[📝] Today #40: Cheap Dopamine and System Change
✨ GPT Summary
A day when I recognized that cheap dopamine addiction limits the brain’s development potential, and revisited the importance of changing systems to improve habits.
🎯 Goals
- Today’s goal
- ✅ Visit the gym
- Leading indicators for the three major goals
- ✅ Goal 1 (Reach 65kg▼ body weight): 1800kcal▼ (Result: 1622kcal, 80.6kg)
- ✅ Goal 2 (Release 5 apps▲): Write Daily Dev Log
- ⏰ To do today
[Keymory MVP]
- Create a new Keymory MVP project, import Figma, then implement according to the wireframes drawn in Figma
- For anything not in Figma, just sketch the idea for now and replace it with page navigation
- 💯 Summary of work done
- Authentication Page implemented
- Todo-related message actions and empty pages implemented
- Default Navbar implemented
- Designed Firestore DB structure
- 🎯 To do tomorrow
- Pause watching the SMA lectures for now and start with feature implementation.
- 🎯 To do later
- Export an APK installer with all core features implemented by this Sunday, no matter what
- ⏰ To do today
[Keymory MVP]
- ✅ Goal 3 (Win 1 startup contest▲): Watch/read one startup-related video/post
- Habit tracking
- ✅ Reflection: life quote
- When the brain is soaked in cheap dopamine, neuroplasticity is gradually castrated.
- ✅ Meditation: Bible verse
- [Galatians 5:17] For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.
- ✅ Development: at least 10 minutes
- ❌ Reading: at least 10 minutes
- ✅ Church: Z, YT, Web
- ✅ Review: today’s goal, the three major goals, Life RPG
- ✅ Verification: AIFFELthon, Today, diet/workout
- ✅ Reflection: life quote
💭 Diary
During work hours, I act busy in every possible way. But when spare time comes, like on the bus or right before sleeping, I still habitually turn on YouTube and waste ten minutes to an hour.
Even though I clearly feel that being soaked in cheap dopamine is bad and that I want to stop, I cannot stop. That is an addiction symptom.
The more my brain is soaked in cheap dopamine, the more all the potential possibilities of my brain will be blocked. Interpreted from a Christian perspective, it is harmful in spirit, soul, and body.
Whipping myself with “if you know, fix it” does not help. As I wrote in an earlier diary ([📝] Today #30: A Successful Goal-Achievement Cycle), the most effective way is ultimately to change the system.
Goal-Achievement Success CycleMotivation - awakening - environment building(especially community) - effort - habituation - endurance - breaking through a threshold - self-redefinition (+gratitude/meditation/prayer in every moment)
Looking back, watching an Elon Musk video to complete Goal 3 helped wake me up. That is the effect of a changed system. This diary itself is also part of that.
I am doing well. No need to rush. Change slowly, little by little.
✨ GPT-4o Comment (KPT)
Keep: You recognized the habit problem and approached it systemically.
Problem: Reading was missed and YouTube control still lacks concrete mechanisms.
Try: Replace YouTube with reading, set usage limits, and use rewards intentionally.
