I have an addiction to reading books, researching, and talking about stuff endlessly.
I've been doing this for years.
Evola and other suggest the first step to higher knowledge is to optimize/change ones own self and find superior ways of knowing. That if you don't even have the right prerequisites you're doomed.
I should be practicing techniques that allow me to tune into and find higher quality and more relevant information so I don't waste so much time digging the world's knowledge on the internet.
I should be learning rapid perception like is talked about in Personal Power so I can glance at a page of text and get a perfect copy of it in my mind that I can read then without staring any longer.
I should be working on servitors and thoughtforms that can assist me in difficult and repetitive mental tasks and help me in brainstorming sessions and counsel me on the problems of life.
I should be cultivating intense interest so I develop a strong and perfect memory.
I am not doing this because I love my books too much and I love imageboards too much and I like theology groups too much.
It's not that I have to stop these things completely, but, every day I should be spending more time in meditation and thoughtforming and such until I feel exhausted and then switching to other activities, so that eventually the amount of time I do my usual habits becomes almost nothing.
I also have a habit of wasting my time on frivolities like getting into stupid discussions with anons on /pol/ and /b/ and /fringe/ and other boards.
When Manly P. Hall was around my age he wrote The Secret Teachings of All Ages. His knowledge I bet you was not acquired from having a short attention span and a shit memory. The amount he already knew in his 20s was more than the average man today will learn in a lifetime of struggle. That's saying nothing about those who don't even pursue knowledge, I'm specifically talking about people who pursue it, but haven't developed the skills and techniques to process and assimilate knowledge with high efficiency first.
I should promise myself that I will never read another imageboard post without first learning to be able to freeze an image of everything on my computer screen, close my eyes, and read it from memory that way, then write a response with my eyes still closed.
There's more as well I need to be doing. I practice pranayama but not nearly as much as I should. I should be controlling my breath and producing the corresponding physiological states on a regular basis. I practice tummo but the best I can do is generate enough heat to be sweating like crazy (I can also control my ability to sweat and that leads to red outbreaks and rashes on my skin because it's getting overheated and I'm stopping the sweat from happening that would allow it to cool down). I should be so good at it that I can set stuff on fire like Dynamo Jack.
Renouncing lust is a big thread on here. However we should be pledging to stop our lazy mental habits too. Have you ever introduced your mother or some random normie to your computer and seen how they refuse to use shortcuts and they figure out some way to do something but it's super fucking slow yet even after you show them a way to do the same task in a fraction of the time they still do things the way they learned it because changing habits is hard? THAT IS ME. THAT IS US. WE NEED TO STOP USING OUR MINDS INEFFICIENTLY JUST BECAUSE IT IS THE HABIT FOR US.
I pledge to renounce mental laziness. I pledge to cultivate myself. I pledge to develop a superior form of cognition.