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Removing every source of instant gratification at once for 30 days causes several rough weeks of brain fog and hunger before producing a level of mental clarity and discipline that outlasts the challenge itself.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- Someone who leans on nicotine, sugar, or endless scrolling to get through the day and wants to see what removing all of it at once actually feels like, day by day.
- A viewer curious whether a structured discipline program like 75 Hard is worth the hype, told by someone actually doing it rather than selling it.
- Anyone who wants an honest week-by-week account of withdrawal symptoms — brain fog, hunger, irritability — instead of a sanitized highlight reel.
SKIP IF…
- You want clinical, evidence-reviewed claims about dopamine and cold exposure — the science here is stated as personal belief, not sourced research.
- You're looking for a step-by-step diet or workout plan — this is a personal challenge documented on camera, not a program you can follow along with.
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A creator combines a 30-day 'dopamine detox' — cutting social media, sugar, fast food, nicotine, and alcohol — with 75 Hard's first phase (two workouts, a gallon of water, reading, cold showers, visualization, and a daily business task). The first one to two weeks bring brain fog, hunger, and irritability, compounded by quitting nicotine and running a calorie deficit at the same time; relief comes from outdoor workouts and cold plunge/sauna sessions, which he credits with resetting his sleep and mood. By week three, focus and energy sharpen into what he calls a 'superhuman' state, even though the urge to check social media never fully disappears. The most fragile point isn't the start — it's day 28, when accumulated fatigue nearly makes him quit two days from the finish. He closes by framing the confidence gained from finishing as more valuable than any physical change, and challenges viewers to try their own 30-day cutout of whatever isn't serving them.
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00:00 – 01:33
01 · Cold Open & The Rules
Stats on daily dopamine exposure (screen time, sugar, nicotine) set up the problem; he states the rules — no social media, sugar, fast food, drugs, alcohol, nicotine — stacked on top of 75 Hard's first phase (two 45-minute workouts, a gallon of water, reading, cold showers, visualization, one business task).
01:33 – 04:44
02 · Day 1–4: Brain Fog Hits
Morning phone habit swapped for water and a walk; creatine added against fog; hunger and irritability spike as nicotine withdrawal and a calorie deficit compound each other.
04:44 – 07:33
03 · Day 6–8: Cold Plunge Relief
Sleep improves unexpectedly; he credits FlowHaus cold plunge and sauna sessions with a claimed 250% dopamine spike and hours of elevated metabolism, calling it what makes the detox survivable.
07:33 – 09:19
04 · Week One: Learning to Eat Clean
Eating less brings constant hunger, but cooking becomes something he looks forward to; a low-calorie, high-protein bagel breakfast becomes a daily staple.
09:19 – 11:38
05 · The Random Brand Box & the Court Date
An unsolicited PR package (Yerba Mate, a muscle-health supplement, protein powder) arrives mid-detox; around the same time he settles a BYU criminal trespassing charge in court for a $500 fine plus a class.
11:38 – 14:07
06 · Day 13–18: Clarity and Meaning
Mental sharpness returns; he frames the discipline as bringing him closer to God and credits the detox period with an opportunity (a Netflix email) falling into place.
14:07 – 18:04
07 · Day 20–26: The Peak State
By day 20 he feels 'superhuman' — sharp focus, less craving for stimulation — though the urge to check social media never fully disappears; gym performance peaks and he delivers the video's direct challenge to viewers about instant gratification.
18:04 – 20:47
08 · Day 28–30: Almost Quitting
Exhaustion catches up two days from the finish — he forgets an outdoor workout and seriously considers stopping early before pushing through on willpower; day 30 becomes about controlling negative thoughts as much as physical habits.
20:47 – 23:47
09 · Life After the Detox
He reflects on the 30 days as the hardest but most rewarding thing he's done, eats a celebratory meal, delivers a closing message to not waste your life, and signs off with a subscribe ask and merch plug.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Quitting nicotine and cutting calories at the same time compounds hunger and irritability rather than letting either withdrawal happen on its own.
