You're not very good at it, so it genuinely feels tedious to play.
But you stick with it a little bit.
You discover the core gameplay loop .
And that core gameplay loop keeps you playing for hours and hours on end until it's cutting into your sleep .
But the payoff for doing these things often feels lacking , like we don't really understand the point.
In other words, if you haven't discovered the core gameplay loop, you won't be incentivized to play.
And the first step is to understand what's going on under the hood .
This is due to a psychological phenomenon known as reward prediction error .
And when circumstances don't play out in the way that you expect, this puts you in a state of dopamine deprivation .
It wounds you and it makes you crave the antidote that might just be around the corner .
We've been gaslit into believing that our return back to baseline is pleasurable.
The feeling of compulsion , the motivation to keep going, doesn't come from anticipating pleasure, but anticipating the relief of the agitation.
It's also the very thing that we need to weaponize in order to make our real life activities more motivating and addicting.
And if you can't, then you have to tackle the other problem, dopamine desensitization .
If you want to feel more motivated in life, if you want to cure your laziness, then you have to stop doing things that desensitize you to dopamine.
The benefits will be inarguable .
When you're caught in a doomscrolling loop , you're sifting through mostly unfunny videos.
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