Why do you want to eat melon seeds more and more

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Melon seed effect

1. What is the melon seed effect?

Do you often encounter such a situation:

I planned to swipe my mobile phone 10 minutes before going to bed, but I accidentally stayed up until 2 am?

I repeatedly told myself to control my diet, but I still couldn't quit milk tea and fried chicken, and the cause of losing weight came to an end before it started.

Do you always regret your lack of self-discipline while enjoying inefficient and meaningless happiness?

This is the psychological spoon "melon seed effect"!

2. Behind the melon seed effect

A bag of melon seeds, once picked up one, will continue to eat the second and third … until it can't stop. But if you eat a bag of ready-made melon seeds, you may get tired of eating a few bites.

Behind the melon seed effect is actually the mechanism of "strengthening in time": it takes only a few seconds for a melon seed to chew and eat. In other words, we only need a few seconds to get feedback on eating melon seeds. When people do anything, they want immediate feedback. The shorter the feedback time, the happier you will be. This is the charm of strengthening in time.

3. Why is there a melon seed effect?

Why is the game so attractive? Why do short videos make people want to stop? Because games and short videos are a kind of timely feedback and reward, this kind of timely feedback and reward will come down.

Things that require self-discipline often need to be delayed. For example, learning needs accumulation to get feedback and harvest of grades. For example, losing weight requires persistence to see the effects of physical changes.

Fishing for three days and drying the net for two days is because I can't feel happy in time and can't get satisfaction, so I have no motivation to stick to it.

4. How to stay away from the melon seed effect

1. Take away "melon seeds"

The first step of self-discipline is to get rid of the "melon seeds" that hinder self-discipline. Only in this way can you calm down and see your heart clearly.

2. Set goals to achieve a higher level of happiness for you.

A person, with greater pursuit, will not be tempted by the "happy melon seeds" in front of him

3. Keep giving yourself positive feedback.

Inner satisfaction and pleasure are the driving force for us to persist. Self-discipline itself cannot satisfy us in time, but we can establish a satisfaction mechanism to make ourselves feel happy in time.