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The Warriors: How to Thrive With Low Basic Dopamine
So you have generally low dopamine. You want to do many things but you don’t feel like you have the energy to do them, it’s extremely hard to take the first step, but once you take it, you gain the momentum, and then it gets easier. Sometimes you need a lot of stimuli to get…
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Understanding Your Motivation: Basic and Phasic Dopamine
Have you ever wondered why some people can only be motivated by “the stick” whereas other get extremely discouraged once you question their abilities? Why some people easily start doing tasks while others need coffee to even start thinking about it? The reason we do anything is because somewhere in our brain, dopamine was released.…
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Go Ahead and Feel Bad About It: The Importance of Feeling Your Mistakes
When you make a mistake, it’s very common for people to try and mitigate it, say that you should not feel bad about it. While they may be kind for saying that, feeling bad about your mistakes is actually very useful, and let me tell you why. Learning is possible thanks to our dopamine system.…
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Why You Should Write Down Your Todo List
So I don’t forget it, you might say? Sure, your memory cannot hold as much information or hold it as reliably as a piece of paper or a computer can, but writing things down has scarier downsides than just forgetting. First, with a mental to-do list, we cannot prioritize them and lose perspective. We can…
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The One Habit to Rule them All
Making new habits is tough, and often not because the habit is so hard you cannot bring yourself to do it, but rather because you just forget about it. Many things in our life happen on autopilot, which can include habits that you want to break or replace. To solve this problem, I present you…
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How to Make Your Habits Sticky
Sometimes the habits just don’t stick: you do it for a few days, then something goes wrong, you miss a couple of times and get discouraged… sounds familiar? Here are a few reasons why your habits don’t stick – and what to do about them. Reason # 1: The habit is too large or too…