Dopamine Method: 3 Steps to Find Your Passion (Science-Backed)

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Dopamine Method: 3 Steps to Find Your Passion (Science-Backed) October 27, 2025 | Episode 5211 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Still collecting productivity frameworks that don't actually work? Smart goals. Atomic habits. All those little tactics sitting in your notebook while you're still off track. Here's the thing. They're too tactical. You need something that's wired into how your brain actually works. Three simple steps that change how you feel about your world starting today. Not next month. Today. Scott breaks down the science-backed approach that makes motivation stick. No frameworks to memorize. Just three strategic shifts that light you up from the inside. And what he discovered about your anticipation engine might surprise you. Featured Story Ever notice how excited you got about Christmas as a kid? Scott did too. Then he became an adult. Boring. Just work. One day he said screw that. Started putting concerts on the calendar. Ski trips. Anything that got him genuinely excited. And his whole life shifted. He realized something most people miss. When you schedule experiences that fire you up, your mood changes. Your motivation increases. You can handle anything at the office when you've got something coming up this weekend. Most people lacking motivation are just lacking hope. That puts them in doubt and fear. The trick? You need to know you're growing toward something. Important Points Why looking at the past to solve present problems keeps you stuck in the same patterns you're trying to escape. The anticipation engine discovery that makes kids excited about holidays works just as powerfully for adults who remember to use it. How connecting with 5-10 truly like-minded people creates more momentum than 5,000 Facebook friends ever will. Exploring future possibilities lights up your brain differently than trying to fix your current situation. Memorable Quotes "The present doesn't stick around. The only thing that guides you is the future." "If you're not exploring and looking forward, most people look at the past. That's not going to work for you." "We were not designed to do things alone, but make no mistake, we're also not designed to do things with 10,000 people." "Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude constitute an unbeatable force." Scott's Three-Step Approach 1. Explore future possibilities instead of past solutions. Stop asking what worked 20 years ago and start asking where your interest guides you next. 2. Fire up your anticipation engine by scheduling one experience that genuinely excites you. Concert tickets. Weekend trip. New dress. Anything that makes you eager. 3. Connect with like-minded people in smaller groups of 5-10 who actually vibe with you naturally. No forcing it. No proving how smart you are. Chapters 00:00 Why Your Goal-Setting Frameworks Keep Failing 00:50 The Daily Boost Moves to YouTube (Big Announcement) 02:39 Stop Collecting Ideas That Don't Work 03:37 Step One: Explore Future Possibilities 05:27 The Anticipation Engine That Changes Everything 07:13 Step Three: Connect With Like-Minded People 09:24 What Messes People Up (It's Always One of These Three) 10:11 Tomorrow's Show: One Project at a Time Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:02.2	It's not really still a thing.
2:04.0	It's still on the internet. It doesn't really work. Most people don't do it anymore. I've said it didn't work forever. But maybe you're still doing it. That's okay. Maybe you're an atomic habits person. You like James Clearers work. That's awesome too. But you try it. It sits over there.
2:15.5	You're like, man, I'm off track again.
2:17.2	Let me go get it out again.
2:18.0	Well, the reason it doesn't work is because it's so tactical.
2:20.1	What we need is something that's science based, that's philosophically based, and it's strategic. And that's what I'll teach you today. Three things that if you do, this is just the way you're wired. You'll change how you feel about your world, okay? It is a daily boost from Motivation.move.com.
2:35.5	How are you? My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you here today. I was thinking I've been doing the show now almost 20 years and it still is what it was when we started, although minor changes over the years.
2:45.5	But in the beginning, I started the show as a support for my clients and for my Fisher Passion Inner Circle members. I did it for them. It's the daily motivation component of what they need to do just to keep getting through the days. And then we work on the philosophical side behind the scenes. It's still that way today. So I thank them for supporting this all these years. Very soon, maybe today or tomorrow, I'll tell you more about that. You can be
3:08.4	part of that if you want to, okay. Big announcement, by the way, I have played and toyed reluctantly
3:13.0	with YouTube over the years, and now I'm not anymore. I've decided I'm excited about it. I'm
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