A Thought — Distraction, and Motivation to Cook
October 12, 2019
“And if all behavior is prompted by a desire to escape discomfort, that means time management is pain management”
If cooking a meal is what we intend to do, and we get distracted away from it… Like not feeling like cooking for some reason. Easy home-cooked meal is delayed satisfaction. It will save us from pain “at a later point in time” — pleasure of eating healthy; nutrition to our body, instead of empty calories.
Cooking out of a forced sense of duty — for yourself, for your family, for your loved ones — may not be a sustainable source of motivation to cook meals.
“If there’s one motto I want people to remember it’s: the antidote to impulsiveness is forethought”. Perhaps a bit of planning the day — when to cook, when to do grocery, etc. — might be required.
Nir Eyal says distraction doesn’t start with technology—it starts with us
