How Tonic Dopamine Works

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The University of Cambridge and his team they figured out something called phasic dopamine. Now fast acting dopamine is essentially an error signal what you believe is wrong. So pondering when you're surprised thinking it often cost you your life for an opportunity.

In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of neurons and brain structures, and then talk about how surprises often lead to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the different personal narratives that guide our behaviors and motivations and goals, and, perhaps most importantly, our willingness to be surprised again so that we can change and grow.

In the show, you will how we can use the current understanding of how surprise leads to learning, and how learning depends on interpretation, to improve our lives, and the lives of others