Ashish Kothari explains how your brain interprets an ambiguous message like "Can we talk?" from your boss. Brain 1.0 catastrophizes and assumes danger. Brain 2.0 stays neutral or optimistic. How often you jump to worst-case scenarios reveals which mode you're stuck in.
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Let's say you're working and your boss sends you a message, hey, can we talk? And you have no context. Walk us through in the next 30 seconds if you're experiencing this message from a brain 1.0 or a brain 2.0 or a brain 3.0.
There is the context of your past relationships with your boss and whether your default mode network is predicting based on past experience something that's probable versus improbable. Someone's default mode network, it's Their job is to try to predict and make sense of what's about to happen, and so they can respond accordingly. So that's a very important job. In Brain 1.0, if you're in a sense of threat, you're like, uh-oh, did I mess up? So is he calling me in because I destroyed a project or I did something wrong? So you start catastrophizing, right? In our assessment, that's one of the items, like how often do you catastrophize? That will tell you how often you're navigating the world in Brain 1.0. And then in Brain 2.0, you're just like, maybe I'm gonna get promoted. Maybe he's gonna congratulate me and tell me something, give me an important project, or I need to make sure my boss is happy.
