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100 Day Writing Challenge - Day 7

Death Of 1000 Cuts

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Is Your Brain Trying to Modify Your Behaviour?

There's a slightly obscure side street of nero science that concerns itself with a cognitive process known as erra monitoring. Under this earne model, when you focus on avoiding mistakes while doing a task, your brain tries to modify your behaviour by what they call a basic dip in mid brain dopemen. A quick way to make fewer errors is to take fewer risks, to do less, write, be lessinnovative. You can make fewer errors by just making fewer attempts at the task, by not writing ame.

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