Slip into consumerism(week3总结)
Finance
As the debut of the new iPhone 18, I am obsessed to an extent that I search for its information for hours, figuring out which credit card has the highest cash back. Even though, I do not actually need it. Though my side job requires iPhone , but I already own an old one. The same desire also goes into MacBooks, even though my M1 MacBook Air is doing great.
I hope I can appreciate what I have instead of wanting more, not falling into the trap of consumerism.
I particularly spent loads of time researching credit card bonus, which I do not think I really need. My current focus in terms of finance should be on shooting bagreels. Speaking of which, I am doing noticeably great at this job. I can earn 1000 cny a week. I wish put my focus on high-return jobs, including those self-improvement things.
Life
My roommate plays games while yelling at phone calls every single minute, which is crazy. But, this is a shared room, so it is reasonable unless he's doing it late at night. I tried to escape that by going to the campus to self-study, which was quite a good experience. It's better to divide where one studies and where one lives.
Study
I found out that I am more focused on a lecture when I am on a piece of paper instead of my electronic devices. I am going to avoid using a laptop as much as possible. Lecture time means a lot. A focused lecture can save me hours from revising it afterwards. Must utilize it well.
Quality studying time is still lacking. I find it hard to concentrate for more than 30 minutes when I study alone. Maybe I should go to the campus more often, and probably use a pomodoro tool.
Most of my dorm time still goes to social media, and "researching" iPhone and credit card stuff this week particularly. it is not a valuable time to either relax or study. I should have stopped that, and have more focused studying time and relaxing time.
Bad habit
I noticed I have two big terrible habits.
- tendency to over-eat
I have a lot of snacks/instant noodles on my shelf which I cannot restrict myself from consuming. I always get too full late at night, and then have a terrible sleep and after-sleep.
I should stop buying snacks, and put the already existing snacks inside a closed space to stop the visual cue.
- porn addiction
I jerk off once every two days, but jerking off is not the problem, porn is. I am not able to masturbate without certain kinds of online pornography as stimuli, which is not good for the development of my brain. I spend more time searching for pornography than I actually engage in masturbation.
I might download some habit tracker app, and some browser extensions for that.
Final
There are good, bad , and ugly times. But, please allow me to give props to myself for surviving another week. Keep up the work.