DON’T LET THE REPTILE RUN YOUR LIFE
If you operate from the primitive, survival part of your brain, you can expect to live like a reptile. Reptiles don’t have many friends, they eat flies, they don’t evolve and they feel the cold when the winters of life come around.
Operating from the survival brain gives you more scarcity in the times we are living in. This part of the brain has no empathy for others, a skill that is vital in “value creation.” The reptile isn’t able to reason effectively and it has no concept of time. It’s not a logical or strategic part of the brain, it’s programmed to seek out situations that seem good for immediate survival with as little effort as possible.
Unfortunately it’s easily fooled in these modern times. It’s the ...
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