WEBVTT - The Seven Deadlies: Wrath 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.680 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:13.840 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.840 My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Once again, 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.880 we are waiting through the tournaments of Hell. Here, yes 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.279 we are. We are what six into our seven Sin 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.440 tour we are, and this time we're going to talk 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.640 about something called wrath. Oh yeah, you know it. Ye 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.199 maybe you all have already felt it today. Were for 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.479 the most part, we're pretty wrathful people. I mean, not 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.879 just us. I've been talking about in general, we're wrathing 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.320 in general. Um, well, we're just talking about this is 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.960 why we we were both d Yogata lamp it down. Yeah, 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.360 humans are pretty rap. I mean the thing about all 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.920 these senses that they are pretty intense in everybody. I 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.319 mean there, That's why there's seven Deadly Sins, because they're 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.520 part of who we are, and from a religious perspective 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.240 that there are things that we want to suppress us 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.440 From just an every day point of view, they're the 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.800 kind of things we want to limit in our daily 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.560 lives because when they get out of whack, they can 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.360 really wreck things up. But then also there's there with 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:10.959 all of them. There's the question of worth of what 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.840 extent is this actually a virtuous is actually a good 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.040 thing and a necessary part of who we are? Right? 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.840 Is there an upside to anger? Really? Right? But um, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.679 I suspect that Dante would looked at Wrath with a 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.120 very unkind eye because I was thinking about all these sins. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.520 This is one that you can, as you pointed out, 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.080 can be really destructive. Yes, And is one is moving 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.360 through Dante's Inferno. And then again this is the medieval 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.920 classic Italian a um writer Dante. And in the tale, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.199 he's guided by his hero Virgil, who is a spirit 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.560 at this point because Virgil died long before in the 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.840 Divine Comedy, in the Divine Comedy, leading him through hell 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.040 because he has to travel through hell to understand it, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.000 and then he has to travel through purgatory, and then 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.080 he has to and then he's going to experience heaven. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.200 But this all starts coming together for Wrath in circle 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.240 five of the Inferno. Interestingly, this is right outside the 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.960 gates of dis okay, the gates of disc Like if 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.160 you think of Dante's Inferno, it's like a big pit. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.680 At the bottom of the pit is the devil and 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.040 then scaling up the sides of this pit are all 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:21.640 these various circles, and it's like dis like to somebody. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.000 And the walls of discs are imagine a circular wall 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.720 that is about you know, maybe not quite halfway but 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.600 maybe a third of the way down into this pit 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.000 that in theory would I guess keep everything else from 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.480 coming back up. This is like the bureaucracy of Hell, 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.919 and it separates the upper hell from the lower hells. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.840 Know that there's bureaucracy in Hell. Yeah, you know what's 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:46.480 telling those is that Dante positions wrath just outside those gates. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.720 You go in the gates, you're gonna start getting into 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.880 what was in Dante's mind and in many medieval commentator's 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.880 minds more grievous sins such as such as violence. That's 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.440 worth noting, and violence may stem from from wrath in 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.400 many cases, but violence is dealt with in the lower hells, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.720 as are the more terrible things such as treachery, heresy. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.160 So wrath is on the cusp of you know, abstraction 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.480 and then actual action. Right. And what's interesting too about 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.640 the way that Dante deals with wrath is in this 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:19.239 circle he includes both wrath and sullenness. Okay, okay, so 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.240 you might imagine, just stereotypically, you might have drunken jocks 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.880 picking fights and bars like those guys are here, as 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.840 are the sullen goths who just felt sorry for themselves. Okay, 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.679 you know, um, he views it as to these is 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.280 two forms of the same sin. Okay, just the great 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.440 unifier to apparently, right, Like, it all comes down to anger, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.560 and in wrath, anger is expressed. It's like I'm feeling angry, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.000 I'm gonna punch something, right, I'm feeling angry, I'm gonna 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:47.800 yell at something and feel like angry, I'm gonna smoke 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.200 a cliff cigarette. Yes, well, well that's that's the other side. Yeah, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.800 because that is the sullenness. That's where anger is repressed. Um. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.760 Some scholars argue that that that really Dante is dealing 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.720 with sloth to a certain extent in the sullenness. But overall, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.040 this is a circle in which the passions of sorrow 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.880 and grief end up ruling the soul. All right, So 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.000 what does it look like when we visit this particular circle. