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| Portrait of the author as a young dweeb. |
I'm also someone who has grown more interested and evangelical about certain aspects of the mental arts and sciences, which has led me to my professional Plan B: I'm training to become a life coach, hoping to work particularly with writers.
This blog mainly will track my interest in matters of the mind, touching on psychology, layman's neuroscience, my own cluelessness, etc. I'm particularly interested in fear, which I've come to realize plays a huge and under-appreciated role in our lives. One theory is that, physiologically, there are only two real emotions -- fear and lack of it. Everything else is interpretation.
The blog's title refers to that little chunk of neurons that runs the show, fear-wise. And runs us, to a much larger measure than we might care to acknowledge.
A happier thought is that our big ol' prefrontal cortex give us a mighty tool for putting fear in perspective and managing the role it plays in our lives. I'm particularly drawn to Albert Ellis and his basic cognitive, rational-emotive approach. I think there's a lot of power to be had from learning to look at what you're afraid of, talk back to it, create inner messages that more accurately reflect reality than what the lizard brain is shouting about.
I think it's a hell of trip to dig deeper into one's mind, and I hope this blog will provide some travel suggestions.
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