This episode is educational in nature. Toxicologist Prof. Dr. Robertas Badaras says that the best way to get dopamine and serotonin is through activity, hobbies, and creativity. In rehabilitation, people do exactly that — they replace quick rewards with more stable and meaningful creative activities. Slowly building and consuming, in every sense, is better. Why does modern society choose to fill inner emotional emptiness through the fastest path?

Why have dopamine and serotonin become the “currency” of our time — a quick reward that we want to repeat again and again? And why is patience today not just a virtue, but a condition for survival? In the podcast Beyond Economics and Back, Prof. Dr. Robertas Badaras and the president of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), Elena Leontjeva, discuss what helps a person grow instead of break. When fast choices are tempting, but only the long path leads to real freedom.