Every time I sat down to collect my thoughts my phone would ping with a message from a friend and I would get swept up in whatever their drama was.

The author gets so carried away (no doubt by dopamine, haha) that by the end he is writing that dopamine is "the essence of humanity". Before this book, I know my personality and I am aware of the behavior patterns that I tend to take. The Molecule of More (2020) reveals how one brain chemical kindles our desires, fuels our creativity, and makes us fall in love. He stretched the truth and oversimplified to make readers believe dopamine was the contributing factor in many ailments when the truth is SO very complex and diverse.Picasso and Einstein, both geniuses in their respective fields, are known to have philandered about with a variety of women (despite both being married several times throughout their lives).

From this understanding-the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it-we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion-and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others. Huberman for igniting my initial curiosity about the brain and paving the way for this impactful journey. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

It was liberals who tended to be impulsive, authoritarian, and sensation-seeking – and conservatives were charitable and social.

There are interesting facts about the difference between people who are very liberal or very conservative.

The Molecule of More dives into dopamine’s role in human behavior in a comprehensive and captivating manner. Aș recomanda înainte de lecturarea acestei cărți, alte două cărți care prezintă o descriere a mai multor hormoni: "Creierul fericit" de L Breuning sau "Excitat. Dr Lieberman and Dr E Long don't just explain dopamine; they disclose it as the engine driving so much of human experience, from love and addiction to creativity and our very pursuit of "more.

Although those assigned to eat radishes did not eat any chocolate cookies, a further experiment was then carried out afterwards which set a task that was quite impossible to do. looked at all the things we do for the sake of something else and wondered if there was an end to it all. S. Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Commerce, and the Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy, and has discussed mental health in interviews on CNN, C-SPAN, and PBS. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race" (2018).I'm sure the broad thesis of the book - that the role of dopamine is key in a lot of human behaviour - is correct. We do know that people with certain personalities are likely to be more Republican or Democrat (or conservative or liberal) dependent upon how dopamine works in the individual, driven by traits that are already a part of a person’s personality and change. Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more―more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises.