Conatus
Decoding Ambition’s Origin
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Conatus
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Jesse Jorgensen
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Jesse Jorgensen
Why do some people persist relentlessly toward distant goals while others collapse into avoidance, distraction, or paralysis despite wanting the same outcomes? Conatus examines ambition not as a moral trait or personality characteristic, but as the expression of ancient biological systems governing reinforcement, prediction, motivation, and behavioral selection.
Drawing from neuroscience, behavioral psychology, evolutionary theory, and cognitive science, the book traces how the brain learns, prioritizes action, encodes habits, discounts future rewards, and converts intention into behavior.
Across topics including dopamine signaling, reinforcement learning, basal ganglia gating, motor chunking, delay discounting, prediction error, addiction, impulse control, and evolutionary mismatch, Conatus builds a unified model of motivated behavior grounded in neural architecture rather than motivational rhetoric.
The result is a biologically grounded framework for understanding persistence, procrastination, compulsion, self-control, and human drive itself. Listeners interested in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral science, cognition, and human performance will find an integrated account of how ancient survival circuitry continues to shape modern ambition.
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