You can only replace an addiction with another (healthier) one.
For instance: intense outdoor activity, time spent working in a farm, etc.
The tech we’ve built is insanely addictive.
For instance: intense outdoor activity, time spent working in a farm, etc.
The tech we’ve built is insanely addictive.
Or put another way, how the fuck does one begin to like intense outdoor activity at all, much less to the point of it replacing a social media problem (including HN)?
There's only one somewhat reliable "trick" I know that makes people do these kinds of switches: falling in love, or at least getting a crush on, someone who's already doing the healthier thing. Obviously, this method is only available for a small segment of the population and mostly for a few years.
Seems a highly addictive and on paper "unhealthy addiction" was in this case quite gainful for me.
Hiking is just fun. Like, actually fun. If you set up the mental barrier that exercise is bad and sucks and feels bad, then sure, now it's bad.
If you're super unfit it might suck, much like sitting down and bashing out some cool scripts in Python would suck if you had no programming knowledge, but that's fixable for most.