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A Homemade Recipe for Your First Article After a Break
Overcome dopamine hunger by cold water immersion. Then, write.
This one is dedicated to and with gratitude for Piotr Albrycht, my new companion who helps me explore the ins and outs of the human mind and body.
Writing has become harder for me over time.
For the past 2–3 years, I haven’t had a firm writing practice. It’s been a ride of patching words together in between hosting events, non-profit jobs, and community building. In this time, I also became way more dependent on my phone.
The result? My brain’s hunger for dopamine is higher than ever. And while I’m hoping to moderate these cravings in the next months, for now I have to deal with this reality — while going back to writing high quality stuff people want to pay for.
Writing something worthwhile requires delayed gratification. There’s no way around it. Before you’re able to formulate a few good paragraphs that will give you a boost of satisfaction, you need to do some heavy lifting first.
This means sustaining your attention long enough to access deep thoughts that outcompete the AI-generated content. This means trusting your human creative capacity has more to offer than the terabytes of dry data floating in the virtual space…
