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this is Michelangelo and he was
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absolutely addicted to sculpting to the
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point that his house was less of a house
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it was more of just a workshop he forget
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to shave his beard and everything just
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because he was so completely immersed in
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his craft and his art you know was
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pretty good so what makes someone like
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him as well as some other artist out
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there that you might know so motivated
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to just make art all day and is this the
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strange thing is the fact that humans
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are all like 99.9% the same we all have
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the same motivational circuits in our
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brain to someone like mangelo so why
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can't some of us access that intrinsic
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motivation but others can now just in
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case you couldn't quite tell I was not
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necessarily around it during
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Michelangelo's time but what I can tell
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you about him as as well as other
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artists who just seem so excited to just
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draw all the time is that it all largely
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comes down to the Baseline level of
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dopamine that you have now dopamine is
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the kind of molecule in your brain
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that's literally responsible for
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feelings of motivation and the good
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thing is the fact that once we
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understand how it works we can begin to
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kind of consciously control it and make
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ourselves more motivated to draw on a
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much more regular basis now I've watched
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and taken notes I'm pretty much every
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Andrew hubman dopamine podcast that's on
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the internet just cuz I find this whole
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thing so interesting but for purposes of
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our own like artistic motivation the
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best way to understand what dopamine
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exactly is and what it does is in this
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one experiment that they did so it's an
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experiment that you might have heard of
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where they had two rats and they put
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these two rats in two separate cages and
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the Rats could kind of hit a lever in
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order to get food and never they got the
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food they'd enjoy it and experience
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pleasure from it cuz you know animals
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like food right and then the scientist
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decided to deplete dopamine in one of
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the rats now this one rat had zero
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dopamine in its system and what they
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found was whenever this rat ate the food
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it would still enjoy it it would still
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experience pleasure just like the normal
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rat so then what the scientists decided
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to do was they moved both of the rats
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just a few inches away from the food
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lever where it actually required a
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little bit of effort to like get up and
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like press the food lever and get the
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food so the normal rat as we would
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expect actually got up put in the little
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bit of work required to like get up go
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press the food lever right and get the
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food that's what we'd expect the the
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dopamine to pled rat on the other hand
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was different because it didn't reach up
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and press the food lever which is what
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the normal rat did instead it just it
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just kind of sat there which is
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interesting because we know it would
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experience pleasure from the food but
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despite this fact it didn't have the
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motivation to actually pursue it because
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it literally had no dopamine it had no
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gas in the tank this just goes to show
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the essential role that dopamine plays
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in terms of overall motivation when
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dopamine is released in your brain it
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like makes you want to actually pursue
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things and it makes you feel good when
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you get things which therefore
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reinforces you to go at it again and it
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doesn't matter what the pursuit is
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across all of humanity across all of the
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Pursuits all these inventions and stuff
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it's all driven by the same underlying
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circuits now obviously you aren't
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exactly do me deficient rat but when it
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comes to our art you might think about
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your goals with art you might think man
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I really want to improve I want to be
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able to draw this thing that thing I
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want to be able to to draw literally
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anything and you might have that genuine
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desire to achieve that but just in the
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same way that everyone sets nearest
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resolutions and never follows through
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just having the goal setting the goal is
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important but just setting the goal in
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and of itself is not going to give you
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the motivation required to actually
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pursue it so let's figure out this whole
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dopamine thing bro if we are going to
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feel motivated at all or have any period
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of time during our day in which we feel
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like we are capable of pursuing goals we
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are going to have to have a healthy
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level of Baseline dopamine so your
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Baseline level of dopamine is just how
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much you have when you're just relaxed
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just chilling normal balanced and our
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brain wants to maintain this balance so
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whenever we do something that gives us a
