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255: How to Become More Confident and Charismatic in Any Situation | Vanessa Van Edwards

The Genius Life

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How to Deactivate a Queue of Social Fear

A UCLA researcher found that if we label a negative queue, can it deactivate it? Confusion is a form of fear. The moment he instructed participants to label the fear, either say out loud or say in their head, fear, the activation went away. When we know what's coming at us, even if it's negative, it puts us back into control. I think control is actually our antidote to fear.

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