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#475 - Tim Clare - The Crippling World Of Modern Anxiety

Modern Wisdom

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Are You a Baby, Are You Afraid of a Stranger?

From the moment you're born, your threat circuits are active. You come out of the womb with sort of like flinch responses to being dropped or pain. A study suggests that we can't start forming coherent autobiographical memories until about two and a half years old. But yet, from really early on, they nim tottenham did a great study in mice where they played them music when they were born. They prefer to go and make their nest when this music was playing. People report doing treers as more stressful than seeing graphic photos of corpses.

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