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You are thinking too wholesome. There are easier, quicker, etc... ways to get dopamine.
by resource_waste 3y ago
You are thinking too wholesome.
There are easier, quicker, etc... ways to get dopamine.
- Retric 3y agoAnd? Just about anything can get you a dopamine hit, but they become less effective over time which is why you can get out of bed in the morning. Net result you can’t really win the dopamine game. Long term an ascetic monk gets just as much of that high as a billionaire playboy, the playboy just works harder for it.
- resource_waste 3y agoCycle where in the brain you are getting dopamine?
- Retric 3y agoIt’s produced in many parts of the brain for a bunch of different reasons. The substantia nigra, part of the basal ganglia, produces it for basic motor functions like eye movements. Which is why it’s linked to Parkinson’s.