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Four things that slowly drain your daily motivation
Years of ‘not feeling like doing stuff’ made me learn a lot about what it takes to be ‘motivated.’
I saw that motivation is — counterintuitively — more about what you don’t do than what you consciously try to do.
Here’s what I mean…
1. Fake dopamine spikes.
Fiddling your trouser shrimp to strangers smooshing their genitals on a screen is not going to motivate you in the long run.
Fake sources of dopamine are an extremely underrated destroyer of your passion for life.
Why, Alex, why?
Because you get big dopamine spikes from crap like porn or playing video games, which slowly destroys the sensitivity of your dopamine receptors.
Yes, this happens.
Over time, you need more and more stimulation to get the same ‘hit,’ and this numbs you further.
You might get your fix online, but guess what? NORMAL life becomes boring to you.
Being motivated to write, paint and create is now the last thing you want to do.
Congrats, asshat — you’re officially a robot.
