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Neuroscientist: How To Hack Your Dopamine To Boost Your Mood, Energy, and Focus

2025/3/5
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Lewis Howes: 本期节目探讨了现代生活方式对大脑的影响,以及如何通过调节多巴胺来改善情绪、精力和专注力。我们讨论了社交媒体对大脑化学的影响,以及如何通过设定手机使用时间限制来戒除手机成瘾。我们还探讨了快速多巴胺活动和缓慢多巴胺活动的区别,以及如何通过追求催产素(连接)而不是多巴胺(快乐)来获得更深层次的生活满足感和意义。 TJ Power: 注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)可能是由基因或现代生活方式改变引起的。虽然ADHD会带来很多困难,但如果能够找到自己感兴趣的事情并专注于它,就能取得巨大成就。现代社会中,手机(尤其是社交媒体)和加工食品是导致人们缺乏能量、情绪低落和难以集中注意力的主要因素。频繁使用社交媒体会导致多巴胺快速升高和骤降,从而导致情绪低落和缺乏能量。为了建立与社交媒体的健康关系,需要减少参与频率。延迟满足和设定限制可以帮助人们更好地管理手机使用时间,并获得更持久的满足感。色情成瘾比酒精或手机成瘾更难戒除,因为它是一种私密行为,难以被他人发现。然而,戒除色情成瘾后,人们的动力和注意力会得到提升。为了拥有一个良好的夜间常规,需要完成工作、进行反思、远离屏幕、进行放松活动。手机禁食需要与手机进行物理隔离。每天安排一些无聊时间可以帮助人们提高多巴胺基线水平,从而拥有更好的生活体验。早晨进行一些费力的活动,例如:去洗手间、刷牙、洗脸、整理床铺,可以提高多巴胺水平。从较高的多巴胺基线状态开始一天,可以提高工作效率。自律带来自由,人们需要评估自己的生活方式,并做出改变以提高幸福感。服务他人可以提升催产素水平,服务自己是提升幸福感的一种方式。现代社会过度追求多巴胺,而忽略了其他神经递质的重要性。调节多巴胺水平可以改善生活体验,而追求快乐不如追求幸福。为了克服对不健康多巴胺的沉迷,需要培养对健康生活的热爱。 TJ Power: 我个人最大的挑战是克服对工作成功的渴望。在那些感到害怕的时刻,与上帝进行对话能够帮助我平静下来。教会环境能够促进催产素的分泌,让人们更加专注于服务他人而不是自身快乐。多巴胺、催产素、血清素和内啡肽的平衡对于拥有健康的生活至关重要。多巴胺与动力有关,催产素与连接有关,血清素与能量有关,内啡肽与减压有关。如果能够调节多巴胺,其他神经递质也会逐渐恢复平衡。为了提升内啡肽水平,需要进行剧烈运动、避免久坐、多笑以及减少慢性压力。笑声对于减压至关重要,人们需要有意识地创造更多欢笑的环境。我将留下的三个真理是:每周都要在自然环境中度过一段长时间,并且远离手机;要将服务他人作为生活中心,而不是追求个人快乐;要时刻关注你所爱的人,确保你的行为能够提升他们的生活体验。

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This episode explores the impact of technology on brain chemistry, particularly the effects of social media and phones on dopamine levels. It also discusses the challenges of ADHD in the modern world and the potential for turning ADHD into a superpower.
  • Social media and phones are disrupting brain chemistry, creating an epidemic of dopamine dysfunction.
  • ADHD is reframed as a potential superpower when properly channeled.
  • Practical strategies to balance neurochemicals are provided.

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Prepare to completely rethink your relationship with technology as neuroscientist TJ Power reveals the shocking truth about what's happening to our brains in the digital age. Drawing from his groundbreaking research and personal struggle with addiction, TJ explains how our modern environment is creating an epidemic of dopamine dysfunction that's sabotaging our ability to focus, feel joy, and connect meaningfully with others. The conversation explores the fascinating evolutionary mismatch between our hunter-gatherer brains and our modern digital environment, with TJ offering a compelling reframe of ADHD as a potential superpower when properly channeled. Whether you're fighting distractions, battling mood swings, or simply feeling numb despite constant stimulation, this episode delivers practical, science-backed strategies to reclaim your focus, energy, and capacity for genuine happiness through what TJ calls "The Dose Effect" – a revolutionary approach to balancing your brain's essential neurochemicals.

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In this episode you will learn:

  • Why constantly checking your phone (140-170 times daily for most people) is more damaging to your brain than alcohol or other addictions
  • The counterintuitive reason people with ADHD often become exceptional performers when they find their passion
  • How implementing strategic "phone fasts" and scheduled social media times can dramatically improve your mood and focus
  • Why "quick dopamine" activities like scrolling and porn create numbness while "slow dopamine" activities create fulfillment
  • The essential morning routine practice that ancient hunter-gatherers naturally did that modern humans desperately need
  • How pursuing oxytocin (connection) rather than dopamine (pleasure) leads to deeper life satisfaction and meaning
  • Why disciplined boundaries around technology actually create greater freedom rather than restriction

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