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4: Why Am I So Intolerant of Pain?
What is the relationship between pleasure and pain? This week Luke discusses this fascinating correlation specifically in the context of addiction and compulsive behavior.
Learn more about how these two emotions can act as opposite ends of a seesaw and how the brain works to balance them out to achieve equilibrium.
Takeaways
Modern society provides an overabundance of pleasurable stimuli.
Pursuing excessive pleasure causes the brain to counterbalance with pain.
Pain is not inherently bad and can lead to growth.
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, addiction, and…
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