Fundamental shift in my relationship with coffee: light to moderate doses have completely stopped feeling distracting.
Sharpens everything.
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Still get restless leg syndrome, though.
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I tend to think a lot of our pathologizing of coffe comes from frayed attention.
Increased dopamine gets messy in an undecided mind.
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Increasing your motivation to DO STUFF is very unhelpful when you can't decide on what to do.
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If you've ever seen a speed addict cycle through fifteen behaviours in 30 seconds, it's the maximum extension of this effect:
Weak willpower, no focus, strong MOTIVATION.
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"I need to do something (but what?), hey this seems like a good idea - nah this sucked - let's do that instead. OH HEY! I just thought of something."
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I tend to think a lot of our "findings" about the long-term effects of drug use are just as much the psychosomatic profiles of long-term users.
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yes, the relationship between attention and intention is ignored too often. Attention is incredibly important, but one must be aware of the way in which it is regulated and inclined by intention.
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(You remind me that I should probably have written "frayed intention", thanks!)
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