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Today on the podcast, I’m sharing one of my favorite, super-practical techniques for shaking your brain out of a spin.
The human brain is an exceptional (if overexuberant) danger scanner.
This means that it sometimes (or often) defaults to negative interpretations — of a colleague’s tone or facial expression, or an interaction with a stranger. This is especially true when the stakes feel high. (Most of us don’t anxiously replay conversations with our best friends. But almost everyone has replayed an interaction with their boss.)
Asking your brain for alternative explanations shakes it out of…
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