The Power of Meta-Awareness

There's a space between like whatever triggered them and the time when they would normally just lash out or do whatever reactive behavior. They describe that gap as the spark before the flame. And you've done so much scientific research on this. Is it actually that more time is elapsing or have we somehow sped up our cognition of that moment? Yeah, it's really interesting. We're essentially not designed to be consciously aware of our emotions. So when we're engineering or reverse engineering, our ability to notice these emotions as they arise, it's very effortful.

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