You can want things you don’t like and like things you don’t want | Psyche Ideas
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You can want things you don’t like and like things you don’t want | Psyche Ideas
They labeled the drive that dopamine seemed to induce as “wanting” and called the joy of being satiated, which did not seem to be connected with dopamine, “liking.”
Maia Szalavitz • Dopamine: The Currency of Desire
Desire (as opposed to need) is an intellectual appetite for things that you perceive to be good, but that you have no physical, instinctual basis for wanting – and that’s true whether those things are actually good or not.