From the course: Three Steps to Mental Well Being at Work
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Social pain and the brain
From the course: Three Steps to Mental Well Being at Work
Social pain and the brain
- One of the most powerful forms of nutrients for your social brain is what we call your daily dose of Vitamin S. Well, what is Vitamin S? Vitamin Social. One of the sabotages that we have experienced in the past few months of the pandemic, which is a sabotage for our resilience, is social isolation. Now, many of us might think well, yeah, duh, of course. But what people don't know is that how this physically actually alters your brain. I talk about this in my research. The brain is a social organ. The brain evolved as a social organ for that connection and community. Go back again. Imagine yourself going back 10,000 years ago to your survival ancestor time and life becomes pretty brutal. Do you think your chances for survival would increase if you had one other abled bodied person with you to help you survive and make it to the next day, and that person was looking out for you, you're looking out for them? Well…
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