- Brain fog from cutting nicotine, sugar, and scrolling together peaked around day three or four in this account, not on day one.
- Cold plunging is credited here with a 250% spike in dopamine and hours of elevated metabolism afterward via brown fat activation.
- Replacing the first-hour phone-and-scroll habit with water and a short outdoor walk directly targets the morning dopamine-seeking loop.
- By roughly the two-week mark, previously tedious tasks like cooking and chores started to feel enjoyable once acute withdrawal passed.
- An unsolicited brand PR box arrived mid-detox, timed to reach a creator whose audience was already watching him track cravings and cravings-control.
- By day 20, sharper focus and less desire for constant stimulation showed up, but the physical urge to check social media never fully disappeared.
- Gym performance and energy peaked around day 26, well before the 30-day period actually ended.
- The point closest to quitting wasn't day one — it was day 28, two days from the finish, once accumulated sleep and workout fatigue caught up.
- The value described at the end wasn't a body or mood change — it was the self-trust built from finishing something exactly as planned.
- A pending legal matter (a trespassing charge) got resolved mid-detox, showing outside stress still has to be managed on top of withdrawal symptoms.
What a 30-day stimulus cutout actually costs and returns.
WHAT TO LEARN
The first two weeks of removing every easy dopamine source cost real focus and mood, but the payoff isn't a permanent high — it's a rebuilt tolerance for doing hard things without a shortcut.
01Cold Open & The Rules
- Stacking a rigid daily checklist (workouts, water, reading, cold shower, visualization) on top of the substance cutout gives the day structure that fills the time the removed habits used to occupy.
- The specific rule set matters more than willpower alone: naming exactly what's cut removes the daily negotiation of 'does this count.'
02Day 1–4: Brain Fog Hits
- Quitting nicotine and cutting calories at the same time compounds hunger and irritability, so expect the hardest withdrawal days to overlap rather than happen one at a time.
- Trading the first-hour phone-and-scroll habit for water and a short outdoor walk directly targets the morning dopamine-seeking loop instead of just willing it away.
03Day 6–8: Cold Plunge Relief
- Cold exposure (cold plunge or sauna) is credited as the single routine that fixed sleep and mood during the hardest withdrawal week — worth testing before assuming supplements are the fix.
- The claimed metabolic afterburn from cold plunging is stated as personal belief here, not sourced research — treat it as a hypothesis to test on yourself, not a fact.
04Week One: Learning to Eat Clean
- By roughly the two-week mark, previously tedious tasks like cooking and chores started to feel enjoyable — patience matters more than willpower once acute withdrawal passes.
05The Random Brand Box & the Court Date
- A parallel real-world stressor (a pending legal case) got resolved mid-detox, showing the challenge didn't happen in a controlled bubble — outside stress still has to be managed on top of withdrawal symptoms.
07Day 20–26: The Peak State
- Around day 20, sharper focus and less desire for constant stimulation showed up, but the physical urge to check social media never fully disappeared — reduced pull is the realistic goal, not full elimination.
- Physical performance and energy can peak well before a discipline period ends, so 'feeling best' early isn't a signal it's safe to stop early.
08Day 28–30: Almost Quitting
- The point closest to quitting wasn't day one — it was two days from the finish, once accumulated sleep and workout fatigue caught up; plan for a late-stage willpower dip, not just an early one.
09Life After the Detox
- The value described at the end wasn't a body or mood change — it was the self-trust built from finishing something exactly as planned, a transferable outcome even for someone who can't replicate the diet or workouts.
Terms worth knowing.
- 75 Hard
- A 75-day mental-toughness program requiring two 45-minute workouts (one outdoors), a strict diet with no alcohol, a gallon of water, 10 pages of reading, and a daily progress photo, with no missed days allowed.
- Dopamine detox
- Deliberately removing high-stimulus, easy-reward activities — social media, sugar, nicotine, and similar habits — for a set period to reset baseline sensitivity to reward.
