How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear | ReThinking with Adam Grant
How to Be a Better Human
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Is Your Amygdala the Threat Detection System?
I think one of the things I found endlessly fascinating was that neuroscientists had found that you had limited amygdala activation in your brain, at least in response to sort of ordinary stimuli. It seemed perfectly natural that my amygdala wouldn't trigger while looking at pictures while laying in a safe metal tube because I'm totally safe. But apparently, you know, the average human responds to images that they see the same way they would an actual threat. So if they see a picture of a spider, it triggers the same thing as if there was a spider there.
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