TJ Power
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That sort of stuff would have been great for the brain.
It's very rare to do too much of it.
It's very rare to do too much of it.
It's very rare to do too much of it.
I mean, you could choose to only do one of the, if you fell in love with someone and you decided you're just going to lie in bed and sleep together for 10 hours a day, every single day, you'd certainly get a lot of oxytocin, but the other chemicals would begin to reduce because you'd stop working and getting dopamine from hard work and stop going outside and getting serotonin and so on. So
I mean, you could choose to only do one of the, if you fell in love with someone and you decided you're just going to lie in bed and sleep together for 10 hours a day, every single day, you'd certainly get a lot of oxytocin, but the other chemicals would begin to reduce because you'd stop working and getting dopamine from hard work and stop going outside and getting serotonin and so on. So
I mean, you could choose to only do one of the, if you fell in love with someone and you decided you're just going to lie in bed and sleep together for 10 hours a day, every single day, you'd certainly get a lot of oxytocin, but the other chemicals would begin to reduce because you'd stop working and getting dopamine from hard work and stop going outside and getting serotonin and so on. So
You technically could, but it's unlikely in the modern world that you're going to overdo one of these chemicals. The vast majority of the challenge we're facing is that we're completely hooked on dopamine. So we're spending a lot of our time centering our life around when am I going to be on my phone? When am I going to watch Netflix? When am I going to have my next drink of alcohol?
You technically could, but it's unlikely in the modern world that you're going to overdo one of these chemicals. The vast majority of the challenge we're facing is that we're completely hooked on dopamine. So we're spending a lot of our time centering our life around when am I going to be on my phone? When am I going to watch Netflix? When am I going to have my next drink of alcohol?
You technically could, but it's unlikely in the modern world that you're going to overdo one of these chemicals. The vast majority of the challenge we're facing is that we're completely hooked on dopamine. So we're spending a lot of our time centering our life around when am I going to be on my phone? When am I going to watch Netflix? When am I going to have my next drink of alcohol?
When am I going to have my next sugary meal? Not only is that overstimulating dopamine, it's creating a life where the prioritization of really close, intimate relationships and hiking outside in nature and listening to music and singing songs and these key actions humans need, they're going lower on the prioritization list.
When am I going to have my next sugary meal? Not only is that overstimulating dopamine, it's creating a life where the prioritization of really close, intimate relationships and hiking outside in nature and listening to music and singing songs and these key actions humans need, they're going lower on the prioritization list.
When am I going to have my next sugary meal? Not only is that overstimulating dopamine, it's creating a life where the prioritization of really close, intimate relationships and hiking outside in nature and listening to music and singing songs and these key actions humans need, they're going lower on the prioritization list.
100%. It is hard to break these addictions. And this whole framework, I've not built this as just like a neuroscientist. I think, oh, everyone should be healthy. I was in an extremely unhealthy lifestyle with alcohol and partying and pornography and social media. I just grew up as a teenager. That's what everyone around me was doing. And I thought, well, that's the life you live.
100%. It is hard to break these addictions. And this whole framework, I've not built this as just like a neuroscientist. I think, oh, everyone should be healthy. I was in an extremely unhealthy lifestyle with alcohol and partying and pornography and social media. I just grew up as a teenager. That's what everyone around me was doing. And I thought, well, that's the life you live.
100%. It is hard to break these addictions. And this whole framework, I've not built this as just like a neuroscientist. I think, oh, everyone should be healthy. I was in an extremely unhealthy lifestyle with alcohol and partying and pornography and social media. I just grew up as a teenager. That's what everyone around me was doing. And I thought, well, that's the life you live.
Then I went to really study this and got deep into the research behind it. And I was like, wow, I'm completely breaking my brain chemistry. And that's no wonder that I'm there for overthinking things and struggling with my mood and sometimes feeling depressed and so on. And I thought it was just because of the life events I was going through this grief that I was going through.
Then I went to really study this and got deep into the research behind it. And I was like, wow, I'm completely breaking my brain chemistry. And that's no wonder that I'm there for overthinking things and struggling with my mood and sometimes feeling depressed and so on. And I thought it was just because of the life events I was going through this grief that I was going through.
Then I went to really study this and got deep into the research behind it. And I was like, wow, I'm completely breaking my brain chemistry. And that's no wonder that I'm there for overthinking things and struggling with my mood and sometimes feeling depressed and so on. And I thought it was just because of the life events I was going through this grief that I was going through.
I came to discover that these addictions like needed to be broken and they can be broken. But it's just like, how much do you want to feel good? You have to start asking yourself that question. I made that decision in my life that I was like, I actually really want to feel good. I want to energetically feel good. I want to be able to exercise regularly. I want to feel confident.