- Cold plunge
- Briefly submerging in near-freezing water, used here for its claimed spike in dopamine and downstream metabolic effects.
- Brown fat
- A type of body fat that burns energy to generate heat; activated by cold exposure and credited in the video with hours of post-plunge energy.
- Zyn
- A brand of flavored nicotine pouches placed under the lip — the specific nicotine product the creator quit during the detox.
Things they pointed at.
01:33tool75 Hard (Andy Frisella's discipline program)
02:30productCreatine, 15g/day dosing
05:34productFlowHaus cold plunge & sauna facility
09:22productYerba Mate drink (unsolicited PR sample)
09:57productUnicity StrongHold supplement (unsolicited PR sample)
10:10productUnicity Everyday Protein (unsolicited PR sample)
Lines you could clip.
06:12
“When you do cold plunge, it releases natural dopamine in your brain. Right? 250% immediate increase.”
17:21
“If you can go thirty days cutting out all the bad habits in your life, not only will you feel incredible, but you'll just level up in your life.”
19:43
“The best part of completing a challenge like this isn't even necessarily how you feel or how you look. It's the confidence that you develop in yourself after doing what you say you're gonna do.”
21:01
“If you can control your thoughts, you can control your future.”
22:04
“If you learn one thing from watching this video, it's don't waste your life.”
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00:00Social media, sugar, fast food, nicotine, alcohol. For the first time in human history, we have access to artificial dopamine twenty four hours out of the day, which made me wonder how much potential are these things really stealing from us.
00:16In one year, the average American will have a screen time of ninety eight days. And if you live to 70 years old, that is almost nineteen years of your life staring at a screen. The average American will also consume 25,000 grams of sugar in one year.
00:31One in three Americans eat fast food every single day. And over 1,200,000,000 people are actively using nicotine or tobacco products.
00:39That's not even counting alcohol or pornography or other drugs. I genuinely believe that this is more of a problem than most of us realize. Especially with social media, all of my favorite YouTubers are drinking and partying, using nicotine, they got rain bed deals, they're gambling every single day to the point where it's become so normal that we don't even realize that it affects every single person on earth.
01:01So to see how dopamine really affects the average person, I'm going to go thirty days with no artificial dopamine. One, to fix my relationship with dopamine, but two, just to show you guys what will happen to your brain, what will happen to your body, what will happen to your mind if you go thirty days cutting out all bad habits in your life.
01:19So here are the rules for the next thirty days. I am not allowed to consume these things. No social media, no scrolling, no video games, no sugar, no fast food, no drugs, no alcohol,
01:31no nicotine. I'm not proud of it, but I'm man enough to say it. I've been using Zins for the last year or so of my life to get work done, and I'm a little nervous for that one.
01:40Oh, yeah. And we also just finished 75 hard, which means it's time for phase one, which is exactly thirty days. So on top of the dopamine detox, we gotta do two forty five minute workouts, drink a gallon of water, read 10 pages of a book, take a progress picture, take a five minute cold shower, ten minutes of visualization,
01:55and complete a critical task for my business every single day. So in other words, I'm I'm not allowed to have fun for these next thirty days. I'm stoked.
02:02I'm
02:03stoked.
02:06I think one of my worst habits is the first thing I do in the morning is immediately grab my phone. I scroll, I check the views of my videos, I look through emails. So cutting out my phone in the morning felt a little weird, but I replaced it with immediately drinking water and going outside.
02:21I'm not really sure why, Chad GBT just told me to. Had something to do with helping brain fog. When you cut out sugar, fast food, scrolling, and especially nicotine, your brain gets really foggy.
02:32So I found the best way to fix the brain fog is creatine. So I up my dose to fifteen grams a day, which is three scoops. Here's how my physique is looking on day one.
02:42Definitely need to cut out sugar and fast food. Made myself some yogurt, got ready for the gym, and contemplated the next thirty days of my life.
