The Secret of Our Success. How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich 9 out of 10

 The Secret of Our Success. How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich

9 out of 10

 

 

This book appears to have a considerable success, at least with the elites, creme de la creme, not the hoi polloi, if you Google for it, you find some prestigious Univeristies heading the serach results, Harvard, Princeton, with the ominous Amazon, that will sell you the work, which would mean that this has received the approval of academia, but it could also be a volume that is hard to read, requires a dictionary, and could be in need of a ‚hatchet job’...The Economist deplores in an artticle the fact that reviews are all praise these days, and the time when you could see fierce attacks might be gone

 

Let us take the role of the critic and say that in the first place, this was not boring, but it was not an exhilarating read – to give credit to the author, Our Success relies on the masses, it is not the smartness of individuals, it is the multitudes that have given us that trophy, number one across the planet, or maybe the universe, hence, my limited comprehesnsion, ability to assimilate, understand even what Joseph Henrich says does not negate his assertions, and it must be this incapacity that denied me a sublime joy

Given that we have a Harvard Professor here, we could assume that The Secret of His success is a ‚very large brain...he could be a very stable genius’ to quote Donald Trump and his conclusion ‚that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations’ must be the correct one

 

Unless we take a mirthful, satirical tone and doubt that there is ‚A Secret of Our Sucess’ to begin with, in one reading, becasue ‚there is no secret’, or we could call it an ‚open secret’, which refers to our ‚vwery large brain’, which i have read in a book by Martin Seligman http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/11/flourish-by-martin-seligman-i-ii.html that is due (the size of our brain) to the need to have complex, very demnading social relationships, interactions, and not becasue of other factors...

Then we could ask about success – and then becoem sophists and iminatate Bill Clinton, who said at one time ‚it depends on what your definition of is is’- and some more pesimistic folks would say that there is no Success here, we have exterminated many species (maybe most) and we are about to heat the earth to the stage where there is no future for our species, hurricanes and typhoons are battering parts of the earth even now, from Florida to Hong Kong, and it is getting worse, the ice caps are melting...

 

There are some optimistic views, such as one sustained by the glorious Yuval Harari http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/homo-deus-brief-history-of-tomorrow-by.html who argues in his three magical books, Sapiens – A Brief Hsitory of Humankind, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow, that we have reached a zenith, an age of imense progress and development

 

Nonetheless, the same savant (i wonder if this term applies to a philospher and thinker, or just to those who toil in more exact sciences, like chemistry, vulcanology, but i am too pressed now to look for it) has written an article in The Economist, wherein he anticipated the invasion of Ukraine and many ofthe moves that followed, with countries that are pushed to increase military spending by potential enemies (mainly Putin and his realm, where i hate to find that his populairyt has increased, since he lied and told his rather brainwashed subjects, that they are threatend by NATO and the Ukraininan Nazis)

We need to be positive, speaking of The Secret of Our Sucess, well here is one for you, if you wnat to’Win big’, then leanr that the optimists have the most success in their private and professional lives, live longer, are more in favor of democracy, human rights, they get sick less that their counterparts, and when that happens, they stay ill for shorter periods, in short, they have it all, and tesst prove it

 

Aside from rrading this book, which will tell you about our presumed ‚success’ as humanity, the first steps for you would be to (it just came to my mind that you must subscribe, share, like, contribute to this channel, blog, the whole paraphernelia that is now associated with influencers, those who make money on the net, those i envy, for i have no auieence, alas) read the classics of Positive Psychology, along with the aforemtnioned Martin Seligman, co-founder of the science, you must look for Tal Ben-Shahar http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/happier-by-tal-ben-shahar-revolutionary.html who was also a Harvard Professor

Actaully, his lectures have been the most popular in the history of Harvard, with one in five sutdents (that is about fifteen hundred out of seven thousand five hundred) attending those hypnotizing courses, then there are other luminaries, Sonja Lyubomirsky form the West Coast- i have found one difference in the rules suggested by the the foremr and the latter, Shahar is for a daily gratitude exercise, while Professor Lyubomirsky believes that the count your blessings practice needs to be rarer, becasue if it is so frequent, it tends to become routine and we just go through the motions if is happening every single day

 

‚We are what we repeatedly do… therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit’ some attribute this to Aristotle, oters to Will Durant, Harvard Professor Shahar compares the ritual of getting into a positive, optimistic mood with the habit of washing teeth and body, just like we need that every day for our hygene and well being, it is the same for our brain...you also find isnpiration and you could change your life and chances of success by reading The How of Happiness http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html by mesmerizing Sonja Lyubomirsky

 

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world   – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html 

 

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