Facepalm moment when scrolling through Reddit
I've been awake for two hours, and intending to get out of bed for most of that. I need to leave the house soon, but I keep scrolling through Reddit. Same old, same old.
Then I noticed the time and that I now only have 15 minutes left to get ready. So I started scrolling faster.
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It took me a long moment to even realise what I was doing. It's like I'm looking for some trigger that says "okay, you're done now", or to 'finish' scrolling through the feed, but of course Reddit will literally never run out of posts.
Edit: yes, I did write this post instead of getting up. Now I have ten minutes...
Posted May 22, 2020, 10:37 PM UTC
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Behavioral trap is very real.
Try having lots of different 'dopamine buttons', sometimes that works for me. The phase of shift between one button to another kinda becomes like an opportunity to get out of the zone.
Like from gaming, to Youtube, to Netflix, and phone, your brain starts to get overwhelmed by the choice that it just stops and shifts its neural network from one to another.
Realizing that you are trapped in conscious level doesn't work. Gotta train yourself with convenient habits and/or preparing motivators. It's deffo not easy as I made it sound though..