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They don’t want to have children. They still have this craving for connection and for for for for for sex, and that’s common, so it’s really interesting that that’s the way that the brain works, but then what you realize is your capacity to tap into dopamine as a motivator, not just seeking infinite dopamine rewards. I can say with great certainty that this is how you were able to build a big company and sell it, how you’ve been able to make a successful podcast and sell it, and how you are constantly seeking because seeking is the reward, and that’s the way that our brain works it’s designed to keep us going and to keep us moving and to keep us wanting.
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Dopamine is not a new topic. People have been obsessing and hearing about dopamine and its role in human behavior for years. You may consider it the feel-good happy hormone or associate it with addiction, love, lust, and sex. As our lives convert to a digital experience with us everywhere we are in the form of a cell phone, dopamine detox has even started gaining in popularity. Dr. Andrew Huberman from the Huberman Lab is back again to unpack some of the more surprising discoveries and uses of dopamine. He cleverly relates dopamine to being a biological currency that plays a role in the human desire for more. Dopamine is the catalyst pushing humanity forward, exploring things like cryptocurrency, and going beyond our limitations and what is possible. Still, is it all of that for pleasure and feeling good? Dr. Huberman breaks down the eternal balance of pain and pleasure, arousal and relaxation, and gives you the insight to start regulating your body’s dopamine release. If you thought dopamine was all about feeling good, Dr. Huberman is about to reveal why it’s more about what motivates you to pursue something greater.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 | Introduction Dr. Andrew Huberman
0:56 | Dopamine the Biological Currency
6:51 | Releasing Dopamine
10:38 | Hormonal Signaling
14:34 | Can We Spike Dopamine?
21:00 | Value the Pursuit & the Dips
25:40 | Balance of Pain and Pleasure
31:23 | Self-Regulation of Dopamine
38:28 | Dopamine and Time Perception
44:31 | Dopamine and Overindulging
49:05 | AcAction-Basedenial
52:42 | Using Rules & Dopamine
58:27 | Ways to Get Motivated
QUOTES:
“When I say dopamine is the universal currency of everything, what I mean is, it’s driving the motivation to develop new currencies.” [3:08]
“Celebrating the win more than the pursuit; it sets you up for failure in the future.” [16:00]
“If you can start to register that craving, and that friction and that desire, that almost kind of low level of agitation, sometimes high level of agitation […] that’s dopamine…” [17:54]
“Your capacity to tap into dopamine as a motivator, not just seeking dopamine rewards, is infinite.” [19:34]
“It’s the craving that makes me feel alive. So it’s the state of wanting that is in and of itself, the pleasurable act.” [22:37]
“It doesn’t matter if it’s Bitcoin or Ethereum, it doesn’t matter if it’s putting rockets on other planets, it doesn’t matter if it’s building the first automobile, it’s the same currency.” [25:27]
“Dopamine itself is not the reward. It’s the build-up to the reward, and the reward has more of a kind of opioid bliss-like property” [29:51]
“The more pain you experience, the more dopamine you can achieve. If you get back on the avenue of pursuit.” [30:58]
“I would say addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that please you and I don’t like to comment too much on enlightenment, […] but a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that please you, and even better is a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that please you and includes joy through motivation and hard work. “[32:55]
“If you think about most of the growth in life comes from these rigidly externally imposed schedules, and we hate them. But they are where we learn restraint” [52:42]
Follow Andrew Huberman:
Website: https://hubermanlab.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhubermanlab
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hubermanlab
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hubermanlab/
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Podcast: https://hubermanlab.com/
