Andrew Huberman· PhD
The creep of no/low effort, fast dopamine yielding behaviors will crater your mental & physical health unless you are also playing medium/long-hard-effort-to-dopamine games.
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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 creep of no/low effort, fast dopamine yielding behaviors will crater your mental & physical health unless you are also playing medium/long-hard-effort-to-dopamine games.
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Big peaks in dopamine that do not require much effort to access = long periods of lack of motivation & blues, especially if you try to exit that rut with low effort activities.
The problem is dopamine, especially high levels of dopamine, released without the need for effort to access that dopamine is problematic.