02:53Day one is kinda funny. It's like this mixed feeling of being undistracted and excited, but also feeling unmotivated and a little bit foggy in my brain.
03:02Like, I'm really excited for these next thirty days, but at the same time, I have a lot of videos to edit right now, and I don't have a whole lot of motivation to sit down and lock in without a zen in my mouth. Other than that, I I feel good. I don't feel like my brain is overstimulated,
03:17but I do feel a little bit stupid. Like, my mind is just, like, kinda coming back too. I know that it's only gonna get worse in the next couple of days.
03:24And when I said things were only gonna get harder, man, was I telling the truth. Days one, two, and three were so hard for me to sit down and lock in and edit. On day three, I had a big interview for this BYU documentary, and I seriously contemplated popping us in just so my brain fog would go away.
03:41Whoever told me that brain fog peaks after three days was lying, bro. It's day four and my brain feels so foggy still.
03:49I've also been getting pretty irritated and I get on edge really easily. I feel like I've been crashing out over nothing.
03:55One thing I didn't even think about is how hungry you get when you cut out nicotine. And my dumbass decided to mix that with a caloric deficit. And bro, all I could think about is having a donut, eating chick fil a, and my cravings for food are crazy right now.
04:10So I'm really hungry, my brain isn't functioning, and I'm honestly not that stoked. I'm just barely hanging in there.
04:17Even though I've been struggling with my mood and brain fog, I think my favorite part of this whole challenge has been doing my outdoor workouts.
04:25I've been going on runs and just going on forty five minute walks. And when you put your phone away for forty five minutes and you just go outside, seriously clears your brain so much. I've been saying prayers and coming up with video ideas.
04:36And even though I've been crashing out, it seriously helps me to just be more present and to be a lot happier during the detox process.
04:47It is day six. I'm feeling a little bit better.
04:50My mind is still a little bit foggy. I've still been really hungry. I will say, I was a little bit worried about my sleep when I started this because everyone says your sleep is pretty bad for the first week or two, but I've been sleeping really good.
05:03I think the reason is is because of the sauna and the cold lunch. It's probably the thing that I look forward to most every single day. One, it helps with your mind.
05:12It helps with the brain fog. It helps with your sleep. You sweat out all of the toxins in your body, and you just push yourself in the sauna.
05:19You push yourself in the cold plunge. When you get done, you feel so much better. And I seriously don't think I would be able to get through thirty days if I wasn't hitting the cold plunge and sauna every single day.
05:29So we just pulled up to Flow House. This is hands down the best place in Utah. The energy in there is just so epic.
05:36They have like meditation classes. They have sleeping classes, and it's been so good for my brain.
05:41So I'm gonna go rip cold plunge and sauna before I end the day and sleep like a damn king. What are the benefits to cold plunge and sauna? For me, my favorite benefit is like the full nervous system reset.
05:53It actually allows you to be present with your breath, your heartbeat, and just your body.
05:59So it allows you to fully encompass all of these feelings. And when you realize you're in charge of them by simply breathing, it allows that nervous system reset to happen.
06:11When you do cold plunge, it releases natural dopamine in your brain. Right? 250% immediate increase.
06:16That's crazy. So after cold plunge, your metabolism is actually working for six hours after you plunge. It's building this wonderful thing called brown fat, which is a fat that your body kind of grows into, if you will.
06:28It works for up to six hours after cold plunge, giving you just this continuous energy that's natural.
06:34It's pretty cool. So what you're saying is if you don't do cold plunge in sauna, then you're absolutely blowing it. Oh, if you don't do cold plunge in sauna, you're just missing out on life.
06:43It is currently day eight. My energy's been good. I've been crushing my workouts, crushing diet.
06:49I've been running a little bit more. Five minute cold plunge every single day, sauna every single day, visualization, reading, no sugar, no fast food.
06:58And I'm a be honest, I got some brain fog. It's pretty hard to focus, especially when I have to have real conversations. I had to talk to a prosecuting attorney today for my BYU court case, and my brain is just not functioning the way that it's supposed to.