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.920 We find ourselves encountering a muddy swamp Okay, this is 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.200 the river sticks, and there's stick fog rolling across the surface, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.800 and Dante and and Virgil are road across this by flegus, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.080 not to be confused with Charon or to your own, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.320 who rode them across the acorn on the very outskirts 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.880 of help. Okay, so there's a different dude. So they're 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.960 only rolling across this mucky, slimy, awful swamp like I 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:37.120 can't help it, think the bogga maternal stink from from labyrinth, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.920 you know. And as you look down into the swamp, 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.880 first of all, you see bubbles rising up. And the 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.960 bubbles are rising from the sullen. They are sunken down 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:47.960 all the way to the bottom of the They're just 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.240 buried in the slime at the bottom of the river, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.919 the bottom of the swamp. They're chanting their sticks of 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.480 singing mock hymns down there. So that's where the sullen are. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.839 Like that sulfuric bubbles are like bubbling up from from 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.000 all of their pouting right right there. They're drowning down there, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.240 Bubbles rising up for the slight in life. They refuse 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.480 to welcome the light of God, the light of sun. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.160 Spiritual awakenness into their life. So in death they're buried forever, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.400 gargling and endless hymn. So that's the sulent more of 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.360 interest to us, and are the purely wrathful and they 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.359 they'll you'll find them at the surface of the water 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.000 wrestling with each other. So just imagine these naked forms 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.120 driving in the slime like pigs and filth. They're punching 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.840 each other, they're gouging, their clawing, they're biting, and not 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.360 just each other, but some of them are biting themselves. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.840 They're carrying at their own flesh like a really dark 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.880 Abercrombie and Fitch commercial. Yeah, I guess, I guess. Imagine 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.039 their shirtless. Yeah, they tend to be naked in the 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.800 artistic interpretations, then this is This is also interesting because 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.040 Dante ends up seeing somebody he knows, this guy named 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.480 Felippo Argentie, and Dante ends up encountering various people that 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.320 he knew in life. That's what a recurring theme and inferno, 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.240 and it's also a means by which he typical pay 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.120 either show some sympathy for the center or some understanding 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.320 of the scent, and also identifies it in himself. There 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.159 are various debates on who Argentie actually was. There's one 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.680 account that it because Dante was banned from Florence at 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.680 one point, lost his property, and spent the rest of 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.840 his life wishing he could return to Florence. And so 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.240 one idea is that Argentie was somebody who ended up 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.640 purchasing land that had belonged to Dante's family after he 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.719 was driven out, So he, you know, he may have 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.120 had a personal acts to grind here with this individual, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.679 because Dante sees him, He's like, yeah, I hate that dude. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.680 I really would like to see him dunked under these 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.600 waters before we're done here, in verticals like yeah, just wait, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.480 it will happen. And and then the guy like he 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.520 sort of crawls up onto the boat and talks to 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.640 Dante a little bit, but then the other people in 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.839 the swamp end up tearing him apart to this Argentine character. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.680 So do you not cross Dante's what I'm hearing? Yeah, 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.880 but see, but Dante was feeling wrath himself, and so 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.480 this is how he he summons the emotion inside himself. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.080 He's even as he's seeing in this in the torments 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.440 around him. So, so that's pretty much the inferno version 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.320 of wrath. In purgatory, the souls purge themselves of wrath 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.040 and in a slightly different manner. And again purgatory, this 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.280 is the amount of purgatory that rises from Earth to heaven, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.560 that connects Earth to heaven, and it's when Dante eventually 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.520 emerges from Hell. He has to climb this mountain up 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.760 to the terrestrial paradise and then into Heaven. So if 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.800 you find yourself on the terrace where wrath is dealt with, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.200 you'll find that these individuals walking through bick smoke that's 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.800 darker than the night, and they can't see the outside world. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:33.280 They're experiencing hallucinatory visions in which they see examples of meekness, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.400 which is the virtue that is opposite wrath. So you 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.720 see this idea of in purgatory working through wrath. Is 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.120 wrath is this thing that clouds our judgment and clouds 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.480 our views of the world. And I think that's such 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.760 an apt description because when you lose yourself to anger, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.200 that is exactly what it feels like, right. You cannot 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.640 think clearly. All of a sudden you have trapped yourself 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.240 into a corner in the situation and you're trying to 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.960 get out of it. Yeah, it's especially obvious after the 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.240 fact with with you know, the little things that inspire 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.840 our rat you know, we're like, oh, well, this totally 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.160 messed with my schedule today, and now I'm mad, you know. