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My research lab sits about a mile from where several bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon in 2013.
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The surviving bomber, Zakhar Sarnaev of Chechnya,
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was tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
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Now, when a jury has to make the decision between life in prison and the death penalty,
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they base their decision largely on whether or not the defendant feels remorseful for his actions.
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Tsarnaev spoke words of apology,
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but when jurors looked at his face,
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all they saw was a stone-faced stare.
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Now, Tsarnaev is guilty, there's no doubt about that.
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He murdered and maimed innocent people,
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and I'm not here to debate that.
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My heart goes out to all the people who suffered.
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But as a scientist, I have to tell you
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that jurors do not and cannot detect remorse or any other emotion in anybody ever.
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Neither can I, and neither can you.
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And that's because emotions are not what we think they are.
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They are not universally expressed and recognized.
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They are not hardwired brain reactions that are uncontrollable.
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We have misunderstood the nature of emotion for a very long time,
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and understanding what emotions really are have important consequences for all of us.
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I have studied emotions as a scientist for the past 25 years,
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and in my lab, we have probed human faces by measuring electrical signals
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that cause your facial muscles to contract to make facial expressions.
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We have scrutinized the human body in emotion.
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We have analyzed hundreds of physiology studies involving thousands of test subjects.
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We've scanned hundreds of brains and examined every brain imaging study on emotion that has been published in the past 20 years.
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And the results of all of this research is overwhelmingly consistent.
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It may feel to you like your emotions are hardwired and they just trigger and happen to you,
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but they don't.
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You might believe that your brain is pre-wired with emotion circuits,
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you know, that you're born with emotion circuits, but you're not.
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In fact, none of us in this room have emotion circuits in our brain.
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In fact, no brain on this planet contains emotion circuits.
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So what are emotions really?
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Well, strap on your seatbelt, because ...
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Emotions are guesses.
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They are guesses that your brain constructs in the moment where billions of brain cells are working together.
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And you have more control over those guesses than you might imagine that you do.
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Now, if that sounds preposterous to you or kind of crazy,
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I'm right there with you,
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because frankly, if I hadn't seen the evidence for myself,
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decades of evidence for myself,
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I am fairly sure that I wouldn't believe it either.
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But the bottom line is that emotions are not built into your brain at birth.
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They are just built.
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To see what I mean,
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have a look at this.
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Right now, your brain is working like crazy.
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Your neurons are firing like mad,
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trying to make meaning out of this so that you see something other than black and white blobs.
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Your brain is sifting through a lifetime of experience,
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making thousands of guesses at the same time,
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weighing the probabilities, trying to answer the question,
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to answer the question, what is this most like?
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Not what is it, but what is this most like in my past experience?
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And this is all happening in the blink of an eye.
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Now, if your brain is still struggling to find a good match and you still see black and white blobs,
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then you are in a state called experiential blindness.
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And I am going to cure you of your blindness.
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This is my favorite part.
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Are you ready to be cured?
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All right, here we go.
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All right.
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So now, many of you see a snake.
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And why is that?
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Because as your brain is sifting through your past experience,
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there's new knowledge there, the knowledge that came from the photograph.
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And what's really cool is that that knowledge,
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which you just acquired moments ago,
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is changing how you experience these blobs right now.
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So your brain is constructing the image of a snake where there is no snake.
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And this kind of a hallucination is what neuroscientists like me call predictions.
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Predictions are basically the way your brain works.
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It's business as usual for your brain.
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Predictions are the basis of every experience that you have.
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They are the basis of every action that you take.
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In fact, predictions are what allow you to understand the words that I'm speaking as they come out of my ...
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.. mouth.
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Exactly.
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Predictions are primal.
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Right?
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They help us to make sense of the world in a quick and efficient way.
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Your brain does not react to the world.
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Using past experience, your brain predicts and constructs your experience of the world.
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The way that we see emotions in others are deeply rooted in predictions, right?
