Dr. Caroline Leaf

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The School of Greatness · Reduce Anxiety by 81% With This 5-Step Process | Dr. Caroline Leaf · 31 Dec 2025 podcast

So it's think, feel, choose.

It's going to happen pretty much simultaneously.

So there's going to be the, because there's the sensation and it immediately will stimulate think and then feel and then choose.

So the feeling, the think, feel, choose work together to make sense of the physical impact and what it means and if it's threatening or not threatening and all kinds of decisions are made in your mind and it happens super fast.

So it's think, feel, choose, think, feel, choose in cycles, and it's really, really fast.

You know, we talk about 400 billion actions per second, but it's actually 10 to the 27 and faster, which is an inconceivable speed.

So what I've done with my work is to try and understand this, you know, what is a thought and what is memory and what is mind and what is brain and how do they interact and how do they influence and do we have any sense of agency over this process and what does it look like?

Absolutely.

I can certainly try.

So I spent 38 years studying this and I started out in the world of working in more clinical.

I practiced clinically for 25 years.

And I initially started my research in the 80s.

And funnily enough, in the 80s, we were taught that the brain couldn't change.

So all my lectures were around the brain is fixed.

Yeah, so that's it.

You've just got to learn how to work around it and compensate, more of a compensation kind of philosophy.

So I remember thinking in one of my neuroscience lectures that this does not work for me because we're changing and growing as humans.

So I said, no, I'm going to start researching this.

And I was told by my professors, that's a ridiculous question.

And I actually did a TED talk on this, the ridiculous question of neuroplasticity.

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