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The bottom line is that people in the entertainment industry succeed only if they can titillate, tantalize, and excite your brain. They have to go beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary. They have to find the limits of the familiar and break them. They have to tickle the novelty-seeking centers the nucleus accumbens, the striatum, and the mossy fibers of the hippocampus-in your brain. Only if they achieve this do they succeed.
The Genius of the Beast
Howard Bloom
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. ~CG Jung, “The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche”
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Real play, of the developmentally beneficial sort, involves risk, negotiation, and privacy from adults:[14] the fort or treehouse built to block adults’ view. Instead, Gray warns, we are living through a “play deprivation experiment” in which teachers and parents and therapists endlessly instruct children on feelings and emotions—but rarely afford them the space or privacy to develop the capacities that are the subject of their endless preaching.
Bad Therapy
Abigail Shrier
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