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The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

Playing With Your Negative Emotions

Using the quirks of our mind to hack our negative experiences can give us a lot more joy and happiness. We often get more pleasure from seemingly yucky sensations like fear or pain than we might expect. For some thrill seekers, this might include chasing the unique emotional high of a Carolina reaper pepper. But for the wusses among us, there's our A-leaf track which allows us to get pleasure without any real pain from completely imagined negative experiences.

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