I’ve just discovered the “90-second rule”, a concept neuroanatomist Dr Jill Bolte Taylor explored in her book, Whole Brain Living, back in 2021. That’s how long our physiological response to emotions such as anger lasts, from the time we formulate a thought to the point at which our blood is “completely clean” of the noradrenaline released in response to it, Bolte Taylor explained to a US news channel.

I read about it in US magazine Bustle, which suggested a 90-second timeout could “reset your vibe”, reframing it, bleakly, as an........

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