Your brain does not give a fuck about what is best for you. It just cares about the dopamine.
-- Alex Becker
and
You are going to do endlessly whatever your dopamine triggers are attached to.
-- Alex Becker
Make dopamine work for you
- Don't give yourself all the cookies at once
- Only little treats, the full treat will make you stop doing what you are doing
- Join a community that ties mastering your trade to social value
- Attach your value to making progress (not the end goal), and compare to people to keep you hooked
- Make it difficult to get distracted by non productive dopamine
- Burn your bridges so you hvae no easy way to take the fastest route to dopamine
- Picture yourself as having all the success
- Sound ridiculous, but it apparently works