Amygdala Hijack
A popular label for the moment emotion overrides deliberation and you react before you think; useful as a name for the experience, not as a description of brain anatomy.
An everyday example
Firing off a furious reply to a client email and regretting it within the hour.
What it can cost you
Actions taken in the seconds before the slower system catches up; provocations designed to produce them.
Warning signs
- I replied before I finished reading.
- I want them to feel it now.
One thing to do
Any reply written in the first ten minutes after a strong emotion is a draft; send nothing until the feeling has changed.
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