This is the Problem with Dopamine @melrobbins
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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
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