Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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472 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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I spent three hours this morning, you know, driving to this big meeting in Pennsylvania.
And the whole time I was story spinning something that happened two weeks ago.
That is not a personality flaw.
There is nothing wrong with you.
This is part of the nuts and bolts of being human.
It is part of what separates us from animals, in fact, and it makes us human.
It is simply a survival response gone wrong.
Your brain is trying to protect you.
It just doesn't know when to stop.
And this really goes back to our evolutionary biology.
When just sitting around the communal fire, if people were whispering or...
elbowing each other and laughing at you across the communal fire, that was a very dangerous proposition.
Why?
Because across evolutionary time, social ostracizing was a predictor of physical activity.
Physical harm.
You could be set at the edge of the tribe.
You could be harmed by Meridian tribes.
You and your gene pool, which we care a lot about, might not receive the good meat or the good tubers, or you could be at the mercy of the elements.
So over time, our very sophisticated immune systems evolved alongside the recognition of social threat so that when there is social threat, our immune systems perk up and fill us with this cascade of hormones and chemicals to prepare for physical harm.
That is why when we ruminate, we feel so terrible.
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