How did you force yourself to study instead of being tempted to play video-games all day?

I realized playing video games is no more interesting than balancing spread sheets but that at least one of the two I could do for money

and I'm not saying that I gave up video games to become an office drone. I'm saying the the intellectual stimulation that comes from playing video games is only up to as good as that of what competitive spreadsheeting would yield for me. I still play video games from time to time but only for long enough (15-30 minutes) for me to realize I'm more bored than when I started playing.

Understand that only through pain and suffering can we grow and sculpt ourselves into something greater.

Try to limit drug use (easier said than done)

Make a realistic plan for studying for/passing the exams and commit 100% to that plan (hardest part)

above all never give up on yourself

I get as far as making the plan, and then proceed to ignore it until it is almost too. My self-discipline is horrendous.

Pic is particularly addictive.

Ritalin

Oh God pic related brings me back. I wasted so much of my early high school life on that.

I guess I grew out of it. I have a strong need to be right and prove that I'm reasonable. Math and physics were the best way for me to feel that way.

A lot of it was getting to college and seeing that I actually had room to succeed, that there was more than just bullshit busywork ahead of me. High school nearly killed my spirit. College helped free me.

in highschool you just kinda have to realize that you have to put in an hour or two of studying the night before a test, and a couple hours before an exam.

In college you just need some self control or sabotage yourself, like i did. i didnt bring my xbox to college with me, and my laptop isnt powerful enough to play games that would ruin my studying.

basically learn how much time you personally need to study or to do homework and come to terms with giving up that time to get decent grades.

I love counterstrike so much

Probably gonna have to give it up when I start taking weed out classes junior year

One of the biggest reasons why people could never do their homework is because they always do it with the intent of doing it at home. What happens is either they never do it because they get distracted from computers, television, or video-games. The trick is to do homework at school right after school ends. I would recommended to people to drop an elective class in high-school and use that extra hour to head to the library and do homework.

I go to the library and forbid myself from leaving until I achieve a significant amount of progress.

This. I spent 90% of my time in university playing Starcraft 2.

Go to the library of a coffee shop.

I do this, but not often enough. It really works, but you have to have an idea what you wanna do so you're not wasting a fuckload of time doing shit that doesn't get you anywhere. You gotta know what books to bring and have a clear goal. And if something's taking too long you just have to fucking move on, do something else and come back to it. Allow yourself a (quick) breather (QUICK) every few hours.

Realise how boring and unfulfilling it is. Then realise how entertaining and fulfilling studying is.

I agree

There's video games and internet with lots of porn and other time sinks readily available in your house. That shit is just not compatible with your studies, so don't go back for the whole day. And when you do go back go to sleep ASAP, that way you don't risk developing the habit of staying up late. I wish I'd started doing that a long time ago.

Force yourself to not be around your gaming system. Also, amphetamines.

failure. learn from your mistakes and try to not to repeat them, failure can kick you right in the nuts to wake you up and make you say "i had fucking enough".

Last semester at uni was great because I had about an hour between each class, so I could get a good portion of my homework done right away. This semester sucks because I'm there from 9AM to 6PM with only an hour break in the afternoon when I eat lunch. I'm thinking of just going up an extra day when I don't have classes and devoting it to homework/studying because my work ethic at home is terrible.

I played video games every day until I got bored

failure makes me want to stay in bed forever.

failure makes me want to ejaculate

But have you tried overwatch?

What the fuck games are you playing that you get bored so quick?

Is this sarcasm or are you really that repressed?

Pretty much only the original Plants vs. Zombies. No other game I've tried stimulates my brain as much.

I'm guessing you're happy about that? Are you afraid of finding a game that pulls hard?

Why don't they make video games that actually teach you the same way they teach you in school/college? And I mean good games, not the usual shitty uninspired educational ones.

Agreed, I think it could probably be done.

A good game is predicated on instant reflex anxiety (Amyg), learning on reflection (prefrontal cortex)...fundamentally incompatible.

>RPGs, roguelikes, turn-based games
No reflexes needed on those, just look at pokemon.

Also didn't you ever play 'who gets the answer first' with any of your classmates?

