Andrew Huberman· PhD
And so really the state of mind that one needs to adopt when playing is, first of all you have to engage in the play it, whatever it happens to be with some degree of focus and seriousness and focus and seriousness in the neurobiological context generally means epinephrine being able to focus is largely reliant on things like adrenaline epinephrine, but also the presence of dopamine, which is a molecule that generates motivation and focus in concert with epinephrine, but also that these endogenous opioids be liberated. And it's really the low stakes feature of play that allows those endogenous opioids to be liberated.