In an age of indulgence, easy access to pleasure (dopamine) cripples motivation to pursue meaningful adventures. If you can associate reward with the journey, rather than the destination, motivation is infinite. If you want to help create more insightful videos like this, please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/AfterSkool

A close mentor once told me: "In life, you will experience pain, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, it's your choice."

Every day I tell myself: What you do today is important, because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

This should be taught in school. This is literally life saving in an era of absolute overstimulation. Incredible video. Best of fortune to you‼️

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

“Dopamine is not the molecule of pleasure it’s the molecule of motivation, desire and pursuit. The molecule of drive, non infinite yet renewable resource” ~ Andrew Übermensch

I LOVE this channel. I'm a counselor at a drug detox center and I play so many of these videos to get discussions going. Using this one tomorrow. You guys are a light onto the world. Thank you for what ya'll do.

"Addiction is a progressive narrowing of things that bring you pleasure"..... A very good and useful statement

This has changed my life. He was so right about knowledge of knowledge - being aware of how one’s indulgence in overstimulation is responsible for their motivation and mood allows for simple intervention. Andrew sharing his message is saving the human race

Discipline is the greatest form of self love. You need to stop deceiving yourself to get better

“Pain evokes Dopamine AFTER the pain is over” OMG 😩 everything makes sense now !!! This was so informational ✨

The scientific way to explain “no pain no gain”

this is exactly why when you actually start to get into a task that's hard you can keep going. its the motivation do start doing the thing that's hard.

To the *worthwhile person* seeing this, your dream is not dead. Don’t allow the past and current pains and hurts stop and define you. You’re more than a conqueror. Rise up and put yourself together. Keep pushing your future depends on it. I wish you all the best in life ❤️.

I love this short video. Very valuable for those of us on the Go. I hope to see more of these from Andrew Huberman. I don’t always have time to listen to all of episodes on his podcast that can run up to 2 hours. When I can I will listen , but this here is perfect!! Thank you!

I miss the year 2000. I was a freshly graduated millennial with hope for my future and ignorance that comes from just being young and new to adulthood. I had a VCR and a radio and speakers I was so proud to have hooked up to it all by myself. I popped in a VHS tape and just let it play in the background while I ACTUALLY DID THINGS LIKE CLEAN, COOK, THINK! The Internet was not a thing, cell phones to me came 4 years later, I had no distractions except the interesting and challenging but actually REAL life I would endure and learn from then later come to miss so badly because even though it was hard, it was productive in it's own way unlike my UKposts cell phone internet life today.

This stuff is so so good. It’s not any new age bs but hard cold facts. But I like referring to it less as “pain” unless we are talking emotional pain and more “getting out of our comfort zones” . The greatest pleasure does come after the struggle with something that resists us. I learned that if one can see things as challenges instead of obstacles, healthy dopamine release is freely available every day

This was really good. I loved everything he said and your art references were spectacular. Thank you.

"Addiction is a progressive narrowing of things that bring you pleasure" - I spent some time homeless, not long just one long summer. And I can tell you it not always bad, but when its bad, its very bad, but when its good, its soooo good. You can get so high on life from basic things like finding new socks, showering, earning a bit of money, eating a good meal. Its funny how now when I eat a hearty meal its not the same as it was then, back then, I earned that fucking tuna pasta bake - I needed it to survive and I got it. It felt like I had fought a grizzly bear and won, I earned it and it was my prize. It would make my whole day and the feeling of being rewarded for my accomplishment (even though my accomplishment was sneaking into a University staff room and stealing red wine and then selling it). I don't get the same feeling now, even if I haven't eaten all day, tuna pasta bake is to me just another meal. I am well off financially these days, I have tried oysters, and lobsters, and nothing will ever taste as good as that one lukewarm tuna pasta bake in Copenhagen in the summer of 2014. Basically if you aint got nothing, everything tastes good. If you have got it all, nothing tastes good.

Heaviest G-Check I have gotten in a long time. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Gave me a new perspective, made me feel like a piece of shit, and forced me to take on the discomforts of reality, instead of finding ways of distracting myself through small releases of dopamine. Thank you, old sport

Almost as if on cue. Thank you. What a brilliant understanding that's given me the motivation I was absolutely missing due to having so much "free" time.

I needed this video so much at this moment in time. I read and watch tons, but this clicked for me as a needed wake-up call where nothing else quite worked to break through for me. Huge thanks 👍🏼☀️👑

This is why I find fitness so good, after decades of not even considering it worth my effort; because I finally have to work for my dopamine. And now that I have that thing that makes me motivated, it becomes a lot easier to self regulate.

