How Evolution Designed You to Take Risks 🧠

Whenever you are successful in something, the brain says, here's the dopamine, be happy, keep doing this more and more. Versus every time you fail, the brain punishes you by giving you a dopamine negative spike. The dopamine falls, so you experience that as regret or guilt or sadness. So then you will say that I don't want to take any risk. So to offset that, the brain has come up with another network where risk taking gives you extra dopamine spike. So evolution has made this a network to make sure that animals take that risk. Because you are getting a greater dopamine.