Dopamine And Procrastination

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Hello everyone,

For the past 9 years my tendency to procrastinate has gotten worse and worse! The past year it slightly improved but over at 27 this procrastination is absolutely destroying opportunities for me.

I’ve been prescribed ADD meds in the past but I find them to be something that might be detrimental to my health if I take them consistently. Whenever I take adderall for example my focus and drive is amazing I feel euphoric and I tend to get a lot done yet I still procrastinate but way less.

I don’t know if this is also a sign of a problem but I love to talk. I talk way too much! It makes me feel really good.
But i find this habit to be detrimental.

Am I dopamine deficient. What could be wrong with me?
 
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Have you experimented with Uridine Monophosphate?

I heard many great things. But I lots of people say it stops working after a few weeks and you could develop dependence?

but to answer your question I haven’t. Maybe I should
 

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I heard many great things. But I lots of people say it stops working after a few weeks and you could develop dependence?

but to answer your question I haven’t. Maybe I should


I personally found this to be a life changing substance for my general motivation and desire to crush tasks. It's actually partially the reason I put it in my product.


Here's some research:

Key Benefits:
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1. Increases sensitivity and reduces tolerance to caffeine and other stimulants, thereby allowing the person the feel the stimulating effects to a stronger degree (R).
2. Powerfully motivating and energising, reducing procrastination and enhances mental clarity through increasing dopamine receptor density (R).
3. Increases memory and alertness through increasing phospholipids in the brain, thereby maintaining optimal cognitive function with age (R).
4. Increases dopamine release directly, leading to mental clarity, motivation and drive (R).
5. Strengthen memory consolidation and retrieval of memories through increasing neurite outgrowth and NGF (R).
6. Dietary uridine enhances the improvement in learning and memory produced by administering DHA (R).
7. Uridine administration for seven days to healthy volunteers significantly increased brain PME levels - phosphocholine (PCho) and phosphoethanolamine (PEtn) - thereby supporting memory and learning (R).
8. Oral administration of uridine to experimental animals increases the levels of phosphatides and synaptic proteins in the brain and per brain cell as well as the numbers of dendritic spines on hippocampal neurons (R).
 
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I personally found this to be a life changing substance for my general motivation and desire to crush tasks. It's actually partially the reason I put it in my product.


Here's some research:

Key Benefits:
5dc0cfabf29bfce9480271b2_5ca1bb3a062058682dfe51e7_arrow.svg

1. Increases sensitivity and reduces tolerance to caffeine and other stimulants, thereby allowing the person the feel the stimulating effects to a stronger degree (R).
2. Powerfully motivating and energising, reducing procrastination and enhances mental clarity through increasing dopamine receptor density (R).
3. Increases memory and alertness through increasing phospholipids in the brain, thereby maintaining optimal cognitive function with age (R).
4. Increases dopamine release directly, leading to mental clarity, motivation and drive (R).
5. Strengthen memory consolidation and retrieval of memories through increasing neurite outgrowth and NGF (R).
6. Dietary uridine enhances the improvement in learning and memory produced by administering DHA (R).
7. Uridine administration for seven days to healthy volunteers significantly increased brain PME levels - phosphocholine (PCho) and phosphoethanolamine (PEtn) - thereby supporting memory and learning (R).
8. Oral administration of uridine to experimental animals increases the levels of phosphatides and synaptic proteins in the brain and per brain cell as well as the numbers of dendritic spines on hippocampal neurons (R).
Just ordered it ! I did some research it seems that if I use it appropriately it’s effects can be long lasting ! Thanks friend! I hope this can help make a difference
 
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Tempting to think a substance can change things but I doubt it can.

You need some behavioral changes that establish new habits.
 

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1. Go on a dopamine fast - no social media, raypeatforum, TV, smartphone, porn
2. Connect working on your goals with dopamine releasing activities - food, sex, breaks, social interactions (eat breakfast only after you have worked for at least 2 hours on your goals, have sex only after achieving your daily goal......)
 
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Tempting to think a substance can change things but I doubt it can.

You need some behavioral changes that establish new habits.
Trust me I am trying on the behavior front. Definitely not an easy shift what so ever. I’ll keep it up for a month and then I go right back to my bad habits.
 
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ADHD at its core is due to insufficient energy production leading to poor frontal lobe function (and maybe also insufficient purine intake, so maybe liver that's low in copper might help) but I think sugar and milk in particular reduce your ability to focus on things you don't truly care about.
 
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Procrastination is funny because it usually works, and eventually you do the things you need to do. If it didn't, you would just call yourself a failure instead.

The dopamine fast (boredom) is a good recommendation.
 
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Trust me I am trying on the behavior front. Definitely not an easy shift what so ever. I’ll keep it up for a month and then I go right back to my bad habits.

Yes I get it. So isn’t this the fundamental issue to address?

It is structure in your life that pulls you back into the same past pattern. Here is what I mean by structure. If you want to change your diet, and you have your girlfriend cooking for you, structurally you are not going to succeed in changing the diet you are following because you aren’t cooking for yourself. Structure must change, so you learn how to cook for instance.

This is what happens to people who do not make any permanent changes. They have to evaluate the structures in their life that is getting them to fall back into the old patterns.
 

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Yes I get it. So isn’t this the fundamental issue to address?

It is structure in your life that pulls you back into the same past pattern. Here is what I mean by structure. If you want to change your diet, and you have your girlfriend cooking for you, structurally you are not going to succeed in changing the diet you are following because you aren’t cooking for yourself. Structure must change, so you learn how to cook for instance.

This is what happens to people who do not make any permanent changes. They have to evaluate the structures in their life that is getting them to fall back into the old patterns.

Spot on
 

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I think procrastination is caused by associating the task you must complete with pain or suffering.

Switching the association to pleasure or joy should then cure it.

The pomodoro technique was designed to address this problem. Usually, the pain in this case is by having a task-centric view of the problem. When you are task-centric, you think of the entirety of the task at hand. The pomodoro technique is about switching that to a process-centric view of the problem - just starting is more than half the battle.

 

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