REWIRED: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age with Carl D. Marci, M.D.
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
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Is Understanding Emotional Activation the Key to Cognitive Growth and Learning?
Emotional activation is the key to cognitive growth and learning, right? Exactly. People make the mistake of thinking of humans as rational creatures who are occasionally emotional. We're most rational when we feel safe and secure, right? Because a lot of hijacking people is to make them feel uncomfortable. It takes the frontal cortex, the pre-cfrontal cortex offline to be rageful, fearful, etc. Think of the prefrontal cortex as the arbiter of our executive function,. The conductor in our own personal symphonies.
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