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.400 And then and then you feel afterwards, you're you know, hopefully, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.080 if you have any amount of self consciousness about what 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.960 you're doing and how your mind works, you look back 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.320 and you're like, wow, that was that was ridiculous? Why 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.480 was that upset? But of course in the worst cases, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.920 you know, it just completely. I mean, we end up 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.080 polking out right, we end up harming things in the 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.320 world around us, exactly. Let me hit Buddhism real quick 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.840 before we move into the science though. I mentioned before 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.520 how you have the wheel of stam Sara. This is 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.680 the wheel of life though that you see especially in 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.640 too Betan Buddhism, which shows all the various realms of 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.400 existence in which a life may be born, which you 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.720 can think of in terms of one life to the next, 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.920 like I was bad in this life, so in my 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.600 next life, I'm occupying a harsher existence, or oh I 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.319 was good in this life next life is going to 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:51.760 be better, or you can think of it in terms 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.439 of my emotional state right now is this, and based 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.920 on this emotional state, my next emotional state will be 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.719 something else, you know. So it's like one state and 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.760 form and the other are to were consciousness evolves. But 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.079 at the very center of this wheel you find these 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.000 three poisons which I touched on before. You have a snake, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.160 a pig, and a cock. The snake represents hate wrath, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.240 the other the pig is like delusion and ignorance, and 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.240 the cock is greed that sometimes less, but the snake 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.160 is hate. And that's where we find the center of 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.560 wrath that's moving the whole wheel. That's just full of suffering. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.440 As far as the realms into which one may be reincarnated, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.160 and these are also in the realms that are in 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.439 touch with the way humans feel in the state of 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.719 our own souls. You have the Nakara realm, and this 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.199 is the hell realm, the realm that's more typical of 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.400 something you would see in Dante, full of hatred and 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.520 torment and demons. The hell being was ripping people apart, 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.520 that kind of thing, and that's in the lower realms 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.640 but then in the higher realms you see the Ashera realm, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.600 and this is the room of the Demi gods, powerful beings, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.200 but despite their power, despite their freedom, they're not in 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.360 the chains of Nakara. They're living it up. They're just 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.199 one step below the gods. But they're defined by anger, 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.280 They're defined by jealousy and war, and they end up 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.760 wasting all this freedom and opportunity being on the pursuit 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.440 of power. So when they ultimately die, they live long lives, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.160 but they eventually do die. Then they're born down into 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.760 the lower realms. So you see this interesting extaposition of 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.160 the two states of being. And then of course there's 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.000 the human realm in there, which is a balance of 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.640 all these various realms, so you've also have plenty of 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.040 wrath there as well. Yeah. I think it's interesting that 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.959 the snake is the symbol of that because it is 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.920 sort of you know that you think about the snake 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.599 swallowing itself. I think actually there's a medieval name for this. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.160 It has various names. I can't remember the one you're 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.480 thinking of off hand, where the snake is biting its 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.959 own tail, consuming his own tail. Yeah, yeah, and you 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.160 get into you know, ideas of the world serpent, the 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.400 exactly the organmender. But you know, there's this idea that 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.640 you're inflicting hurt upon yourself, right, and so I think 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.120 it's interesting now to take that knowledge and turn it 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.400 over to what's happening in your brain. Yes, when you're 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.080 suffering about of anger, I guess you could say, oddly enough, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.240 I want to point out that eld dope does not 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.559 show up on the scene here. Yeah, it's been with 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.880 us for so long that I thought for sure that 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.120 it would be prominent in this, but it is not. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.719 It is really a story about the amygdala. Well, I 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.800 mean it's it's probably it's there in the cocktail somewhere, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.080 but it's not playing. No, you're right, you're right. It's 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.599 just it's a it's a base note, or maybe I 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.440 should say it's a top note. It's a fruity top 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.360 note for some people. And we'll talk about that a 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.720 little bit. But yeah, it's a story about the amygdala, 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.959 which helps us to process emotion. We've talked about this 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.440 quite a bit before, and in the case of anger, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.480 it works in tandem with a number of biological responses, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.720 including the release of adrenaline. So it kind of makes 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.240 sense for it because whenever you've experienced anger wrath, I'm 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.920 sure that you've had a moment where you just felt 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.200 a surge of energy. Is that tension energy? That's because 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.280 when we get angry within a quarter of a second, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.559 and magdala can serve up an action inspired by wrath 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.160 if if it weren't for the frontal lobe, because this 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.199 is sort of our seat of reason in this area 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.800 of our brain also experiences a flow of blood and 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.320 attempt to sit there and kind of way the situation 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.840 and the response and altogether this process can take just 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.520 two seconds, right, So if there's a trigger that makes 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.560 you angry, just within two seconds, you could be serving 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.240 up a punch or you could be trying to restrain yourself. