Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeons Quest to OutThink Fear

Brilliant! Paradigmblasting and profound. Steven Pressfield, Bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The War of Art Get a Grip.The first time he cut open a patients skull, neurosurgeon Mark McLaughlin found himself confronting a powerful force that his fellow brain surgeons agreed was best never spoken of. Fear.But Dr. McLaughlin knew that if he couldnt find a way to cope with this formidable foe, all he had striven for as a physician would be lost. So, with a scientists analytical precision and a philosophers worldview, McLaughlin derived and formalized a method by which he could act rationally and confidently under the operating rooms lights and in all of the complex relationships in his life, especially under fears profound influence.With inspiration and guidance from intellectual titans like Rene Descartes, Charles Darwin, William James, Carl Jung, and contemporary thinkers like Nate Zinsser, Jordan Peterson, Iain McGilchrist, and J.K. Rowling, McLaughlin lays out his twentyyear intellectual adventure story. The payoff of his odyssey is as lifechanging as it is thrilling.COGNITIVE DOMINANCE: Enhanced situational awareness that facilitates rapid and accurate decisionmaking under stressful conditions with limited decisionmaking time.