18-02-18 How to Become Obsessed
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1. Social Immersion With The Obsessed 2. Existential Importance
- Long term future
- Moral righteousness about it - nobody is doing this the right way
- Vivid vision of the future
- Expectations for oneself being high.
- Narrative alignment
- Associate your identity with your performance / knowledge
- Have an enemy who’s growing faster than you are
- Create a competition that you can win
- Win competitions and get addicted to winning
- Find ways to visceral reward yourself for success in the domain
- Vision - see yourself as reifying becoming truly great / transcending and achieving complete mastery of the target
- Listen to the Voice of God
- Lifestyle immersion
- Sound / Audiobook / Podcasts on obsessive topic, for use during transit
- Create friendships around topic, turn social time into conversation over obsession target
- Go to sleep reading about it
- Write about it during free writing
- Create reputation around it
- Feel yourself growing at it
Source: Original Google Doc