In this episode, Nir Eyal explains the science behind how habits are formed in the brain and what happens when we break them. He explains how dopamine plays a crucial role in habit-forming and how it can be used to create positive habits instead of negative ones.
In this episode, Dr. Stephen J. Dubner discusses the science behind motivation and the role dopamine plays in it. He explains how to create a dopamine reward system and how to work with reward prediction error to stay motivated.
An anecdote on dopamine release by a coach discussing how an underdog mentality is beneficial in keeping you focused on achieving your end goal, as opposed to getting too much dopamine release from achieving intermediate goals and never making it to the end.
Writing productivity guru, Dr. Kara Mohr, discusses the importance of putting your phone away during the writing process to increase productivity and focus, providing tips on how to prevent phone distractions.
In this podcast episode, the hosts discuss the feeling of resentment and deprivation caused by a dopamine deficiency when expectations are not met. They suggest mixing up routines as a way to lessen the effects of dopamine deficiency and gain the benefits of delayed gratification.
The level of dopamine rises when craving for something, but drops below baseline after consuming it, contributing to the desire to pursue it again. The drop in dopamine triggers motivation to bring that level back up, which explains why desire for things increases dopamine.