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Video Games and Porn Are Ruining Your Life Bro
October 15th edition of the newsletter Man(x)imize
Apart from working out regularly, there isn’t a single productive thing I’ve done in college.
I was happy, but at a superficial pleasure level. Now that I’m experiencing true fulfillment, I can draw the contrast — a pleasurable life is an unhappy one.
I used to binge-watch Anime, play COD Mobile for hours, and leisurely masturbate to porn many a late night. Looking back, I wonder, what even was that life?
It was fucking shit. You tell me, bro, what’s more rewarding? A Netflix binge-watch or a hard-core gym workout. Even if you don’t work out, you know, it is the latter.
Do you know what makes gaming and porn so fucking dangerous? It’s the copious amount of dopamine released. The higher you level up and the more extreme the porn you watch, the more the released dopamine.
Dopamine governs motivation. So why do you think you lack the motivation and drive…
