Breaking your session drops dopamine below baseline:
- Finishing 45 min of writing with no phone and no internet gives you a dopamine reward you generated yourself
- Break your own protocol at the 50 min mark to grab the phone and dopamine drops below where it sat before you started
- Unexpected wins release the most dopamine of all but you can't surprise yourself with a behavior you planned
Finish the block. The reward is internal and you are the one making it.
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