Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Huberman Lab Podcast #39

Abstain from or limit highly desirable activities so that the baseline dopamine levels are returned to normal.

-Peaks of dopamine decrease our baseline dopamine required for motivation and satisfaction with life.

-Aim for random, intermittent release of dopamine.

-Dont bundle pleasurable activities with things you want to do.

-Flip a coin and choose how much pleasure bundling you will do to the next activity. Otherwise the activity alon becomes less pleasurable .

-Cold water exposure has a 2.5x increase of dopamine which is sustained for hours afterwards.

Peaks

-Chocolate 1.5x

-nicotine 2.5x

-cocoaine 2.5x

-Amphetamine 10x

-Exercise 2x ( upto 2 times the more you enjoy it subjectively )

-Coffee combined with another activity ( It makes the dopamines release more effective)

-connecting with people

-Hearing something that validates our beliefs about an activity makes it more pleasurable.

-Journaling and the thinking positively about the activity your experiencing now release dopamine.

-Learn to spike dopamine from effort

Not after or before the effort but during the effort.