Welcome to the Brain

Let’s get started with the absolute basics of the brain, breaking it down into three thinking systems. We’ll go deeper toward the end of this week’s content, but let’s wade into this topic by keeping things simple and building a useful understanding of the brain.

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The Three Brain Systems

A useful understanding of the brain requires that we give up the idea that the brain is impossibly complex and instead look at it as a basic set of systems, parts, and pathways.

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The Safety System of the Brain

Learn about the first and most basic system, responsible for keeping you safe, assessing for threats, and kicking you into fight, flight, and stress mode.

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The Reward System of the Brain

Learn about the next, smarter, but still imperfect system of the brain, responsible for desiring rewards, pleasure, peace, happiness, and outcomes.