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Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You
- Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Marc Schoen
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Thanks to technology, we live in a world that’s much more comfortable than ever before. But here’s the paradox: Our tolerance for discomfort is at an all-time low. And as we wrestle with a sinking "discomfort threshold", we increasingly find ourselves at the mercy of our primitive instincts and reactions that can perpetuate disease, dysfunction, and impair performance and decision making. Designed to keep us out of danger, our limbic brain’s survival instinct controls what we intuitively do to avert injury or death, such as running out of a burning building.
Rarely are we required to recruit this instinct today because seldom do we find ourselves in situations that are truly life-threatening. However, this part of our brain is programmed to naturally and automatically react to even the most benign forms of discomfort and stress as serious threats to our survival.
In this seminal audiobook we learn how the survival instinct is the culprit that triggers a person to overeat, prevents the insomniac from sleeping, causes the executive to unravel under pressure, leads travelers to avoid planes or freeways, inflames pain, and due to past heartache, closes down an individual to love.
In all of these cases, their overly-sensitive survival instinct is being called into action at the slightest hint of discomfort. In short, their survival instinct is stuck in the on position…with grave consequences.
Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You can transform the way you live. Provocative, eye-opening, and surprisingly practical with its gallery of strategies and ideas, this audiobook will show you how to build up your "instinctual muscles" for successfully managing discomfort while taming your overly reactive survival instinct. You will learn that the management of discomfort is the single most important skill for the 21st century.
This audiobook is, at its heart, a modern guide to survival.
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- Mark
- 2019-03-10
Interesting Topic. Horrible narrator
The book itself is good if you can get through it. The problem is that it’s read by the author, who is either a robot, or the guy who provided the voice for robots. Siri would have been more enjoyable to listen too. The author’s tone of voice isn’t only dry and boring, but it’s un-natural and even laughable because most of the time he doesn’t emphasize the right syllables.
Audible, please get a proper narrator and re-record this book as the content deserves a much better fate and rating.
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- daniel
- 2017-09-14
why is this not taught in schools
What did you love best about Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You?
such a fundamental yet little taught skill explained so well !!
What was one of the most memorable moments of Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You?
Suffering is what life hands out ... shake its hand
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Life changing lessons
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- steve champion
- 2016-05-24
I have no idea why Authors think they can read...
I got about half way though and wanted to rip my ears off!! Marc Schoen is I'm sure an intelligent fellow however he CAN NOT READ!! Even his own writing...
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- M.
- 2015-10-01
WTF?
Really excellent life changing information read to you by Napolean Dynomite. Vote for pedro. Definitely worth buying though.
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- TCB
- 2013-04-14
Interesting / Poor Reading
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Interesting ideas and well written but the author is better thinker and writer than he is a reader. The audio is stilted and awkward. Very hard to listen to. Wish I had bought the paper version.
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- Jett
- 2019-06-01
some interesting ideas.
this was interesting, and the voice acting was fine, but the whole thing kinda just felt like an advertisement.
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- Bruce S.
- 2019-02-16
Great Book, but...
Really enjoyed the content of this book, and would highly recommend reading it yourself, but the audio was painful to listen to.
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- Carina Roberts
- 2018-04-11
Best Book ever listen to!
Thank you Dr. Marc Schoen for written this Book! Best education I’ve received in 50 Years! Forever grateful!
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- Kittypooka
- 2018-10-23
Not as good as I was expecting
A lot of self promotion. Good tips at the end though. Very slow reading speed.
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