I encourage you to check out this video on procrastination which shows how the issue is related to struggles with self-worth: https://youtu.be/mi8LU79NukI?si=qkfX7mQaWsDoolgT
Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
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Re: Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
#152I encourage you to watch this video which shows how procrastination is often, even most likely, a product of self-protection, https://youtu.be/mi8LU79NukI?si=qkfX7mQaWsDoolgT
Re: Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
#153I'm a programmer, a creative person, working on my projects, and regularly I need a short break, so on every break I usually lay in bed and checked the news and I often ended on YouTube watching more videos, wasting hours every day. What eventually helped me was use css to replace entire YouTube (and other doom scrolling websites) with a motivational picture that says: "One day, you'll realize that your dream died be…
I do this too. I use my app Sprinkles to do it. For Mac, you can inject your own js or css into any site.