Is it Smart to Follow Your Gut?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In the previous episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discussed the brain functions involved in judgement, particularly from a negative point of view. However, there are many instances in which judgement is crucial, whether in social situations or for safety reasons. But should you always listen to your gut? Learn the difference between judgement for discernment or discrimination, and positive thinking vs. accurate thinking.
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| 0:49.4 | Welcome back. We are talking about judgment this week and the last episode we talked |
| 0:54.7 | about judgment in the brain, but in this episode I actually want to talk about |
| 0:58.7 | judgment why we have it and how it actually can serve you because it's not all bad or we wouldn't be able to do it right as a species we've we have this ability to judge so there's a side of judgment that is |
| 1:10.8 | discernment and then there's the part of judgment where it goes |
| 1:13.9 | too far like we talked about in the last episode where it becomes destructive. |
| 1:17.5 | Judgment for discernment is very different than judgment when it comes to being very harsh about an entire group of people. |
| 1:25.2 | So judgment for discernment means, hmm, should I go that direction? |
| 1:29.2 | That person over there is that safe for me to go. |
| 1:31.4 | You see, you know, you see a group of men and you're a woman and |
| 1:34.0 | it's dark and it's an alley should I go that direction that's discernment. There's a |
| 1:38.0 | big difference there. And I also want to talk about one thing. So often women are taught. |
| 1:45.3 | Oh, don't be judgmental. |
| 1:46.4 | Be nice. |
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