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#38 Sarah Broadhead - Understanding the Brain and Maximising its Potential
The Sport Psych Show
The Fear System and the Fear System
The worry system, that threat system, obviously the threat comes from fight flight. It comes from the caveman and cavewoman walks out of the cave and sees the saber tooth tiger - they have to be able to act really quickly. But there's the worry system, which is more long term, isn't it? And my understanding, my reading is from the notion that a couple hundred thousand years ago, there would be opposing tribes that we'd have to think about defeating and protects ourselves from. I'm guessing that's where that threat response comes from. You don't want to be rejected because if you're rejected from your tribe, you're not going to survive very long. So
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