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Anyway, on to tonight's talk, which is on how to pursue worthy goals and enriching paths that will allow us to grow or make necessary changes in our life.

First, unworthy goals the Buddha defines pretty clearly, what he calls the worldly winds that blow

us about most of the time, which is chasing after or seeking fame,

extravagant wealth, seeking approval,

I, people pleasing, and seeking short-term pleasures, being surrounded by things that make us feel good in the short term.

All of these have in common that they are notoriously

triggering of the dopamine reward system,

which is essentially a entire neural process that

fixates our attention on accumulating, amassing, achieving things so that we can get attention,

approval, or central pleasures, and when we're in the hunt it triggers the release of dopamine which is of

course a neurotransmitter that is associated with feelings of power and feelings of security and ease and physical comfort.

And unfortunately the dopamine release is very, very short in terms of its, the length of its rewards.

As short as half an hour one gets that boost of buying something, winning something,

having something we post on social media, get a lot of likes, having somebody, what is it swipe right on us? I don't know.

I think it's being swiped right upon.

You can tell who's never used any of this.

All of these goals of trying to achieve things in the world for that we can

accumulate like wealth, fame, approval, objects that make us feel good.

The one thing about, they also have in common

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