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Before you have time to decide anything, a fascinating

exchange takes place between you and the other person.
It’s invisible. But functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) machines can pick it up on neural scans as they track

the electrical activity in your two brains. A two-person cir-
cuitry develops, a remote brain-to-brain connection,
locking you together in a neural link that operates
beneath your awareness. This person-to-person feedback
loop occurs at a blazing speed, faster even than your abil-

ity to think. And it’s involuntary. You’re engaged with one
another instantly, like it or not.

EMOTIONAL SPEED-READING:
THE INFLUENCE OF MIRROR NEURONS

Research with neuroimaging techniques reveals that we’re

actually wired to behave before we think. At the same time
as your brain’s centers for thought are just gearing up to
deal with a social encounter, but too soon for you to con-

54 DEEP STRENGTHS