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The Final Episodes: 11 Things to Understand About Dopamine, How to Dopamine Detox, and Building Dopamine Baseline for Your Bold Move (#2 of 6)

The Great Man Within

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Dopamine Hits - Why Do We Need to Go?

Dominic Narnia: Pleasure without prior pursuit is absolutely terrible for us. He says we're depleting dopamine and lowering our baseline just by getting those pleasure hits. We can go from pain to pleasure in seconds, he says. And the fourth insight is focusing only on the reward at the end makes work in the moment feel terrible for us; it's prioritizing the destination over the journey.

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