A lot of nofappers(people who do nofap) claim that nofap increased their motivation, and after following the nofap lifestyle, they are much more motivated to work on things that’ll improve their life.
In this article, we’re going to discuss does nofap really increases motivation, how much motivation does nofap increase, and everything else you need to know about nofap and motivation.
Porn and masturbation take away all your motivation and desire to anything that takes effort and by doing nofap(quitting porn and masturbation) you get all your motivation and desire back. You’ll be much more motivated to exercise, study, work, socialize, and do everything that can improve your life. Nofap will give you the motivation to work on and improve your life.
Before discussing whether nofap increases your motivation or not, let’s discuss whether porn and masturbation decrease your motivation or not.
Do Porn and Masturbation Decrease Your Motivation?
Yes, Porn and masturbation take away your motivation, and excessive use of PMO(Porn, masturbation, orgasm) turns you into a lifeless zombie.
Porn and masturbation drain you of your energy and leaves you without any motivation, drive, or self-esteem.
Taking away your motivation is just one of the many harmful side effects of excessive PMO(Porn, masturbation, orgasm). To know about all the side effects, check out my detailed article on the topic by clicking here.
If you indulge in PMO excessively, you’ll lose all your desire to do anything that takes effort, you’ll lose interest in your studies, work, and relationship. It’ll make you socially anxious and you’ll start ignoring people and will become a loner.
Here is the confession of one such guy stating how PMO took away all his motivation and ruined his life.
You can read thousands of stories like this by going to the online NoFap forum on Reddit, r/nofap.
PMO will also make you see women as sex objects. Whenever you see any woman, the first thing that’ll come to your mind is having sex with her. As a result, you won’t able to hold a conversation with a woman because all you’ll be thinking about is having sex with her.
I asked this question to people on my Nofap Instagram page(@the_fapstronaut). let’s look at what they say.
95% of people said that they experienced low motivation when they were masturbating excessively, while 5% said they didn’t.
Does NoFap Increase Motivation?
Now that you know that porn and masturbation take away your motivation and desire to do anything productive, the question which arises now is whether or not quitting porn and masturbation(doing nofap) will give you your motivation back.
The answer to that question is YES, quitting porn and masturbation(doing nofap) will give you your motivation and enthusiasm back that porn and masturbation took it away from you.
You’ll be motivated to hit the gym regularly, you’ll be motivated to study and get good grades, and you’ll be motivated to mingle with people and build stronger connections. You’ll also be motivated to work on your skills and improve your skills. In short, you’ll be motivated to do all the things that’ll improve your life. You’ll become obsessed with self-improvement on nofap.
Increased motivation is just one of the many benefits of nofap. To know about all the amazing benefits of nofap, check out my detailed article on the topic by clicking here.
I asked this question to people on my NoFap Instagram page(@the_fapstronaut). Let’s look at what they say.
88% of people said that they experienced more motivation while being on nofap, while 12% said they didn’t.
How Does NoFap Increase Motivation?
To understand how nofap increases motivation, you first need to understand how do porn and masturbation take away your motivation.
Whenever you watch porn and/or masturbate, your brain releases a chemical known as dopamine. Dopamine is a feel-good chemical that gives you the sensation of pleasure. That’s why every time you watch porn and/or jerk off, you feel pleasure. Porn and masturbation release a huge amount of dopamine whenever you indulge in them.
When you start indulging in porn and masturbation excessively, your dopamine receptors get desensitized and the activities which once used to give you pleasure stop giving you pleasure because they don’t release as much dopamine as porn and masturbation. Activities like exercising, studying, working, socializing start seeming boring and you keep going back to porn and masturbation to feel pleasure.
To know about how porn and masturbation take away your motivation by screwing the “reward system” of your brain, check out my detailed article on the topic by clicking here.
When you do nofap and quit porn and masturbation, your dopamine receptors get back to the normal level and activities that couldn’t excite you before start to excite you. Activities such as exercising, studying, working, socializing, etc. start to excite you again, and you start enjoying little things in life.
Also, porn and masturbation turn your mindset into instant gratification and nofap turns your mindset from instant gratification to delayed gratification.
Whenever you feel horny, you just watch other people have sex and jerk off. You can watch thousands of other people having sex with the click of a button and jerk off by imagining that you’re having sex. This mindset carries over to other parts of your life too. You stop putting in the effort to achieve something.
When you do nofap, you realize that in order to have sex, you need to work on yourself. You need to appear attractive by having a good physique, dressing well, and grooming yourself, so you can attract a woman to have sex with. This mindset also carries over to other parts of your life. You start to realize that in order to achieve anything, you first need to put in the effort and time, and you can’t achieve anything with the click of a button.
This shift of mindset from instant gratification to delayed gratification on nofap motivates you to put in the time and effort into things that you want to achieve.
NoFap is Not a Magic Tool
Although nofap increases your motivation, it is not a magic tool that’ll solve all your life’s problems. It’s important to set realistic expectations from nofap so that you don’t get disappointed.
NoFap will give you the motivation to work on your body, but you’ll still need to utilize that increased motivation and hit the gym regularly. Just doing nofap and not working out won’t give you the physique you want.
Similarly, nofap will give you the motivation to go out and talk to people, but you’ll still need to go out and talk with people in order to build stronger connections with people.
NoFap will give you the motivation to study and get good grades, but you’ll still need to study and put in the effort to get good grades. Just doing nofap and not utilizing that increased motivation to do the work won’t help you much.
Think of nofap as a tool that’ll increase your motivation to work on yourself and make yourself better, but you’ll still need to put in the time and effort if you want to improve yourself. Just having the motivation to do so and not putting in the time and effort won’t get you anywhere.
The thing is you’re supposed to feel motivated to work on your goals and improve your life. If you can remember, you were probably motivated and driven to work on yourself before you started indulging in porn and masturbation. Porn and masturbation took away your motivation and drive to succeed, and by doing nofap, you can get that motivation, drive, enthusiasm back. By quitting porn and masturbation(doing nofap), you get back what it took away from you.
Conclusion
Porn and masturbation take away your motivation and drive to succeed and by quitting it(doing nofap), you get your motivation and drive back.
You’ll be much more motivated to exercise, study, work, socialize, improve yourself, etc. on nofap. Nofap turns your mindset from instant gratification to delayed gratification.
Although you’ll be more motivated on nofap, you’d still have to utilize that increased motivation and work on your goals to get the maximum benefits from nofap. Just doing nofap and not utilizing that increased motivation won’t get you anywhere.