Wonderful video. I love the graphics and the way you used them to illustrate this so very very important message. Thank you for such great work Dr. Huberman. You are helping so many of us out here on UKposts who are struggling with understanding our detrimental behaviors and how to make positive changes. May you always be blessed. Thank you!

So grateful for this explanation. I've been that person with no motivation for a while now, getting worse in the past few years and at an all-time-low this past year. I was still looking at dopamine as a reward hit and not the pursuit of the reward. It really woke me up just knowing this difference and I feel excited to apply this knowledge and finally break myself out of this loop.

"The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop" ~Alan Watts Great Video by the way 👍👌

The message of this video is so true. A good example is how it is a different feeling to cook your food and eat afterwards a really tasty dish; than to just buy fast food which give you a temporary and quick good feeling. That’s what happens to me at least

So glad I've found this channel. Such an eclectic collection of some of favorite speakers. I love the thought and care you put in the drawings, I'm amazed by how they are so suitable to the speaker's message and even manage to make some of the points easier to conceptualize/digest. Massive kudos!

I feel so much appreciation for how the issues of internet use, porn and food are often discussed in topics surrounding addiction, as they are heavily overlooked in many popular discourses around addiction.

Remember that you’re amazing! Your parents, your ex’s, toxic people etc. Don’t make them become you. You must let go of what they have done. You must move on from what they did. Don’t carry the poison of hurt expecting your life to change. One must heal, forgive and let go to make SPACE for a new life. ~Much Love from a Law of Attraction UKpostsr💜

So good! I will be sharing this video and returning to it whenever I forget that THE PERSUIT IS THE REWARD! I took up a habit of walking every day in 2022, while I haven't bene perfect at this, I feel SO much better and even getting myself to do other forms ofexerscise is easier! Clearly, the routine exercise is increasing my motivation and its the best kind of compounding interest. Thanks again!

Thank you for all the effort for these videos. They are amazingly helpful, more than traditional schools 🙏🏻

this is the best scientifically explained video of why most of the people in current days are feeling so depressed and unmotivated. Amazing video!!

Fascinating information. It aligns with my own personal experience. The discomfort and frustration felt when enduring failure is always soothed and eclipsed when you achieve success. Perhaps that is why failure has always been my greatest teacher.

As someone with ADHD and OCD taking medication, this illustration of Hubermann's excellent podcast was quite powerful. I actually learnt something about my years of "meh" motivation.

I can't even begin to describe how timely this video is for me. Great stuff!

“We are selecting for people who can self regulate.” Been trying to put this idea into words myself but dr. Huberman nailed it!

Remember one Alan Watts Video you guys did I've forgotten the title.. "Why you shouldn't pursue pleasure".. This video relates to it just perfectly. To me, that's one of the most enlightening Alan Watts Video I've ever watched on UKposts. It's really amazing how the wisdom of the past, which was discussed philosophically is gradually being stumbled upon by modern day scientific discoveries especially in neuroscience and psychology.. The wise ones have been echoing this fact since the time past which is - Pleasure is meaningless without pain, just like every other dual processes of life ☯️.. They need each other for balance. Great great video by the way👍

Love the content you create helping the people rise to they're true limitless nature

I love comfort... I can see how easy it is to become addicted to comfort. My motivation has definitely suffered. Excellent explanations and advice. Thank you to all who worked on this video.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE ANDREW HUBERMAN PODCAST. He has a lot of great content on science that can help you in your day-to-day life. Changed me for the better.

Excellent video to start the day with 😊 I’ve been progressively improving my habits not forcing myself into being perfect but slowly quitting old toxic habits and your videos have been so helpful on this journey ❤ understanding everything from a physiological point of view just makes so much sense that it’s impossible for me to ignore it ❤ thanks 🙏

Best one in a while! I love them all, but this one was stellar!

I think what is spoken about in this video, this is the key to what we all want and need right now.

Thank you for educators everywhere medicating us with fine knowledge and care concern. Things I prefer in my medical professionals. 💓

This is so fascinating. I overcame my opiate addiction using this idea that pain will turn into pleasure. That the pain I endure through withdrawals would be worth it. It is! I workout 5 days a week now and have a family. No longer am I the rat pressing the dopamine button in my head till nothing's left.

