Hey there, Shankar here.
I'm crisscrossing the country for a series of live shows this summer.
I'll be sharing seven key insights from the first decade of Hidden Brain.
These ideas have made my life better.
I think they'll do the same for you.
Stops on what I'm calling the Perceptions Tour include Clearwater and Fort Lauderdale in Florida,
Portland and Denver,
Minneapolis and Chicago, Austin and Dallas, Boston, Toronto, Phoenix, and more.
To see if I'm coming to a city near you, please visit hiddenbrain.org.
If you've heard my voice for years, it's going to be fun to come see me in person.
Again, that's hiddenbrain.org.
This is Hidden Brain.
I'm Shankar Vedanta.
Human beings are wired to seek pleasure.
We all want lives filled with joy, comfort, and ease.
At the same time, many of us are also curious about some forms of discomfort.
We go on scary rollercoaster rides, eat food so spicy it makes us cry,
and we shriek in terror as we watch horror movies.
Last week on the show, in the first part of a miniseries,
we explored the attraction of some kinds of suffering.