Comments on: Combating 2.5 Million Years Of Evolution – How To Prevent Your Paleolithic Brain From Scaring You Out Of Travel: Part 2 https://foxnomad.com/2011/05/24/combating-2-5-million-years-of-evolution-how-to-prevent-your-paleolithic-brain-from-scaring-you-out-of-travel-part-2/ tech and tips to help you travel smarter Sun, 03 Jun 2012 13:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anil Polat https://foxnomad.com/2011/05/24/combating-2-5-million-years-of-evolution-how-to-prevent-your-paleolithic-brain-from-scaring-you-out-of-travel-part-2/#comment-167997 Wed, 25 May 2011 08:57:36 +0000 http://www.foxnomad.com/?p=12738#comment-167997 In reply to ayngelina.

When it comes to travel we have so much time and data to validate our indecisiveness, it’s easy to get caught actively passive. When you’re in a critical situation, it means living or not – and the experience to take away from it for next time (if you live).

When it comes to modern decisions, we don’t have that “it worked or didn’t” point, leaving many travel-hopefuls in limbo.

]]> By: Anil Polat https://foxnomad.com/2011/05/24/combating-2-5-million-years-of-evolution-how-to-prevent-your-paleolithic-brain-from-scaring-you-out-of-travel-part-2/#comment-167996 Wed, 25 May 2011 08:54:52 +0000 http://www.foxnomad.com/?p=12738#comment-167996 In reply to Barbara Weibel.

Our minds (even nomadic ones) are always searching for stability, making that jolt a tough one from time to time 🙂 As you say though, once you do it’s rare to have regrets about it.

]]> By: ayngelina https://foxnomad.com/2011/05/24/combating-2-5-million-years-of-evolution-how-to-prevent-your-paleolithic-brain-from-scaring-you-out-of-travel-part-2/#comment-167890 Tue, 24 May 2011 20:02:23 +0000 http://www.foxnomad.com/?p=12738#comment-167890 Totally agree that active passiveness is the biggest roadblock as there is no perfect time.

]]> By: Barbara Weibel https://foxnomad.com/2011/05/24/combating-2-5-million-years-of-evolution-how-to-prevent-your-paleolithic-brain-from-scaring-you-out-of-travel-part-2/#comment-167886 Tue, 24 May 2011 19:40:51 +0000 http://www.foxnomad.com/?p=12738#comment-167886 As intrepid of a traveler as I am, on the occasions I come back to the U.S for business or to see family, I find I have to jump-start myself to get back on the road. The U.S. is a comfortable place compared to the developing nations where I usually hang out, and it’s easy to get lulled by the comfort and stuck. But once you’re out there, you find the world is an amazing, wonderful place that’s just as safe as he U.S. (given that we make responsible choices where we travel), full of people who are more like u s than they are different. At the very least, traveling renews my sense of gratitude every single time.

]]> By: Anil Polat https://foxnomad.com/2011/05/24/combating-2-5-million-years-of-evolution-how-to-prevent-your-paleolithic-brain-from-scaring-you-out-of-travel-part-2/#comment-167872 Tue, 24 May 2011 17:50:41 +0000 http://www.foxnomad.com/?p=12738#comment-167872 In reply to Sharon @PRF.

Our brains don’t like conflict and resolve internal ones by somehow making us right 😉 One of the benefits of being a highly social species is having someone to tell us we’re wrong – before we get eaten by something.

Your analogy for active passiveness is a good one, I conjure up the image of the Mac “beach ball” spinning away in our brains unproductively…

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