6/28/2023 0 Comments David mcraney![]() ![]() ![]() A turtle crossing the road will hunker down when a car approaches because that behavior kept millions of its ancestors alive long enough to mate. So our thoughts, behaviors and emotions are influenced by pressures from another time period. ![]() Many of our behaviors and the physical properties of our brains are presumably the same as those of our ancient, stone-ax wielding ancestors. We haven't evolved as much as we would like to think?ĭavid McRaney: Well, evolution is very, very slow in human terms. VB: We like to think we are rational human beings but you advise that a lot of our emotions, ways of thinking, and behaviors relate back to what it took to survive as primates millions of years ago. The second thing that usually happens, what I get asked after someone has read some of my work, is, 'How do we stop doing these things.' I then get to explain that even the guy who wrote the book can't stop being biased or deluded, but knowing this before going into new situations is the key. Vern Burkhardt (VB): What has been the reaction of people to the message 'you are not so smart'?ĭavid McRaney: People love the message, and I think that's because it immediately resonates as being the truth you've always suspected about yourself and others, but now scientists are quantifying that truth. ![]() "Stories make sense on an emotional level, so anything that conjures fear, empathy, or pride will trump confusing statistics." You Are Not So Smart, page 144 ![]()
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