The Surprising Truth About Venting: Why Letting It Out Might Backfire on You
Isn’t it wild to think that beneath all our “advanced” thinking, we’re just wired like a bunch of cave folks — fiercely tribal and constantly mapping out our place in the world without even noticing it? I mean, who knew so much of our brain’s horsepower goes into just figuring out where we stand – both literally and socially? Now, toss that with the age-old habit of venting, and you’ve got a cocktail of neuroscience and human nature begging the question: does letting off steam really help, or is it just another way we make sense of the tribe we belong to? It’s a brainy twist on something we all do, and yeah, it might just change how you think about your next rant. LEARN MORE.We humans are simple in some big, basic neuroscientific ways. Two of them are that we are far more tribal than we are aware of, and that we spend far more of our brain keeping track of where we are in space than we know. Put those two ideas together, and you have an interesting …
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