I think many of these are connected. For instance, I party quite a bit because I feel uneasy with my life, which may have been because I am surrounded, involuntarily, by those who aren’t helping me find a better version of myself. And to be able to enjoy partying, I need to be caught up on all the news and talks of the town, so I have to put my plan to “digitally detox” myself on hold, which exposes me to a variety of occasions to compare myself to whatever there are in the social media that enables my negative self-talk about my feeling of my own inadequacy. This “vicious circle from hell,” as the author Mark Manson calls it, keeps returning to haunt me again and again until the wheel stops spinning when, perhaps, I am dead.

I think the key is to create an environment that all unproductive activities are, simply, useless.