{"id":350167,"date":"2022-01-21T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T18:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=350167"},"modified":"2022-01-21T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:04:13","slug":"internal-vs-external-adrenaline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/internal-vs-external-adrenaline\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNAL VS EXTERNAL ADRENALINE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Better to produce your own <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/17\/i-need-more-adrenaline\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"343702\">adrenaline<\/a> internally, then getting it secondhand or elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, in the world in which we got <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/29\/why-is-porn-seen-as-bad\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"239263\">porn<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/virtual-reality-philosophy\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"278988\">virtual reality<\/a> porn, POV porn, etc., what is the purpose of pursuing women in real life? I say it is a matter of <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/09\/hormones-and-free-will-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"263304\">hormone<\/a> secretion, receiving the hormone signals from the woman, and the difficulty in drama between you and the woman. Because if you are watching videos or images of a woman on a computer, and it is all already pre-recorded, there is actually no interaction between you and the woman. Whereas in real life, if you try to stare or make eye contact with a beautiful woman, there is the <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/21\/how-to-conquer-risk-aversion\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"339030\">risk<\/a> that she will notice you doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is the real joy of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pick up artists, etc \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The joy of the difficulty in challenge of charming a woman and exercising ones personal charm and prowess, rather than the actual sexual act. Imagine an alternative approach in which the goal wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually to bed somebody, but, the joy of just the <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/26\/social-stochastic-resonance\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"293404\">social interaction<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Passive versus active adrenaline <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always thought it to be a bit bizarre how so many people are into sports. But this is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve realized: The reason why people love sports so much is that you put yourself in the shoes of the athlete, and you think you are the athlete, dominating the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when we witness this, we get a huge boost of adrenaline, and uplifting hormones, which we get secondhand from watching the athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, this is all passive. Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it better for you to just play the sport yourself? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better to produce your own adrenaline internally, then getting it secondhand or elsewhere. For example, in the world in which we got porn, and even virtual reality porn, POV porn, etc., what is the purpose of pursuing women in real life? I say it is a matter of hormone secretion, receiving the hormone signals from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ERIC-KIM-sumo-deadlift-one-rep-max-6-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350167"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350182,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350167\/revisions\/350182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}