Something appeals to me far more about the wobbly chair story than the dopamine addiction story. In the wobbly chair story, you spent 1 minute improving your life and didn’t have to think about it again. In the other story, it was a constant battle that required diligence for a while. You can only do so many of those kinds of things at once.
It’s good advice still. When things aren’t working, thinking them through and trying things out is a good move. I just wonder if people have any advice that’s more like the wobbly chair story. Quick, cheap, semi-permanent wins that don’t require willpower.
One of these quick, cheap & semi-permanent wins for me was to uninstall the apps I didn’t want to use (e.g. instagram) & make it difficult to access the ones I sort of wanted to use (e.g. youtube).
Yeah, the wobbly chair story is a better example. Somehow, I feel more satisfied with it. Perhaps because it is a basically complete solution, for so little work?
But you fix the wobbly chairs so you can build up momentum to fix the dopamine addiction. And I’m not sure if I made this clear, but the stuff I tried for fixing my dopamine addiction did each help a bit, and now I know that if I really want to, I can stack them together to reset my dopamine system. Once done, it is a lot easier to continue to pause it.
So in that sense, these are permanent wins which have reduced the total amount of willpower I need to exert to partially fix my dopamine addictions.
Something appeals to me far more about the wobbly chair story than the dopamine addiction story. In the wobbly chair story, you spent 1 minute improving your life and didn’t have to think about it again. In the other story, it was a constant battle that required diligence for a while. You can only do so many of those kinds of things at once.
It’s good advice still. When things aren’t working, thinking them through and trying things out is a good move. I just wonder if people have any advice that’s more like the wobbly chair story. Quick, cheap, semi-permanent wins that don’t require willpower.
One of these quick, cheap & semi-permanent wins for me was to uninstall the apps I didn’t want to use (e.g. instagram) & make it difficult to access the ones I sort of wanted to use (e.g. youtube).
Yeah, the wobbly chair story is a better example. Somehow, I feel more satisfied with it. Perhaps because it is a basically complete solution, for so little work?
But you fix the wobbly chairs so you can build up momentum to fix the dopamine addiction. And I’m not sure if I made this clear, but the stuff I tried for fixing my dopamine addiction did each help a bit, and now I know that if I really want to, I can stack them together to reset my dopamine system. Once done, it is a lot easier to continue to pause it.
So in that sense, these are permanent wins which have reduced the total amount of willpower I need to exert to partially fix my dopamine addictions.