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Dopamine may play a bigger role in the motivation to get a reward than the pleasure of the reward itself. Wanting more than liking. Genetically engineered mice unable to make dopamine will not seek out food, and will starve to death even when food is placed just inches from their mouth. Yet if food is put directly into their mouth, they will chew and eat the food, and seem to enjoy it.
Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke
As Jung emphasized: “Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.” But Jung also pointed out: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
Existential Kink
Carolyn Elliott
Let me tell you about a problem. It might make you feel better about what you do with your money, and less judgmental about what other people do with theirs. People do some crazy things with money. But no one is crazy. Here’s the thing: People from different generations, raised by different parents who earned different incomes and held different values, in different parts of the world, born into different economies, experiencing different job markets with different incentives and different degrees of luck, learn very different lessons.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
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