That's fair, I've just never seen the appeal of FF and Zelda etc. probably a wiring thing. I just need higher stimulation than that.

It's funny because I have the exact opposite problem. I can study just fine but videogames are something I have to force myself to do these days.

I recently failed a test, hard, and ended up using the self-motivated anger and frustration to uninstall League and any steam games I thought were interesting, even signed out of my YouTube account until the end of the semester.

If you have an honest problem managing your time studying, making it so incredibly possible to go “play a round of CS:GO” might be a good deterrent; even if that may mean uninstalling it Sunday nights and reinstalling it for the weekends.

I don't understand how you guys can play games for hours on end. After like 30 minutes I get bored and start studying. Then I get bored of that after 30 minutes and play games again. I do this for my entire weekend.

Well take out the 'game' part and imagine instead of learning a subject from a book or teacher, you strap into a VR experience that actually puts you there in the action and lets you see all angles and interesting bits, letting you interact and solve challenges in a much more fluid and intuitive way than class->homework->exam. You'd also be completely immersed, no chance of getting distracted until you take off the headset. And it could be a multiplayer experience too, so study groups and regular lectures could be emulated as well. That sound stimulating enough?

>switching your brain off to play mindless shit that occasionally has spikes of interest and funny shit
>focusing on studying a complex subject
Which is more engaging, fulfilling and given enough time/effort, entertaining? There are millions in the world who legitimately find video games and similar entertainment media, to be extremely boring and draining.

It's miles ahead of the current approach, especially with specialized feedback so you don't get lost...but by high stimulation, think about tertris on a high level, where you literally feel like you're about to die....compared with the cool reflection of the prefrontal cortex--they're just too different to Engadget high stim threshold ppl (something genetic) in the way high stim games do.

Your pejorative terms suggest a repressive bias. I think you're subconsciously scared of being sucked into a flow state by games, neglecting your life and turning into a NEET pathetic failure, or whatever your particular boogeyman man is.

When you search your feelings do you detect any such fear, or do you find searching your feelings to be pointless...

>and pass
Wowee, you passed your exams? What an achievement!
Seriously though, were there no levels above just a pass? Because if not a pass by itself is really not very good.

Studying complex problems stimulate my mind in a different way than video games do.

When studying you're using your brain to understand the subject, make connections between certain points etc.

When playing a video game my whole mind is working as hard as it can trying to perform a single task as best as possible. It's different and i'm too bad at explaining this shit in english to properly explain.

I don't play many video games anymore. No money, not interested enough to pirate.

I just spend all day wasting on my own filth instead of studying.

Have you learnt yet? You are literally me. I've never did homework.

>tfw when you spend more time trying to grasp orbital mechanics in KSP than studying biochem
I`ll never make it.

I get that they're two different mind states, but I don't believe they can't compliment each other. There are times where you can take your time to reflect and open up to new ideas, but you have to cement what you learned by applying it in higher pressure environments, with time limits an low tolerance for mistakes. It happens in games the same way it happens in school and workplaces. Not all, of course, but the parallels are too obvious to ignore them.

Jack off it yiff, feel so bad that I tell myself "you're only allowed to live because you have something to give to society" and to make that true I study and work all day. Not very healthy but it works. Has anyone been in this place and how do you replace it with something more constructive?

This. No matter how realistic goals i add to my plan. I end my doing like half of it. How to increase the time to focus.

I realized that there are people who build real spaceships for a living, and doing so is infinitely cooler than playing in a digital one.

There's a lot of people who have nothing to give and still believe society owes THEM. Your outlook is much more constructive than you realize.

Yes, it's boring derivative cancer.

Thanks user

By spending the majority if my time playing video games in the late 2000s, playing better iterations of games out now. I have a strong desire to fane but theres nothing worth wasting time on. I'd rather sit at my desk doing nothing. If you are >25y/o and still find enjoyment in games you are a mental retard. Its really that simple, no need to take an iq test. You are seriously fucked in the head and should be shot.

> If you are >25y/o and still find enjoyment in games you are a mental retard. Its really that simple, no need to take an iq test. You are seriously fucked in the head and should be shot.

Don't suppose your opinion is a little extreme huh

Why are you so mad at yourself?

