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#119 Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett - Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (That Every Coach Should Know)

The Sport Psych Show

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How the Brain Is Predictive, Not Reactive

Your brain is constantly talking to itself. It's constantly reconfiguring itself into different patterns, ad and many of those patterns involve your motor cortex. Many of those patterns result in actual physical action. Not all of them, but many of them do. Well, so what i'm understanding there is your feeling, your affect, maybe your emotion as well, works will work quicker than your action? Yes, exactly. In fact, this is why in essay four, i talk about how the brain is predictive, not reactive. And meaning, it's not like your brain is sitting around waiting to be stimulated by something in the world,. Then your brain prepares a motor movement, and then you

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