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How to Train Your Brain to Enjoy Hard Work
1:38:33 - 1:48:29 (09:55)
In this podcast, the speaker discusses the importance of enjoying the process of hard work to achieve success, and how rewards can actually prevent us from feeling the joy of effort itself. One straightforward example of attaching dopamine to effort is intermittent fasting.
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When we focus on working hard for a reward that comes after the activity, we dissociate the neural circuits for dopamine and reward that would have normally been active during the activity.
1:38:33 - 1:45:20 (06:47)
Summary
When we focus on working hard for a reward that comes after the activity, we dissociate the neural circuits for dopamine and reward that would have normally been active during the activity. This can make the hard work much more challenging and make us much less likely to lean into hard work in the future.
ChapterHow to Train Your Brain to Enjoy Hard Work
EpisodeControlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
PodcastHuberman Lab
Effort itself can release dopamine and increase the baseline level of dopamine for people who learn to enjoy it.
1:45:20 - 1:48:29 (03:08)
Summary
Effort itself can release dopamine and increase the baseline level of dopamine for people who learn to enjoy it. The most powerful aspect of dopamine and our biology is the ability to access pleasure from effort, which can be achieved by spiking dopamine from the effort itself.