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Ever wonder what flicks the switch in your brain when you suddenly feel “I CAN do this!”—whether it’s chasing that never-ending to-do list or just making it through Monday? Well, it turns out motivation isn’t just some invisible fairy sprinkling magic dust on you. Nope, your brain fires up a blazing highway of chemical signals, blitzing through neurons faster than your morning coffee kicks in. According to a fascinating 2018 study by Harvard’s Center On The Developing Child, this neural sparkle party involves dopamine, serotonin, and a gang of other brain chemicals that essentially decide if you’ll sprint to the finish line or happily binge-watch instead. It’s this chemical cocktail that knits together your memories, thrills, and all those little rewards that make you keep going—or quit. Ready to dive deep into your brain’s motivational mojo? LEARN MORE
The Science of Motivation
When we feel motivated, specific neurons in our brain send chemical signals through high-speed neural networks to other parts of the brain, paving the way for future signals to follow. This fascinating process was uncovered in a 2018 study on motivation by the Center On The Developing Child at Harvard University (1).
Then come the almost magical synapses of motivation, where experiences trigger the release of these chemicals to regions that connect emotions, memory, and the sensation of pleasure and reward. This links the feeling of reward to the emotions we feel and the experience that led to it, and it influences both our expectations of reward and the actions we are motivated to take to get it.
The research further states that chemicals, including dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, glutamate, and naturally occurring opioids, are produced in the brain, each serving a different purpose. For example, when dopamine is released, it signals to the rest of the brain that something important is about to happen — something we should enjoy or avoid at all costs. We are motivated to either ditch the effort or go for it.
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