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543: R. Douglas Fields | Understanding Why We Snap
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Lizard Brain
The threat detection mechanism in your brain is highly sophisticated. It has to be like any threat detection mechanism or burglar alarm system. But the kind of response we're talking about, where you'll suddenly engage in a angry or aggressive reaction, only happens in specific situations. So let's talk about how our brain subconsciously calculates risk,. Because it's clearly doing this so fast that even our conscious brain is largely left out of the decision making process. Hence your bat man moment at the train station in barcelona. Is this what people call the lizard brain? Is that what's going on here?
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