A lot of people would read the title of this article and just about throw a fit. “What,” they would almost shout out in near shock. “Why in the world would anybody WANT to cultivate an addiction to something,” they would ask, incredulous at the very notion of trying to form an addiction. Then comes the part where they show off that they are ignorant: “All addictions are bad!” Unfortunately, such attitudes are so common that articles like these simply have to be written. Reading basic treatises of this nature are valuable to the condition of many people, all around the world.
When you cultivate an addiction, you are obviously not talking about taking up recreational heroin use. Well, in fairness, you might be talking about that. But this article is not talking about forming any kind of addiction that would be likely to hurt you. So if you are thinking that this is going to encourage you to develop a raging, unquenchable desire for alcohol or the inescapable urge to gamble away your life savings, stop thinking things like that! That makes you sound like one of those reactionaries that we talked about a moment ago. This is about helping yourself, not hurting yourself.
Now of course, if you really do want to hurt yourself, nothing an anonymous person online could say would ever make much of a difference. But if you are not a part of the masochistic variety of people, you might actually want to help yourself in some way. And one of the best ways to help yourself is to start into doing something every day, until it becomes something that you are compelled to do. It almost does not matter what this thing is, as long as it helps you to reach a worthwhile goal.