Neuroception: Why Your Body Detects Danger Before Your Mind Does
You are sitting in a boardroom, or perhaps your home office, and a notification pings on your screen. It’s a short, three-word email from your supervisor: "Can we talk?" Before you have even consciously processed the words, your heart begins to hammer against your ribs. Your palms grow damp. The air in the room suddenly feels thinner, and your mind, the sharp, analytical mind that has carried you to the top of your field, instantly begins constructing worst-case scenarios. You might spend the next hour obsessively re-reading your last three reports, searching for a fatal flaw that doesn't exist.