Quote by Keith Henson
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with p

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. – Keith Henson

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People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. – Keith Henson

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Family
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The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. – Keith Henson

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Intelligence
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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. – Keith Henson

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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. – Max Born

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Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. – Elias Canetti

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I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success. – Billy Sheehan

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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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