多巴胺

Dopamine is often thought of as a reward, but Joydeep Bhattacharya, who leads the research group of cognitive and neuroscience at Goldsmiths, University of London, points out that dopamine is really “about learning the anticipation of the reward, and not the pleasure itself. It is primarily released in this anticipation phase. ”

分清楚动力和幸福，多巴胺本是行动力的开关，不是快乐丸。所谓不要浪费人生，就是不要被它架空。

然后呢，“舒适地带”其实就是充分可预期做了这个就会得到那个的掌控感，唾手可得的多巴胺，在这里面又有少量的新鲜感，所以不至于完全厌倦。不宜让生命充满机械行为。