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How to Increase Motivation & Drive

Huberman Lab22 de marzo de 20215129
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This episode explains the science of motivation and drive. I describe how dopamine — a chemical we all make in our brain, underlies our desire for and pursuit of our goals, as well as our capacity to move and experience pleasure. I describe how we can leverage specific behaviors, reward schedules and dopamine-prolactin balance to help ensure we can maintain motivation and capacity for pleasure over the long term. I also discuss dopamine in the context of ADHD, craving and addiction, and some absolutely amazing results about specificity of drug effects based purely on belief.

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Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction  

00:00:30 Sponsors: AG1, LMNT & Waking Up  

00:04:22 Announcement: Spanish Subtitles  

00:05:06 Emotions, Addiction & Mindset  

00:06:22 Motivation & Movement: The Dopamine Connection  

00:07:29 A Double-Edged Dopamine Blade  

00:08:56 Dopamine Fundamentals: Precursor to Adrenalin  

00:10:15 The Reward Pathway: An Accelerator & A Brake  

00:12:10 Motivation = Pleasure Plus Pain  

00:14:14 The Dopamine Staircase: Food, Sex, Nicotine, Cocaine, Amphetamine  

00:16:15 Subjective Control of Dopamine Release  

00:17:40 Social Media and Video Games  

00:18:15 Addiction & Dopamine: Progressively Diminishing Returns  

00:18:48 Novelty, Sensation-Seeking & Anticipation  

00:20:15 Craving: Part Pain, Part Pleasure & Pain Always Prevails  

00:23:11 Desire Scales With Pain: The Yearning Function  

00:24:43 The Croissant Craving Circuit  

00:25:45 “Here and Now” Molecules: Serotonin, Bliss & Raphe Nucleus  

00:26:26 In Your Skin Or Out In the World  

00:27:25 Cannabinoids Lethargy & Forgetfulness  

00:28:15 The Almond Meditation  

00:29:30 Drugs That Shift Exteroception Versus Interoception  

00:30:36 Emotional Balance, Active & Passive Manipulation  

00:32:36 Procrastination: Leveraging Stress, Breathing, Caffeine, L-Tyrosine, Prescription Drugs  

00:37:04 When Enough Is Never Enough; How Dopamine Undermines Itself  

00:38:58 Dopamine-Prolactin Dynamics: Sex, Reproduction & Refractory Periods  

00:40:30 The Coolidge Effect: Novelty-Induced Suppression of Prolactin  

00:42:22 Vitamin B6, Zinc As Mild Prolactin Inhibitors  

00:43:25 Schizophrenia, Dopamine Hyperactivity and Side Effects of Anti-Dopaminergic Drugs  

00:45:08 Prolactin, Post-Satisfaction “Lows” & Extending the Arc of Dopamine  

00:48:00 The Chemistry of “I Won, But Now What?”  

00:49:00 Healthy Emotional Development: Child and Parent  

00:50:03 Never Say “Maybe” (Reward Prediction Error)  

00:52:02 Surprise!  

00:52:59 Are You Suppressing Your Drive and Motivation By Working Too Late?  

00:54:50 Disambiguating Pleasure and Drive: Dopamine Makes Us Anti-Lazy  

00:58:00 Beta-Phenylethylamine (PEA), & Acetyl L-Carnitine  

01:00:00 Attention Deficit Disorders, Cal Newport Books, Impulsivity & Obesity  

01:03:55 Leveraging Dopamine Schedules  

01:05:22 Subjective Control of Dopamine and Drug Effects: The “Adderall” Experiment  

01:09:03 Caffeine May Protect Dopamine Neurons, Methamphetamine Kills Them  

01:10:57 Nicotine: Dopamine, Possible Neuroprotection, Prolactin Increase  

01:11:53 Gambling, Intermittent Reinforcement, & Persistent Goal Seeking (Bad and Good)  

01:14:14 Intermittent Halting of Celebration; Enjoy Your Wins, But Not All of Them  

01:18:38 A Story Example of Intermittent Reward to Maintain Long-Term Drive and Motivation  

01:21:25 Corrections & Notes About Spanish Captions & Other Languages Soon  

01:24:00 Synthesis & Framework, Zero-Cost Support & A Note About Sponsors

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