Essentials: Controlling Your Dopamine for Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain how dopamine regulates motivation and provide science-based tools to help improve focus, discipline and overall drive.
I explore how particular activities affect dopamine levels and discuss how the highs, lows and baseline levels of dopamine shape your motivation and long-term satisfaction. I also explain practical strategies to boost dopamine levels, such as deliberate cold exposure, caffeine, effort-based rewards and specific supplements. Whether you're looking to enhance motivation for school, work or daily life, this episode explains how to get and stay motivated while supporting healthy dopamine levels.
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- Amphetamine or cocaine limits the ability of later experience to promote structural plasticity in the neocortex and nucleus accumbens (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
- Human physiological responses to immersion into water of different temperatures (European Journal of Applied Physiology)
- Undermining children’s intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the “overjustification” hypothesis (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
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