Surely MSP, you’d be aligned closely with the content? 😉
I’m reading it a second time. TBH the first time around I read it, it made sense, then I didnt put it into action. In between I read “The Power of Now” (still not finished) as recommended on here. Now that I’ve digested the Chimp properly (metaphorically speaking of course), putting the two together has helped me:
a) Identify when my responses are emotional or Fight/Flight
b) Focus specifically on what I’m doing now and not be distracted by menial things
c) Value time, specifically time not spent on phones, ipads and forums.
All in all my angst and paranoic traits have reduced quite a bit, summarised by this:
In different context (behavioural economics) I’ve read stuff on risk perception and there does seem to be good evidence that primitive survival traits kick in response to perceived risk (and we have real problems with accurate risk perception) which are not usually helpful in a modern developed world situation.