How to Channel Your Emotions in a High Arousal State

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"There are giant structural things that are beyond any one person's capacity to change single handedly," she says. "The mobilizing part is you are the coin in the slot machine. So you can choose where that attention goes or doesn't go." Sometimes it just means having a two second break between the thing you feel compelled to do and the thing that you end up doing, he adds.

The internet can be a wonderful, but also a terribly unpleasant place. Andrew Marantz knows this well. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker who spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls to understand how regular people propel fringe talking points into the heart of online conversations. In this episode, he shares how ideas spread on the internet – and what we can do to make our digital experiences less about doom-scrolling, and more about real human connection. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts