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Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science of Motivation

your brain on dopamine
  1. The Origins Of Motivation (Hint: It’s Neuroscience)
  2. What Causes Your Dopamine To Spike
  3. How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Productivity
  4. More Physical Tricks To Kick Your Dopamine Into High Gear
  5. Take The First Step
  6. TL;DR
  7. Popular Questions
  8. Glossary
Dopamine representation

I spent an hour on this opening paragraph.

The hour wasn’t time well spent, mind you. Sure, I was working — writing, deleting, tinkering with words here and there — but my one-paragraph-per-hour pace wasn’t out of indecisiveness as much as a lack of motivation.

I spent

  • five minutes on the email
  • ten minutes on Instagram
  • and fifteen minutes doing who-knows-what on Tumblr

(Just kidding, I know exactly what I was doing: watching cat videos.)

Sound familiar?

Motivation is a tricky thing to corral. Tricky, but not impossible.

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