Maximize Your Motivation: Dopamine, Discipline, and Acceptance | Being Well Podcast
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- We all have things we want to accomplish in life, but having goals or knowing we should be doing something is often not nearly enough to get us to actually sustain our efforts in getting where we want to go.
Today on Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I explore how to optimize our motivation. We distinguish motivation from discipline, liking from wanting, and describe how our brain’s reward circuitry works. We then explore how to best frame our outlook so we can feel relaxed, diligent, and uninhibited from being who we want to be and accomplishing what we want to accomplish.
0:00 Introduction
2:00 Expanding our view of motivation and distinguishing from discipline
5:30 Why don't we just want the things we know are good for us?
11:05 Creating unity between our biology and cognitive processing
15:50 Neurological overview of motivation
22:00 Distinguishing liking from wanting
26:10 Natural variations in dopamine metabolism
28:55 How people with lower levels of dopamine can stay motivated
32:35 Updating the reward value of your experiences
37:15 Being, doing, and having
43:20 What has helped Rick stay diligent and let go of resistance
47:00 Practical how-tos for interacting with the dopaminergic system
51:10 Letting fish be fish
52:55 Recap
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I have not seen a father son dynamic as yours. That mutually expressed love, appreciation, and respect...reverence for each other is something really of high value...sometimes I stop the video, sit with what you made me feel, rewind, replay to experience, that special thing between the two of you. Thank you for the knowledge; thank you for the love you demonstrate. Thank you.
When Dr. Rick said “Wanting without liking is hell and Liking without wanting Is heaven” really struck me. So true. The episode was great. I will listen to it again to let sink in. Thanks so much. 🙏🏼
When Dr. Rick said that his folks seldom worked fast and seldom stopped working, I thought I’d something a music processor in undergrad told me about practicing: “It’s not about ‘working hard,’ it’s about staying on task.” 💯
Very much this
I so agree with that. I also think that the working fast pressure is like putting the wagon before the horse. I rather am the horse and leave the wagon standing where it is.
Darn this episode made me think clearly about these kind of things. Thanks everybody!
I love your podcast! “Let fish be fish!” “Keep it new and fresh!” ‘Pom Poming and drill sargents!’
This is an area i have deeply struggled with my entire life, and have saught answers for for decades, and this was the first conversation that was presented in such a way that gave me new insight into this topic as it applies to my situation, and ive listened to it at least 5 times. Very healing for me. Thank you for this gift.
Is this healthy? I’ve listened to this podcast 6 times in the one afternoon. What a great spike of dopamine! Im not done yet either 🙏🏼🇦🇺🔥
THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE YOU'RE EVER MADE. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
Fantastic episode Forrest & Rick. So many good takeaways from this for me and that I can also use with clients.
The pain of liking one thing and desperately wanting another…. Is the story of my life. Thank you for your compassion.
This is a great video, very clear and concise yet extremely informative! Thank you
Loved this episode. Insightful and helpful. Keep up the great work!
This episode makes me realize how much I would LOVE to hear you two chat with Molly Bloom, about whom Aaron Sorkin made a movie with Jessica Chastain. I think that would be an exquisite interview. (And clearly at this point I should be a Patreon member 😂)
What gets in the way of being a disciple of your deepest truest purposes in this one wild and precious life 😢😢😢❤❤❤
So much appreciation for this
Thank you both! I need to listen to this again. There were so many gems in here. My ears pricked up near the end when Forrest talked about running every 15 minutes if you need to!😅 That's me. I used to be a highly stimulated person but haven't found work stimulating since having my highly energetic and spirited son. I have quite enough stimulation being a Mum!!! I also find that now the world is so overly digital and all ticking boxes required, it's really hard to get motivated. So watching this is helping me to think about how I make my work more stimulating. I'm a therapist so I find talking and relating to others very stimulating and interesting. It's the repeated form filling that I find it really hard to do. I've been encouraged to just try 10 minutes at a time of the boring things. Maybe I literally need to run in the kitchen for 5
minutes after every 10 minutes of form filling! I'll see what that does for me!!Thank you!😁
This is great stuff! I'm glad there's a channel on TH-cam like yours.
As someone who is committed to find a life partner, I find the cultural narrative to be one that does not support such a union between 2 people.