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Dr. Lynn Isbell, professor of anthropology and animal behaviour at the University of California, has suggested that the stunningly acute vision almost uniquely possessed by human beings was an adaptation forced on us tens of millions of years ago by the necessity of detecting and avoiding the terrible danger of snakes, with whom our ancestors co-evolved.52 This is perhaps one of the reasons the snake features in the garden of Paradise as the creature who gave us the vision of God (in addition to serving as the primordial and eternal enemy of mankind).
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)
Littlewood’s Law tells us to expect a miracle every month. The flip side is to expect a disaster roughly as often.
Save Like a Pessimist, Invest Like an Optimist
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I propose that variable rewards come in three types: the tribe, the hunt, and the self (figure 20). Habit-forming products utilize one or more of these variable reward types.
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