Dopamine isn’t the cookie. It isn’t the like. It isn’t the quick hit you’ve been told it is.
Dopamine is motivation. It’s what gets you up the mountain, through the project, into the scary thing you’ve been avoiding. It’s effort that creates the reward.
If you’ve been told to stop chasing dopamine hits or to try a dopamine detox, you’ve been sold the wrong story. In this episode I get into the real neuroscience of dopamine and how you can use it to actually feel good about the hard things you’re doing.
What we cover:
- why dopamine isn’t pleasure, it’s anticipation and motivation
- the difference between distraction and reward
- how doomscrolling and sugar hijack your brain
-fear vs excitement and how to reframe it
-micro challenges and rituals that rewire your habits
-why mastery comes from repetition not grand gestures
-the HALT reset hungry angry lonely tired
Mentioned in this episode:
What Would Zappa Do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ODybWBZCu4
The Mormon and the Meth-Head https://open.spotify.com/show/13J5cWpdNlpdkVzfY9gxZV ELI Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWYPc0j9zdM&list=PLr3yIinnbEHpzk2S_aeMkrQ_TkBtHGA06
Episode 83: Permission to Pause https://open.spotify.com/episode/5aEaINe1jGGAb2fOtJCWgp?si=2d45b8ac4a8947a4
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Cover Art: Beau Stanton
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