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How to Overcome Snake Fear
Scientist Gregg downey says we can change our level of fear. It's thanks to a special human gift, the fact that you can talk to yourself in your own head. This is incredibly powerful, because suddenly, if your body's telling you to flee, you can use that little executive in your head to ignore it. And i think, as a species, our evolution depended upon our ancestors not being afraid of things they were perfectly reasonableby afraid of.