And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 159.

It's titled Resilience.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hey there, pod fans.

I'll call you pod fans, because I assume you've found me because you like listening to podcasts rather than finding me first

and podcasts afterwards. And if you are a podcast fanatic, then feel free to register with the

People's Choice Podcast Awards at PodcastAwards.com. They're looking for listeners to nominate their

favourite podcasts and I'm nominated in the health category.

I've added a link on the web page. If you go to Motivateyself.co.uk, you'll see a link to register

yourself as a listener, and you can nominate me as one of your favourites, if you like.

If I am, that is. I hope I am. Please like me. Anyway, how insecure is that? How's your month been? Good, I hope. I'm in one of

those funny positions as a therapist in that if everyone was fine, I'd be out of a job, but that's

not so bad, I guess. Unfortunately, it's probably never going to happen because, well, that's just

not how the brain works, is it?

Our ability to think, whether that's about the past or the future, is a great achievement in evolution,

but that cognitive ability comes at a huge emotional cost.

It's generally believed that there was a change in our human history around 700,000

years ago, with the species known as Homo Heidelbergensis. These were the ancestors of both us

and Neanderthals, ancient ones, and seemed to be the first of our kind to have developed a brain that's as big as ours.

And this was great for them because they were able to begin working together and create that sort

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