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Boost Your resistance to Dopamine

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Boost Your resistance to Dopamine 1.      The struggle these days with most of us remains is that we want to do certain things like exercise, study and other productive work but our brain wants to do things which it likes like dopaminergic activities e.g. Play video games, reels etc. 2.      The struggle is that the part of your brain which generates motivation, is the part of the brain that controls you. 3.      Nucleus Accumbens is the part of your brain that generates motivation using dopamine as a signal. When we are motivated to do something and when we do it (engage in that behavior or activity), the Nucleus Accumbens generates dopamine as a reward and gives us pleasure. 4.      The problem is that you can’t directly affect this circuit, meaning that you can’t motivate yourself to not be motivated by pleasurable things. 5.      It’s ...