is saying to you that this is a matter of life and death and you need to run away. Therefore, by thinking emotionally, it has a catastrophic reaction in order to make you safe; the reality is that it is not life and death but the Chimp does not know this. So when you are about to get up and speak, the Chimp, for many of us, is typically going hysterical and saying, ‘What are you doing? This is a terrible danger and you are walking straight into it. You may lose your life.’ If you, the Human, try to reassure the Chimp then it still comes back at you with, ‘What if I look stupid?’, ‘What if I
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