Reptilian brain · Threat Response
Acute Alarm Adaptation
Alarms that keep firing without consequence get ignored — the mind lowers their priority until the real one is missed.
An everyday example
Muting the budget alert after twenty false alarms, then missing the month it mattered.
What it can cost you
Blindness to real warnings, and counterparts who cry wolf to produce it.
Warning signs
- I dismiss it without reading.
- The last one I ignored was real.
One thing to do
Fix the alarm's precision rather than muting it; any warning you have stopped reading needs a redesign, not a dismissal.
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