Did you know that dopamine also is known as 🎉 a learning hormone? When you learn something new, especially 😀 if it's challenging or you've been 🔥 anticipating it, your brain 🔥 can release 😀 dopamine. 😀 This acts as a reward 💯 signal, reinforcing the behavior that led to the 🤔 learning. I 👍 heard this just 😀 recently, 👍 but it makes sense, in many ways. Some 🔥 of the greatest joy I 😀 have felt, was when I understood new ideas. An even better I experience I've 🔥 had a few times, was when I met 🤔 someone who had a different idea than 🔥 mine, and our two ideas melted into a new, third idea. 🌈 This felt almost like magic. I'm pretty sure my brain was showered in 🎉 dopamine when 👍 it happened. The reinforcement that dopamine 💯 creates can motivate you 🤔 to continue 🎉 learning 💯 or to repeat the 🤔 behaviors that led to the learning experience. It's probably 👍 addictive. I 💯 suspect that one 💯 of 🎉 the reasons why so 😀 many 🤔 kids turn 💯 to drugs these days, 😂 is that 😀 they 💯 learn too little at school. They need dopamine to be 😀 happy, 👍 and when they can't get it naturally, they take drugs to get 🔥 it. If 🎉 you 😀 are aware of any 🎉 research that investigates the relationship 🌈 between lack 😂 of 🎉 dopamine 👍 release naturally as a result of too little learning and 🤔 drug abuse, 👍 let 💯 me 🌈 know.