zero dopamine
Zero Dopamine Movement
Reclaim focus. Reset your baseline. Earn your dopamine through effort, not shortcuts.
The Zero Dopamine Movement is about cutting out (or severely restricting) cheap dopamine hits that hijack your discipline, drain your focus, and keep you trapped in the loop of instant gratification.
Why this project exists
This site is a simple hub for subscribers who receive one weekly email: pure motivation, free from the noise of modern feeds. No edits, no background music, no dopamine traps. Just raw, actionable wisdom designed to sharpen your mindset and strengthen discipline.
It’s not about hype—it’s about truth. A reminder each week to stay focused, to do the work, and to build resilience when it matters most.
The Mission
Deliver clarity in a world overloaded with noise, and help you train the discipline to finish what you start.
The Traps
- Social media scrolling
- Junk food & sugar
- Porn & excessive entertainment
- Gaming / streaming binges
- Mindless phone use
Constant dopamine spikes rewire your reward system. The result: you crave quick pleasure and avoid hard, meaningful work - whether it’s studying, building, running 42km, or grinding through LeetCode.
The Science
- - Dopamine ≠ pleasure. It’s motivation-spiking on anticipation, not reward itself.
- - Overstimulation leads to downregulation - you need more and more just to feel “normal.”
- - Cutting cheap hits resets your baseline, making study, training, and coding feel rewarding again.
Get Started Now
- Digital Detox: limit or uninstall social media, keep internet essential.
- Clean Inputs: no junk food, no porn, no instant snacks.
- Monk Mode: strict sleep, exercise, deep work, reading, meditation.
- Boredom Training: practice sitting with stillness to reset comfort levels.
“Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit, but it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”
This isn’t anti-fun, it’s pro-focus
Earn your dopamine through effort, not shortcuts.