When your stress levels are already elevated, your brain stops accurately measuring the size of a threat, it just responds to the fact that a threat exists.
When the brain is pushed beyond its window of tolerance, the rational, thinking part of the brain temporarily loses its ability to check emotional responses. That’s why people say things they regret, make impulsive decisions, or react in ways that don’t reflect who they really are. As Vibe Samurai described, “The situation is small. The reaction is enormous.” Psychology says this is not a character flaw, it is what a chronically stressed nervous system.
Emotion is currency, and we spend it on things that don’t deserve it
Vibe Samurai adds a protip in his reel, where he says, “Emotion is currency. Spend it on everything, and you go bankrupt.”. And according to Dr. Roy Baumeister, the psychologist behind the landmark theory of ego depletion, as cited by the American Psychological Association, “Self-control is not a limitless resource; it wanes as it is used, but it can also be replenished.”
The reel further adds, “One simple rule — if it’s in your control, fix it. If it’s not, let it go.”
