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#332 Laurence Gonzales- The Art and Science of Managing Stress in Extreme Situations & Overcoming Adversity

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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How Does the Hippocampus Work?

The brain wants to simplify everything. By the time she was one year old, Cece knew how to identify all dogs. Once you make the mental model, you can dismiss the world and go about your business. So this leads to systematic errors. For example, if CC grew up with friendly dogs all around her, she might think that all dogs are friendly because she has this mental model of what a dog is. And we're all familiar with these automatic actions like serving a tennis ball,. hitting a golf ball, pitching a baseball. But we do not so well at understanding our automated system.

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