The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The reward schedule, the dopamine system, is highly susceptible to the subjective effects. These so-called, top-down effects of when we decide that something is going to be good for us, if we analyze it on a given timeframe, well, then it's going to be good for us.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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The dopamine system loves a goal. It loves anticipation of a goal. But it responds best to, we sort of re-up, if you will, our dopamine any time we get a signal that we are on the right track to that goal.
This dopamine system is critical to reup to remind ourselves that we are on track if indeed we are on track because dopamine itself provides a state of motivation and readiness to continue in the regular pursuit of our goals.