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Journal or Practice Appreciation for an Activity
Use journaling, appreciation, or deliberate focus on enjoyable aspects of an activity to increase its rewarding properties and the dopamine associated with it. He gives exercise as an example: if you dislike it, identify some aspect you genuinely enjoy.
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“But what's been found over and over again is that if people journal about something or they practice some form of appreciation for something, or they think of some aspect of something that they enjoy, the amount of dopamine that that behavior will evoke tends to go up.”
huberman · Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction · Sep 27, 2021 · 45:21 · open ↗
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