IS YOUR PRIMITIVE BRAIN HURTING YOU

IS YOUR PRIMITIVE BRAIN HURTING YOUR SAFETY CULTURE?The primitive brain is an impressive (and not always accurate) cataloging engine that is always on high lookout for potential danger or threat. Over the past few centuries, and especially in Western modernity, our perception of threat has shifted from predominantly physical to primarily mental. These mental threats activate the same fight, flight, or freeze response, triggering us to use cognitive shortcuts or biases in our decision-making. These shortcuts prevent us from seeing the full frame of human error while also impacting our decision-making process. Similarly, our response to perceived mental threats inhibits us from viewing the system comprehensively and limits our potential to problem-solve.