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#52 Hacking Your Reward System

Minding the Brain

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Rewards for Bigger Things

We anticipate reward when we complete doing something that in ta short term might not be pleasurable, right? You do something difficult in the expectation of a reward later. So running is obviously good for you, as this is great. Your reward system is working as it should. But even these andorpins and no canabanoids, in a way, the're, they're a system that can be hacked. They can be tricked, right? so i think te do games are a great example of this. In many games, you're playing a character and a complex story, and h you know, youre you're trying to complete lots of difficult obstaclesd And studies of gamer show

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