Andrew Huberman· PhD
and so um and so um and so dopamine is very powerful at making you want something but not necessarily like it
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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.
and so um and so um and so dopamine is very powerful at making you want something but not necessarily like it
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an important distinction that people make is the distinction between wanting and liking I don't know if you've talked about this previously on the podcast an lmy my colleague at Stanford came on the podcast talked about dopamine is about wanting as opposed to enjoying exactly so in most cases yeah so liking is this the subjective honic pleasure in the moment of eating it but wanting is just it's what you want and these can be uncoupled all the time you could want things that at the end of the day you don't actually enjoy it when you get it