2025-05-02
37 分钟We can, again, look at things through the lens of biology and say,
well, what are we talking about when we're talking about energy?
What is this energy thing that people are talking about?
And I think it largely boils down to these catecholamines, the dopamine, epinephrine,
norepinephrine cocktail that is setting the brain into a mode of attention, of motivation.
We now know dopamine is more about motivation to seek rewards as opposed to feeling of pleasure or reward.
There's a lot to be said about that.
And keep in mind that these three neurochemicals, dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine,
have been the neurochemical cocktail by which humans and other mammals have set and pursued goals for hundreds of thousands of years.
So we don't have like a unique system,
a unique neurochemical system
for seeking out of mates versus food versus creating shelter versus creating technology and whole societies.
And it's not just these three neurochemicals.
Certainly there are other things involved,
acetylcholine and a bunch of other things, neuroplasticity for that matter.
But it's clearly the case that the currency that the brain has set around getting us into forward center of mass,
as I say, to like envision something, explore.
Nope, not down there, this way.
Ah, there's a scent here.
And trade out an actual scent.