No. I hate video games. Video games promote magical thinking. They teach your inference to believe stories that are impossible by manipulating and corrupting what evolution has painfully taught you.

The very idea that a war game could be interesting if there is no danger is absurd. The very idea that you could get an object to move like that defies the senses. The very idea that idealized characters can interact with verisimilitude is absurd.

The very idea that this useless representation is able to fool me shows me just how hard it is to find stories that actually work, and how easy and lazy it is to simply accept those stories that are fake.

I would never work with anyone who played video games. They are a danger to themselves and others.

The "I'm desperately trying to fit the mold of an adult and just end up more childish than anyone starter park

I haven't now. Even now when I have actual desire to study all the things I've missed out on in highschool the desire to play vidya is still stronger and overtakes me
Feels like I'll never get anywhere in life other than by opportunities that come by themselves

I am OP.
Yes, I learned from my mistake. I just do my homework at school as soon as class ends. My gosh, I don't know why everyone just doesn't do this.

By not touching addictive vidya at all.

Simple.

I got older, the existential dread did the rest.

I am OP and I will explain my story. I probably should had done this in the beginning of a thread.

I could not ever do my homework at my house. I just couldn't. I was too distracted by video-games. I never did my homework and as I result, I went to continuation high-school when I was 16. I would just rather be playing video-games all day.

I just had to be playing first person shooters or MMORPGs.

Now I am 23 and I regret not taking high-school seriously. I just never knew how important was high-school. Even when there was a single year I did well, and got A and B, I never even cared about learning all that much. I just cared about getting high-grades and looking smart.

I can do my homework at my home but I never usually do because I hate being at my home. When my class ends, I just go to the library and do my homework, it's that simple.

I wasn't raised as a spoiled brat.

I started studying the day before an exam. Passed it. I don't think I'm smarter than anyone else though. Probably dumber because I chose to start studying with less than 24 hours left.

Find ways to study away from your distraction.

Exercise some fucking discipline.

Condition your mind to realize that once you've got a professional career you can fuck around then.

Make studying more enjoyable than the game.

/pol/ version... Video games are actually a distraction from left establishment to subdue 'white people'. Allowing feminism to undermine rationale thinking and to subdue intellectuals so that the elite reptilian black jews can enslave us.

I have a limited supply of willpower per day.
I try to make things in such a way that I don't have my willpower to make the right choice.
i.e. uninstall steam so that when I want a "quick" 3-hour game, I can't have it. I know that it would take hours to download again so I don't try.

Same with waking up, I put the alarm clock/phone out of reach from my bed. No willpower needed to get out of bed,
Try fasting for a day, twice a week. It will increase your discipline and self-control.

Video games get annoyingly repetitive after you 'git gud' at them, you're just going through the motions eventually and I get bored really easily so I was never big into video games. No idea how manchildren do it, I've also done a lot of drugs for the same reason. The only thing that keeps the boredom at bay is learning new things.

I used to play video games 8 hours a day at least but in my early 20s I found myself bored of them. You literally burn out of them after a while.

Now, when I turn one on because I think I want to play, I sit there for about three minutes and think: this is fucking boring. Why am I playing this? and I turn that shit off.

Smoke weed, give myself PTSD knowingly (highly neurotic, always have bad trips that leave sequels for months). Deal with the insufferable amount of anxiety and dread by doing what I have to do, because doing anything else makes me feel so unberably unreal/depersonalized and anxious that It is simply torture to do anything else, and every waking moment away from study is like living in hell.
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It works for around 6 months for me, after that I become used to the anxiety and normalize. So I become complacent and procrastinate a lot. It's probably a very unhealthy thing to do.

I played NES when I was a kid, maybe parents developed good gayming habits for me when I was still young or the games weren't addictive, they were more for fun rather than for grind.

>yet he has no problem spending 90% of his time procrastinating on an anime forum

Take a measured interest in your subject.
This means you force change a view on the topic and you see the item as fun and enjoyable to read about--at least as long as it takes to come to a fundamental understanding of the subject, which by then you hopefully come to appreciate it more and thus require less effort and discipline to continue study.

Filthy casual. I could study 1 minute before the exam and still pass

I wanted to go to Oxford for my masters from a shitty state college in the US. That's how.