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.120 And this is really why people often say, you know, 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.120 count to ten if you're angry, Yeah, because it gives 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.720 you a chance to kind of pull your adrenaline addled 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.640 self together. Yeah. Or if you're one thing that I've 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.560 practiced in the past and also told other people, it's like, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.520 if you if you have that angry email you really 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.240 want to send a go ahead and write the the email. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.360 Don't put the two in the field though, Yeah, don't 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.480 put the two in the field. Maybe just write it 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.280 in the text document, then shut it down and let 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.439 it sit for a while. Industry, Like the next day 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.080 you could go back to that and be like, oh man, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.440 that was just a fool's errand right there. Yeah, well 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.559 what was I What was I doing with that? Yeah? Yeah, 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.559 I can't help but think of it in terms of 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.880 like the amigdala in the frontal lobe is like that. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.200 The amigoala is kind of like the you know, you 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.280 know the classic image of the devil on one shoulder 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.400 and the angel on the other. Instead, they'll imagine like 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.839 a pro wrestler on one shoulder and a and like 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.320 a Buddhist monk on the other, and the pro wrestler 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.600 is the end of the emotional amigdola, and it's it's like, 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.880 go out there, do it, do it, get angry, don't 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.280 take this stuff off anybody, punch right, angry emails, stop around, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.400 huff and puff. And then on the other side you 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.079 you have the Buddhist monk, and the Bodhist monk is like, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.200 let's chill it out, Let's think a lot ofically. Let's 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.840 think calmly about this. But you have to depend on 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.400 that monk having enough energy to put up with the enigdolla, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.240 because sometimes the enigola is going to be all right, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.040 let's do it, let's crack some heads, and then the 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.439 monks like, you know, I'm done, I'm gonna beat here. Well, 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:28.960 you know what, And there's a there's a couple of 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.480 things that could actually weaken your inner monk response. By 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.360 the way, I really like this idea of both of them, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.880 that the monk of the wrestlers are both wearing robes 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.400 in my version that I see on your on your 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.880 shoulders right now. But a couple of circumstances. One is 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.840 you could have sustained damage to your frontal lobe, like 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.080 our poor friend Phineas Gauge. Right, this is a guy 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:54.000 who in nineteen was working on the railroad and when 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.880 he was excavating rock, and he was tamping gunpowder down 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.040 in its drill hole, and there was an ax a 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.640 little explosion which caused the tamping iron he was using 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.600 to thrust itself through his left cheek and out his skull, yeah, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.120 like out his like completely through his head and then 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.319 in the air on the other side they basically gave 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.200 him the frontal of botomy. Yeah. Yeah, and he survived it. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.040 But what happens he became childlike and became bullying, and 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.360 he started to use profanity. Again. This is so this 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.520 guy went from mild manner to like crazy town and 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.560 in a very short amount of time. And they didn't 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.120 understand enough about the brain at the time to really 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.760 attribute that to his accident. Yeah. And by the way, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.320 if you want to hear more about gauge and and 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.880 other things of this nature, we did a podcast to 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.280 Change your Mind the Hard Way where we dealt with 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.680 some of some of these things. Another circumstance is sarotonin. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.760 You serotonin levels. There was a study conducted by the 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.840 University of Cambridge and this was actually reported in a 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:54.360 Science Daily article. They talked about healthy volunteers and what 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.120 they did is they took these healthy volunteers and altered 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.240 their serotonin levels by manip pulating their diet. Because we 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.640 know that your diet can affect the serotonin levels in 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.280 your brain and make you, you know, really sort of 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.080 regulate your mood. Yeah, there's certain foods are gonna behind serotonin. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.960 And if you've ever been to a health food store 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.880 and look around it supplements. There obviously a lot of 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.080 serotonin supplements that are aimed at helping you out with 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.160 your serotonin level. And you know, we've talked about this 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.560 in the past two especially with our podcast on decision fatigue. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.640 Just make sure that you're good enough to eat, you know, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.400 throughout the day, because that really does affect your ability 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.200 to regulate your moods. You are what you eat video, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.720 so are what you think. So the two come together. