The Biggest Hindrance To Your Success: The Lizard Brain
I have just finished reading Seth Godin‘s masterpiece, Linchpin: Are you Indispensable?
It’s a brilliant book, a manifesto, a challenge for you to release the artist in you.
But there is a big challenge that block your success: The Lizard Brain.
The Lizard brain contains the Resistance, the one that blocks the source of your great ideas and talents.
It blocks the artist inside you.
The Lizard Brain is part of your Limbic System in your brain. Things that it controls are anger, revenge, and fear.
The Lizard Brain makes you question your abilities. It makes you fearful. It tells you to conform and avoid standing out.
It makes you fear failure.
Even when you know failure is necessary for success.
Here are symptoms of the Lizard Brain operating in your life:
1) Procrastination
2) Excuses
3) Lack of Goals
4) Mediocrity
5) Being boring
6) Lack of Self Confidence
Do you see the Lizard brain operating in your life?
Are you hiding your brilliance?
So what’s the solution?
Seth Godin says:
The only solution is to call all the bluffs at once, to tolerate no rational or irrational reason to hold back on your art.
The only solution is to start today, to start now, and to ship.
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I would be sharing more ideas from his book in coming posts.
You can purchase his book via Amazon if you would like a digital copy. Click on the picture below:
My goodness — I didn’t know there was a term for that kind of ‘behavior’. Now I know that I’ve been constantly dealing with my own ‘Lizard Brain’. By the way, I love Seth Godin’s humor. I wrote about him once for one of my writing jobs.
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interesting article you got here, argee. so that’s what they call it.
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Whoa! A lizard lives in my brain; that’s concerning! I totally agree with those symptoms. Fighting the lizard brain can sometimes be challenge if its claws are deeply embedded into the system, but defeating it is possible.
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ooh ayos to ha,,,,
thanks for this one.
I love this post and I would like to hear more of your thoughts about this lizard brain.
Lizard brain…. so that’s what it’s called. I have that.
Can you tell me how to fry that lizard out of my system? 
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I was once like this but thanks to my wife for always encouraging me to pursue things in life
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comparing human brains to lizard brains — someone must be so lazy and laid back to have such mentality
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I am waking and jumping off the cliff to get out of this kind of behavior!
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Nice book. I never thought that all those negative characteristics are of the lizard brain. Lol. Thanks for sharing!
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I think the Filipino term counterpart for Lizard brain behavior are utak lamok, or utak biya hehe
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OH EM. I can say that a lizard’s brain is dominating my life. How should I solve this? Haha.
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I wish my lizard is so small so I can do more! hehe! Try to stay positive in order to do more and be more.
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Seth Godin is actually one of my mentors in so many ways. I enjoy reading his books and I always end up reading more pages than usual..
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OMG, I’m a full blown lizard at the moment
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Ooh. I’ve always been wanting to know how this is called. I, therefore, am the “lizard brainiac,” unfortunately. ;/
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now i know why i’m like this. tsk tsk.. very nice insights.
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Wow! This is so informative and interesting!
I think my lizard brain somehow hinders me from doing more in my life. I don’t have a problem when it comes to general confidence, but when it comes to testing new waters, I unconsciously make excuses to myself. I still haven’t read any of Seth Godin’s books, but I’ll definitely look for “Linchpin: Are you Indispensable?” the next time I visit the bookstore. I’m more for physical books than ebooks kasi ^^
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This is interesting. I have the lizard brain because I procrastinate a lot.
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That seems like a very worthwhile book! But wouldn’t it be better to not have the ‘Lizard’ part of your brain in your head? If you think about it, you would have success, but not having it would mean senseless decisions decided without thinking carefully. It would cause you to lose all assessment if a decision is well-conceived and properly planned/prepared for the consequences.
Hi John,
Yes! It’s an excellent book by Seth Godin
Good observation. Actually, the Lizard Brain is not totally evil. It does have its purpose especially in urgent times like life/death situations 