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Recast: Understand How Your Brain Works with Dr. Andrew Huberman #338

Muscle Intelligence

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The Role of Dopamine in Goal-Driven Behavior

When we focus on things outside of our body, it engages a couple of different neuromodulators that are very important. Dopamine is the reason that book is called the molecule of more because it's a molecule that drives us to want things that are outside our current experience. So when you focus that second sphere of attention on your internal landscape, a couple positive things happen. One is you develop this ability to access this dopamine system, which itself feels good.

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