What makes swiss cheese brain like this? Is it truly hormonal?
Stress?. I ask too, because I kinda have swiss cheese short term memory loss, but I also know it's because Im trying to juggle at least 5 things at once.
Yes, stress. Which as T^2 points out, is part of the self focus as well. Survival mode allows us to have "narrow vision" preventing us from being affected by other, external (or internal) distractions...
Could you imagine if we didn't have that in us?
We meet up with a bear that has a cub and the bear decides we are too close and comes after us... and we turn... and...
SQUIRREL!!!! oooo... pretty, cute, funny squir...
More likely, we wouldn't have seen the squirrel... or at best, left the squirrel as bait for the bear...
