Dr. Stephen Porges

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that are not generous and not protective.

And then if you start becoming generous and protective, you're treated as a socialist or communist.

So it's really kind of a paradoxical thing as opposed to saying, you know, human beings in general want to be helpful.

In general, they want to solve problems.

They want to generate.

They want to do creative things.

It's only when they are locked into states of threat and fear that the range and flexibility of their behaviors

become extremely predictable and not very compassionate or benevolent.

You, I think you were going to agree with.

Yeah, it was because I took on some roles as, like, being department chairman and running organizations.

And I realized the role of leadership was not to dictate.

but was really to give voice.

Now you have to make the decisions.

But I also realized that most people didn't really expect you to do what they want you to do, but they want to be heard.

And so you can never get the consensus, but you could respect the communication.

So I think you're getting on to a very important point.

And that is we being in the physiological state of fear and anger or defense,

We're just not very open to others.

is it's giving them the mobilization to stay alive because they have not created, let's say, a series of deeper goals or higher level goals.

So acquisition or stuff became how they graded themselves on success.

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