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traders are much more able to say, ‘OK,
Janice, I do feel these excited emotions
coming up in me, but I understand that
I can’t act on them.’ The introverts are
much better at making a plan, staying
with a plan, being very disciplined.”
To understand why introverts and extroverts
might react differently to the
prospect of rewards, says Dorn, you
have to know a little about brain structure.
As we saw in chapter 4, our limbic
system, which we share with the most
primitive mammals and which Dorn
calls the “old brain,” is emotional and
instinctive. It comprises various structures,
including the amygdala, and it’s
highly interconnected with the nucleus
accumbens, sometimes called the
brain’s “pleasure center.” We examined
the anxious side of the old brain when
we explored the role of the amygdala in
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