The release date for the English version of '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' by
Daniel Z. Lieberman is Aug 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Why, after we achieve our desires, do we become bored instead of obsessed?
For an addict, why is addiction "perfectly logical"?
Why can love go from passion to apathy so quickly?
What makes some individuals ardent liberals and others staunch conservatives?
Why do we always have hope for answers, even in the most difficult situations, and are we so adept at finding them?
Dopamine is the one molecule in your brain that holds the key to the solution. Dopamine was essential to early man's survival. It is the origin of our most fundamental cultural beliefs and behaviours, as well as progress itself, even after thousands of years.
The neurotransmitter dopamine is responsible for insatiable cravings for goods, excitement, and surprises. It is unaffected by morality, fear, or emotion in the pursuit of these goals. Dopamine is the brain chemical responsible for all of our desires. It's the little piece of biology that pushes a contented spouse to risk all for the excitement of a new romantic partner or an ambitious business professional to give up everything in the name of success. In short, it's the reason we search and find; the reason we thrive. However, it's also the reason we waste and gamble.
Dopamine believes that possessing something is not important. It's receiving anything new, anything at all. We may comprehend in a whole new manner why we act the way we do in relationships, business, addiction, politics, and religion by knowing the distinction between having something and expecting it. We may even forecast these behaviours in ourselves and others.
The book The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Fuels Creativity, Love, and Sex—and Will Decide the Future of Humanity, was written by Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, a psychiatrist and professor at George Washington University, and Michael E. Long, a lecturer at Georgetown University, make a possibly game-changing suggestion: There is an unconsidered component to much of human existence that explains a variety of behaviours previously assumed to be unconnected, such as why winners cheat, why geniuses often experience mental illness, why almost all diets fail, and why liberal and conservative brains are really different.