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Everything you've heard about "dopamine hits" is incomplete.
Dopamine equals pleasure. That's what I believed for years.
Then I listened to a conversation between Andrew Huberman and Dr. Read Montague…
A neuroscientist who literally measures dopamine in real-time in conscious human brains.. And realised I had it completely wrong.
Dopamine isn't your reward. It's your teacher. And the algorithm it runs is the same one powering the world's most advanced AI systems.
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I went deep on the latest neuroscience of dopamine and serotonin, and came back with some insights that genuinely surprised me. Especially the part about why effort and slowing down might be the most underrated hack for your brain's learning algorithm.
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That’s it for now
See you next week
Cheers
Ayush & Aditi 🙌