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AMA #4: Maintain Motivation, Improve REM Sleep, Set Goals, Manage Anxiety & More

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How Dopamine Levels Control Motivation?

When dopamine levels are too low, people simply will not put in the effort to obtain or reach a goal. If dopamine levels go too high, you actually see something that is pathologic, which is that people consider every goal a reasonable goal. We really want to control our output of dopamine and the baseline levels of dopamine from which that output is taken. That reservoir can be depleted, so it's exhaustible, but it's renewable as well.

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