Self Regulating Behaviors

"i live inside myself with my brain. And so i can understand my own self regulation, regulatory behaviors better than i can understand a dog's," he says. "I'm going to talk about two different behaviors that i regularly have to engage in that require strong self regulation on my part." The first one is waiting in line at the airport; it requires self regulation for him to not aggress other people and get himself worked up into an anxious state. 'The motivating operation at play here is that i would like to get on that airplane, and i have to stand in line'