The author gets so carried away (no doubt by dopamine, haha) that by the end he is writing that dopamine is "the essence of humanity". Not light reading, but if you want some insight into why people do what they do and how they are powerless to do otherwise, take a look. Anyway, reading this book, I feel I got a new vision in understanding and categorizing people's behaviors and characters and even made me know myself better and that's where it's unique revolutionary effect was on my views.

The undue influence Dopamine exerts is amazing considering the fraction the Dopamine circuit occupies in our brains. Once you understand the power and peril of dopamine, you’ll better understand the human condition itself. One of those days I got a message from a young woman on a dating app, and the idea of meeting her for dinner consumed my mind to the point where I wrote nothing at all. Our brain simply loves to get high and for a long time we couldn´t get good stuff from the outer world ( it must have been terrible) when we were still stonagey and before, but we had those fine centers for own opioids, own cannabinoids, but especially the other hormones that aren´t so fancy. Why is it so hard for these authors to really trust that someone is actually interested in their topic and realize that they don't have to constantly lure the reader into stupidity?But achieving this aim often means thinking outside the box and making new connections between seemingly disparate things. Dopamine is the all important chemical for planning things in the future, and creativity is literally the process of imagining something new and creating it, therefore it makes sense that creative people have been found to have larger (or more populous) dopamine receptors in their brains. The authors do a great job of giving practical stories on how these molecules influence us day to day and over the long haul. En cualquier caso en estos últimos también hay insights interesantes y son relativamente cortos, así que merece la pena llegar hasta ellos.

We want things in life for ourselves and our loved ones and we want to contribute to the betterment and advancement of society. Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more―more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises.

I liked the chapters Domination and Politics the most, because we tend to forget that we are mentally unstable monkey with different nuances of madness from eccentricity to bonkers and completely manipulated by the substances our body produces and how we tend to condition ourselves to react in a way that might be evolutionarily useful. With dopamine it becomes a pleasure, something that we may describe as happiness, that drives us towards seeking experiences. The Molecule of More dives into dopamine’s role in human behavior in a comprehensive and captivating manner.

Even an object that is across the room (one that you can see), the desire to go and pick it up is driven by dopamine, because dopamine is the molecule that allows us to imagine a potential future. The trouble is, dopamine has more "muscle" and is never satisfied with more; once achieved it is looking for the next thing to do, get, achieve. Picasso and Einstein, both geniuses in their respective fields, are known to have philandered about with a variety of women (despite both being married several times throughout their lives). And even after a few hours when you think you now know everything about this molecule and hormone, there is still something new and interesting in it. Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and economics, and also lived with schizophrenia (he is portrayed by Russell Crowe in the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind based on the book of the same name).Buuuut I won’t be reading any of his other books or using him as a credible resource after he blatantly manipulated his resources. De la coperta de care m-am îndrăgostit, modul în care este organizată, dar și informația pe care mi-a oferit-o, este un deliciu. It describes the fact that the initial buzz of something exciting doesn’t last and this is due to the effect of the molecule receding. Those who had eaten biscuits spent 18 minutes before giving up where those who ate radishes only spent nine minutes on a task. Recently, scientists have proposed that our brain divides the world into two separate regions: near and far.

I enjoy popular science books that give some gritty scientific information, such as the ones by Nick Lane, Matthew Cobb, Roger Penrose or Graham Farmelo.

Almost dnf-d it, but I need to reach my Goodreads goal for the year so I suppose the dopamine from the idea of marking it as read kept me going. Leyendo The Molecule of More (libro recomendado por el propio Huberman en uno de los episodios del podcast) he tenido la misma sensación ya que parece imposible que un único neurotransmisor, la dopamina, sea la explicación de tantos y tan dispares comportamientos humanos.