Responsible action is a delicate balance – excessive dopamine activity can become impractical and is speculated at times even lead to mental illnesses. Andrew Huberman, but my understanding of dopamine remained constrained to its role in motivation and reward.

De cele mai multe ori e precum drăcușorul de pe umărul stîng, din simplul motiv că limita ei e cerul. That we are in many if not most cases, able to make decisions that will most benefit us or will bring about our ruin, whichever argument wins out in our hearts, minds, and souls. At some point, there is one pinnacle or another of human thought and achievement that will ultimately destroy us. As they themselves warned, it did get more speculative in the middle, but the last chapter was a peach. An interesting book on how we are controlled by hormones (I feel I need to know more about them) with a focus on how dopamine particularly drives us.The Molecule of More is well written and interesting, with some good examples, but didn’t live up to expectations. Los tres primeros capítulos (LOVE, DRUGS and DOMINATION) son absolutamente fascinantes y creo que es bastante fácil verse reflejado (y gracias al libro, entender) muchas de las sensaciones y emociones que se describen y que todos experimentamos en el día a día.

Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more--more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises.We have brought into being a world in which buildings scrape the skies, the internet unites communities across the oceans, and 8 billion humans coexist relatively peacefully. Understanding why we do the dangerous and unhealthy stuff is the roadmap to creating the best possible life. The authors do a great job of giving practical stories on how these molecules influence us day to day and over the long haul. For the first time, I see the intimate game between dopamine and serotonin playing out in my own thoughts and actions. The undue influence Dopamine exerts is amazing considering the fraction the Dopamine circuit occupies in our brains.

The chair you’re sitting on, the screen you’re reading this off of, the few other things you can smell and touch; this is your here and now. Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times--and so good at figuring them out? Just by adding sanitiser to experiments tends to make people become more conservative in their viewpoints where if you ask conservatives to imagine having a superpower, interestingly enough they become more liberal in their viewpoints.Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more―more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. Dopamine circuits are in two categories – ones which determine our desires and the other which exerts control over our actions.

I experienced this myself one year when I went on four separate multi-day vacations each precisely one month apart. Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more—more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Meet a molecule whose fingerprint rests upon every aspect of human nature--from desire and drugs to politics and progress.

I don’t want my phone to be in charge of telling me when some ‘important’ message comes my way; I check my phone when I want to, not the other way around. If you want to understand how this neurochemical influences our everyday basic behavior or are curious about dopaminergic personality, start with this book. From this understanding-the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it-we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion-and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others.