Is learning languages a good idea in my case?

Hi, I've already cut computer games, started nofap and cut off movies, books, internet curiousity stuff, anything that I find interesting and is very easy, with the idea to rewire my dopamine system.

I'm trying to improve my discipline and increase a lot my resistance to discomfort by building habits and doing boring and unpleasant stuff. And by not doing easy high-dopamine stuff. I used to flood my system with happy chemistry by reading and learning for reading and learning's sake, without much actual benefit from those. I'm trying to eliminate distractions from what I want to be my vocation.

With that in mind, does it seem like a good idea to spend about 30 minutes every day on learning languages? The way I'd go about it is 15 minutes Spanish, 15 minutes German every day, long term, in Duolingo, which is lots of very easy exercises. In 3-4 years I should be quite good conversationally at both (no hurry). They would not be immediately beneficial to me, I have no plans of living in or even traveling long term in any predominantly spanish/german speaking country. I don't even have friends who speak any of these. I just like how they sound, probably because of tv channels I used to watch as a kid.

Is this a total and useless distraction? I do get a serous dopamine hit from it (I do feel very good while doing the exercises) yet at the same time, long term it should be quite good for discipline (daily habit) and it is not a huge time sink. Any thoughts? My main concern is its effect on my dopamine system reboot.

Good idea, bad idea, or try and adjust?

 

Some posts elsewhere helped me clear things out a bit. I'll be dropping duolingo as I don't have a solid reason for being there. I use it mostly for the feel-good "ding" of a successful answer and gamified progression, which works similarly to porn, keeping me there for the next dose. It's fun and interesting, but right now it's just a distraction, I'll use the time for something more beneficial. Too many things to learn and do, too little time.

 

Protagonist, I agree that learning a language is great in general, unfortunately for me, right now, it is a distraction. It is fun, but I'm doing way too much fun things and not enough useful things.

Informious, exactly what I was thinking. I'll cut it for that reason. It actually didn't even occur to me to spend time right now on learning a language in a different way. Shows that I was in for the game, not for the language.

Tibo87, you're right as well, if I were to learn a language it should be only one. I couldn't pick one to drop, that's the issue I'm trying to address, swamping myself with fun and interesting things which are not of tangible benefit to me.

Thanks for the thoughts

 

Exercise is good but takes effort. Exactly the type of dopamine pathways I'm trying to reinforce. That's why I exercise every day. Instead, I'm trying to cut what I find easy/addictive and not clearly beneficial (movies, tons of books I want to read, games, porn, podcasts, constant news, tech news, etc). I want to do/know a thousand things and way too many of them are fun to actually get to the useful (and not fun) ones.