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TODD KAUFMAN
FEAR: Fictional Events Appearing Real Understandably, if you are stuck with FEAR-based thinking,
you are going to be feeling a great deal of anxiety!
Now: All of this sounds pretty unfortunate if we skim past this way of thinking that allowed us to evolve and become an apex species.
However, this is the very thought process that has kept you alive all of these years. It is your good old amygdala that flushed you full of adrenaline and cortisol in under 1/12th of a second that got you to turn your head in the direction of that car horn, empowering you to sprint out of the way! (Please don’t text and walk!) And likely, countless times, it may well have saved your life.
So, too, it is your amygdala that triggered your stress response going into that big final exam, ensuring your heart was beating a little faster and you were supplying well-
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