How do I stop wasting my time on useless bullshit and spend almost all of my freetime studying and learning?

How do I stop wasting my time on useless bullshit and spend almost all of my freetime studying and learning?

I don't want to waste anymore time on dumb shit.

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too bad anyone who had figured that out wouldn't be here to see your post

What's wrong with enjoying yourself?

You know how your teachers tell you that if you study hard, and make good marks you'lll be successful?
Well, that's a load of shit.
I'm not saying you won't be successful, but at what exactly?
You'll just be another drone working in a highly technical job, getting paid less than your worth.
If you want to be a scientist the same applies, just with a slight chance to be recognized by society for something deep down you probably don't want.
Find something that you enjoy, a product, a service, and create a business.
If you're stupid enough to go for art, do that.
Do anything besides forcing yourself to be surrounded by aspies with overinfflated egos.
I'm not saying that people can't enjoy stem, but just consider what you actually want.
Not what your parents, teachers, and society has.

this is actually incredibly correct and OP should take notes

the same way that people quit smoking, or stuttering, any other bad habit.

I'm the same as you user, im cutting back on Veeky Forums, fapping, vidya etc.

Just actively recognize when you are wasting your time, and then do something more productive.

I cook for myself while listening to audiobooks

but how though

I've recognize Veeky Forums and pornography are incredibly degenerate. But I'm unsure of how to just phase them out. Do I do it slowly until I no longer seek or feel attached to them?

>Do I do it slowly until I no longer seek or feel attached to them?
Yeah. That has been proved to be objectively the best way to build or get rid of a habit.

Long term goal
Short term goal to achieve that long term goal
Discipline to achieve that short term goal
Repeat

start right now. sit up, go find a book and read some of it. dont necessarily commit to too much or you'll procrastinate. just make yourself do *something* until you feel like you've done enough to start.

I thought it's been proven that cold turkey was the best way to stomp out strong addictions?

i was at a wedding and there was some buddhist guy who said something like "we think of mundane activities like going to the grocery store or watching tv as distractions from our life. but really they ARE our life"

really made me think

>using the word degenerate to describe non-ideal yet commonplace human behavior
pls go

get off of Veeky Forums

But it is objectively degenerate.

It makes me realize that if things like going to the grocery store are part of my life, not distractions, life sucks.

I typically think I'm only fully conscious about 10% of the time. So I can only really be disciplined about 10% of the time, and the rest of the time I'm going to fall back into the path of least resistance. With that in mind, it's just a matter of using your conscious time to make "the path of least resistance" something that is worthwhile. In other words, given that you know something is good for you, how can you make that more fun. With school, for example, back in high school I found that I have a lot more fun if it were more competitive. With cross country, it was more fun if I ran barefoot, and ran with other people instead of on my own. That way I found myself falling back into things that I enjoyed doing. I'd say only a few people are able to really force themselves to do non-fun things all the time, but if you can figure out how to make healthy things more fun it's a lot easier to reach your goals.

So focusing on an aspect of your degree that means a lot to later be motivated enough to do it as pleasure and not work? Sounds like a meme to me most geniuses are just gifted before

you just do it and ignore your brain and physically just do it.

Ive found that waking up early with the Shia Labeauf additude having a couple of small objectives later develop into smarter objectives. There's not much point to theory in a textbook if you don'td doaanything with it or partake in a project or something real get a mission and do it and dont be afraid to mess up too

I've heard from other people that pacing yourself and taking 5 minute breaks every hour or so is good for it.