This is the Problem with Dopamine @melrobbins

so the problem with dopamine is we wake

up in the morning and our dopaminergic

stores are full so what happens is we

have a a reserve of dopamine if you want

something with delayed gratification and

your dopamine stores are high you can

work a lot but then when you get the

payoff since you have a bunch of

dopamine you get a strong dopamine

release and then you feel really good

let's say I wake up first thing in the

morning and then I work for 4 hours and

then what is the reward the subjective

reward that I feel after 4 hours of work

it's really positive but if I use

technology for the first 4 hours of the

day and then I try to go and do work

you're not going to you're not going to

and even if you finish the same amount

of work you will not experience the same

level of pleasure because your dopamine

has literally been depleted got it so

the way that I kind of describe this is

imagine that you have a lemon that is

full of juice yep so at the very

beginning when it's full of juice a

small squeeze gets you a lot of juice

but by the end you have to squeeze a lot

to get very little juice this is how

dopamine is in our brain