This was an excellent brain dump Benny! I’d be interested to learn more about Serotonin as that’s the one I struggle with. Probably the reason I’m always doing hard things and looking for the next challenge. 🤷🏻♀️
Thanks Trudie! My understanding is the only way to get it is to do hard things we don’t think we can, which means living outside our comfort zone. Which is hard when feelings of anxiety are strong and telling us to retreat/quit. But it’s not impossible. So yeah, the more we challenge ourselves with difficult things and grow, the higher our serotonin, apparently.
I found that interesting too, especially regarding alcohol. People I know who have high self-belief/serotonin, can have a drink or two. People I know who don’t, don’t trust themselves to drink responsibly and either binge or don’t drink at all. Probably because once they start getting cheap dopamine from alcohol, their brain starts craving more and don’t have enough serotonin to regulate that urge.
Maybe another way to think about it total time available versus energy produced/used. In a production sense with would equate to how many units can I produce in an available amount of time. On the hand, this might make no sense at all😂
This makes sense. Energy in Vs Energy out. If you have the balance of doing things that give and take energy away then you reduce your risk of burnout but if you are expending more energy than you have then you are exhausted.
I’m a mind over matter guy. I don’t know about these chemicals however I don’t let myself get down. If I slip an inch my fight kicks in . That’s me . Perhaps I’m very lucky.
This was an excellent brain dump Benny! I’d be interested to learn more about Serotonin as that’s the one I struggle with. Probably the reason I’m always doing hard things and looking for the next challenge. 🤷🏻♀️
Thanks Trudie! My understanding is the only way to get it is to do hard things we don’t think we can, which means living outside our comfort zone. Which is hard when feelings of anxiety are strong and telling us to retreat/quit. But it’s not impossible. So yeah, the more we challenge ourselves with difficult things and grow, the higher our serotonin, apparently.
That’s an interesting point on serotonin and addictive behaviours. Haven’t thought about it that way before but it makes a lot of sense.
I found that interesting too, especially regarding alcohol. People I know who have high self-belief/serotonin, can have a drink or two. People I know who don’t, don’t trust themselves to drink responsibly and either binge or don’t drink at all. Probably because once they start getting cheap dopamine from alcohol, their brain starts craving more and don’t have enough serotonin to regulate that urge.
Maybe another way to think about it total time available versus energy produced/used. In a production sense with would equate to how many units can I produce in an available amount of time. On the hand, this might make no sense at all😂
This makes sense. Energy in Vs Energy out. If you have the balance of doing things that give and take energy away then you reduce your risk of burnout but if you are expending more energy than you have then you are exhausted.
Agreed. Avoiding burnout/depression is a combo of doing things that give you energy and removing things/people from your life that drain it.
I think I understand. Your saying the more time/energy invested to get whatever hormone, the greater the benefit/feeling?
Nice Article Ben... Boosting the energy means boosting the happy hormones for the second point...
Exactly Dinesh! Do things that give us happy hormones!
I’m a mind over matter guy. I don’t know about these chemicals however I don’t let myself get down. If I slip an inch my fight kicks in . That’s me . Perhaps I’m very lucky.