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Le cerveau humain est programmé pour poursuivre quelques objectifs essentiels, basiques, liés à sa survie à brève échéance : manger, se reproduire, acquérir du pouvoir, le faire avec un minimum d’efforts et glaner un maximum d’informations sur son environnement.
Le Bug Humain
Sébastien BOHLER
And yet, a person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weaknesses, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
Managing Oneself
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six time scales. But the unit of survival is different at each of the six time scales. On a time scale of years, the unit is the individual. On a time scale of decades, the unit is the family. On a time scale of centuries, the unit is the tribe or nation. On a time scale of millennia, the unit is the culture. On a time scale of tens of millennia, the unit is the species. On a time scale of eons, the unit is the whole web of life on our planet. Every human being is the product of adaptation to the demands of all six time scales. That is why conflicting loyalties are deep in our nature. In order to survive, we have needed to be loyal to ourselves, to our families, to our tribes, to our cultures, to our species, to our planet. If our psychological impulses are complicated, it is because they were shaped by complicated and conflicting demands.
The Clock of the Long Now
Stewart Brand
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