Post on 29-Mar-2021
Aidan Kearney
5 July 2017
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What were you thinking?
Expectations…
Consequences
Control
• Please don’t let it be me
• I really hope the music doesn’t
stop now
• I don’t know any good jokes
• I hate being put in the spotlight
MALFUNCTION
DYSFUNCTION
Task: Reflection Time
Something that you recently did
that you now wish had happened
differently
Assumption
(self and others)
That you are in control of
what is happening inside your
own head
Why do it?
Misunderstand
Youare
not
ALONE!
Orbito-frontal cortexEmotional thinking;
social behaviourVentro-medial prefrontal cortex
Empathy and compassion
Parahippocampal gyrusFactual memory
Limbic lobeThalamus and amygdala.Survival brain. Reacting.
Emotional memory Anterior cingulate cortexJudgement: good/bad?
The key players
Frontal lobeExecutive functioning;
planning. Your CEO.
Your
inner
Chimp!
Limbic
Frontal
Parietal
CerebellumTemporal
Occipital
The Chimp Model
Honesty
Compassion
Conscience
Law-abiding
Self-control
Sense of purpose
Achievement & fulfilment
Human Thinking
Fight
Flight
Freeze
SecurityParental instinctTroopTerritoryFoodPower & Ego
Security
Parental instinct
Troop
Territory
Food
Power & Ego
Chimp Thinking
Feelings and impressions
Black White
Paranoid
Catastrophic
Illogical
Emotive judgement
Emotional thinking…
Jumps to an opinion
Message
5x
RelayStation
1x
20x
Understanding the rules
…an average blinktakes 0.1 secs
Fight
Flight
Freeze
DRIVES
Security
Parental instinct
Troop
Territory
Food
Power & Ego
USS Montana
Which drives do you see in the Captain’s and
Lighthouse Keeper’s Chimps?
MOTIVATED BLINDNESS
BOUNDED
AWARENESS
TASK : RISK MATRIX
Truths
&
Values
Expectations…
Consequences
Perspective
Control
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