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Obsession is addiction

Obsession makes us gaze in only one direction at one thing, whether a habit, a memory or a person, and washes away all other concerns - but obsession amounts to the same thing in all cases: addiction.

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Denying its existence makes obsession worse

Do not seek to extinguish obsession but seek to control it. Our ability to bend our emotions to our will is poor, but not our ability to manage them. We can make our obsessions work for us rather than work us over. And we can learn to let them ...

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Obsession is intoxicating

It fills us up (especially if we felt empty before). But even if we didn't feel empty, obsession makes us feel potent, capable, and purposeful.

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Obsession unbalances us

Like all addictions, with time obsession makes us neglect parts of our lives we shouldn't. If allowed to become too consuming, obsession causes us to devalue important dimensions of our lives and tolerate their atrophy and even their collapse. But even if our lives remain in balance, if the objec...

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Ways to manage obsession

  1. Distract yourself at varying intervals. Find something attractive and pleasurable to distract you from your obsession. Do something that takes you out of your own head like reading a book or starting a new habit.
  2. Accomplish a task that helps put your obsessio...

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Like all addictions, with time obsession makes us neglect parts of our lives we shouldn't. If allowed to become too consuming, obsession causes us to devalue important dimensions of our lives and tolerate their atrophy and even their collapse. But even if our lives remain in balance, if the objec...

Ways to manage obsession

  1. Distract yourself at varying intervals. Find something attractive and pleasurable to distract you from your obsession. Do something that takes you out of your own head like reading a book or starting a new habit.
  2. Accomplish a task that helps put your obsessio...

The Obsession With Productivity

At its core, productivity addiction is based on the same reward systems as other addictions. By providing constant reinforcement — for example, financial rewards in the form of salary increases, or social rewards in the form of work recognition — productivity can become a goal in and of itself, r...

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