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:39.360 That's right, mind to think. That's on my bumper sticker 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.040 on my car. So okay. What they did they manipulate 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.920 their diets. On the serotonin depletion day, the volunteers were 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.640 given a mixture of amino acids that lacked tripped a fin, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.680 the building block for serotonin, and on the placebo day, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.400 they were given the same mixture but with a normal 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.240 amount of tripped de fan okay okay. And then the 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.440 researchers scan the volunteers brains using fmr I and as 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.359 the volunteers viewed faces with angry, sad, and neutral expressions, 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.520 and then they were able to measure how different regions 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.920 reacted and communicated with one another. When the volunteers viewed 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.440 the angry faces as supposed to the sad or neutral faces. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.080 So the research revealed that low brain serotonin and make 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.560 communications between specific brain regions. We're talking again about the 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.920 magdala and frontal lobe much weaker. And the finding exactly 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.960 suggest that when our serotonin levels are low and maybe 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.280 really much more difficult for the prefrontal cortex to control 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.800 emotional responses to anger. I mean, this is this is 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.040 a this kind of a dumb moment. But at the 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.320 same time, it's like, yeah, you know what, when I 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.280 was angry, I was really hungry, and I was tired, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:49.000 and I was hungry. Uh, so it makes sense that 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.160 the serotonal levels could affect our mood like that. So 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.040 to put it back in terms of the pro wrestler 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.080 and the monk on your shoulders, in the case of 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.960 Phineas Gauge, the monk was just completely taken out, yeah yeah, 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.240 by by a rod. In the case of the serotonin issue, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.960 the individual hasn't had enough to eat or for whatever reason, 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.240 the serotonin level has dropped and so has the communication 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.399 between the two. So the pro wrestlers on one shoulder 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:13.920 saying let's do it, let's go out there and let's 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.199 kick some butt. I'm not gonna take this anymore. How 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.120 dare they do this to me? And the monk is 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.760 is like yelling across a chasm here um and saying saying, hey, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.040 calm down, calm down, and the pross was like, what 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.840 what's he talking about? And then launches back and well, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.760 here's the thing too. Let's say that you are a 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.719 person who has two pro wrestlers on your shoulder. In 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.320 other awards, you are prone to be more aggressive and 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:40.439 therefore more prone to anger. Your communications between your MICHAELA 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.000 in your preferntial cortex are going to be weekend regardless. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.879 So when you have the depletion, it's much more pronounced. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.320 What's interesting about this and I was reading this experiment 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:51.959 as well, where they then they referred to them as 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.560 short fusers and the Brewders. So the short fusers, that's 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.439 the guy was like, Oh, you took me off. I'm 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.639 gonna punch somebody in the face. Yeah, And then you 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.120 have the brooders who are like, oh, that person really 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.600 made me mad. I'm gonna pretty much be musable the 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.080 rest of the day, which brings me back to thinking 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.679 about Dante with the sullen and the wrathful. So I 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.480 wonder if you could, if you could look at the 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.480 short fusers are the ones tearing each other up and 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.600 punching everyone in the face on the surface of sticks 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.760 the river sticks, And then the brooders are the sullen 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.200 buried in the muck at the bottom, gargling their hymns 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.480 into the flying Yeah, the powders just need to meditate, 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:31.679 and the short fusers just need a sandwich because really there, yes, absolutely, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.760 but really, if you are a short fused person, you 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.600 really are much more sensitive to your serotonin levels, is 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.920 what this is spelling out. So it is very important 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.720 to try to get that sandwich in your belly. Really again, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.199 to simplify it. In fact, they've been experiments where if 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.760 you actually look at the brain and you you scan 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:50.960 it and and you see what's lighting up during these moments 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.080 of wrath or when there's some sort of stimuli that 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.080 provokes wrath, you can see that the difference between short 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.800 fusers and brooders and seconds. The medial prefrontal cortex associated 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.399 with self awareness and emotional regulation quickly lights up with 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.240 the broods, and so does the hippocampus involved in memory. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.480 So as they fume, people repeatedly relive the events in 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.679 their minds. It's like they're chewing over that thing that 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.320 made them mad. They're continually tweaking that story in their 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.520 head about that thing that happened to them that was 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.240 sucky and now they're mad. So anger can be so fleeting, right, 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.639 it can be such a flash, like how long is 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.280 this taking? This whole process, this just taking seconds. They 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.680