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TJ Power

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The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

Addiction to kind of success with work is quite tricky to manage I have been so thrilled over these last few years as to how things have gone with dose and I Really am doing this from a place of like I just want people to be able to have a great experience of their life But then you build pressure around the system as I'm sure you've experienced where you suddenly have a team to fund and all that kind of stuff and I feel

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

Addiction to kind of success with work is quite tricky to manage I have been so thrilled over these last few years as to how things have gone with dose and I Really am doing this from a place of like I just want people to be able to have a great experience of their life But then you build pressure around the system as I'm sure you've experienced where you suddenly have a team to fund and all that kind of stuff and I feel

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

kind of deeper weight to carry as to like social media needs to always be thriving, business needs to always be thriving. And then I can get quite hooked on the pursuit of that dopamine as well. And things like followers, it taps into like your ego and things like that as well.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

kind of deeper weight to carry as to like social media needs to always be thriving, business needs to always be thriving. And then I can get quite hooked on the pursuit of that dopamine as well. And things like followers, it taps into like your ego and things like that as well.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

So I think managing kind of like the financial and social media side of this life I'm now in is definitely difficult to manage.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

So I think managing kind of like the financial and social media side of this life I'm now in is definitely difficult to manage.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

It's really interesting in these moments because as I started to do more and more of these podcasts and these conversations, whenever I had a question that I think, what is the answer to that question? I've always thought I have to just ask the most truthful thing in my being, not the thing that I think would be the right thing to say. Yes. You got to be honest.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

It's really interesting in these moments because as I started to do more and more of these podcasts and these conversations, whenever I had a question that I think, what is the answer to that question? I've always thought I have to just ask the most truthful thing in my being, not the thing that I think would be the right thing to say. Yes. You got to be honest.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

If I am honest, a conversation and a connection with God is actually the thing that's began to help me in those moments. And I didn't grow up with a Christian family. I didn't grow up going to church. I basically have had no religion in my life, my entire experience of life. And When things weren't going to plan, I found that like prayer was really good.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

If I am honest, a conversation and a connection with God is actually the thing that's began to help me in those moments. And I didn't grow up with a Christian family. I didn't grow up going to church. I basically have had no religion in my life, my entire experience of life. And When things weren't going to plan, I found that like prayer was really good.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

Like I have this morning routine where I have this really specific bench that I always like to walk to in the morning. No phone involved, of course. And I walk there and for a lot of the time, my practice there was to sit down and do like a breathing process to calm my nervous system and some gratitude and some like kind of accomplishment celebration stuff for myself talk.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

Like I have this morning routine where I have this really specific bench that I always like to walk to in the morning. No phone involved, of course. And I walk there and for a lot of the time, my practice there was to sit down and do like a breathing process to calm my nervous system and some gratitude and some like kind of accomplishment celebration stuff for myself talk.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

And I had this experience. I was doing this every day for like three or four years. And then with some various things that have happened, life stuff and work stuff, I added praying into that moment. And I found this conversation of like, thank you for all I have and promising my life to serving the world and things like that.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

And I had this experience. I was doing this every day for like three or four years. And then with some various things that have happened, life stuff and work stuff, I added praying into that moment. And I found this conversation of like, thank you for all I have and promising my life to serving the world and things like that.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

I found it to be very powerful in calming my moments of fear effectively in that experience and created this conversation trust in things are going to go okay so when i'm in those deep states of fear my mind race i have a very overthinking mind where i just rapidly go into worst case scenario and i found really like a conversation with god in those moments is the best thing to calm you down

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

I found it to be very powerful in calming my moments of fear effectively in that experience and created this conversation trust in things are going to go okay so when i'm in those deep states of fear my mind race i have a very overthinking mind where i just rapidly go into worst case scenario and i found really like a conversation with god in those moments is the best thing to calm you down

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

This is where things get so fascinating because with that new... I would say I started this prayer maybe a year ago. I then, about four or five months ago, began going to church for the first time in my life. I haven't even told anyone this. And on Sundays, I'll go to church and I'll spend like an hour in there. And... my natural kind of inquisitive brain of like the neuroscience side of things.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

This is where things get so fascinating because with that new... I would say I started this prayer maybe a year ago. I then, about four or five months ago, began going to church for the first time in my life. I haven't even told anyone this. And on Sundays, I'll go to church and I'll spend like an hour in there. And... my natural kind of inquisitive brain of like the neuroscience side of things.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

It's like observing the whole experience of the prayer and the gratitude and the contribution to one another and the connection and the singing. And I'm thinking this is like Dose. This is a lot of actions that we're kind of promoting in the modern world, but just through a different lens. And I've been sitting in there thinking this is the original mental health therapy, basically.

The School of Greatness
Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

It's like observing the whole experience of the prayer and the gratitude and the contribution to one another and the connection and the singing. And I'm thinking this is like Dose. This is a lot of actions that we're kind of promoting in the modern world, but just through a different lens. And I've been sitting in there thinking this is the original mental health therapy, basically.