Dopamine

dopamine have two levels.
- base levels
  - all have different baseline dopamine level (1)
    - it is based on their genetics
    - it is based on how you felt previous days
- peaks
  - what you do will raise the dopamine levels temporarly like
    - eating chocalate(1.25x increase)
    - sex (2x increase)
    - nicotine (2.5x increase)
    - exercise based on if you like the exercise or not (subjective).
      - if you like running and you like it (2x incrase)
      - if you don’t like it you will get less increase or no increase at all
    - caffeine increase it a little bit
dopamine have few helpers
- adrenalin - made from dopamine (dopamine transform in to this)

because nature wants us to keep pursuing things(food,water etc). otherwise we would die
every rise will come with the faster down turn.
more you become happy in a particular incident soon you will become sad kinda same way
here it really important https://youtu.be/QmOF0crdyRU?t=3423

dopamine fasting
intermittent release of dopamine (like casino, give rewards randomly) https://youtu.be/QmOF0crdyRU?t=4115 .intermittent reward schedule is the answer for everything (even for relationships). dont give you rewards more often
drinking coffe is fine (actually good)
Transclude of Focus#^83c1ca-
after you get adopted to cold water shower it doesn’t release the dopamine. but still its a good addition

if you do things just for the last reward you will less likely to do hard things in the future.
cultivate the growth mindset (which means you get pleasure from actually doing the activity)
you can always find the pleasure from the activity no matter how hard it is. human brain has adopters

Quote

dont spike dopamine prior to engaging in effort

don’t spike dopamine after engaging in effort

learn to spike your dopamine from itself

3 time scales of happiness
1. sensory
2. medium time (story)
3. long term (life meanig)
there are 24 character strengths. people differ how much they value (bravery vs humour)

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