Your Brain Thinks Your Blog Post Will Kill You
Why your best ideas trigger your worst fears
When Writing Feels Like a Threat: My System 1 Meltdown
How We Quietly Kill Our Boldest Ideas
This article almost didn’t exist.
Not because I didn’t believe in it, but because my brain labeled it too risky to write.
I was fired up about how evolutionary psychology helps explain the fight-or-flight response behind creative f…