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104: True Esteem - from Deep Insecurity to Unshakable Confidence with Teresa Quinlan | EQ Emotional Intelligence Expert Coach

The Happy Engineer | Career Success for Engineering Leadership

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The Importance of Available Energy in Career Coaching

When we are emotionally hijacked. We're in that state of fight or flight. Our body physiologically response, so it diverts all blood and energy away from things like rational thinking and into just reaction. The other thing that we have to remember is our brain is like seven, eight pounds of our body weight It's a pretty small percentage of our total body weight but it consumes 20% of our glycogen stores. So when we eat food, our brain takes 20% of what we just consumed for operating. Now, when we are in those challenging situations,. And we are going to move ourselves from a default reaction of being fixed to a growth mindset of being open and expansive.

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