Doctor Mike

is actually managing the company, as opposed to the company managing the executive director.

And that's, you're moving the experience of your emotions into your executive center.

And there are lots of ways to actually do that.

Anxiety is a perfect example.

Anxiety is, I mean, they've defined it all sorts of different ways.

It's defined clinically in one way, but a lot of the ways that we in the behavioral science world talk about it is unfocused fear.

So fear is a very specific limbic phenomenon involving the amygdala, obviously, and something actually will stimulate the amygdala to the hypothalamus, to the pituitary glands, to the adrenal glands, and in 74 milliseconds, you're getting stress hormones in your system, right?

Only three or four seconds later, your prefrontal cortex catches up.

You've already jumped out of the way of the car is the whole thing.

That's the way your brain is supposed to work.

But in modern life,

that's not how it works at all.

You know, where you open up social media and your chest tightens and you're starting to get this little scratch on your amygdala and a little drip of the adrenaline and then a little cortisol comes in behind it and pretty soon your life is a mess.

This unfocused fear, this slight unfocused fear all the time.

My students, I have them keep a journal of anxiety by turning it into fear as opposed to trying to get rid of the anxiety.

Don't get rid of your anxiety.

Turn it into what it's supposed to be, which is fear.

And the way that you do that is metacognitively write it down and say, okay, I'm anxious about this thing.

Okay, no, no.

What am I actually afraid of?