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Emotional Intelligence

My Friend Autism

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The Chimp Paradox of Being Yourself

For me, I don't know if I'll ever be able to get myself out of my brain. That's how I think. And then I also think, you know, like the chimp paradox book, the whole human and chimp part of your brain right. Trying to allow the chimp to to express things and have the human part of the brain to still be able to control that is tricky. So there's a great book called thinking fast and slow. The intellectual sort of cognitive brain states are the slow version. It's the emotional side that is the fast gut instinct and so straight away don't even think about it. But if we forget the emotional side of it,

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