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the only fear you pay money to feel on purpose
means A sudden wave of intense excitement or pleasurable emotion that seems to ripple right through your body.
from From Old English 'thyrlian,' meaning to pierce or bore a hole — the same root that gives us 'nostril' (literally a 'nose-hole'). A thrill was once something that physically pierced you; over time the piercing became emotional, the sensation of being run through by sudden feeling.
- word origin
- from Old English 'thirlian,' meaning to pierce
- chemical fuel
- dopamine spikes before reward, not after
- sensation seekers
- some brains run lower on baseline dopamine
- the chills
- musical thrills can raise goosebumps measurably
- fear flip
- context turns terror into delight, same physiology
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