Paul Larache

And if there was some rustle in the bush, your immediate reaction

response was to think it was a threat and act accordingly and if you did that you stuck around and if you didn't you didn't stick around and only the ones that stuck around were able to pass their genes on to the next generation so i try to get people to at least understand that

analogy or metaphor first and understanding that decisions are made in the old brain.

And that again, this old brain, this old part of our brain is very set in its ways because it's arguably been around for 475 million years if you consider the lizard part of our brain.

Yep.

You're absolutely right.

The old brain has a bunch of characteristics that are, again, built in that we have no conscious control over, even though we think we do.

It was built for survival and reproduction.

It was like survive long enough to reproduce.

And then technically your genes were happy because then you would pass on your genes to another generation.

And that's what evolution is all about.

And that's why through evolution, I mean, we're a masterpiece of evolution when you think about it, but almost all of that history of our evolution was in an environment where things like food were scarce.

Things like you just mentioned, status were very important within a tribe.

all of these things were much different.

The world we live in today, when I say today, you could even argue the last 10,000 years since the industrial and agricultural revolutions have kicked in, put us in an odd position.

But like the old brain, for example, it's very, like I said, it's fast and it's simple.

It doesn't want to use much energy because it wants to conserve energy, which suited us well at one point.

So it likes to make really fast decisions.

It doesn't use much wattage.

It likes familiarity because it's resistant to change because it doesn't want anything that's considered to be out of the ordinary.