<p>An Eye for an Eye - would the animals we eat, eat us? Impossible Hats. Box Hill Picnic, from Jane Austen’s <em>Emma</em>. Dangerous Questions, where the danger is yours, not your opponent’s. This is what insomniacs get up to at 3am while you are sleeping.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/">Kent Berridge</a> coined the term <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incentive_salience">incentive salience</a>. When dopamine runs hot, everything arrives pre-lit with significance. The creativity wasn’t a symptom - it was genuine creative product on the “this matters” signal.</p><p>A <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path">desire path</a> is a trail worn into the landscape by human feet. Not planned. Just walked so many times it becomes permanent. Some of mine are still here.</p><p>Also: the duck question has a better answer than you think. And the horses are <em>not</em> going to like it.</p><p><strong>Music:</strong> Tony Anderson, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/one-perfect-sunset/76352">One Perfect Sunset</a>; Waveshaper, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/our-time-instrumental/59746">Our Time (Instrumental)</a></p><p>If you’d like to help support the podcast, you can do so via <a target="_blank" href="http://ko-fi.com/brendadayne"><strong>Ko-fi</strong></a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.patreon.com/brendadayne"><strong>Patreon</strong></a>, or by spreading the word to a fellow knitter.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://brendadayne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">brendadayne.substack.com</a>