Amy Cuddy
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 28 Aug
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when something reminds you of that traumatic event, that sort of neural pathway gets activated.
And all of the feelings that went with that trauma that happened when you were 12 are now being activated when you're 40.
And they're not helpful to you now, right?
of survive when you were 12, but not now.
So, you know, I think that we...
I'm sensitive about this because people have just endured enormous trauma.
And so I don't, some of it you just never get rid of, but not addressing it, I think only shuts us down more and probably makes it harder for us to know ourselves and many others.
Like we become afraid of ourselves.
And that makes it, I think, harder for us to be a good partner in a relationship,
member of society, to be somebody who's helping others.
Well, I think one, I mean, this is just a simple exercise.
So there's this research on what we call self-affirmation.
And I don't mean like in, I don't know if you remember the old Stuart Smalley skits on Saturday Night Live.
He was like a motivational speaker and he'd say like, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
It was daily affirmations with Stuart Smalley.
end, he'd be in a shame spiral.
So he'd be trying to talk himself out of it by saying, I'm great, I'm great, I'm great.
That doesn't really work.
If
Exactly.
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