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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

And that's a theory of reward behavior where liking is that pleasure, that hit you get, right, when you put that bite of peanut butter pie in your mouth is that pleasure.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Wanting is the motivation to earn the reward that you get out of having that peanut butter pie.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

You know, you're up in the hotel room.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

They don't have room service.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

But you can get up out of bed and you can get dressed and you can get down the stairs because the elevator is broken and get that peanut butter pie if you want to.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

But dopamine isn't enough to motivate you to get up and go get that peanut butter pie necessarily, even though you have great, great memories of the taste of it on your tongue and you love that stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Yeah, absolutely.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

So it's not actually causing the pleasure.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

It's just influencing how your brain is taking all this stuff in, basically.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

And there are a couple of different ways of looking at how this happens.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

There's one theory called a that it's prediction error.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

So you get you get more bang for your buck.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Basically, you expected to like that peanut butter pie.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

But this was the best peanut butter pie you've ever had.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Maybe the best dessert you've ever had in your life.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

And you're like, wow, that your brain says that was way, way better than I thought it was going to be.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

So it reinforces it.