Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively. The latter takes work.

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willpower is really not the main weapon you have against the addiction nexus. the cure to addiction is to make your life feel good enough that you don’t want to escape it. that’s it. it’s not easy but it is simple. eat nutritious food, get restful sleep, feel, breathe, act