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Mini-Season 1.5, Episode 7: Why Your Brain Rewards Being Right, Not Happy
Rachel goes deeper into the science behind "Why Joy," picking back up on the dopamine prediction accuracy framework from earlier in the mini-season. This episode unpacks the actual neuroscience: Wolfram Schultz's landmark dopamine research, the anterior cingulate cortex as your brain's built in mismatch alarm, the negativity bias that makes bad experiences stick and good ones slide right off, the basal ganglia and how automatic prediction loops get built, and the neuroplasticity that makes rewiring them possible. Rachel walks the ENJOY Method's Joy Macros (Notice, Allow, Share) back through…
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