Sunday, January 12, 2014

How to Harness Your Brain's Dopamine Supply and Increase Motivation January 11, 2014 at 11:01PM

"The next time you lack for motivation, try this: Break your indomitable task into smaller goals, and trust that dopamine will build up as you achieve your way through to the end. Should trouble or distraction interfere, push through with focused determination and deliberation."

via Facebook http://lifehacker.com/how-to-harnass-your-brains-dopamine-supply-and-increas-1496989326?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow I spent an hour on this opening paragraph. The hour wasn't time well spent, mind you. Sure, I was working—writing, deleting, fiddling with words here and there—but my paragraph-per-hour pace was more the byproduct of a stubborn lack of motivation than of indecisiveness.

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