I have tried the block the page but it doesn't make sense since I just can unblock them and it is not very effective
You are not going to change your behavior until you really understand how negatively it's affecting your life. For me, once I cut out basically all social media, all talk radio, all youtube, my ADD symptoms improved considerably. From my personal experience, this stuff seemed to just wreck my brain and motivation. It was so surprising personally how much better my life got when I just stopped fucking scrolling
If you stack multiple pleasures together it could be making it harder to focus. (Like drinking + watching something you enjoy + snacks, or smoking weed + playing video games).
This video explains the science behind it.
Make your dopamine spikes more random and intermittent and try to reduce the peak on them by sometimes enjoying your pleasures separately instead of stacking them all at the same time.
By limiting the time you can work, you don't have time to randomly surf the web.
You could add a countdown clock as well, some people work better under pressure.
I have access to the distracting websites for an hour a day and that is it. It is blocked for the rest of the day. The free version is more than sufficient.
The way I do it is I have CODE open, with a today.md and every time a thought comes up when I'm either working or learning I just go to that document and I write it down (as a sort of IOU to pay later) while the desire to check that is strong at that very moment, when I come back to that document after ~2hours, it's something so trivial, that I end up mostly not even look at it.
It's a drug given to people with ADHD, so I can't recommend it to everyone. But my productivity tripled since I start using it.
"Armstrong, on the other hand, was a cyclist competing at elite levels during an era in which doping was rampant. And in such a setting, it does at least arguably matter that “everybody does it.” It is an unfortunate fact that in the world Armstrong competed in, for every individual cyclist doping was a necessary evil, a way of keeping the playing field level. Any cyclist not engaging in doping was effectively relegating himself to the back of the pack. That’s not an excuse, but it’s an accurate description of the facts of the case. So doping was, in a sense, non-optional for the elite cyclist trying to do his job properly, because after all his job is to try to win." - https://archive.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/lance...