HOW TO TRICK DOPAMINE IN YOUR DAILY LIFE TO GET SUCCESS

 Dopamine is usually seen as the main chemical of pleasure lets see some of the facts

1. Dopamine helps you feel alert! A study showed that those are sleep deprived have less dopamine binding to their receptors in the brain.

2. Dopamine affects your motor control! Too much dopamine can cause body tics and other small, uncontrollable movements. If you don’t have enough dopamine, movements can become uncoordinated.

3. Foods can actually give you dopamine boosts! Foods (like cheese, nuts, and chicken) that have L-Tyrosine and L-Phenylalanine increase levels of dopamine because they convert into dopamine. Studies have also shown that foods that are high in sugar increase dopamine levels for a short time. This spike and the following dopamine crash can lead to addictive behaviors towards food.

4. Massages can alter dopamine levels! Research has shown that dopamine and serotonin increase during massages, and cortisol (the “stress hormone”) decreases.

5. Thirty percent of the United States population has a genetic dopamine deficiency! This genetic disorder has been coined “Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS)”. RDS means that one has lower than normal dopamine disorders and is more likely to develop harmful behaviors.
   
   
   

1. Set Goals. If you don’t have a set expected reward to be gained, the system doesn’t work. (Use personal OKRs, Yearly and 5-year goals, etc…)
2. Set Triggers. You have to signal to your brain when work begins and what is at the end of the tunnel. (Visually surround yourself with reminders of goals, tasks, to-do’s, schedules, etc…)
3. Attach extra rewards to your goals. (Just to make double-sure that you feel the presence of a reward). Your goals will usually be meaningful and rewarding by themselves, like getting fit or reaching the first thousand paying customers, but make sure to attach an extra reward to the set goals, like a vacation or like buying those new headphones you’ve been drooling over).
4. Run Mental Simulations. (visually imagine) the moment of reaching the goal and getting the reward.
5. Avoid chronic stress. Neuroscience is clear: Chronic stress decreases your brains sensitivity to dopamine. The most extreme case is unhedonia — where nothing in life gives any pleasure.
6. Avoid pain. Same effect with stress.
7. Sleep well. I’ll give you two options. Either get a full 8 hours of sleep each and every night or read the book Why We Sleep (which will convince you to do so, if I have failed).
8. Be careful with addictive drugs. Drugs are addictive because they reward your dopamine systems and they teach a bad lesson to your brain — that there is reward without work. Second but still important, you become less sensitive to natural levels of release.
9. Add a dash of surprise. Uncertainty of reward increases dopamine release. In cases where reward happens 50% of the time, rather than 100%, the dopamine release doubles! If you are unconvinced, drop by a casino and observe people. The easiest way to do that is to venture into a field that you don’t know very well and rotate the types of goals & tasks you set for yourself for novelty.
10. Always keep a beginner’s mindset. This goes very well with putting learning and growth mindset at the center of your life. After being an amateur photographer, scuba diver, motorcycle rider and doing sailing in the past, now I am learning climbing. I am not the best in any of them. Though I am pretty sure I have a better brain that can learn new information faster as a result.