Endless novelty, delayed gratification, addictions

So, I sit here and I think to myself-"Why do I get addicted to things so easily? Be it games, porn, or women or food"

I've read an amazing book called "The Road Less Traveled" By Dr. M. Scott Peck.

This book was written in the early 70's and outlines the problems with our society pretty much to the T. He goes into detail about how we are constantly looking for instant gratification, and goes on to describe why delayed gratification is healthier and better for you.

My male mind craves endless novelty(new things). Its the basic animal part of my brain that tells me to sleep with as many women as possible and make as many babies as possible. The problem with this part of our brain is it applies to other things besides women. Video games provide this endless supply of novelty as well as porn and social media outlets. A lot of these things provide that high we crave for either novelty or instant gratification. Women are notoriously bad for posting hundreds of pictures on their facebook page to try and garner attention from men, and men spend hours watching porn and playing video games. All of these things are instant gratification and endless novelty. We become addicted to it and it warps and conditions our brain to accept that this is the way life is. These are all addictions based around those 2 concepts of instant gratification and endless novelty. This is the source of our lazy generation.

We are overloading our brains with this feeling of gratification when we HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING. Yes it is fun, but how can I expect to accomplish anything if I sit on my ass and only enjoy sitting on my ass?

I am writing this blog for 2 reasons. The first is so that I have a way to look back on my life and compare myself to where I was at then and the second reason is because I have a friend that knows about it, and I can get my thoughts down better on here and relay them to him. I know he doesn't agree with what I have to say, but I am trying to give him my perspective and not just let him stay in his own comfort zone. He has made amazing improvements on bettering himself(and getting out of his comfort zone), as have I, but I don't want his negativity to delay or stop his progress as a man.

Back onto the major topic of instant gratification vs delayed gratification. We get the same high through both of them, but the former has no lasting high as we haven't accomplished much and the latter has an extended high where we can look back on the accomplishment and still feel proud of what we have done.

The best part of delayed gratification is that you have actually done something. This gives our social needs the much needed boost when people notice and comment on how we are doing. When you focus on the delayed gratification aspect of life, you become a productive member of society(as long as you are actually doing something semi-productive).

I just woke up and if you give a shit about my grammar or my inability to adhere to a coherent train of thought, then too bad.