>Allow yourself a (quick) breather (QUICK) every few hours.
Terrible advice. Do the opposite and take breaks at least every hour.

Literal autism.

I was taught that work comes before pleasure and that pleasure is reward for working hard. Therefore, I did my homework first and only then played my video games.

At university, where I am in total control of my work flow as well as realizing that work is never really done (I could always do more), I chunk my work and still am able to maintain my work philosophy.

I'm so glad my parents forbade TV before 6pm during my childhood. As a kid I hated that rule (obviously), but in hindsight that probably really helped my school work.

If I ever have kids, they will hate me so much for refusing to even own a TV (or paying for something like Netflix)

I've been playing LoL since January of 2011 and have taken a break because school started (~1 month) until today. Logged in and realized that the spark and wonder that dragged me to the game is starting to fade. "What adventures will I have on the rift today?" I would always ask myself. I didn't give a damn about the trolls or afkers, just the thrill of a hard fought win or the disappointment in a sudden game losing misplay. Now that I'm in school it made me realize that at 20 I still have a whole life ahead of me,I could use that dedication towards something else. I recently developed a mentality of "you don't get to eat if you haven't worked" so now I find myself constantly trying to do soemthing productive. Sorry for the blog post, hopefully some one is in my scenario and has found something positive for themselves

>get adderall
>game for a couple of days and get bored because its too easy now
>start studying

>get adderall
Wish it were that easy

Stored my computer away. Now only use a laptop that can't play games because it doesn't have a dedicated gpu.

>Not studying for the test for 1 picosecond and passing

That sounds like a good trick, but many of us would ultimately want to drop our addictions altogether and use all of our free time on useful things, like studying.

Video games are ultimately unfulfilling. They are fun at first, but there comes a point where you feel like you've wasted your time playing some shit game all day. Studying works the opposite way, it starts out hard, and you really don't want to start studying, you'd much rather just keep watching youtube videos or keep playing games, because you imagine it will be a hundred times more uncomfortable than it actually is, but then you start doing it, and you realize it's actually not that bad, and having a detailed understanding of a topic actually feels really good. At that point, you just want to keep going.

>Not studying for the test for 1 yoctosecond divided by Graham's number and passing

Most games are fun, because the gratification is almost instant, and achieving the same thing with a game that teaches you math would be hard, since it would have to involve solving problems, and some of the problems would have to be hard, which could take a lot of time to solve. These hard problems would also break immersion, since sometimes you would have to stop playing and get a piece of paper to actually solve a problem. Finally, learning math involves learning proofs, and it would be kinda hard to have a computer check your proof for validity.
>you strap into a VR experience that actually puts you there in the action and lets you see all angles and interesting bits, letting you interact and solve challenges in a much more fluid and intuitive way than class->homework->exam
The problem with that is most games where you have to solve puzzles, like portal, involve thinking about things qualitatively, e.g. you know when the laser beam hits the detector, the door opens, so you redirect the laser beam with your optical cube thingy to hit the detector, while you would have to think about things quantitatively if you actually wanted to learn useful things, like inputting the exact equation to get a given projectile trajectory or whatever, and you can't really do that in your head without a piece of paper.
Having said that, while actual educational games will never be as fun as "real" games, there are definitely ways we could use technology to enhance learning. Your VR example would definitely be useful for helping students visualize things, and the general idea of giving points to people who solve problems could be useful for giving people quantifiable feedback on their progress, which could help with motivation. Games could also force people to use proven learning methods, like active recall, and spaced repetition, over bad learning methods, like re-reading the material over and over.

>studying before the exam
>not during

>sci humor

They sure as hell do, because they can take care of all of their assignments in like 30 minutes and piss away the rest of their time doing whatever the hell they want. They can only do this because they have a high IQ though.

Why? Have you ever heard the phrase "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"? I get that you feel shitty about yourself because you play games too much or whatever, but the other extreme - only studying or doing "useful" things all the time - is also bad. Your life will become monotonous, and you'll feel even shittier about yourself when (not if) you burn out and end up wasting a few days doing nothing. In my opinion, it is far better to pace yourself and let yourself relax a little bit every day and every week.