Repeatedly pursuing dopamine-evoking activities after depletion leads to a lower baseline and diminished pleasure.

“I mean a few years ago there was a hack that I think Tim Ferris put out on his podcast if you shift your phone to black and white mode grayscale I mean all that stuff becomes far less reinforcing you kind of don't want to look at the thing you shift it back to full color and it's like wao it's it's just so much more compelling so you're scrolling you're seeing things and yeah if you see something that you really really like maybe an animal video that you really like in my case then sure there's very likely to be some dopamine release is it going to deplete the Baseline of dopamine unlikely but if you engage in that activity for many many hours you could imagine that it might we don't have exact data on this certainly if you're combining any kind of stimulants that tap into the dopamine system this is going to happen certainly if you're engaging A drugs of abuse or just a lot of you know exciting High amplitude activity it makes other things seem more boring because actually relative to what was going on neurochemically it is more boring”