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How sleep, physiology, and psychological safety affect your work performance

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How Does Your Brain Betrays You in Critical Moments?

Gemma, why don't you explain just what happens to our cognitive processing when we're in this kind of flight or flight fight mode that notty just described? You're realy bodam questioned christon ar brains really a prediction or a threat assessent muddelling machine. Gemma: To simplify this, ah e kno, we me stress. We quickly assist. How big of a fight do we have on our hands? Is that baddy, you know, big and meaner than me? And yet wi do this really quickly, and sometimes will concur  we're pretty under resource to face this threat. So i think all of us have experienced this

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