Andrew Huberman· PhD
Dopamine does many things but one of the more important things dopamine does is set the threshold for us to pursue specific goals.
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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.
Dopamine does many things but one of the more important things dopamine does is set the threshold for us to pursue specific goals.
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Dopamine is a universal currency in all mammals, but especially in humans for moving us toward goals and how much dopamine is in our system at any one time compared to how much dopamine was in our system a few minutes ago, and how much we remember enjoying a particular experience of the past. That dictates your so-called quality of life and your desire to pursue things.
Dopamine is a universal currency in all mammals, but especially in humans for moving us toward goals and how much dopamine is in our system at any one time compared to how much dopamine was in our system a few minutes ago, and how much we remember enjoying a particular experience of the past. That dictates your so-called quality of life and your desire to pursue things.
I thought dopamine was the feel-good molecule. Well, in reality, dopamine is not necessarily a molecule of reward. It's a molecule of motivation, pursuit, and drive.
Dopamine, is the common currency by which we pursue goals.
Dopamine is often thought of as the molecule of pleasure and reward, but actually it is the molecule of motivation.
the dopamine system initiates a motivation signal that takes you through that entire round of pursuit
and how much dopamine is in our system at any one time compared to how much dopamine was in our system a few minutes ago that dictates your so-called quality of life and your desire to pursue things.
it would be there's a molecule in your brain and body that when released tends to make you look outside yourself, pursue things outside yourself, and to crave things outside yourself. Dopamine is a universal currency in all mammals, but especially in humans, for moving us toward goals.
So, dopamine really sits at the heart of our motivational state to seek out goals and to seek pleasure. And this is true for immediate goals that take place within a time frame of minutes or a time frame of a day or the time frame of a week or the time frame of a lifetime. Dopamine is the common currency by which we pursue goals.
dopamine is the currency for all of this ... dopamine is the currency of motivation reward and pursuit but mostly reward but mostly motivation and effort and then additionally reward under certain conditions