Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.

Tea break.

Lunch break.

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,

or time to visit your nan time. on play some other time put your phone down

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What up, everybody.

I'm your host, Max Lugabeir, and welcome back to The Genius Life,

a show where we explore the neuroscience of everything from food to forgiveness and sometimes

vengeance. Today's guest is James Kimmel Jr., a Yale-trained violence researcher, lawyer,

and author of the fascinating new book, The Science of Revenge. And what he reveals is pretty mind-blowing.

The craving for revenge activates the same brain circuits as drugs of addiction. It's not just an

impulse. It's a habit-forming dopamine-driven feedback loop that can quietly hijack your life.

In this episode, you'll discover how to break free from obsessive thoughts about people who've

wronged you using science-backed tools that can actually short-circuit the brain's craving for retaliation.

We talk about how emotional wounds ignite the same pain networks as physical ones,

and how forgiveness, far from being soft, is a neurologically powerful tool for healing.

James also shares his own shocking story about the night he nearly became a mass

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