The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Dung Trinh
243 episodes
1 day ago
Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
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Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
Mastering Motivation: How Dopamine Peaks, Valleys, and Baselines Shape Your Drive
The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
13 minutes
3 days ago
Mastering Motivation: How Dopamine Peaks, Valleys, and Baselines Shape Your Drive
Send us a text We unpack how dopamine actually governs motivation through a balance of tonic baseline and phasic peaks, why big highs lead to slumps, and how to build steady drive without crashes. We share tools like cold exposure, intermittent rewards, effort-first framing, and social connection, plus cautions on supplements and stimulants. • defining dopamine as a neuromodulator and the tonic versus phasic modes • the seesaw effect where peaks lower baseline and create post-win slumps • re...
The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
