You're Wired to React. The EQ Tool to Help You Pause.

Send us Fan MailThe EQ tool to help you pause before you react, that's what you're walking away with today. And once you understand how you're wired, you'll see why pausing has always been harder than it looks.Sandy is 15 days out from a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course. No phone, no talking, ten hours of meditation a day. She signed up curious and a little brave. Then she read three books about what she actually committed to. This episode is her honest, slightly panicked, completely real reaction to what she found.This is Episode 3 in the Going Silent series.In this episode you'll learn:Why you're wired to react — and what the Stanford marshmallow test reveals about how you're builtWhy Sandy's lowest EQ score is and what her Experience and Achievement Emotional Magnets have to do with thatWhat observational non-reaction means and why it's the most confronting thing she's read about this courseThe connected conversation Sandy had with Kris on the beach in Tofino — and the one question that stopped everythingWhy everything that's ever scared Sandy has turned out to be the thing that changed her mostThe EQ Switch — the 3 step neuroscience backed tool to pause before you react