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Damage his behavior's caused. joining us now here on set is tony schwartz. tony, it's really good to see. >> you likewise. >> so donald trump, 2018, is it the same man you knew? >> in the fulgtndamental ways, . he actually has changed and he's gotten worse. i mean, considerably worse. he was a nonideological guy. he was purely out for himself and not thinking about the wider world that much. and he was riding high. in the '80s just before it all fell apart, so he wasn't under stress. and we are two different people. we're the person we are when we're being run by our prefrontal cortex and unde...

Always money to fall back on. now he has the presidency, a place that maybe he thought deep down he would get to but nobody expected him to. how is that affecting the judgment you once knew so well? >> it's physiological first. when you are under stress, you move into this fight or flight state and your prefrontal cortex, your thinking mind shuts down and you become reactive and impulsive. you're about your survival. so you don't think well. trump starts off as you know, not thinking well, he's not reflective, not introspective. he doesn't read and doesn't think things through. now you have a ...

Lives. so thinking about the way we live and that we are living in a time where at trump has all this influence, what about in people's normal lives when you have choices say between fear, i'm worried what's going to happen and something positive that requires living through some fear of vulnerability like oh, love or relationships? >> there's something psychologists call a negativity things that are wrong long before we notice what's right. that's how we keep ourselves safe and it's an instinctive reaction. so i think that what trump does is he pushes us into that survival state, that nervous...

As how well you take. psychology simona from the monks planck institute has found that playing computer games regularly can even make parts of the brain ground. defining moment to become the brain regions affected are the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex they play a role in spatial orientation like when you're thinking about getting from a to b. so by stimulating these regions to a large extent they grow in volume. does that mean gaming makes us smarter and we should spend endless hours playing. i'm afraid not but our work shows is that you basically need to play about 35 minutes per day ...

Really conceived as a tool waste of time could have positive effects on something as fundamental as how well you take. psychology simona from the monks planck institute has found that playing computer games regularly can even make parts of the brain ground. give finding a magical compass the brain regions affected are the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex they play a role in spatial orientation like when you're thinking about getting from a to b. so by stimulating these regions to a large extent they grow in volume. does that mean gamey makes a smarter and we should spend endless hours pla...