Name: 為什麼很多人對生活逐漸無感，失去動力和熱情？► 試試這個方法 - Dr Andrew Huberman 安德魯．休伯曼博士（中英字幕）
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The problem is not pleasures, the problem is that pleasure experienced without prior requirement for pursuit is terrible for us.

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I have great confidence in the human species to work this out, but we are finding now, and we are going to increasingly find, that those who will be successful, young or old, are going to be those people who can create their own internal buffers.

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They're going to be able to control their relationship to pleasures because the proximity to pleasures and their availability is the problem.

If you look at the increase in use of drugs of abuse or prescription medication, huge dopamine increases are what those cause.

That's a serious problem because it creates a cycle where you need more of that specific thing.

I would say addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure.

And a good life, we could say, is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work.

If you look at any drug of abuse or any situation where somebody isn't motivated, now they may have clinically diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but a lot of what people think is ADHD, it turns out, is people just over consuming dopamine from various sources.

And then, and also the context within a TikTok feed is the switch is insane.

Normally you walk from one room to another or from a field into the trees or from a hut into or a house or whatever it is.

But now you can get 10,000 context switches in that 30 minutes of scrolling on Instagram or TikTok.

When you think, I'm feeling low, I don't feel good, nothing really feels good.

But maybe you're just, you've saturated the dopamine circuits.

You need to stop engaging with this behavior and then your pleasure for it will come back.

You know, there've been really good studies of people who jump out of airplanes with parachutes.

It looks like a thrill, but people do it over and over and over again, often die doing other things.

They often become drug addicts because it's a huge high.

And you know, there, there are a lot of examples of this.

I mean, you can get addicted to anything.

So you asked what, you know, what should people do?

Well, I'm actually trying an odd experiment, which is for the first hour of every day, no phone, mostly because I think...

So we have circuitry in the brain related to the so-called basal ganglia, and we have go's, so activating, you know, think gas pedal.

And then we, there's a lot of no-go circuitry and learning how to keep that no-go don't circuitry tuned up is very important.

And so many times throughout the day, but I try and get 25 a day where I actively refrain from doing something that I impulsively want to do.

Could be looking at my phone, but it could even be something trivial.

Like I want to walk to the kitchen and get a glass of water.

So I'm actively engaging in action-based denial.

So restricting my behavior in some way as a way of keeping these dopamine circuits tuned up.

Also not looking at my phone first thing in the morning for an hour.

When you wake up in the morning, you are in a perfect position to what I call receive the download of all the work that your neural circuitry has been doing the night before.

But if you immediately go to a sensory experience, especially a rich sensory experience of stuff scrolling by, you're actually missing the information that you processed at night.

And even more importantly, that second half of the night during REM sleep is when the emotional weight of things becomes, let's say you put it on the shelf properly.

Things that are important to emotionally register get put in one shelf.

Things that were like the comment you got on Twitter that was triggering doesn't seem like such a big deal after a good night's sleep.

And that's because that second half of sleep is actually when you would re-experience these things, but your body can't secrete adrenaline.

It's kind of an internal form of or even trauma therapy.

And that's why people who don't get that sleep are very, you know, they're easily agitated.

They feel like the world is crushing down on them.

So when I wake up in the morning, I want to receive ideas that I want to learn from my learning.

And if you take in new information, you are not in a position to do that.

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為什麼很多人對生活逐漸無感，失去動力和熱情？► 試試這個方法 - Dr Andrew Huberman 安德魯．休伯曼博士（中英字幕）

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