📌 Three Major Goals Progress Dashboard
Goal 1: Reach 65kg▼ Body Weight (-19.5kg)
- Deadline
- 2025.1.1 ~ 2025.12.31
- This month’s goal
- ✅
2025.01 M1st (1.1): Reach fasting body weight 81kg▼ (monthly -3.5kg) - ▶️
2025.01 M2nd (1.19): Reach fasting body weight 80.5kg▼ (monthly -4kg)
- ✅
- This week’s goal
- ▶️
2025.01 W3: Reach fasting body weight 80.5kg▼ (weekly -0.6kg)
- ▶️
- Daily goals
- ❌
2025.01.20 Mon: 1800kcal▼ (Result: 2138kcal, 81.0kg) - ✅
2025.01.21 Tue: 1800kcal▼ (Result: 1389kcal, 80.9kg) - ✅
2025.01.22 Wed: 1800kcal▼ (Result: 1622kcal, 80.6kg) - ❔
2025.01.23 Thu: 1800kcal▼ (Result: ?kcal, ?kg) - ❔
2025.01.24 Fri: 1800kcal▼ (Result: ?kcal, ?kg) - ❔
2025.01.25 Sat: 1800kcal▼ (Result: ?kcal, ?kg) - ❔
2025.01.26 Sun: 1800kcal▼ (Result: ?kcal, ?kg)
- ❌
- Reference indicators
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Body composition test (InBody) record
Date Weight (kg) Skeletal Muscle Mass (kg) Body Fat Mass (kg) Body Fat Percentage (%) 2025.1.1 84.5 31.2 29.5 34.9 -
BMI index (2025.1.1)
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- Notes
- Carbohydrates 198g(44%) + protein 117g(26%) + fat 60g(30%) = 1800kcal
Goal 2: Release 5 Apps▲
- Deadline
- 2025.1.1 ~ 2025.12.31
- This month’s goal
- ▶️
2025.01 M: Develop Keymory app v0.0.1 (AIFFEL 9th core course - AIFFELthon)
- ▶️
- This week’s goal
- ▶️
2025.01 W3: Social Media App lecture (22/22): create sample template, then Keymory MVP combine with diary/chat features
- ▶️
- Daily goals
- ❌
2025.01.20 Mon: Social Media App lecture (12/22, current 8) - ❌
2025.01.21 Tue: Social Media App lecture (18/22, current 10) - ✅
2025.01.22 Wed: Write Daily Dev Log - ❔
2025.01.23 Thu: Write Daily Dev Log - ❔
2025.01.24 Fri: Write Daily Dev Log - ❔
2025.01.25 Sat: Write Daily Dev Log - ❔
2025.01.26 Sun: Write Daily Dev Log
- ❌
- Reference indicators
- First app: Keymory (in development)
- Notes
- Play Store app registration requires applying as a sole proprietor -> not planning to register
- If I apply as a sole proprietor, I may not be able to enter startup contests
- After graduating from AIFFEL 9th cohort in February, I plan to open an
MVP RunnersLab atModu Research Institute- Individuals/teams will make one MVP (minimum viable product) app per month and present at the end of each month.
- Presentation footage will be uploaded to the Growing IngHyukKing RPG channel (mosaic on request)
- Individuals/teams will make one MVP (minimum viable product) app per month and present at the end of each month.
- Play Store app registration requires applying as a sole proprietor -> not planning to register
Goal 3: Win 1 Startup Contest▲
- Deadline
- 2025.1.1 ~ 2025.12.31
- This month’s goal
- ▶️
2025.01 M: Research and organize a list of 2025 startup contests
- ▶️
- This week’s goal
- ▶️
2025.01 W3: Watch/read at least 4 startup-related information videos/posts
- ▶️
- Daily goals
- ❌
2025.01.20 Mon: Watch/read one startup-related video/post - ❌
2025.01.21 Tue: Watch/read one startup-related video/post - ✅
2025.01.22 Wed: Watch/read one startup-related video/post - ❔
2025.01.23 Thu: Watch/read one startup-related video/post - ❔
2025.01.24 Fri: Watch/read one startup-related video/post - ❔
2025.01.25 Sat: Watch/read one startup-related video/post - ❔
2025.01.26 Sun: Watch/read one startup-related video/post
- ❌
- Reference indicators
- None
- Notes
- 2025 startup-related schedule (contests, mentoring, etc.)
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K-Global Startup Mentoring (ICT innovation company mentoring)
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Support content
- Mentoring
- Practical startup education
- Investment attraction capacity strengthening
- Promotion support
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Eligible applicants
- Prospective founders/teams and startup CEOs in ICT and fourth industrial revolution fields
- Budget: 1.07 billion KRW
- Responsible ministry: Ministry of Science and ICT
- Dedicated agencies: National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation
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Support content
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- 2025 startup-related schedule (contests, mentoring, etc.)
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✅ Workout record by Body Calendar
✅ Meal analysis by Sprint
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