07:13I do feel better than when I first started, and I'm slowly starting to come back to my clear mind self. But as of today, I feel pretty fucked. It's definitely hard.
07:24I'm, like, fully resetting my entire mind, but it's good. We're pushing through. I got twenty two more days left, so you guys posted on my energy.
07:32After
07:35week one, my brain was slowly starting to function normally. But as I was eating less, I just started getting hungrier and hungrier.
07:43And it was hard to feel satiated and full because I was only eating 1,900 calories. However, I will say cooking slowly became something that I really look forward to and finding meals that were healthy and tasted good was something that I genuinely found fun.
07:58And even though I was hungry, I did find that it was so much easier for me to wake up in the mornings. One meal that I was stoked about were these breakfast sandwiches.
08:07I found these low calorie bagels that had 15 grams of protein and no sugar. And this was the meal that I started eating every morning during my dopamine detox.
08:15Wow. I think that was seriously the first time that I felt truly full on my cut in the last eleven days, and it was delicious. I'm so hot on that.
08:23I think those might be my new go to bagels, brother. They were good. It's 09:30AM.
08:28We already hit the gym. We did our visualization, cooked breakfast, and now I'm gonna go read and get some work done.
08:35So far, my brain feels really clear in the morning and when I'm working out and when I'm running, but as soon as I start like cooking and sitting down and kind of just chilling, that's when my brain fog kinda kicks in. Like I just start to feel like a little bit stupid.
08:50I kinda like forget what I'm doing. I know I should go and get to work right now, but at the same time, like I just don't have the same motivation that I would have when I pop a zen after breakfast and I get so excited to go work, know. Work just seems a little bit more boring, but I think those are the things that you kinda have to push through.
09:09But yeah, so I'm gonna go sit down, turn on a timer for one hour on my phone and just force myself to get some work done. It may not be as fun as when I got an upper decking in, but I gotta kick the habit somehow, you know.
09:21A few moments later, I was on my way to a coffee shop to go sit down and work for an hour, and I decided to check the mail. I got this package from a brand that I've never talked to. Sometimes sometimes packages just show up on my door and I don't know how they got my address.
09:34I open it and it's crazy, bro. The first product I see is like a Yerba Mate and it says this has been crafted to promote mental clarity, endurance, appetite control, and improve mood. Definitely had mood swings from no nicotine.
09:48I definitely have brain fog, and I've definitely been starving. It was just kinda crazy that this product just showed up out of nowhere. And they also sent me some stronghold product targeted nutrition for lifelong muscle health that's supposed to help you burn fat and build muscle like every other product in the world says it's gonna.
10:08And then some, uh, some protein powder, and the only ingredients are literally whey protein isolate, cocoa powder, and a couple sweeteners.
10:20So I guess I'm gonna try and let you guys know what I think. You're just like, what are the odds that this shit just shut up on my doorstep as I'm waiting for someone to fix my mood and appetite and mental clarity and endurance?
10:33I decided no coffee. We're gonna mix up this Yerba Ma today and see how we feel. Maybe we'll get a little bit more focus than a coffee we give us.
10:40I'm not sure if it was the magic focus potion that showed up on my doorstep or the fact that I'm almost two weeks into the detox.
10:47But for the first time in almost two weeks, I was able to sit down, lock in, focus, and edit for about three, four hours. So the hardest part so far in this dopamine detox, which has been the brain fog, was slowly starting to lift and I was able to feel like myself again, my natural creativity was coming back, and overall I was starting to feel the actual benefits of what the dopamine detox is supposed to do.
11:13But the real challenge is gonna be court tomorrow. I'm gonna have to sit down with the prosecuting attorney and try and settle my criminal trespassing charge with BYU.
11:24It is day 13 of phase one of 75 r's. We had court today with BYU and we officially settled the lawsuit.
11:32We got the charges dropped to $500 and I had to take a thinking errors class. But other than that, I paid the fine and we're done.
