as in not immediately regurgitated into another form) for such a long time. So your "less than perfect" last-minute submission is probably at least as good, if not better than everyone else's.
I dropped out of school (more than once) because, not being on meds anymore, "I just couldnt even." But being in the professional world I have repeatedly come face to face with the mediocrity of degree-holding professionals and I am regularly vindicated/validated by professionals with much more experience and/or advanced degrees.
The nobody taking you seriously thing is 100% a thing though. The problem I'm running into is that the people who are competent enough to recognize your own competence, are higher up in the chain than anyone you're "supposed" to talk to during your day-to-day. So YOUR manager thinks your lazy and you don't know anything, but if you somehow got a chance to talk with their boss' boss 2 or 3 levels up, they'd be saying things that you've been saying all along (not in person though, you're putting that off till later). Or in my case, talking with someone retired from the industry after 40 years of experience, saying the same things I recognized 5 years ago as an ongoing trend (having only 5 years of "resume" experience at the time). But its like... how do you put "Auto-didactically learned the equivalent of director-level competencies" on your resume and have people actually know what an Autodidact even is to begin with.
sadly most families believe adhd is just procastination and lazyness while it can be much worse than just that , hence why many adhd'ers never get the chance for diagnosis as kids.
i almost messed up my college gpa first semester because i did that, luckily i got saved by a gracious professor and forced myself to work on my habits
And the worst part of it is, that it works. We keep getting away with it, hence we will never develop a healthy and balanced way to tackle tasks
I’m literally taking a class to have a healthy relationship with deadlines and schedules and I’m starting to think that it’s rendering useless
Well, it works... until things get hard, and you suddenly need more time to get things done and you somehow can't because your mind decides to instead spend it's time finding the most negative thing it can think and you run from these thoughts with as much distraction as possible until your whole identity is drowned in it and then you hate yourself because you did not do the thing you should have done and that confirms and strengthen your negative thoughts and you just want everything to stop...
until you don't and this is why I am failing horribly in college.
I broke the habit in my PROFESSIONAL life in my first job out of college. Too many new tasks added at random times by my boss, so I had to keep on top of things so I was ready to feild new demands at any moment. But that randomized application of pressure really worked to keep me stimulated and interested and active.
true, i dont have adhd but i have this problem of wanting to do a thousand task at once but not knowing how to organize the time for them , and if i organize the time i get distracted easily and waste time.
In the combination of giftedness with ADHD (which this seems very much geared towards), the lack of work leading up to the deadline is often less laziness and more just a complete incapacity to do work without the pressure of pending disaster despite knowing better. This "laziness" also isn’t relaxing at all because of it, since the constant awareness of but powerlessness towards your lack of work is excruciating.
This! Is there any solid way to improve this?
I second to first reply ? Is there any way ? Are you diagnosed with ADHD ?
Getting diagnosed with ADHD and getting treatment ! ^^'
That’s the frustrating bit. It’s not like you are completely relaxed for that two week period before a deadline. In fact I’m often constantly thinking about it. Feel bad for not working on it. Can’t even bring myself to do anything really fun in the mean time because I know should be working on it. So it’s all this bitty procrastination BS that’s not fulfilling in anyway while I struggle to try and get started.
@@100xfun5 ADHD meds. But use them sparingly.
The fact that the video is EXACTLY under 6 minutes just makes all of this more perfect
Gifted kids also thrive on praise and recognition for their work, once they complete it. Great job Daniel, you did excellent work with this! I think a lot of us will relate and appreciate the anime theme, as many of us also hid from completing assignments while binging on Naruto in the dark late at night, watching fan-subbed rips on youtube in parts as they became available.
And now for the gifted student kryptonite: Can't wait to see what you've got working next soon!
As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD at 11 it can be overwhelming when someone says your lazy
Fun fact, the evidence for and information about ADHD is so abundant and easy to access at this point that I'm pretty sure the lazy ones are the people who can't be bothered to understand.
I got diagnosed at 12 though i rarely get called lazy tbf.
I was diagnosed at 23! Good times. I'm 24 now, shid's hard.
