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331. Paul Zak — Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is Pain Added to Your Life?

I want to prepare you for that experience. I want to give you enough neural bandwidth where you can actually be fully present for that. That anticipatory part of an experience is also valuable to us. We like fictional stories. If it's fiction I have no idea where this is going. But if it's nonfiction I sort of know about electromagnetism and I kind of know about Maxwell and Faraday. And so part of the kind of the formula lay out the book to have an extraordinary experience is what I call staging.

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