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It's cool that this community is called game quitters, it helps people find it and makes it easier to connect with other members. But I think that most of the videos aren't only related to game addiction. It could be anything: tv, web, even books. In some videos Cam even says that you need to make sure you don't replace your gaming addiction with another one (mindless web browsing for example). The solution seems to be finding something significant (and creative) that you can focus on. So that every day you can wake up and think about all the great things you want to do to make that something better. Hell, it doesn't even have to be the one and only thing that you devote your life to. It can change in the future (many times). I think the problem with that is our lack of discipline. We were raised during golden time of possibilities and comfort. We believe that the world owes us everything and we need to be entertained. People in the past had discipline and worked their whole lives, even if they didn't find their job extremely fascinating. Now, we not only lack discipline, but to make things even harder we have thousands of options, which results in analysis paralysis. What can we do about it? I have no idea. Looking at my life - I think all we can do is live our lives and wait until we realize that it's time to quit playing games and start making something amazing. Once you do that - sky is the limit!

That's a bold move. Good luck!

I would say there's nothing wrong with making games, not everyone ends up playing them 24/7. You can make a single player game, that doesn't have any tricks that make you play it multiple times. It can still be a great game/experience. I also don't think that all addictive games are done only for the profit. I'd say people making games love them, therefore try to make the game as fun as possible (blizzard for example). Obviously there are some games that use every mind hack possible just to get the money, but I think most of them are mobile games. It might not be a super popular opinion here, but I like games. For some time I had some regret for playing them 20+ years, but now I don't. I had a great time and I wouldn't change it for drinking my time away ( which is pretty much the only other hobby that people seem to like). PS making games is my hobby

I recommend mini habits, this book really helped me. In short it suggests you should create a few daily goals (not too many). The crucial thing is they should be very small, so your mind doesn't create that much resistance when you're trying to perform them. For example read 2 pages of a book. There are few benefits with this approach: - you don't have an excuse to not make it, since it takes such a small amount of time - most of the time when you start you read more than 2 pages. Let's say you read 100 pages - boom, success, you beat your goal 50 times, if your goal was 100 pages, you've only met it, without that much glory - there were more, but I don't remember them right now