So it follows that you, as a westerner, have to be very much on your guard. 10.26.24 Sirous Naseri Listen, this programme that you have is not for sale.

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You end up constantly on guard, with your adrenaline pumping to the fight or flight responders in your brain, leaving your best intellectual power untapped and unavailable.

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