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placing specific habitual routines at particular intervals throughout your day is a very, not just convenient, but a very good way to incorporate the dopamine system so that you divide your day into a series of what I would call functional units.
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many people would do well to structure their life like that and to utilize habits not just for the sake of what you do during the habit, but because of the fact that the habits serve as a marker because of the way they can evoke dopamine release. And in doing that, you are able to segment your day into a bunch of smaller, if you want them to be smaller, or larger functional units.
Habits are a very clear way in which we can invoke dopamine release and therefore provide time markers, and what this means is that, for instance, during your morning, you might insert habit one and habit two at, say, I don't know, 8 AM and 10 AM, and in doing that, that marks an epoch, a little batch of time in your morning routine that's distinct from the second half of your morning.
It would mean waking up and having one specific habit that you always engage in that causes a release of dopamine. You could say, "Well, great. That'll make me feel good." And I would would agree dopamine release generally makes us feel motivated, but it would have an additional effect of marking that time of day as the beginning of a particular time bin.
what this means is that placing specific habitual routines at particular intervals throughout your day is a very not just convenient, but a very good way to incorporate the dopamine system so that you divide your day into a series of what I would call functional units.
that the that regular sequencing of things is going to lead not just to dopamine release as it relates to reward and motivation and feeling good but it actually becomes the way in which we carve up our entire experience of our day.