Hello, you are listening to the secular Buddhism podcast. This is episode number nine. I am your host Noah Rosheta

And today I'm talking about carrots and sticks

Specifically the fact that we chase carrots and we avoid sticks. So you'll see what I mean in a minute. Let's get started

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So now let's jump into this week's topic. Hey guys. I wanted to talk a little bit today about

well several things but starting out

I watch a show called Brain Games on National Geographic and the first episode of this season talks about the brain, the wiring of the brain and it compares

The way our brain works to a city and it's specifically to London and it kind of shows as a city grows

You know, there's the downtown or the center of a city and then as the city grows it it expands and then you add highways or bridges

Or other suburbs or neighborhoods and the idea here was that no matter how big the city gets

The downtown is still the same. That's the old part of the city the buildings are generally older

The streets are laid out in a way where that's just how they are they're not gonna change and

It talks about how our brain is very similar in the sense that

As our brains have evolved there are aspects of how our brain works that are hardwired and

And they're very very old ancient. It's the ancient workings of the brain

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