Andrew Huberman· PhD
there's a fundamental relationship between dopamine released in your brain and your desire to exert effort and you can actually control the schedule of dopamine release but it requires the appropriate knowledge
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
there's a fundamental relationship between dopamine released in your brain and your desire to exert effort and you can actually control the schedule of dopamine release but it requires the appropriate knowledge
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feeling of dopamine being trickled out in response to effort and getting the rewards of the that effort repeat.
Dopamine drives motivation and the pursuit of rewards We don't just get "hits" of dopamine when we experience pleasure. Dopamine is a currency that converts desire into physical and cognitive effort to achieve a particular goal.
what we believe about how dopamine Works what we believe about effort those things can be merged in a way that indeed we can start to attach reward to the effort process itself