How to Maximize Dopamine & Motivation - Andrew Huberman

In an age of indulgence, easy access to pleasure (dopamine) cripples motivation to pursue meaningful adventures. If you can associate reward with the journey, rather than the destination, motivation is infinite. If you want to help create more insightful videos like this, please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/AfterSkool

A close mentor once told me: "In life, you will experience pain, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, it's your choice."

This should be taught in school. This is literally life saving in an era of absolute overstimulation. Incredible video. Best of fortune to you‼️

"Addiction is a progressive narrowing of things that bring you pleasure"..... A very good and useful statement

“Pain evokes Dopamine AFTER the pain is over” OMG 😩 everything makes sense now !!! This was so informational ✨

Every day I tell myself: What you do today is important, because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

Discipline is the greatest form of self love. You need to stop deceiving yourself to get better

This has changed my life. He was so right about knowledge of knowledge — being aware of how one’s indulgence in overstimulation is responsible for their motivation and mood allows for simple intervention. Andrew sharing his message is saving the human race

this is exactly why when you actually start to get into a task that's hard you can keep going. its the motivation do start doing the thing that's hard.

“Dopamine is not the molecule of pleasure it’s the molecule of motivation, desire and pursuit. The molecule of drive, non infinite yet renewable resource” ~ Andrew Übermensch

I LOVE this channel. I'm a counselor at a drug detox center and I play so many of these videos to get discussions going. Using this one tomorrow. You guys are a light onto the world. Thank you for what ya'll do.

This was really good. I loved everything he said and your art references were spectacular. Thank you.

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

To the worthwhile person seeing this, your dream is not dead. Don’t allow the past and current pains and hurts stop and define you. You’re more than a conqueror. Rise up and put yourself together. Keep pushing your future depends on it. I wish you all the best in life ❤️.

So grateful for this explanation. I've been that person with no motivation for a while now, getting worse in the past few years and at an all-time-low this past year. I was still looking at dopamine as a reward hit and not the pursuit of the reward. It really woke me up just knowing this difference and I feel excited to apply this knowledge and finally break myself out of this loop.

I love this short video. Very valuable for those of us on the Go. I hope to see more of these from Andrew Huberman. I don’t always have time to listen to all of episodes on his podcast that can run up to 2 hours. When I can I will listen , but this here is perfect!! Thank you!

"Addiction is a progressive narrowing of things that bring you pleasure" - I spent some time homeless, not long just one long summer. And I can tell you it not always bad, but when its bad, its very bad, but when its good, its soooo good. You can get so high on life from basic things like finding new socks, showering, earning a bit of money, eating a good meal. Its funny how now when I eat a hearty meal its not the same as it was then, back then, I earned that fucking tuna pasta bake - I needed it to survive and I got it. It felt like I had fought a grizzly bear and won, I earned it and it was my prize. It would make my whole day and the feeling of being rewarded for my accomplishment (even though my accomplishment was sneaking into a University staff room and stealing red wine and then selling it). I don't get the same feeling now, even if I haven't eaten all day, tuna pasta bake is to me just another meal. I am well off financially these days, I have tried oysters, and lobsters, and nothing will ever taste as good as that one lukewarm tuna pasta bake in Copenhagen in the summer of 2014. Basically if you aint got nothing, everything tastes good. If you have got it all, nothing tastes good.

This is why I find fitness so good, after decades of not even considering it worth my effort; because I finally have to work for my dopamine. And now that I have that thing that makes me motivated, it becomes a lot easier to self regulate.

Heaviest G-Check I have gotten in a long time. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Gave me a new perspective, made me feel like a piece of shit, and forced me to take on the discomforts of reality, instead of finding ways of distracting myself through small releases of dopamine. Thank you, old sport

I feel so much appreciation for how the issues of internet use, porn and food are often discussed in topics surrounding addiction, as they are heavily overlooked in many popular discourses around addiction.