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Fight the temptation to play against other people

I love learning chess and developing my thinking skills here on Lichess using the excellent tactics and training feature, but I find my self tempted to play against other people for way too much time. I sometimes keep going for hours and get really upset about losing. I'd rather have my time invested more into studying.

Do you have suggestions for me? Is there a way to fight this addiction maybe by disabling the option to play against other people? Only have to option to play against stockfish and train tactics?
Isn't your purpose in studying chess to play other people? :)

Game experience can also be valuable training, even more so if you take time to really analyze your games afterward, especially the longer time control games. That also might help balance your time.

ETA: I usually feel like my time is off balance too far the other way.

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