Name: How to declutter your mind -- keep a journal | Ryder Carroll | TEDxYale
Uploaded: 2019-01-31T00:36:33.000Z
Duration: 12 min 51 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Translator: Nataliia Pysemska Reviewer: Denise RQ

for creating the moments of joy in our own lives.

We can't take credit for a beautiful sunrise,

but we can take credit for being there to see it.

for the decisions that we made that allowed us to experience that moment.

You decided to leave house early. You decided to go for a hike.

But making good decisions is really hard.

It's something I've struggled with my entire life.

When I was young, I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder.

At the time, there was not a lot known about the condition,

and there were no resources, not to mention that there was no Internet.

So the few tools that I could find were either too rigid or too complicated.

They didn't work the way that my mind worked.

A big misconception about ADD is that we can't focus.

I was just focusing on too many things at the same time.

I silently made it my mission to design my own resources.

but I found the methodologies I'd developed

so I shared them with a couple of my friends.

I was really surprised to find out that they too found it helpful.

I'd never assumed that it would work for other people.

But with that in mind, about three years ago,

in hopes that it might help them the way that it helped me.

I called the system "The Bullet Journal."

If you search for the Bullet Journal on YouTube or Instagram today,

you will find hundreds of thousands of examples

of how people have adopted the Bullet Journal

to help them deal with challenges in their own lives.

Those tutorial videos have been seen over 5 million times.

I just wished that I'd had this knowledge when I was that young struggling kid.

That's why I'm very excited to be here today

to share some of what I've learned with you.

We're going to talk about how to declutter your mind,

These practices will help you close the gap

from leading a distracted life to leading one of intention.

Studies suggest we have over 500,000 thoughts

Remember, as a kid, my biggest problem was

I was focusing on way too many things at the same time.

As an adult, that's just known as being busy.

But being busy doesn't mean that you're being productive, right?

you're in a state of being functionally-overwhelmed.

And a lot of this is due to the overwhelming amount of choices

Freedom of choice is absolutely your privilege,

but it's a privilege that comes at a cost

because for every one of these choices that we make,

And focus costs us our two most valuable resources:

We don't like to think about how to invest our energy and time

It's like going shopping when you're super hungry

but you have no idea what you want to eat.

You walk in, and there is a million different options,

so you just start picking all sorts of random junk.

Most of it will end up in your pantry of shame.

The rest will go bad in the fridge. It's always a waste.

as you pick up the phone to order pizza again.

Decision fatigue is a real condition, and it can lead to decision avoidance.

we just start stuffing them into the back of our mental pantry

until we have no more room left to think clearly.

That can cause an incredible amount of anxiety and stress

because we feel like we're losing control.

We're overwhelmed. We need room to think and to focus.

Like when you cleaning a pantry, we have to start by taking everything out.

We have to externalize our thoughts to declutter our mind.

A good way that I found to do this is to create a mental inventory.

write down the things that you need to do,

the things that you should be doing, and the things that you want to do.

Holding thoughts in your mind is like trying to grasp water --

But by writing down our thoughts, we can capture them clearly

So now we have this mental inventory; now what?

Subtitles ListPlay Video

How to declutter your mind -- keep a journal | Ryder Carroll | TEDxYale

stuff

fatigue

incredibly

struggle