The physiology that makes McElwain-brand exhilaration possible is also the bedrock of our instincts for compassion, caretaking, and connection.
We let ourselves tune out everything else and listen to what our instincts are telling us we have to do.
While I believe in the importance of paying attention to one's instincts, often what our instincts tell us to do simply doesn't work.
With facial characteristics, better intonation, programmed responses to our motions and words, robots now are machines that play on our instincts to communicate and connect.
Our instincts most often drive us toward instant gratification.
Rather than being misled by our instincts on a first date, we can calmly sort through the alternatives and find the best possible spouse, the would-be soul mate who will maximize our romantic utility.
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We got a financial adviser who argues against our instincts to sell investments whenever we see a mild rise in their value, and Alejandro got an accountant who encourages him to view debt, when appropriate, as a business tool.
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For the most part our concept of right and wrong is in tune with our basic instincts and our understanding of the consequences of our actions.
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To succumb to our worst instincts or to summon the better angels of our nature.
Or maybe they feed our tribal instincts, stimulate the irrational basis of loyalty to our community or our country.
But these are vital to societal well-being because they distill our base instincts into civilized behavior.
Seth pioneered permission marketing, nurtured our tribal instincts and dared us all to become intrepid linchpins (among other things).
Their advertisements inflame our baser instincts, such as pride, lust, envy and greed.
In our modern day sugar-laden environment we have to try to override our 'instincts' and Sylvia Stephen has the perfect illustration.
We need a mission for our lives that gets all of our conflicting instincts, habits, predilections, and appetites pulling in the same direction.
Fear and greed, which originate from two of our most primal instincts, fight or flight, are the culprits.
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Learn what horsemanship can teach us about our own natural instincts instead of relying only on the intellect.
Not possessing Doc Brown's DeLorean time traveler, we'll have to use our brains and instincts to discover the answers.
Two often intertwined instincts are our deep desire to understand why unexpected things happen, and to want control over the events that affect us or our business.
It's not our call, regardless of the liberal instincts of American Jews.
But psychology, and the study of human history, shows us that as humans, we are unconsciously making future decisions based on instincts honed by, and visceral reactions to, our past experiences.
Our out-going prime minister saw the outlines of it, but his party and his own centralising instincts prevented him from achieving it.
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We must tell our children about how this evil was allowed to happen -- because so many people succumbed to their darkest instincts, and because so many others stood silent.
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