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The Molecule of More

How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

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The Molecule of More

Von: Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, Michael E. Long
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Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them?

Why is addiction “perfectly logical” to an addict?

Why does love change so quickly from passion to disinterest?

Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?

Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times - and so good at figuring them out?

The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas - and progress itself.

Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more - more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it’s why we gamble and squander.

From dopamine’s point of view, it’s not the having that matters. It’s getting something - anything - that’s new. From this understanding - the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it - we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion - and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others.

In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—And will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different.

©2018 Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Michael E. Long. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Publishing by arrangement with BenBella Books.
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"One might consider it Freakonomics for the mind."— Greg Roth, "The Idea Enthusiast"

"Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long have pulled off an amazing feat. They have made a biography of a neurotransmitter a riveting read. Once you understand the power and peril of dopamine, you’ll better understand the human condition itself.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and When

"Meet a molecule whose fingerprint rests upon every aspect of human nature—from desire and drugs to politics and progress. Lieberman and Long tell the epic saga of dopamine as a page-turner that you simply can't put down."—David Eagleman, PhD, neuroscientist at Stanford and New York Times bestselling author

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I recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the brain and its motivation circuits without having previous education in neuroscience or similar areas.

Very educative

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We've become a very destructive force on this planet and regulating our need for more, might be the only way, we'll manage to survive or most likely just won't.

Understanding the forces that drive our behaviors, is essential, to get these transitions done.
Good book -> would recommend it to anybody.

More people need to read / listen to this book.

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Great book based on some fascinating research. But the authors went a little far when they attempted that they can explain most or all differences between progressives and conservatives solely on the basis of dopamine. There might be something about it but I do think that the matter might be a little more complicated.

Great Book

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An amazing new perspective on behaviour and personality that I have not seen before. I appreciate the disclaimer at the beginning that there are inevitable simplifications and overgeneralizations in this book, however I would have appreciated it if the author would have been more transparent at certain points. Other authors have done a better job at combining scientific rigour with understandability. But I still recommend the book to everyone interested in psychology or neuroscience.

Completely new perspective

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Absolutely amazing the level of detail exposed and the examples that support the science behind.

A revelation of our brains

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I have really like the narrator.
I have the feeling I could study more material in comparison to reading.

Very clear analysis of dopamine

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... but we can change it. And therefore we need knowledge and understanding And this book does a great job in delivering knowledge and understanding. Understand yourself. Understand your neighbor. Understand your community.

We can't choose how we come into this world...

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Explains the world through a new intriguing lense. Well narrated and great to follow along

Comprehensive neuro insights

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For everyone that has love for humanity and its most profound mechanisms. It changed the view that I have of the world inside out.

A must-read book!

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Mostly known information, presented well. Unfortunately the story is mostly US-centric, the Examples will not speak to the world. Most of the second part of the book is highly speculative. and highly questionable.

OK but to US-centric and speculative

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