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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 (Paperback)
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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 (Paperback)
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2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner - Science Category
2018 Forward Indies Finalist - Psychology Category Why are we
obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them?
Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict? Why does love
change so quickly from passion to indifference? Why are some people
die-hard liberals and others hardcore conservatives? Why are we
always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times-and so good
at figuring them out? The answer is found in a single chemical in
your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man.
Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic
behaviors and cultural ideas-and progress itself. Dopamine is the
chemical of desire that always asks for more-more stuff, more
stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is
undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of
our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious
business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success,
or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of
someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why
we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it's why we gamble
and squander. From dopamine's point of view, it's not the having
that matters. It's getting something-anything-that's new. From this
understanding-the difference between possessing something versus
anticipating it-we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we
behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics,
religion-and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and
others. In 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, George Washington University professor and
psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University
lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing
proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that
explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated,
including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental
illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals
and conservatives really are different.
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