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a lot of people have heard about

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dopamine

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as the pleasure molecule and that's one

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thing it does

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dopamine was originally made to make us

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desire

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things that will benefit us

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evolutionarily and reward us when we do

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it so

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eat when you're hungry drink when you're

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thirsty

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reproduction winning competitions these

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are natural things

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your brain develops priorities

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in large part based on how much dopamine

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it's gonna get

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what do you want a hundred dollars or

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what's behind door number two

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there's a good chance what behind door

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number two is like a car or something

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right so they always pick door number

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two that's gonna give you

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more dopamine dopamine doesn't give us

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pleasure for things we

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have it can only make us want more

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once you get it dopamine shuts off

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social media gets you addicted by always

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promising you

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more there's always this sense if i'm

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not on social media

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i'm going to miss out on something i

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need to get more clicks i need to get

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more likes i need to get more friends

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have you ever been kind of scrolling

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through your social media

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looking at these different stories

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looking at these different posts

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and you realize i'm miserable i should

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be doing something else this is boring

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this is making me sad but you can't stop

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because what you're afraid

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of is that there's something down there

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that might be important

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there's something down there that might

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give you more might make your life

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better

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and so you just can't stop and that's

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dopamine

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what's the worst thing that could happen

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with this the danger is that it's no

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longer a tool

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to make your life better it becomes a

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sink

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where it absorbs all of your time all of

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your focus

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all of your energy and everything else

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around it shrivels

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so you stop paying attention to the

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people in your life because all you're

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worried about is getting more dopamine

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off of social media

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that's right what are the consequences

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of us

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being addicted to social media instagram

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twitter texting snap what is the worst

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long-term consequences we could face

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with this well

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how about the end of the human race you

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think so yes

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tell me why we've got so much amazing

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cool stuff we've got all kinds of things

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we can buy

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we've got all kinds of things we can

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experience

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something's got to give what is it that

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we're giving up for all of these things

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the answer is children once an economy

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reaches a certain point of prosperity

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the members of that economy lose

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interest in reproducing

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all of the developed nations have a

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negative population growth rate

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in order to keep the human race going

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each woman needs to have

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2.1 children two children to

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replace her and the father and one to

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replace

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people who die before they have a chance

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to reproduce

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in all developed countries the birth

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rate is less than 2.1 percent

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even in developing nations uh we're

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seeing this happen

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uh it's falling and falling and falling

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we don't have a solution there are some

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countries where they're not paying

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people

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to have children and even that's not

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working as we get

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more and more gadgets that attract our

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attention

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they become substitutes for family

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and ultimately the human race is simply

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going to collapse unless something

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changes