I've got certain tendencies I always chocked up to being "a procrastinator" and such, and I'm noticing hints of them too in my son and daughter who share my genes (but not in the daughter who doesn't). I thought nothing of it til I found an old letter from my aunt, where she casually mentioned that she and my grandpa had both been diagnosed with ADD (what they called it back then). It's finally starting to make sense!!
I want to get checked and see if I have a diagnosis, so that I can confirm if my kids need to get any needed help by the time they're 11, instead of having to suffer through all the self-loathing that comes from being a 34-year-old procrastinator who failed to follow through on his career aspirations because of it.
the sad thing is most families believe adhd is just lazyness, like mines. you cant even have the motivation to do what you like or ur resposibilities, or maybe focus on doing something for atleast 2 hours maximum
4:24 FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE DOES THE THING WHERE THEY SET IT ON THERE LAP AND PLAY WITH DETACHED JOYCONS
IKR
I basically have to because my stupid Joy-Con won’t connect in Handheld mode sometimes.
@@Warri0rLinksame here
I used to do that with my phone between my legs and hold my bluetooth controller when playing minecraft
@@Warri0rLink SAME
My god.. That describes every damn assignment, test or work I've ever actually taken.
"Why work the full schedule when I could just cram it into the last couple hours?" And then crush it.
I feel so seen!
The worst part is that this seriously burns you out and at some point it stops working, or at least that's my experience. Now I'm never able to get myself to do anything, and the adrenaline just gives me anxiety instead of motivation
Time to trick adrenaline into thinking the stuff is for tomorrow when it's actually for next week by setting up a time limit quota
Pretty much like Scrum methodology?
@@Oyakinya-Izuki I don't know what you mean by a time limit quota. Also I don't see how this would help as pretending the deadline is sooner doesn't change that the adrenaline itself has stopped working as a motivator, and just causes meltdowns instead
@@kilian-one-l only one way to find it out
I started experiencing a similar thing and found that I would drag myself to do the task through tears and multiple meltdowns, but this gave me crazy burnout and I had to take a break from Uni next term. Hoping therapy will help 🤞🏻.
(Pro tip tho: Sounds lame but I found doing it in bursts and having a dance break to high energy music helped to expel some of the anxiety as it built up - and lift my mood momentarily, so maybe u could try doing something physical that takes all ur focus to help expel that anxiety. Not sustainable coping mechanism on its own but can help in the moment.)
As a gifted kid this is how I get every project done
litterally me frfr , except with studies , coz i dont like studying one day before exam
but any other shit
*dream music plays*
same fsduhcfjbc
@@swimmingbird1 true i never study before any exam and still get full marks.. its stupid but im just like that
@@magiveem Sadly i don't get full marks infact not even necessarily good marks
ive completed projects the day of during said class because i was lazy
As a person with ADHD and possibly autism(not diagnosed just symptoms of it), this is the most relatable thing i’ve seen in MONTHS. I do procrastinate a lot and when it’s 1-2 days near the deadline of a work the motivation kicks in and i finishes my work in less than an hour for most of the work. Normally i just sit and game for who know how long but if necessary, i can do whatever i need to do in a very short time.
Great portrayal Daniel, keep it up!
as someone currently studying psychology, dont self diagnose yourself! As someone with exactly the same, SAME DUDE!!! Damn i love ADHD comment sections its like a cess pool of like minded idiot savants lol
A friend of mine challenged me to code something, we would see wich one of us would manage to get closer to the end in 1 week. It started on Sunday. By Wednesday, I had nothing done yet and he said that if I wasn't interested I should have said so and stopped working on it. It took me Friday and Saturday to do it XD.
As another person with ADHD, there's a LOT of overlap between ADHD symptoms and autism symptoms.
AuDHD is its own animal since symptoms interact.
Yeah, I go through this every three months. I just got finished with a sting last week, so I shall return to my cosmic slumber!
Once I made an entire work presentation I had a month to prepare not only the day of, but during the presentation of the person ahead of me, and got a lot of positive response.
