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Ambition vs. aspiration with philosopher Agnes Callard

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Importance of Thinking Again

Boredom avoidance is supposed to be driven by extraversion, which is sort of an activation of dopaminergic pathways in the brain. And that's what leads you to both feel bored and not want to be bored. Whereas stress avoidance seems to bedriven by an independent system, which would be more of the punishment system,. That makes a lot of sense to me because I'm an extrovert. It seems like you find joy in questioning anything and everything that you believe.

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