Why Your New Year’s Goals Fail — and How to Become Supernormal Instead You set big goals for the new year. But if your brain is hijacked by screens, algorithms, and constant overstimulation, willpower alone will not get you there. Excess dopamine from the screen miswires your brain, drains motivation, and keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode. That is why focus fades, follow-through collapses, and every year starts to feel the same. If you want this year to be different, the first ...
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Why Your New Year’s Goals Fail — and How to Become Supernormal Instead You set big goals for the new year. But if your brain is hijacked by screens, algorithms, and constant overstimulation, willpower alone will not get you there. Excess dopamine from the screen miswires your brain, drains motivation, and keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode. That is why focus fades, follow-through collapses, and every year starts to feel the same. If you want this year to be different, the first ...
Episode #196: Neuroscientist Explains Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Dopamine
Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast
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1 month ago
Episode #196: Neuroscientist Explains Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Dopamine
Neuroscientist Explains Why You Can’t “Fix” Your Dopamine You’ve tried to fix yourself — more routines, more tracking, more control. But neuroscience shows what you’re really chasing isn’t progress… it’s another dopamine hit. When you constantly tweak, check, or perfect, your brain lights up — not from growth, but from anticipation. That’s why stillness feels unsafe. You’ve trained your nervous system to equate safety with activity. Real discipline isn’t about doing more. It’s about lea...
Dr. Trish Leigh Podcast
Why Your New Year’s Goals Fail — and How to Become Supernormal Instead You set big goals for the new year. But if your brain is hijacked by screens, algorithms, and constant overstimulation, willpower alone will not get you there. Excess dopamine from the screen miswires your brain, drains motivation, and keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode. That is why focus fades, follow-through collapses, and every year starts to feel the same. If you want this year to be different, the first ...
