At the very core of all progression-based actions, sits an effort to dopamine balance. In much the same way that one can feel pitted following a ‘doom-scroll’, and beyond elated after winning a championship, the output feeling from the opportunity of dopamine is fully (most often) reliant on the effort in on the action. With equal dopamine, effort makes the difference. Why? Well, it would be better geared to have an antagonist system built in the event that the biologically constrained vessel found a way to ‘hack’ the very system that provokes all manner of progress and procreation. That in accounting for suffering, the lack of it would serve to provoke such progression hormone to be sought after in amidst a context of suffering in such the same exact extent as hormesis: to strengthen.

Meditate.

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