How to Increase Motivation & Drive | Huberman Lab Podcast #12

But how? The answer can be found by studying what specifically elicits dopamine. As one article published by Harvard Medical School puts it, the hormone is activated by ‘sex, shopping, [and] smelling cookies baking in the oven’11 – in other words, by the activities we find fun. So if we want to harness the revolutionary effects of play, our second

Dopamine’s ancient role in physical movement relates to its role in motivation: To obtain the object of our desire, we need to go get it. Of course today’s easy-access dopamine doesn’t require us to get off the couch.

We don’t get hooked on the feeling associated with achievement, we get hooked on the feeling associated with the chase. Dopamine is the molecule of desire and motivation. This simple yet powerful biological truth is responsible for some of history’s greatest achievements, from the survival of the human species yesterday to groundbreaking scientific

Dopamine, which is thought of as the learning, reward (satisfaction), attention, and movement neurotransmitter,