"Now the amygdala is our early warning detector,……" — Peter Diamandis
"Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news."
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131 Quotes by Peter Diamandis
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