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72: Revisiting Change

Time and Attention

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Dopemin

Dopemin is the propellent that motivates us to behave in certain ways. When you get a notification that somebody liked o picture on your instigram or followed you, your mind rewards you with a hit of dopemi because you experienced that novel stimulus. It's not quite pleasure yet, but dopemin motivates you to act in a way that you think will be pleasurable. I hope that answers without geto the weeds that i think, bringing us back to what we were talking about, those those ideas of expectations.

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