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The brain hitting send before the brain finishes reading the message.
means The tendency to act on a sudden urge before thinking through the consequences.
from From Latin impulsus, 'a pushing against' or 'impulse,' the past participle of impellere — 'to push, strike, or urge on' (im- 'toward' + pellere 'to drive, push'). The same root gives us 'propel' and 'compel.' The '-ivity' suffix turned the noun of being-pushed into a noun of being-the-type-who-gets-pushed — so impulsivity is literally the condition of being easily driven, your actions shoved forward by some inner force before your judgment gets a vote.
- not spontaneity
- spontaneity has judgment attached, impulsivity skips it entirely
- brain region
- prefrontal cortex loses, limbic system wins the vote
- it evolved
- kept ancestors alive by acting before thinking got them killed
- double edge
- same trait fuels addiction and fuels creative breakthroughs