Diary: Jul 6 - Do hard thing

I feel not bad since I start to journalize. I have done that 3 days. My mind becomes more and more clear and I have had a stronger self-control ability than before. Although I still check messages on my phone and watch some videos, the frequency has reduced a lot. So I should call it a progress.

But I still need to optimize myself. I should not be proud of that. Once we think we are great, that will be the beginning of bad things. Waiting for 90 seconds before starting an action is really helpful for avoiding to trap into addictive products.

Do I really need to refuse all entertaining contents? I watch MSI esports on Bilibili and LIFA on Rednote, sometimes I watch the reviews of Chinese chess games. These activities use a quite amount of my time, but they brings me happiness. We can say it is not real happiness. They just attract my attention with a small amount of values. People like watching short videos because it is easy to do and watching videos brings them instant happiness. Just because it is easy!

But I need to do hard things, not because they have big value, but because they are simply hard.

More hard things I do, more satisfaction I get.

🧗‍♂️🏃‍♂️ and 🏋. I read a thick and difficult-reading book, run a long distance, pass the difficult German test and get up early. Also I do handstand. The popular things are not always good. They are popular just because people trust the judgement of most of people, and then the people becomes one member of this big group. They are good but they might prevent better things from being found, just because they get the traffic of attention earlier than better one.

I should have my personal independent judgement by trying any things whether they are easy or hard. Doing hard things means I get less competitiveness. But more important thing is I get more satisfaction from my mind.