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How To Force Your Brain To Crave Doing Hard Things

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I spent close to two decades avoiding hard things...

I spent close to two decades avoiding hard things. Gaming through my whole adolescence, years of doomscrolling after that. That was my normal. Years spent training my brain to crave the easy things. Today I sit down and write for hours every day. I can read books for hours. And these aren’t things I force myself to do, they’re things I want to do, things that fulfill me in a way that gaming and scrolling never came close to. A few years ago this wouldn’t have been just hard for me, it would have been impossible. I couldn’t have sat still for 5 minutes with a book. My brain just wasn’t…

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