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this subject has not changed how I feel at all. You can know every note of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, yet still reel with excitement every time you hear it.”
You can’t hurt Beethoven’s music by analyzing it, nor can you hurt love in my opinion.
Said Patrick:
“Practically speaking, you keep dopamine flowing by having an exciting job that you love, doing new, novel, and exciting experiences with your love one (travel to new places,
eat exotic foods, and take classes together), continue to expand your own personal horizons and share it with your love one.”
Patrick is speaking about Fisher’s more optimistic efforts at keeping monogamies together by means of various stimulations to do together or bring back to the relationship. Whereas having other stimulating friends can do the same thing.
But Joao Martins claims:
“The boundaries between what is [Fisher’s] actual research and what are, at best, educated guesses, and at worst mere speculation are very, very thin. This is compounded by the fact that a significant portion of the book does seem to be speculation based on personal experience, interpretation of texts from many
