Dr. Jeffrey Gladden explains how nootropics can lower the resistance to starting work, exercise, or meditation by making tasks feel effortless. When actions flow with less friction, they become more joyful, which reinforces productivity and sustains the cycle.
I think one of the things that when you take the right nootropic, it makes things seem less effortful, right? Things become more effortless. That's the beauty of kind of being on a nootropic. Not only does it lower the barrier to entry in the sense of I'm not feeling the resistance to working today or starting my book or, you know, whatever, or going to the gym or, you know, whatever it might be, or even sitting down to meditate. I'm not feeling the resistance to that, but it also— and you, you can layer your own experience on this— my experience of it is that it also makes the thing itself less effortful. So it's more effortless, which is more analogous to being in a flow state where things are flowing and it's not your doing, but you're not efforting, so to speak. And there also seems to be more joy in it. Somehow there's the positive feedback loop of being in that productive, more effortless and joyful state is kind of a reinforcing wheel. And I think to your point, you can sort of start to enter that wheel with the right nootropic
