The Thinker: Two Kinds of Happiness —— The Contest between Dopamine and Endorphin

They are dopamine happiness and endorphin happiness.

1, the characteristics of dopamine type are: fast feedback, strong feedback, easy addiction and short duration;

2. Endorphins are characterized by delayed gratification, dullness, profundity and long duration.

Let's go back to primitive times. Suppose you are a cheetah. You can only survive and reproduce by predation.

1. If you eat meat every day, you will experience the happiness of dopamine when you eat meat.

(1) Because you eat this meat, you won't be hungry right away, and the feedback will be quick.

(2) And you long for meat for you every day.

(3) But you always miss hunting.

(4) After you miss it, you have to face the problem of survival-you will have no food and starve for a long time.

2. At this time, natural selection appears.

(1) Selection ability: Whether you can maintain a high level of hunting ability after missing.

(2) The filtered cheetah, once missed several times, will be weak because of hunger, and become devastated and lose its competitiveness.

(3) The selected cheetahs can still maintain a high level of hunting ability because of their own evolutionary talent after they miss, and they can still hunt prey when they are hungry.

(4) This evolutionary talent is that the brain can produce endorphins after a long period of operation, achieving the same effect as eating meat.

(5) In this way, although you missed this time, you feel good, because the hunting process brought you an endorphin experience, so failure did not push you to death.

3. Return to reality.

(1) You are still alive, so you are the winner of natural selection. You must have endorphin-related genes in your body.

(2) Endorphins may not be as strong as dopamine, but they can also bring you satisfaction.

(3) This feeling is like the wonderful balance of body and mind in long-distance running, and it is a flowing experience.

The distribution ratio of cheetah happiness is in line with the laws of nature.

1, cheetahs have to keep hunting hard to get a good meal occasionally.

(1) They spend most of their time experiencing the pleasure of endorphins.

(2) Only when the endorphin happiness accumulates to a certain extent can we experience the happiness of dopamine.

(3) Endorphins are more like labor itself, while dopamine is more like a reward.

If each of us distributes happiness according to this ratio, our life will be full of balance.

1, recalling the past.

(1) Although material conditions are scarce, people's lives are full of laws.

(2) After a hard day, you can have a drink, eat a melon and have fun when you go home.

(3) There is no explosive satisfaction, but life is full of charm.

2. Go back to the present.

(1) In the information age, the amount of information we have in one day may be equal to that of the ancients in several weeks.

(2) We are as happy as fairies without any substantial efforts.

(3) The smell of dopamine is everywhere in life.

3. Our happiness distribution ratio violates the laws of nature.

(1) If cheetahs eat meat with their mouths open every day, do they still need to hunt?

(2) Why are the animals in the zoo less viable than those in the wild compared with their peers?

When the proportion of these two kinds of happiness is out of balance, our spirit is out of balance.

(1) This ratio is engraved in our genes.

(2) If the cheetah's hunting ability is poor, it will be upset and unhappy.

(3) If we just enjoy and don't work, our survival ability will be poor.

(4) When you think that you can only be a mentally retarded person kidnapped by a mobile phone in the future, can you still play with peace of mind?

(5) Five-color blindness, five-tone deafness, five-flavor refreshing, galloping and hunting madness.

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