Andrew Huberman· PhD
your experience of life and your level of motivation and drive depends on how much dopamine you have relative to your recent experience.
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your experience of life and your level of motivation and drive depends on how much dopamine you have relative to your recent experience.
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it goes down to a level below what it was before you went out seeking that thing.
It doesn't just increase your baseline and then stay there. It goes back down. And what's very important to understand is that it doesn't just go back down to the level it was before. It goes down to a level below what it was before you went out seeking that thing.
But even for people who aren't addicted, even for people don't have an attachment to any specific substance or behavior, this drop in ba below baseline after any peak in dopamine is substantial and it governs whether or not we are going to feel motivated to continue to pursue other things.