The addect also has this a strange mix of autonomy and lack of autonomy rit so when you're relieving the stress, when you're smoking the cigarette, taking the drink, taking the drug, you're feeling great. But thene you don't have it, you're not in control. And then your analytical brain is also saying, this is not good for you. Why are you doing it? How do we fool ourselves in those situations? What's going on there? We sbecause, like often wi talk whipping or with the analytical brain, but that just doesn't matter.
Why do people eat too much even when they don't want to? Why are there so many bad managers? And why might anti-vaxxers be useful? Luca Dellanna, author of The Control Heuristic, thinks the answers to all of these questions are in our heads, or rather in our basal ganglia. Dellanna talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why both brains and employees need immediate feedback, why we're wired to believe our best guesses, and why addiction is just our brain's way of making sure we survive.