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The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Second Cognitive Quirk

Our minds seem to work on two different and completely separate tracks when it comes to processing information. The first track, the belief track, is pretty rational. But we also have a second track that Tamar Krasund calls the A-leaf track. Our A-leaf system allows us to get benign masochism happiness from all kinds of situations our belief system knows are imaginary or totally fake.

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