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big like Spike and dopamine say we
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experience something really cool that
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Spike and dopamine it feels great it
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feels like euphoric pleasurable and that
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spike in dopamine is going to be
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followed by a dip in dopamine below your
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Baseline that was that's equivalent to
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however high that Peak was and I'll give
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you the perfect example so say you're
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like watching something like a series or
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an anime so you're watching Peak fiction
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and you're super invested you love it
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and you finish an episode and episode
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was great you loved it and then it's
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that feeling of just one more episode
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you might check your phone and be like
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yeah I need to be up in 6 hours for
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tomorrow morning but just one more
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episode can't hurt so what's happening
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there is you had that increase in
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dopamine during the episode cuz it was a
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great episode episode ends and then
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that's it's that drop in dopamine below
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Baseline that's equivalent to like the
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height of that Peak and this drop below
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Baseline your brain wants to kind of
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re-experience that Peak that it got
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previously which is why it's sometimes
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super hard to resist watching another
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episode all right so now that we
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understand all of that let's zoom in and
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apply this to our art in a lot more
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detail so there's this guy this artist
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his name is Nova Chrono man Nova Chrono
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does not exist I completely made that up
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right so Nova Crona wants to become a
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character designer for Disney so he
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might be in bed one day like one night
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thinking about the desire thinking about
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how cool it's going to be to be like a
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full-time artist and just imagine just
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designing characters all day and like
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talking with other character designers
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oh that's going to be so cool so he's
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just he's like envisioning this desire
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and his dopamine begins to go up and
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then this is followed like we said
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before this is followed by a dip in
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dopamine below Baseline and it's this
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dip and dope me that triggers the
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motivation for him to actually go out
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and pursue his goals by way of
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practicing studying character designers
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watching ether Becker videos and stuff
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like that but unlike the episode example
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we gave earlier this is now like a much
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more long-term like multi-year Pursuit
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so no Crona he's an art school just like
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trying to like go after this goal but
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everything that happens with dope in the
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middle like during Pursuit is all super
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interesting so as noono is like going
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along in his journey trying to become
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like a full-time character designer his
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dopamine system is going to be looking
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around and it's specifically going to be
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looking at the cues on display that kind
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of display the likelihood of him
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achieving his goal so same no Chrono
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experience is a positive cue so he sits
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down he makes a character design sheet
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and he shows it to his professors and
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his professors are blown away they're
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like oh my God no Chrono this is great
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oh this is so good and his brain is
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going to experience this and think oh
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okay we're doing something something
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here we're like we're on the right path
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to achieving this goal and this is going
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to lead to like a lot more motivation
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and confidence for Nova Chrono in his
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Pursuit then a few weeks later he sits
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down to make another character design
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sheet but this time it doesn't it
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doesn't quite go according to plan he
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looks at it like the characters look so
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bad the the person looks like a deformed
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alien and his brain is looking at this
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and thinking okay he like perceives it
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as a negative CU like oh it's like we've
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taken a step back it's like we moved a
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little bit further away from our goal
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and this can lead to like
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underconfidence and demotivation and all
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that and these positive and negative
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cues they're not the only thing but they
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are a factor in terms of just
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determining feelings of overall
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motivation and of course there's ways to
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shift this around that we're going to
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talk about later but this is the basics
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of how the dopamine Arc Works where you
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kind of think of a desire dopamine goes
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up and then dopamine dips below Baseline
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and it's this dip that triggers the
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motivation for you to actually go and
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pursue your goal then along the way the
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dopamine system is going to be looking
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at the feedback cues the positive cues
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and the negative cues and it's going to
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be kind of Shifting your Baseline up and
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down as you move towards your goal so
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whether whether you have the goal of
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becoming like the Picasso of the 21st
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century or the goal to like go and make
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yourself a cup of coffee at 10:00 a.m.
