Mark Rober
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Whatever.
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.
Now I could trodden this path that's hacked down basically.
Yes.
Um, and obviously do my own versions of that, but like the main path, um,
people like that help break these glass ceilings that benefits a lot of others.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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?
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?
You're going to get a lot of reward chemicals to your brain being like, good job, you lived.
Now I have a chance to continue to pass this DNA on that's inside you.
You're going to get rewarded.
And there was probably some bunnies in the population who...
had that dopamine last for like three weeks, just being like resting on the laurels of this sick mood.
I'm the fucking LeBron James.
I'm the LeBron James, just sitting back, relaxing, thinking about that immediately.
Those genes are removed from the gene pool because they bast in that.
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.
So you want to try again.
And I think that's a mistake people make with burnout is,