The Neuroscience of Motivation and Willpower
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Dr. Adam Grant: How to Unlock Your Potential, Motivation & Unique Abilities
How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
Dr. David Linden: Life, Death & the Neuroscience of Your Unique Experience
Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
Dr. Emily Balcetis: Tools for Setting & Achieving Goals
Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
Dr. Adam Grant: How to Unlock Your Potential, Motivation & Unique Abilities
Dr. David Linden: Life, Death & the Neuroscience of Your Unique Experience
Dr. Emily Balcetis: Tools for Setting & Achieving Goals
00:20:28 Craving, Motivation, Pursuit & Reward Prediction Error
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
00:15:23 Value Function, Reward & Punishment
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Dr. Terry Sejnowski: How to Improve at Learning Using Neuroscience & AI
00:04:43 Biology of Goal Setting & Pursuit
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Goals Toolkit: How to Set & Achieve Your Goals
02:24:18 Generative Drive, Amplification & Overcoming
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Guest Series | Dr. Paul Conti: How to Understand & Assess Your Mental Health
00:35:36 Willpower & Glucose, Brain Energetics
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How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
00:29:20 How Dopamine Impacts Testosterone & Motivation
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Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Science of Stress, Testosterone & Free Will
01:57:23 Tool: Rewards & Improving Tenacity/Willpower
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How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
00:52:59 Are You Suppressing Your Drive and Motivation By Working Too Late?
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
01:19:57 Dopamine, Motivation & Pleasure in Seeking Goals
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The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals
01:32:28 Skill Building & Challenge, Purpose Motivation
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Dr. David Yeager: How to Master Growth Mindset to Improve Performance
02:27:52 Tool: Early Success & Performance Cycle, “Failure Budget”
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Dr. Adam Grant: How to Unlock Your Potential, Motivation & Unique Abilities
00:59:55 How Gratitude Changes Your Brain: Reduces Anxiety, Increases Motivation
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The Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice
01:15:17 Role of Gender & Age on Mental Training
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Science-Based Mental Training & Visualization for Improved Learning
01:08:31 Tool 11: Random, Intermittent Reinforcement; Cognitive Rewards
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Goals Toolkit: How to Set & Achieve Your Goals
00:10:15 The Reward Pathway: An Accelerator & A Brake
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
01:05:00 Adding Mental Training; Injury, Travel or Layoffs
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Science-Based Mental Training & Visualization for Improved Learning
00:20:46 The 5 Things That Allow Us To Persist/Endure & What Causes Quitting
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How to Build Endurance in Your Brain & Body
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00:46:09 Willpower & Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex
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David Goggins: How to Build Immense Inner Strength
00:54:50 Disambiguating Pleasure and Drive: Dopamine Makes Us Anti-Lazy
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:21:14 Aggressive Drive, Pleasure Drive, Generative Drive
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Guest Series | Dr. Paul Conti: How to Improve Your Mental Health
00:28:53 Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation, Social Comparison
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Marc Andreessen: How Risk Taking, Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Transform Human Experience
01:11:53 Gambling, Intermittent Reinforcement, & Persistent Goal Seeking (Bad and Good)
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:28:58 Willpower as a Limited Resource (Theory)
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How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
01:25:19 Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex (aMCC), Difficult Tasks & Neuroplasticity
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How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
00:12:10 Motivation = Pleasure Plus Pain
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:03:49 Tenacity & Willpower vs. Habit Execution; Apathy, Depression & Motivation
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How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
00:50:51 Reinforcement vs. Reward, Wanting vs. Liking
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
01:18:58 Dopamine Trough Recovery, Postpartum Depression
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
01:50:58 Impossible Tasks, Super-Agers & Learning, Will to Live
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How to Increase Your Willpower & Tenacity
00:25:38 Memory & Reward Scaling
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