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So to us, it feels like we just look at someone's face
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and we just read the emotion that's there in their facial expressions the way that we would read words on a page.
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But actually, under the hood, your brain is predicting.
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It's using past experience based on similar situations to try to make meaning.
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This time, you're not making meaning of blobs,
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you're making meaning of facial movements,
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like the curl of a lip or the raise of an eyebrow.
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And that stone-faced stare?
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Well, that might be someone who is a remorseless killer.
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But a stone-faced stare might also mean that someone is stoically accepting defeat,
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which is in fact what Chechen culture prescribes for someone in Zakhar Tsarnaev's situation.
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So the lesson here is that emotions that you seem to detect in other people
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actually come in part from what's inside your own head.
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And this is true in the courtroom,
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but it's also true in the classroom,
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in the bedroom, and in the boardroom.
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And so here's my concern.
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Tech companies, which shall remain nameless,
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well, maybe not, you know, Google, Facebook ...
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.. are spending millions of research dollars to build emotion detection systems.
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And they are fundamentally asking the wrong question,
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because they're trying to detect emotions in the face and the body.
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But emotions aren't in your face and body.
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Physical movements have no intrinsic emotional meaning.
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We have to make them meaningful.
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A human or something else has to connect them to the context,
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and that makes them meaningful.
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That's how we know that a smile might mean sadness,
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and a cry might mean happiness,
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And a stoic, still face might mean that you are angrily plotting the demise of your enemy.
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Now, if I haven't already gone out on a limb,
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I'll just edge out on that limb a little further
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and tell you that the way that you experience your own emotion is exactly the same process.
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Your brain is basically making predictions,
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guesses that it's constructing in the moment with billions of neurons working together.
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Now, your brain does come pre-wired to make some feelings, right?
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Simple feelings that come from the physiology of your body.
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So when you're born, you can make feelings like calmness and agitation, excitement, comfort, discomfort.
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But these simple feelings are not emotions.
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They're actually with you every waking moment of your life.
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They are simple summaries of what's going on inside your body,
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kind of like a barometer.
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But they have very little detail,
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and you need that detail to know what to do next,
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what do you do about these feelings.
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And so how does your brain give you that detail?
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Well, that's what predictions are.
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Predictions link the sensations in your body that give you these simple feelings with what's going on around you in the world,
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so that you know what to do.
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And sometimes those constructions are emotions.
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So, for example, if you were to walk into a bakery,
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your brain might predict that you will encounter that delicious aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
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I know my brain would predict the delicious aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies,
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and our brains might cause our stomachs to churn a little bit to prepare for eating those cookies.
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And if we are correct,
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if, in fact, some cookies have just come out of the oven,
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then our brains will have constructed hunger,
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and we are prepared to munch down those cookies and digest them in a very efficient way,
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meaning that we can eat a lot of them,
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which would be a really good thing.
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You guys aren't not laughing enough, I'm totally serious.
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It's a really ...
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But here's the thing, that churning stomach,
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if it occurs in a different situation,
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it can have a completely different meaning.
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So if your brain were to predict a churning stomach in,
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say, a hospital room while you're waiting for test results,
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then your brain will be constructing dread or worry or anxiety,
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and it might cause you to maybe wring your hands or take a deep breath or even cry.
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Right?
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Same physical sensations, same churning stomach, different experience.
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And so the lesson here is that emotions which seem to happen to you are actually made by you.
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You are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits,
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which are buried deep inside some ancient part of your brain.
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You have more control over your emotions than you think you do.
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I don't mean that you can just snap your fingers
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and change how you feel the way that you would change your clothes.
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But your brain is wired so that if you change the ingredients that your brain uses to make emotion,
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then you can transform your emotional life.
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So if you change those ingredients today,
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you're basically teaching your brain how to predict differently tomorrow.
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And this is what I call being the architect of your experience.
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So here's an example.
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All of us have had a nervous feeling before a test, right?
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But some people experience crippling anxiety before a test.
