Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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I mean, social pain or rejection, it actually implicates a little part of the limbic system called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, about the size of the end of your index finger.
And we have it so that we're averse to losing something or someone that we love.
Because if we didn't, you know, 250,000 years ago in the middle Pleistocene, you'd wind up walking the savanna and dying alone because you'd be rejected from your tribe because you wouldn't be afraid of rejection.
You wouldn't be afraid of loss.
It's maladapted today to a certain extent, but also when you learn to live with the hyperactivation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, then you get that meaning.
You say, okay, this is why I'm still alive.
This is how I'm actually surviving.
That's, by the way, why you listen to sad music when you're heartbroken, because it puts into perspective that aliveness that's in you right now.
It helps you understand the emotions that you're actually feeling.
You're saying, I want to understand this emotion.
I want meaning.
That's the reason you're listening to Taylor Swift over and over and over again, right?
Yeah, that's the first noble truth of Buddhism.
Well, actually what's inevitable is pain.
So suffering equals pain times resistance to pain.
So that's sort of the right formula.
So suffering is mental suffering, etc., etc.,
equals pain, which has both sensory and affective components.
The sensory pain has to do with inflammation and nerve endings.
It's processed in one part of the cortex.
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