11:40It's over with. I don't have to worry about it anymore, which is awesome. It's been thirteen days with no nicotine.
11:45And honestly, I felt really good. I feel like I'm finally starting to feel like myself again. Earlier in the days, usually up till like 7PM, my mind is sharp.
11:55I'm thinking fast. My creativity is coming back, and I just feel so clean. But as soon as nighttime hits and I kinda sit down and start unwinding, that's when the brain fog starts like coming in just a little bit.
12:06But I think I'm on the last couple days of brain fog because I have felt really good the last couple of days. I've been starving, obviously. Being in a caloric deficit, cutting off nicotine, obviously, I'm gonna be hungry.
12:17But I'm pushing through. Finishing court was a big weight off my shoulders today. So now it's time just to get to work and grind and continue this journey of getting shredded and resetting our mind completely.
12:29After two weeks of detoxing my brain, I started to find so much more joy in going outside, spending time with my family,
12:37and experiencing the life that God intended for us to live. I started finding more energy, more focus, and overall just more happiness in my life.
12:46I also found that when I was controlling the things that I fed my body and fed my mind, I was also able to feel much closer to God. It is day 18.
12:55And this week, I was thinking about the last time that I did detox like this. I I was cutting out all the bad habits in my life. And I felt really close to God.
13:02I felt like I heard him speaking to me more, and I was finding more opportunities in my life to go chase my dreams. The last time, I was about two weeks in, and I found a really cool opportunity to go work Disney, be on the red carpet, and it was an experience that really pushed my career forward. And I remember correlating that experience with where I was in my life, completely cutting out all the bad habits in my life and listening to the spirit.
13:24And I don't think it was a coincidence that I found that experience when I was in that phase of my life. And I was thinking about that. And today, being about eighteen days in, I just got an email from Netflix for another really big opportunity that'll probably push my career forward.
13:38And, obviously, I think it's important not to treat God like a cosmic vending machine and being like, oh, if I do these things, then God's gonna reward me with this. But at the same time, I truly believe that if you are doing the things you're supposed to be doing and you cut out the bad habits in your life so you can hear his voice, then God is gonna give you opportunities to chase your dreams and to accomplish something great in life.
14:01And I just think that it's really cool that whenever I am doing the things that I'm supposed to be doing, that I find opportunities like that just fall into my lap. If you have a dream that you wanna chase or you wanna accomplish something big in life, I think it's gonna be a lot harder to do that on your own versus doing it with God.
14:19And I think a detox like this is truly a way to get closer to God and to hear the spirit and to find what you're actually supposed to do in life. Once I hit day 20, I honestly just started to feel a little bit superhuman.
14:33My mind was so sharp. I had so much focus. I had no distractions.
14:37However, I will say even after 20 of no scrolling on social media, it was kinda crazy. I still found myself pulling out my phone to go scroll on Instagram. My mind just still wanted to go brain rot on TikTok.
14:51But once I started to push myself not to fall back into my own habits, I just found myself with so much more energy and so much more happiness. I had more joy in doing chores and completing tasks around the house that I was avoiding to do.
15:04It is currently day 24
15:06of phase one of 75 hard, and I think this is the first day, start to finish, that I felt really mentally sharp and clear. Today's Sunday, so I didn't set an alarm.
15:19I woke up at 08:00, and I felt so energized. I was ready to go.
15:23I immediately just cleaned my room. I cleaned the kitchen. I did my laundry.
15:28Went to the gym. Went to church. I this fear of not being productive when I was off nicotine because I felt like I was only productive when I was popping zins or whatever.
15:38But as far as my editing goes, like, feel like my natural creativity is fully back. I feel happier to do chores and to clean my room and do the dishes and do laundry than I did before. I just feel like overall much happier, much more excited, way more energy.
15:53My mind is way more clear. The difference in how I feel now compared to day one is so crazy, but I'm like I feel like it's superhuman.
