Dopamine Training

The way our brains are wired can work against us.

Dopamine is released to indicate that we achieved something. This was created to ensure we would continue to seek food and reproduce. Other emotions are intended to keep us from being killed, or harming our reputation in the tribe.

When you feed yourself easy access dopamine, you are training your mind to expect “results” based off of a low level of effort.

The elephant in the room is social media. Consumption of content that releases high levels of dopamine is easier to access every day.

More people are better at producing quality content. All quality content means is that it gives you enough dopamine to keep you watching.

But, dopamine comes from many sources like Ice Cream, Drugs, and Alcohol.

It also comes from catching a great wave, or getting someone into a submission in Jiu Jitsu.

Dopamine is something you can leverage to train yourself to understand what level of output is required to achieve “results”

Results are what gives us a dopamine release. It is what we achieve for doing the correct things that lead us to results.

So, what we can do is simply train ourselves to understand that we will only get dopamine from getting results in whatever our purposeful vision is. Your purposeful vision is just whatever you are chasing. It’s your “goal”, but… purposeful.

This forces your brain to lose interest in anything that is not related to your purposeful vision.

Once you begin to move the cob webs away and wipe the dust off of the window, you’re going to start seeing the bigger picture that lies outside the dark room of living within low tier dopamine.

You will see how beautiful the world is outside, and you will see how dark and depressing it is inside. Then you will go through the scary process of opening the door to the room you’ve been living in, and making your way through the dark and scary hallways of withdrawals until you get to the front door and walk into the unknown.

Or… turn around and go back to what is familiar.

P.S. The unknown is better.