Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Maximize Your Motivation: Dopamine, Discipline, and Accepting Our Nature

May 2, 2022

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Quick takeaways

Building discipline is crucial for long-term success over relying on temporary motivation spikes.

Understanding the brain's dopamine system can help enhance motivation and reward processing.

Tailoring experiences to personal preferences can increase engagement and sustain motivation towards achieving goals.

Deep dives

Focus on Discipline over Motivation

Building the habit of discipline is emphasized over seeking short bursts of motivation. While motivation often relies on temporary energy spikes, discipline involves consistent effort towards long-term goals. Recognizing and overcoming fears and anxieties is crucial to staying disciplined.

Dopomine - What Gets in the Way of Being?

05:49

How to Build the Habit of Discipline and Motivation

04:54

What's the Difference Between Love and Will?

05:16

Introduction

2min

How to Become More Disciplined

4min

The Cost of the Higher Road

1min

Are You Motivated Overnight?

4min

What's the Difference Between Love and Will?

5min

Dopemin Is a Motivational Molecule

3min

The Dopemine System Is Not That Engaged With Likering

4min

Motivational Neurobiology

5min

How to Be More Stimulating in Your Life

2min

10.

How to Stay Motivated to Do Things

5min

11.

You Wake Up From the Trancea

2min

12.

Are You Having a Life Partner?

4min

13.

You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don't Really Want

4min

14.

Dopomine - What Gets in the Way of Being?

6min

15.

How to Build the Habit of Discipline and Motivation

5min

16.

How to Increase the Reward Value of Your Activities

6min

We all have things we want to accomplish in life, but having goals or knowing we should be doing something is often not nearly enough to get us to actually sustain our efforts in getting where we want to go.

Today on Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore how to optimize our motivation. They discuss the brain's dopamine system, and distinguish motivation from discipline and liking from wanting. They then explore how we can align the brain's underlying biological circuitry with our desires, so we can stay relaxed and engaged while achieving our goals.

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Key Topics:

0:00: Introduction

2:05: Motivation vs. Discipline

5:30: Why don't we just want the things we know are good for us?

11:00: Creating unity between our biology and cognitive processing

15:50: Dopamine: An Overview

21:30: Distinguishing liking from wanting

25:35: Natural variations in dopamine metabolism

28:55: How people with lower levels of dopamine can stay motivated

33:35: Updating the reward value of your experiences

37:20: Being, doing, and having

43:05: What has helped Rick stay diligent and let go of resistance

46:40: Practical how-tos for interacting with the dopaminergic system

50:35: Letting fish be fish

52:30: Recap

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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Maximize Your Motivation: Dopamine, Discipline, and Accepting Our Nature

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Focus on Discipline over Motivation

Understanding Dopamine's Role

Balancing Pleasurable and Uncomfortable Aspects

Permission to Customize Behavior

Building Self-Understanding for Discipline

Dopomine - What Gets in the Way of Being?

How to Build the Habit of Discipline and Motivation

What's the Difference Between Love and Will?

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Maximize Your Motivation: Dopamine, Discipline, and Accepting Our Nature

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Focus on Discipline over Motivation

Understanding Dopamine's Role

Balancing Pleasurable and Uncomfortable Aspects

Permission to Customize Behavior

Building Self-Understanding for Discipline

Dopomine - What Gets in the Way of Being?

How to Build the Habit of Discipline and Motivation

What's the Difference Between Love and Will?

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