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How to Increase Motivation & Drive | Huberman Lab Podcast #12
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Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
DOPAMINE Begin a novel exercise routine. Learn to play a new instrument. Get out of your social comfort zone. Begin a side entrepreneurial project. Start a new blog, newsletter, or Meetup group. Break from the “tranquility of repetition.” Take alternate routes to work and travel more frequently. NOREPINEPHRINE Halt chronic consumption of news, whic
... See morePaul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Like serotonin, dopamine is considered a “feel-good” neurotransmitter. It is most famously associated with motivation and reward, and it gets released when we do things like have sex, listen to our favorite music, eat, or watch our favorite sports team succeed. It also spikes when a new work opportunity or promotion presents itself, when we spot so
... See morePaul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
In time, studies began to establish that the areas of the brain in which this electrical stimulation was most compelling were those areas involving neurons that produced a neurotransmitter called 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine—better known by its abbreviated nickname: dopamine.