Is Dopamine Our Ally Or Nemesis?

 

For the longest time, multiple studies resulted in the same conclusion with regard the chemistry of our brain largely influences our own personality and emotions.  A most recent study added icing to the cake WHEN it found out that one personality trait in us humans is HOW sensitive amd responsive we are to incentives and rewards.  Dude, I'll be the first to raise my hand and scream 'AYE' because without doing a lookup into the lives of any one else, I just need to look deep inside me.  And I'll admit that zillions of times, incentives and rewards that were either tossed OR offered to me like carrots really triggered my 'spikes' and I'm cocksure that is exactly WHAT's been happening to almost anyone of us [except for outliers if there is some underlying 'disorder']📗📙📘

So, is DOPAMINE OUR ALLY OR NEMESIS? Apologies BUT till now, this is hotly debated by researchers because experts claim that some of us are motivated by signals of that 'incentive-reward' stuff and end up pursuing goals WHILE others are NOT.  The reason for that difference?  They argue that it is related to different levels of our responsiveness to DOPAMINE , one of those chemical substances that transmits nerve impulses through our brain💥💥💥

Doing a lookup in recent experiments on us humans, experts have concluded that DOPAMINE is strongly related to the trait some researches coined as "EXTRAVERSION" BUT since then, they translated it for a better appreciation of us layment by tagging it as 'positive emotionality'.  Same studies showed that the higher the level of DOPAMINE or the more responsive our brain is to DOPAMINE, the more likely a person is to be sensitive to incentives and rewards💚💛💜

To convince the doubters, the researchers tell us that the higher our level of DOPAMINE, OR the more responsive our brain is to DOPAMINE, the more likely we will be vulnerable and sensitive to incentives and rewards.  I CAN'T agree less with this.  I have NOT only witnessed these in the one too many competitive sports BUT I'd just like to get back as to how I did succumb to those incentives and rewards WHEN I was offered it many times💧💧💧

Our takeaway:  NOT to spoil things, we got to be wary [if NOT worry] with CHEAP DOPAMINE as it can 'pull our standards' to the lowest'. Imagine if your productivity OR performance OR positivities in life would consistently shoot up and spike each time incentives and rewards are dangled on you!@#$%  It's kind of saying, the more we look for instant fixes, the more we tend to lower our standards to DOPAMINE.  Mind you, there is distraction everywhere.  BUT is that distraction so powerful that we end up letting it take control of our life?  It's like we wake up every morning to live our life on that dreaded default mode  WHERE you DON'T make decisions and instead, you end up influenced to make decisions.  So, is DOPAMINE OUR ALLY OR NEMESIS?  Dude, it's HOW you manage it every step of the way😊😊😊