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Dopamine is the primary determinant behind how excited we are, how motivated we are, and how ready we are to push through things to get what we want
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IMPORTANT: Your baseline level of dopamine drops after you experience or crave something desirable.
All of us have different levels of baseline dopamine, with some genetic component.
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How satisfying an experience is depends on the height of the peak relative to the baseline. Increasing dopamine will make you motivated but it will be short lived.
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How much dopamine you experience from something depends on your baseline level of dopamine when you arrive there and your previous dopamine peaks.
Thus, when you repeatedly engage in something you enjoy your threshold for enjoyment goes up and up and up.
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There are subjective experiences that differentially increase dopamine depending on enjoyment versus things like chocolate, sex, nicotine, etc. which universally increase dopamine.
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IMPORTANT: Access reward from the process and associate dopamine release from friction and challenge you are in during effort instead of only once goal is achieved – convince yourself the effort part is the good part (e.g., intermittent fasting)
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Layering together multiple substances & activities that lead to big increases in dopamine can create pretty severe issues with motivation and energy right after those experiences
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After a peak, the level of dopamine drops below baseline. The extent to which it drops is proportional to how high the peak was.
This explains why doing the same behaviours will not produce the same level of joy.
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Don't spike dopamine prior to engaging in effrort.
Don't spike dopamine after engaging in effort.
LEARN TO SPIKE DOPAMINE FROM EFFORT ITSELF.
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IMPORTANT: A drop in dopamine is inevitable after a spike
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Telling yourself that exercise (fasting, etc) is good for your will reinforce the extent to which it is good for you at a chemical level.
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