Deepika Chopra

And of course, everybody, most everybody raises their hand.

I'd love to win the lottery.

And there's always a couple that are, I don't want to win the lottery.

That's very rare, but no, I'm not going to participate.

But for the most of the audience, people are all raising their hands.

And then I ask, if you bought a lotto ticket this morning, keep your hands raised.

And very few times are any hands still held up, but there are a couple.

The majority of people's hands quickly go down and there's some chatter.

And I think it just makes perfect sense.

It's not a surprise.

If your brain does not expect something to occur, and that could actually be a likely possibility, it doesn't put forth the attentional capacity or prefrontal cortex starts

turning on to give you solutions, to start taking actions, to put you in a place where you're actually likely to make this one want into reality or materialize it.

And so you can want to win the lottery, but if you don't expect that you're going to win, you're most likely not going to buy a lottery ticket because it seems like a waste of energy and time.

And so that makes a lot of sense.

And it honestly is part of our brain working in the right way.

It's an efficiency process.

And

We have a limited attentional capacity.

It cannot tend to everything.

So it prioritizes things that it can actually expect to occur.