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Cognitive Dominance

A Brain Surgeon's Quest to Out-Think Fear

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Cognitive Dominance

By: Mark McLaughlin MD, Shawn Coyne
Narrated by: Dr. Mark McLaughlin
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Get a grip.

The first time he cut open a patient's skull, neurosurgeon Mark McLaughlin found himself confronting a powerful force that his fellow brain surgeons agreed was best never spoken of.

Fear.

But Dr. McLaughlin knew that if he couldn't find a way to cope with this formidable foe, all he had striven for as a physician would be lost. So, with a scientist's analytical precision and a philosopher's worldview, McLaughlin derived and formalized a method by which he could act rationally and confidently under the operating room's lights and in all of the complex relationships in his life, especially under fear's profound influence.

With inspiration and guidance from intellectual titans like Rene Descartes, Charles Darwin, William James, and Carl Jung and contemporary thinkers like Nate Zinsser, Jordan Peterson, Iain McGilchrist, and J.K. Rowling, McLaughlin lays out his 20-year intellectual adventure story. The payoff of his odyssey is as life-changing as it is thrilling.

Cognitive Dominance: Enhanced situational awareness that facilitates rapid and accurate decision-making under stressful conditions with limited decision-making time.

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"Brilliant! Paradigm-blasting and profound." (Steven Pressfield, best-selling author of Gates of Fire and The War of Art)

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How to have a better relationship with fear

I really enjoyed this book, yet I couldn't seem to find the pdf that is referenced in the audiobook.

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Good listening while at the gym

The author has his heart in the right place I think, but I think there was too much time spent on talking himself up. He only talks about ‘cognitive dominance’ a little bit, and it’s pretty thin. Most of the book is case studies of stressful situations but most would be unrelate-able except to those in the medical profession. I think he could have scrapped the term cognitive dominance and just spoken about how he got better at controlling his fear. But he called it cognitive dominance and then undersold it with a thin how-to guide

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As referenced in your (non-existent) PDF

The content was good but the audiobook was poorly put together. The thing that annoyed me the most is that a "downloadable PDF" is constantly referenced throughout the book. It seems to be critical for understanding the second section of the book "The Road to Cognitive Dominance." There were also many other minor annoyances scattered throughout like glitches in the audio and the unfortunate choice to make two critical terms (fears vs PHEREs) sound the same which translates poorly to an audiobook.

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