June 2026
Beginner
160 pages
1h 29m
English
book
Calm (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
by Harvard Business Review, Jacqueline Carter, David Maxfield, Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy
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3 Calming Your Brain During Conflict By Diane Musho Hamilton
Conflict wreaks havoc on our brains. We are groomed by evolution to protect ourselves whenever we sense a threat. In our modern context, we don’t fight as a badger would with a coyote or run away as a rabbit would from a fox. But our basic impulse to protect ourselves is automatic and unconscious.
We have two amygdalae, one on each side of the brain, behind the eyes and the optical nerves (together, they are more generally referred to in the singular form, the amygdala). Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, in his book The Body Keeps the Score, calls this the brain’s “smoke detector.” It’s responsible for detecting fear and preparing our body for an emergency response.
When we perceive ...
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