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When dopamine fires too fast, joy can’t find its footing.
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― Dopamine: The Silent Architect of Desire, Discipline, and Meaning
― Dopamine: The Silent Architect of Desire, Discipline, and Meaning
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…we use the dopaminergic power of the happiness of pursuit to motivate us to work for rewards that come -after we are dead- depending on your culture, this can be knowing that your nation is closer to winning a war because you’ve sacrificed yourself in battle, that your kids will inherit money because of your financial sacrifices, or that you will spend eternity in paradise. It is extraordinary neural circuitry that bucks temporal discounting enough to allow (some of) us to care about the temper
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― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
