Do You Want to Be Enough?

Key points

Prediction error—being wrong, having insufficient information—is what triggers learning.

Learning is change in your brain, behavior, and the frames available to you for understanding the world.

We can become subject to our own "interoceptive illusions"—we feel what we are expecting to feel.

Our senses open when we're aware that we don't have adequate information.

You've probably seen or heard it on the internet on just about anything hashtagged inspirational: "You are enough."

It can be a helpful mantra in a culture that tells us we need to buy this and accomplish that in order to be worthy.

But it's not necessarily a bad thing to be "not enough," neurologically speaking. For instance, errors—inadequate predictions—are what tell your brain how to adapt for improved perfor