What do you think? What's your strategy to live well instead of chasing the old high?
After enlightenment; chop wood, haul water.
... Does this really apply now when vanishingly few people do either of these ever, much less daily?
the "Mexican Fisherman" story fits in here too.
With great intensity and interest chopping wood (or coding or whatever) can be really fascinating. Without interest most activities are chores.
Oh no, not this again. Dopamine isn't the thing that makes you feel euphoric, that comes from opioids.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/women-who-stray/20...
Are you saying dopamine does not work like this?
This dopamine view is a little oversimplified.
Does is significantly change the argument though? Even if dopamine is not the mechanism, the activities are still pleasurable?
