
The Molecule of More
How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $20.00
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Tom Parks
Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them?
Why is addiction “perfectly logical” to an addict?
Why does love change so quickly from passion to disinterest?
Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?
Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times - and so good at figuring them out?
The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas - and progress itself.
Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more - more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it’s why we gamble and squander.
From dopamine’s point of view, it’s not the having that matters. It’s getting something - anything - that’s new. From this understanding - the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it - we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion - and we can even predict those behaviors in ourselves and others.
In The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—And will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, George Washington University professor and psychiatrist Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Georgetown University lecturer Michael E. Long present a potentially life-changing proposal: Much of human life has an unconsidered component that explains an array of behaviors previously thought to be unrelated, including why winners cheat, why geniuses often suffer with mental illness, why nearly all diets fail, and why the brains of liberals and conservatives really are different.
©2018 Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD, and Michael E. Long. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Publishing by arrangement with BenBella Books.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"One might consider it Freakonomics for the mind."— Greg Roth, "The Idea Enthusiast"
"Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long have pulled off an amazing feat. They have made a biography of a neurotransmitter a riveting read. Once you understand the power and peril of dopamine, you’ll better understand the human condition itself.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and When
"Meet a molecule whose fingerprint rests upon every aspect of human nature—from desire and drugs to politics and progress. Lieberman and Long tell the epic saga of dopamine as a page-turner that you simply can't put down."—David Eagleman, PhD, neuroscientist at Stanford and New York Times bestselling author
People who viewed this also viewed...


















Amazing book
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It was difficult to stay tuned as I’m aware of a lot of the literature it talks about
But slowly as I went through the chapters I learned a bit more, I really liked the concept of distinguishing control dopamine from desire dopamine for example
When the book established it’s dopamine charters it started to take about the influence over human life in domains like politics and the influence of this way if behaving
This ultimately built up to an awareness of when we’re acting dopamine-aclly and a case for balance and harmony with some good examples of positive things to peruse
Ultimately things came together at the end , the journey was informative, but the moral was almost lost on me until the end
Advocate for balance
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Incredibly useful and important
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The book for 2020/2021!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Lots of New Information
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I will read everything this author has written!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Amazing book!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great Listen
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Knowledge Bomb Overload
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Makes sense of my current behaviors
The author takes complex neuroscience and makes it easily digestible
In the Top 5 books I’ve ever read
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.