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Evolution gave us a survival brain that over-anticipates discomfort.

"Nexting" is Momentology's term for rigid, reactive, future-fixated thinking.

Though we can't eliminate our survival brain, we can learn to walk with it toward what matters.

Anyone remember this toy? "Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down" was the ad copy when these toys arrived on commercials in between Bugs Bunny episodes on Saturday mornings when I was a kid in Ohio. They are my metaphor for the Inner Critic, the inner "drill instructor" of the mind. Here's the thing about Weebles and our Inner Critic thought monsters — they have no arms and no legs! They can't actually do anything in the world!

Look how excited this little guy is, and yet he can't bang any actual drum. You'd have to do it for him. In my........

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