16:03Today was also fast Sunday, and it's 06:00, and I haven't eaten anything. I've been so hungry, so I made myself some protein cookies. 15 grams of protein per cookie, and this has protein milk, 24 grams of protein or soda.
16:17If you're wondering, the cookies were made probably because they're sugar free and protein cookies. The last week, I started thinking a lot about instant gratification and how our bodies can become so dependent on the next short hit of dopamine. And we don't even realize how much strength, energy, and focus that these addictions really take from our lives.
16:38It is day
16:3926. I just finished my workout. I had so much energy in my workout.
16:44I was literally in the gym for two hours, and I could have kept going. I did twenty minutes of cardio. I hit four exercises of back, four exercises of biceps and abs,
16:55and I just was completely juiced the whole time. Like I had so much strength, had so much energy, my mind felt so clear. I genuinely
17:03am probably like peaking in my life right now. Like this is probably the best that I've ever felt. Not even 9AM.
17:09We've read, we visualize, we crushed our workout. Now we're gonna go make ourselves some food and go crush the day. I think in life, we get so caught up in our habits and we're so used to immediate gratification.
17:21And I think that's why people get so caught up in nicotine and smoking weed and drinking because it feels good in the moment and then they wonder why it's hard for them to accomplish their dreams. They wonder why it's hard for them to wake up in the morning, why they're so tired, why they're not making progress in the gym, why they don't feel good.
17:38All I'm saying is if you can go thirty days cutting out all the bad habits in your life, not only will you feel incredible, but . Every single aspect, your relationships, your mental health, your physical health, your finances, your relationship with God.
17:54Like, you can just cut out all of the shitty habits, just cut out all the things that aren't serving you, and just practice delayed gratification for thirty days, man, I promise you, your whole entire life will change.
18:07And, like, I wish you could just feel what I'm feeling because my mind is so clear. I feel so good, and I'm ready to go take over the world. Just imagine your life thirty days from now if you cut out all the bad habits.
18:19Like, think about where you would be financially, mentally, physically,
18:23spiritually with God. Like, think about where you could be in your life if you just locked in for thirty days. The last couple of days, I was honestly on a roll and everything was starting to become so much easier until I got to day 28.
18:37It's day 28. I kicked ass today and it's so good. I just got back from cold plunge and sauna.
18:44I got home. I took my melatonin and my magnesium. I was about to go to sleep and I just realized I didn't go on my walk.
18:52It's like 10:30PM and I just totally spaced it. I didn't do an outdoor workout today.
18:57And I just took my melatonin. I was so ready for bed. I'm just sitting here contemplating because I have two days left, and I could just fucking quit and go to sleep and call it.
19:07I'm gonna go on my walk, my melatonin in my system, even though I'm extremely tired and so ready for sleep. I don't know how I forgot to do my acro workout. I don't even know what happened.
19:17So hell, yeah. Two days left. Two days left.
19:21Damn, dude. Just pure willpower at this point.
19:26I've done the live hard program two times all the way through. This is this is number three. Do I really need to go on a fucking walk right now?
19:34Like, really? But I'm gonna because I told myself that I would. Right side, it's a damn place to our right side.
19:40So that's awesome.
19:43Stoked. The best part of completing a challenge like this isn't even necessarily how you feel or how you look. It's the confidence that you develop in yourself after doing what you say you're gonna do.
19:54Because in life, if you wanna accomplish something great, you're not gonna get there by only working when it feels easy or convenient. Hey, thirty. This is the final outdoor workout.
20:04One thing that I have been trying to work on this week is my thoughts and controlling
20:10the negative thoughts so I have more positivity in my mind. I've realized that it's so easy to, like, get discouraged and get angry and start dwelling on the negative thoughts that come into your mind, and that's the energy that you're radiating to the world. And so this week specifically, I made it my goal to overcome all my negative thoughts with positivity and just take a deep breath and immediately think of things that I'm grateful for.
20:32And you just start to feel happier, you start to feel more joy. You start to feel more grateful, and you start feeling closer to God.
