Moment 27 - How To Become The Person You Want To Be: Prof. Steve Peters

The mind isn't one. entity working. So when I ask people about self image, I'm now gonna split the mind a bit. And say What is the self image that you feel you would like to have And that you are aiming to to present to the world. And what's the genetic self image that your mind is giving you and the mind interpreting. Hence I started saying you have this circuitry which is rational and logical looking at the facts, and you have a circuitry which is emotionally based. So it's not logic and emotion.

It's logically based with emotion, and it's emotion based with logic. And we don't control that. So if I try and that's detailed, I'd like to listen to that one again. Is what I'm saying is we have control over the the circuitry, which I call the human circuits, and your self image then might be that I'm a compassionate guy, that I'm a trustworthy person, that I always give a hundred percent. This is what your self image could be. When I discussed it. with you and your circuits are responding.

However. If you've moved the blood supply and oxygen uptake into what I'm calling the chimp circuits, circuits which are quite primitive, but think, you don't have any control over that. So they will generate thinking. And the chimp circus may give a very different answer. Because they're much more likely to be emotional and say how you feel about yourself rather than the reality.

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