After torturing myself with various "self-motivation" techniques for the past five years, I decided to go back to the basics and gave Pavlov's conditioning a shot.The reality is, my brain never truly "wants" to do anything, even if I rationally understand the benefits.Every fucking thing I do, from getting up in the morning for my job, to going to the gym, to not eating sugar, whatever you can think of, I always have to force it.This, over time, builds up tension and friction in the brain until I crash out and eat 2 boxes of donuts or something.So the only way to not fuck up my life is if I can somehow train my brain to actually want to do something and associate it with pleasure. I have no other chance.Over the past two weeks, I went full Pavlov on myself: I ate my favorite snacks and masturbated while staring at my code editor.I ejaculated, with chocolate in my mouth, while staring right at my code.Now, after only five times of doing this, there's actual tangible results. After work my dick twitches a little and my brain produces an actual impulse to open my code.From this I can conclude two things: either we can throw out 90% of Psychology right away, or I am at the cognitive level of a dog.If I am a dog, at least now I'm a dog that gets horny for coding my game after my day job.>inb4 just get a hobby you actually likeNo, I feel like this about literally anything except food, sex, and playing games.Everything is a chore. I have not found a hobby that I enjoy intrinsically. I don't get a high from working out. Nothing else ever worked.Of course, this might fizzle out in a month as well. But at least I got tangible results, which is new. I'm gonna make my dick work for me.
It sounds like you are going to jerk your meat in the gym, you are a sex pest, I hope they don't find you out.
>>76674036You dont have to actually eat the slop, you know that right? You can just savor it in your mouth and then spit it into a container instead of having naive ideas about digesting said slop. Its what I call the Savor-n-Spit hack. I do it with Reeses or other milk chocolates. You can bypass digesting (most) of it while reaping the benefits of its flavor.
>>76676120gross
>>76676169But practical
I have had very similar thoughts about this. Virtually every single bit of useful knowledge about psychology could be more easily observed from just studying dogs. Most mental health problems in humans can be treated the same way we treat mental health problems in dogs. As far as your motivation goes sounds very clear to me that you just need to go work at a different location than your home. Go code at starbucks or the library. Establish the principle that you work at your work location and you can goon at home on your PC. This type of "environmental design" solves an astounding amount of behavioral issues. But you are right there will always be friciton around working.
>>76675908home gym masterrace surround sound and multiple TVs so you can watch 4 different porns while you lift and masturbate while resting between sets..
>>76676280the best part of having a home gym is you can watch porn at the same time to maximize test
