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240. Patrick Sweeney on Turning Fear into Fuel During Challenging Times

The ONE Thing

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The Amidola Is Trying to Hyjack Our Thinking

The midula, that fear center is fully developed at birth. In fact, its developed in the third trimester. So we come out of the woomb with the ability to fight, flight or freeze. And that becomes our default. Our default is to defence. It hyjacks something called the working memory which is in the front of our brain. There's an area called the pre frontal cortex. The pre frontal cortex doesn't develop until we're in our mid twenties. We are not capable of rational decision making when faced with a situation like this. If you step back and look at it as a producer then what you can do is decide where the opportunity lies.

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