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This is a topic that deserves much more attention. Sometimes the "stuff" is not the real culprit of our dissatisfaction.
Sometimes, when a bike or a component doesn't resonate with us as we imagined, we feel angry and powerless.
Maybe it's just the realization that the actual results are not as good or as "dopamine-filled" as we imagined them to be.In a couple instances, i retrospectingly realized that the bike was just an empty spot that i felt the urge to fill for the sake of it, and that the problem had really been elsewhere from the beginning.
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@Browndonneur
Lots of relatable posts here. Also worth thinking about whether the idea of a new bike (and the dopamine release comes with all the possibilities) is the mind’s way of getting at something deeper — are we feeling fulfilled in other aspects of our lives etc.