This is totally checks out with my experience. I do have ADHD and depression, and for me personally, medication has been the game changer that has helped me get past the constant low. It doesn’t stop depression, but it clears the fog, and has changed my life- I know that’s not true for everyone. The power of this video for me is connecting now with the reason I I create these seemingly insurmountable goals. I love the process rather than the destination. In fact achieving something so completely usually makes me depressed, as weird as that sounds. If I can have checkboxes along the way to a difficult task I always feel like I accomplished something, and that is a huge factor in my motivation and happiness on a day to day basis. The trick is getting everyone else in my life to understand that it’s okay to have long term goals that take time. Good stuff, thanks for Sharing your knowledge!

This intelligent and sincere Sir Huberman has helped me more since Feb 2023 than all 25+ Doctors /Neuro in Sweden for the last 15 years (They love presscibe SSRI for everything and sadly it gave me Bipolar II after 3 weeks combined with ADHD. Always Thankful and I wished more doctors ect could be competent as Andrew. Blessings!

Andrew Huberman is the best 💪 Thank you ❤

We must be on the same wavelength … I watched Goggins and discovered him in February and Hubermann as well and guess what, boom you make the videos.! Awesome! Life is so incredible, love your videos and art. Same thing happened with one of my favorite artists Alex Grey🤗😍 Just thought it was cool how my interests are lining up with yours! I love how you illustrate these talks and really bring them to life, thank you! Maybe one day they can even become part of a real, authentic, consciousness school curriculum…. Ah……A girl can dream!

Andrew Hubberman is THE MAN haha glad to see you guys putting these out 🔥🔥🔥

This was the best video I've seen all year. You're the man.

Love your channel. the way you articulate your points followed by the way you use art to express it. Very well done sir 👍

5:00 Dopamine itself is NOT the Reward, it's the BUILD-UP to the Reward 5:28 the problem is NOT pleasures, the problem is that pleasure experienced without prior requirement for pursuit is terrible for us. 6:37 Addiction is a Progressive Narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure [...] but a good life we could say is a Progressive Expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and even better a good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure and includes pleasure through motivation and hard work and understanding this pain pleasure balance whereby if you experience pain and you can continue to be in that friction and exert effort the rewards are that much greater when they arrive 10:02 PAIN evokes Dopamine release after the pain is over (Ice Bath 250% Dopamine release etc.) just understanding the more friction and pain that you experience the greater the dopamine reward you will get later and that serves as its own amplifier of the whole process of pursuing more dopamine so the the keys are to pursue rewards but understand that 10:18 The Pursuit is actually the Reward if you want to have repeated wins then what you realize is your capacity to tap into dopamine as a motivator not just seeking dopamine rewards that is infinite - Dopamine is associated with motivation and craving, not just reward. - Classic experiment with rats shows that dopamine is involved in motivation, not enjoyment of pleasures. - Dopamine drives us to seek rewards beyond our immediate experiences. - Constantly indulging in pleasures without the need for pursuit can lead to decreased motivation. - Dopamine is not the reward itself but a driving force for seeking rewards. - The proximity and availability of pleasures affect dopamine levels and motivation. - Understanding the pain-pleasure balance can help regulate dopamine consumption. - Self-regulation is crucial in the context of excessive dopamine consumption from various sources. - Knowledge of neuroscience can help individuals intervene and control their dopamine-related behaviors. - Pain can lead to an eventual increase in pleasure due to dopamine release. - Pursuing rewards and experiencing the pursuit itself can lead to repeated wins and greater motivation. //---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dopamin ist mit Motivation und Verlangen verbunden, nicht nur mit Belohnung. - Ein klassisches Experiment mit Ratten zeigt, dass Dopamin in die Motivation involviert ist, nicht in die Freude an Vergnügen. - Dopamin treibt uns dazu an, Belohnungen zu suchen, die über unsere unmittelbaren Erfahrungen hinausgehen. - Konstantes Nachgeben von Vergnügen ohne die Notwendigkeit der Suche kann zu verminderter Motivation führen. - Dopamin ist nicht die Belohnung selbst, sondern eine treibende Kraft für die Suche nach Belohnungen. - Die Nähe und Verfügbarkeit von Vergnügungen beeinflussen die Dopamin-Spiegel und die Motivation. - Das Verständnis des Schmerz-Freude-Gleichgewichts kann dabei helfen, den Dopamin-Konsum zu regulieren. - Selbstregulation ist entscheidend im Kontext des übermäßigen Dopamin-Konsums aus verschiedenen Quellen. - Wissen über Neurowissenschaften kann Einzelpersonen helfen, einzugreifen und ihr Verhalten in Bezug auf Dopamin zu kontrollieren. - Schmerz kann zu einer späteren Steigerung des Vergnügens führen, da Dopamin freigesetzt wird. - Die Verfolgung von Belohnungen und das Erleben dieser Verfolgung an sich können zu wiederholten Erfolgen und größerer Motivation führen. 5:00 Dopamin selbst ist NICHT die Belohnung, es ist der AUFBAU der Belohnung 5:28 Das Problem ist NICHT das Vergnügen, das Problem ist, dass Vergnügen, das ohne die vorherige Notwendigkeit des Strebens erlebt wird, schrecklich für uns ist. 6:37 Sucht ist eine progressive Verengung der Dinge, die dir Freude bereiten [...] aber ein gutes Leben, so könnte man sagen, ist eine progressive Ausweitung der Dinge, die dir Vergnügen bereiten, und noch besser, ein gutes Leben ist eine eine progressive Ausweitung der Dinge, die dir Vergnügen bereiten und beinhaltet Vergnügen durch Motivation, harte Arbeit und Verständnis dieses Gleichgewicht zwischen Schmerz und Vergnügen, wobei man, wenn man Schmerz erfährt und Wenn Sie Schmerzen haben und diese Reibung aushalten und sich anstrengen, ist die Belohnung umso größer, wenn sie eintritt. 10:02 SCHMERZ ruft eine Dopaminausschüttung hervor, nachdem der Schmerz vorbei ist (Eisbad 520% Dopaminausschüttung usw.) Je mehr Reibung und Schmerz du erfährst, desto größer ist die Je mehr Reibung und Schmerz man erfährt, desto größer ist die Dopamin-Belohnung, die man später erhält, und das dient als Verstärker des gesamten Prozesses Das Streben nach mehr Dopamin ist also der Schlüssel, um Belohnungen zu verfolgen, aber zu verstehen, dass 10:18 Das Streben ist eigentlich die Belohnung wenn Sie wiederholt gewinnen wollen dann erkennen Sie Ihre Fähigkeit, Dopamin als Motivator anzuzapfen nicht nur die Suche nach Dopamin-Belohnungen, die unendlich ist

