We don't appreciate the role that our unconscious plays in our lives that we think we're in charge above the neck in between the ears.

If I want to think about an elephant, I can think about an elephant. If I want to plan what I'm going to do tomorrow.

We think that we can decide what we're going to think in our head and nothing is further

from the truth. The vast majority of what goes on inside our heads is outside of our control.

It's the most important things to take place in our heads and we totally don't appreciate it

and we can dramatically improve the quality of our lives

if we gain a better understanding and a better relationship of these unconscious processes.

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life away you. Welcome to Collective Insights. I'd love to welcome you, Dr. Daniel Lieberman,

to homegrown humans. Daniel is a professor of psychiatry at George Mason University. He is the author of The Molecule of Moore, which is a professor of psychiatry at George Mason University.

He is the author of The Molecule of Moore, which is a fascinating book all about dopamine,

as well as his most recent spellbound, which is a treatise on the role of our unconscious.

So Daniel, welcome to home-growing humans.

I reckon we've got plenty to talk about today.

Thanks so much for having me. It's great to be here.

Yeah. So first of all, as many folks that listen to this program and are either kind of members of our flow genome project community or the neurohackerective, which are our partners on this production,

many folks are familiar with neurochemistry, folks are familiar with the roles of serotonin,

oxytocin, and of course the ever fun to talk about dopamine. And you sort of have, you know,

you've come into a field where there's quite a number of folks making, you know, writing books, full length books and sort of debunking, you know, you've come into a field where there's quite a number of folks making, you know, writing books, full-length books, and sort of debunking common myths and

sort of trying to lay out more sophisticated, nuanced understandings of what is this

incentive, reward, pleasures, salience, motivation, drive, novelty engine. What is it about? And so, pleasure, salience, motivation, drive, novelty, engine, what is it about? And so I'm sure this is a

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