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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction

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Dopamine & Exercise

If you are engaged in activities, school, sport, relationship, et cetera, where you experience a win, you should be very careful about allowing yourself to experience huge peaks in dopomine, unless you'are willing to suffer the crash that follows and waiting a period of time for it to come back up./nBy layering together all these things to try and achieve that dopomine release, and by getting a big peak in dopomine, you're actually increasing the number of conditions required to achieve pleasure from thet vity again./nSo there is a form of this where sometimes you do all the things that you love to get the optima work out. You listen your favorite music, you go at your favorite time of day, you have your pre workout drink, if that's your thing. You do all the things that give you that best experience of the work out for you. But there's also a version of this where sometimes you don't do the dopomine enhancing activities. You don't ingest anything to increase your dopomine. You just do the exercise. You don't do the exercise and expect dopomine to arrive through some what we call exogenous source.

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