The Hidden Power of Time Management You Can Learn with Deacon Nardos Interviewed by Mahlet Sirak

[00:00:00]Hello and welcome. My name is Mahali Siak and you're watching Beta Tech. And today's interview, we'll be talking about the human brain, memory, time management, and the importance of staying focused in our daily lives.

[00:00:13]Joining me today is a special guest who will share their knowledge and insights about these important topics. To begin, I want to ask you how you're doing today. I'm doing good.

[00:00:28]Amen.

[00:00:29]>> Amen. Um to begin our discussion, I'd like to start it off with a question about the human brain. How much capac storage capacity does the human brain have?

[00:00:42]>> All right. First of all, I want to start by saying the brain is the laziest organ in our body. A lot of people don't know, but this is the laziest organ in our body. everything else, the the heart, the the liver, um the kidneys, they work hard, very hard 24/7.

[00:01:07]But the brain is very tricky. It it operates like it wants to operate like the bare minimum. So very tricky. Um so it actually has the storage capacity is like one terabyte is 1,000 um GB, right?

[00:01:25]1 tabyte is 1,00 GB. So the brain has 2500 terabytes.

[00:01:33]To put that in perspective about the 25 uh library of congress congresses together which is the biggest library is the library of congress uh in the world.

[00:01:52]So to put that in perspective, 25 of them, imagine how much books, how many books are in the in 25 congress, library of congresses. Um so to put that in in another perspective, watching 300, imagine watching 300 um hours of 300 years of watching videos like continuous continuously watching 300 uh for 300 years. That's a lot of videos. like first of all we we don't we don't live until the age of 300. So so that's how big it is and now it's the brain is is amazingly huge is this is huge vast uh the the storage in the brain is very very huge. So if you don't use it, you lose it. Works everywhere. You have to if you don't use uh if you don't make like the brain work for you, you're going to lose it. It's like a muscle. If you don't if you don't use it, I don't know um if you know somebody like if if they get sick, if one person gets sick and then they sleep for 6 months in the hospital, they're going to teach them how to walk all over again. They're going to forget how to walk. So they're going to have assigned nurse to walk them to basically teach them how to do it again. Does that make sense? So if you don't use it, you lose it. So the brain if you don't use it or if to the maximum capacity, it will lose its it its function. That's why same brain we have doctors, same brain we have cashiers.

[00:03:53]Does that make sense? So Walmart cashiers or whatever low jobs they have the same brain and doctors, surgeons, they have the same brain as well. So that's that. Uh also I want to compare the brain how big it is to just uh uh uh put things in perspective. Brain versus a supercomput.

[00:04:21]uh supercomputer is the biggest computer in the world. Uh they use it to analyze uh like big data and and like launch um use it in in in NASA and um everything like it's just it's just vast. So, I need you to look up uh brain versus when you go home or whoever is watching um they need to look up brain versus supercomputer and then you're going to be amazed how the brain operates and the brain operates in very little power. The sup to run the supercomput uh like it takes like the power that for However many houses like you know the electricity power that operates so many homes it takes a lot of power to operate a supercomput but uh the brain uh operates in very small amount uh of power that's the power of God as well. So um to another another uh way to compare it is if if um it's like a simple term a normal term is like a bicycle uh versus a rocket.

[00:05:48]Does that make sense?

[00:05:49]>> A bicycle versus a rocket. That's that's how how uh big it is. Um does that make sense? So that's that's that's all I got.

[00:06:03]Okay, thank you for explaining it. Let's continue to our next question.

[00:06:09]Our next question is, if the human brain has such an enormous storage capacity, why do we struggle to remember certain things and forget others?

[00:06:21]>> Okay, Malit, that's a good um question.

[00:06:25]So, that's a million dollar question actually. Uh the brain is a deletion machine. People don't know that. A lot of people don't know that. So it's a deletion machine. It deletes information. It processes information.

[00:06:38]It deletes information. So we process experts say about 60,000 thoughts per day. So it doesn't keep all of it. If we keep all of it, we go crazy.

[00:06:55]So it doesn't keep it. It just process.

[00:06:57]It's a deletion machine. So you have to communicate to your brain what to keep, what not to keep by repeating. When you repeat, that's when the brain knows, oh, this is important. It's not one of those 60,000 thoughts, just random thoughts I delete. So when you repeat the you're communicating, you're telling your brain, hey, let's remember this. Okay?

