[meander_water]

Another way to look at it is that we are attention constrained.

And there are a lot of systems out there that are designed specifically to steal that away from you.

[jwrallie]

That is a good way to see it.

There is also the effect of "activation energy", we should decrease the effort it takes to start doing an activity we ought to be doing by manipulating our environment in its favor.

The opposite is also true, we can get rid of the activities by increasing the effort it takes to start doing it.

[unnamed76ri]

That’s how I’ve come to feel about video games. I don’t have a word for it other than to say it feels like video games are life-taking while creative work or manual labor are life-giving but still tiring.