/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11165201]

Has anyone else started jerking off as a dopamine reward for studying?

I've been doing it this semester and have started getting random hard-ons in the middle of problem sets and exams, but I find that my motivation to study and work on assignments is a lot higher.

Everyone on 4chan tells me this will just make you "coombrained" but I'm a 3rd year math undergrad and my grades have quite literally never been better.

[Anonymous No.11165770]

Bumpo

[Anonymous No.11165988]

>>11165201
Been at it for a while now.

[Anonymous No.11166031]

>>11165201

Can't you just admit that you are fucked in the head and got your sympathic nerves are messed up with your parasympatic?

[Anonymous No.11166111]

>>11165201
I use smoke breaks and tea to stay motivated but wanking sounds pretty good

[Anonymous No.11166117]

>>11165201

mabey for acing a test, but not just for stuudying

[Anonymous No.11166236]

I smoke a cigarette for every hour of study, then jerk off for every three hours. Helps to relieve the stress and re focus

[Anonymous No.11166244]

>>11165201
what is your usual routine?

[Anonymous No.11166277]

I recommend avoiding cheating by using an electronic chastity cage that only opens if you finish a diffeq.

[Anonymous No.11166790]

>>11166277
>opens if you finish a diffeq.
engineer shit head.
>>11165201
yeah the brain reacts well to reward. also cooming is good, unless you WANT prostate cancer, yeah go ahead and be a cuck no fapper.

[Anonymous No.11166896]

>>11165201
>Train your brain to desire good study habits
>End up training dick to appreciate math
>Brain ends up working hard to please dick
The Lord works in mysterious ways

[Anonymous No.11166900]

>>11166790
>implying he doesn't study everyday so he can jerk it everyday
I suppose it's your right to be a no brainer

[Anonymous No.11166911]

>>11165201
This is the secret to genius. Guard this truth wisely.

[Anonymous No.11166927]

>>11165201
It doesn't work because even contemplation of sex acts like porn viewing induces a mild degree of arousal, which suppresses activity in the prefrontal cortex. This is the opposite of what you need. Just as bad, memory recollection can be impaired from strong stimuli, because your brain views what it thinks was procreation, as infinitely more important than whatever studying you did beforehand. Worse, masturbation + pornography, always leads to habit, which can escalate the urge and frequency which work against your very studying efforts. I tried this method and opioids for post-study reward and they failed considerably. Opioids because they weren't pleasurable. Pornography as reward would disrupt my mind beforehand. I like to view pornography consumption as analogous to space being filled on a hard drive, and background processes. The more it is fed, the more space it wastes, and the more you have it as a forethought, the greater the waste of brain processing power. A bit pseudish at the end but that is just how I've come to view it after much struggle. Even actual sex produces detrimental effects but nofap redditor retards would never admit that.

>Pornographic Picture Processing Interferes with Working Memory Performance

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2012.716873?journalCode=hjsr20

[Anonymous No.11166933]

This might have unintended benefits, OP. Studies show that mild arousal increases problem-solving ability.

[El Arcón No.11166936]

>>11166927
Everything is personal.

[Anonymous No.11167229]

>>11166927
just watch porn right before studying but only jerk off upon finishing

[Anonymous No.11167248]

>>11167229
You'll be in a hypofrontal state with reduced working memory.

[Anonymous No.11167591]

>>11165201
this doesnt actually work, doing something for external incentive causes a person to lose intrinsic motivation

[Anonymous No.11167657]

>>11166927
Id rather have sex then be able to remember I'm a virgin a little better desu Pleasure and happiness > memory performance imo

[Anonymous No.11168007]

>>11167657
Then you're an inferior being, evidenced in part by your failure to obtain it, evidenced further by your still greater value placed on obtaining it. Not gonna make it.

[Anonymous No.11168143]

>>11165201
That's babby level. What you're doing is only giving yourself positive reinforcement but aren't penalizing yourself through negatives. I not only do what you do (plus eating chocolate and drinking my coffee ONLY while studying), but I keep repeating to myself every single hour throughout the day stuff like "they'll laugh at you if you fail", "you're a decaying corpse if you don't finish the project". Now you'll never actually feel the effect of the penalizing beliefs and will most likely never attribute it to them, but I guarantee you that it's there somewhere in your subconsciousness and will be the drive to give you motivation in your shittiest days where all you want to do is watch youtube. You'll be feeling this weird discomfort in your stomach by wasting your time procrastinating instead of actually doing what you're supposed to do. If you've formed a habit like brushing your teeth every single night before going to bed, for an example, you'll know very well of what I'm talking about because it would be very hard for you to fall asleep knowing there's decaying food between your teeth and you missed one day from your 6 month streak - this way of thinking was formed by the penalizing "I either wash my teeth every single day or my teeth fucking decay", it was not formed by a positive reinforcement.

Just a quick big brain advice from someone obsessing over this subject for a fifth year so far.

[Anonymous No.11168149]

dopamine is not a reward, it's a drug from our beastial ancestry that we should deny

[Anonymous No.11168152]

>>11168149
based autistic stoic

[Anonymous No.11168155]

>>11165201
I tired that and it works for a while be careful though or you may end up in coombrainville. At some point your brain can realize it can go straight to cooming and well so much for that.

[Anonymous No.11168159]

>>11168152

If I were religious I would be sure that dopamine was a mechanism of the devil, every habit that can drown us in mud has this shit behind it:

>masturbation
>food endulging
>gambling / vydia
>sloth (dopamine threshold)

and it goes on