Everything you want is build on your brain.

Everything you want is build on your brain. Human civilization,Money, luxury house, fancy cars, or your dream partner, all this external stuff is the reflection of your brain's capacity such as reasoning, decision, and self-control. However, none of these exit if your brain is being hiject, be more specific, is your dopamine system being hiject.

dopamine

definition of dopamine

What is dopamine? dopamine is a neurotransmitter in your Brian, it is often misunderstood as happiness factor, but it plays huge role as desire factor relative to wanting and motivation.

The consequences of dopamine being hijack

Why human once try the drug, their whole life is ruined? The secret is their dopamine system was rebuilt and strongly connected to drug. once this happened, it is hard to reverse. none of the other things can produce dopamine but drug, they lose the ability to enjoy other stuff.

New drug - social media

Most of the content creator, their purpose is not contributing to society, but to make money. Our human nature it only like the things that can generate quick dopamine, so they create meaningless content in order to get your attention! It can only waste your life on it.

solution

Attention is all you need. protect your dopamine system away from meaningless scrolling, put it into invest your life future!

why you should protect dopamine system?

Dopamine has a threshold, when threshold rise, same level of stimulation produces weak response. When dopamine system is being hijacked by instant gratification such as porn, game, or social media. Other important activities such as exercise, learning, or reading book becomes less appealing to you. Eventually you will seeking more stimulation activities that can ruin your life. Those instant gratification may not produce happiness, but you feel uncomfortable when you don’t engage. Over time, this pattern hurts your motivation Takeaway lesson: protect your dopamine system, do not let instant gratification ruin your life.