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Do You F*cking Mind?

441. The Neuroscience behind determination

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is all about determination from a neuroscience and psychology perspective. I talk about the difference between motivation and determination and give you practical tools & strategies.

Episodes mentioned with links: Episode 368 & Episode 370.

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0:00.0

Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

0:02.3

Hiya.

0:02.9

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

0:05.6

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

0:09.6

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

0:11.1

It's free to sell on there?

0:12.3

Free to sell?

0:13.4

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

0:16.8

You sold my guitar?

0:19.9

Shall we talk about Benny?

0:22.1

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

0:26.7

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1:26.0

Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Hello, beautiful beans and welcome to the episode of today. So today we are talking about determination.

1:30.3

I want to talk about determination kind of from like a neuroscience psychology standpoint, obviously, because this is what the fucking podcast is about. And I want you

1:36.9

to understand the brain regions that are involved in determination. And the reason I want you to

1:42.4

understand that is because we know that the brain is plastic.

1:46.6

It's moldable with the correct behaviours and patterns we can, to an extent, mold our brains and train our brain like a muscle.

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