Jan 6th, 2025:
Overcoming Instagram induced dopamine addiction is a huge challenge. It leaves you in an everlasting thirst that no amount of scrolling will quench. I open Instagram whem I want to kill akward amount of time that I find between tasks. But it locks my mind to a trance, killing seconds at a time, and minutes are gone before you come to your sense. But this points to a deeper problem, I distract myself with Instagram when I am overwhelmed. My mind is uncomfortable with a task at hand and hence it distracts itself by indulging in short bursts of dopamine hit. I’ve been making no progress at a task which I am supposed to complete a week back. The thought of working on it gives me a repulsion. The solution is the fly wheel effect. I just need to stay with the uncomfortness and do the work anyway. I will update once I complete the work.
Jan 7th, 2025: Still, I am not able to focus on the work. I am giving into my discomfort and giving into distractions. Stay with the pain and discomfort. Don’t give yourself strict deadlines, and beat yourself up when it’s not done.