Alex Hutchinson is a science journalist, former physicist, and an author. Why are humans wired to explore? We’re naturally drawn to the unknown, but that curiosity can sometimes lead us off course. So how do you design a life that channels exploration and dopamine in the right direction without going too far? Expect to learn why humans are drawn to explore and what the neuroscience behind exploration does to us in, the truth as BS behind dopamine and how to design your life to maximize dopamine, how uncertainty plays into our drive to explore, if curiosity and exploration are the same, the importance of play, what separates the elite athletes compared to the average person in terms of mental capabilities, and much more…
Mentioned Books
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Can people become too addicted to dopamine is that something that you've seen. You know that there's a really interesting book by Anna Lemke dopamine nation which really gets into the. Addictive elements of dopamine and I.”
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
“I wrote a book about endurance in 2018. And this is not intended as a gratuitous plug for that book. But the book did well. And it was the culmination of about 10 years, let's say, of really focusing on the science of endurance, really narrowing and narrowing on an ever-decreasing specialty. And it did well enough…”
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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