Fight the temptation of doing things just because I can

Young hackers have an attitude of doing things just because they can. They exploit loop holes of systems, write bots to check whether there is new weakness on the Internet. They don't have the need to do all these except that they find satisfaction on doing so for the sake of their ego.

I found myself having the similar kind of attitude when I am deal thing things that I possess . I always have a desire to take advantage if the stuff that I already have and see if I can turn them into something cool and useful . But by doing that I distract myself from doing more important things, that I should do.

I found that one of the way to combat that kind of desire is by listing out everything I found really important to me. That way, whenever I start thinking about doing something adhoc, I will pull out that lust and remove myself what really is important.