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Happier-ness with author Arthur Brooks

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

Pleasure vs Enjoyment: Adding People and Memory

This chapter explores the difference between pleasure and enjoyment. Pleasure is a limbic phenomenon that involves the production of dopamine in the brain and the anticipation of reward. Enjoyment, on the other hand, involves the combination of pleasure, people, and memory. By moving the experience of pleasure into the prefrontal cortex, one can remember and experience it in love and communion with others.

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