Learn How To Hack Your Brain to Use Dopamine for Success

👋Hey Friends, 

We all think that our behaviors are based on our thinking 💭, but it is not like that. 

Okay Let’s Get Started, 

Habits are a dopamine-driven feedback loop. Every highly habit-forming behavior (drug consuming, eating junk foods, having sex, playing a videogame for many hours, unwantedly browsing social media) is associated with higher levels of dopamine.

For years, scientists that dopamine was all about pleasure, but we later came to know that it plays a central role in many neurological processes including motivation, learning, punishment, thinking memory, and even voluntary movement.

When it comes to habits, the key takeaway is this; dopamine is released not only when you experience pleasure, but also when you anticipate it.

Gambling addicts have a dopamine spike right before they place a bet, not after they win. Cocaine addicts get a surge of dopamine when they see the powder, not after they consume it.

Whenever you predict that an opportunity will be rewarding, your levels of dopamine spike in anticipation, and whenever dopamine rises you will get motivated to do that work. It is the anticipation of a reward, not the fulfillment of it that gets us to act.

Interestingly, the reward system that is activated in the brain when you receive a reward is the same system that is activated when you anticipate a reward. This is one reason the anticipation of an experience can often feel better than the attainment of it. As a child, thinking about Christmas 🤶 morning can be better than opening gifts 🎁. As an adult, daydreaming about an upcoming vacation can be more enjoyable than actually being on vacation. Scientists refer to this as the difference between “wanting” and “liking”.

The Dopamine Spike

A) Dopamine is released when the reward is experienced.

B) Dopamine rises before taking action (during craving)

C) Dopamine spike when you already experienced the same reward.

D) Th cue is identified and dopamine is identified and dopamine rises as a craving builds. Next, a response is taken but the reward does not come as expected. Finally when the reward comes a little later, dopamine spikes again. Now the brain says, “See I knew I was right. Don’t forget to repeat this action next time”.

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Folks so be aware of your work and try to avoid the unwanted things 

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