Fight or Flight Explained: Understanding how your natural instincts can help (or harm) your career (from the archives)

As human beings, we have natural instincts that help us to survive.  The primal part of the brain (the brainstem, to be technical about it) takes care of these instincts.  You know the brainstem is working because you don’t have to think “breathe in, breathe out” all day to remember to move oxygen through your body.   A…