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“Reward. The feeling you get once you’ve done or are doing the behavior. For new behaviors that aren’t intrinsically pleasurable, you might need to pair a separate reward (something that does provide a dopamine squirt) with the new behavior so you still feel good after completion.”

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Book:The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

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“A great way to open the dopamine floodgate is to watch and listen to inspirational stuff about the activity you are prone to quitting at. Unlike meme-turds, videos are a more immersive sensory experience, and virtually all capitalize on the dopaminergic power of music. Music has the ability to not just arouse pleasurable feelings but also increase craving or wanting—two critical elements of sports motivation.”

Inspirational Motivation Pleasure Music Craving Dopamine

Book:The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

“The neurological beauty of segmentation is that once the segment is completed, you get a mini-squirt of dopamine (pleasure juice) that resets the coping clock. Use this principle to your advantage by exploiting how your brain reacts to completion and accomplishment.”

Pleasure Brain Accomplishment Completion Dopamine Segment

Book:The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

“French parents don’t just think these separations are good for parents. They also genuinely believe that they’re important for kids, who must understand that their parents have their own pleasures. “Thus the child understands that he is not the center of the world, and this is essential for his development,” the French parenting guide Votre Enfant explains.”

Kids Parent Pleasure French Center

Book:Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“Letting children “live their lives” isn’t about releasing them into the wild or abandoning them (though French school trips do feel a bit like that to me). It’s about acknowledging that children aren’t repositories for their parents’ ambitions or projects for their parents to perfect. They are separate and capable, with their own tastes, pleasures, and experiences of the world. They even have their own secrets.”

World Parent Perfect Pleasure Ambition Capable Abandon Project Separate

Book:Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“The French don’t valorize a pregnant woman’s anxiety. Instead, in the word cloud of French pregnancy, terms like serenity, balance, and Zen keep popping up. Mothers-to-be are supposed to signal their competence by showing how calm they are and by making it clear that they still experience pleasure. This small shift in emphasis makes a big difference.”

Pleasure Balance Calm Zen Woman Pregnant Serenity Competence French

Book:Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“It’s not enough for French mothers to have pleasures and interests apart from their children. They also want their kids to know about these things. They believe it’s burdensome for a child to feel that she’s the sole source of her mother’s happiness and satisfaction. (A Parisian mother I know told me she was going back to work partly for her daughter’s sake.)”

Children Kids Happiness Interest Work Pleasure Satisfaction French

Book:Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music.”

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Book:The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

Source: The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

“When we are making love, we are transmuting sensual energy into human experience, not only for pleasure but to stimulate creativity, wellbeing, and success in all areas of life.”

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Author:Lebo Grand

“Ina the Viking was out in her potato patch waving at him like some idiot. Some people thought life was just the spiffiest thing that ever happened.”

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“Every thought, every word, every deed, every laugh, every cry, every pleasure, every lie. Everything is a part of our relentless attempt to cope with the fact of our very mortality.”

Pleasure Cry Deeds Thought Mortality Laugh Lie

Author:Giannis Delimitsos