Hey After Skool, this one is very helpful, thanks again for sharing and making so much effort in educating people 🌹

This is the most useful video I have watched this year. Thank you so much for this.

What an outstanding video. Thank you Andrew Huberman and After Skool.

I’m not a big commenter, but man this video was incredible! I love content like this. I genuinely think videos like this make the world a better place.

Main idea (in my opinion): Dopamine is whats driving us to pursue pleasures, so just increasing dopamine is going to make us want pleasures which also include bad habits. But theres another element to this equation, and it is to change our subjective interpretation as pleasure for the experiences that we want to engage in more often (exercise, productive work etc…) so only having a high baseline of dopamine will make us more motivated to engage with ANYTHING pleasurable but to make sure that we engage only with the health habits we need to also work on our subjective mind

Love Dr. Huberman's podcast

This makes so much sense and is an epiphany with me in terms of not being able to tolerate my depression so wanting to smoke weed to feel better, but it doesn’t really work. Pleasure does come after the pain. My son is autistic and has adhd tendencies but mainly after ipad use and having his favourite treat, popsicles. Thank you for posting this information.

WOW. Just wow. This spoke to my soul💚🙂

IMO this is my favorite after skool video. Could we get a part 2 with Dr. Huberman plz 🙏 : )

Extremely powerful video, thank you so much for this. Applied knowledge is power 💖

Thank God this channel condensed a 2 hour talk into 11 minutes!!!

I fully believe that during the time we were locked down during the pandemic, that many people got caught in pursuing pleasures in this way, and so now are addicted and are having trouble getting back to work. And that’s one reason we have a work force shortage issue right now…..and a depression issue as well. I got sick for 3 weeks and resorted to UKposts videos to help me get through. I’ve been working my way out of this pursuit of pleasures for a couple of weeks now. It’s not easy to get out, and refocus, once it begins. It hurts actually. I hope that more and more people can find their way out of social media addiction that’s so easy to pursue these days. Sometimes to me it feels that forces want us addicted in this way 🤔 But no matter, it’s our responsibility to not fall in line. My love to us all 💚🍃☘️🐉🎋🌿🌱

Im so happy what we're discovering through psychological thought is being confirmed by physiological science. 👍

This is so true. It’s almost like today, more than any time ever, we must be on guard to protect our minds from too much of anything

Probably the most important information on the internet . Thank you after Skool for summarizing and thank you dr Andrew huberman

There's a lot of wisdom here, and it makes a lot of sense intuitively. Expending effort even in a small way towards a good goal will lead to more genuine and enduring psychological rewards. It's possible to experience satisfaction and pleasure with little effort as most of us know, but how long or how deeply can it satisfy us??? Clearly it wears off quickly no wonder we seek more and more of it, it's like the emotional or mental equivalent of junk food. Clearly our psyches value the rewards most that come from a certain unit of effort expended to get there. And it makes sense, most things worth having in life take at least some effort to achieve. Overcoming that challenge, even if it's a small one, like just getting all your errands done for the day can bring us fantastic and fulfilling senses of reward. We've all experienced this. Great video! I feel like I learned a lot, but already had awareness of this on an inner level.

