Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

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1,658 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 27 May

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The Resilient Mind · Why the Best Decisions of Your Life Will Look Like the Worst Ones First - Dr. K (Healthy Gamer) · 27 May 2026 podcast

And it's so interesting.

I used to, when I was a degenerate gamer and failing out of college and stuff like that, I had a group of friends that I used to play a particular video game with, and then I sort of got my shit together, and then we reconnected after 20 years.

And, you know, they're doing well in life, but I think it was just interesting that I had to leave them behind.

And I think so many people are afraid to do that, right?

There's a lot of safety because we don't want to walk through that lonely chapter.

We don't want to go through that dark night of the soul, right, where we are alone.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Try It For 1 Week: 4 Small Decisions That Change Your Body, Energy, and Life · 2 Mar 2026 podcast

What a lot of people don't realize is that you have a certain capacity for pleasure and behavioral reinforcement when you wake up in the morning.

So our dopaminergic circuitry in the brain, in this part called the nucleus accumbens, basically this is what gives us a sense of pleasure and also reinforces our behavior.

So the problem with dopamine is we wake up in the morning and our dopaminergic stores are full.

So what happens is we have a reserve of dopamine.

So the way that this works is like I want you all to think about this.

Let's say I wake up first thing in the morning and then I work for four hours.

And then what is the reward, the subjective reward that I feel after four hours of work?

It's really positive.

Yeah.

Then if I use technology for four hours, it's kind of whatever.

But if I use technology for the first four hours of the day, and then I try to go and do work.

You're not going to.

And even if you finish the same amount of work, you will not experience the same level of pleasure because your dopamine has literally been depleted.

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