MMM: Dopamine before Passion

Hey Friends,

Before we can find passion we need to work on ourselves first…

In today's modern times, there are many challenges that the passionate people did not have before technology.. Insert Dopamine speed.

1. Change where you get your dopamine from.

Dopamine- responsible for motivation and causes you to feel good.

Modern Past

Consumption Creation

Don't have to do much to get Dopamine We had to create something to get dopamine. (social media, video games, food, porn.) (building, growing, making art)

When the majority of your dopamine When the majority of your dopamine comes from consumption, this is called an addiction. comes from creation, this is called a passion!

First thing to do is to turn back your consumption valve. Watch less tv, play less video games, eat less junk food. This will cause you to want to get dopamine from other forms of ‘Creation.’

2. You need to expose yourself to different forms of creation..

You need to develop an understanding of yourself which is not something you automatically have. Assume you’re starting from 0, you need to do things to figure out what your interests/strengths/traits etc are.

Think about if you’d never eaten food in your life and you were tasked with figuring out what foods you most enjoy. You’d have to obviously try different foods to figure that out. But you obviously wouldn’t try every meal in the world that would take too long and be unnecessarily inefficient. Instead you’d try foods in a way to narrow down things. You’d try a certain group or food with some ingredient to know if you like that or not. You’d try spicy food or sweet food and then if you liked it you’d narrow down in that section or if you hated it you’d avoid altogether.

It’s the same with your own interests and developing self awareness of those. If you don’t know what you like you have to try things to figure out but obviously you can’t just try every job so you have to be creative and efficient with trying things… If you are still struggling with finding a hobby that you are passionate about, trying turning down your consumption valve even more(step 1)

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