This is pretty helpful and insightful. I think a lot of people nowadays are also undiagnosed and that causes even more problems. I only realized a couple of months ago how badly my ADHD has been effecting me and now I'm going to try online therapy to help me out. I hope all of you get past any struggles and hardships you have now and keep pushing on.

this is genuinely such an important video. so well explained

Wow, I'm impressed by that knowledge!! Thank you so much for making this video, this is exactly what I needed right now!! ❤

*I freaking love Andrew Huberman. I resonate with him so much* 🙏❤️

One of your best videos Afterskool. Well done and thank you AS and Andrew Huberman

This video is so awesome! I’ve always understood “pain evokes dopamine once the pain is over” in my mind but never had the dialogue to explain! Thank you so much. This breakdown of dopamine has put so many things into perspective!

You have to endure hard times to really /feel/ the good

Doing good and helping others is the highest pleasure. The emptiness that most rich people experience in life is found in living for self indulgence. Work hard to gain the power to change the world for good and you will know true satisfaction. Do unto others as you would have them do for you.

Finally, great content in under. 2 hours! Congrats! And thank you!

best neurologist i know that time ...hes really keepin it simple ....love it

this video was amazing i’m praying that as many people as possible can view this. i know this info will change a lot of lives. too much info/social media exposure and laziness is far too normalized in society nowadays. people complain about mental disorders like anxiety when in reality they have just trained themselves to have a short attention span

This video is amazing. I’m about to binge every after school video ever made… Hopefully they don’t suck by the end

Dr. Huber man is amazing, love these videos!

one of my favorite videos ever, i love ur channel. thank u for everything

Invaluable insight. I appreciate cliche'd truisms that are validated and explained by neuroscience.

I'm watching this for the 3rd time this morning, making sure I truly understand whats being conveyed here. Thank you for helping me in my quest towards whatever this is that I currently find myself seeking. It's nary impossible to find someone IRL to teach you these things, and somehow almost even harder to find this kind of stuff within the confines of the digital beast. Seriously, thank you

Big thanks for your work. I really appreciate it. Those videos are a huge gamechanger for my life. Hope that many more people will access this content, so keep going. You are making an insane job.

Thank you for this. I needed to hear this.

Outstanding!

So the pain of the pursuit, is the pleasure itself. What an incredible video that has given me the mindset shift that I needed for this time of my life.🥰 Thank you for such an insightful video. I hope more people sees this and help them live the best life they can.

The editing on this video is amazing.

Such a beautifully spoken and animated video with outstanding relevance

This may come off as sappy and nostalgic but the best years of my life (I'm 30 now) were high school. A regular sleep/wake cycle, 6 hours of "pain" at school, an hour of social time then 2 hours of exercise. The hours from 5 or 6 to 10pm were so meaningful to me, the joy of relaxation at home with family and video games have thus far only been rivaled with drugs.

THANK YOU FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL VIDEO!!!

The pictorial graphics are astounding ! WONDERFULL !

I've learned how to increase my dopamine levels through special breathing practice and visualization I work with and Andrew is right...I have so much more motivation now. I also do a heart-brain coherence and gratitude work along with dopamine release practice and my life is even more amazing than ever now. This video is gold!!!

“Pain evokes dopamine once the pain is over”, thanks for that because that is brilliant!!

Needed that one. Thank you.

such powerful information supported by this beautiful visualizations - love it, thank you so much for your work!

Straight up. I spent most of my life in the belief that the cheif good is pleasure, and everything I do should be in the pursuit of it. As you would imagine, it started out super fun, then ended up with me as a homeless meth and heroin addict. I did a huge 180 on that and started following Jordan Peterson's philosophy, setting meaning and responsibility as priorities. Very quickly my life began to improve drastically. Recently I've been going even further and voluntarily subjective myself to discomfort and suffering via meditation, yoga, exercise, cold showers, etc. That's been incredible. After a morning of yoga, breathing exercises, a run/workout, and a cold shower it literally feels like a did a little shot of IV cocaine...except instead of crashing and wanting to die 15 minutes later, I feel great for hours!