Emily McDonald on Instagram: "Science shows best way to stop yourself from achieving your goals is to try to plan everything out before you start. Here’s why: 🧠 Overplanning gives your brain a dopamine hit -> it feels like progress, but you haven’t actually done anything. 🧠 Your prefrontal cortex + Default Mode Network get stuck in analysis paralysis, looping on “what ifs” instead of action. 🧠 And because you never take that first step, your brain never gets the real dopamine + neuroplasticit

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