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They have test anxiety.
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Based on past experiences of taking tests,
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their brains predict a hammering heartbeat,
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sweaty hands, so much so that they are unable to actually take the test.
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They don't perform well, And sometimes they not only fail courses,
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but they actually might fail college.
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But here's the thing.
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A hammering heartbeat is not necessarily anxiety.
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It could be that your body is preparing to do battle and ace that test.
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Or, you know, give a talk in front of hundreds of people on a stage where you're being filmed.
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I'm serious.
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And research shows that when students learn to make determination,
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energize this kind of energized determination instead of anxiety,
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they perform better on tests.
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And that determination seeds their brain to predict differently in the future,
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so that they can get their butterflies flying in formation.
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And if they do that often enough,
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they not only can pass a test,
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but it'll be easier for them to pass their courses,
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and they might even finish college,
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which has a huge impact on their future earning potential.
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So I call this emotional intelligence in action.
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Now, you can cultivate this emotional intelligence yourself and use it in your everyday life.
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So just, you know, imagine waking up in the morning.
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I'm sure you've had this experience, I know I have.
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You wake up in the morning,
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And when you're merging into consciousness,
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you feel this horrible dread,
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you know, this, like, real wretchedness,
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and immediately your mind starts to race.
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Right?
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You start to think about all the crap that you have to do at work,
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and that mountain of email,
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which you will never dig yourself out of, ever.
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Right?
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And the phone calls you have to return,
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and that important meeting that you have across town,
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and you're going to have to fight traffic to get there,
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which means you're going to be late picking your kids up,
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and your dog is sick,
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and what are you going to make for dinner?
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What is wrong with your life?
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What's wrong with my life?
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That mind racing is prediction.
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Your brain is searching to find an explanation for those sensations in your body that you experience as wretchedness,
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just like you did with the blobby image.
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So your brain is trying to explain what caused those sensations so that you know what to do about them.
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But those sensations might not be an indication that anything is wrong with your life.
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They might have a purely physical cause.
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Maybe you're tired, maybe you didn't sleep enough,
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maybe you're hungry, maybe you're dehydrated.
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The next time that you feel intense distress,
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ask yourself, could this have a purely physical cause?
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Is it possible that you can transform emotional suffering into just mere physical discomfort?
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Now, I am not suggesting to you
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that you can just perform a couple of Jedi mind tricks
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and then talk yourself out of being depressed or anxious or any kind of serious condition.
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But I am telling you that you have more control over your emotions than you might imagine,
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and that you have the capacity to turn down the dial on emotional suffering
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and its consequences for your life by learning how to construct your experiences differently.
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And all of us can do this,
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and with a little practice,
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we can get really good at it, you know, like driving.
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At first, it takes a lot of effort,
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but eventually, it becomes pretty automatic.
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Now, I don't know about you,
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but I find this to be a really empowering and inspiring message.
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And the fact that it's backed up by decades of research makes me also happy as a scientist.
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But I have to also warn you that it does come with some fine print,
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because more control also means more responsibility.
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If you are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits,
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which are buried deep inside your brain somewhere and which trigger automatically, then who's responsible?
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Who's responsible when you behave badly?
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You are.
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Not because you're culpable for your emotions,
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but because the actions and the experiences that you make today become your brain's predictions for tomorrow.
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Sometimes we are responsible for something,
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not because we're to blame,
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but because we're the only ones who can change it.
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Now, responsibility is a big word.
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It's so big, in fact,
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that sometimes people feel the need to resist the scientific evidence that emotions are built and not built in.
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The idea that we are responsible for our own emotions seems very hard to swallow.
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But what I'm suggesting to you is you don't have to choke on that idea.
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You just take a deep breath,
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maybe get yourself a glass of water if you need to, and embrace it.
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Embrace that responsibility, because it is the path to a healthier body,
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a more just and informed legal system,
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and a more flexible and potent emotional life.
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Thank you.
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