The DOSE Effect Quotes

“As you engage more often in effortful activities, your capacity to experience high dopamine will increase. In a high dopamine state, you will feel two key symptoms. You will feel productive – you will find your motivation levels are higher, and completing the activities in your life that you know are good for you will feel far more achievable.19 You will also experience the emotion of excitement more.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“Now the science: there is a specific area of your brain called the anterior mid-cingulate cortex, or AMCC.21 During any moment in which you either resist an addictive behaviour or intentionally engage with a healthy behaviour, this component of your brain will light up. What is fascinating here is the more often it lights up, the stronger it will become, in a similar way that going to the gym and doing bicep curls will strengthen your arms. With each rep, your arms get stronger. With each activation of your AMCC, your willpower will get stronger.22 What’s interesting is that as this component of your brain gets stronger, your ability to maintain discipline gets easier. If, for example, you finish work and think, ‘I should go to the gym’, and your brain counters with, ‘Ahhh, but I can’t be bothered’, but you still you force yourself to do it, your AMCC will light up and strengthen, which in turn makes the next time this negotiation occurs in your mind a little bit easier to win.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“You know when you meet one of those really disciplined people, who eats well, exercises lots, works hard, and you think, ‘How on earth are you doing this?’ That person has activated their AMCC.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“Willpower can be defined as your ability to resist short-term temptations in order to achieve your long-term goals.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“a good life is the progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure’,”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“Andrew Huberman, the extremely popular neuroscientist, defines addiction as ‘the progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure’.17”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“Take the moment you are in right now, for example, reading this book. This is a perfect example of the opposite of these quick dopamine activities; we refer to reading as slow dopamine.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“This discomfort may be experienced as depressive feelings and severe low mood – the kind of feeling that occurs the day after drinking too much alcohol, eating too much sugary food, or scrolling through social media videos for too long.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“In the evening”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“I know that if I drink less and have a more balanced relationship with my alcohol consumption”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“we have now invented a way in which we can quickly satisfy the deep dopaminergic urge within us by simply picking up our phone and opening social media. We also know, however, that these quick dopamine hits, which aren’t earned through effort, will spike and crash our dopamine system, leaving us feeling demotivated, lethargic, and low.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“Our external environment reflects our inner environment. Create a clear space to experience a clear mind.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“Flow State activities immerse our minds so deeply in the present, in the task in front of us”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“Natural Forms of Happiness are: 1 MAKING DEEP SOCIAL CONNECTIONS 2 MOVING YOUR BODY 3 EATING NUTRITIOUS FOODS 4 READING BOOKS 5 SLEEPING DEEPLY 6 TAKING CARE OF YOUR HOME 7 WORKING TOWARDS YOUR GOALS”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!

“The key to understanding dopamine is that, to get it, you must focus on completing tasks that at first require effort, then gradually create a feeling of progress, thus making you really feel good after.”
― T.J. Power, The DOSE Effect: An Inspiring Self-Healing Guide About the Mind-Body-Hormonal Connection, Achieve Wellness and Happiness with Practical Techniques!