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.
Here's why, there is basically one neuro-transmitter or rather neuromodulator system, that governs our goal setting, goal assessment and goal pursuit. And that is the neuromodulator dopamine. Dopamine is the common currency by which we assess our progress toward particular things of particular value. In fact, dopamine, is the way that we assess value of our pursuits.
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the biology of dope reward um dopamine of course being a molecule that people associate with reward but it's really about the pursuit of reward it's about more it's about and it's it's no coincidence that dopamine is involved in generating movement in the body
Turns out it isn't. It's about anticipation of reward. And it's about generating the motivation, the goal- directed behavior needed to go get that reward.
dopamine is not just that, you know, at the finish line. It's part of the neural circuitry uh algorithm that's driving us forward or causing us to pause.