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Got sick and ended up stuck in bed, and I slipped back into internet entertainment. My internet entertainment streak was 19 days. I got sick at a pretty bad time too, right near the end of a tougher phase (first around two weeks of abstaining). Next time I get sick, I will be stronger. I am 100% committed to abstaining from internet entertainment for the rest of my life. Now I’m finally healthy again and I’ve started again. Today is Day 1. What’s interesting is it doesn’t feel like starting from zero. Getting back into it feels surprisingly easy when you return quickly, like the progress is still there. Now living without internet entertainment is the new normal. My biggest achievement is getting back on track quickly. This is my current abstaining list: (streak - days of 100% abstaining) Nicotine: 547 Video games: 497 Alcohol: 303 Caffeine: 303 Drugs: 303 Porn: 303 Gambling: 261 Junk food: 177 News on phone: 24 Audiobooks: 24 Live streaming platforms like Twitch: 24 Youtube: 1 Series/movies (alone): 1 Scrolling short form content: 1 Fapping to anything other than imagination: 1 Online music (alone): 1 Forums (only post journals): 1 Instagram, Sc, Fb, TikTok, etc.: 1 Online chess: 1 Keep phone on greyscale all the time: 1

I’ve been feeling bored. I’ve had to face things I used to escape through internet entertainment. Emotions and unpleasant thoughts are coming up. I don’t have anything left to escape with. I’m just waiting for it to get easier and to get used to this. I’m waiting for my brain’s reward system to stabilize. Hard phase, but this too will feel normal soon (in weeks, months or in a year), I’ve been through this before. Like quitting nicotine, I have cravings and anhedonia. This is not a temporary dopamine fast, I will abstain from these for the rest of my life. I’ve also chosen to stop reading forums, but I’ll continue posting my journals here. Abstaining streaks: Nicotine: 532 Video games: 482 Alcoho: 288 Caffeine: 288 Drugs: 288 Porn: 288 Gambling: 246 Junk food: 162 Youtube, Instagram, Sc, Fb, TikTok, etc.: 9 Series/movies (alone): 9 Online chess: 9 News on phone: 9 Audiobooks: 9 Fapping to anything other than imagination: 9 Online music (alone): 9 Streaming platforms like Twitch: 9 Forums (only post journals): 5

I will now fully quit my last high-dopamine addiction: internet entertainment. Today was day 1 of the new additions to my abstaining list. I am now going to sleep soon. I faced the boredom head-on and did mostly nothing since I had a free day from work. After waking up, I lay down for two hours doing nothing, just thinking. Other than sitting or lying down doing nothing, I walked, did 50 push-ups, squats, abs, and bent-over rows, wrote 1,000 words, studied, did speaking exercises, and cleaned and organized my house. Here is the updated list of things I will abstain from for the rest of my life: Alcohol (streak: 524 days) Video games (streak: 474 days) Nicotine (streak: 280 days) Caffeine (streak: 280 days) Drugs (streak: 280 days) Porn (streak: 280 days) Gambling (streak: 238 days) Junk food (streak: 154 days) YouTube, IG, SC, FB, etc. (streak: 1 day) Series/movies (alone) (streak: 1 day) Scrolling short-form content (streak: 1 day) Chess on phone (streak: 1 day) Fapping to anything other than imagination (streak: 1 day) Audiobooks (streak: 1 day) Internet entertainment is my last high-dopamine addiction, and quitting it will be a game changer in reaching my goals.

My habits at the moment: 50 abs 50 squats 20 minutes of stretching Flossing Gym (at least twice a week) Write 1000 words 20 minutes walking and talking to myself Make your bed 20 minutes immersion audio (I am listening to audio tapes I made with ElevenLabs to learn complex words that I want to learn or audio that is just saying words I want to use more in day-to-day speaking.) 3 minutes studying language Read 1 page Start with a 2-second coldest possible shower every time you shower 5 minutes neck, face, and head self-massage 5 minutes reading vocabulary + grip strength trainer Read 1 page of the dictionary of educated vocabulary Journaling: - Write 5 things you are grateful for - Write 5 goals - Write 5 things you are looking forward to with excitement - Write a 4-year plan - Who am I? - What makes me happy? - What is my highest intention for today? - What would I do if I weren’t afraid of anything? - When I am 50 years old… - Write about death and why you shouldn’t care what people think And abstaining: Nicotine: 516 days Video Games 466 days Alcohol: 272 days Caffeine 272 days Drugs: 272 days Porn: 272 days Gambling: 229 days Junk food: 146 days

I feel amazing. I am 100% sure I will abstain from these for the rest of my life. Zero nicotine streak almost 500 days! Zero junk food streak 127 days! Decided to hold off on building a business while working full time. Waiting for the right time to go all in.

@Leo Gura How do you know this? Are you saying you are not happy? Are you saying there is no human on earth that can be happy with bad health?

@krockerman How is Leo expert on those things? Should Leo give a framework for how to use heroin and how to gamble online too?

@krockerman Serious question for you: why would you want to use alcohol and coke?

This thread is hilarious 😁 @Natasha Tori Maru I love you, you get it 🤍 @Carl-Richard I admire how you communicate on this forum.

@AION You must be fun at parties

@Hojo Thank you

I was playing competitive. I didn't suck. I didn't say I wasn't. If you are playing competitive video games I assume if you make money out of it you can categorize it as a career and if you are not making money the best word I came up with was "hobby", let me know if there is a better word for it, english is my second language. Also am I not allowed to add more stuff to it? I told you that I don't want to spend my time staring at video games, but thank you for the idea! @Hojo Please don't answer my posts or anything in the future. I think you just want to argue, you intentionally misunderstand me, you’re childish and immature, low vibration human being (this is just my opinion, not the absolute truth) @Leo Gura Can I block users so they can’t reply to my posts?

1. Leaving 3 girlfriends (I lived with 2 of them, and with one of them we were planning to have kids within the next 2 years) --> Hurt so much but I have zero regrets about the breakups. Countless things I could have done better, relationships teaches you so much. 2. Quitting alcohol and junk food completely. (I also quit nicotine, caffeine, drugs, video games, porn and gambling, but alcohol and junk food was a harder choice because there is a social pressure to do those things, and quitting alcohol meant that my relationships with my friends and social life change.) --> I feel good about it, best decision in my life. 3. 5 years ago leaving the company I founded with a co-founder. --> Sometimes I think that it would be interesting to see what would have happened if I stayed, but I have never regretted it.

@Xonas Pitfall 🤍

@UnbornTao Thank you! I will do these. First I will try morning meditation for every day momentum and maybe try 3 day fasts for macro momentum. That would make it easier to be more conscious/mindful during the day. Thank you, I'll think about this.