Ebook: How to be human: the manual
Author: Wax Ruby
- Tags: Coping With Stress, Evolution, Happiness, History Of Science, Psychotherapy, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Self-actualization (Psychology), SELF-HELP / Self-Management / Stress Management, Social & cultural anthropology ethnography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London
- Language: English
- epub
*FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRAZZLED*
It took us 4 billion years to evolve to where we are now. No question, anyone reading this has won the evolutionary Hunger Games by the fact you're on all twos and not some fossil. This should make us all the happiest species alive - most of us aren't, what's gone wrong? We've started treating ourselves more like machines and less like humans. We're so used to upgrading things like our iPhones: as soon as the new one comes out, we don't think twice, we dump it. (Many people I know are now on iWife4 or iHusband8, the motto being, if it's new, it's better.)
We can't stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs we're on. But even if nearly every part of us becomes robotic, we'll still, fingers crossed, have our minds, which, hopefully, we'll be able use for things like compassion, rather than chasing what's 'better', and if we can do that we're on the yellow brick road to happiness.
I wrote...