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Quick story–
I like watching football (soccer).
Up until a couple months ago, I was struggling with two lame habits related to football:
But I have now killed both of these habits (or killed them about 90%). And after reading this lil article by Chase, I’m inspired to delete the habits 100%.
But wait! How did I kill the habits in the first place?
It was thanks to a Twitter account called “EBL”. This EBL guy is a tactical genius. One day, after my team had won, I went on Twitter feeling all happy and found a thread by EBL. The thread analyzed the tactical setup that the team used… and it was the most in-depth writing I had seen on soccer in a long time.
It made me remember all the depth in soccer tactics I used to be really into (the sport is nuts).
I got pretty excited to think about soccer again… and I began to enjoy watching the games more…
And… I got really, really damn tired of reading news articles and looking at dumb soccer opinions on Twitter.
The contrast between EBL’s in-depth analyses on tactics/player performance V.S. the trite, emotional, sometimes outright wrong opinions of people who don’t know what they’re talking about on Twitter became crystal clear.
And then I lost the lame habits naturally.
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I see this in other things, too. I almost NEVER watch Youtube these days (haven’t been into it for like 4 years), even though I never made a conscious effort to stop.
I credit that to a great artist named Endless Jess (one of my heroes). He set my standards for Youtube content so high that once he stopped uploading on the site, I lost most of my interest in it.
Same with video games (played too many great games that I don’t really want to “casually” play games anymore) and with social media (I guess reading historical books made me less interested in pop culture?).
And now, EBL has seemingly ended this vice for me with soccer.
—
If you think about it, Girlschase functions the same as that EBL guy;
-”Oneitis” represents the mediocre, autopilot behavior that isn’t creative or leads to anything interesting (it’s like reading soccer news articles)
-Learning seduction– a very fun skill with tons of depth– is the more nuanced, difficult and engaging behavior that is VERY interesting and takes your life out of autopilot (like the EBL guy’s amazing analyses did to me)
This is how I phrased the contrast years ago lol: “It’s like comparing the act of eating potato chips to inventing the fucking potato chip”
So, if you find yourself addicted to potato chips, maybe try getting inspired to learn something crazy like inventing potato chips instead.
You (probably) won't want to go back.
I like watching football (soccer).
Up until a couple months ago, I was struggling with two lame habits related to football:
- Reading too many news articles (feeling like I always had to be kept up to date)
- Going on Twitter after my fav team played to see the consensus opinion (and wasting a bunch of time looking at really stupid opinions that made me feel bad)
But I have now killed both of these habits (or killed them about 90%). And after reading this lil article by Chase, I’m inspired to delete the habits 100%.
But wait! How did I kill the habits in the first place?
It was thanks to a Twitter account called “EBL”. This EBL guy is a tactical genius. One day, after my team had won, I went on Twitter feeling all happy and found a thread by EBL. The thread analyzed the tactical setup that the team used… and it was the most in-depth writing I had seen on soccer in a long time.
It made me remember all the depth in soccer tactics I used to be really into (the sport is nuts).
I got pretty excited to think about soccer again… and I began to enjoy watching the games more…
And… I got really, really damn tired of reading news articles and looking at dumb soccer opinions on Twitter.
The contrast between EBL’s in-depth analyses on tactics/player performance V.S. the trite, emotional, sometimes outright wrong opinions of people who don’t know what they’re talking about on Twitter became crystal clear.
And then I lost the lame habits naturally.
—
I see this in other things, too. I almost NEVER watch Youtube these days (haven’t been into it for like 4 years), even though I never made a conscious effort to stop.
I credit that to a great artist named Endless Jess (one of my heroes). He set my standards for Youtube content so high that once he stopped uploading on the site, I lost most of my interest in it.
Same with video games (played too many great games that I don’t really want to “casually” play games anymore) and with social media (I guess reading historical books made me less interested in pop culture?).
And now, EBL has seemingly ended this vice for me with soccer.
—
If you think about it, Girlschase functions the same as that EBL guy;
-”Oneitis” represents the mediocre, autopilot behavior that isn’t creative or leads to anything interesting (it’s like reading soccer news articles)
-Learning seduction– a very fun skill with tons of depth– is the more nuanced, difficult and engaging behavior that is VERY interesting and takes your life out of autopilot (like the EBL guy’s amazing analyses did to me)
This is how I phrased the contrast years ago lol: “It’s like comparing the act of eating potato chips to inventing the fucking potato chip”
So, if you find yourself addicted to potato chips, maybe try getting inspired to learn something crazy like inventing potato chips instead.
You (probably) won't want to go back.
