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Use Safe Effortful Activities to Deepen the Trough and Rebound Faster
When amotivated or procrastinating, deliberately do something safe but more effortful or painful than your current state to steepen the trough and return to normal or elevated baseline dopamine faster and more robustly.
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“It's about forcing your body and mind into a deeper state of pain and discomfort... because in steepening and deepening that trough, we know that the return from that trough to normal and even elevated levels of baseline dopamine is going to be faster and more robust.”
huberman · Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort · Mar 27, 2023 · 1:54:35 · open ↗
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