Tali Sharot

When you change your environment, it's a new environment, what happens is you are triggering learning.

You need to learn, right?

If I'm now in a new city, I need to learn about the city, like where things are.

If I'm now working on a new project with a new team, I need to learn about the different people, maybe the hierarchies and things like that.

Anytime that you're changing, you actually are putting yourself in a state of learning.

And what's really interesting is that it turns out that learning is a trigger for joy.

There's a wonderful study by two neuroscientists, Bastian Blain and Rob Rutledge.

And what they did is they had people, volunteers, play a game.

And if they played well, they could get money.

And every time the people got money, they were happy, right?

They like money.

But it turns out that they were even happier when they learned something new about the game, especially something that they could use.

So their kind of conclusion was that learning, in fact, brings you more joy than monetary goods.

Thank you so much, Michael.

This was really fun.