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Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out? Mike Long: In fact, the easiest of all is to program the drone to do it, because there's nobody involved at all. Everything is hypothetical. It's a pattern that you're dealing with, not particulars. So, the easiest of all is to program a drone to take the utilitarian answer, because you don't have to feel anything when you write code. This may never be used.
Kaitlin Luna: Yeah, and this is what we're seeing with this emphasis on mindfulness and people wanting to be here now. I think, because we are living in a world that's very dopamine-centric, with constant, you know, instant gratification all the time. So, that's where I imagine some of this is me, just editorializing. But, where we're seeing this boom and mindfulness.Mike Long: It's so important, and I say that I'm projecting it onto other people, I know. But, as I learned this material, it was, again, just such a revelation for me to see that when you talk about love, you're talking about two very different things. You're talking about the romantic phase, the passionate phase, and then you're talking about the companion phase. And there are those of us who never escape the romantic phase, which sounds kind of exciting until you think about what that really means.
Daniel Lieberman: So, to get a sense of what it feels like to have dopamine pushing you along versus trying to go forward without dopamine. Think about working on a project that you're incredibly excited about. Typically, it's going to be a project that involves some degree of creativity. I do a little bit of programming. I also love to make PowerPoint presentations. I'm a total nerd. The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas - and progress itself. In one molecule of water, there are two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Particle diagrams can also show the ratio of atoms of each element in a compound which in turn can tell us the formula of the compound - H₂O.Daniel Lieberman: Yeah, it can do that. It can make us obsessed with our work and take us away from a personal life. And, of course, a work-life balance is very important, and dopamine can ruin that balance. But, it can also prevent us from getting satisfaction from what we're working for so hard. It's never enough. I saw a patient today who an incredibly successful real estate developer is, and he has more money than he will ever be able to spend and through his life, he's achieved higher and higher and higher levels. But, every time he takes a step, he starts comparing himself to the person at the higher level. And his self-esteem is terrible, in spite of all of his achievements. In spite of having a wonderful family, he constantly sees himself as a failure because he's always looking for what he has not yet achieved. And then that's a pathological behavior of dopamine. The book also looks at the fine line between creativity and madness and both of these are influenced by the hormone molecule that we know is dopamine. When we look at people with madness, often on antipsychotic medicines and what happens is that these people are given medicines which might contain substances which have receptors that allow neurotransmitters and hormones to either increase or reduce in how they work in the brain which can lead to changes in behaviour. And much of this is due to the dopamine molecule Book Genre: Biology, Brain, Health, Neuroscience, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Psychology, Relationships, Science, Self Help Over time things become hidden from out attention. It’s not that a thing starts out hidden, it’s that we make it hidden because it’s not important to us. We inhibit our ability to notice things that are unimportant so we don’t have to waste our attention on them.
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