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Mark Rober

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

He's had a lot of admitted like dead ends, but what's beautiful is that then I see the ones that work and it's like, oh, thank you.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Now I could trodden this path that's hacked down basically.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yes.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Um, and obviously do my own versions of that, but like the main path, um,

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

people like that help break these glass ceilings that benefits a lot of others.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I do think, though, that that feature of sort of the dopamine wearing off, I do feel like that is a feature and not a bug of our brains, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

In the sense that, like, let's say there's, like, a coyote chasing a bunny, and, like, the bunny leaps out of the way and makes this amazing move and survives that, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You're going to get a lot of reward chemicals to your brain being like, good job, you lived.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Now I have a chance to continue to pass this DNA on that's inside you.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You're going to get rewarded.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And there was probably some bunnies in the population who...

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

had that dopamine last for like three weeks, just being like resting on the laurels of this sick mood.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I'm the fucking LeBron James.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I'm the LeBron James, just sitting back, relaxing, thinking about that immediately.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Those genes are removed from the gene pool because they bast in that.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So there's this like sweet spot of like, I'm going to make you feel good about this, but then I'm going to make it go away.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So you want to try again.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And I think that's a mistake people make with burnout is,