Brianna Wiest - The Mountain Is You_ Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery (2020)

THE MOUNTAIN IS YOU
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because these people are smart, they would be able to use
logic to disrupt illogical fears. (Logical lapses, or an inability
to adequately reason, often generate anxiety.)
However, their brains are doing exactly what they were
meant to do, which is to piece together unrelated stimuli
and identify potential threats.
Highly intelligent people have a psychological function
others do not, which is the ability to infer. They can extract
meaning and understanding from things that others
simply take at face value. This is why people who have extremely
high IQs often struggle with basic things such as
social skills or driving a car. Where others see the world as
one-dimensional, the highly intelligent see it as three-dimensional.
They think more deeply than is often necessary.
This gives them their ability to create, understand,
strategize, and invent.
In the same way that the endomorph’s excellent metabolism
can work against them, so too can a highly intelligent
person’s brain. This is because at times, they make something
called “faulty inferences,” which are when fallacies,
biases, and incorrect assumptions are made from valid
evidence.
What’s happening in your brain when you’re very anxious
is that you’re taking an often innocuous stimulus and
extracting some kind of meaning or prediction from it.
When you’re scared, your brain is working in overdrive to