You can want things you don’t like and like things you don’t want | Psyche Ideas

we can say that we are so disturbed by the proliferation and variety and diversity and unpredictability of our desire that we are always tempted to actively narrow our minds by claiming to know what we want, and sticking to it; there may, that is to say, be nothing more defensive, nothing more distracting, nothing more omniscient, than believing yo

The cue is about noticing the reward. The craving is about wanting the reward. The response is about obtaining the reward. We chase rewards because they serve two purposes: (1) they satisfy us and (2) they teach us.

the mind decides likes and dislikes: ‘I want this taste and not that one.’ Though a thing is bitter, it will derive happiness even in that bitterness if the mind chooses.

They’re able to differentiate loving something v. loving the idea of it; to be conscious of why they desire something, not just that they desire it.

Dopamine may play a bigger role in the motivation to get a reward than the pleasure of the reward itself. Wanting more than liking.

Dopamine may play a bigger role in the motivation to get a reward than the pleasure of the reward itself. Wanting more than liking.