We usually think of gratitude as 'I'm thankful for some (thing) that I've been given, accomplished or stumbled across'.

Where it gets really cool is that you don't need a (thing) to be grateful for, you can just BE grateful.

𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡:

#1 Gratitude is a feeling, it comes from a chemical in your body called serotonin and is triggered by a thought (not a thing).

#2 Thinking a certain way, over and over, creates a pattern inside of your mind (neurons that fire together, wire together). The more you think about gratitude, the easier it is to feel good and see the world in a different way.

#3 When you focus on gratitude, it becomes important to your RAS (Reticular activating system).

Your RAS is the filter of your subconscious mind and feeds your conscious mind with what it deems as important to you and blocks what is not.

This is why they say 'what you focus on expands'.

So the more you practice gratitude, the better you feel, and the more you wire your mind...

Today On Mindset Hackers we are going to be talking about what I call the Dopamine Treadmill, when you constantly chase the symbols of success and still end up so unfulfilled and unhappy in life and why that happens from a neuroscience perspective.

I'll also give 5 tips on how to let happiness, success and wealth coexist together.

Matthew McConaughey said it best in Wolf of Wall Street:

"𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙."

"Come up with another brilliant idea. A 'Special idea'. Another stock to reinvest his earnings. And he will come back every single time. You keep them on the ferris wheel and keep it spinning, and spinning, and spinning."

This is why there can be so much wealth co-existing with so much unhappiness, anxiety and depression.

Dopamine is the 'molecule of more'.

It's all very intentional.

Social media 'likes'.

The sugar.

The salt.

Wall Street.

Madison Avenue.

Las Vegas.

Advertising.

Dopamine is the reward seeking chemical and is highest when the payoff is unpredictable,...