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What about the scenario of somebody who

is really good at working during the week?

They exercise during the week,

they drink on the weekends.

Let's say they're eating foods

that really evoke a lot of dopamine

release in the middle of the week.

They're drinking one or

two days on the weekend.

They are one of these work hard,

play hard types, so they're swimming

a couple miles in the ocean in

the middle of the week as well.

Uh, they're going out

dancing once on the weekend.

Sounds like a pretty, pretty

balanced life as I describe it.

Well, here's the problem.

The problem.

That dopamine is not just evoked

by one of these activities.

Dopamine is evoked by all of

these activities, and dopamine

is one currency of craving,

motivation, and desire and pleasure.

If you looked at dopamine simply as

a function, as a chemical function of

peaks and baseline, it might make sense

why this person, after several years of

work hard, play hard would say, yeah,

you know, I'm feeling kind of burnt out.

I'm just not feeling like I have the

same energy that I did a few years ago.