TJ Power
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Like if you got in a manual car and you didn't put it into gear and then you just rev the engine every day, eventually you would burn that engine out and it would break. That's exactly what we're doing with the overstimulation of dopamine through things like social media or alcohol or sugar or pornography. And that's then causing what we call low dopamine levels.
Like if you got in a manual car and you didn't put it into gear and then you just rev the engine every day, eventually you would burn that engine out and it would break. That's exactly what we're doing with the overstimulation of dopamine through things like social media or alcohol or sugar or pornography. And that's then causing what we call low dopamine levels.
Like if you got in a manual car and you didn't put it into gear and then you just rev the engine every day, eventually you would burn that engine out and it would break. That's exactly what we're doing with the overstimulation of dopamine through things like social media or alcohol or sugar or pornography. And that's then causing what we call low dopamine levels.
And if ever in your life you're in a state where you feel kind of apathetic, you can't be bothered to do anything, that you might be sitting on the sofa scrolling your phone for a while, and then even the thought of getting up and going and making your dinner feels like effort, that's because your dopamine level is low.
And if ever in your life you're in a state where you feel kind of apathetic, you can't be bothered to do anything, that you might be sitting on the sofa scrolling your phone for a while, and then even the thought of getting up and going and making your dinner feels like effort, that's because your dopamine level is low.
And if ever in your life you're in a state where you feel kind of apathetic, you can't be bothered to do anything, that you might be sitting on the sofa scrolling your phone for a while, and then even the thought of getting up and going and making your dinner feels like effort, that's because your dopamine level is low.
Yeah, often nowadays, the phone is like the primary factor. And as we've seen the phone grow in popularity and how much humans spend their time on it, how every generation, whether it's young teenagers that people worry about or when I was in the coffee shop earlier, I saw a couple that must be in their 70s that didn't say a word to each other for 20 minutes whilst they both rolled their phones.
Yeah, often nowadays, the phone is like the primary factor. And as we've seen the phone grow in popularity and how much humans spend their time on it, how every generation, whether it's young teenagers that people worry about or when I was in the coffee shop earlier, I saw a couple that must be in their 70s that didn't say a word to each other for 20 minutes whilst they both rolled their phones.
Yeah, often nowadays, the phone is like the primary factor. And as we've seen the phone grow in popularity and how much humans spend their time on it, how every generation, whether it's young teenagers that people worry about or when I was in the coffee shop earlier, I saw a couple that must be in their 70s that didn't say a word to each other for 20 minutes whilst they both rolled their phones.
The phone is disrupting all generations in humanity because of the way in which it stimulates our dopamine. We're so hooked. on interacting with it.
The phone is disrupting all generations in humanity because of the way in which it stimulates our dopamine. We're so hooked. on interacting with it.
The phone is disrupting all generations in humanity because of the way in which it stimulates our dopamine. We're so hooked. on interacting with it.
Yeah, laughter is magic. Laughter actually really is great for our endorphin system, especially if you really laugh. Like if you're really finding something funny and it almost is like hurting your stomach level funny, that's magic for endorphins, which provides an amazing de-stressing effect on our brain. It calms our brain a lot. Music as well. Music is really powerful.
Yeah, laughter is magic. Laughter actually really is great for our endorphin system, especially if you really laugh. Like if you're really finding something funny and it almost is like hurting your stomach level funny, that's magic for endorphins, which provides an amazing de-stressing effect on our brain. It calms our brain a lot. Music as well. Music is really powerful.
Yeah, laughter is magic. Laughter actually really is great for our endorphin system, especially if you really laugh. Like if you're really finding something funny and it almost is like hurting your stomach level funny, that's magic for endorphins, which provides an amazing de-stressing effect on our brain. It calms our brain a lot. Music as well. Music is really powerful.
As long as you're not changing song very regularly. In the modern world, people are like clicking next song every like 20 seconds. So it's not as calming for the brain, but especially back in the day of cassette players and putting the, I don't even know what it was called when you put like a disc on there and it's like a nice proper old method of listening to music.
As long as you're not changing song very regularly. In the modern world, people are like clicking next song every like 20 seconds. So it's not as calming for the brain, but especially back in the day of cassette players and putting the, I don't even know what it was called when you put like a disc on there and it's like a nice proper old method of listening to music.
As long as you're not changing song very regularly. In the modern world, people are like clicking next song every like 20 seconds. So it's not as calming for the brain, but especially back in the day of cassette players and putting the, I don't even know what it was called when you put like a disc on there and it's like a nice proper old method of listening to music.
That sort of stuff would have been great for the brain.
That sort of stuff would have been great for the brain.