All the advice on resisting video games and the like (internet blockers, social support) has been on using tricks of one sort or another to restrict the act, not the desire.
Some advice is about substitution, i.e. you identify the emotional need driving a stubborn behavior, and find a more approved behavior than satisfies the same need.
Interesting concept. I read about something similar in the book Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing The New Domesticity—the author recounts that when working at a dead-end job with no challenge her impulse for creativity got shunted into “DIY” projects of questionable value like stenciling pictures of frogs onto her microwave, and that once she got into a job that stretched her abilities the desire for “DIY” evaporated.
Some advice is about substitution, i.e. you identify the emotional need driving a stubborn behavior, and find a more approved behavior than satisfies the same need.
Interesting concept. I read about something similar in the book Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing The New Domesticity—the author recounts that when working at a dead-end job with no challenge her impulse for creativity got shunted into “DIY” projects of questionable value like stenciling pictures of frogs onto her microwave, and that once she got into a job that stretched her abilities the desire for “DIY” evaporated.