Download Audiobook The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity – And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race by Daniel Z. Lieberman MD in English

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Why are we obsessive about the issues we would like and bored after we get them?Why is dependancy “completely logical” to an addict?Why does love change so rapidly from ardour to disinterest?Why are some individuals diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?Why are we at all times eager for options even within the darkest instances – and so good at figuring them out? The reply is present in a single chemical in your mind: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Hundreds of years later, it’s the supply of our most elementary behaviors and cultural concepts – and progress itself. Dopamine is the chemical of need that at all times asks for extra – extra stuff, extra stimulation, and extra surprises. In pursuit of this stuff, it’s undeterred by emotion, concern, or morality. Dopamine is the supply of our each urge, that little little bit of biology that makes an bold enterprise skilled sacrifice every part in pursuit of success, or that drives a glad partner to danger all of it for the joys of somebody new. Merely put, it’s why we search and succeed; it’s why we uncover and prosper. But, on the identical time, it’s why we gamble and squander. From dopamine’s standpoint, it’s not the having that issues. It’s getting one thing – something – that’s new. From this understanding – the distinction between possessing one thing versus anticipating it – we are able to perceive in a revolutionary new manner why we behave as we do in love, enterprise, dependancy, politics, faith – and we are able to even predict these behaviors in ourselves and others. In The Molecule of Extra: How a Single Chemical in Your Mind Drives Love, Intercourse, and Creativity—And can Decide the Destiny of the Human Race, George Washington College professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown College lecturer Michael E. Lengthy current a doubtlessly life-changing proposal: A lot of human life has an unconsidered element that explains an array of behaviors beforehand considered unrelated, together with why winners cheat, why geniuses usually undergo with psychological sickness, why practically all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives actually are totally different.