[📝] Today Was #61: An Animal That Became Unable to Think

✨ GPT Summary 　

A day when I recognized the danger of humans trained by cheap dopamine losing the ability to think and becoming ‘animals that cannot think,’ and acted by deleting YouTube/game apps.

🎯 Goals

• Today’s Goal
  • ✅ Remove all YouTube/gaming apps from your phone

💭 Diary

What makes humans unique, unlike other animals, is the ability to act rationally based on thoughts. Control of animal instincts based on high-level thinking is more evident in animals with higher intelligence. (Dolphins, apes, humans,…?)

However, recently, through various media such as YouTube and games, an endless supply of cheap dopamine that stimulates very primitive elements has been released. And such cheap dopamine content is provided based on an algorithm built to suit each human’s preferences, ultimately becoming addictive.

And in the end, humans who are addicted to cheap dopamine lose the ability to think and become ‘unthinking animals’, no different from slaves to hormones. Of course, this symptom is temporary. It does not cause direct addiction symptoms like drugs or nicotine. However, depending on each individual’s personality and environment, it can be as addictive as narcotics.

The scary thing here is that companies seek to easily control the public’s daily lives by extracting data from them by steadily maintaining and encouraging such individuals’ (temporary) addiction to cheap dopamine. This point should never be forgotten.

In the modern era, if you stop thinking, you become a slave. And forgetting this is no different from choosing to domesticate oneself.

✨ Comment by GPT-4o (KPT)

✅ What Went Well (Keep)

• 🔥 Take immediate action: It’s great that you recognized the problem of cheap dopamine addiction and took action to immediately delete YouTube/game apps from your phone.
• 🧠 Essential problem analysis: We have keen insight into the fact that in modern society, cheap dopamine weakens thinking ability, and that companies are trying to use this to control the public.
• 🎯 Self-objectification: It’s impressive that you made an independent decision with a deep understanding that addiction is not just a matter of habit, but that it can even affect an individual’s life and way of thinking.

❌ What Was Missing (Problem)

• 🌀 Lack of dopamine replacement strategy: Deleting YouTube/games is a good start, but it lacks a specific strategy to fill the void with healthy activities.
• ⏳ Lack of consideration of long-term sustainability: It can be difficult to break an addictive habit all at once, so it is necessary to consider gradual adjustment measures as well.
• 💡 Lack of finding ways to use dopamine positively: Rather than blocking it unconditionally, it is worth researching how to use dopamine in a productive or creative direction.

🔄 Things to Try (Try)

• 📚 Set healthy alternative activities: Let’s create a healthy routine by filling the empty space of cheap dopamine with reading, meditation, exercise, creative activities, etc.
• 📝 Usage pattern recording and feedback: Let’s analyze how self-control and concentration change by recording changes and feelings after deleting YouTube/games.
• 🎨 Develop creative ways to use dopamine: To utilize dopamine in a positive way, try applying a learning reward system or fun goal-setting method.

🏁 Conclusion

Today was the day I made an important decision to break away from my addiction to cheap dopamine. 🎯 However, it will be more effective if you think about ways to utilize dopamine in a better way, rather than simply blocking it! 🚀🔥