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The Dopamine Reward Is Not a Bug, It's a Feature

If you eat a walnut and you feel that dopamine in your brain. That is such a pleasurable experience from eating that thing for like three weeks. You don't have the motivation then to go out and to go find another walnut, right? So that chemical reaction is actually the thing that motivates. It wants you to remember that was lovely and then it wants to inspire you to go get that again.

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