If cortisol (stress) is supposed to help us be prepared for life or death situations, then why do a lot of people (incl. me) make such stupid mistakes when under it’s influence?

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I’m mostly talking about social interactions mostly – like when you forget the most important thesis during exam, getting pizza sizes wrong when ordering or when prompted a question “what are chips made from?” and you answer “fries”

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As many people eluded to… its basically to stop a sabertooth tiger from eating you or your tribe when its freezing outside. It’s not to help you remember what size pizza to order on your smartphone in a warm house after you had probably a good breakfast and lunch.

This comes up in theorpy a lot especially when talking about “burn out”. We evolved based on that tiger and cold but when the tiger went away and we got warm from the fire it went down. Now a days it’s like wake up, I have 50 bills, a 30 year morgage, interacting constantly with people and need to order this 12″ pizza for the family by 5. Then go to sleep with 40 bills and a 30 year morgage. So it doesn’t decrease ita just a constant. So people burn out and make mistakes.

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