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.