Avoiding pleasure intentionally, overcoming unconscious desire. This can help a bit with avoiding the meaningless struggle, for instance, for social status. The weakening of emotions. It could be due to maturity, or it could be due to emotional management techniques, or trauma, where, after a horrible incident, some things afterwards are so negligible in comparison.) It's like the Buddhist concept of Detachment in a way.
Perhaps stuff in life no longer entertains me, or pleases me much in
any way…
But it also means, theoretically, if I embrace and accept this strongly, I can work
without getting interrupted by the desire for pleasure, because I know
it isn’t there…
And it can also be good, as it can make me less manipulated by
unnecessary external rewards…
For it can be that I take almost everything pragmatically, or as a
logical factuality, not associating feelings with them. The less you
desire, the better the things will be compared to what you expect, so
the brain may be interested. However, this can also reduce motivation, so
there is a bit of difficulty in this.