Why have the once-romantic feelings gradually faded? Why is it that I have gained more but have lost more? Why don't successful people feel successful?
The dopamine in our bodies controls desires, impulses, and creativity, and dopamine has only one purpose – to want more.
Daniel Lieberman and Michael M. Long's Greedy Dopamine deals in many ways with the effects of dopamine as a chemical on us, understanding it, understanding it, and reaching equilibrium rather than an effort to become dopamine.
Dopamine vs. current molecules
Looking down, the table, the cell phone, the floor, these are all at our fingertips, and we can immediately enjoy the happiness of the moment. Looking up, the chandeliers on the ceiling, the playground outside the window, the clouds in the sky, these are the things we need to work hard to get, or we may not get by hard work, we will yearn for it, we will work hard for it.
Dreams are on, maybe after hard work, they will not be able to get it, but the downward "current neurotransmitter" can be easily obtained, and in the face of distant efforts, perhaps the happiness of the moment is easier.
And the dopamine that brings us happiness does not want the satisfaction of the moment, but more. The happiness at your fingertips is destined to fail to satisfy it, either look up and seek more pleasure in the expansion of the territory, or indulge in it and become a slave to dopamine.
The power of control
Dopamine is not a bad thing, and the dopamine control loop is a source of imagination. Faced with an ever-increasing workload to get food, dopamine-deficient mice preferred to give up. Or they'd rather get bad food outright than try to get something better.
Geniuses and madmen have obtained superdopamine, and it is not easy for ordinary people not to indulge in the moment and control themselves.
The development of the mobile Internet in just a few years, the time we spend on mobile phones has occupied most of life, big data will continue to push like to show, and the "upward" information that really needs to be spent effort has been ignored.
Quitting the phone is not the result, the ultimate goal is to reject the pleasures of the moment of dopamine craving.
Dopamine brings us joy, but if we indulge in the temptation of dopaminergic stimulation, we will fall into dopamine's endless "want more."
To be more happy, we must seek a harmonious balance between dopamine and the molecule of the moment. Being dopamine all the time is not the path to the best future. To unleash the full potential of the brain, a combination of sensory reality and abstract thinking is required.
When it operates at its peak, it produces not only happiness and contentment, or wealth and knowledge, but also a wealth of sensory experience and wisdom, which can set us on a more balanced path of life.
Pure curiosity opened this "greedy dopamine", although the book has a lot of chemical and biological knowledge, it is inevitable that there will be some headaches to read, but from not understanding to understanding, is not it the upward dopamine that brings us happiness? The book lists a large number of experimental cases, even if it is a laboratory white rat experiment, the results of one reality after another are still thrilling.
Scientists have concluded that as ordinary people, perhaps only by trying our best to coordinate ourselves, balance the current molecules and dopamine, and not fall into the trap of dopamine, can we truly control ourselves.
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