When you say "I don't know" you might actually be demonstrating the freeze response of your amygdala

When you're saying, I don't know, you might as well be demonstrating the frozenness of your amygdala, of your system. In that moment, what are you freezing? You're freezing your consciousness. You're freezing your prefrontal cortex. So everything that you need to do with a lot of effort, with a lot of like pushing through, with the energy, with your conscious decision-making system stops. Why? Because there's so much and it's overwhelming for the brain. And the brain, the prefrontal cortex, loses its agency, and it literally lets go of the driver's seat. And guess what happens? Your autonomous nervous system takes over.