Andrew Huberman
Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast
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Dopamine Is a Neurochemical That Makes Us Feel Motivated and in a Healthy Focused Pursuit
Dopamine is this incredible neurochemical that makes us feel motivated and in the state of craving and drive. When you think about when you're in a narrow aperture of say, pursuing a school degree or pursuing a win in a race, I mean, it's as if this system which is indeed very generic dopamine. You're now saying, okay, the currency of reward is not the dollar or the Bitcoin or the euro. It's dopamine and I'm going to superimpose that onto this narrow aperture of experience. So all that said, you know, this narrowing of aperture is fundamental to how we arrived to be the dominant species on the planet, right? We're in charge,
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