<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">If you are trying to get a count of nerds in this group you can start with me: big time nerd. (but pretty good athlete) bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:31 PM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>"How active is your nerdy dopamine pathway? If some or all of <a href="https://ipip.ori.org/new_ipip-50-item-scale.htm" target="_blank">these statements</a> describe you, dopamine might well be flowing strongly to your prefrontal cortex:
<ul><li style="text-align:justify">I love spending time reflecting on things.</li><li style="text-align:justify">I am full of ideas.</li><li style="text-align:justify">I have a vivid imagination.</li><li style="text-align:justify">I am interested in abstract ideas.</li><li style="text-align:justify">I am curious about many different things.</li></ul>
<p>Don’t understand why everyone else around you is so interested in
sex, drugs and money, and why you get so turned on by stimulating ideas
and learning new and interesting things? Now you have a potential
answer: You may be highly sensitive to the reward value of information."</p>
</div><div>I suspect most of the people here are cut from this cloth... : )<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-of-nerdiness/" target="_blank">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-of-nerdiness/</a></div></div></div>
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