[00:07:27]So by repeating that's why repeating is important repeat you communicating the bra you're telling the brain hey this is important this is not one of those thoughts you delete I know you're a deletion machine but stop deleting this one remember this another thing we forget is uh because we don't sleeping is very very important sleeping is When the brain goes from short memory to transfers from short memory to long-term uh memory, it's like from this short bank, I mean quick bank to the long-term bank. Does that make sense? So, we must sleep. A lot of people don't sleep. Video gamers don't sleep. So, that will affect your day and it will affect your memory as well. So that's that. And another one um is we after finishing studying after we we finish studying we let's say for we studied for eight hours we spend an hour or two the last hour before we go to bed on social media on on anything on on the on your phone doing anything.

[00:08:53]That's the last thing the the brain remembers. That's how it works.

[00:08:59]Recency matters in the brain. Recency is recent uh activities.

[00:09:07]So the last thing it will remember that's how it works. So you have to understand how your brain works. And another reason we forget is we are not when we study even when we study we barely study it. We don't add emotions to it.

[00:09:27]So emotions when I say emotions if I tell you something hey don't forget this nicely you be like okay hey my name is oh okay quickly you don't even remember like we probably heard like 20 other names but if I say everybody else is telling telling you their names and I told you I slapped you like my name is Jonardo like, "Oh, the guy that slapped me."

[00:10:03]See, I added emotions. So, now you're crying. You will never forget what I was wearing. Uh, everything. Everything is just a vivid memory versus the other 20 people, they told you the same thing.

[00:10:16]Remember my name. Remember my name, Alush. Does that make sense? So, we have to understand when we study, add emotions to it. Get excited. Like, you don't have to cry. emotion. When I say emotions, it could be happiness, crying, could be like excitement, anything.

[00:10:34]Like for example, what when I was taking like a like any like biology classes, I I get excited like I get fascinated how God created you know this and then if something is barely off if something is off like a tiny thing it will turn everything like it will affect everything. But I get excited every class how how u God is fascinated I mean fascinating >> that was very interesting let's move on to our next topic >> oh before we move on um another thing I just remembered so we when we start jumping that's another one that's when we start jumping from videos to videos.

[00:11:28]This is a good one. When we start jumping from videos to uh video, another video, we confusing our brain. The brain creates a folder. Very important.

[00:11:40]It creates a folder for everything you watch.

[00:11:44]Everything you watch, your brain creates a folder. And it it tries to remember it. So, uhoh, you moved on already to the next one. You moved on already to the next one. Another one. Another one.

[00:11:58]So it's it's confusing your brain will create a short attention span.

[00:12:06]Short attention span. Identity. You you're creating an identity. You're communicating.

[00:12:12]The brain is opening the folder. So you're moving on, moving on, moving on.

[00:12:17]Now the brain thinks, "Oh, so this is an identity." Does that make sense? So now you have jumping identity.

[00:12:26]So the brain is communicating oh okay cool and then it will forget because you created that identity like I can move on that don't worry don't worry about remembering it so you're telling you're telling your brain that that's all I got >> wow that just shows us how our habits are very bad and how we should learn to take care of our brain better Um, now moving on to our next topic.

[00:13:00]What final message would you give to the young Orthodox Christians who are struggling to stay focused and trying to figure out what to pri prioritize and what truly matters.

[00:13:13]>> Okay, Mallet, uh, thank you for that for that question.

[00:13:18]So um really the my my final message I have a couple of um stories to tell you quick quick uh stories the tech is doing uh what our brain is doing is supposed to do I mean the technology the technology is doing what our our brain supposed to do. So, I need you guys to look up digital dementia, digital overload, and digital distraction. These are important terms to to to remember.

[00:13:55]So, remember those digital dementia, digital overload, digital distraction.

[00:14:01]So, as far as we talked about the brain, if you don't use it, you lose it.

[00:14:08]Remember, if you don't use it, you lose it. It's like having a what's the the f the fanciest car? Um Lamborghini or a Ferrari, right? You have that car and imagine you have that car and then you don't want to drive it. Imagine that car can go like 200 miles an hour or a race car can go to 200 miles an hour. Imagine you have that car and then you drive it forward, backwards, forward, backwards.

