Are You Motivated by Rewards?

Dopamine is the good feeling that you're about to get a reward. oxytocin is not meant to be released all the time for no reason because it creates social trust of letting down your guard. The brain evolved to make careful decisions about where to invest your energy. So we would like to have that feeling every minute. But it's just not realistic to expect that you're going to just sit on the couch and have it every day.