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 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.