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Yesterday I had a bit of a talk with myself about my behavior pertaining to procrastination.

I am addicted to:

- YouTube

- Gaming

Worse, I have quite a runway due to low living expenses.

I came with a new idea today, I hope it helps anyone else.

I need to get good at generating my own feelings. This is why I play games and watch videos. I do it to feel something.

In order to do that I need to stay as close as to the activity itself while doing it myself.

I came up with the following replacement rules:

TouTube —> tell a story to myself. Yesterday I started a story about an alien who is a cat (and I wasn’t thinking about the show Salem even!). This cat/alien has seen humans for 5000 years.

Games —> digital product design. Yesterday I imagined how it is to design a newsletter, in terms of aesthetics and UX.

I hope this idea might help anyone. I sure haven’t read it anywhere.

parent mettamage 6 years ago

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