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Aim at a Star - A 12 Rules for Life Lecture

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Hypothalamus Is Responsible for Primordial Motivation

The hypothalamus is the fundamental brain area that's responsible for primordial motivation. When you get hungry there's some physiological activation but your brain starts to produce fantasies of food. The idea will kind of pop up into your mind and it's a simulation of the action that you might undertake if you were going to quell that motivated state.

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