Dr. Shadé Zahrai

You create your contingency plan, your recovery plan.

So that if it happens, you have your steps, you've prepared, you've essentially been there before.

So you don't need to worry about spiraling into overthinking and worry and catastrophizing.

You say, nope, I've been here, I've got my plan.

It's called an implementation intention.

And if you come up with these, if then, you are going to be more likely to achieve that goal, more likely to persist when the roadblock, when the failure comes, and more likely to move towards where you want to go.

We were in the car, like a Rolling Stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.

Yeah.

The brain craves certainty.

The brain fundamentally craves certainty.

And the reason why, when we look at fundamentally why the brain does what it does, its primary function, a lot of people say its primary function is to protect us.

there's a little bit more to it.

The primary function of the brain really is to make sure that the rest of the body is doing what it needs to do while using the least amount of metabolic energy.

So it needs us to function while using as little energy as possible.

And so part of that is obviously protecting you because then if you're in a situation where you're having to deal with something terrible happening, the brain has to put in a lot more effort.

So it will often magnify everything that could go wrong because if it does that, it gives you a sense of certainty.

No, this is going to happen.

You're going to fail.

You're going to fall short.

They're going to laugh at you.