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I recently read Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke, an addiction psychiatrist at Stanford University.
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Dopamine dictates the quality of your life.
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If you keep dopamine levels in your brain above a certain level, what you could call your feel-good baseline, life is full of joy and you're driven to learn,
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grow, and get things done.
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But if your dopamine level drops below the feel-good baseline, you feel anxious and find it hard to focus.
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And if you stay below the dopamine baseline, you'll lack the motivation to do anything.
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Studies show
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that mice who have their dopamine levels depleted are not motivated enough to eat food directly in front of them
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and eventually starve to death.
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One way to raise your dopamine level is to seek pleasure by checking your phone for interesting messages, eating your favorite comfort food,
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or enjoying a sugary beverage.
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But the dopamine spike you get from pleasure is quickly followed by a dopamine crash
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that keeps you below your feel-good baseline for an extended period of time.
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In other words, when you pursue pleasure, you get pain.
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Picture a pain-pleasure seesaw in your mind.
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When you jump on the pleasure side, your brain hires gremlins to jump on the pain side to balance out the seesaw.
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Since we live in an age of abundance and have easy access to pleasure, we build up the gremlins on the pain side.
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This dynamic explains why people in rich countries with access to constant pleasure have the highest rates of suicide, depression, and physical pain.
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If you want to get your gremlins off the pain side and regain a baseline level of motivation, there are only two long-term solutions.
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Pursue pain or abstain.
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Anna Lemke says, Pressing on the pain side of the balance can lead to its opposite, pleasure.
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Unlike pressing on the pleasure side, the dopamine that comes from pain is indirect and potentially more enduring.
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When you pursue intermittent pain, you startle the gremlins camping out on the pain side of the pleasure-pain seesaw
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and get them to jump over to the pleasure side.
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There are three ways you can do this.
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First, turn down the temperature on the gremlins by plunging your body into an ice bath
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or enduring a cold shower for several minutes.
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The initial shock you experience will be followed by a gradual 200% rise in dopamine, which is equivalent to the rise in dopamine people experience by snorting cocaine.
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But unlike cocaine, you don't get the massive dopamine deficit afterward and endure a period of depression.
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Method number two, turn up the temperature on the gremlins by vigorously exercising and sweating for several minutes.
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Voluntary exercise is shown to lead to a gradual 100 to 200 percent increase in dopamine.
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Method number three, briefly starve the gremlins by intermittent fasting, that is consuming only water and electrolytes, for 16 to 20 hours a day.
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Your energy will paradoxically rise at the tail end of the fast, and you will get tremendous pleasure from simple foods like broccoli and blueberries when you break the fast.
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Abstaining is intermittent dopamine fasting, meaning you avoid dopamine spikes for a period of time, so the gremlins get bored and leave the pain side of your pleasure-pain seesaw.
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A typical dopamine fast includes refraining from chocolate or foods you crave, like ice cream and fast food, refraining from energy drinks and dopamine-boosting drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines,
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abstaining from immersive video games and mobile apps like TikTok, YouTube, or Twitter, abstaining from pornography, abstaining from gambling and sports betting, and abstaining from drinking and partying.
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During a dopamine fast, you only engage in low-stimulating activities until your brain can reset its dopamine levels
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and you no longer feel miserable.
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But if you have a compulsive behavior that has negative consequences, then you need to abstain from that behavior for 30 days.
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For Anna Lemke, that meant not reading romance novels at night for 30 days.
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For myself, it meant not checking stock prices throughout the day.
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Abstaining for 30 days gives the brain enough time to reset its reward circuits and allow your withdrawal symptoms to subside.
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Lemke has created the Dopamine Guide to help you and I get through a 30-day dopamine fast.
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The DOP in dopamine will provide you with the necessary motivation to start your dopamine fast.
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The A stands for abstain, and the M-I-N-E will provide you with the necessary motivation to sustain your dopamine fast.
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D stands for data.
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When you collect data about your behavior, you might be shocked to learn how bad your addiction is.
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Suppose you have an addiction to sugary soda drinks.
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If you record the amount of sugar you consume in a single week and learn that you ingest 700 grams a week, which is 80 pounds of sugar a year,
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you might spark a feeling of disgust, which will motivate you to abstain from soda for 30 days.
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O stands for objective.
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When most people recall their original objective, they realize how far off track they've gotten.
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A girl in the book who was addicted to smoking weed started smoking weed to help reduce her anxiety, but then she needed to smoke weed just to feel normal.
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If you happen to be addicted to sugary soda drinks.
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You may have started drinking soda to raise your energy and relieve boredom, but now you'd need to consume soda just to sustain a normal energy level.
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The P stands for problem.
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The problem with all addictive behaviors is they enslave you by making you crave the substance or activity just to feel normal.
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What's more, addictions gradually erode the relationships you care about most.
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In the case of the girl who was addicted to weed, her weed smoking led to constant fighting with her parents.
