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You Can’t Always Want What You Like
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Why I Can't Get Up to Hit the Elliptical
Our dumb brains have no automatic method for going after all the effortful, flow inducing pleasures in life. We do experience a cognitive wanting for type two pleasures, but they aren't mesolimbic wants that are triggering this urge to exercise. S as kent put it, we just got to make ourselves do it, which, if you ask me, is a really, really stupid way to design a brain.
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