And the more developed the wizard brain, the harder it is to turn off. So, instead you do simpler things more decisively.īut the big difference between you and a child is that your wizard brain is fully developed. Have you noticed that you can't think quite as clearly when you are stressed out, you can't find the words, you revert to shorter phrases and repeat the same actions over and over again? That's because the reasoning centers in your wizard brain are on standby. When you are flooded, your wizard brain is literally turned off. Many of them have the bodies of adults with an under-developed risk assessment center.īut anyway, when a human person feels threatened, their survival instinct puts their brain and body into a high-alert condition that we call being "flooded" because it is triggered from the lizard brain by releasing certain hormones into the bloodstream, specifically cortisol and adrenaline.Īnd these two chemicals raise your heart rate, accelerate your breathing, push blood to your big muscles, and most critically, it severs the connection between these two parts of your brain. This is why teenagers are such bizarre creatures. In women, it usually isn't done developing until their mid-twenties, and in men it usually isn't done until late twenties or even thirty. So lizard brain on the bottom, wizard brain on the top.Īnd the wizard brain develops later. This is the thinking part of your brain, and we like to call it the wizard brain. The upper part of a human brain is what controls all of the executive function like logic, risk assessment, and language. This part of a human brain develops first. Because it's all the stuff in your brain that a lizard also has in their brain.
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