Here are four tips so that you can beat the house and win big instead of go broke:

1. See the slot machines

Every algorithmically generated feed, every notification ping, every new item in the fast-food menu represents another pull of the dopamine slot machine, offering a chance at stimulatory pleasure.

Heck, every morning when you open one of my emails, it's like a slot machine!

Open your eyes to this and you'll start seeing it everywhere!

2. Pick the best, ignore the rest

As you start to see your slot machines, figure out which ones serve you and which ones don't.

If an online videogame has a 50% chance of pissing you off, 30% chance of being okay, and 10% chance of being insanely awesome on any given night, should you play that or do something that lacks the chance at being insanely awesome but has a 90% chance of being "pretty good"?

If a website you visit has a 5% chance of showing you something awesome, 60% chance of uninteresting crap, and 35% chance of just showing you some kind of sexually or emotionally triggering garbage, is it really worth your time?

Make bets with a high probability of paying off and your happiness will increase.

3. Hack the machines in your favor

Many of these slot machines can be tweaked in the way you interact with them to give you better value odds.

When at the grocery store, walk around the outer rim of the store first, filling up on whole foods.

Curate your social feeds so only the best content gets through to you etc.

4. Put them in their proper place

Know EXACTLY where in your day and week different activities go.

For example I don't touch certain websites on workdays at all - others I only let myself interact with after I've gotten a certain amount of work done.

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Do this wrong and you'll be giving your energy to games with low value that just addict and distract you.

Do this right and you can engage with modern culture as a doorway to pleasure and serendipitous expansion of your mind, relationships and opportunities.

Hope this helps!

UYAP,

Mark Queppet

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