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like this is how the DOP mean Arc Works
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across like the shorttime skills and the
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long time skills all right so now let's
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use all of this to understand why
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motivation is such like a massive issue
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as well as how to fix all that so we
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just talked about negative cues and how
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negative cues can impact motivation
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level but that's just one that's just
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one player in the entire game there's a
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lot of things that can have horrendous
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effects in our dop me levels because
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here's the thing with everything we just
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talked about our good friend and over
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Chrono and his quest to become a
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character designer and that's kind of
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what the dopamine Arc is supposed to
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look like where you have the desire the
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pursuit and then the goal however
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there's a lot of things nowadays that
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kind of interrupt this process and kind
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of negatively train our brain to just
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essentially become a lot more
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demotivated to pursue long-term goals
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like art and I'll give you the perfect
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example so motivation isn't or like
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dedication or whatever isn't something I
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struggle with that much nowadays but
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there's a point that I did cuz there's
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this guy there's this guy his his name
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is Zuck and Zuck had me by the ball
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because bro I used to be so drawn to
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Instagram like Instagram Instagram's
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algorithm had my sense of humor down to
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Perfection so whenever I hopped on
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Instagram reals it would just be like
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this essentially bombardment of doe me
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and hit doe me and hit don't mean hit
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because it was all stuff that I liked
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and this had two massively negative
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impacts on my motivation to draw in
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general and the first one is what's the
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kind of reward here the reward is like
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seeing a funny real seeing like an
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interesting clip seeing a good me stuff
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like that something that made me laugh
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or something and what's the pursuit like
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what just opening my phone opening
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Instagram like huh and so like after
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doing this like repeatedly over time my
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brain began to get attuned to that it
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began to get accustomed to that minimal
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effort to achieve massive dope mean
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Spike and there's a very short gap
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between like the desire and and the
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reward because there's like no Pursuit
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and with something like drawing it is
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the exact opposite where you can't just
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open your Sketchbook and immediately
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experience all the rewards of withd
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drawing achieving progress with the
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drawing achieving your goals with the
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drawing is something that takes a long
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time and it takes a lot of effort and
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since my brain was slowly beginning to
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get accustomed to this very short gap
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between the desire and the reward
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because the pursuit was essentially
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non-existent it made it a lot harder to
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engage in my long-term goals with Arts
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it is both the duration between desire
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and effect so very short gaps teach the
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system to expect and want short gaps
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makes it very hard to pursue things that
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take longer and the second one this is
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so obvious but like having that Spike
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and dopamine would obviously make it
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harder to draw because when you compare
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like the stimulation you'd get from
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seeing hundreds of like Instagram reals
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that are super funny super like dope
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mean inducing or something compared to
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that to like the stimulation you get
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from doing like a anatomical hand study
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and this contrast would just make
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drawing look a lot more boring and Bland
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so duh of course I was demotivated to
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draw how did it take me so long to
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realize that bro come on so what's your
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thing if you're not as motivated to draw
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as much much of you like it could be a
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lot of things like it could be the
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negative cues it could be like stress it
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could be other life factors but there is
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a chance that you have a thing something
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that gives you easy access to these high
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dopamine spikes and it makes it a lot
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harder to pursue something that's more
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long-term and less stimulating like art
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the problem is not Pleasures the problem
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is that pleasure experienced without
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prior requirement for Pursuit is
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terrible for us now that we have a
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fundamental understand understanding of
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dopamine and motivation we can now begin
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to steer it in the direction that we
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want which is for our goals with drawing
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and art and stuff so there's two
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strategies in particular you're going to
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talk about one of the and you want to do
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both so the first one is going to be the
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things you can do to achieve a healthy
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Baseline of dopamine as well as what to
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do in the moment when you're very
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demotivated and those moments of
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friction and how to go from that to
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achieving long lasting intrinsic
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motivation as we've already covered
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having a healthy Baseline level of
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dopamine is what just determines your
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overall feelings of well-being and
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motivation to pursue your goals and by
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the way I'm just all the everything like
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99.9% of everything I know about
