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Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work
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Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work

by Mark Bowden
March 2013
Beginner
290 pages
5h 36m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work

Index

Acceptance stage

Adams, Douglas

Adrenaline rush

Advice

Affective disorder

Aggressive behavior

Alphas

Altruistic management

Amini, Fari

Amygdala

Anger

Annoying people

Anxiousness

Apathy

Apple Computer

Appreciation

“Approach” or “avoid” responses

Artificial intelligence

Assumptions

Attachment

Attraction

to annoying people
exchange theory and
to familiar types
noticing
patterns of
persona theory of
pheromones and

Automatic response

Autonomic nervous system

Availability

AWE question

Balanced ecosystems

Bandler, Richard

Barclays Bank

Beatles

Beauty

Beliefs

changing
conflicts and
decision-making and
evolutionary theory and
of tribes

Bernard, Claude

Best-fit thinking

conflict and
emotions and
managing
moods and
sexual attraction and
unpredictability and

Best friends. See also Friendship

Betas

Binary thinking

Biodiversity

Blame

Blink reflex

Body language

Brain stem

Brainwashing

Burnouts

Cadbury, Adrian

Cadbury-Schweppes

Cannon, Walter B.

Carlin, George

Catastrophic predictions

Categorical responses

Categorization

Change

adapting to
anger and
discomfort with
fight-or-flight response
freezing instinct and
homeostasis and
irritability and
stages in
as threat
in tribes

Changing one’s mind

Childhood

Choices

Churchill, Winston

Clarification questions

Classifications

Cleese, John

Cloning

Closed hearts

Collectivism

Comments

Communities

Complements

Concerns, of tribes

Conflicts

best-fit thinking and
disagreement
impulsive behavior and
in relationships
values and beliefs and

Confusion

Conscious ...

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