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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Your voice is like... still sleeping.
Yeah, thank you for cooperating so early in the morning.
It's not that early in the morning.
The current time is 10am.
It's daytime.
It's absolutely daytime.
See all the children, like Hoikuen, walking around.
Yeah, like whenever I talk about these kinds of topics,
I always remind myself of me during high school or middle school
when I used to wake up so early in the morning and that was the usual thing to do.
It was so healthy back then.
What time do you wake up and sleep?
You wake up at 8am and sleep before 1am.
Before 1am.
Sounds like an average, mid 20 years old sleeping cycle.
Yeah, like really usual.
What I'm trying to do right now is be more healthier.
I'm always challenging myself to be more healthier.
Nutrient wise, physical exercise wise, and of course my sleeping.
I'm trying to sleep before 11am and try to wake up at 6am.
Why do you do that kind of thing?
It's always extreme.
I'm always doing things too extreme.
That's the reason why I end up not succeeding with my goals.
You shouldn't do that so extremely.
Yeah, you're right.
Just try 12 and 8 maybe.
Yeah, maybe I should do that.
12 to 8.
You have to take a small step.
You're right.
Yeah, I know.
Do you get the psychology behind people jumping on to the extreme goal?
I think there are a lot of people.
Well, maybe not a lot.
But there's a fairly decent amount of people who have the same mentality.
If they try to challenge new things, they jump for the ultimate goal on the very first step.
Yeah, they decide to try it and set an extreme goal.
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Do it for 3 days and stop it.
This is actually really rare, I think, for me.
I can't logicalize.
I can't verbally explain logically why I take these kinds of actions.
But I just do.
I don't know why.
But you woke up at 6 this morning?
This morning?
I woke up at 9, man.
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I woke up at 9 a.m., man.
Yeah.
I woke up at 9.
Did some dishes from yesterday.
Okay.
From yesterday night.
Brushed my teeth.
Washed my face.
And here I am.
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What a piece of bread you want?
No, thank you.
I did eat breakfast.
I left that out in the explanation there.
But I did eat breakfast.
Ochazuke.
That's great.
Having hot food in the morning is really nice.
Good?
I am succeeding with me cooking more.
You know how I wanted to cook more?
Yeah.
I've been telling you that.
I think I'm succeeding.
Great.
The thing with the ochazuke.
I'm buying tofu.
I'm buying tofu.
Ochazuke?
No, I'm putting them in miso shiru.
Or eating hiyayako.
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That's great.
I am still using a lot of retorto packs.
I know that's not cooking.
But it is a new step for me.
From not buying obento boxes.
Yeah.
Readymade things.
And these rices.
I'm cooking the rices.
I'm cooking sango rices at a time.
Putting them in little packs.
And putting it in the refrigerator.
Yeah, you mean pushing the button, right?
I'm pushing the buttons, man.
That's great.
With the cooking category in my life.
I think I'm taking a fair step.
I'm succeeding.
Taking itsy bitsy steps at a time.
Hopefully I'll get to buying fresh vegetables.
And creating dishes from those fresh vegetables.
Yeah, that's great.
Hopefully I'll get to that level.
That's great.
A little step at a time.
Yeah.
That's great.
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Maybe with the sleeping life I'll do like...
What time do you go to bed?
Usually.
Usually.
If I don't have anything.
If I just be my natural self.
Not thinking about anything.
And do whatever I want to do.
It's like 2 or 3.
2 in the morning or 3 in the morning.
I know it's bad.
So I always have to push myself.
Like, "Kevin, it's time to sleep."
Right?
But if I have those kinds of mentality.
When I push myself.
It'll be like 1.
Or like 1.30.
It'll be like most of my sleeping time.
Right.
And wake up at 9?
Or like...
10 or 11.
Yeah.
But maybe you are the night type.
You know, maybe I am.
Maybe I am.
But you know what?
On these rare occasions where I do wake up at 6 o'clock.
And go do some work.
I'm really focused.
During the times...
During my early morning...
Um...
Shigoto time.
I'm really focused.
So, you know...
If you take that in.
Maybe I'm a morning person.
Possibly. Right?
I can never work at night.
Like I'm always tempted to watch YouTube.
Or like watch televisions.
Or eat sugar.
I'm always tempted to do that.
So maybe I'm a morning person, you know?
Right.
Then you definitely should stop waking up that late.
I know.
It's just...
My body just doesn't adjust to it.
Is it possible that you are a morning worker?
But also a...
Yoru gata person?
Is that possible?
Like your body...
Your body is like...
Your body is more natural to sleep late.
Than wake up late.
But you focus more in the morning.
Yeah. Maybe that...
You are asagata people.
But because of all the habits.
And the environment.
Your body is getting used to doing that cycle.
So if you change that.
You will be more...
Like... powerful man.
Maybe I should start...
It's like a jisabukke thing.
Right.
All you need is to adjust a little bit.
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Gradually adjust my sleeping time.
And also gradually...
Being more careful with the foods that I intake.
Yeah.
Aka sugar.
So...
It's another step I should start.
And stop seeing screens.
I always hear that.
Like 2 or 3 hours before going to bed.
That's really bad for your brain.
It goes into like wake up mode.
Like watching screens.
Consuming many contents.
Your body feels that it's the morning.
Right.
It's just not good.
So what I do is...
Turn off all the...
I mean all the...
I only have this computer with me.
And put a little...
What's that?
Okko?
Okko?
Yeah, right.
And don't see all the screens before I go to bed.
How many hours do you do that?
One.
One hour before you sleep?
What do you do during that one hour?
You can't consume any digital content, right?
I don't need it.
I write my diary.
I read books.
I don't read books.
I wash dishes.
I take a bath.
That's an option.
Maybe a little stretch.
That's great. I love doing stretches.
That's an option.
What I do is reading actually.
And read my diary before sleeping.
Reading won't hurt your sleeping quality?
Just like how you consume digital content.
Reading doesn't?
No.
Don't reading stimulate your brain?
A little bit.
If I read some exciting novels.
I'm talking about the light.
The blue light.
From the digital screen.
If I read my paper books, then fine.
If it's blue light, what if you buy one of these blue cut screen kind of glasses?
That's it? You got one?
I got two.
You know the brown?
Yes, I think I do.
But it's not 100% cut.
It's just 50 or 70.
Even if you cut 50%, it's still enough to stimulate your brain.
To hurt your sleeping quality.
You have to reduce that blue light.
You cut everything?
I've never tried that in my life.
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To reduce the blue light before sleeping.
Maybe that could be a new solution.
Or maybe go to the balcony and see the stars.
You don't do that?
I don't have a balcony.
Okay.
I have a very close next door.
Which is right in front of my window.
So I can't really look up to the sky.
What else?
I understand what you're trying to say.
Consume nature.
Don't consume the digital.
Be more ancient.
Live more anciently.
Maybe.
Back in times.
Maybe listen to jazz or something.
Yeah, maybe.
You like jazz.
I do like jazz.
I sometimes turn on jazz music.
I turn it on until 3.
And then I leave it on overnight.
I wake up with jazz.
I sleep with jazz and wake up with jazz.
That's great.
Pretty sexy.
Yeah.
Okay.
So maybe I'll try adjusting my sleeping habits.
Starting with time.
Maybe sleep a little bit early.
Waking up early.
And also maybe try cutting off blue light before sleeping.
That might be a good key.
I'll share on this podcast how that went out.
After several days or weeks.
Thanks for listening again guys.
Bye bye.
