Curiosity Cures Addiction
Curiosity Cures Addiction Instead of relying on willpower, the brain makes choices and forms behavior based on a built-in, primitive, reward-based system called reinforcement learning. Whenever the brain has a choice, it gravitates toward the more rewarding option. By intentionally bringing awareness and curiosity to any action, you upend the reward value of a habit, and in turn, change your response to it. https://www.inverse.com/mind- body/curiosity-awareness- behavior-change/ This can be tied in with: - TED talk about breaking bad habits by being more curious about them, - A toddlers' natural expression of curiosity by asking "Why?" - The "AI Stop Button Problem" (pressing your own stop button becomes a way to hack your own reward system) - The idea of "doing things backwards" in order to slow down to override our brain's tendency to ignore detail to be efficient (ie. reading a paragraph backwards makes it easier to spellcheck it) - The use of...