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Show 432 - Retrain Your Brain to Make Better Decisions

April 28, 2013


Anna Farmery talks to Dr Marc Schoen PhD about How Your Survival Instinct is Killing You




  • How we must balance survival and discomfort
  • How a new experience can rewire the brain
  • How we have 3 brains not 1 and how we have to undertand about the brain to succeed.
  • How the consumer society changes our brain - it makes us less resilient to discomfort and potentiallly more open to fears.
  • How stress is increased by being more comfortable.
  • Do we self-sabotage? Our need for comfort means we reduce our resilience.
  • Why don't we rely on our logical brain to create better decision making for business? Why does our emotional brain overpower us?
  • How the microwave has changed our level of discomfort and caused us to want instant gratification.
  • The Schoen Breathing technique to reduce stress - for free download email Dr Schoen
  • 15 Ways to manage your comfort zone.
  • Are humans right to run businesses!
  • To manage fear - don't avoid fear.
  • To assess your ability to manage your survival - try this fear/stress questionnaire.

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