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July 16, 2024

Dr. Kyra Bobinet: The Brain's Motivation Center They Don't Tell You About

Discover the SECRET part of your BRAIN that controls MOTIVATION and what you might be doing to unknowingly sabotage your success.

MOTIVATION EXPERT, Dr. Kyra Bobinet (physician, public health leader, behavior change designer) breaks down the mysterious habenula and explains how to achieve your goals.

Discover why your To-Do Lists & New Year’s resolutions are secretly hurting you. Learn how to truly LOSE WEIGHT, succeed in RELATIONSHIPS, and why faking ORGASMS might lead to addiction!!

Stop everyday habits that may be DESTROYING your motivation.

We're unveiling the SHOCKING secrets of failure and imposter syndrome that are holding you back from true greatness - Are YOU unknowingly setting yourself up to fail?

Dr. Bobinet also explains:
- Benefits of dopamine fasting
- Different types of failure
- Dangers of doom-scrolling
- Ties between addiction, depression, and failure
- How to regulate your environment to reduce your chances of failure
- Best sources of motivation for short term goals vs long term goals
- Ketamine effects on the habenula in treating depression
- Why porn can be so addictive to some
- Why we're more likely to focus on losses vs wins
- What triggers imposter syndrome and who is most susceptible to it
- Positive & negative effects of the latest GLP-1 weight loss drugs on the brain
- Process of deep brain stimulation
- How to hack your way out of avoidant attachment
- Effects of inauthenticity in sexual relationships
- Downside of institutions overusing performance-based tools
- Difference between "performing" vs authentically being

Learn practical ways to form healthy habits and LITERALLY change your brain to avoid & move through FAILURE!

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The Brain's Motivation Center They Don't Tell You About

Discover the SECRET part of your BRAIN that controls MOTIVATION and what you might be doing to unknowingly sabotage your success. MOTIVATION EXPERT, Dr. Kyra Bobinet (physician, public health leader, behavior change designer) breaks down the mysterious habenula and explains how to achieve your goals. Discover why your To-Do Lists & New Year’s resolutions are secretly hurting you. Learn how to truly LOSE WEIGHT, succeed in RELATIONSHIPS, and why faking ORGASMS might lead to addiction!! Stop everyday habits that may be DESTROYING your motivation. We're unveiling the SHOCKING secrets of failure and imposter syndrome that are holding you back from true greatness - Are YOU unknowingly setting yourself up to fail? Dr. Bobinet also explains: - Benefits of dopamine fasting - Different types of failure - Dangers of doom-scrolling - Ties between addiction, depression, and failure - How to regulate your environment to reduce your chances of failure - Best sources of motivation for short term goals vs long term goals - Ketamine effects on the habenula in treating depression - Why porn can be so addictive to some - Why we're more likely to focus on losses vs wins - What triggers imposter syndrome and who is most susceptible to it - Positive & negative effects of the latest GLP-1 weight loss drugs on the brain - Process of deep brain stimulation - How to hack your way out of avoidant attachment - Effects of inauthenticity in sexual relationships - Downside of institutions overusing performance-based tools - Difference between "performing" vs authentically being Learn practical ways to form healthy habits and LITERALLY change your brain to avoid & move through FAILURE!

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Unstoppable Brain: The New Neuroscience that Frees Us from Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change

We all want the autonomy and power to change our lives for the better and yet many of us feel stuck in the same bad habits, patterns, and short-term fixes. We know what we should do, but often we cannot get ourselves to actually do it. In Unstoppable Brain, Dr. Kyra Bobinet debunks today’s over-dependence on performance-driven tools such as calorie counting, SMART goals, and likes/followers that attempt to motivate us into behavior change. These methods work well in the short term but have a long-term downside of negative emotions and harmful behaviors. Yet despite these poor results, we keep using the same performative approaches over and over. Something is missing.

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