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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

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Dopamine Amplifies Pattern Recognition and It's a Feel Good Drug

When we have dopamine in our system we find more connections between stuff. Dopamine amplifies focus that's one of the things it does and rewards any behavior that has a survival value. This is why creative ideas spiral. And by the way, turn up the dopamine too much you have schizophrenia. You start finding patterns where there aren't connections. You get conspiracy. That's interesting. Yes I've heard about that but like literally that's not just at the extreme that's every step along the way.

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