Dr. Ethan Kross

I mean, you know, we used to get into fights and pull swords and there is huge, you know, people would invade readily if you go back further and there was the threat of illness and, you know, we weren't living nearly as long. And so I think it's easy to also forget just how far we have come as a species because

But, and this is I think a really important but, and I think about this often, the issues that we are talking about today on this podcast, this question of how we manage our emotional lives, this is a question that we have been struggling with likely for as long as we have been roaming the planet in our current form. Because humans have constantly been evolving new technologies.

But, and this is I think a really important but, and I think about this often, the issues that we are talking about today on this podcast, this question of how we manage our emotional lives, this is a question that we have been struggling with likely for as long as we have been roaming the planet in our current form. Because humans have constantly been evolving new technologies.

But, and this is I think a really important but, and I think about this often, the issues that we are talking about today on this podcast, this question of how we manage our emotional lives, this is a question that we have been struggling with likely for as long as we have been roaming the planet in our current form. Because humans have constantly been evolving new technologies.

We've always been challenged by circumstances. And those circumstances are constantly evolving, providing new threats to us that now we need to learn how to manage. When, you know, when I was digging deep into the history of emotion regulation for SHIFT, I couldn't believe it that when I look back at the first surgical tool ever developed, you know what that is? Trephining. Trephining.

We've always been challenged by circumstances. And those circumstances are constantly evolving, providing new threats to us that now we need to learn how to manage. When, you know, when I was digging deep into the history of emotion regulation for SHIFT, I couldn't believe it that when I look back at the first surgical tool ever developed, you know what that is? Trephining. Trephining.

We've always been challenged by circumstances. And those circumstances are constantly evolving, providing new threats to us that now we need to learn how to manage. When, you know, when I was digging deep into the history of emotion regulation for SHIFT, I couldn't believe it that when I look back at the first surgical tool ever developed, you know what that is? Trephining. Trephining.

So trephination, tell everyone who's listening what that involved.

So trephination, tell everyone who's listening what that involved.

So trephination, tell everyone who's listening what that involved.

Or brain, or if we go back 8,000 to 10,000 years ago when this technology was first cutting edge, right? Like the new iPhone of the times, trephination- For spirits. For spirits. or maybe spirits, right? So one of the reasons it was believed to be used was to allow the evil spirits to escape that are maybe causing tremendous emotion dysregulation.

Or brain, or if we go back 8,000 to 10,000 years ago when this technology was first cutting edge, right? Like the new iPhone of the times, trephination- For spirits. For spirits. or maybe spirits, right? So one of the reasons it was believed to be used was to allow the evil spirits to escape that are maybe causing tremendous emotion dysregulation.

Or brain, or if we go back 8,000 to 10,000 years ago when this technology was first cutting edge, right? Like the new iPhone of the times, trephination- For spirits. For spirits. or maybe spirits, right? So one of the reasons it was believed to be used was to allow the evil spirits to escape that are maybe causing tremendous emotion dysregulation.

So that was a cutting edge tool at one moment in time that we use to manage our emotions. Then let's jump into the mental time travel machine or just the time travel machine and go to the late 1940s where there was another major spike on the emotion regulation innovation timeline.

So that was a cutting edge tool at one moment in time that we use to manage our emotions. Then let's jump into the mental time travel machine or just the time travel machine and go to the late 1940s where there was another major spike on the emotion regulation innovation timeline.

So that was a cutting edge tool at one moment in time that we use to manage our emotions. Then let's jump into the mental time travel machine or just the time travel machine and go to the late 1940s where there was another major spike on the emotion regulation innovation timeline.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

A Portuguese physician develops the lobotomy. I think it was initially called a leucotomy. Essentially, making some holes in your frontal cortex.