React or Respond: What Am I Trying to Create Here? (Ep. 05)
We all react. A text lands wrong, an email stings, a bill doesn't add up, and before we've understood what happened we're already doing something about it. This week Michael asks Brian about the space between what happens and what you do next.
They start with the body: the clenched jaw, the nervous stomach, the fight-or-flight wiring we all share. Michael talks about how being shot left his nervous system quicker to tip into reaction, and Brian tells the story of leaving a job without letting the reaction decide for him: pulling from savings, keeping a very small circle, and refusing to make…
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