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Dopamine detox. Cut caffeine, porn, social media, unnecessary screen time, etc cold Turkey for 7 days. Hard - and temporary- but will give you a glimpse of what
by hammock 3y ago
Dopamine detox. Cut caffeine, porn, social media, unnecessary screen time, etc cold Turkey for 7 days. Hard - and temporary- but will give you a glimpse of what your focus COULD look like if you change your lifestyle.
- marcusverus 3y ago100% this. You can’t pump your brain up with high-dopamine inputs for hours each day and then expect it to settle for relatively low-dopamine tasks like reading, hobbies or work. Your subconscious knows there are high-dopamine alternatives and will constantly scan for/switch focus to them, foiling your efforts to focus on anything else. This isn’t internet bro science—read Dopamine Nation for the empirical foundation of this line of thinking.
- badpun 3y agoSo, it means I have to make my life so boring that even work will seem appealing? I think I might prefer to stick to my entertaining distractions then...