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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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.Listeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
"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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- Ragne
- 28-12-23
Interesting and inspiring
Opened my eyes to a lot of ways of seing the world and our bevahiour. I'll definitely try to be more observant of my own actions and analyse my thought processes leading to my decisions.
Comfortably listened to at 1.3x
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- Elisabeth Roimata Dacker
- 04-09-21
This book is Dope
Endlessly fascinating and thought provoking. Made me look at my life choices and question how dopaminergic I am.
I will probably listen to this again.
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- Oleks GALKA
- 03-04-21
Dopamine of more
I bought the book and audible after watching valuenterainment on YouTube. I found it very interesting and bought the book. I'm glad I did I learnt so much on dopamine and the effect it causing us.
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- RussH.
- 27-06-23
Fascinating insights
This book explains a great number of human dispositions to life and well worth getting to the end!
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- warren cannon
- 22-12-21
Very engaging introduction to the topic
Narrated well through stories this book gives a good introduction to the topic and helps the listener to understand it’s real world applications.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-07-23
Great book
Great book covering all topics from drugs, politics, happiness, relationships, sociology and success. Very engaging material that keeps you focused without providing too technical details. Learnt a lot and looking forward to reading more about dopamine.
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- Anthony OB
- 25-11-24
Interesting but not entirely
This book details much in terms of how a single neurotransmitter shapes our individual and collective behaviours. However, the author lost me when he got to the chapters on political leanings and ideology. I'm not disagreeing with the author, I don't have the data to support an argument. However, I did find this aspect of the book a bit tiresome. I instinctively challenge the notion that liberals have a "type of intelligence" that offersmore to offer society,
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- Toby
- 25-09-22
An excellent insight!
I really enjoyed this book - a great balance of science and real life experience. I got to the end and definitely wanted more!!!
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- Siril Witsø
- 09-07-22
excelent book
Informative yet interesting and entertaining. The voice was engaging, still calm. I will listen to this book again! Highly recommended.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-09-21
Very interesting book
lots of evidence and studies used to back up theories, worth a listen I think
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