Am I giving up too many dopamine hits all at once?

For example:

Seven things being given-up at once is a lot. In fact, why not ask “Wanna bet?” The list is actually seven independent variables. If the odds of failing at giving up any one activity can be estimated at between 20 and 80% (guess an average of 50% across the eight activities) then there are two to the power of eight different combinations of success or failure across a period of time. There is only one combination that has success at each of the eight positions. All the rest of the 2 to the eight power combinations has at least one failure. You have a one in 256 chance of success which is 0.391%.

If, further, your mental attitude is to viciously attack yourself for failure at even one “give-up”, and failure at even one indicates that “better to be lucky than good” isn’t working for you today, then you are very likely to give up trying at all of the seven when you have failed at one. In short, you have set up a game and mindset where you are almost certain to fail. Wouldn’t it be nice if you set up a game and mindset where success was more than 90% probable? If success is achieving any one of the seven goals (where each averages 50% chance of success) then the only possible combination of non-success is failure at all of them, which itself is also only 0.391%. Achieving one makes you more likely to keep going to achieve more because you are just that good and have powered through some stretches of bad luck.