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dopamine I'm just plagiarizing from
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Andrew hman video so I'll link
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everything below especially with this
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healthy Baseline video I'll link it
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below but the way you can essentially
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think about it is you know how there's
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all these kind of Lifestyle habits that
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people talk about like the basic
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fundamental stuff to a like just to like
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live a good life or something like sleep
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diets exercise just like do all that cuz
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all those stuff have insanely beneficial
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effects on your dopamine system for
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example when you sleep that's when your
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brain is literally replenishing dopamine
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so if you needed like a 100 first reason
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to like get a good sleep schedule like
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there you go and when you exercise for
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example the brain circuits that are
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involved in movement interact very
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closely with the dopamine circuits which
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is why being active is like a massive
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benefit to your dopamine system which is
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in turn a massive benefit to your
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motivation to draw just kind of funny
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because has there ever been an art video
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that's told you make sure you exercise
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to improve your art
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but the main thing I am going to say
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with like achieving and maintaining a
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healthy Baseline dopamine and this is
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something you can literally do starting
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today which is practicing active
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restraint from like minor impulses and
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I'll give you a good example so so
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whenever I get home from somewhere I
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might be in the car and I just have the
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random impulse to like Google something
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completely random or check my Discord
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and nowadays I just tell myself no like
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I'm just not going to do it I'll just
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get back in the house first I'll shower
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and I'll eat and then maybe I'll check
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all that stuff later and since it's
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usually super kind of stuff I I usually
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just end up completely forgetting
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forgetting about it so these random
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minor impulses that we get if you can
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refrain from those you're going to kind
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of keep your dope mean circuits a lot
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more dialed up which is like a good
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thing so say you do all this like
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healthy Baseline activist train stuff
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yay that's all good these stuff are
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definitely going to help you but
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regardless there will come times when
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you just are not feeling it and it's in
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these moments of extreme friction these
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moments of utter demotivation from which
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you can kind of extract and acquire pure
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long lasting intrinsic motivation which
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which might sound a bit contradictory
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like become more motivated by being
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demotivated yes exactly so let me
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explain so you might hear a lot of
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people tell you oh you know when you're
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demotivated you should like think about
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your goals and like you should envision
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your goals and that's going to inspire
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you
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and but no that is literally the exact
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opposite of what you should be doing cuz
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in that scenario what you're doing is
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you're attaching you're essentially
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attaching the reward to the end goal
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which is going to make the entire
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preceding process just seem a lot more
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taxing and Troublesome and when you
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think about it it makes sense like doing
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something just to get something will
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make the doing part just seem a lot more
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difficult cuz you can end up being in a
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position where you're like oh if only I
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was there if only I was as good as that
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Instagram artist and like you're being
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you're like that's way too much focus on
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the end of goal that's way too much
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focus on be becoming that good and it
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just makes the entire process the entire
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pursuit to just suck and just seem like
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a massive wallity you just had have to
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get through so what you want to do
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instead is in these moments of like
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intense friction where you're just not
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feeling it you're just procrastinating
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like crazy what you want to do is attach
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the reward not to the end goal but to
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the pursuit itself and let me tell you
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what I mean by that so there like I said
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before I don't really struggle with
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demotivation that much nowadays but a
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few times a month or something I might I
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might hear those demons in my head and
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there's this one time in particular a
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few weeks ago where you know I was
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drawing and then I'd set my I'd set the
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time like 3:30 p.m. is going to be when
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I'm going to stop drawing right at at
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that time and it came to like 2:43 or
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something and I was just done I I had
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zero I was like I'm I'm done bro I've
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done like seven arm studies already I do
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not feel like going on for another 40 or
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50 minutes I had like zero energy left
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but I just began to tell myself okay
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okay okay right now every fiber in my
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body wants me to procrastinate and do
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something else okay this is good and
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when I think about it this is actually a
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good thing for my dopam system cuz if I
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force myself through it and like refrain
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from these feelings of procrastination
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it's going to be massive W for my
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dopamine system right and when I think
