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#92 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Balancing the Brain Budget

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Don't Be Anxious or Sad

Do we unconsciously send the message that you shouldn't be feeling when we say, don't be angry or don't be sad? Well, i think that's really complicated. People call that emotional contagion, but it's actually not emotional. What's happening really is that human nervous systems regulate each other. Were we are social animals. We evolve that way. So we have lots of ways that we affect the nervous system of another person. When affect your nervous system in a way and you're not aware of it, your brain's just going to try to make sense of it,. And so it makes sense of it, sometimes as a motion....

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