![]() ![]() ![]() "It’s nice to feel clever!" It sure does, especially when there's dopamine involved, a Scooby Snack-type of hormone that makes us feel good as a reward for doing/learning something new. "Learning something surprising can make us feel clever - this is one feature of the internet, in that it makes us feel that we know things that we probably don’t know that well at all," Pritchard explained. While hoping to get into school he spends his mornings at the gym, days working at the zoo and his evenings studying. Partly because it makes us feel good about ourselves. Read More One More By Jeremy DeBottis All Jack Falcone wants to do is be a veterinarian. Still, though, we just can't help but indulge in learning about things that seem utterly irrelevant to our lives. Yes, the practical application of most of this information applies to water cooler chats and awkward 'breaking the ice' moments. The same way we accidentally learned how to make a fire by striking rocks against each other. You know that feeling when you're scrolling through your feed, and suddenly you find yourself deep in a rabbit hole reading about a celebrity's latest feud, or some obscure conspiracy theory, like "Illuminati"? Well, turns out, that's just your insatiable curiosity at work. ![]()
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