Building Mental Hygiene with Zak Williams
I Weigh with Jameela Jamil
The Effects of Digital Overcrowding on Our Brains
Our brains haven't updated to what modern day life being in danger looks like, right? We kind of still have a very old-fashioned brain that thinks that when we send something... So an example is you can see lots of negative comments or negative tweets that say direct it at you. It can trigger a similar response to if your life was in danger thousands of years ago. Your brain can't operate that there is a difference on the level of threat necessarily because your stress hormones have already been released. And you feel like you are in fight or flight now just from writing on a phone that you can turn off.
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