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Raj Shamani's Figuring Out

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How the Brain Knows if Something Will Help You

How do we know if something will help us or not? The marker for something helping you is dopamine. Every time they pick up something that will help them in their survival, the brain marks it. It's like putting a pin on it that this is going to be helpful. So the next time you find this, definitely take it. And that marker is dopamine. Now coming all the way back to social media, if you are, if you switch on the internet and you're scrolling, it's like you're going through the supermarket. All of these things are marked by dopamine which is why we are constantly guided by it.

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