You have to be very judicious in your interactions with things that deliver pleasure.

So the key is to take this dopamine system and set it up for you to be able to be motivated and

focused. And the way to do that is to welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howe's

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today. It's going to be powerful. So let's go ahead and dive in. You mentioned dopamine a little

bit. Can you talk about dopamine focus and motivation and how to manage our dopamine hits because

it seems like every 30 seconds we're getting dopamine now. Whether it's drinking coffee, having

candy, social media, email, pings, dings on the watches, whatever it is, it's a dopamine overload.

It feels like. Yes. So how do we stay motivated and manage dopamine at the same time? Yeah. Great

question. Dopamine is the molecule of motivation and the molecule of motivation. Absolutely. I mean,

for years and years people thought dopamine was about pleasure, but dopamine is mainly about

craving and motivation and drive. Okay. There's a simple experiment that illustrates that.

But I would be remiss if I didn't first mention two excellent resources for people that want to

learn a lot about dopamine. These would be perhaps interesting people for you to talk to directly.

The first is a book called the molecule of more, which is all about dopamine. The author is

Lieberman. I don't know him personally, but I love the book. I wish I had written it. The second

is dopamine nation. Finding balance in the age of indulgence. And the author there is Anna Lemke,

LEMKE. She's a medical doctor and psychiatrist and runs the dual diagnosis addiction clinic at

Stanford, Somal Medicine. She's a colleague. I consider her friend and she is world class

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