20:39You tune into his frequency when you cut out all the negativity. So that's one thing that I've been trying to focus on this week. But it's kind of funny because today was the closest that I've ever been to quitting.
20:49I feel like all of, like, the negativity kinda just screwed up inside of me, and I was about to crash out. I wanted to quit. I wanted to give up a day early.
20:55And I got through it. I took a deep breath and started thinking about how I wanna finish strong, so I kept going. But I don't know.
21:02It's it's interesting the difference thoughts can make. If you can control your thoughts,
21:07you can control your future. After thirty days of fully detoxing dopamine, I felt happier. I felt more grateful.
21:13I have more motivation to continue chasing my dreams and doing the things that I'm supposed to do in life. This is the final supper. Carousel's
21:21a nice rib eye steak and some rice because I was too lazy to cook potatoes. I'm so excited to not be hungry
21:29all day every day. I've also learned to not rely on artificial dopamine or circumstances in my life in order to feel happy.
21:37All I gotta do left is cold shower, and I'm done. And I know life can get overwhelming sometimes, and it's so much easier to turn to drugs and turn to alcohol and turn to scrolling.
21:49But true peace and happiness in your life are never gonna come from those things. And if you can't learn a healthy balance in your life, then sometimes those distractions can become idols that prevent you from hearing what God is trying to tell you. So if you learn one thing from watching this video, it's don't waste your life.
22:06If you have dreams, go chase them. Go work hard and discipline yourself. If you're struggling with mental health problems, go outside, put your phone away.
22:14Fill your mind and your body with the right things to actually give yourself a chance to be happy instead of focusing on the things that you're depressed or anxious about. I can safely say that this is probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but it was also the most rewarding and beneficial thing I've ever done for my mind and for my body.
22:32Ladies and gentlemen, phase one of 75 hard is complete. Usually, I finish 75 hard or one of the phases, I already have my cheat meals planned out for what I wanna eat the next day. And I almost just forced myself to eat fast food and sugar because I went so long without it.
22:48So this time, I decided to stay locked in until I get a very specific craving for something delicious. So for the first meal back after finishing phase one of 75 hard,
22:58we got nasi yipol.
23:01I truly don't think I've ever felt this energized and this focused, this grateful, and this happy ever in my life. And all it took was thirty days of cutting out all the bad habits in my life. It has changed the way I think.
23:14It's changed the way that my brain has been wired. And the only way to rewire your mind is to detox your mind and your body from the artificial dopamine that you're feeding it every day. But I appreciate you guys for watching.
23:26I know this was a very different video, but I also think it's something that's very important in our day and age. So if you enjoyed watching, like, subscribe, hit the bell so you don't miss the journey of us mumbling to Donald Trump.
23:37I love you guys, I'll catch you all next week. Peace out.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
A creator opens with a blunt list of daily-dopamine sources most people don't question, then commits to cutting all of them for 30 days — stacked on top of 75 Hard's grueling first phase, with nothing filmed or explained away.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:33list
The 30-Day No-Artificial-Dopamine Rules
- No social media / scrolling
- No video games
- No sugar
- No fast food
- No drugs
- No alcohol
- No nicotine
The full list of what's cut for the 30 days, stated up front as the challenge's constraints.
Steal forany personal reset challenge that needs a clear, filmable rule set
01:33list
75 Hard Phase 1 Daily Checklist
- Two 45-minute workouts (one outdoors)
- A gallon of water
- 10 pages of reading
- A daily progress picture
- A 5-minute cold shower
- 10 minutes of visualization
- One critical business task
The daily non-negotiables stacked on top of the dopamine detox for its first 30-day phase.
Steal forany daily-discipline system, not just fitness
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
23:33subscribe
“if you enjoyed watching, like, subscribe, hit the bell so you don't miss the journey”
Low-key single-line sign-off tacked onto the emotional closing message rather than a hard sell; no product is pitched on-camera even though merch and a creatine discount code sit in the description.
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
