Evolution, social genes, and brain plasticity

Your social genes haven’t changed in the past 200,000 years. They are still the same as when humans were hunter gatherers, the stone age. Social genes are the genes that define behavior.

Where do we see this? Hunter-gatherers were not adventurous. They didn’t go hunting again, until they had to. They preferred to share, to be nice to each other, that way they didn’t have to risk confrontation. This lived in clans, hunted in clans, and followed the leaders.

They judged everything by their first impression of it, or by prejudice: they didn’t experiment, didn’t stop to think, didn’t give second chances. A wolf in sheep’s clothing would be accepted as sheep.

And yet, this bunch of scared followers now live in cities, drive cars, study at universities.

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When you love yourself, you love your life

Observe yourself: you do well, you get somewhere on time, you get to finish the project, you make yourself proud: and suddenly all that love spills out to your life. You smile under the blanket, and you ask: what happened?
This article will examine why you love yourself when you do, and what can…

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Drive, Passion, Desire, Want? Which Should You Cultivate If You Want To Get Ahead? Or How To Grow Wings And Fly

You can be very happy with your life and grateful for its many blessings while simultaneously desiring more. _ 1 There is a whole group of people that specialize in helping you find your deepest desire … the desire that has enough energy to motivate you to take risks, to learn new things, to become an expanding and happy human being. And every class they teach, one or two people claim they found what was an authentic desire for them, but we never find out if that desire had enough energy for them to get over the hump

Failure? Consider instead: It doesn’t hit the mark

If you wanted to hit a target with a gun, what would you do? You probably keep on shooting at it until you hit it… If you were more sophisticated, then you would make sure you track in which direction you missed it… left, right, down or up.