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Neuroplasticity: Rewiring Your Brain to Drift Less, Stress Less and Take More Command of Your Mind with Ben Ahrens

The Great Man Within

CHAPTER

Neuroplasticity - How to Predict What Happens When the Phone Rings

"I started to realize that, you know, maybe my brain has made an association in some way between that ringing phone, that sound, and this threat response," he says. "So I'd pick up the phone in that panic state." He writes: "Obviously, I would under serve the person on the other end because I wasn't in an optimal state" The key here is that the brain and body don't just respond to what's happening, they respond to what you anticipate will happen - called anticipatory secretion of chemicals.

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