Why You Keep Doing the Same Dumb Stuff Over and Over

About this episode

The episode explores the unconscious patterns that influence our reactions to emotions like anger and fear.

You ever catch yourself doing the same thing again — same reaction, same argument, same result — and think… why do I keep doing this? Yeah. That's a pattern. And you've probably been running it since you were a little kid. This segment from the live Let's Get Real radio show, Shark and Spanish get into the stuff nobody really talks about — the unconscious patterns that drive how we react when we're angry, scared, or hurting. Where they come from. Why they're so hard to see. And most importa...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Sharkey

Topics covered

• unconscious patterns
• reactions
• anger
• fear
• childhood behavior

Keywords

• patterns
• reactions
• emotions
• anger
• fear
• childhood
• behavior

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