White Board Series (Audio): Anxiety, Why the Brain Hates Change & Chooses Habits

From the Spectrum: Finding Superpowers with Autism by Ryan Sumner

Episode notes

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsQIJUPgQ4&t=15s

Part 1: https://youtu.be/uKa3wzpRoxQ?si=57tk2tO14VNVdzcp

Change is metabolically expensive, so the brain avoids it.

See the show notes from episode 1 of the Internal Calculators and Motivation for previous links.

In this episode, you can learn:

  • Why your brain hates change — and will fight to keep you stuck in the same patterns
  • Anxiety decoded — it’s not random… it’s your brain calculating cost, uncertainty & c ... 
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