DOPAMINE: DESIRE DISGUISED AS PLEASURE - Beyond the Scroll: Neuroscience, Pleasure, and Transformation
This is not a self-help recipe book with instant solutions, though the irony lies in the fact that it speaks precisely about dopamine, that molecule fed by immediacy. What follows is not magic nor a quick formula: it is, rather, an uncomfortable invitation-like someone turning off the music in the middle of a party to ask you if you truly enjoy dancing.
We live in a time where urgency is mistaken for importance, and where a notification can weigh more than a face-to-face conversation. In this setting, dopamine dictates the rhythm: fast, capricious, addicted to the "now." Against it, pausing becomes an act of resistance. Listening to one's own silence, rediscovering authentic desire, inhabiting presence... these are radical gestures of self-care, almost subversive in the age of infinite scrolling.
This book does not intend to convince you to renounce pleasure. That would be as absurd as asking a river to stop flowing. The real question is another: Which pleasure do we choose? The immediate and fleeting, like candy that disappears in seconds, or the deep and nourishing, like wine that matures with patience?
Nor is it about demonizing technology. The phone is neither villain nor savior: it is a stage. We are the ones who decide whether we act as conscious performers or as puppets of the algorithm.
If you are here, you probably sense that something doesn't quite fit. That there is another way of living-less rushed, more honest, and above all, more your own. This journey does not seek to make you an ascetic or have you throw your smartphone into the river. It simply seeks to help you discover how you work, what truly moves you, and how to reconnect with what matters.
Because sometimes, the first step toward well-being is not running toward something new, but stopping. Pausing. And listening to what emerges in that silence.
