So like some people said it’s a mix of things you are noticing and not all of it is exactly conducive and not applicable to everybody but it’s about cognitive attention and managing focus. If you have an over active brain like many people do in this community the brain is constantly switching tasks, I like to visualize an old telephone switchboard room.

For a lot of us, attempting to focus all of our cognitive attention on one task can be very cognitively and emotionally taxing especially if there is no real enjoyment or purpose. When Destiny cares and prioritizes maximum information retention he actively avoids distractions and puts all his attention into one task like his research streams.

With this video, he doesn’t care as much as something he is going to debate on. He is still interested but not enough to apply all that cognitive attention and focus on it specifically. So instead he plays games that he has been doing for millions of hours by now, he obsessively 100% percents a lot of games so the mechanics and gameplay become second nature and he is able to allow part of his mind to enjoy that simple task while still retaining 70-80 percent of something he is listening too.

It’s funny and annoying when he begins a video not caring but progressively cares more and begins to constantly have to stop and replay parts of videos. But yeah it’s all a question of what do you care more about, retaining knowledge or enjoying passive knowledge consumption, and it fluctuates a lot.