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Quieting the lizard brain
Neuroscientists find that when our core beliefs are challenged,11 it can trigger the amygdala, the primitive “lizard brain”12 that breezes right past cool rationality and activates a hot fight-or-flight response. The anger and fear are visceral: it feels as if we’ve been punched in the mind. The totalitarian ego comes to the rescue with mental armo
... See morefrom Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
We become preachers or prosecutors striving to convert or condemn the unenlightened.
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
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Left- brain attempts to control the body or emotions often sound something like this: I need to go to sleep right now; I'm nervous about my meeting at work tomorrow and I don't want to be; I don't have any right to be angry. Perhaps there's a memory you keep reliving and you wish it would go away. Or a feeling of regret you can't seem to change. Th
... See morefrom The No Self, No Problem Workbook by Chris Niebauer
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