5/8 [영어원서] 10-10-10

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1. The forces that undermine rationality in human behavior are many, most of them quite familiar to anyone who's, well, alive.

2. the list goes on. but the result of all these conditions is stress, the ultimate deterrent to rational thinking.

3. When it kicks in, out blood pressure rises, our pulse quickens, and adrenalines rushes through our veins.

4. sometimes these reactions can be all for the good, sharpening our focus and intent, allowing us to act almost superhuman.

5. she had a shattered pelvis.

6. stress much more typically interferes with sound decision making.

7. As stress hormones race throughout the body, they monopolize the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain where complex reasoning occurs.

8. When stress ramps up into full blown anxiety, our misfiring neurotransmittrs can provoke what some psychologist call " close-loop thinking" in which the mind starts to fixate on a single worry, like a song you can't get out of your head.

9. I suspect that just before my 10-10-10 epiphany in Hawaii, my own poor brain, clamoring with the voices of people who had a stake in my life choices, was experiencing exactly such a meltdown.

10. Most people, however, are rescued from stressful indecision by their brain's back-up generator : gut instinct.