Quotes About Adaptation

Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better.

If Mother Nature wasn't so hell-bent on our destruction, it would be easier for us to exist in simple harmony with her dictates.

We eternally inhabit order, surrounded by chaos. We eternally occupy known territory, surrounded by the unknown. We experience meaningful engagement when we mediate appropriately between them.

If a dominant lobster is badly defeated, its brain basically dissolves. Then it grows a new, subordinate's brain—one more appropriate to its new, lowly position. 8 Its original brain just isn't sophisticated to manage the transformation from king to bottom dog without virtually complete dissolution and regrowth. Anyone who has experienced a painful transformation after a serious defeat in romance or career may feel some sense of kinship with the once successful crustacean.

Look for your inspiration to the victorious lobster, with its 350 million years of practical wisdom. Stand up straight, with your shoulders back.

creates habitable chaos out of order

El miedo es la postura a priori, la respuesta natural a todo para lo que no se ha designado e incorporado una estructura de adaptación conductual.

If you stand still you fall backwards, You cannot stand still, because the world moves away from you if you stand still. And there is no stasis. Only backwards.

Your nervous system responds in an entirely different manner when you face the demands of life voluntarily. You respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for a catastrophe.

If you take the low road than that wins and it gets a little stronger because everything that wins neurologically gets a little stronger.

When you move, everything is up in the air, at least for a while. It's stressful, but in the chaos there are new possibilities.

When we look at the world, we perceive only what is enough for our plans and actions to work and for us to get by.

Nuestros duramente conseguidos métodos adaptativos luchan por dominar, a menudo de forma violenta, en un individuo dado, entre individuos dentro de sociedades, y entre sociedades. Por tanto, se suscita el problema de la organización.

To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small

Uma personalidade saudável, dinâmica e, acima de tudo, verdadeira, admitirá quando cometeu um erro. Abandonará voluntariamente – ou deixará morrer – perceções, pensamentos e hábitos ultrapassados, olhando-os como impedimentos à continuação do seu crescimento e êxito. Esta alma é a que deixará velhas crenças serem consumidas, muitas vezes de forma dolorosa, para poder voltar a viver e avançar, renovada.

La transformación de circunstancias -ambientales- como consecuencia de causas puramente naturales constituye la causa más inmediatamente evidente del deterioro de la estabilidad cultural. Una sequía prolongada, inundaciones, terremotos, plagas, -los sucesos más horribles y arbitrarios de la naturaleza- son capaces de convertir en impotentes, de un plumazo, a las sociedades mejor adaptadas.

The healthy, dynamic, and above all else truthful personality will admit to error. It will voluntarily shed—let die—outdated perceptions, thoughts, and habits, as impediments to its further success and growth.

Uma transformação voluntária de morte e renascimento – a mudança necessária para a adaptação em face de coisas terríveis – é por isso uma solução para a rigidez, potencialmente fatal, da falsa certeza absoluta, da ordem em excesso e da rotina.

Aim at something. Pick the best target you can currently conceptualize. Stumble toward it. Notice your errors and misconceptions along the way, face them, and correct them.

People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results.

El futuro trae consigo lo desconocido; por tanto, la inflexibilidad y la falta de voluntad para cambiar traen la certeza de la extinción.

Look for your inspiration to the victorious lobster,

All that matters, from a Darwinian perspective, is permanence—and the dominance hierarchy, however social or cultural it might appear, has been around for some half a billion years. It's permanent. It's real.

If you're going to insist on bending the world