How To Get Rid Of The Craving To Play Video Games

I am preparing for IIT JEE . Is it advisable to play video games for 1 hour daily?

You goal is to deliver a good rank in the JEE without necessarily compromising on other avenues that give you happiness. I am a big FIFA fan and I used to play FIFA regularly during my JEE preparation days. There will be times when you are scared with your level of preparation and will automatically stop playing. There will some days where you might want to spend the entire day gaming. My general advice is to be regular with your studies without giving up on leisure time. If you really want to crack JEE you will ensure adequate effort goes in. If you do not spend time towards leisure activities your motivation for your primary goal will go down.Cheers :)

How can I quit video games?

I've been a game addict for quite some time and it even cost me A's during my high school. Its inexorable. No matter what the exams or the situation was, all I thought about were games, and games and games. I remember playing Counter Strike right before my ordinary level GCSE Biology paper for around 15 minutes (still managed to get an A by scoring 92%).From what I realized, what makes the games very very addictive is the multiplayer aspect of it. I played Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer and competed in various events in my country. Then I moved my head towards league of legends. Man this game was so addictive, I spent a lot of money of useless things inside this game, just to show off to my friends. I played day and night. From what I recall, My sessions started at around 7.45 - 8.00 am and would play till 4.00 pm. Then I would just take a break and start gaming again at 6.00 pm and played till 1.00 am. I intentionally ditched lectures, friends and family. I left the room only to grab a lunch, breakfast or a dinner. However me and my team won the "League of legends National Champions of 2013" title. It was a payoff for my dedication, hard-work, sweat, time, money  and sacrifices that I've put to the game.Despite the achievements, I look back and realized the time, the hours that I have spent on gaming. After all is a virtually simulated environment giving you a pleasure that is quite recondite when you think of it. Right after my victory, I started taking a break and visiting other countries, and places. Then I realized what I've been missing and how the actual world is functioning. I realized I should have gone out more and enjoyed what the nature and the other things the world had to offer, the finer things in life, family, friends etc. I wish i had spent that part of my life on trying to pump my adrenaline (surfing, skiing, swimming, rock climbing), travelling, making memories, partying, education etc. If I had dedicated in the exact same way for my education, I would definitely be in a better place than I am now. Let your predilections motivate you to achieve your goals and remind your self everyday what you really want in life. This will help you to push the gaming away. If its extremely difficult to eschew, then get rid of the game, the DVD or whatever. Gaming is fantastic, but just like everything else in the world, too much of it is not really worth it. The world has more to offer so enjoy it, and keep gaming casual.

I don't enjoy video games anymore. How can I start enjoying them again?

One of the things I’ve learned making games is that there’s fun factor for everyone out there in the form of a video game mechanic but it’s difficult to know what kind of gameplay that is until you find it.My advice is to look back at the games you really enjoyed and spent countless hours on and look for new offerings with that mechanic or genre. It’s out there somewhere, people are always trying to re-invent old mechanics in new ways.For me I was always big into FPS games since the days of Duke Nukem and Doom. The game that really got me was a mod for Quake called Quakeworld Team Fortress. I got into competitive gaming and game dev because of this game and not even the countless versions or Team Fortress 2 could match the gameplay level the original game could give. But years later Blizzard made a little game called Overwatch which based it’s core classes on the QWTF/TF2 classes and I was able to find an upgraded version of the classes I used to enjoy and was able to find that fun factor again. Now, I pop into Overwatch for a few rounds whenever I feel the need and I get that fix I was craving for years of frustrating console FPS games. Your game’s out there.

What can one do if he has a craving desire to learn or study something but he is not actually doing it and instead of it he has a diversion towards video games?

Well the same thing you do when you want to pee in the middle of your video game; force stop it and just stand up! If you really want to do something and you're spending less of your time doing what you're supposed to do and more time in usual stuff that means that you're not pushing enough. Well at least you had this thought! What you can do is push yourself bit by bit. Taking baby steps always helps. Take out 15 mins only 15 mins for what you're supposed to learn and just do it for those 15 mins. If you're learning something new just try reading or rehearsing that one section only.This can help you in two ways: first you'll feel content that at least I did something even if it was just small effort I put there. Second is that sometimes your 15 mins can even stretch to half an hour or even to an hour and you will never really notice. So just 15 mins is what you have to put and you'll see the difference :)

How can I stop liking girls and craving for a relationship (forever)?

Well... you can't go your biological programming and just stop to like girls whatsoever. What you can do, however, is to reprogram your social conditioning which led to the belief you must be in a relationship to be happy.Crazy, right? I mean, how the hell there can be single people out there enjoying life and doing their own shit and not worrying whether they had a partner? Well, my friend, it happens. It happens because the moment you begin to focus on yourself and the things you can do for you, that's when the conditions appear for a person to come along and enjoy life alongside you. In your case, this woman is going to be a great plus for your life, but by no means the sole reason that you are now happy. In fact, take her out of the picture, and you'll still get a guy living a good and fulfilling life.Being in a relationship doesn't solve your problems. You'll still need to study, to find a job, to develop your hobbies, to take care of yourself when you are sick, to learn to cook, to do stuff whenever she's not around and even more. Burn this phrase in your mind: "A relationship is not a miraculous medicine that will solve your problems and make you happy". It can be part of your happiness, and it should be, but you need to work on yourself.Go to the gym. Read books. Go out more. Find things you enjoy and are passionate about. Travel, write a blog, go play video games, try your hand at a musical instrument. There are lots of stuff you can do in this world, and yet you are all anxious because you're single? I speak to you like this because I was at the same place you are now until somewhat recently. I had heard all of the things I'm telling you a long time ago, but only recently I realized how to apply those things. And in no means I'm perfect, but I'm seeing the results. I met a girl through a dating app and so far we're having a blast being with one another. When I met her, I was respectful, but I showed her I was into her and I wanted her. I went for it, and if she had declined, I'd try again with someone else, over and over, until I found someone willing to be with me. And in the meantime, my life still has a lot of good stuff going on, so I felt no pressure whatsoever to find that person... and also, she wasn't the first I met, either. So it takes time. But if you do things that make you happy, the rest comes without the amount of effort you think you have to put in to find someone.Best of luck.