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I think this is called conditioned place preference. You've associated dopamine hits (junk food, social media, etc.) with the chair. You've also probably conditioned yourself to timing (after work) -- do you go this routine at other times? Say, on the weekend?



Yeah. Similar routine in the morning, or on the weekend. Sitting there means goofing off, eating junk food and surfing the web. Which is bad when it also gets used for doing actual work on the computer, like coding. So there are conflicting signals.

I'm thinking a lot about triggers as a way to change habits right now.




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