Nick Bare

If you live under a bridge, dopamine makes you want a tent.

If you live in a tent, dopamine makes you want a house.

If you live in the most expensive mansion in the world, dopamine makes you want a castle on the moon.

Dopamine has no standard for good and seeks no finish line.

The dopamine circuits in the brain can be stimulated only by the possibility of whatever is shiny and new.

Nevermind how perfect things are at the moment.

The dopamine motto is more.

The molecule of more.

That is dopamine.

That is in our bodies.

That is in our brain.

It is driving us towards more and more and more and more.

And without purpose, without meaning, we will never be fulfilled because naturally we

The biology and chemistry of our bodies naturally wants more.

Naturally wants more.

So if we're not rooted in a purpose and a meaning much larger than ourselves, a cause much larger than ourselves, if we aren't willing to get small, we will get stuck in the driven...

disaster of living for dopamine.

And that's a dangerous place to be.

We need purpose and meaning to be fulfilled.

Because if we don't have that, we're going to live chasing dopamine.