Best self help advice I’ve seen in years.
Your brain releases dopamine before you get the reward, not after.
Studies on reward prediction error show this clearly. The brain computes the difference between what you expected and what you got, then adjusts your motivation accordingly. The more certain you are that effort leads to an outcome, the more dopamine you release during the effort itself.
This is why assigning a finite number to your goal changes everything at a biological level. You convert an unpredictable reward schedule into a predictable countdown. Your prefrontal cortex now has a map. The dopamine system responds to that clarity by releasing more dopamine with each step forward, including the painful ones.
The default loop most people run: rejection → uncertainty about whether this will ever work → cortisol elevation → avoidance behavior → quit.
The rewired loop: rejection → “93 left” → progress signal → dopamine release → increased drive toward next attempt.
The people who sustain effort through rejection have attached the reward signal to the process of attempting rather than the outcome of any single attempt. When you expect the process itself to be rewarding, each step generates its own neurochemical reinforcement. The effort becomes self-sustaining.
This works because it gives your brain something it desperately wants: a denominator. Uncertainty kills motivation at the level of neurochemistry. Certainty of eventual reward, even through discomfort, sustains it.
What’s crazy is that if you theoretically could spend the $700B on an asset like Greenland with the value of $700B then your net worth wouldn’t change.
Not as much a “spend” as much as a transfer in where you hold that value.
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70% of Americans can’t afford a median home. Why?
Broken money forced people to use real estate as savings, making homes unaffordable. Houses aren’t savings accounts, they’re meant to be lived in.
#Bitcoin demonetizes housing, drives prices down and puts families back in homes.
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The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.
We all know that if anyone were to make the same joke about you, you would have been calling for their suspension and taking it as anything but a joke. I don’t support either party getting banned here but it is hilarious coming from Ethan of all people.
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Anonymity is one of the biggest threats to a government that wants to control its people. If ever there were to be a modern day constitution, the right to anonymity and defense of privacy from public attack should be one of the leading amendments.
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Alternative social media sites marketed around politics are never gonna take off. People aren’t gonna go out of their way to surround themselves with the most annoying people on Twitter on purpose.
