Rick Hanson: How to Reach the Upper Echelons of Human Potential
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Dopamine Neurochemical Tracking Reward Expectation
There are these neural substrates in the upper outer frontal regions right behind your forehead and they have a kind of gate. When that gate is closed you stay steadily focused on whatever you want to focus on so the question becomes how to get control of that gate. The gate is regulated by dopamine dopamine neurochemical tracking reward expectation of reward reward fancy term for things feel good or could feel good well when dopamine levels are steady when there's a steady feeling of reward and joyability meaningfulness well you stay focused on your on your thing. If you experience high levels of gratitude contentment peacefulness even a kind of deep pleasure in your body you're going to get dopamine at its ceiling so it cannot get
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