How Dopamine Shapes Your Habits and Productivity - Tj Power

The fact you chose the harder path mean you means your brain has had to work harder throughout your life and therefore your brain will have a greater capacity to generate dopamine than the average brain. So then you're going to be a more motivated individual. The pursuit of satisfaction is the goal with dopamine. You want to pursue any kind of activity that at the end you think, wow, I feel satisfied with that. You feel so satisfied when you sit down and read for 20 minutes.

You don't feel satisfied after 20 minutes of scrolling Instagram at all. You're actually just yearning for more at the end. It's the opposite of satisfaction. If we spend a lot of our time moderately satisfying this chemical, eventually the chemical begins to kick back and it will actually increase feelings of loneliness within our brain because it's trying to create a greater desire to actually pursue meaningful connection. All right, TJ, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks for having me. Um, what are your Can you tell us a little bit about you? Like who are you and why are we why are you qualified to talk to us about these chemicals? Yeah, my name's TJ Power and I'm the lead neuroscientist at the DOS lab and we've basically built a research center to study our four main brain chemicals, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins.

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