What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
Updated and Revised
David DiSalvo
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Chapter 1
- Neuroscience research is revealing that the state of not being certain is an extremely uncomfortable place for our brains to live: The greater the uncertainty, the worse the discomfort.Dec 11 2022 8:12PM
- What this tells us is that the brain doesn’t merely prefer certainty over ambiguity-it craves it. Our need to be right is actually a need to “feel” right. Neurologist Robert Burton coined the term certainty bias to describe this feeling and how it skews our thinkingDec 11 2022 9:22PM