Escaping Enemy Mode
How Our Brains Unite or Divide Us
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Who’s your biggest enemy? Possibly you?
Enemy Mode is an immensely damaging brain state that occurs in everyday life. In enemy mode, a person sees and experiences others as adversaries. Living in this mode poisons family and community bonds. It contributes to social stress, business failure, divorce, alienation, domestic violence, crime, racism, and international violence. Social media magnifies the impact of enemy mode toward almost all topics or persons imaginable.
Longtime author and neuropsychologist Dr. Jim Wilder explains how the brain develops enemy mode and searches for ways to get the brain to “refriend.” Since a brain in enemy mode cannot tell when someone is trying to help, it rejects or attacks its allies, including refrienders. Wilder puts his years of research to the test in assessing the impossible task put forth by the Christian faith: to love one’s enemies.
After being trained in enemy mode through the military, business, and even friendships, retired Brigadier General Ray Woolridge comes alongside Wilder, bringing the reader on his journey of learning to refriend. He interviews leaders in sports, business, the military, law enforcement, politics, health care, and education, assessing the enemy mode impact on lives and culture.
Can Wilder and Woolridge figure out how enemy mode works and craft a solution? And can they get people and institutions to implement those solutions? This book is for all who desire to be better equipped to face the barrage of daily relational stressors that come at them. It’s for all who long for more harmonious relationships at home, in the workplace, and in their communities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- Introduction: A Quest Begins
- 1. Enemy Mode in Daily Life
- 2. Three Types of Enemy Mode
- 3. Simple Enemy Mode
- 4. Stupid Enemy Mode
- 5. Intelligent Enemy Mode
- 6. Enemy Mode Is All Around
- 7. Recognizing Enemy Mode in Myself
- 8. Admitting Enemy Mode
- 9. Preparing to Escape Enemy Mode
- 10. Escaping Enemy Mode
- 11. Helping Others Escape Enemy Mode
- 12. Helping My Identity Group Escape Enemy Mode
- Appendix: Types of Low Energy Responses
- Acknowledgments
- Notes