Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

And as you repeat that cycle over and over and over again, this behavior gets reinforced.

Oh, I'm thirsty.

Let me go to the well and get water.

I'm thirsty again.

Let me go to the well and get water.

I'm thirsty again.

Let me go to the well and get water.

So this is why if you are trying to improve because you feel hurt in some way, that is going to be a very, very dangerous way to improve.

It used to work.

OK, so this is the key thing that has changed in the technological age.

In the past, when I got rejected by someone and I said to myself, OK, I don't want to feel rejected anymore.

I want to feel proud.

The problem is that 100 years ago, there were no shortcut dopaminergic tickets to feeling inspired.

I couldn't just like sit back and watch something on the Internet and feel inspired, feel better about myself.

Right.

Inspiration was not at our fingertips.

inspiration required.

And that's not even inspiration.

If we wanted to correct our emotional state, we had to go and accomplish something.

So I actually had to go to the gym to fix my emotional state.