Arthur Brooks
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first heard Jul 2026
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Affective pain is part of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex that I just talked about a minute ago.
That's the I hate it part.
You get affective pain after you touch a hot stove and you feel the sensory part and then you feel the affective part.
I don't want to do that anymore.
I hate that.
When you have mental pain, it's only the affective portion, which is, by the way, the reason that acetaminophen, you call it paracetamol over here, Tylenol, it affects affective pain.
It doesn't make you feel less pain.
It makes you care less.
That's how Tylenol works.
That's why a blend, when you have physical pain, both Advil and Tylenol work so well together because you're working on both sides of the pain mechanism.
So it's important to keep that in mind.
So that's pain.
And pain is...
Super important.
It's how you learn.
It's how you learn not to do things, etc.
And it's inevitable.
But when you multiply it by resistance, then you understand that suffering is not inevitable.
And that's how meaning comes into the picture.
If you have high, high, high pain, but low, low, low resistance, you can actually have very manageable suffering.
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