Same! My stats on the Summary page are kind of embarrassing 
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be aware. elektronauts are the real threat to your creativity
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I’ve considered muting all the GAS-inducing threads, but there wouldn’t be much left 
. That’s my real enemy at the moment… Adding up all the time spent researching gear / sourcing / learning / often reselling / etc, it’s probably longer than time spent making music. I think I’ll try a year-of-no-new-gear, see how that goes.
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set small goals and start with a week 
off topic, but I feel elektonauts has become very gear centric. When I joined 2014, I think it was more about elektron gear than gear in general, also it was much more about techniques and tips and music with elektron maschines. But my memory might fool me
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Tbf I have the GAS thing under control [my rule is one month minimum before pulling the trigger… Amazing how few things pass the test]. I do enjoy exploring the gear that’s out there… but I’ve become a bit obsessive about hunting for things that might inspire / gel well with me, when the reality is I have enough great tools already. A number of recent threads have got me thinking about re-prioritising how I spend my time. And often the only method that works to change my habits is extremes… Otherwise I tend to drift back into the same patterns.
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I have to mute the “minimal gear” threads because I will be without hardware soonish if I continue my selling spree 
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Video games are probably my personal nr 1 creativity killer. Especially super stimulating ones like Overwatch, i can litteraly feel the rush when on a roll. It also makes me impatient i think. Like extiting the match within 1 second of it being over to quickly search a new one. Uff!
Instant gratification.
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I don’t know if you know the Scottish comedian and Twitch streamer Limmy but he calls Overwatch ‘the muck’, as in it’s his heroin 
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I dont know i him but a good description for sure haha! It gives me adrenal rush or something, rising heart beat and great feeling… for a short time 
I’ve uninstalled it over and over but keep coming back.
Maybe its time to go and be actually creative today! I have some sweet sounds i want to transfer to my Digitakt, and use in a current project
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Sampled from Overwatch and/or the game chat? 
(just kidding)
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I’d be concerned that when the time “came”, it would be like a wax dart coming out.
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Maybe sampling an ejaculatory sound into an Octatrack after weeks of denial may be the answer to get your mojo back.
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ditto.
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I’ve really been thinking about getting rid of Facebook since this thread and questioning my habits. I discovered I can delete every post I’ve ever made in bulk, but Facebook removed the option to sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account. So, over the next week or so, I’m going to message a few people about the change, delete my current profile, start a new one with barely any info on it, add people I actually talk to and no one else, get admin rights to my band’s page then delete the app entirely.
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I’ve never had the fb app. I only visit the site via the Brave browser, but I did have to get messenger.
I’ve never given fb much personal info, and most of the things posted are like, “hey, check this out,” or “come see us here.”
in this time of cancelled gigs the streams have become all-important, so I can’t clear any “potential viewers” from my “friends” list. …but I do want to…
…and for getting ‘creative work’ done… I still need to figure that part out. lol.
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Here’s the reality–some of us are more easily “hooked” on the news-feed-type apps and platforms. I’m 39 years old and I live my life with discipline…until it comes to those things. Call it ADHD or whatever, but the dopamine hits from YouTube refreshes and rabbit holes, FB scrolling, IG scrolling…it can make me anxious and detached from my inner creative voice for MONTHS.
Go cold turkey! Get rid of them (even if you keep the profiles for music promotion stuff), get them off your phone. It’s so much hassle to use the desktop versions that it’ll kill off the need to constantly check them. Have you noticed the bullshit notifications you get sometimes, like a notification for notification’s sake. Useless crap. Watch The Social Dilemma. It’ll solidify your move to a better life 
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Quitting FB is a good idea regardless of any effect on your creative output.
It’s almost impossible to delete an account properly, btw.
After a few months not using it, I accidentally clicked an old bookmark and it took me to my FB page. Seeing all the crap I felt an immediate and visceral NO and closed it as fast as I could.
FB is absolute garbage. It’s a shame that Messenger is so ubiquitous – I’ve persuaded some friends to use Telegram instead, but it’s an uphill battle.
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Not within the EU. Yes, they try their damndest to keep you, even showing you pictures of people who will supposedly miss you, but thanks to GDPR, we have the right to be forgotten. So, deactivate the account and after a month they are obliged to delete your data.
I dunno. I asked them to delete, but then when I opened a public FB page a few months later, it was like I’d never left – account appeared to be intact, stream of notifications waiting for me, etc. Maybe cos I’m not in the EU?