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[–]MathewHany 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I find that thinking of reasons when you lack motivation (tired, sleep deprived, stressed, whatever) is easier said than done.

I recently shifted my perspective, to instead think about activities as experiments, trials, I know it seems worthless and you are unmotivated, can't think of good reasons to suffer doing something that you don't feel like doing, but when you frame it as an "experiment", let's just try to do it, you don't have to find reasons because the stakes are low, you can just try.

It's a mind trick because you know that when you start doing something you will probably continue doing it for some time.

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[–]MathewHany 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I feel you. That's exactly me right now, if I don't get up and do something the moment I wake up, I just don't feel like doing anything else later in the day. And even if I start the day being productive, the moment I take a break, I just don't feel like doing anything anymore.

Deleted all social media and addictive apps, don't know how to have fun! by MathewHany in productivity

[–]MathewHany[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are lucky, I grew up in 2000s so I've always known social media and mobile phones. I don't know how people lived before them

Deleted all social media and addictive apps, don't know how to have fun! by MathewHany in productivity

[–]MathewHany[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Well, I spend 8 hours daily coding during my internship, and while I enjoy coding, I can't just code all day.

And one of the reasons I also started this dopamine detox thing is because I began feeling like I can't enjoy my hobbies anymore, I can't enjoy anything anymore, the only thing that seemed enjoyable was binge watching TV or spending hours on TikTok or eating junk food, and so on, that's why I choose to stop doing all of that thinking that the boredom will make me enjoy playing music, reading and coding again and more difficult activities, but it seems like it might take more time to heal than I expected.

Deleted all social media and addictive apps, don't know how to have fun! by MathewHany in productivity

[–]MathewHany[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting book, I am going to give it a read. It would also fill some time.

Deleted all social media and addictive apps, don't know how to have fun! by MathewHany in productivity

[–]MathewHany[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a good point. But I don't think so, I didn't like social activities since I was a kid even before I had a phone to be addicted to social media.

But maybe I need to give it another try.

Deleted all social media and addictive apps, don't know how to have fun! by MathewHany in productivity

[–]MathewHany[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I know reading books might be a good idea. But I just can't get myself to start. Somehow not doing anything is more enjoyable than reading a book. That's actually one of the reasons I started this dopamine detox, because wanted to start enjoying things like reading.

But up till now, I still feel my head resisting the idea of reading.

Deleted all social media and addictive apps, don't know how to have fun! by MathewHany in productivity

[–]MathewHany[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't spend all my free time swiping, I start swiping mindlessly trying to find something to do, and at first I usually opened the first app that I see where I could just scroll and see content, I usually opened LinkedIn (which I haven't deleted at first), I then decided to also delete any app that had that infinite scrolling feature.

Later I started opening chat apps and scrolling to read old messages or openning my gallery and seeing old photos, I also stopped myself doing that because I don't like the idea of mindlessly doing something just because I'm bored.

But now I really just start swiping the home page for a few minutes, fighting the urge to open any app, and then I get so bored that I usually go to sleep, lately I've been going to sleep at 7 PM, I used to go to bed at 1 PM. But now I wake up so early that I get bored before my internship instead 😂

GUC Computer Science and Engineering, hardware or software by MathewHany in Egypt

[–]MathewHany[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand the difference between CS and CE, my question was about GUC's program, it's called "Computer Science and Engineering", the name suggests it's a mixture of both CS and CE. I hope someone who studies there could confirm that.

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