Reminds me of that time I did a presentation in the lesson before I had to give it and still got better feedback than the other two presentations that were held because the other two groups didn't really understand their topic fully
Recently made a presentation literally 5 minutes before the start of the class, and the person that went after me got feedback that it seemed like he didn't prepare the presentation as good as the people before him, including me 💀
At times, I feel as though the reason I postpone a lot of work until the very last day is just pure laziness. But in the back of my mind, there's always this voice saying "Look, we are going to have to rush some stuff, sure. But if we do it all in one sitting, the result is going to be much more consistent and coherent". It seems other people have that exact same thought process.
I also feel the same because I tend to shove information into people’s throats so if I start early I’ll put in every bit of information on my report which ends up confusing people. But when I’m under pressure I only put in important stuff bcs of time constraints of course which leads to a very consistent report or presentation. For example when I’m planning the report I’d be thinking of adding reactions, solubility curves, costs and all sorts of things making my report 70pages long, when under pressure I’m forced to summarise the load of information making it more understandable for everyone. And now with chat GPT I think I’m just procrastination even more
And yeah my bosses are the ones who keep saying stop trying to shove information down their throats and I should just make things simple for them to understand because the only thing they want to know is, how much money they are going to make then if it’s a net positive they just give me a go ahead.
As a gifted kid, this is exactly how random adrenaline pumps are to gifted kids.
I feel so understood, lol❤❤
im am a gifted kid, a kid who also has adhd, and somehow has the knowledge of programming. and somehow, someway i made 3 custom browsers using javascript and html and didnt use any of them. btw i am 13
@@The-Darkened-Wood you know what a browser does ? You must be talking about skins
@@The-Darkened-Wood trust me u guys are not gifted
@@vanitassenpai493 gifted with education
Don't forget the "DOES NOT WORK TO POTENTIAL" on all of our report cards from each of our teachers besides that one pre-cal teacher we like where we rediscover derivatives.... or so I've heard 😅
You know, as a Japanese person,
I reeeeeeaaally appreciate that you actually wrote Japanese translated script that makes sense.
There are so many anime themed TH-cam videos where the creater use random snippets of Anime lines which DOESN'T match the English subs they put.
It frustrates me all the time.
I get the the majority of their target audience don't speak Japanese, but when they use just random words I feel like the language is disrespected.
Such an underrated comment!
It's really not a great experience for the EN/JP bilingual viewers when what we hear does not match what we read in the subtitles.
The fact that they put any effort into an accessibility/quality of life feature for such a niche portion of the audience speaks volumes for the standard of quality they strive to achieve.
We feel seen
Im wondering how he did it.
As a Greek I love hearing broken Greek in fantasy movies. There is that scene in Xena where Gabriella recites a magic spell and says 3 times "Hello Goodmorning Hello Goodnight Hello Good Noche (night in Spanish xD)"
Its cause it really doesn't matter most of the time unless you REALLY wanna go through the immense surplus of effort
@@AlyzaRivers yeah and I get that.
but like...some of them just repeats the same words over and over again.
At that point you are not even trying...
I am one of those people who doesn't care about people using Japanese culture to express themselves as long as they are doing it right and with respect.
Using random snipets not caring if it makes sense seems like its lacking respect to our culture.
Finally, the inside out sequel we deserved
YESS
We still deserved the actual sequel though
Yes
The Japanese was accurate. Mostly what other creators do is put random Anime lines and then graft their own desired English captions at the bottom. As a fellow Japanese speaker, enjoyed it.
Oh! I was wondering if it was accurate.
I heard him say “Gome” and thought “Oh, he actually said sorry! Sweet!”
Also his shoe soles lol:
I knew enough katakana from VOCALOID names to figure it out and I felt happy.
"Ok everyone hand over papers"
My hand: "aight bet"
The way he leans over the cage is amazing. Someone had fun with cameras.
The lighting and sound design is also top notch, really feels like a horro/thriller!
That background processing is such a perfect was to explain the Feeling.
I'm convinced that my brain literally never stops working on any problem and is just waiting on me to consciously remember it to give me the answer.
Me too, answers just seems to jump out of nowhere, it's like willing the universe to work your way, sometimes I got kinda scared of what I could do if I actually try.
As a person with ADHD and Autism, I feel liberated by this video.
Same bro