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Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Scott Geller is Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality. He has written numerous articles and books, including When No One's Watching: Living and Leading Self-motivation. Scott will examine how we can become self-motivated in "The Psychology of Self-Motivation." In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

This animation was made in collaboration with One Percent Better. Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRI6t05DNVlV0XhdI7hx_iw We live in a world that is designed to stimulate our emotions. Every advertisement, food product and social media post is geared to give us a short rush of pleasure which is followed by an emptiness and a craving for more. Big companies are able to leverage our cravings and make trillions of dollars off of keeping us addicted. If you don’t have a plan for yourself, you will be at the mercy of companies who will play on your impulses to control you like a puppet. You will sacrifice your free will, searching for happiness in a maze that’s designed to keep you lost. Studies show that on average, people use their smartphones for about 3 hours per day [1,2]. That’s 1,095 hours every year. Thankfully there is a way to regain control over your impulses and take your power back through a practice called dopamine fasting. Dopamine fasting is the idea that if you avoid dopamine stimulating activities for extended periods of time, you will be able to ‘reset your brain’ and let go of addictive behaviors that negatively impact your life. It’s commonly misunderstood as reducing dopamine, but that’s not true. Dopamine is necessary to function as a healthy human being. Dopamine Fasting exploded in interest in October 2018 and gained even more interest a year later after Dr. Cameron Sepah published an article on Medium titled ‘The Definitive Guide to Dopamine Fasting 2.0: The Hot Silicon Valley Trend. Dopamine fasting 2.0 is better defined. It’s based on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. It’s about reducing impulsive behavior, not reducing dopamine itself. And it doesn’t encourage you to act like a full-blown monk who abstains from all forms of pleasure. Get the After Skool Kid's Book - Why Don't Country Flags Use The Color Purple? - https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Country-Flags-Color-Purple/dp/0578489244 Get in touch via https://www.afterskool.net/ Please support on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/AfterSkool Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/afterskool100/?hl=en and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/afterskool100 Animation at the end was produced by CeoQDisney https://www.instagram.com/ceoqdisney/?hl=en References 1. Milijic, M. (2020, February 17). 29 Smartphone Usage Statistics: Around the World in 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020, from https://leftronic.com/smartphone-usage-statistics/ 2. MacKay, J. (2020, February 20). Screen time stats: How your phone impacts your workday – RescueTime. Retrieved May 21, 2020, from https://blog.rescuetime.com/screen-time-stats-2018/ 3. Breuning, Loretta Graziano. Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels (pp. 89-90). Adams Media. Kindle Edition. 4. Google Docs.Data source: Google Trends (https://www.google.com/trends) 5. Sepah, C. (2019, November 27). Dopamine Fasting 2.0: The Hot Silicon Valley Trend. Retrieved April 4, 2020, from https://medium.com/swlh/dopamine-fasting-2-0-the-hot-silicon-valley-trend-7c4dc3ba2213 6. Portland Psychotherapy Team. (2019, August 26). Riding the Wave: Using Mindfulness to Help Cope with Urges -. Retrieved April 4, 2020, from https://portlandpsychotherapy.com/2011/11/riding-wave-using-mindfulness-help-cope-urges/ 7. The Efficacy of CBT Behaviour Change Metaanalysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/ 8. Dopamine receptor. (2020, February 14). Retrieved April 11, 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_receptor#Dopamine_regulation 9. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Duhigg, C. (2014). The power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.

Feeling motivated? Even if you are, do you know why? The story of Aaron Ralston can tell us a lot about motivation. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank tells us Ralston's story, as well as 4 theories of motivation and some evolutionary perspectives on motivation. Want more videos about psychology? Check out our sister channel SciShow Psych at https://www.youtube.com/scishowpsych! -- Table of Contents Four Theories of Motivation: Evolutionary Perspective 1:38:22 Drive-Reduction 2:45:10 Optimal Arousal 3:38:21 Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 4:49:04 How Sex, Hunger, and the Need to Belong Motivate us 5:29:02 -- Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thecrashcourse/ CC Kids: http://www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids