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I experience reality as something so benevolent, so beautiful, so pure, that there is no word for it.
Loving What Is
Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell
A related idea proposes to widen the range of human activities that are considered to be “jobs.” At present, billions of parents take care of children, neighbors look after one another, and citizens organize communities, without any of these valuable activities being recognized as jobs. Maybe we need to flip a switch in our minds and realize that taking care of a child is arguably the most important and challenging job in the world.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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
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