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Speaking about Anxiety with a Psychology Professor

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The Critical Survival Skill

It's very important for us to be able to read other people. In fact, it's probably the critical survival skill. And anticipating whether someone may be a threat is really a good survival thing. Something that might have been 30 thousand years ago in a primitive society,. orit literally may have meant life for theirs gas. But now we're hering in a functioning society. And if someone doesn't like you, o're not going to kill er thing. If you're prone to anxiety, it is very, very easy to let that primitive impulse dominate. That's why things like mindfulness are so incredibly important. and i did it for a day, and everything became clear.

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