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The Power of Experiential Learning

Adam shares his transformative experience in a psychology class, where a simple interaction with a bag of Eminems opened his eyes to the power of experiential learning and sparked his passion for psychology. Despite not remembering all the details, the impact of the class was profound, leading him to become a psychologist and continue exploring the fascinating world of psychology.

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- I have a question about this episode Adam Grant Returns Again and this Overcoming Fears. In the episode Lessons from Stoicism and The Military | Nancy Sherman | The Knowledge Project 126 and the clip Emotions and Reflection, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?