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.