From the course: Your Brain at Work (Blinkist Summary)

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Trick your brain into a status reward

Trick your brain into a status reward

From the course: Your Brain at Work (Blinkist Summary)

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Trick your brain into a status reward

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- [Narrator] Blink number nine. We're wired to feel rewarded for increases in our status, and can trick our brains into status rewards. If you've ever gotten a kick out of winning an argument, spent money on clothes from a designer fashion store, or even felt good about meeting someone worse off than yourself, you know that feeling an increase in status can trigger a sense of reward. This is because, when we perceive an increase in our status, we get a positive emotional response. Our dopamine and serotonin levels, chemicals essential to happiness, go up, and our cortisol levels, an indicator of stress, go down. But a sense of our increased status doesn't just make us feel happier. It also improves our ability to think. That's because the high levels of dopamine and serotonin increase the amount of neural connections we can make per hour, which means it takes less effort to process more information. Clearly, having a…

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