Were You Looking for Dopamine and Got Cortisol Instead?
If you’ve tried a reward system to maintain motivation yet find yourself to be even more stressed, then I think I know where you went wrong — and what you can try instead.
5 min readFeb 24, 2023
I coach people around work and wellbeing. Part of that is setting and working towards goals, including planning, self-organizing, and maintaining motivation. Looking for a video to use in a workshop, I came across a video about how to “hack” our brains…