Andrew Huberman· PhD
[Dopamine] is not about pleasure at all. It's about the discomfort that energizes you to go get things. To seek a reward.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
[Dopamine] is not about pleasure at all. It's about the discomfort that energizes you to go get things. To seek a reward.
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Dopamine: 1) is not about pleasure.
dopamine isn't as much about pleasure as much as it is about motivation and desire to pursue more in order to reduce the amount of pain
Well, dopamine is all about the pleasure of pursuit, not the pursuit of pleasure.