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This week's edition will discuss incremental progress, apes and the origins of human violence, and chimpanzees and dominance hierarchies.
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Get Your Act Together, Incrementally.
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It's almost unbelievable the effects that consistent incremental progress can have on your life. It's an astonishingly powerful strategy.
If you make your life 1% better each week, across the space of 2 or 3 years, you might not even recognise where you once were. Let's say you start young and straighten yourself out, fix the things you can and keep it up for 10 or 20 years - you will transform your life in unimaginable ways.
God only knows what the upper limits to that are - speaking in terms of human possibility - because we are amazing creatures when we get our act together.
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“Be good company when something fun is happening, so that you’re invited for the fun.” (Share this on Twitter)
“Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak.” (Share this on Twitter)
“You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.” (Share this on Twitter)
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Apes and The Origins of Human Violence | Jordan Peterson & Dr. Richard Wrangham | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | #249
This episode was recorded on September 1,2021.
I spoke to Richard Wrangham about his research on ape behavior. We also explored prerequisites for chimp attacks, how cooking shaped human cognitive development, ethology in the wild with Jane Goodall, DNA similarity studies, proactive vs. reactive aggression, and more.
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Dr. Richard Wrangham:
“When combining the observational study of different animal groups and their behavioral traits, when you combine that with the opportunity to think about humans, then we could get a long way beyond the naive political science interpretations of human behavior. We could really embed behavior in the environment in which humans had evolved.”
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Chimpanzees and Dominance Hierarchies | Jordan B. Peterson
Dr. Peterson:
"At some point, we weren't linguistic creatures at all. We separated from the common ancestors between chimpanzees and us about 6 million years ago. Sometime during that 6 million year process, we started to be able to imitate ourselves first and then represent ourselves in image and action and then only after that to start to articulate ourselves. So, a lot of the knowledge that we have is grounded in our embodiment and the shaping of that embodiment across extraordinarily long periods of time."
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Dr. Peterson review:
“Husband and wife team Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein bring their vast knowledge of evolutionary biology to bear on the problems that beset us. Wide-ranging and illuminating, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century posits an intriguing, surprising, and profound view of human nature.”
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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