Your brain values immediate rewards roughly 2.5x more than delayed ones.
Every day, you’re choosing the quick dopamine hit over your actual objectives and it doesn’t even feel like a choice.
⚙️ The Counter-Strategy:
Remove the decision entirely. Automate savings, pre-commit to gym sessions with friends, use website blockers during work hours. You can’t win this fight with willpower. You need to change the game mechanics.
🔥 How to Know It’s Happening:
You plan to work on important goals… but end up doing the easier, instantly gratifying stuff.
Your to-do list is full of urgent-but-unimportant side quests, while your main storyline collects dust.
🧭 Action Checklist:
🔹 Set up one automatic transfer or subscription for your future self
🔹 Delete or block one app/site stealing your time
🔹 Do your most important task when willpower’s highest (usually morning)
🔹 Tell someone your commitment for accountability
💭 Questions to Ask Yourself:
🔹 What would my future self thank me for doing today?
🔹 Which daily decisions could I automate or eliminate?
🔹 What small friction can I add to bad habits and remove from good ones?
⚡ Game in the Real World…
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