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day 3 --------- I did not visit any useless website yesterday. I did not play yesterday. I like it. But it's only 2 days. I can install game again and I can visit useless website again. It's important to concentrate every day. My main goal today is not visit any useless website and I don't want to play today any second. My second goal is to watch something about addiction and to read something about addiction. Knowledge is power. It's important to find a new hobby. Sometimes I will be bored. It's normal. So I decide to sleep more often (my new hobby) and I decide to do something for ecology (my new hobby) (Yesterday I took photos of the animals and plants in my park). My park will be changed other people (my government) and I fear that some animals and plants will die. So I want to make a lot of photos of the animals and plants in my park and I want to send this information to ecologists and maybe my government will listen to this ecologists and we will save a lot of animals and plants. So I like my new hobby (ecology) because I do something important and it's important to be more often on nature. I want to see nature more often. My new hobby is a programming. I use Python to write a program in artificial intelligence. Sometimes I'm bored but sometimes I'm so happy and I have a lot of joy that I can write interesting programs. But if I play in video games I lose this happy. If I play I want only to play. I have this joy to programming only if I don't play. I have found this 3 new hobby (I will sleep more often if I bored, I will do something for ecology more often and I will see nature nature more often if I'm bored and I will write the programs in artificial intelligence more often if I'm bored). I hope that I will have a lot of joy to this things and I hope that this hew hobbies will be more interesting for me than gaming and visit useless websites). I hope that my new hobbies will help me to overcome the addiction. ----------------------- Update: Important information from this video: 1. Need to be free 90 days from gaming 2. Gaming gives the same type of dopamine rush and it's actually called rapid dopamine release 3.If you play in video games really intense your brain is changing. You don't want to play in games but your brain want to play. 4.Real life can be absolutely amazing, real life is more interesting than gaming. 5. If you play in video games really intense your brain will change. You will not have a lot of joy to real world. It's normal. 6. If you play in video games really intense you became hyper-reactivity to gaming which basically means that gaming is a lot of fun and everything else is boring 7. The third change is willpower erosion 8. 90 day detox will help you to came back. Your willpower will improve. 9. 90 days in enough time to start decent progress. I want to be free 90 days from any games and from any useless websites. It's my goal. I don't want to visit any useless page in Internet 90 days and I don't want to play any second in any games. My willpower will improve. ----------------------- Update: This is interesting information from book (Adam Alter "Irresistible" ) : “Many casinos use ‘luck ambassadors.’ They sense that you’re reaching your pain point—the moment when you’re about to leave the casino—and they dispatch someone to give you a bonus.” These bonuses were either meal vouchers or a free drink or even cash or gambling credits. Bonuses are classified as “marketing” rather than a way of changing the odds of winning, so regulators turned a blind eye. With a new dose of positive reinforcement, gamblers tended to continue playing anew, until they reached another pain point after a series of losses. It's really interesting information. I think that any video game also try to give you positive reinforcement.

2 day: --------- I uninstalled all games yesterday. It's very easy. But I can install them again. So the main goal is not install them again (it's not easy). But I want to say that I did not play yesterday, I did not visit any useless website, I worked yesterday all day and it was nice. So I hope that today I also will not play I hope that I will not visit any useless websites, I hope that I will open only useful websites for my life and I will not waste my time for useless things. This is my goal to this day. Also I want to watch some videos and I want to read a book about addiction. If I want to be free from addiction I must know more about it.My second goal is to watch and to read something about addiction. ------------- Update: I watched this video about addiction to games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9LetLmpRBc And the main things form this video: 1. One of the first principle that makes you a man is the ability to make a good decision. My decision is to stop play in video games and to stop read and watch useful information. If I can do it I'm man. 2. The second thing is action. I want to do some action. I want to do only useful for me things. 3. Video game is really sad because they're basically just escaping into this fantasy video game world but we need to live in real world. Only real world can test our bravery and our honor and our integrity. 4. The thing that separate the men from the great men is perseverance. If you want to be the great men you have to have extraordinary perseverance. I need to have extraordinary perseverance to quit from games and useful information from websites. ---------------------- Update: I have read some information from this book (Adam Alter "Irresistible") "It’s hard to exaggerate how much the “like” button changed the psychology of Facebook use. What had begun as a passive way to track your friends’ lives was now deeply interactive, and with exactly the sort of unpredictable feedback that motivated Zeiler’s pigeons. Users were gambling every time they shared a photo, web link, or status update. A post with zero likes wasn’t just privately painful, but also a kind of public condemnation: either you didn’t have enough online friends, or, worse still, your online friends weren’t impressed. Like pigeons, we’re more driven to seek feedback when it isn’t guaranteed". So the main thing is we became pigeons. We don't want to play but we play. "The act of liking subsequently became the subject of etiquette debates. What did it mean to refrain from liking a friend’s post? If you liked every third post, was that an implicit condemnation of the other posts? Liking became a form of basic social support—the online equivalent of laughing at a friend’s joke in public. Likes became so valuable that they spawned a start-up called Lovematically. The app’s founder, Rameet Chawla, posted this introduction on its homepage: It’s our generation’s crack cocaine. People are addicted. We experience withdrawals. We are so driven by this drug, getting just one hit elicits truly peculiar reactions. I’m talking about Likes. They’ve inconspicuously emerged as the first digital drug to dominate our culture". So it's important for us not to visit useless websites. We are not pigeons.

I have watched this video: and this man told that if i want to stop play in video games I must write every day to my journal. So I decide to do this. My goal is to write to this journal every day. It's not easy because I don't know English very well and every sentence is a lot of time for me. Yes I can write this journal in Russian and it will be more easy for me but I think that hard work is a good work. So I will know English better. Maybe this journal will help me to stop play in video games and I will know English better.