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#119 Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett - Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (That Every Coach Should Know)

The Sport Psych Show

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The Brain Isn't for Thinking

"The brain isn't for thinking," says sport psychologist Emmett O'Neill. "It's evolved to run the systems of your body in a really efficient way so that you can survive and thrive" The most important thing from evolutions perspective, which is to pass your genes on the next generation,. support that, eh, those offspring to the point where they reproduce as well. And basically, um, you know, taking this perspective allows us to really understand human performance a little differently."

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