Your First Biohacking Quest (Dopamine Healer)
Imagine how easy life would be if you already had a structured game plan. Starting the game, you had defined roles of "mage, warrior, healer, and rogues". And to progress, all you had to do was increase output and scale your stat points or resources until you keep leveling up. This is why video games are so popular because there is never any option to fail, and it sucks you into its dopamine system.
In life, what if you were given the choice of "merchant, fighter, doctor, and creative"? And there was never an option to fail as long as you kept trying your hardest. You kept leveling up, even by just a little amount. Your skills went up, eventually, and you got to your goal no matter how long it took. This is because you never gave up.
Life is like this
The key is never looking at your peers or comparing your growth to theirs. This is because they might have had access to resources that you weren't privy to.
In a game like Rise of Kings there are Free to Play (F2P) and Pay to Play (P2P) gamers. The ones that rise the fastest are the P2P gamers. They tend to have more resources because they pay for gems or speed-ups. This enables them to level up quicker than their F2P counterparts. With the lack of resources, the F2P rise slowly and steadily, but eventually reach their goals no matter how long it takes.
Life is More Mentally Torturous
Unlike video games, life throws multiple curveballs at you with serious consequences. But the people that win the game and progress faster are those that are able to manage their resources and stick to the gameplan. They are able to internalize emotions and bounce back quicker than those that quit the video game of life. People that are successful in any chosen role are so because they treat life like a video game.
The End-Result is Dopamine Rewiring
Winston Churchill once said, "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
This starts internally because enthusiasm is related to the mind. What also helps the mind are neurotransmitters located within the gut. What helps the gut are metabolic and cellular mechanisms that allow the body to rebuild and heal constantly. What helps that is circadian rhythm by way of sleep. Like a snake eating itself in infinity, dopamine is the engine that rewards micro-wins along the way.
Enthusiasm = Momentum. Think about what causes decision fatigue? It's the battle between what you should be doing versus what you think of doing instead. You think about ordering fast food instead of cooking and you prolong making the decision because you are battling the mind. You allowed this good versus evil to gain mental ground because of the accumulation of previously bad decisions that you made.
It made you susceptible to weakness. These small decisions, or lack of decisioning, make you susceptible to brain rot. You reward your body and brain for nothing. This is where procrastination sets in because you prolong the actual hard work in exchange for playing video games.
The Cycle Repeats: How Do You Stop It?
Reward small wins. Every. Single. Time. Video games are addictive because they give you small wins, but they never feel complete. Like clockwork, it feels like an itch you can't completely scratch so you repeat the video game until you get better. The goal is to reverse engineer this for real life.
Find things that are enjoyable to you, but gatekeep it until you complete your tasks. Do this in small amounts each and every time until you rewire your reward system.
One thing that enabled me to get into the best shape of my life was only eating after completing a workout. I did this consistently over 1 year using my workout plan. As a direct result, I developed six pack abs and greater functional strength and mobility.
Life is a Video Game:
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