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#92 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Balancing the Brain Budget

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Same Thing Is True for Fear and Happiness and So On

There is no essence of anger. There's no essence of sadness. Instead, what your brain is doing is its making instances of anger that fit the situation that you're in. So it feels good to be angry, to express that anger. But at other times it doesn't. And that's not error in the system. That's a feature of how m the brain, your brain works. The same thing is true for happiness and so on....

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