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The Psychology of the Flood

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Dopaminergic System Is the Same as Cocaine

"I want the world to array itself as a set of tools now what happens is that you have this perceptual system that's mediated by dopamine it's the same system that cocaine activates or methamphetamine or the drugs that people really like to take" "It's the dopaminergic system that responds with positive emotion to indications that you've encountered something that will facilitate your movement towards a goal and that's really important to know because people tend to think that they're happy because they achieve goals," he says. 'You don't need a framework in order to suffer you can just lay there day after day and suffer right that's easy so that's the default condition if you don't have a lofty ambition

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