Learn to like hard work

I’ve just watched a few videos about how to get motivated to do hard work, which is usually a synonym of “being productive”.

These videos tell you that in the modern world and the modern society, you get used doing simple things that get your brain to produce dopamine, which gives you some kind(s) of pleasure(s). But this is just like a drug (which does, too, produce dopamine). It becomes your “new normal of satisfaction” and becomes a habit. So you don’t feel anything after doing that thing after a little while. But when you suddenly try to stop doing it because you think it’s a waste of your time, you can feel reeeaaallly unmotivated, not wanting to do many things that could change your day by making it extremely productive.

So basically, these things that might make you feel good for a little while and then make you feel really lazy or uncomfortable are: scrolling down on social media, watching tv (entertainment not really the news), watching online pornography (just a fact, go check on the internet if you don’t believe me), and other instant pleasures. You might think of a few more I could think of, but maybe you understand what it is about. It’s something that you do, or consume for the 100th time, not because it’s exciting anymore, but because you need it. This video told me that if you check social medias all the time, it could be for a lot of reasons, but one of them would be expecting a notification, because we got used to it, and it is the thing about social media that gives you pleasure (aka someone carres about you, what you said, did, or commented on).

So if you’re willing to get more productive by avoiding spending all your time on your phone, on your instagram account, going everyday to McDonald’s or KFC etc. I think you should read the following instructions:

-First start with one day of the week when you prepared what you had to do during the eve on a piece of paper, so that you don’t have to look at your phone every once in a while and get attracted by Facebook originally willing to just check what you need to do.

-Slowly rise the amount of days. Start with one for 2-3 weeks, then add 1 for 2 weeks, then do this 3, 4, 5 days a week until you’re unable to do the work without checking for so long what to do.

-During these special days, do the boring productive things, read books, play chess, read even more, work on a project, build things, do math, write poems, essays. After a while, I promise you’ll satisfy your brain by doing that. This isn’t what you’ll like to do at first. But when you feel at ease doing it, you might realise how interesting it is, how useful it can be.

And the VERY FEW DAYS when you’ll try yourself to video games, to social media, tv, I guarantee you that it WON’T FEEL THE SAME AT ALL. I haven’t tried it, but it’s worth the time. Free yourself from dopamine.

Brahms.