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Tiago Forte on Intuition, Breathwork & What it Feels like to Have a Second Brain

Curious Humans with Jonny Miller

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The Vagus Nerve Is Like the Alarm Bell or the Sprinkler System in Your Brain

When someone has trauma, the vagus nerve is sort of like the alarm bell or like the sprinkler system in your brain where it shuts down. As a defense mechanism, the very nerve that controls that entire voice producing region just turns off like a light switch. So really, this is why I developed the second brain. When you have a rare illness and it's interesting because rare illness is something like less than one in a hundred thousand or something. But if you add up all the people that have any rare illness, it's like 20% of the population.

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