How to Stay COOL When Things Heat UP!

 

When things heat up, we can blame the heat—and our reaction—on a little critter.  Our lizard brain!  Otherwise known as the amygdala, it holds emotional memory—fear, anger—and ‘helps’ us react without thinking.  Seth Godin—the author and blogger whose TED Talks are very popular—calls it our ‘lizard brain.’  He says, “Your lizard brain is here to stay.  Your job is to figure out how to quiet it and ignore it.”