The human body is an assemblage of systems that have a surprising degree of autonomy from one another, and that are all busy managing various aspects of our mental and physical lives.
Nonetheless, they do communicate with one another, and that’s why the human assemblage works pretty well most of the time. Except when we’re trying to do something difficult, like start a new job demanding all sorts of skills and abilities that we’ve only partly tried out before.
Or we’re trying to persuade the executive team to go in a new, relatively untried direction, betting the company on the hope of success.
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