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#606: How to Activate Your Brain's Happy Chemicals

The Art of Manliness

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The Needs of a Mammal Brain

Dopemine is the great feeling of reward. But every one of these happy chemicals has a downside. So dopemin motivates you to seek, seek, sek s. That's how you get the next meal. And when you get what you want, the good feeling is gone and then you have to do more to get more. Our ancestors had to keep filling their belly. They didn't know where their next meal would come from. We define threats and rewards with noral pathways built from past experience. If you grow up in an environment where your needs are met and you're safe from threat, then your brain sort of ranges out further and further looking for things that could...

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