Another way to succeed in life is to manage your time wisely and cut out any addictions from your life. Addictions are bad for many reasons but we often forget why addictions (of any kind) are bad in the first place.
Addictions are bad because they eat away at the time
available to live. There are many far more productive things that could be
accomplished with the little available time that you do have (like getting a
college degree or starting a business). Also, many addictions cause havoc in
the brain. If they don’t actually cause deterioration of gray matter they most
certainly hijack centers in the brain as you become used to the dopamine rush.
The brain/reward system responds by producing less dopamine. Since dopamine is
the pleasure or thrill chemical and now you have less of it due to your
addiction, you end up getting less pleasure in activities you previously
enjoyed.
In many cases what starts out as a feel-good drug/high turns
out to be a recipe for long-term depression, anxiety and lack of motivation.
Now you have even less motivation to do things that you previously enjoyed
simply because initially, these
activities will probably produce less dopamine in your brain than the addiction
that you are currently subdued by.
At this point you will have to entirely reprogram your brain
and start a new cycle. This process is indeed very hard.
Great website on this topic! Thanks Les for sharing this with me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html
