psychology

Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.

Third, dopamine is one of those aforementioned reward chemicals, a feel-good drug produced by the brain to drive behavior.3 Dopamine feels really good. Cocaine is widely considered the most addictive drug on earth,

To protect ourselves against likability manipulation, a good step is to ask ourselves whether we have come to like someone or something unusually strongly in a short time. If so, this could be due to some form of manipulation, and alarm bells should ring.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

The technical language that surrounds a subject is the second place to put your attention. Why? Jargon, while annoying, is annoyingly precise.

they’re assertive about what they want, and they’re not afraid to let others know about what they’ve achieved.

At the biological or physical level, everyone has developed both away from and toward motivation;

You have to stand in the future to create a different future. Our friend, Mike Maples Jr., calls this “backcasting.” Legendary builders must stand in the future and pull the present from the current reality to the future of their design. So an important additional job of the builder is to persuade early like-minded people to join a new movement.

experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.