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By Ivana Velazquez — Unlearning Coach, Dubai Let's start with the thing nobody tells you clearly enough: Your brain is not on your side. Not in the way you think. It is not optimised for your happiness, your fulfilment, or your sense of meaning. It is optimised for one thing only, keeping you alive long enough to survive. And the strategies it uses to do that are actively working against the life you're trying to build. Understanding this doesn't just explain why change is h

By Ivana Velazquez — Unlearning Coach, Dubai Most people don't realise their autopilot is on. That's the point of autopilot, it runs quietly, in the background, making decisions that feel like choices. But there's a difference between choosing your life and executing a program someone else wrote for you years ago. Here are five signs the autopilot is running the show, and what it actually means. 1. You keep ending up in the same situations despite genuinely trying to change D