If you are going to dopamine frack online, which we all are, you might as well learn something. That's why I think shifting towards technology over politics is just intellegent. With politics we don't learn anything or walk away with any residue benefit from the dopamine frack, besides a knowledge that the world sucks. Let's face it, we already knew that. But learning something and doing it with others can be a dopamine hit. You just have to train yourself to get dopamine out of it. It takes a while for the brain to learn and associate a new dopamine source.
And then the side consequence isn't a hopeless fear that the world will always suck, but is a growing capability you can use to make the world suck a little less.
It's the same with working out. At first working out sucks. But the people who prevail at it are the people who stuck it out long enough for their brains to associate it with a source of dopamine. The same goes for people who know more than you. They're just people who associated with something better for their dopamine source and then kept chasing dopamine.
You can select and train your dopamine sources. And politics is almost the worst one. Almost. It's probably ahead of Marvel movies, but not by a lot. Does this mean politics doesn't matter? No. It just means it isn't smart to make it your main dopamine fuel. Politics can still matter without being stuck in an unproductive dopamine cycle with it.
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If you are going to dopamine frack online, which we all are, you might as well learn something. That's why I think shifting towards technology over politics is just intellegent. With politics we don't learn anything or walk away with any residue benefit from the dopamine frack, besides a knowledge that the world sucks. Let's face it, we already knew that. But learning something and doing it with others can be a dopamine hit. You just have to train yourself to get dopamine out of it. It takes a while for the brain to learn and associate a new dopamine source.
And then the side consequence isn't a hopeless fear that the world will always suck, but is a growing capability you can use to make the world suck a little less.
It's the same with working out. At first working out sucks. But the people who prevail at it are the people who stuck it out long enough for their brains to associate it with a source of dopamine. The same goes for people who know more than you. They're just people who associated with something better for their dopamine source and then kept chasing dopamine.
You can select and train your dopamine sources. And politics is almost the worst one. Almost. It's probably ahead of Marvel movies, but not by a lot. Does this mean politics doesn't matter? No. It just means it isn't smart to make it your main dopamine fuel. Politics can still matter without being stuck in an unproductive dopamine cycle with it.
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