Podcast Appearances
And I've been looking at one of the chapters, it's the chapter on permission, and I've been looking at the motivation, like why some of us are more motivated, why some of us are less motivated.
Turns out, just like the color of our eyes or our genetics, our dopamine receptors differ from one another.
Some people have wider receptors, some people actually have smaller receptors.
But dopamine is the chemical that actually is the wanting.
The thing that gives us the happiest, nowadays, the fuzzy feeling is actually opioids.
This is why addiction works really well, because we are chasing for that warm feeling.
So the dopamine thing is that we were not built or designed for pleasure.
We were built for pursuit.
This is how we work as humans.
So we are actually going after the pursuit as hunter-gatherers, which was still undeniably in some form.
go after what's next, go after what's next.
And we don't always appreciate it, climbing up to the top of the hill and going, I'm going to spend here a few years just to enjoy this.
We're like, okay, this is this hill.
Where do I go next?
What is the second hill?
Where do I go next?
So I think there's a lot of
understanding we need to do and partially one of the reasons why I wanted to write this book is how do we understand ourselves in this process because we've got so much on our thinking plate let alone to misunderstand how we are operating as humans that when we have a clarity about the one which is what I call the vehicle what we've all been given the shell we can operate our brains and
Then we can focus on, am I in the right place?
Am I doing the right thing?