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about it you know what I actually like
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the fact that this is difficult I
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actually love the fact that this is
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difficult because if as I'm pushing
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through through this my brain is going
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to kind of begin reshaping like the
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circuits and everything and and it's
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going to get a lot more accustomed to me
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drawing at this level of consistency
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okay okay now my brain is going to re
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okay this is going to be a massive
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benefit to my drawing this is going to
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be a massive benefit to like my brain oh
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I I love this this is great okay and
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this might just seem like wishy-washy
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positive to self talk but the
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Neuroscience in this is real so this
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probably oversimplification but when
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you're telling yourself these things
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consciously it's like your forbrain
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giving instructions to the rest of your
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brain and it's telling your dopamine
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circus essentially to begin to reshape
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in favor of you pursuing art learning to
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access the rewards from effort and doing
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and that's hard to do because you have
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to engage this prefrontal component of
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the Miso liic circuit you have to tell
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yourself okay this effort is great this
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effort is pleasureful you also have to
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tell yourself that in that moment you
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are doing it by choice and you're doing
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it because you love it I can recall this
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from college just feeling like I wanted
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to get up from my desk but forcing
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myself to study forcing myself and
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forcing myself what you find over time
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is that you can start to associate
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dopamine release you can evoke dopamine
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release from the friction and the
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challenge that you happen to be in you
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completely eliminate the ability to
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generate those circuits and that
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rewarding process of being able to
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reward friction while in effort if you
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are focused only on the goal that comes
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at the
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end and it might seem like you're lying
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to yourself you're just sat there
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telling yourself oh man this is good
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this is great I love that this is hard
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but I like the Andrew huberman put it
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which is like yeah you're kind of lying
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to yourself by saying oh this friction
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is incredible but not really because you
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would love it if the effort felt good
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you genuinely would want the effort to
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to feel good so there's a lot of Truth
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in that and for me like in the example
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story that I gave you I was able to
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override that friction by conciously
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telling myself all the reasons that that
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this was a benefit to my brain and a
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benefit to my art and I remember feeling
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that finishing that session feeling
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really great and after telling yourself
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all this like just telling yourself all
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the reasons why this effort is the good
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part what you'll find is that over time
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your brain circuits will begin to kind
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of reshape and reform in favor of you
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pursuing art in favor of you being
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motivated to draw on a more regular
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basis and in favor of you actually
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enjoying the process and you begin to
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actually evoke dopamine release from the
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process itself instead of just from the
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end goal instead of just thinking about
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oh the end goal is going to be so good
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you'll begin to actually evoke the
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dopamine during the process and you can
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imagine how this will just lead to much
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more long lasting motivation if the
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process itself is what's evoking the
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dopamine not just the end goal the
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ability to access this pleasure from
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effort aspect of our dopaminergic
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circuitry is without question the most
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powerful aspect of dopamine and our
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biology of dopamine and the beautiful
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thing is it's accessible to all of us
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and this is how it works for like
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negative cues as well so you know we
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talking about how negative cues earlier
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can cause demotivation and stuff so say
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you like you mess up something you like
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do an anatomical hand study and it turns
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out bad you accidentally Dre six fingers
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instead of getting demotivated what you
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want to do is look at it and be like
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okay I you failed here good I'm going to
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learn why I failed and once I figured
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out why I failed I'll become one hand
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closer to figuring this entire thing out
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I'm literally going to become a little
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bit better and I'm going to be a smarter
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artist than I was 1 hour ago that's so
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good and whether you're like 10 years
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old or 50 years old our brains are super
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adaptable they're very liable to change
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so by consciously telling yourself this
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you can change the default reaction your
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brain has to like all these negative
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situations and make it work in your
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favor instead of against it and that's
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just so cool oh man that's great but
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just to highlight the thing that can
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interfere with and prevent you from
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getting dopamine release from effort
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itself don't Spike dopamine prior to
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engaging an effort and don't Spike
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dopamine after engaging an effort learn
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to spike your dopamine from effort
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itself so yeah just go do all of that or
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something