[00:14:45]Your friends will be like, "Hey, Mahal, come on. Let's go. Let's go. Drive like drive it. This thing can go like 200 miles an hour. You barely like moving it."

[00:14:55]>> Mhm.

[00:14:56]>> That's our brain, by the way.

[00:14:58]Let's go like doing like social media like Tik Tok for our brain is like a Ferrari like going forward so small Tik Tok doesn't require any cognitive thinking conscious it doesn't require cognitive thinking it requires just hand and just eyes that's for the brain. The brain is like, "Oh my god, here we go again." She's scrolling.

[00:15:34]No, it's like the car going forward.

[00:15:38]The brain is like, "Oh, let's go. I can do like I can get like I can give you I can I can be a sergeant. Like I can be a doctor. Let's go." You're doing like the bare minimum scroll minimalism. So, let's drive our Ferrari.

[00:15:56]Let's go. That's my final message. And then another one is uh there was this guy.

[00:16:06]He he was trying to open up a zoo.

[00:16:09]And then he offered people, hey, I'm opening up a a zoo and can you guys, you know, help me out like you know, you know, uh boost my business. So the people like, "No, zoo. Come on. How much is the entry fee?

[00:16:28]He say $500.

[00:16:30]Oh no.

[00:16:34]So he said, "Okay, let me change the pricing." He went to $250.

[00:16:40]They said, "No, nobody showed up."

[00:16:44]Zoo, pay attention.

[00:16:47]So he went like, "Uh, let me do $100 entrance fee."

[00:16:55]Nobody showed up. Nobody wants to pay for to to to see the animals in a zoo.

[00:17:00]$100. Nope.

[00:17:02]I finally say 50. Nobody showed up cuz he said free.

[00:17:09]Now free.

[00:17:11]Everybody showed up. Now the zoo is full.

[00:17:16]Everybody because it was free.

[00:17:21]You know what he did?

[00:17:23]He locked the door.

[00:17:26]He opened the the the door for the lions. No, he didn't open it. He said, "I'm going to open the cage for the lions."

[00:17:37]So, if you don't pay exit fee, I'm going to open the cage for the lions.

[00:17:44]Do you understand what he's doing?

[00:17:46]>> Mhm. Now everyone is trying to get out pay by paying exit fee. You know how much the exit fee was?

[00:17:57]$1,000.

[00:17:58]He made $1,000 exit fee. How much did they refuse? $500. Even $50. They they refused to pay. Then what did he do? He locked the door. If you don't pay me $1,000 right now, you are not exiting.

[00:18:16]exit fee, $1,000.

[00:18:19]Every person, he charged thousands of people $1,000 to exit because they don't want to be eaten by the >> the lions.

[00:18:28]>> By the lions. You see what he did? This is an analogy.

[00:18:34]What do the techn the engineers behind social media do?

[00:18:41]Everything is free. We barely pay for internet, right? Everything is free.

[00:18:48]They capture you. Come on. It's free.

[00:18:50]Your phone is free. Social media is free.

[00:18:55]But then the addiction you get. Oh, now exit fee is to get out of this addiction, you pay exit fee.

[00:19:06]>> How do you know you pay exit fee? They already did you know Mahal um they already starting um uh social media addicts like rehab centers. You can look look it up everybody else. Rulachu look up social media addicts like rehab centers or phone addicts rehab centers. It's a thing now.

[00:19:31]They have it.

[00:19:33]They have it. I looked it up.

[00:19:36]So many of them in Texas. So many of them in the in the in the US still as the exit fee. Now you got in for free. Internet was free. I don't know. Your phone was free. You got in.

[00:19:50]But to get out of it now you got to pay the rehab people, the rehab centers.

[00:19:55]>> $10,000 more. I don't know how much they cost. Look them up.

[00:20:02]Let's see. The exit fee problematic. So please please please um focus focus use the chat GPT to uh work your brain and be productive and that's all I got. Last message >> and with that I would like to thank you for joining us today and sharing all this information and your thoughts. Uh we appreciate your time and we want to thank our audience for watching and with that thank you again for joining me.

[00:20:37]>> Thank you Mahal. I appreciate the opportunity. I'm so sorry for um you know for missing all those dates we we scheduled to to do it. I got busy and then you got busy. Yeah. Thank God uh it happened and appreciate you.

[00:20:54]>> Of course. Anytime.

[00:20:56]>> Thank you.