80. The Chimp Paradox by Prof Steve Peters
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How to Deal With a Chimp
Amy could have dealt with the chimp at work and again with her friend, if she knew how to do it. When the chimp did finally settle by becoming exhausted, the blood supply in the brain moved from the chimp to the human. So a chimp pieces together its irrational, black and white and catastrophic impressions, feelings and paranoia, often in a nonsensical way, to draw conclusions and then a plan of action. The human has logical thinking. Under emotional thinking, we can put the following bullet points: It jumps to an opinion,. It thinks in black and white. This is actually how people are known to generally reason on the whole. Usually people actually jump to conclusions and then
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