Rewiring Your Brain to Utilize Dopamine | Andrew Huberman

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  Hi,

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  my name is Lewis house and welcome to the daily motivation show Pursuit is very taxing and the reason is that there's a biochemical reason for this is it's like wandering in the desert not knowing

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  if there's water at all That's really depleting.

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  I mean epinephrine is in the brain and its chemical equivalent in the body is adrenaline.

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  Those are the same thing.

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  And if you're constantly in pursuit, right, you're just pursuing external goals,

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  external goals, external goals, it will wear your nervous system down.

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  You will be exhausted and you will, one will eventually run aground.

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  You become mentally depressed.

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  The key is to figure out what are the rewards that you can acquire along the way internally.

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  Remember it's subjective.

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  There could also be external rewards, because many things have milestones, you know,

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  a Series A or Series B for a company, then the IPO later.

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  Reaching a million users or doing this.

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  We have engagements before we have weddings typically, right?

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  There's a lot of buildup that fortunately provides these reward mechanisms.

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  So the key thing is that you can't just be all gas pedal all the time without rewarding yourself.

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  However,

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  the reward that Dopamine is so powerful

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  because it actually is the chemical substrate for epinephrine.

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