and as for how do i get into the mood to listen to music in the first place given that i’m now in my 40s ?
i explain that here:
basically i add tracks to my library after jerking off and i listen to them in full ( beginning to end ) in the gym or while driving.
basically you need to leverage the moments in which you feel most like when you were young for this.
the time window after an orgasm is pretty short so i use it to skip though tracks at a rate of a few tracks per minute as explained above. i have to use this state of mind to evaluate as many tracks as quickly as possible. i will have plenty of time to listen to these pre-selected tracks in full while in the gym.
this would all be easier if i was still using drugs. if i did, the same basic principles would still apply - only the details would change.
i would also make sure to use different types of drugs to get maximum breadth. the kind of music you listen to on Weed, LSD, MDMA, Cocaine and Alcohol would all be very different and you would want to put yourself into all these different states of mind to cover all the possible corners of the music landscape to develop as wide a taste as possible.