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The M stands for mindfulness.
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If you use the urge to engage in a compulsive behavior as a trigger to practice mindfulness
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and get curious about where the impulse is coming from in your body, the act of abstaining will no longer feel like torture because curiosity is a delightful state of mind.
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The I stands for insight.
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Anna Lemke says, I have seen again and again in clinical care, and in my own life,
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how the simple exercise of abstaining from our drug of choice for at least four weeks gives clarifying insight into our behaviors.
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Insight that is simply not possible while we continue to use.
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The girl in the book who abstained from weed told Lemke, the first few days were bad.
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I felt blah.
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I threw up on the second day.
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It was insane.
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I never throw up.
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That's when I realized I was withdrawing, and that motivated me to keep going with abstinence
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because it was the first piece of evidence I had that I was really addicted.
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The N stands for next steps.
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What will you do after your 30-day dopamine fast is over?
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If you create a plan to enjoy the behavior that you're abstaining from in a moderated way after the 30-day abstinence, you'll be more motivated to complete your dopamine fast.
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If, for example, you're abstaining from soda drinks, you could give yourself the option to enjoy one soda on Sunday while watching sports.
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If you're abstaining from smoking weed, you could restrict yourself to just one joint with a friend every Saturday evening.
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And the E in dopamine stands for experiment.
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After the dopamine fast is over and you experiment with moderation, you might have a relapse and realize the addiction is too powerful.
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At this point, you must resolve to stop the behavior for good, and be like the alcoholic who simply does not drink alcohol.
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In the end, if you don't get pleasure from simple things, and you lack the motivation to get anything done,
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start pursuing pain or abstaining.
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Pursue pain by lowering the temperature of your baths and showers, increasing your internal temperature with exercise, and giving your body an extended break from food every day.
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Abstain from highly pleasurable activities or compulsive behaviors by following Lemke's dopamine guide.
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Collect data, recall your objective, and acknowledge the problem to start your dopamine fast.
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Then focus on mindfulness, insights, next steps, and a period of experimentation so that you're motivated to complete your dopamine fast.
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By pursuing pain or abstaining, you can reset the pleasure-pain balance in your brain and restore your baseline motivation.
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That was the core message that I gathered from Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke.
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This book will give you the tools to regain a sense of joy and get control of compulsive behavior.
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I highly recommend it.
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If you would like a one-page PDF summary of insights that I gathered from this book, just click the link below and I'd be happy to email it to you.
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If you already subscribed to the free Productivity Game email newsletter, this PDF is sitting in your inbox.
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If you like this video, please share it.
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And as always, thanks for watching and have yourself a productive week.
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關於本課
在本課程中，您將練習如何使用與多巴胺相關的英語詞彙和短語。通過觀看Anna Lemke的《多巴胺國度》影片，您將深入瞭解如何平衡幸福感和痛苦之間的關係，並學習如何通過調整多巴胺水平來改善生活質量。這不僅將幫助您增強英語口語能力，同時也讓您在日常生活中應用這些心理學概念。
關鍵詞彙與短語
- 多巴胺 (Dopamine) - 影響愉悅感和動機的神經遞質。
- 愉悅基線 (Feel-good baseline) - 維持心理健康的快樂水平。
- 壓制痛苦 (Pursue pain) - 通過面對挑戰來增加生活中的愉悅。
- 冷水浴 (Ice bath) - 一種通過冷刺激提高多巴胺水平的方法。
- 間歇性禁食 (Intermittent fasting) - 只在特定時間內進食，以幫助重置大腦的獎勵系統。
- 資料 (Data) - 記錄行為資料，幫助識別並改善成癮問題。
- 上癮行為 (Compulsive behavior) - 對某種習慣的強迫性需求，可能影響生活質量。
- 自我禁慾 (Abstain) - 為了改善生活質量而主動避免某些行為。
練習建議
在進行 英語口語練習 時，您可以通過陰影跟讀（shadow speech）的方式來提高發音和語調。以下是一些特定於本影片的建議，幫助您更有效地練習：
- 選擇影片的慢速播放模式，先理解內容再進行跟讀，這樣可以避免因速度過快而導致理解不完整。
- 在觀看時，暫停並重復關鍵短語，尤其是多巴胺和愉悅基線等概念，以確保您的發音準確。
- 嘗試在概念轉換時用自己的話解釋所說的內容，這會增強您的 看YouTube學英語 的實用性。
- 與朋友一起練習，討論影片的心理學內容並分享個人感受，這也可以豐富您的表達能力。
- 堅持每天練習5-10分鐘的 shadowspeaks，幫助您保持進步並逐漸適應不同的語調和語速。
通過堅持這些練習，您將能顯著 提高英語發音 和口語流利度，享受學習的過程!
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is quickly followed · will be followed · is shown |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | has created · they've gotten · have seen |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | dopamine, which is · week, which is · disgust, which will |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。