HAPPY
BRAINS!
What we’re going to
be talking about today is happy
brains – what our
brains need to be happy and, more importantly,
how we can trick other people’s brains into
being happy.
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A
good place for us to start is to ask, "Why
do we entertain ourselves?"
One reason is that entertainment
changes the channel on our brains.
For instance, when you go to a movie or listen to
music, when you engage in an activity that you
deeply enjoy, you find yourself detached from the
rest of the world. Often we entertain ourselves
to put ourselves mentally somewhere else, in a
place where the concerns of the moment don’t
exist.
How does entertainment do this? How
can we develop applications
that, like entertainment, help people shift their
thoughts from one realm to another, applications that
offer users a chance to enjoyably immerse
themselves in the moment?
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