The more dopamine you seek, the less happy you will be.

Valerij Daniloff
3 min readNov 28, 2022

It is not that I do not have materialistic stuff and lots of money.

It is that I do not have the same need for it as you do.

What do I mean by that?

Money, stuff, and experiences are rewards for most human beings, and most humans need high maintenance.

This is the main reason why people are working their asses off to get capital.

It is so they can buy themselves rewards, and trade them for a moment of feeling good.

What is actually happening is that people who do this are chasing pleasure and pleasurable feelings through rewards to boost their dopamine so that they can feel good for a moment.

What happens, in the long run, is that by doing this through money, substances, fame, socialization, and other forms, the human will deteriorate receptors to dopamine, and so the human must do something “out there” to get more dopamine to get that feeling back.

And so the addiction starts.

More, more, more…

More often, more often, more often…

Faster, faster, faster…

This is why you;

listen to music,

change relationships,

buy chanel goods,

eat candy,

eat broccoli to be healthy,

going for a hike in the forest,

cleaning your room,

go to the movies,

posting selfies,

getting tattoos,

marry,

cheating,

working out and so on....

it is all a pleasure chase for dopamine.

And when you realize this, the need will change by the core,

and when that happens you will become the richest human alive, only doing what is totally effective without a clever need to hide.

You will become what every human on the planet are trying to become.

A fucking living god, without trying or needing to be. It will become you because it cannot do otherwise than being this.

It has no other options!

So, there is no wonder that a man will work harder and harder to get more stuff and pleasurable experiences and do whatever it takes to gain belongings and accumulation.

He has to.

Why?

Because he is a junkie.

Just a peacock trying to show off for a gain of momentary pleasure.

Because he is a pleasure-chaser, trying to inject dopamine through stuff, dominance, substances, self-importance, hierarchy games, capital, and so on.

You are a victim of yourself, and that is a very counter intuitive way to live the one life you got.

Understand this;

The reason for all this hard work and accumulation for possessions, is to attempt to fix something inside.

This is why man seeks dopamine as pleasure, for self-preservation.

And why does he need all this dopamine?

Because life feels like shit to him without it.

And that is the byproduct of self-preservation.

You see, nobody actually needs all of this nonsense, but everybody plays this game and calls it nice things like;

Hard worker,

Smart worker,

Love the process,

Solve problems for others for profit,

bla bla bla…

It is just a game of protecting oneself as a consequence of your biology, experiences, and psychology against the circumstantial game of life.

You will never be rich and happy unless you understand your actual need for this because you will only continue to chase dopamine for pleasure no matter the amount of money, fame, or substances.

This is why a human god can achieve through a coffee cup what you are trying to achieve by accumulate billions and dominance.

One is a fool and the other is a loving master.

You decide who is who.

It is just that all the stupid people think that famous people are successful and happy because of their outer appearance.

And why should they not think that?

They have been sold that story all their life without thinking critically about it for a moment because they don’t have the capacity to do so.

Now, am I saying it’s bad or wrong to be rich and famous?

Of course not.

If that happens through what you do then it does as a consequence.

It is all self-conflict.

But, if you try to get there for a simple dopamine injection for pleasure, you will never arrive where you want.

Because what you really want is to be happy,

and the more dopamine you seek,

the less happy you will be.

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