If you're a writer or artist working on longer form projects and you need a quick dopamine hit, I think one of the best things you can do is get into cooking.
- It's pretty fast and usually not very complicated. You don't have to get insanely fancy unless you want to, and a lot of recipes only take about an hour or so to complete, including cooking time.
- You get the good Brain Satisfaction from completing a Thing
- You also get to actually enjoy the Thing you completed (by eating it).
this is PRECISELY why i got into cooking and it's perfect for this exact use case. plus if you cook for others, you get the dopamine hit of "something i made is being enjoyed by someone else" as well!
...I think I'm just straight up doing something wrong because cooking always seems to take me a solid 2 hours not including all the time/cognitive energy I spend managing our grocery supplies and planning wtf I'm going to make :/
