Dopamine makes us unsatisfied, but that is what helps us find balance with pleasure in the here and now. Watch the video to learn why.

Here are a few tips to help if you're trying a dopamine "fast"--starting with changing its name. Wanna live more in the here and now?...

When I wrote "Taming The Molecule of More," I wanted people to learn two things: First, how to fix dopamine-driven problems like...

A tasty beverage.

Shout out to the Tires guys.

Buc-ee's, yes.

Let's live it while we can. I love this song about the here and now from one of my favorite musicians, songwriters, and people, Paul...

Seems a bit of an overreaction but okay. Short on solutions? Use dopamine to imagine the problem as worse. Example: If you’re trying to...

Eagles at Las Vegas Sphere. See it if you can at all.

Rundgren. It's Rundgren.

Hostage situation. By eliminating your feed’s biggest polluters, you change your social media climate and improve your life. How to...

Excerpted from Taming the Molecule of More, Chapter 11: Taming Social Media. On social media, people are abstractions, and dopamine is...

This essay is an excerpt from Taming the Molecule of More , Chapter 11: Taming Social Media. Until social media, it was nearly impossible...

Here's a goal achieved: Eat my way through NYC's Chinatown. Done. A lot of advice about life is entirely true--and entirely useless by...

Shoes still dry. Dopamine gives us the hope that something in the future will be worlds better than what we experience in the present....

When I was a kid in Charleston, Missouri, I wrote plays for my classmates to perform. I had accommodating teachers who allowed it and I...

L-R: Todd Long (brother of author), Kent Northcutt, Greg Northcutt (cousins of author), Author (ready for action) You’re missing out on...

Betty and family. Here's a great article about 96-year-old Betty Parker , who has some powerful ideas about how to live more joyfully in...

The real guys, trying. (Photo credit: NYT) A 2019 article in the New York Times, “How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later,” ...

Well, sure. Here's a quick, easy, and unusual way to help you live more in the moment--in the here and now--and less in the unsatisfying...