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Without realizing that I'm playing a really important role in creating my own fortune or misfortune.

One of the sort of adjacent points here about purposelessness, about loneliness, about the struggles and plights of young men in the world that they face, and young women, is the conversation around pornography. If you go on many of the social media apps these days, you will be exposed to pretty explicit pornography, whether you were searching for it or not.

One of the sort of adjacent points here about purposelessness, about loneliness, about the struggles and plights of young men in the world that they face, and young women, is the conversation around pornography. If you go on many of the social media apps these days, you will be exposed to pretty explicit pornography, whether you were searching for it or not.

There's certain apps in particular where...

There's certain apps in particular where...

even if i'm scrolling on my feed certain things will pop up and i get jesus christ like you know i'm at work here um and i was thinking about this more broadly because the studies show that about i think it's like 80 of men and about 40 of women in the united states use pornography and i wondered if you had a view on how it robs us of the of the hard work it takes to form romantic relationships um

even if i'm scrolling on my feed certain things will pop up and i get jesus christ like you know i'm at work here um and i was thinking about this more broadly because the studies show that about i think it's like 80 of men and about 40 of women in the united states use pornography and i wondered if you had a view on how it robs us of the of the hard work it takes to form romantic relationships um

And if the act of consuming pornography is robbing us of the desire for the real thing,

And if the act of consuming pornography is robbing us of the desire for the real thing,

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The other thing that a couple of psychologists on my podcast before have alluded to on this subject is that they told me about a study with rats where they messed with the part of the rat's brain that is responsible for causing dopamine. And then when they put food in front of the rat's mouth,

The other thing that a couple of psychologists on my podcast before have alluded to on this subject is that they told me about a study with rats where they messed with the part of the rat's brain that is responsible for causing dopamine. And then when they put food in front of the rat's mouth,

if the rat was, it was like six inches from the rat's mouth, the rat would starve to death because they had impacted the rat's dopamine. So it no longer had motivation. And they speak of dopamine as this sort of motivation chemical. It's the thing that gets you to take action.