End Impulsive Reactions and Make Decisions You Won't Regret

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You're mid-sentence when it happens. Someone cuts you off, and before you've consciously decided anything, your jaw tightens and words are already leaving your mouth — sharper than you intended. Ten seconds later, you're replaying it, wondering who that person was. It wasn't you. Or rather, it was the version of you that acts before you arrive. Here's the uncomfortable truth: you don't decide most of your reactions. You inherit them. Somewhere in the space between a trigger and your awareness of it, a decision gets made for you — fast, automatic, and almost always wrong for the situation in front of you. This chapter is about that gap.