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The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

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There's also examples, though, of people developing artistic and poetic talent as a result of getting these dopamine boosting drugs. Kaitlin Luna: Yes, something about inspiration. Yeah, you’re talking about, you know, this dopamine can help with inspiration. You said making connections. So, it's just fascinating experiment in which they surveyed people about their political ideology, and they randomize them. In one, they put a hand sanitizer dispenser in the room as a very subtle reminder of the risk of infection. This simple presence of the hand sanitizer pushed people to be more conservative in their answers to the survey.

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Daniel Lieberman: That's right. People say, look, I know my son is a good person and somehow, he got trapped in this web. Therefore, maybe I was wrong. Maybe this really is something besides a moral failing. Mike Long: And so, that's, that's one step away from ink pen walk it to mommy. Well, that's a dog. And I bought sound? Yes. Mike Long: That fine line between oh, here, these things and I could put them together into something useful. And here are these things and they're just going to spill out. Daniel Lieberman: Because that's what dopamine does. It says here’s something new. There might be something useful in this that will help me in the future. Help me reproduce or keep me safe or whatever it is. In the case of loves, my goodness, look at this possibility. It's right in front of me and you get this euphoria and the more you learn about the thing, the less there is to explore, and the dopamine begins to fade. Mike Long: Yes, anticipation to cultivate your ability to just experience where you are. To put the first simple things. I put the phone down during dinner, turn it off when you're talking to somebody, look in their eyes and listen to what they say. Don't worry about what you're going to say next. Listen to be here now, as the phrase goes. The simple awareness that this exists at all is a profound gift that you can give yourself.

So, the question is, is it ethically permissible to pull the switch to save five lives at the expense of one? Daniel Lieberman: Unless you work for a company, that trace is exactly that you are interested. But let's say you read it. And all of a sudden, you run across the name of somebody you went to school with, who’s involved in the negotiations. You’re going to get some dopamine. Mike Long: Highly dopaminergic people are easily distracted in many cases. They see something. They want to know what it is. And so, there are a lot of more random things that — I'm speaking in broad terms here. 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. Daniel Lieberman: If someone in your family had cancer, you hushed it up. It was an enormously shameful thing. Today that seems utterly absurd.

Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain

And when you said that a moment ago, Dan, I think that's if you're listening to this, you wondering, well, what do you mean by creativity? This is one good way to begin to understand it. Creativity is associating things that have not been commonly associated before. So, from an evolutionary point of view, it's incredibly important. And that's why it's so powerful because it directs our behavior from the bottom up. It's designed to keep us alive and make us evolutionarily successful. Kaitlin Luna: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but I was like that seems a little simplistic. You're saying it's, it's not as easy as that? Daniel Lieberman: There's an old saying to travel. Hopefully is better than to arrive. Have you heard that? Daniel Lieberman: We don't know exactly. Let's say you keep reading and you run across your own name. You're going to get a big surge of dopamine. So, dopamine responds to things in the environment that your brain thinks is important to you.Daniel Lieberman: I think perhaps the broadest way to describe dopamine is that it's designed to maximize future resources, and we can see that working in ourselves when we're constantly focused on the future, I need more. I'm not satisfied. I'm not a good enough person rather than just kind of taking a deep breath and saying wow, look at all the wonderful things I have, the good things I've done. I'm grateful for them. Mike Long: Understand, too, that dopamine doesn't say what's the best way to achieve this goal in a moral way? What's the best way to get there? And it falls to us. And our development and use of the other neural transmitters society. This isn't good. If you're obsessed with winning, anything goes unless I mean to dopamine, anything goes, unless there's some measure of activity on the other side. Provide is more to the left. Let's make this country a better place. Let's progress more. Protect is more to the right. Let's maintain the good things that we have and that's more here and now, neurotransmitters. Daniel Lieberman: And then you gotta transform. Then you're trying to transfer over to what's called companion It love. That's the kind of love that can last a lifetime. And that's more driven by chemicals like oxytocin and serotonin. Kaitlin Luna: And can you increase or decrease the amount of dopamine you have? I mean, you said a lot of is determined by genetics, and I'm thinking, not a person who's affected by a serious mental illness, but for a general person, can you increase that?

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