Jim Penman argues that dopamine surges from drugs, alcohol, coffee, video games, social media, and gambling trap you in cycles that tank long-term happiness. Build it instead through work, family, and activities that matter.
You should avoid the things that give you this burst of dopamine, which is drugs, alcohol, even coffee, video games, social media with all the likes and so forth things, gambling, speculating, all these things push up, give you a dopamine surge, which makes your brain less sensitive so you're less happy long term. The key is not. Is to avoid those things, to live in a very calm, quiet life. Just do the things that are worthwhile, like work and family and so forth, and your brain becomes more sensitive and that just raises your level of happiness.
Rising mental illness and falling birth rates have the same cause, it is this.....
