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So I'm spending, on average, six hours, four minutes. A day on this thing. That's crazy. What exactly is dopamine?

Dopamine is this neurotransmitter in our brain that evolved over hundreds of thousands of years of human

evolution to motivate us to do hard things and take something like cleaning your home, just like a boring,

effortful task. Whilst you're doing it, it's not like, wow, this is so fun, it stimulates, and I'm buzzing,

and I'm cleaning my house. But you'll notice as the house gets cleaner, you feel a little bit of satisfaction. And then as you finish, like washing up your kitchen, you sit down the sofa to chill, this slight sense of reward appears in your brain. Do you see higher numbers with these kind of things around people with a history of addiction? Hey guys, welcome back to On the Men. This is the podcast where we look back at life's toughest moments to figure out how we move forward.

Now, in the past, we've released episodes about social media and effects. It often has on me.

I can get digitally overwhelmed at times and then have a bit of a burnout.

There are times when I literally get so burnt out that I stop replying. I go totally

distant and withdraw from life, which isn't good, right? So I think, like, of all the

podcasts I've done, I don't think I could have a more fitting time in my life and in the podcast

trajectory as today, because today we have someone I've met before

and I admire hugely. It is TJ Power. TJ Power, welcome to the podcast, mate. Thanks for

having me, my friend. I'm so pleased to see you, mate. I mean, I've got so many ways I want to go with

you. But I think, right, okay, I'm thinking about everyone, everyone listening and how we can get the best out of you in the time that we have, right? I mean, I've seen your stuff everywhere. I love learning for you. For those who might not know you, can you explain what you do? Yeah, so I'm a neuroscientist. I run a research lab called Dose Lab. That's so cool. I'm a neuroscientist. It's fucking dope.

And it studies our four primary brain chemicals are dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins.

Very conveniently, the acronym happens about dose, which has basically built my whole career.

And we've basically turned Dose into what's called a psychological intervention, where we've

gamified brain chemistry into 20 core habits that help people get these chemicals back into balance.

We've now taken just over 85,000 people through this intervention. So we've learned a huge amount

about people's brain chemistry. Modern life is pretty disruptive to the natural

harmony these chemicals have, which creates many of the challenges we experience around burnout,

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