Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Pursuit is very taxing and the reason is it's like wandering in the desert not

knowing if there's water at all that's really depleting I mean epinephrine

is in the brain and it's a it's chemical equivalent in the body is

adrenaline those are the same thing and if you're constantly in pursuit right you're just

pursuing external goals external goals external goals it will wear your nervous system down you will be exhausted and you will one will eventually run aground you become mentally depressed

the key is to figure out what are the rewards that you can acquire along the way internally remember it's subjective

There can also be external rewards because many things have milestones you know a series A a series B for a company, then the IPO later.

Reaching a million users or doing this, yeah.

So we have engagements before we have weddings, typically, right?

There's a lot of buildup that provides these reward mechanisms.

The key thing is that you can't just be all gas pedal all the time

without rewarding yourself.

However, the reward that dopamine is so powerful because it actually, as I mentioned

before, it actually is the chemical substrate for epinephrine. It creates a reservoir of more energy.

And again, I'm not talking about caloric energy or glycogen.

It's mental energy.

It's the desire to push on.

It's the desire to keep going.

So we need some consistent dopamine hits throughout the days or our months to give us more energy to pursue.

That's right. But we don't want to be over-pursued because then we'll burn out.

That's right. And so everyone has to find where that sweet spot is, that kind of, you know, on the freeway driving where it's really smooth and seamless, where you're not on the accelerator the whole time, where you're in a gear that's appropriate.

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