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How I Tricked My Brain to Enjoy Doing Hard Things
Dopamine Detox Just Saved My Life
I’ve always had a grand vision for myself. I’ve always set big goals for my life and I wanted to be able to execute them. I wanted to work hard and I wanted to enjoy it.
I do believe that’s the path to success and it doesn’t matter where you are right now. What matters is the journey.
Are you better today than you were yesterday?
I did start to ask myself this question every day.
To achieve a better me, I knew I had to do something.
In the beginning, I did enter a spiral that wasn’t helping me. I started to consume personal development, I watched youtube videos for days, I read dozens of stories here on Medium and I was consuming like never before. I thought that somehow I would find that story or that video that would give me what I needed to make progress.
For years I failed to recognize that I was tricking my brain. I was just flooding it with dopamine and thought I was making progress.
It was a negative cycle but, in the end, it was obvious that easy dopamine was the villain I needed to surpass.
