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All desires, whether lust, appetite or collection desire ... are basically controlled by dopamine.

Desire is the underlying mechanism to ensure survival and reproduction, and the medium that drives desire is dopamine, which can produce an impulse of "I want" and thus control our behavior.

It is not enough to understand that dopamine is an "I want" impulse. We need to deeply analyze its working principle, so as to understand human nature and manage our own desires.

From this, I imitated Euclid and summed up ten axioms. Knowing these ten axioms, I can understand almost everything about desire.

Let's explain these ten axioms one by one and see what secrets behind them can help us discover.

As explained earlier in this paper, one of the functions of dopamine is to control our reward mechanism and make us have an impulse of "I want it", which is one of the most important motives.

For example, turn off your cell phone at the moment and see how long you can hold back. During the period of forbearing from watching the mobile phone, the impulse to watch the mobile phone is driven by dopamine.

Because the brain must ensure that we don't make decisions in confusion, we use the amount of dopamine to integrate our impulses and ensure that we can make conflict-free choices.

Finally, the more dopamine, the stronger the feeling of "I want"; The stronger the feeling of "I want", the more we will give priority to this matter.

For example, when a picture of a beautiful woman (handsome boy) and an article of mine pop up at the same time, you will tend to click on the picture of that beautiful woman (handsome boy) first, and then read my article.

There is another revelation that extends here. If you have poor willpower, try to stay away from temptation.

For example, if you can't control the impulse to play with your mobile phone, don't bring your mobile phone when you go out to study, otherwise your dopamine secretion will surge once you see it; Send fewer friends, or it will be basically over for a while, and you will turn on your mobile phone frequently to see if anyone gives you a compliment.

This also explains why you should watch less porn, because if you don't watch it, it will immediately accelerate the secretion of dopamine and make you feel "I want it".

Stay away from temptation, can slow down the secretion of dopamine. In this way, your willpower is more likely to beat dopamine and regain the dominance of your body.

This is why Buddhism will stay away from the world of mortals. Because, once the world of mortals, dopamine is as deep as the sea, and willpower is a passerby from now on.

Christy Chung has a very classic movie "Samsara", which has been translated into Samsara, and some of them have also been translated into Lust, Caution.

The film tells the story of a Taoist priest's struggle with desire. The hero Da Shi lived in the cave without eating or drinking for three years, three months and three days, and became a good Lama praised by everyone. As a result, I caught a glimpse of a beautiful and intelligent Tibetan girl (Christy Chung) after going down the mountain, and my desire was on the verge of falling into the world of mortals. ...

There are two very profound paragraphs:

One is a conversation between a Buddhist monk and a Tadashi: "You often teach me the greatness of Buddha, how to give up his wife and children, the throne, and finally get the Tao." But before he realized it, he had everything, including wealth, status, wife and children, and love from others. Because he once had these things, he can give up everything and finally get Bodhi. I have never experienced the taste of the world since I was a monk. How can we really understand everything we have learned? If I hadn't experienced it myself. "

There is a passage that a Tibetan woman said to tuas: "If you are as eager for Buddhism as you are for me, you can become a Buddha in this life."

▲ "Lust, Caution"

I said the reward value myself, because obviously, different things will trigger different levels of stimulation, which will lead to the difference of dopamine secretion.

And what is the corresponding law that forms this difference? I guess there may be something similar to the reward value. This reward value may be gradually formed in the long evolution of life. For example, for food and apricot love, the reward value is very high.

But some things are not the products of evolution, but only developed in recent years, such as videos, video games, drugs, cigarettes, friends circle ... I guess, although they are not the products of evolution, once we taste the forbidden fruit for the first time, our brains will remember that feeling and give it a certain reward value.

The most terrible thing is drug stimulation, such as drugs, which can directly hijack our brains and promote the brain to secrete high concentration of dopamine, and its stimulation intensity is much higher than other stimuli.

So, don't touch anything with high reward value, such as drugs. Once you do this, the ranking of your entire reward system will be disrupted. From now on, drugs will become the most attractive thing in your life, and everything else will have to be sidelined.

So I never play online games like the glory of the king, Chicken Eating and League of Legends, and I haven't played any games, just to not disturb the ranking of my existing reward system.

To sum up, everything has a virtual reward value. The higher the reward value, the more dopamine is secreted and the stronger the impulse to "I want it".

They will eventually form a ranking of reward values. Try not to touch anything with high reward value, such as drugs, otherwise it will disturb your existing reward value ranking.

The reward value from high to low is probably: drugs > gambling or orgasm > games, videos, novels, friends circle, food > others. (subjective feeling)

The good news is that we are not completely driven by dopamine, and we also have something called willpower.

Driven by the acceptability of willpower, we can still keep our initial heart in this materialistic world; Let's face the temptation of delicious food and still resist eating, so as to maintain a perfect figure; In the age when mobile phones never leave, take some time to study.

