405: How to Be Happy in Life & Work: Stop Trying So Hard with Edward Slingerland
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The Power of Cold Cognition
Many times in our lives, we're presenting it with opportunities and our hot cognition kicks up. Your spontaneous response is fear or nervousness or conservatism. What you need to do is exert some cognitive control and get yourself into a situation that's making you uncomfortable. Once you're there, often to then succeed in that situation, you need to then flip the switch and turn the cold cognition off for a little while.
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