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Let's learn how to work our machinery. I agree, we don't in this culture teach people how to operate their mind and body. How do you get motivated? Well, one way to do that is if you are good at subjectively attaching dopamine to the pursuit, just knowing, okay, I really am hungry for this, I'm just gonna, I'm going to tell myself that, you know, making, you know, making it 1% of the way is a success. And I'm going to keep going, and I'm gonna keep ratcheting on.

And then the other aspect of it is that anytime that we're leaning into action, you know, it has the possibility of being an amplifying process or a depleting process. And the key to that is making sure that you're balancing the dopamine and epinephrine systems, we have to remember that this mechanism of dopamine and pathfinding to goals is in every animal, humans, dogs, sheep, so grazing animal might be on a really barren landscape, they go some direction, and they don't

smell water, which animals can do. And so they veer off course, and then all of a sudden, they get a little bit of central water.