Relax With Meditation

 By Prof. Andrew HubermanLooks contradicting?Rewards for working, don’t make sense?Do it because you love it instead of doing it for a reward.Imagine you let a group of kids draw pictures…The kids have fun … Then You give every kid for drawing a picture a reward…After some time, the kids who love to draw pictures no longer draw any pictures without getting a reward.Even worse drawing a picture is for the kids, no fun anymore. Prof. Huberman explains the reason… The brain produces the neurotransmitter Dopamine to get something accomplished and then we feel good.When the kids could draw pictures without a reward, the brain also produced Dopamine… so drawing was fun.After giving a reward for drawing a picture, the brain didn’t produce additional Dopamine during the time of drawing.After the picture was ready, the brain produced Dopamine…The goal is the path!It is the journey, not the destination, that is the reward.Strategies:1. Don’t spike your dopamine before effort or after effort, but get