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Precommit.

Precommitment is a powerful strategy to control impulsivity. The point is to take a future choice away from yourself: an alcoholic will avoid bars, a drug addict will not carry cash, a person on a diet doesn't go to the grocery store hungry.

If you're addicted to StarCraft, then get rid of the game. Throw it away. Just like an alcoholic would pour his alcohol down the drain.

You can try technological solutions like using parental controls, but if you managed to get around an application like SelfControl. Why will anything else work? There is always a way.

For instance with parental controls, when you try to open StarCraft under a parental controlled account, Mac OS X simply asks you for an administrator password, all you need to do there is slip once.

Habits, good or bad, are like well blazed trails through the jungle of your mind. When you try to step off those trails into the jungle and blaze a new trail, certain parts of your brain look behind you and say, "damn that trail back there is a hell of a lot easier than this."

Willpower can only get you so far down that new trail; it is not an infinite resource but a finite one. Precommitting is an omission of your weaknesses, and that you are not psychologically one person but many.

We are not the rational people we perceive ourselves as.

I know you asked for technological solution, so I'm sorry about that, but I hope I answered your question anyways.

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