But the bad news is that willpower is not endless, it will be used up soon, and it will take some time to recover after it is used up.

Of course, different people have different willpower. But on the whole, willpower is definitely not endless. Therefore, we should save our willpower as much as possible at ordinary times and deal with any chores as soon as possible. Don't keep procrastinating, it will consume willpower.

Therefore, it is best to do what can be done today.

The relationship between willpower and dopamine is the relationship between system one and system two mentioned in Thinking Fast and Slow, and it is also the relationship between elephant and rider mentioned in Elephant and Rider.

When willpower is enough, our actions will obey willpower; When willpower is insufficient, our behavior will listen to dopamine.

Therefore, how to manage our willpower and how to manage our dopamine has become the key to self-discipline.

How to manage your willpower and how to train your willpower can be seen in the book Self-control, so I won't explain it here.

I mainly say that if it is difficult to fight against human nature, we can conform to human nature and make use of it.

For example, when willpower is weak, if it is difficult for us to do those arduous and complicated tasks, because it needs strong willpower as support. But we can do some relaxing, simple and happy time, such as tidying up the desk, sorting out files and dealing with news, and then do those complicated, arduous and boring things when we have strong willpower.

In other words, if you do the same thing repeatedly, the secretion of dopamine will be less and less.

Our desire to do this will gradually decrease.

When neurons receive meaningful new stimuli, the ventral tegmental area of midbrain releases dopamine.

Alert. When the stimulus is repeatedly received, the body will not release dopamine when it is familiar.

-Baidu Encyclopedia

Habituation occurs because only in this way can human beings survive better. We must quickly adapt to the current environment, adapt to new things, and then put our energy into new things. Only in this way can we constantly learn new things and complete new challenges.

Of course, habituation does not necessarily bring about the constant search for new stimuli, but also the improvement of stimulus intensity and frequency.

For example, taking drugs and smoking all increase the intensity and frequency of stimulation. A little dose can meet the needs of addicts at first, but over time, neurons will get used to it. The same dose can not promote neurons to secrete enough dopamine, which leads us to increase the dose and increase the frequency of smoking.

This is a terrible thing, because it leads to the beginning of a vicious circle.

The reward system will give less and less rewards to the same achievements, forcing us to pursue greater success-there is no doubt that this is the key driving force for us to climb all the peaks of science, art, politics and so on. -Chaos Museum

To sum up, out of the need of survival and reproduction, we will like the new and hate the old; For some things, it is reflected in increasing the dose or frequency; Or all three.

For example, for wealth and status, we will tend to earn more money and pursue higher status;

For example, for drugs and cigarettes, we tend to increase the dose and frequency;

For example, for the opposite sex, we tend to be new to the opposite sex. When we are with the new excellent opposite sex, our hearts will become crazy (slaves of genes);

Some of them are comprehensive, such as games and short videos. We need stronger stimulation, faster frequency and fresher content, which is why we will draw a video continuously when watching Tik Tok.

With the repeated stimulation of neurons, the connections between neurons will be strengthened and new connections will grow slowly. This is what neuroscience calls "plasticity of neurons", which is also called "permanent" change of neurons in some places.

In other words, you can basically never go back.

This is a very fatal thing! We said in the seventh and eighth articles that the stimulation of neurons has a very big feature, that is, habituation, which is what we often call tolerance. They are the beginning of a vicious circle. What really causes this terrible thing is the plasticity of neurons, which leads to habitual changes, becoming almost irreversible and getting worse.

For example, in the case of drug abuse, addiction brings about an increase in dose and frequency. But the problem is not big. Quit your job. But because of the plasticity of neurons, it is difficult for us to quit.

Don't talk about detoxification, just think about how difficult it is for us to quit smoking, eroticism, games and mobile phones.

Baidu Post Bar has a forbidden color bar, which is set up by a group of people who are manipulated by eroticism and have permanently changed their neurons, trying to reverse the neurons and change them back. .

Why are they so hard to quit watching porn and crape myrtle every day? Because neurons have changed permanently, which is what we often call addiction.

PS: Of course, I don't advocate not talking about crape myrtle. Lagerstroemia indica can relieve stress. If you keep pressing it, it will consume your willpower. Ziwei is healthy, but don't overdo it! The frequency varies from person to person, and it is quite normal about 1-2 times a week.

Emmmmmm, today is the blogger of personality education.

It seems that the fact is depressing, and it seems that there is an endless abyss behind the door of desire. But as long as you make up your mind, neurons can still be reshaped.

Because article 10 is actually only an extension of article 9. Now that neurons can be remodeled, we can remodel them back to their normal state. It's just much more difficult. In this process, you will feel abnormal pain, consume a lot of willpower, be anxious and very depressed.

The so-called "entropy is easy to increase and entropy is difficult to decrease" is the truth.

But there are still successful drug rehabilitation and smoking cessation, right? Even neurons altered by drugs and cigarettes can be remodeled. What else can't be reformed?