buzzmerchant

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by buzzmerchant 1y ago
It's interesting you say this, because i've been thinking a lot about Nietzsche's slave vs. master morality, and i feel like we as a culture have to a large extent come to adopt something resembling the former. If this is tru
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by buzzmerchant 1y ago
Thanks very much! You may well be right. Interesting to think about the relationship between agency & intrinsic motivation...
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How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science(erringtowardsanswers.substack.com)
186 points by buzzmerchant 1y ago|39 comments
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by buzzmerchant 1y ago
When i was younger, i had intense bouts of what psychologists call intrinsic motivation. As i get older, this happens less and less – which is a massive shame. I wanted to understand whether there was any good evidence as to what intrinsic
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Intrinsic Motivation: A (relatively very) deep dive(erringtowardsanswers.substack.com)
3 points by buzzmerchant 2y ago|1 comments
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by buzzmerchant 2y ago
Intrinsic motivation is linked to greater wellbeing, greater creativity, greater task persistence, and greater learning. As far as i'm concerned, the more intrinsically motivated we are in our daily lives, all things being equal, the b
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by buzzmerchant 2y ago
I mean, if i went into that kind of detail the piece would be about 200,000 words and include a ton of detail that nobody cares about. I made some judgements about what is interesting and worth knowing and what isn't – and even that ca
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Dopamine: Everything you need to know (and quite a bit more)(erringtowardsanswers.substack.com)
3 points by buzzmerchant 2y ago|3 comments
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by buzzmerchant 2y ago
There are all kinds of widespread misconceptions about what dopamine does and doesn't do. In this post, I attempt to dispel all of them while presenting an up-to-the-minute picture of what we do actually know about dopamine. It's