This neurotransmitter is linked to feelings of love and lust.
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HI!!! Every man for himself.
The INA of time is dopamine. This neurotransmitter is linked to feelings of love and lust, gambling addiction, drug use, and mindless consumerism.
At the moment of “let’s see,” whether it’s feeling or pleasure (and lust), the dopamine will be present under the curls of your hair and waft across the Egyptian cotton sheets in your love nest.
It’s also in shops where unbridled consumption injects homeopathic doses into your circulation, making you feel pleasure when you buy that useless citrus squeezer or that blueberry bowl to take as a dessert to work that you’ll only need once.
In games of chance, then, he commands and demands. That feeling of defeat for having lost a thousand chips in roulette is immediately replaced by the delusional hope that on the next spin you will win two thousand, recover the loss and go home with a profit. Big mistake.
To continue reading, press play on the playlist”dopamine” which I found ready, delivered on a tray, with “very very vibe worthy” songs.
It has Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Queen, Flamming Lips, Blur, ABBA and even Daft Punk. Very fine biscuit.
With each purchase, one dose in the blood
The human being thinks he is rational when in reality we are pure emotion. Most of our actions and decisions are instinctive, unconscious and often without rational explanations. The INAs play a key role in this.
When you shop, online or in a physical store, the big bad in your wallet leaving the room empty is dopamine. Every ten minutes the chemical is secreted into our bloodstream stimulating the pleasure reward circuitry in the brain.
Dopamine is more related to motivation and cost-effectiveness than to pleasure itself. Eventually, you end up buying more than you need or even useless stuff that will only be used few times.
The harm to online shopping is even greater due to the simplicity of the operation. Your address and credit card are already registered. A few clicks and you’re done. Before you receive the item you are already crying with regret.
In gambling addicts, dopamine kicks in for the same reason: the pleasure reward mechanism. If we start winning in the game, the “wave” gradually increases. A losing play is unable to stop the fearless player. Whether it’s horse racing, casino or lotteries, the effect is the same. Rare are the players who manage to be rational while holding the momentum and come out with a profit.
Once my father was on a business trip to a country in Latin America, Venezuela I believe. It was the 80s, another world. He went to the casino with little money just to contain a foreseeable loss. He won $3,000 after several spins of roulette, blackjack and slot machines. He decided to go up to his room, knocked on the door and left 2,000 to his colleague asking him not to open the door at all in case he came back to get the fool. Said and done: in less than 15 minutes he lost the thousand dollars and went back to his room to get more money and try to recover it in the arcade. Luckily his colleague was obedient and he kept the door closed.
When released without excess, dopamine is very useful and beneficial as it is essential for motivation, concentration and productivity. In situations of gratitude, goal achievement, or small chore lists, dopamine is released.
Even small victories in petty bourgeois life produce the damned. When you find a parking space, you get a promotion at work, you get a free cashier at the supermarket, you find money on the floor, all this generates dopamine and mini winnings in people. These mini types of life.
Produced in the hypothalamus, it is secreted when we eat foods rich in tyrosine: chocolate, beans, almonds, pumpkin seeds, prunes, blueberries, green tea, watermelon, apples and beets.
An effective way to increase dopamine in the body is to set short-term goals, shattering those summer dreams like writing a book or learning Italian in a month. By breaking it down into small, achievable goals, it becomes easier to achieve, and the reward for ephemeral success comes via dopamine. Always celebrating, anything, helps too.
For example, going to the supermarket on the corner, doing the shopping and returning home without tripping over anything, without falling into a hole in the sidewalk and not being robbed (by someone or by the supermarket) is already cause for celebration.
Whip up a frozen cider now and let the dopamine wash over you. Even if it’s just for a few minutes.
To see and read and re-read
Movie: Casino – Martin Scorsese (1995)
Robert De Niro in great shape, Joe Pesci at his best and Sharon Stone amazing. Martin Scorsese directs his best Mafia movie. A modern classic not to be missed.
The story takes place in Las Vegas in the 70s, where else? De Niro is a casino manager with a checkered past. Sharon is a high-class, dominating, womanizing whore who just can’t crack the pimp out of her. Pesci is a kind of bodyguard of the casino manager and starts following the prostitute following the suspicions of her boss.
At a time when the mafia controlled even the amount of sugar every citizen drank in city cafes, we have a panel from a glamorous era of crime and the organization itself, still powerful and influential.
We see the fall and destruction of some of the deepest values resulting in the victory of massification, excessive advertising, consumerism, greed and the attachment to profit.
Book: Open, an autobiography – André Agassi
A multiple champion who hated playing tennis. His father’s fault, an insensitive executioner who saw in him a natural talent and decided his future as a tennis superstar. Coming from an Armenian and Iraqi family, who survived the diasporas of the world, Patriarch Agassi has just forgotten that his son André never wanted him for his life.
From the limping and insecure start in Las Vegas to the Grand Slam dispute, the tennis player tells us with rare frankness and sincerity the internal battles of his way of playing throughout his career, the lack of adequate physical preparation, the tyranny of father, incapable of a simple compliment, and his constant insecurity.
His celebrity life has always bothered him. He had a childhood sweetheart, but then Brooke Shields came along and nothing was ever the same.
The details of the battles against Pete Sampras, his eternal rival, Boris Becker, Michael Chang, Andrei Medvedev, Evgeni Kafelnikov and many others are narrated in detail.
A mandatory book for tennis lovers and for those who love the great sports personalities.
Book: One player – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This time Dostoevsky takes us to Roletenburg, an imaginary city in Germany, revealing the tricks and vices of each player in search of the common goal: to make money. The characters seem to come out of a living room joke: the tormented Russian general, the mysterious English lord, the cunning French womanizer, the sick, rich and insignificant old Russian matriarch and the narrator himself, a mixture of fiction and autobiography, since the author man himself was addicted to gambling.
The book was written in just over 20 days, when Dostoevsky was still writing Crime and Punishment. At the beginning of October 1866, he found himself in trouble: if he did not deliver a new novel by November 1 to the publisher and swindler FT Stielovski, the latter would have the right to publish everything Fyodor had for the next nine years. produced without paying a Jeep fee.
Dostoyevsky redacted material at a breakneck pace in the morning, dictating everything to stenographer Ana Grigorievna Snitkina, who would become his second wife, between noon and 4 p.m., and she would take everything home for transcription. In 26 days, one of the author’s most dizzying and autobiographical novels was ready.
A fierce critique of capitalism and its easy gains in games, see the stock market, and its catastrophic losses.
Dopamine has eaten loose since that time, mercilessly or mercilessly.
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Source: Terra
Ben Stock is a lifestyle journalist and author at Gossipify. He writes about topics such as health, wellness, travel, food and home decor. He provides practical advice and inspiration to improve well-being, keeps readers up to date with latest lifestyle news and trends, known for his engaging writing style, in-depth analysis and unique perspectives.
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