Has natural selection set us up for failure?
Has natural selection set us up for failure? The article below argues it does, I say it's a bit more complicated than that and how natural selection has given us the primal tools to survive, which aren't necessarily the tools we need in a modern world. However, many aspects of the modern world still require the built-in tools we've developed as a species over the past few hundred thousand years. And yet, as the article argues, we need to override some of those innate traits and use our developed rational minds to seek success.
In our default decision-making state, we let natural selection run its algorithm on us — we will value pleasure and comfort over discipline and dedication at any given moment. What we need instead is to let our rationality take over, and allow it to shift the levers of our mind to their symmetrical positions. In other words, we will need to do the tough work of ensuring that what we inherently know is aligned with what we actually do:...
In our default decision-making state, we let natural selection run its algorithm on us — we will value pleasure and comfort over discipline and dedication at any given moment. What we need instead is to let our rationality take over, and allow it to shift the levers of our mind to their symmetrical positions. In other words, we will need to do the tough work of ensuring that what we inherently know is aligned with what we actually do:...
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