Olga Alexandrova.

04/05/2026

“What we give doesn’t always
return, but what we give is always what we are.”

02/04/2026

Когда внутри шумно — нужна не мотивация, а настройка.


Иногда самое точное действие — перестать:
перестать тащить лишнее, перестать жить на автомате, перестать требовать от себя невозможного.

Есть простой ориентир:
если что-то регулярно забирает энергию, вызывает внутреннее сопротивление и ощущение «я не на своем месте» — значит, там нужен не рывок, а диагностика: что происходит со мной, что для меня важно, на что я могу опереться?

09/03/2026

02/03/2026

When we talk about addiction, it often seems as if the substance itself is the main issue.

But in reality, everything begins much earlier — with how the brain assigns priorities, how it decides what matters to us at all.

The brain has a system that distributes priority. It literally assigns “weights”:

* what is worth effort
* what deserves attention
* what is worth acting for

This is called motivational salience.

It is the internal “weight” the brain assigns to a stimulus. The dopaminergic system plays a major role in this process.

🧬 Dopamine is not a “pleasure hormone,” as it is often described. It is a neurotransmitter of significance. It does not make a stimulus pleasurable — it makes it important.

Under normal conditions, this system is flexible:

* food
* connection
* safety
* novelty
* goals

Everything has its relative value.

But when the distribution of significance becomes distorted, one stimulus may receive a disproportionately high weight.
And that is where the story of addiction begins.