Coltan Scrivner

And one of the studies we did found that there does seem to be a sweet spot, a Goldilocks zone for the perfect amount of fear in order for you to have the most amount of fun.

And so it looks kind of like on the X axis, like a one to 10, a Y axis, one to 10.

And on the X axis is how scared are you?

And the Y axis is how much fun are you having?

That it peaks around like seven or eight for most people.

This was, of course, people at a haunted house.

Maybe they have a little higher sweet spot, but about a seven.

But everybody's seven is different, right?

Like what gets me to a seven is different than what gets you to a seven.

But if you know that there is this, it's at the cusp of I can handle this, but it challenges me a little bit.

That's where people thrive in general in life.

If you're trying to learn something new, you tend to want something that's about a seven out of 10 in difficulty as well.

Something that kind of challenges you, but it's not so hard that you're just incapable of making progress.

Yeah.

Same thing with fear, right?

So people like having their fear, like kind of right at the edge of where, okay, it's scaring me, but I'm still able to tell this is a fiction.

I'm okay.

I can handle it.

I can regulate it.

So yeah, there does seem to be this sweet spot of fear and everybody's is about a seven out of 10, but again, every seven out of 10 is a little different.