From the course: Leadership through Feedback
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Getting to know the primitive brain
From the course: Leadership through Feedback
Getting to know the primitive brain
- Do you know what your brain's primary focus is? Survival. Think of your brain like a radio tower but instead of scanning for aircraft and weather formations, it's scanning for threats to your safety. It's constantly asking, am I safe? And then responding to what it believes to be the answer. When something hits your senses and is perceived as a threat, your body changes its physiology to respond to that threat. Which is great if a car is speeding toward you and your body diverts its resources to instinctively make you jump out of the way; but it's not so great when your brain perceives feedback as a threat and shuts down your rational thinking. In this video, I'll help you understand the brain science behind why this happens and how you can get things back on track if your primitive brain takes over. First, you need to understand the relationship between the amygdala and the fight or flight response. When the stakes are…
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