The issue with Low dopamine or Low Motivation

So I was trying to study today and I realized that my dopamine levels always seem to be on the frits or always low as hell. I keep consistently noticing this trend time and time again and I think this is a problem that likely everyone faces. For me, it seems to be the thing that limits me the most. Once the easy dopamine supplies go away I get antsy and impatient. I lash out and I find it difficult to motivate myself to do work that is very worthwhile but I quickly lose interest in because it’s just not instantly exciting or fun for that matter. Intuitively, we all understand that if we do what is hard then our lives will be easy but if we do what is easy then are life will be hard but in practice their appears to be this consistent logical gap I struggle to apply.

From my perspective, it seems modern society exacerbates this to the point where it’s rediculous I literally struggle to even finish a single got damn book because everything in technology fries my dopamine circuits but the real issue is how do you deal with the boredom? That’s really the problem I’ve dealt with my entire life and one I would like to know the answer to. It is one that I am revisiting once again because it seems I still have yet to overcome this deficit in myself. If one cannot apply themselves when things stop becoming fun then when does one accomplish anything? The answer is simply never. I think we are ALL struggling with this problem of truly applying ourselves to our vocation and I want to know why. We know what to do but yet we do not do the thing that we are supposed to do.

I’ve been trying to conduct this experiment and damn did I notice a huge difference in the lack of stimulation. I became to feel listless, bored, impatient restless, getting up out of my chair and simply not focusing at the work at hand. It seems plainly obvious to me that we are all battling these unaddressed dysfunctions that are likely destroying your potential to greatness. Greatness is fairly simple once you apply yourself consistently and show up without fail but yet consistency still eludes me. I still feel consistent to a moderate degree but I am nowhere near as consistent as I used to do. It’s always the days we wake up when it’s like 1230 at night and you know exactly what you need to do but you just feel tired and fatigued. You need to squeeze out more dopamine and more energy somehow to push to the higher levels. How can we reach within ourselves and make more energy? This is the looming question that we all must deduce and figure out. Consistency creates a pattern while the process creates a set of repeatable behaviors that build and layer towards a greater expertise or potential.

Yet, I confess that this is something that still eludes me. I’ve experimented with fairly have caffeine doses and have observed very predictable diminishing returns of utilities in terms of cognitive benefits. We know what it takes to be wealthy. We know what it takes to become rich, jacked as fuck but yet we simply do not do these things consistently. I can safely say the few times that I did actually do what I say what I was going to do it changed my life in more ways then I can describe. By simply having the capacity to be able to focus for a long and sustained period of time we can engage further into the realm of the process and explore ideas of nuance. Today was just absolute dog-shit. Perpetually checking instagram of girls I am never going to talk to, buying books I am not going to read and it still reeks of the same problem, a maladjusted dopamine system that i overstimulated and is not prioritizing the proper things. This issue is systemic and endemic. Sticking to a schedule is a bitch. Doing what you say your going to do feels like a nightmare and everything is a pain in the ass. Therefore, the question remains: What are the set of actions we can take to modify our brain chemistry to further increase the disposition towards consistency, sticking with things even when it gets tough, having infallible persistence irrespective of the horrible nature of the grind and and an enthusiasm that burns through all listlessness. I can say that I feel I’ve lost my way and my focus.

You feel listless, you loo at the computer but their is a disconnect between your hands and the idea that would change your life. The reality is that our base neurochemistry is not equipped enough to do all the things we need it to do. Then the question is what can we do to make our brain comply to all of our requests irrespective of how displeasurable the given tasks may feel or may be. The days of contemplation in AIT make me ponder the possibilities. I revisit the old thoughts I used to contemplate a few years earlier and that is internally generating enough energy naturally through no side-effects to where you could attack any goal without fail. Is it a nootropic? Is it some-type of herb ? What can we do to modify our own biology to suit are advantage rather than our disadvantage? This is the fundamental question we need to figure out if we are to truly live the most optimized life possible. The brain is a lazy machine. It doesn’t want to do work and it definitely does not want to expend itself to any real degree because being great and being amazing is difficult. This is something in the field of optimization and self-improvement that I do not think have a real solution to.

I stopped reading self-improvement books a while ago because I realize it’s mostly bullshit. The silly advice you read in books is not going to change your life. Your still consuming and still transacting a net loss. You need to find a way to somehow execute a reliable methodology either naturally or through some mechanism by which you can adhere to the prescription. The prescription is what most books give us and frankly they are a fucking waste of time. Any idiot can give you a prescription to fix your life. Yet, no one has a proposed a technique or mechanism to apply yourself to a difficult ask to where you can consistently traverse the period of resistance. If you could do this better than others then you would beat everyone at everything simply because you could outwork them. To a degree, I suppose I kind of outwork people in my life but it has not necessarily correlated to the amazing results that I would have liked for myself. Thus, the challenge lies before us: How can we ask more of ourselves when this boredom sets in? Boredom is the killer of dreams, million dollar ideas and much more. Perhaps, this may be my next idea for a smart drug company or something that ACTUALLY works…Where did all the solutions go? It’s the same shit over and over, losers, brokies and bad fucking habits. Somethings got to give or we can’t live the optimized life. My 2 cent.