Is money a drug? Your brain thinks so. ·
Aug 07, 2009
Money As A Substitute For Love
The experiment and related ones are described in a research paper titled The Symbolic Power of Money, published in the journal Psychological Science. Combined with earlier work, it maps out a curious connection. As far as your brain’s concerned, money can act as a substitute for social acceptance, reducing social discomfort and, by extension, physical discomfort and even pain.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111579154
This is the underlying premise of positive reinforcement and doing something YOU believe brings value to your life. I do what I love, the money just came later and this premise always made sense to me. The ‘emotional value’ of doing something that will benefit you first and foremost which will provide for you in more ways. It’s not just about money. In this case there’s a social paradigm, but this could affect how we view marketing a lot of things as monetary possession. And yes, I’ll give you 20 bucks and you will feel immediately better, same as if I give you a compliment YOU like. I know you like money because it can get you something. But they also spoke about how the value of a one dollar bill may or will cause an emotionally different state than that of a hundred to different people. Kids don’t care, they just like the green. We care because we need something outside of the scope of money. It’s about doing and receiving something of value to you. Even if it’s a conversation ::)
As far as web design, multimedia, art, math, science to me it’s all the same. Find value in what you deem has value to you. If you feel it’s important to take an hour to get that pixel, take the hour because I’m sure, or at least I hope that in the end there’s a value in learning.
— Zeus ::)
