Quitting These 5 Common Habits Has Led to an Unbelievably Better Life

Reclaim your time, motivation, mental energy, and health

Neeramitra Reddy
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6 min readDec 19, 2021

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In today’s consumerist era, the self-help industry is obsessed with adding things — “ingenious” mindsets, “value-packed” courses, fancy gadgets, or promising apps.

But addition only clogs up your mental space and, for every problem solved, brings in new ones.

“Perfection is achieved not when there’s nothing more to add, but when there’s nothing left to take away.”

Antoine De Saint

Improving your life is more about subtraction — bad habits, worthless things, negative people, etc.

I want to share 5 such subtractions — ones that have triggered gargantuan positive changes in my life.

This Illusory Dopamine-Trigger

The neurotransmitter dopamine governs our drive to achieve—ideally when you do something meaningful, you’re “rewarded” with a release of dopamine.

But video games are cheat-codesthey get rivers of dopamine flowing for no work.

With the burning passion of dopamine replaced by…

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Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous

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