Delayed gratification 🎧 #dopamine #delayedgratification #dopaminedetox

Dopamine is a really interesting neurochemical in the fact that it can work in spikes or it can be a slow bleed. You get a different emotional feeling, but the outcome is no different. I get a reward for doing the thing, and I have a desire to do it because I've got enough dopamine available. If you can hold off on the resolution, you will increase dopamine potential and the reward will be so much greater. So instead of having quick, easy rewards, try taking those and delaying them by creating a greater outcome and watch what happens.

You're literally describing what I do in the morning. The cold plunge. The cold plunge is my tool for delaying my gratification, which you just said actually enhances that natural system in the brain. So every single time I do something that's hard, that has a payoff way after I do it, it's delaying the gratification that actually starts to rewire physiologically, neurologically. Our brain.